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Word Meanings - DISPATCHFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks. Milton.

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  • INTENTIONALITY
    The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
  • BUSINESS
    The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
  • QUICKBEAM
    See TREE
  • QUICKSTEP
    A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
  • INDICATOR
    A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at
  • QUICKNESS
    1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
  • INDICATIVELY
    In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
  • EXECUTIONER
    1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman.
  • INTENTIONAL
    Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental.
  • INTENTNESS
    The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention. Extreme solicitude or intentness upon business. South.
  • INTENTLY
    In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed. Syn. -- Fixedly; steadfastly; earnestly; attentively; sedulously; diligently; eagerly.
  • HASTENER
    1. One who hastens. 2. That which hastens; especially, a stand or reflector used for confining the heat of the fire to meat while roasting before it.
  • QUICKSILVER
    The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
  • QUICKHATCH
    The wolverine.
  • QUICKEN TREE
    The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum,
  • BUSINESSLIKE
    In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
  • QUICKWORK
    All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.
  • HASTEN
    To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.
  • QUICK-WITTED
    Having ready wit Shak.
  • QUICKENS
    Quitch grass.
  • ENQUICKEN
    To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
  • COINDICATION
    One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
  • MALEXECUTION
    Bad execution. D. Webster.
  • TORSION INDICATOR
    An autographic torsion meter.
  • VINDICATION
    The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of
  • VINDICATOR
    One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke.
  • CONTRAINDICATE
    To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.
  • VINDICATE
    1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain

 

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