Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A

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Anallantoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) The division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.

Anallantoidea (n. pl.) The division of Vertebrata, including amphibians, fishes, and cyclostomes, in which no allantois, or at most a rudimentary one, is developed. -- Compare: Anamniota -- Aanallantoidean (a. or n.)

Compare: Amphibian

Amphibian (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

Amphibian (n.) (Zool.) One of the Amphibia.

Amphibian (a.) Relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia [syn: {amphibious}, {amphibian}]

Amphibian (n.) A flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water [syn: {amphibian}, {amphibious vehicle}].

Amphibian (n.) An airplane designed to take off and land on water [syn: {amphibian}, {amphibious aircraft}].

Amphibian (n.) Cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form.

Amphibian (n.) [ C ] (Animal) 兩棲動物 An animal, such as a frog, that lives both on land and in water but must produce its eggs in water.

Analogal (a.) Analogous. [Obs.] -- Donne.

Compare: Analogous

Analogous (a.) 類似的；可比擬的 [（+to/ with）]；【生】同功的 [（+to）] Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.

Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. -- De Quincey.

Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. -- J. H. Newman.

{Analogous pole} (Pyroelect.), 熱正極 That pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

Syn: Correspondent; similar; like. -- {A*nal"o gous*ly}, adv. -- {A*nal"o*gous*ness}, n.

Analogous (a.) Similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar" [syn: {analogous}, {correspondent}].

Analogous (a.) Corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin; "the wings of a bee and those of a hummingbird are analogous" [ant: {heterologic}, {heterological}, {heterologous}, {homologous}].

Analogic (a.) 類似的；類比的；類推的 Of or belonging to analogy. -- Geo. Eliot.

Analogical (a.) 類似的；類推的 Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy.

When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical. -- J. S. Mill.

Analogical (a.) Having analogy; analogous. -- Sir M. Hale.

Analogical (a.) Expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy; "the analogical use of a metaphor".

Analogically (adv.) 類似；類比；類推 In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.

A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. -- Berkeley.

Analogicalness (n.) [U] The state or quality of being analogical.

Analogism (n.) (Logic) 類比推理；類比法 An argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument. -- Johnson.

Analogism (n.) Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. -- Crabb.

Analogist (n.) 類比推理者 One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. -- Cheyne.

Analogist (n.) Someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy.

Analogize (v. i.) (v. t.) 以類推來說明 (v. i.) 類推 To employ, or reason by, analogy.

Analogize (v.) Make an analogy [syn: {analogize}, {analogise}].

Analogon (n.) Analogue; especially a thing which is comparable with, resembles, or is equivalent to another.

Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. -- De Quincey.

Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. -- J. H. Newman.

{Analogous pole} (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

Syn: Correspondent; similar; like. -- {A*nal"o gous*ly}, adv. -- {A*nal"o*gous*ness}, n.

Analogue (n.) 相似物；類似情況；【化】類似物 That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing.

The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many. -- I. Taylor.

Analogue (n.) (Philo.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

Analogue (n.) (Nat. Hist.) An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

Analogue (n.) (Nat. Hist.) A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

Analogue (n.) (Nat. Hist.) A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera. -- Dana.

Analogue (a.) （電子手錶等）模擬指針式的；模擬電腦的 Of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input; "analogue device"; "linear amplifier" [syn: {analogue}, {analog}, {linear}] [ant: {digital}].

Analogue (n.) Something having the property of being analogous to something else [syn: {analogue}, {analog}, {parallel}].

Analogies (n. pl. ) of Analogy

Analogy (n.) 相似，類似 [C] [（+between/ to/ with）]；比擬；類推，類比 [U] [S1]；【生】同功 A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden.

Note: Followed by between, to, or with; as, there is an analogy between these objects, or one thing has an analogy to or with another.

Note: Analogy is very commonly used to denote similarity or essential resemblance; but its specific meaning is a similarity of relations, and in this consists the difference between the argument from example and that from analogy. In the former, we argue from the mere similarity of two things; in the latter, from the similarity of their relations. -- Karslake.

Analogy (n.) (Biol.) A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.

Analogy (n.) (Geom.) Proportion; equality of ratios.

Analogy (n.) (Gram.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to {anomaly}. -- Johnson.

Analogy (n.) An inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others.

Analogy (n.) Drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up".

Analogy (n.) The religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate [syn: {doctrine of analogy}, {analogy}] [ant: {apophatism}, {cataphatism}].

Analogy (n.), Construction. The similitude of relations which exist between things. compared.

