Word Meanings - PORTATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity. (more info) 1. Portable.

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• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• MAGNETICIAN
  One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.
• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• MAGNETIZATION
  The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized.
• MAGNETIZABLE
  Capable of magnetized.
• MAGNETOMOTOR
  A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• PORTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being portable; portability.
• MAGNETIC; MAGNETICAL
  1. Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle. 2. Of or pertaining to, or characterized by,, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north;
• CAPILLARITY
  The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid , is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction. Note: Capillarity depends upon the relative attaction of the modecules of the liquid for each other and
• HOLDBACK
  1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• PRESSURE WIRES
  Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
• MAGNETOTHERAPY
  The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.
• MAGNETITE
  An oxide of iron occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called
• MAGNETOGRAPH
  An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.
• CARRYK
  A carack. Chaucer.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• PARAMAGNETISM
  Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism. Faraday.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.