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434 words match “RESPOND”

SENOR; SENHOR n.
A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.
SEOR n.
A Spanish title of courtesy corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir; also, a gentleman.
SERVITOR n.
upported by the college funds, whose duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a sizar in Cambridge and Dublin universities.
SIDE-CHAIN THEORY n.
through certain of their side chains, but only when these side chains have a definite correspondence in structure (this account for the specific action of antitoxins).
SIMILAR a. 2 definitions
Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.
SINCERE a.
Being in reality what it appears to be; having a character which corresponds with the appearance; not falsely assumed; genuine; true; real; as, a sincere desire for knowledge; a sincere contempt for meanness. A sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions. Law.
SIVAN n.
The third month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year; -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of June.
SIZAR n.
ssed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay.
SIZE n.
wance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
SKEW a.
nt in which the elements in each column of the matrix are equal to the elements of the corresponding row of the matrix with the signs changed, as in (1), below. (1) 0 2 -3-2 0 53 -5 0 (2) 4 -1 71 8 -2-7 2 1
SNAIL-PACED a.
the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body). Beau & Fl.
SPHYGMOGRAM n.
A tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph.
SQUAMOSAL a.
The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal.
SQUARE a.
Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just. She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to her. Shak.
STEAM n.
e atmosphere. -- Saturated steam, steam at the temperature of the boiling point which corresponds to its pressure; -- sometimes also applied to wet steam. -- Superheated steam, steam heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure. It can not exist in contact with water, nor contai…
STIFLE n.
e hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- called also stifle joint. See Illust. under Horse. Stifle bone, a small bone at the stifle joint; the patella, or kneepan.
STIGMATIC; STIGMATICAL a.
to a stigma or stigmata. Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.
STOOL n.
w, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat. Stool o…
STORY n.
orizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]
STRING n.
An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
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