Word Meanings - HYDROSTAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contrivance or apparatus to prevent the explosion of steam boilers.

Related words: (words related to HYDROSTAT)

• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• STEAM
  smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or 1. The elastic, aëriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor;
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• STEAMBOAT
  A boat or vessel propelled by steam power; -- generally used of river or coasting craft, as distinguished from ocean steamers.
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• STEAM ENGINE
  An engine moved by steam. Note: In its most common forms its essential parts are a piston, a cylinder, and a valve gear. The piston works in the cylinder, to which steam is admitted by the action of the valve gear, and communicates motion to the
• STEAMSHIP
  A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; a steamer.
• STEAMY
  Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty. Cowper.
• PREVENTIONAL
  Tending to prevent.
• STEAMINESS
  The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
• STEAMBOATING
  The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight. (more info) 1. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats.
• STEAMER
  The steamer duck. Steamer duck , a sea duck (Tachyeres cinereus), native of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, which swims and dives with great agility, but which, when full grown, is incapable of flight, owing to its very small wings. Called also
• PREVENTER
  An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. Preventer bolts, or Preventer plates , fixtures connected with preventers to reënforce other rigging. -- Preventer stay. Same as Preventer, 3. (more info) 1. One who goes before; one who forestalls or
• EXPLOSION
  1. The act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc. 2. A bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure;
• PREVENTION
  1. The act of going, or state of being, before. The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. Bacon. 2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. Hammond. Shak. 3. The act of preventing
• APPARATUS
  A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus. (more info) 1. Things provided as means to some end. 2. Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or
• CONTRIVANCE
  1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,
• PREVENTIVE
  1. Going before; preceding. Any previous counsel or preventive understanding. Cudworth. 2. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. Physic is either curative or preventive.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• TRUNK STEAMER
  A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
• TURRET STEAMER
  A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.
• UNPREVENTED
  1. Not prevented or hindered; as, unprevented sorrows. Shak. 2. Not preceded by anything. Milton.