Word Meanings - EXPLORING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." Bancroft.

Related words: (words related to EXPLORING)

• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• EXPLORING
  Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." Bancroft.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• EXPLORER
  One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.
• EXPLOREMENT
  The act of exploring; exploration. Sir T. Browne.
• EXPLORATORY
  Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• EXPLORATIVE
  Exploratory.
• EXPLORATE
  To explore. Sir. T. Browne.
• EXPLORATION
  The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries;
• DESIGNER
  One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration. 3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense. (more info) 1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• DESIGNING
  Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
• DESIGNMENT
  1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden. 2. Design; purpose; scheme. Shak.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
• INEXPLORABLE
  Incapable of being explored, searched out, or discovered. Sir G. Buck.