Word Meanings - INTERVISIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, as stations.

Related words: (words related to INTERVISIBLE)

• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• VISIBLE
  1. Perceivable by the eye; capable of being seen; perceptible; in view; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper. Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Virtue made visible in
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• VISIBLE SPEECH
  A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.
• 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.
• SIGHTED
  Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
• SIGHTING
  from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
• SIGHTLESS
  1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak.
• 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
• SIGHT-SEER
  One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
• SIGHTFUL
  Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. Testament of Love.
• SIGHTPROOF
  Undiscoverable to sight. Hidden in their own sightproof bush. Lowell.
• OTHERWAYS
  See TYNDALE
• SIGHT-SHOT
  Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. Cowley.
• OTHERWHERE
  In or to some other place, or places; elsewhere. Milton. Tennyson.
• SIGHTFULNESS
  The state of being sightful; perspicuity. Sir P. Sidney.
• MUTUALLY
  In a mutual manner.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• 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.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.