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Word Meanings - TRANSPORTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.

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  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • LOCALITY
    The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. (more info) 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul
  • DARWINIAN
    Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
  • REMOVER
    One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
  • DARWINIANISM
    Darwinism.
  • REMOVED
    1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
  • ANOTHER
    1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
  • REMOVE
    1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
  • ANOTHER-GAINES
    Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SEEDSMAN
    1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. 2. A person who deals in seeds.
  • REMOVABLE
    Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n.
  • TRANSPORTATION
    1. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. To provide a vessel for their transportation. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Transport; ecstasy. South.
  • REMOVAL
    The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
  • DARWINISM
    The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
  • ANOTHER-GATES
    Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
  • IRREMOVABLE
    Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
  • IRREMOVABILITY
    The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness.
  • NEO-DARWINISM
    The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example
  • TITANOTHERIUM
    A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.
  • IRREMOVAL
    Absence of removal.
  • ILLOCALITY
    Want of locality or place. Cudworth.

 

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