Word Meanings - PROSPECTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.

PRECIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.
PRECIOUS
1. Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. "The precious bane." Milton. 2. Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. She is more precious than rules. Prov. iii. 15. Many things which
ESPECIALLY
In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
REGIONAL
Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
PRECIOUSLY
In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.
REGION
1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
PHOTIC REGION
The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
APHOTIC REGION
A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.
PROTOMETALS
A finer form of metals, indicated by enhanced lines in their spark spectra , obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures ; as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium,
TRANSREGIONATE
Foreign. Holinshed.
SEMIPRECIOUS
Somewhat precious; as, semiprecious stones or metals.