Word Meanings - RETRACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction. -- Re*tract"ive*ly, adv.
Related words: (words related to RETRACTIVE)
- SERVING
a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant, - RETRACT
1. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation. 2. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files. - SERVO-MOTOR
A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve - RETRACTOR
One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. - TRACTORATION
See PERKINISM - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - TRACTITE
A Tractarian. - SERVILENESS
Quality of being servile; servility. - SERVABLE
Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym: - SERVITORSHIP
The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell. - SERVER
1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph. - TRACTARIAN
Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles. - SERVIAN
Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n. - TRACTARIANISM
The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times." - SERVALINE
Related to, or resembling, the serval. - SERVICE
The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for - TRACTION
1. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle. 2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug. 3. Attraction; - TRACTORY
A tractrix. - SERVAGE
Serfage; slavery; servitude. Chaucer. - TRACTILE
Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon. - DISSERVE
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym: - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - DESERVEDNESS
Meritoriousness. - CONSERVATIONAL
Tending to conserve; preservative. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - UNNATURE
To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney. - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley. - INSERVE
To be of use to an end; to serve. - DETRACTIVE
1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative. - PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety. - OBSERVANCY
Observance. - MANSERVANT
A male servant. - BOND SERVICE
The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.