Word Meanings - SERIES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr.

Additional info about word: SERIES

Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. (more info) together; cf. Gr. sarit thread. Cf. Assert, Desert a solitude, Exert, 1. A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events. During some years his life a series of triumphs. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SERIES)

• Course
• Order
• sequence
• continuity
• direction
• progress
• line
• way
• mode
• race
• career
• road
• route
• series
• passage
• succession
• round
• manner
• plan
• conduct
• method
• Arrangement
• condition
• rank
• grade
• class
• decree
• injunction
• precept
• command
• Progression
• Series
• gradation
• rate
• Rotation
• Turn
• order
• revolution
• course
• reversion
• recurrence
• Row
• continuation
• file
• string
• concatenation
• thread

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SERIES)

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

Related words: (words related to SERIES)

• STRE
  Straw. Chaucer.
• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• STRONTIAN
  Strontia.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• STROMATIC
  Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• STREPITORES
  A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• STRIATUM
  The corpus striatum.
• 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.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• STROMATOLOGY
  The history of the formation of stratified rocks.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• STRUVITE
  A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• LUSTROUS
  Bright; shining; luminous. " Good sparks and lustrous." Shak. -- Lus"trous*ly, adv.
• PEDESTRIAN
  Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• OSTROGOTHIC
  Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• REGISTRANT
  One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• 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.
• NAVEL-STRING
  The umbilical cord.
• 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.