Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 57
Anabas (n.) 攀木魚 A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on land for considerable distances, and for climbing trees; the climbing fishes.
Anabas (n.) The type genus of the family Anabantidae; small fish that resemble perch [syn: {Anabas}, {genus Anabas}].
Anabasis (n.) 大規模的進軍；前進；軍事遠征 A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis."
Anabasis (n.) (Med.) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
Anabasis (n.) (Med.) A plant genus of the goosefoot family {Chenopodiaceae}.
Anabatic (a.) Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever. [Obs.]
Anabatic (a.) 上升氣流的 Of an air current or wind; rising especially up a slope; "an anabatic wind" [ant: {catabatic}, {katabatic}].
Anabolic (a.) 【生】合成代謝的 Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.
Anabolic (a.) Of or related to the synthetic phase of metabolism.
Anabolic (a.) Characterized by or promoting constructive metabolism; "some athletes take anabolic steroids to increase muscle size temporarily" [ant: {catabolic}, {katabolic}].
Anabolism (n.) 組成代謝；合成代謝 The constructive metabolism of the body, as distinguished from {catabolism}.
Anabolism (n.) The synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy [syn: {anabolism}, {constructive metabolism}] [ant: {catabolism}, {destructive metabolism}, {dissimilation}, {katabolism}].
Compare: Metabolism
Metabolism (n.) (Physiol.) 新陳代謝 The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive enzymes. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive ({anabolism}), or destructive ({catabolism}).
Metabolism (n.) (Biol.) The series of chemical changes which take place in an organism, by means of which food is manufactured and utilized and waste materials are eliminated.
Metabolism (n.) [ C ] (Specialized) 新陳代謝 All the chemical processes in your body, especially those that cause food to be used for energy and growth.
// Exercise is supposed to speed up your metabolism.
Anacamptic (a.) 折射的 Reflecting of reflected; as, an anacamptic sound (and echo).
Note: The word was formerly applied to that part of optics which treats of reflection; the same as what is now called {catoptric}. See {Catoptrics}.
Anacamptically (adv.) By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. -- Hutton.
Anacamptics (n.) 反射光學 The science of reflected light, now called {catoptrics}.
Anacamptics (n.) The science of reflected sounds.
Anacanthini (n. pl.) Alt. of Anacanths
Anacanths (n. pl.) A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.
Compare: Teleostean
Teleostean (n.) (pl. Teleosteans) (n. & a.) 硬骨魚類 （的），硬骨魚（的） Any of very many ray-finned fish of the infraclass Teleostei.
Compare: Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii (n.) Or the ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes. [1]
輻鰭魚；輻鰭魚又名條鰭魚，為輻鰭魚總綱（學名：Actinopterygii）魚類的通稱，是一類鰭呈放射狀的硬骨魚。輻鰭魚是脊椎動物中種類最多的，種數幾乎占現存3萬多種魚類的99%，遍及淡水及海水環境。
在不同的分類系統中，輻鰭魚的分類層級從下綱、亞綱、綱到總綱不等。基本上，廣義的輻鰭魚（Actinopterygii）包含了腕鰭魚，而狹義的輻鰭魚（Actinopteri）則成為腕鰭魚的姐妹群
The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or horny spines ("rays"), as opposed to the fleshy, lobed fins that characterize the class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish). These actinopterygian fin rays attach directly to the proximal or basal skeletal elements, the radials, which represent the link or connection between these fins and the internal skeleton (e.g., pelvic and pectoral girdles).
Numerically, actinopterygians are the dominant class of vertebrates, comprising nearly 99% of the over 30,000 species of fish.[2] They are ubiquitous throughout freshwater and marine environments from the deep sea to the highest mountain streams. Extant species can range in size from Paedocypris, at 8 mm (0.3 in), to the massive ocean sunfish, at 2,300 kg (5,070 lb), and the long-bodied oarfish, at 11 m (36 ft).
Compare: Teleostei
Teleostei (n.) 真骨類；真骨下綱（學名：Teleostei）或真骨部是輻鰭魚綱的演化支之一。此一多樣的類群誕生於三疊紀 [1]，有兩萬多個現存物種，分布在40個目之中。輻鰭魚綱的另外兩個下綱（全骨下綱和軟骨硬鱗下綱）是併系群。[2] Large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species.
Compare: Infraclass
Infraclass (n.) (pl. Infraclasses) (Taxonomy) A zoological classification sometimes inserted below subclass and above superorder.
Infraclass (n.) 附綱；下綱：生物等級分類中的一個層次，在亞綱之下，目之上 A taxonomic category of related organisms ranking below a subclass and above an order.
