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Word Meanings - STRICTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Quality or state of being strict.

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  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • CONTROLLABLENESS
    Capability of being controlled.
  • NICETY
    1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
  • ORGANIZATION
    1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
  • TRAINING
    The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
  • DISCIPLINER
    One who disciplines.
  • TRAINABLE
    Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
  • CONTROLLABILITY
    Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
  • STRICTNESS
    Quality or state of being strict.
  • MISCONDUCT
    Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
  • DRILL PRESS
    A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
  • ORDERLY
    1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
  • ABANDON
    To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
  • CORRECTNESS
    The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy. Syn. -- Accuracy; exactness; precision; propriety.
  • GOVERNMENTAL
    Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
  • MISMANAGEMENT
    Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
  • COERCION
    The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable,
  • ACCURACY
    The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy.
  • CONTROL
    contr-rôle; contre + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder;
  • TRAINER
    1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • IMBORDER
    To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
  • PROTUBERATE
    To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • MISORDER
    To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
  • MISGOVERNMENT
    Bad government; want of government. Shak.
  • UPTRAIN
    To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
  • CORRIDOR TRAIN
    A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
  • STRAINING
    from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.

 

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