art | noun (n.) The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. |
| noun (n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation. |
| noun (n.) The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill. |
| noun (n.) The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature. |
| noun (n.) Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. |
| noun (n.) Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. |
| noun (n.) Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage. |
| noun (n.) Skillful plan; device. |
| noun (n.) Cunning; artifice; craft. |
| noun (n.) The black art; magic. |
| () The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style. |
cart | noun (n.) A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot. |
| noun (n.) A two-wheeled vehicle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. |
| noun (n.) A light business wagon used by bakers, grocerymen, butchers, etc. |
| noun (n.) An open two-wheeled pleasure carriage. |
| verb (v. t.) To carry or convey in a cart. |
| verb (v. t.) To expose in a cart by way of punishment. |
| verb (v. i.) To carry burdens in a cart; to follow the business of a carter. |
chart | noun (n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart. |
| noun (n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts. |
| noun (n.) A written deed; a charter. |
| verb (v. t.) To lay down in a chart; to map; to delineate; as, to chart a coast. |
dart | noun (n.) A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow. |
| noun (n.) Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart. |
| noun (n.) A spear set as a prize in running. |
| noun (n.) A fish; the dace. See Dace. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch. |
| verb (v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. |
| verb (v. i.) To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart. |
| verb (v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket. |
depart | noun (n.) Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients. |
| noun (n.) A going away; departure; hence, death. |
| verb (v. i.) To part; to divide; to separate. |
| verb (v. i.) To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. |
| verb (v. i.) To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. |
| verb (v. i.) To pass away; to perish. |
| verb (v. i.) To quit this world; to die. |
| verb (v. t.) To part thoroughly; to dispart; to divide; to separate. |
| verb (v. t.) To divide in order to share; to apportion. |
| verb (v. t.) To leave; to depart from. |
dispart | noun (n.) The difference between the thickness of the metal at the mouth and at the breech of a piece of ordnance. |
| noun (n.) A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight. |
| verb (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers. |
| verb (v. i.) To separate, to open; to cleave. |
| verb (v. t.) To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim. |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish with a dispart sight. |
heart | noun (n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. |
| noun (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart. |
| noun (n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc. |
| noun (n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit. |
| noun (n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. |
| noun (n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart. |
| noun (n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps. |
| noun (n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention. |
| noun (n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. |
| verb (v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit. |
| verb (v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage. |
quart | noun (n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. |
| noun (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints. |
| noun (n.) A vessel or measure containing a quart. |
| noun (n.) In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4. |
| noun (n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. |
| noun (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints. |
| noun (n.) A vessel or measure containing a quart. |
| noun (n.) In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4. |
part | noun (n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. |
| noun (n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient. |
| noun (n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element. |
| noun (n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense. |
| noun (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural. |
| noun (n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure. |
| noun (n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office. |
| noun (n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction. |
| noun (n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act. |
| noun (n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc. |
| noun (n.) To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. |
| noun (n.) To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share. |
| noun (n.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. |
| noun (n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants. |
| noun (n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver. |
| noun (n.) To leave; to quit. |
| verb (v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle. |
| verb (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from. |
| verb (v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from. |
| verb (v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake. |
| adverb (adv.) Partly; in a measure. |
start | noun (n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion. |
| noun (n.) A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort. |
| noun (n.) A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy. |
| noun (n.) The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; -- opposed to finish. |
| verb (v. i.) To leap; to jump. |
| verb (v. i.) To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act. |
| verb (v. i.) To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start business. |
| verb (v. i.) To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent. |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business. |
| verb (v. t.) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel. |
| verb (v. t.) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask. |
| verb (v. i.) A tail, or anything projecting like a tail. |
| verb (v. i.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle. |
| verb (v. i.) The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket. |
| verb (v. i.) The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse. |
thwart | noun (n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat. |
| adjective (a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. |
| adjective (a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained. |
| adjective (a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart. |
| verb (v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. |
| verb (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. |
| verb (v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner. |
| verb (v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash. |
| prep (prep.) Across; athwart. |
abandonment | noun (n.) The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. |
| noun (n.) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. |
| noun (n.) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. |
| noun (n.) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion. |
| noun (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon. |
abstract | adjective (a.) Withdraw; separate. |
| adjective (a.) Considered apart from any application to a particular object; separated from matter; existing in the mind only; as, abstract truth, abstract numbers. Hence: ideal; abstruse; difficult. |
| adjective (a.) Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. |
| adjective (a.) Resulting from the mental faculty of abstraction; general as opposed to particular; as, "reptile" is an abstract or general name. |
| adjective (a.) Abstracted; absent in mind. |
| adjective (a.) To withdraw; to separate; to take away. |
| adjective (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. |
| adjective (a.) To separate, as ideas, by the operation of the mind; to consider by itself; to contemplate separately, as a quality or attribute. |
| adjective (a.) To epitomize; to abridge. |
| adjective (a.) To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. |
| adjective (a.) To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used. |
| adjective (a.) That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. |
| adjective (a.) A state of separation from other things; as, to consider a subject in the abstract, or apart from other associated things. |
| adjective (a.) An abstract term. |
| adjective (a.) A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. |
| verb (v. t.) To perform the process of abstraction. |
abutment | noun (n.) State of abutting. |
| noun (n.) That on or against which a body abuts or presses |
| noun (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut. |
| noun (n.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc. |
| noun (n.) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil. |
accent | noun (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others. |
| noun (n.) A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents. |
| noun (n.) Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent. |
| noun (n.) A word; a significant tone |
| noun (n.) expressions in general; speech. |
| noun (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse. |
| noun (n.) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure. |
| noun (n.) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure. |
| noun (n.) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period. |
| noun (n.) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. |
| noun (n.) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y". |
| noun (n.) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27", i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds. |
| noun (n.) A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10" is six feet ten inches. |
| verb (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. |
| verb (v. t.) To mark emphatically; to emphasize. |
accept | adjective (a.) Accepted. |
| verb (v. t.) To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of. |
| verb (v. t.) To receive with favor; to approve. |
| verb (v. t.) To receive or admit and agree to; to assent to; as, I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse. |
| verb (v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted? |
| verb (v. t.) To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. |
| verb (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.] |
accident | noun (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident. |
| noun (n.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case. |
| noun (n.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms. |
| noun (n.) A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute. |
| noun (n.) A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness. |
| noun (n.) Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident. |
| noun (n.) Unusual appearance or effect. |
account | noun (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. |
| noun (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank. |
| noun (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts. |
| noun (n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. |
| noun (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon. |
| noun (n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. |
| noun (n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. |
| verb (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count. |
| verb (v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to. |
| verb (v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem. |
| verb (v. t.) To recount; to relate. |
| verb (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received. |
| verb (v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities. |
| verb (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. |
acknowledgment | noun (n.) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. |
| noun (n.) The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness. |
| noun (n.) The owning of a benefit received; courteous recognition; expression of thanks. |
| noun (n.) Something given or done in return for a favor, message, etc. |
| noun (n.) A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration. |
act | noun (n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. |
| noun (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress. |
| noun (n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. |
| noun (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed. |
| noun (n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student. |
| noun (n.) A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. |
| noun (n.) Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). |
| verb (v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate. |
| verb (v. t.) To perform; to execute; to do. |
| verb (v. t.) To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage. |
| verb (v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero. |
| verb (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate. |
| verb (v. i.) To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food. |
| verb (v. i.) To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. |
| verb (v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so. |
| verb (v. i.) To perform on the stage; to represent a character. |