Compare: Taxonomy
Taxonomy (n.) [ C or U ] (Specialized) 分類法；分類學 A system for naming and organizing things, especially plants and animals, into groups that share similar qualities.
Anacanthous (a.) Spineless, as certain fishes.
Anacardiaceous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.
Anacardic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardic acid.
Anacardium (n.) A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.
Anacathartic (a.) Producing vomiting or expectoration.
Anacathartic (n.) An anacathartic medicine; an expectorant or an emetic.
Anacharis (n.) A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceae), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.
Anachoret (a.) Alt. of Anachoretical
Anachoretical (a.) See Anchoret, Anchoretic.
Anachorism (n.) An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place.
Anachronic (a.) Alt. of Anachronical
Anachronical (a.) Characterized by, or involving, anachronism; anachronistic.
Anachronism (n.) 時代錯誤，不合潮流的人 (物) A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
Anachronism (n.) Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred [syn: {anachronism}, {mistiming}, {misdating}].
Anachronism (n.) An artifact that belongs to another time.
Anachronism (n.) A person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age.
Anachronistic (a.) 時代錯誤的；過時的 Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.
Anachronize (v. t.) To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.
Anachronous (a.) 時代錯誤的；過時的 Containing an anachronism; anachronistic.
Anaclastic (a.) (Opt.) 【物】屈折的；【詩】長短音換位的；【解】反曲的 Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.
Anaclastic (a.) Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.
{Anaclastic glass}, A glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.
Anaclastics (n.) (Opt.) That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics. -- Encyc. Brit.
Anacoenosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate.
Anacoluthic (a.) 句法前後不一致的 Lacking grammatical sequence. -- {An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly}, adv.
Anacoluthic (a.) Of or related to syntactic inconsistencies of the sort known as anacoluthons.
Anacoluthon (n.) A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.
Anaconda (n.) A large South American snake of the Boa family (Eunectes murinus), which lives near rivers, and preys on birds and small mammals. The name is also applied to a similar large serpent (Python tigris) of Ceylon.
Anacreontic (a.) Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial.
Anacreontic (n.) A poem after the manner of Anacreon; a sprightly little poem in praise of love and wine.
Anacrotic (a.) Pertaining to anachronism.
Anacrotism (n.) A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.
Anacrusis (n.) A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.
Anadem (n.) A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath.
Anadiplosis (n.) A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."
Anadrom (n.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.
Anadromous (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
Anadromous (a.) Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.
Anaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity [syn: {anemia}].
Anaemia (n.) A lack of vitality [syn: {anemia}].
Anaemic (a.) Of or pertaining to anaemia [syn: {anemic}].
Anaemic (a.) Relating to anaemia or suffering from anaemia [syn: {anemic}].
Anaemic (a.) Lacking vigor or energy; "an anaemic attempt to hit the baseball" [syn: {anemic}].
Anaerobic (a.) (Biol.)【微】沒有空氣而能生活的；厭氧性的；厭氣的 Not requiring air or oxygen for life; -- applied especially to those microbes to which free oxygen is unnecessary; anaerobiotic; -- opposed to {aerobic}.
Anaerobic (a.) (Biol.) Relating to, or like, anaerobies; anaerobiotic.
Anaerobies (n. pl.) (Biol.) 嫌氣性 Microorganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it. See {obligate anaerobes} under {anaerobes}. -- Sternberg.
Anaerobiotic (a.) 厭氣的；厭氧的；厭氧生活的 Related to, or of the nature of, anaerobies.
Anaesthesia (n.) 【醫】感覺缺失，麻木；麻醉（法） Entire or partial loss or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anaesthetic.
Anaesthesia (n.) Loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness [syn: {anesthesia}, {anaesthesia}].
Anaesthesis (n.) See Anaesthesia.
Anaesthetic (a.) Capable of rendering insensible; as, anaesthetic agents.
Anaesthetic (a.) Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation.
Anaesthetic (n.) That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.
Anaesthetization (n.) The process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics.
Anaesthetize (v. t.) To render insensible by an anaesthetic.
Anaglyph (n.) Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.
Anaglyphic (a.) Alt. of Anaglyphical
Anaglyphical (a.) Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.
Anaglyphic (n.) Work chased or embossed relief.
Anaglyptic (a.) Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.
Anaglyptics (n.) The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc.
Anaglyptograph (n.) An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed.
Anaglyptographic (a.) Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, anaglyptographic engraving.
Anaglyptography (n.) The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.
Anagnorisis (n.) The unfolding or denouement.
Anagoge (n.) An elevation of mind to things celestial.
Anagoge (n.) The spiritual meaning or application; esp. the application of the types and allegories of the Old Testament to subjects of the New.
Anagogic (a.) Alt. of Anagogical
Anagogical (a.) Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication.
