Word Meanings - MOMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to moment or momentum. (more info) 1. Lasting but a moment; brief. Not one momental minute doth she swerve. Breton. 2. Important; momentous.

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• LAST
  of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. Chaucer.
• LASTERY
  A red color. Spenser.
• LASTE
  of Last, to endure. Chaucer.
• MOMENTARILY
  Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• MOMENTOUS
  Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs. -- Mo*men"tous*ly, adv. -- Mo*men"tous*ness, n.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• LASTLY
  1. In the last place; in conclusion. 2. at last; finally.
• LASTER
  A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• MOMENTLY
  1. For a moment. 2. In a moment; every moment; momentarily.
• SWERVE
  OFries. swerva to creep, D. zwerven to swerve, to rope, OS. swerban to wipe off, MHG. swerben to be whirled, OHG. swerban to wipe off, Icel. sverfa to file, Goth. swaírban to wipe, and perhaps 1. To stray; to wander; to rope. A maid thitherward
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• IMPORTANT
  1. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman. 2. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing;
• MOMENT
  An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement. (more info) motion, moment, fr. movere to move. See Move, and cf. Momentum, 1. A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment. In a moment,
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• MOMENTALLY
  For a moment.
• BRIEFLESS
  Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.
• MOMENTARY
  Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• ODONTOPLAST
  An odontoblast.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• LABIOPLASTY
  A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• MONOPLAST
  A monoplastic element.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• PHELLOPLASTICS
  Art of modeling in cork.
• PROTOPLASTIC
  First-formed. Howell.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• WATER BALLAST
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• GALVANOPLASTY
  The art or process of electrotypy.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.