Word Meanings - EXPLODENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive. 2. See Explosive, n.,
Related words: (words related to EXPLODENT)
- CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - INSTRUMENTAL
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - CAUSTICILY
1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark. - CAUSAL
A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat. - CAUSATIVELY
In a causative manner. - CAUSTICALLY
In a caustic manner. - CAUSATIONIST
One who believes in the law of universal causation. - INSTRUMENTALITY
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense - INSTRUMENTATION
1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical - AGENT
Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj. - EXPLOSIVE
1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine. 2. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort - INSTRUMENTALLY
1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason. - INSTRUMENT
A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, - CAUSIDICAL
Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits. - AGENTSHIP
Agency. Beau. & Fl. - CAUSERIE
Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat. - INSTRUMENTALISM
The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - INTERAGENT
An intermediate agent. - ENCAUSTIC
Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which - INEXPLOSIVE
Not explosive. - UNCAUSED
Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter. - EREMACAUSIS
A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals. - CATACAUSTIC
Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol. - GALVANOCAUSTIC
Relating to the use of galvanic heat as a caustic, especially in medicine.