Word Meanings - SHRINKAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement. 2. The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc. 3. Decrease in value; depreciation.

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• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• GRAINING
  The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt. (more info) 1. Indentation; roughening; milling, as on edges of coins. Locke. 2. A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised. 3. Painting
• SHRINKING
  from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser.
• DIMENSIONAL
  Pertaining to dimension.
• GRAINY
  Resembling grains; granular.
• DIMENSION
  The degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension. (more info) to measure out; di- = dis- + metiri to measure: cf. F. dimension. See 1. Measure in a single line,
• GRAINER
  1. An infusion of pigeon's dung used by tanners to neutralize the effects of lime and give flexibility to skins; -- called also grains and bate. 2. A knife for taking the hair off skins. 3. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood, marble,
• SHRINKER
  One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger.
• VALUE
  Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power
• GRAINS
  1. See 5th Grain, n., 2 . 2. Pigeon's dung used in tanning. See Grainer. n., 1.
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• VALUER
  One who values; an appraiser.
• DECREASELESS
  Suffering no decrease. It flows and flows, and yet will flow, Volume decreaseless to the final hour. A. Seward.
• GRAINFIELD
  A field where grain is grown.
• DEPRECIATION
  1. The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation. 2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke. 3. the state of being depreciated.
• AMOUNT
  L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See 1. To go up; to ascend. So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. Spenser. 2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come in the aggregate or
• VALUED POLICY
  A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.
• VALUED-POLICY LAW
  A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.
• DECREASE
  To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December. He must increase, but I must decrease. John
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• FELT GRAIN
  , the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular rings or plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some other timber. Knight.
• MIGRAINE
  See A
• UNDERVALUE
  1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
• ROUGH-GRAINED
  Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not polished; brisque.
• OUTVALUE
  To exceed in value. Boyle.
• UNVALUED
  1. Not valued; not appraised; hence, not considered; disregarded; valueless; as, an unvalued estate. "Unvalued persons." Shak. 2. Having inestimable value; invaluable. The golden apples of unvalued price. Spenser.
• MISVALUE
  To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue. But for I am so young, I dread my work Wot be misvalued both of old and young. W. Browne.
• ENGRAIN
  1. To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser. 2. To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain. The stain hath become engrained by time. Sir W. Scott. 3. To