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Word Meanings - INTERPENETRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration. Milman.

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  • OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
    Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
  • 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.
  • OTHER
    andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
  • OTHERNESS
    The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
  • 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
  • WITHINSIDE
    In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
  • MUTUAL
    1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc. Conspiracy and mutual promise. Sir T. More. Happy
  • OTHERGATES
    In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
  • OTHERWISE
    1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. 2. In other respects. It is said, truly, that
  • 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
  • MUTUALITY
    Reciprocity of consideration. Wharton. (more info) 1. The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.
  • 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;
  • OTHERWAYS
    See TYNDALE
  • PENETRATIVENESS
    The quality of being penetrative.
  • OTHERWHERE
    In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere. Milton. Tennyson.
  • MUTUALLY
    In a mutual manner.
  • WITHIN
    1. In the inner part; inwardly; internally. "The wound festers within." Carew. Ills from within thy reason must prevent. Dryden. 2. In the house; in doors; as, the master is within.
  • MUTUALISM
    The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare. F. Harrison. H. Spencer. Mallock.
  • OTHERWHILE; OTHERWHILES
    At another time, or other times; sometimes; Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
  • NOTOTHERIUM
    An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
  • ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
    Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • ISOTHEROMBROSE
    A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
  • INTERPENETRATE
    To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • UNMOTHERED
    Deprived of a mother; motherless.
  • ISOTHERMAL
    Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
  • EEL-MOTHER
    The eelpout.
  • ISOTHERMOBATHIC
    Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
  • MOTHER-OF-PEARL
    The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
  • MOTHER'S DAY
    A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
  • STEPMOTHER
    The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
  • MOTHERING
    A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
  • DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
    A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
  • MOTHERLESS
    Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
  • FOTHER
    fuder a cartload, a unit of measure, OHG. fuodar, D. voeder, and perh. to E. fathom, or cf. Skr. patra vessel, dish. Cf. Fodder a 1. A wagonload; a load of any sort. Of dung full many a fother. Chaucer. 2. See Fodder, a unit of weight.
  • MOTHER-OF-THYME
    An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
  • HOMOEOTHERMAL
    See HOMOIOTHERMAL

 

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