Word Meanings - FRUITAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
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- FRUIT
The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever - FRUITAGE
1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill. - FRUITIVE
Eujoying; possessing. Boyle. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
Effective. B. Jonson. - RESULTIVE
Resultant. Fuller. - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - COLLECTIVELY
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly. - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - FRUITION
Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak. - FRUITLESS
1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless - ACTIONABLE
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable. - PRODUCTIVITY
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. - PRODUCTUS
An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. - GENERALITY
1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from - GENERALISSIMO
The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries. - FRUITERESS
A woman who sells fruit. - EFFECTOR
An effecter. Derham. - EFFECTUATE
To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis. - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - REACTIONIST
A reactionary. C. Kingsley. - UNFRUITFUL
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n. - MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon. - REDACTION
The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest. - CHYLIFACTION
The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process. - FACTION
One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, - DISTRACTION
1. The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation. To create distractions among us. Bp. Burnet. 2. That which diverts attention; a diversion. "Domestic distractions." G. Eliot. 3. A diversity of direction; detachment. His power went out in - BREADFRUIT
The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found - REFACTION
Recompense; atonemet; retribution. Howell. - COLLIQUEFACTION
A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion. The incorporation of metals by simple colliquefaction. Bacon. - DIRECT ACTION
See BELOW - UNDERACTION
Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary to the main story; an episode. The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary or convenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.