Word Meanings - LAGOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. 2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. Lagoon
Additional info about word: LAGOON
1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. 2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. Lagoon island, a coral island consisting of a narrow reef encircling a lagoon.
Related words: (words related to LAGOON)
- CORALLIGENOUS
producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble. - LAGOON
1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. 2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. Lagoon - CORALLUM
The coral or skeleton of a zoöphyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral. - CORAL-RAG
See CORALLIAN - COMMUNICATIVENESS
The quality of being communicative. Norris. - SOUNDER
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. - CORALLIAN
A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag. - PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - ISLANDY
Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands. Cotgrave. - SOUNDLESS
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak. - CORALLIGENA
See ANTHOZOA - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SOUNDLY
In a sound manner. - SHALLOW-BRAINED
Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South. - COMMUNICATIVE
Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift. - SOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude. - ISLANDER
An inhabitant of an island. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - SHALLOW-WAISTED
Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel. - SHALLOW
schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - HIGH-SOUNDING
Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles. - RESOUND
resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - PATOLLI
An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination. - INTERCOMMUNICATION
Mutual communication. Owen. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - TETRACORALLA
See RUGOSA - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - SELF-COMMUNICATIVE
Imparting or communicating by its own powers.