Analogy (n.) To reason analogically, is to draw conclusions based on this similitude of relations, on the resemblance, or the connexion which is perceived between the objects compared. "It is this guide," says Toollier, which leads the law lawgiver, like other men, without his observing it. It is analogy which induces us, with reason, to suppose that, following the example of the Creator of the universe, the lawgiver has established general and uniform laws, which it is unnecessary to repeat in all analogous cases." Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t. 1, c. 1. Vide Ang. on Adv. Enjoym. 30, 31; Hale's Com. Law, 141.

Analogy (n.) Analogy has been declared to be an argument or guide in forming legal judgments, and is very commonly a ground of such judgments. 7 Barn. & Cres. 168; 3 Bing. R. 265; 8 Bing R. 557, 563; 3 Atk. 313; 1 Eden's R. 212; 1 W. Bl. 151; 6 Ves. jr. 675, 676; 3 Swanst. R. 561; 1 Turn. & R. 103, 338; 1 R. & M. 352, 475, 477; 4 Burr. R. 1962; 2022, 2068; 4 T. R. 591; 4 Barn. & Cr. 855; 7 Dowl. & Ry. 251; Cas. t. Talb. 140; 3 P. Wms. 391; 3 Bro. C. C. 639, n.

Analyse (n.) Alt. of Analyser

Analyser (n.) Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc.

Analyses (n. pl. ) of Analysis

Analysis (n.) 分析；分解；解析 [C] [U]；【美】精神分析 [U] [C] A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to {synthesis}.

Analysis (n.) (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

Analysis (n.) (Logic.) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

Analysis (n.) (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

Analysis (n.) A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

Analysis (n.) A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

Analysis (n.) (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.

{Ultimate}, {Proximate}, {Qualitative}, {Quantitative}, and {Volumetric analysis}. (Chem.) See under {Ultimate}, {Proximate}, {Qualitative}, etc.

Analysis (n.) An investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole.

Analysis (n.) The abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations [syn: {analysis}, {analytic thinking}] [ant: {synthesis}, {synthetic thinking}].

Analysis (n.) A form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed.

Analysis (n.) The use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'.

Analysis (n.) A branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation.

Analysis (n.) A set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis" [syn: {psychoanalysis}, {analysis}, {depth psychology}].

Analyst (n.) 分析者；善於分析者；分解者；【美】精神分析醫師；股票分析師 One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

Analyst (n.) Someone who is skilled at analyzing data.

Analyst (n.) An expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions.

Analyst (n.) A licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis [syn: {analyst}, {psychoanalyst}].

Analytic (a.) 解析的，分析的；分解的；善於分析的；【文】分析型的 Alt. of Analytical

Analytical (a.) Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts; as, an analytical experiment; analytic reasoning; -- opposed to {synthetic}.

Analytic (a.) Using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus; "analytic statics".

Analytic (a.) Using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole --intellectual or substantial-- into its elemental parts or basic principles); "an analytic experiment"; "an analytic approach"; "a keenly analytic man"; "analytical reasoning"; "an analytical mind" [syn: {analytic}, {analytical}] [ant: {synthetic}, {synthetical}].

Analytic (a.) Expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection [syn: {analytic}, {uninflected}] [ant: {synthetic}].

Analytic (a.) Of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience; "`all spinsters are unmarried' is an analytic proposition" [syn: {analytic}, {analytical}] [ant: {synthetic}, {synthetical}].

Analytically (adv.) 分析地，分解地 In an analytical manner.

Analytically (adv.) By virtue of analysis; "assuming that the distinction is maintained one may ask which is to be analytically prior?"

Analytics (n.) The science of analysis.

Analyzable (a.) That may be analyzed.

Analyzation (n.) The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.

Analyzed (imp. & p. p.) of Analyze

Analyzing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Analyze

Analyze (v. t.) To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance; to analyze a sentence or a word; to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.

Analyzer (n.) One who, or that which, analyzes.

Analyzer (n.) The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties.

Anamese (a.) Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia.

Anamese (n.) A native of Anam.

Anamnesis (n.) A recalling to mind; recollection.

Anamnestic (a.) Aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies.

Anamniotic (a.) Without, or not developing, an amnion.

Anamorphism (n.) A distorted image.

Anamorphism (n.) A gradual progression from one type to another, generally ascending.

Anamorphosis (n.) (Persp.) A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

Anamorphosis (n.) (Biol.) Same as Anamorphism, 2.

Anamorphosis (n.) (Bot.) A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration.

Anamorphosis (n.) The evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes [syn: anamorphosis, anamorphism].

Anamorphosis (n.) A distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner [syn: anamorphosis, anamorphism].

Anamorphosy (n.) Same as Anamorphosis.

Anan (interj.) An expression equivalent to What did you say? Sir? Eh? [Obs.] -- Shak.

Anan, () cloud, One of the Israelites who sealed the covenant after the return from Babylon (Neh. 10:26).

Ananas (n.) (Bot.) The pineapple ({Ananassa sativa).

