Word Meanings - COUNTERCURRENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Running in an opposite direction.

Related words: (words related to COUNTERCURRENT)

• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• RUNNING
  Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. (more info) 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
• DIRECTION
  The pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm. Syn. -- Administration; guidance; management; superintendence;
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• RUNNET
  See RENNET
• RUNNER
  A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• RUNNEL
  A rivulet or small brook. Buddling rundels joined the sound. Collins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.
• OPPOSITE
  1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
• RUNNING LOAD
  The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing. Commonly, the whole weight of aëroplane and load divided by the span, or length from tip to tip.
• RUNNION
  See RONION
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• MISDIRECTION
  An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• OVERRUNNER
  One that overruns. Lovelace.
• TRUNNEL
  A trundle.
• INRUNNING
  The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.
• TRUNNIONED
  Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.
• SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
  One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
• TRUNNION
  A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon.
• FORERUNNER
  A piece of rag terminating the log line. (more info) 1. A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever. Whither the forerunner in