Word Meanings - INDEX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger. (more info) 1. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses. Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of

Additional info about word: INDEX

The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger. (more info) 1. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses. Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants. Arbuthnot. 2. That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist. 3. A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume. 4. A prologue indicating what follows. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDEX)

• Hand
• Laborer
• workman
• operative
• artisan
• agency
• influence
• index
• Record
• Registry
• entry
• enrolment
• list
• catalogue
• register
• schedule
• roll
• scroll
• enumeration
• inventory
• muniment
• instrument
• archive
• memorandum
• remembrance
• Token
• Evidence
• exhibition
• demonstration
• sample
• illustration
• memorial
• symbol
• indication
• badge
• symptom
• diagnosis
• sign

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INDEX)

• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress

Related words: (words related to INDEX)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• BADGELESS
  Having no badge. Bp. Hall.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• BADGE
  A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person;
• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• BADGER
  An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
• MEMORIAL DAY
  A day, May 30, appointed for commemorating, by decorating their graves with flowers, by patriotic exercises, etc., the dead soldiers and sailors who served the Civil War in the United States; Decoration Day. It is a legal holiday in most of the
• REGISTERING
  Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording.
• TOKENLESS
  Without a token.
• SCROLLED
  Formed like a scroll; contained in a scroll; adorned with scrolls; as, scrolled work.
• EVIDENCER
  One whi gives evidence.
• SYMPTOM
  Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms
• BADGER STATE
  Wisconsin; -- a nickname.
• MEMORIALIZER
  One who petitions by a memorial. T. Hook.
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• UNREMEMBRANCE
  Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. I. Watts.