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.
Related words: (words related to MOMENTAL)
- 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. swaĆrban 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. - LABIOPLASTY
A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip. - APLASTIC
Not plastic or easily molded. - 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.