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582 words match “FIXED”

RATION n. 2 definitions
A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
REAL a.
Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property. Chattels real (Law), such chattels as are annexed to, or savor of, the realty, as terms for years of land. See Chattel. -- Real action (Law), an action for the recovery o…
REALTY n.
Immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.
RENT n.
commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
RENTIER n.
One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.
RESIDE v. 2 definitions
remain for a long time. At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. In no fixed place the happy souls reside. Dryden.
RESIDENT a.
Fixed; stable; certain. [Obs.] "Stable and resident like a rock." Jer. TAylor. One there still resident as day and night. Davenant.
RESOLUTE a.
Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady. Edward is at hand, Ready to fight; therefore be resolute. Shak.
RESOLUTELY adv.
In a resolute manner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance. Some.. facts he examines, some he resolutely denies. Swift.
RESOLVE n.
That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution. Nor is your firm resolve unknown. Shak. Cæsar's approach has summoned us together, And Rome attends her fate from our resolves. Addison.…
RESOLVED p.
Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. That makes him a resolved enemy. Jer. Taylor. I am resolved she shall not settle here. Fielding.
RESOLVEDNESS n.
Fixedness of purpose; firmness; resolution. Dr. H. More.
REST v. 2 definitions
To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
REVOLUTION n. 2 definitions
e act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.
REVOLVING a.
evolving light, a light or lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at fixed intervals, either by being turned about an axis so as to show light only at intervals, or by having its light occasionally intercepted by a revolving screen.
RIBAUDEQUIN n.
A huge bow fixed on the wall of a fortified town for casting javelins.
RIDER n.
An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beame of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame. Totten.
RIGEL n.
A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion. [Written also Regel.]
RIGHT-HANDED a.
that screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.
RO2 R2O5 RO3 R2O7 RO4 ----------------------------------------------- n.
ts approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function (Math.), a function whose values recur at fixed intervals as the variable uniformly increases. The trigonomertic functions, as sin x, tan x, etc., are periodic functions. Exponential functions are also periodic, having an imaginary period, and the elliptic functions have…
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