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Word Meanings - FIORD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.

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  • NARROW
    A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
  • NARROW-MINDED
    Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • PENETRATING
    1. Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor. 2. Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind.
  • NARROWER
    One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
  • PENETRATE
    akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to
  • NARROWLY
    1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
  • BANKSIDE
    The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a steam.
  • ROCKSUCKER
    A lamprey.
  • PENETRATINGLY
    In a penetrating manner.
  • BETWEEN
    betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
  • PENETRATIVE
    1. Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. His look became keen and penetrative. Hawthorne. 2. Having the power to affect or impress the mind or heart; impressive; as, penetrative shame. Shak. 3. Acute;
  • NARROWNESS
    The condition or quality of being narrow.
  • PENETRATIVENESS
    The quality of being penetrative.
  • INLET
    1. A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance. Doors and windows,inlets of men and of light. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running
  • PENETRATION
    1. The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult. And to each in ward part, With gentle penetration, though unseen, Shoots invisible virtue even to the
  • NARROWING
    1. The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. 2. The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
  • INTERPENETRATE
    To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
  • FINLET
    A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
  • GO-BETWEEN
    An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
  • INTERPENETRATION
    The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Milman.
  • VEINLET
    A small vein.
  • INTERPENETRATIVE
    Penetrating among or between other substances; penetrating each the other; mutually penetrative.
  • CHAINLET
    A small chain. Sir W. Scott.

 

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