Word Meanings - PLATETROPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of a pair of a paired organs.

Related words: (words related to PLATETROPE)

• PAIRER
  One who impairs. Wyclif.
• PAIRMENT
  Impairment. Wyclif.
• PAIRING
  1. The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples. 2. See To pair off, under Pair, v. i. Pairyng time, the time when birds or other animals pair.
• PAIR
  In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion. Note: Pairs are named in accordance with the kind of motion they permit; thus, a journal and its bearing form a turning pair, a
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• APPAIR
  To impair; to grow worse.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
  A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• IMPAIRER
  One who, or that which, impairs.
• DISREPAIR
  A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair. The fortifications were ancient and in disrepair. Sir W. Scott.
• APAIR
  To impair or become impaired; to injure. Chaucer.
• REPAIR
  fr. L. repatriare to return to one's contry, to go home again; pref. re- re- + patria native country, fr. pater father. See Father, and 1. To return. I thought . . . that he repaire should again. Chaucer. 2. To go; to betake one's self; to resort;
• DESPAIR
  To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake. Syn. -- See Despond. (more info) desperare; de- + sperare to hope; akin
• REPAIRABLE
  Reparable. Gauden.
• DESPAIRFUL
  Hopeless. Spenser.
• DESPAIRER
  One who despairs.
• EMPAIR
  To impair. Spenser.
• DISPAIR
  To separate . I have . . . dispaired two doves. Beau. & Fl.
• REPAIRER
  One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
• UNIMPAIRABLE
  That can not be impaired. Hakewill.
• IMPAIR
  To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value. Time sensibly all things impairs. Roscommon. In years he seemed, but not impaired by years. Pope. Syn. -- To