Word Meanings - OXYMETHYLENE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formic aldehyde, regarded as a methylene derivative.

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• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• ALDEHYDE
  A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation. Note: The aldehydes are intermediate between the alcohols and acids, and differ from the alcohols in having two less hydrogen atoms in the molecule, as
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• FORMICATE
  Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
• METHYLENE
  A hydrocarbon radical, CH2, not known in the free state, but regarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivatives of methane; as, methylene bromide, CH2Br2; -- formerly called also methene. Methylene blue , an artificial dyestuff
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• REGARD
  1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat,
• FORMIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether. Amido formic acid, carbamic acid. -- Formic acid, a colorless, mobile liquid, HCO.OH, of a sharp, acid taste,
• FORMICATION
  A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin. Dunglison. (more info) an ant, to feel as if ants were crawling on one's self, fr. formica
• FORMICA
  A Linnæan genus of hymenopterous insects, including the common ants. See Ant.
• FORMICID
  Pertaining to the ants. -- n.
• REGARDING
  Concerning; respecting.
• REGARDFUL
  Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South. Syn. -- Mindful; heedful; attentive; observant.
• REGARDABLE
  Worthy of regard or notice; to be regarded; observable. Sir T. Browne.
• REGARDANT
  Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant. (more info) 1. Looking behind; looking backward watchfully. turns thither his regardant eye. Southey.
• REGARDER
  An officer appointed to supervise the forest. Cowell. (more info) 1. One who regards.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• TRIMETHYLENE
  A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H6, isomeric with propylene and obtained from it indirectly. It is the base of a series of compounds analogous to the aromatic hydrocarbons.
• PARALDEHYDE
  A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.
• OXYMETHYLENE
  Formic aldehyde, regarded as a methylene derivative.
• ACETALDEHYDE
  Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• OXALDEHYDE
  See GLYOXAL
• METALDEHYDE
  A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
• DISREGARDFUL
  Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.