Ananas (n.) A genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples) [syn: Ananas, genus Ananas].

Ananas (n.) Large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated [syn: pineapple, ananas].

Anandrous (a.) (Bot.) Destitute of stamens, as certain female flowers.

Anangular (a.) Containing no angle. [R.]

Anantherous (a.) (Bot.) Destitute of anthers. -- Gray.

Ananthous (a.) (Bot.) Destitute of flowers; flowerless. Anapaest

Anapaest () Alt. of Anapaestic.

Anapaestic () Same as Anapest, Anapestic.

Anapaestic (a.) (Of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one [syn: anapestic, anapaestic].

Anapest (n.) (Pros.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented ([crescent] [crescent] -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d[e^]-[i^]-t[=a]s, and in English in-ter-vene[bprime], are examples of anapests.

Anapest (n.) A verse composed of such feet.

Anapestic (a.) Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse.

Anapestic (n.) Anapestic measure or verse.

Anapestic (a.) (Of a metric foot) Characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one [syn: anapestic, anapaestic].

Anapestical (a.) Anapestic.

Anaphora (n.) (Rhet.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

Anaphora (n.) The use of a substitute word, such as a pronoun, in reference to a something already mentioned in a discourse; also, the relation between the substitute word and its antecedent. It is contrasted with cataphora, the use of a pronoun for a word or topic not yet mentioned.

Note: Thus, in the sentence "John was tall but he was not very heavy." the "he" is an anaphora for John, or an anaphoric reference to John.

Anaphora (n.) Using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier.

Anaphora (n.) Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses [syn: epanaphora, anaphora].

Anaphrodisia (n.) (Med.) Absence of sexual appetite. AS

Anaphrodisia (n.) Decline or absence of sexual desire [ant: aphrodisia].

Anaphrodisiac (a. & n.) (Med.) Same as Antaphrodisiac. -- Dunglison. AS

Antaphrodisiac, anaphrodisiac (a.) (Med.) Capable of blunting the sexual appetite. -- n. Anything that

reduces the sexual appetite.

Anaphrodisiac (a.) Tending to diminish sexual desire [ant: aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal, sexy].

Anaphroditic (a.) (Biol.) Produced without concourse of sexes.

Anaplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Anaplastic (a.) Of or relating to anaplasia.

Anaplasty (n.) (Surg.) The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

Anaplasty (n.) Surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue [syn: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, anaplasty].

Anaplerotic (a.) Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.

Anaplerotic (n.) A remedy which promotes such granulation.

Anaplerotic (a.) (Med.) Of or relating to anaplerosis. [AS]
Anaplerotic (n.) (Med.) A substance which promotes anaplerosis. [AS]

Anapnograph (n.) A form of spirometer.

Anapnoic (a.) Relating to respiration.

Anapodeictic (a.) Not apodeictic; undemonstrable. [R.]

Anapophysis (n.) (Anat.) An accessory process in many lumbar vertebrae.

Anaptotic (a.) Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

Anaptichi (n. pl. ) of Anaptychus

Anaptychus (n.) (Paleon.) One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

Anarch (n.) The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt. -- Milton.

Imperial anarchs doubling human woes. -- Byron.

Anarchal (a.) Lawless; anarchical. [R.]

We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. -- Landor. Anarchic

Anarchic (a.) Alt. of Anarchical

Anarchical (a.) Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

Anarchic (a.) Without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic" [syn: anarchic, anarchical, lawless].

Anarchism (n.) The doctrine or practice of anarchists.

Anarchism (n.) A political theory favoring the abolition of governments.

Anarchist (n.) An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrow of civil government.

Anarchist (n.) An advocate of anarchism [syn: anarchist, nihilist, syndicalist].

Anarchize (v. t.) To reduce to anarchy.

Anarchy (n.) Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.

Spread anarchy and terror all around. -- Cowper.

Anarchy (n.) Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.

There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their re?koning of years. -- Fuller.

Anarchy (n.) A state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) [syn: anarchy, lawlessness].

Anarchy, () The absence of all political government; by extension, it signifies confusion in government.

Anarthropoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.

Anarthropodous (a.) (Zool.) Having no jointed legs; pertaining to Anarthropoda.

Anarthrous (a.) (Gr. Gram.) Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.

Anarthrous (a.) (Zool.) Without joints, or having the joints indistinct, as some insects.

Anas (n.) (Zool.) A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

Anas (n.) Type genus of the Anatidae: freshwater ducks [syn: Anas, genus Anas].

Anasarca (n.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

Anasarca (n.) (Med.) Severe generalized edema.

Anasarca (n.) Generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue.

Anasarcous (a.) Belonging, or affected by, anasarca, or dropsy; dropsical. -- Wiseman.

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