Word Meanings - SEQUENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences. Any succession of chords rising or falling by the regular

Additional info about word: SEQUENCE

Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences. Any succession of chords rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps. A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia. (more info) 1. The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession Shak. Sequence and series of the seasons of the year. Bacon. 2. That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result. The inevitable sequences of sin and punishment. Bp. Hall.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEQUENCE)

• Continuation
• Sequence
• continuance
• continuity
• duration
• succession
• connection
• extension
• prolongation
• perpetuation
• concatenation
• Course
• Order
• sequence
• direction
• progress
• line
• way
• mode
• race
• career
• road
• route
• series
• passage
• round
• manner
• plan
• conduct
• method
• Law
• Rule
• edict
• regulation
• decree
• command
• order
• statute
• enactment
• principle
• code
• legislation
• adjudication
• jurisdiction
• jurisprudence
• Line
• Cord
• thread
• length
• outline
• row
• verse
• course
• Arrangement
• condition
• rank
• grade
• class
• injunction
• precept

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SEQUENCE)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent

Related words: (words related to SEQUENCE)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PHYSOGRADE
  Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.