Anagogics (n. pl.) Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures.
Anagogy (n.) Same as Anagoge.
Anagram (n.) 回文構詞法（如將 now 變移位置而構成 won）；換音造詞法（如 eat 變為 tea）；同字母異序詞；由顛倒字母而成的字（片語） Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.
Anagram (v. t.) To anagrammatize.
Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. -- Warburton.
Anagram (n.) A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase.
Anagram (v.) Read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning [syn: {anagram}, {anagrammatize}, {anagrammatise}].
Anagram (n.) [ C ] 相同字母異序詞 A word or phrase made by using the letters of another word or phrase in a different order.
// "Neat" is an anagram of "a net".
Anagrammatic (a.) Alt. of Anagrammatical
Anagrammatical (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or making, an anagram.
Anagrammatism (n.) 字謎遊戲 The act or practice of making anagrams.
Anagrammatist (n.) A maker anagrams.
Anagrammatize (v. t.) To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram.
Anagraph (n.) An inventory; a record.
Anakim (n. pl.) Alt. of Anaks
Anaks (n. pl.) A race of giants living in Palestine.
Anal (a.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.
Anal (a.) (Body part) 肛門的 Relating to the anus (= the opening at end of the intestines through which solid waste leaves the body).
// The anal passage/sphincter.
// Anal sex.
Anal (a.) (Mental state) (Informal) 整潔成癖的；過分注重細節的 → Anally retentive.
// His anal fondness for filing.
Anally retentive (a.) (also Anal-retentive) (Informal) 整潔成癖的；過分注重細節的 Someone who is anally retentive is too worried about being organized and tidy.
// Don't you think Adrian's a bit anally retentive? Look how obsessively orderly everything is in his garage.
Analcime (n.) 【礦】方沸石 A white or flesh-red mineral, of the zeolite family, occurring in isometric crystals. By friction, it acquires a weak electricity; hence its name.
Analcime or analcite (n.) (from the Greek analkimos - "weak") is a white, gray, or colorless tectosilicate mineral. Analcime consists of hydrated sodium aluminium silicatein cubic crystalline form. Its chemical formulais NaAlSi2O6·H2O. Minor amounts of potassium and calcium substitute for sodium. A silver-bearing synthetic variety also exists (Ag-analcite).
Analcime is usually classified as a zeolitemineral, but structurally and chemically it is more similar to the feldspathoids. Analcime occurs as a primary mineral in analcime basaltand other alkaline igneous rocks. It also occurs as cavity and vesicle fillings associated with prehnite, calcite, and zeolites.
Analcite (n.) Analcime.
Analectic (a.) Relating to analects; made up of selections; as, an analectic magazine.
Analects (n. pl.) Alt. of Analecta
Analecta (n. pl.) A collection of literary fragments.
Analemma (n.) (Chem.) 日行跡；地球儀上刻有8字的尺度（用以測量太陽之傾斜度）；球體投射在子午線平面上的正射影 An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east or west point of the horizon.
Analemma (n.) An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.
Analemma (n.) A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.
Analepsis (n.) Alt. of Analepsy
Analepsy (n.) Recovery of strength after sickness.
Analepsy (n.) A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder. [Obs.]
Analeptic (a.) 使強壯的 Restorative; giving strength after disease. -- n. A restorative drug; a drug that stimulates the central nervous system.
Analeptic (a.) Stimulating the central nervous system; "an analeptic drug stimulates the central nervous system".
Analeptic (n.) 強壯劑；興奮藥 A medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system.
Analeptic (n.) A restorative.
Analgesia (n.) 【醫】痛覺缺失；止痛 Absence of sensibility to pain. -- Quain. AS
Analgesia (n.) Absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness.
Analgesia (n.) 無痛覺，痛覺喪失 Insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness.
Analgesia (n.) (Medical) The loss of the ability to feel pain while conscious.
Analgesic (n.) [ C ] 止痛藥，鎮痛劑 A type of drug that stops you from feeling pain.
// This cream contains a mild analgesic to soothe stings and bites.
Anallagmatic (a.) 自反的 Not changed in form by inversion.
{Anallagmatic curves}, A class of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called {bicircular quartics}.
{Anallagmatic surfaces}, A certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.
Anallantoic (a.) (Anatomy) Without, or not developing, an allantois.
Anallantoic (a.) Not having or not developing an allantois.
Compare: Allantois
Allantois (n.) (Anat.) 尿囊；尿膜 A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.
Allantois (n.) The vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals).
Allantois (n.) (Anatomy) 尿囊；尿膜 A sac, having a number of functions, that develops in the alimentary canal of the embryos of mammals, birds and reptiles.