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.
Related words: (words related to DISPATCHFUL)
- 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