Word Meanings - OBCOMPRESSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Compressed or flattened antero-posteriorly, or in a way opposite to the usual one.

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• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• COMPRESSIVE
  Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• COMPRESSIBILITY
  The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.
• USUAL
  Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends
• COMPRESSION PROJECTILE
  A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• COMPRESSOR
  Anything which serves to compress; as: A muscle that compresses certain parts. An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part. An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined
• COMPRESSURE
  Compression.
• ANTERO-
  A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
• COMPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
• COMPRESS
  1. To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water. Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster.
• ANTEROOM
  A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.
• OPPOSITE
  1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
• COMPRESSION
  The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. "Compression of thought." Johnson.
• COMPRESSIBLENESS
  The quality of being compressible; compressibility.
• COMPRESSED YEAST
  A cake yeast made by filtering the cells from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour.
• COMPRESSED
  Flattened lengthwise. Compessed air engine, an engine operated by the elastic force of compressed air. (more info) 1. Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
• INCOMPRESSIBILITY
  The quality of being incompressible, or incapable of reduction in volume by pressure; -- formerly supposed to be a property of liquids. The incompressibility of water is not absolute. Rees.
• UNUSUALITY
  Unusualness. Poe.
• SUBCOMPRESSED
  Not fully compressed; partially or somewhat compressed.
• OBCOMPRESSED
  Compressed or flattened antero-posteriorly, or in a way opposite to the usual one.