Word Meanings - EXPLORER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

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• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• DIVEDAPPER
  A water fowl; the didapper. See Dabchick.
• DIVORCEABLE
  Capable of being divorced.
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• DIVERS
  directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various;
• DIVIDER
  An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.
• DIVIDEND
  A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVERSILOQUENT
  Speaking in different ways.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• DIVININGLY
  In a divining manner.
• DIVISIBILITY
  The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation. Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.
• DIVINIZE
  To invest with a divine character; to deify. M. Arnold. Man had divinized all those objects of awe. Milman.
• DIVARICATELY
  With divarication.
• DIVARICATOR
  One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.
• DIVET
  See DIVOT
• DIVINISTRE
  A diviner. " I am no divinistre." Chaucer.
• DIVELLICATE
  To pull in pieces.
• DIVINER
  1. One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means. The diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain. Zech. x. 2. 2. A conjecture; a guesser; one
• INDIVISIBLY
  In an indivisible manner.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• INDIVISIBILITY
  The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability. Locke.
• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• RECIDIVOUS
  Tending or liable to backslide or r
• SUBDIVIDE
  To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.