Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 74
Apanage (n.) Same as Appanage.
Apanage (n.) Any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life; "for thousands of years the chair was an appanage of state and dignity rather than an article of ordinary use" [syn: appanage, apanage].
Apanage (n.) A grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family; "bishoprics were received as appanages for the younger sons of great families" [syn: appanage, apanage].
Apanthropy (n.) An aversion to the company of men; a love of solitude. Apar
Apar (n.) Alt. of Apara.
Apara (n.) See Mataco.
Apar (n.) South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates [syn: apar, three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes tricinctus].
APAR () Authorized Program Analysis Report (IBM)
Aparejo (n.) [Sp.] A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.
Aparithmesis (n.) (Rhet.) Enumeration of parts or particulars.
Apart (adv.) Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.
Others apart sat on a hill retired. -- Milton.
The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself. -- Ps. iv. 3.
Apart (adv.) In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two propositions apart.
Apart (adv.) Aside; away. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness." -- J as. i. 21.
Let Pleasure go, put Care apart. -- Keble.
Apart (adv.) In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a piece of machinery apart.
Apart (adv.) Separated or at a distance in place or position or time; "These towns are many miles apart"; "stood with his legs apart"; "born two years apart."
Apart (adv.) Not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy" [syn: apart, aside].
Apart (adv.) Away from another or others; "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart."
Apart (adv.) Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing" [syn: aside, apart].
Apart (adv.) One from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart."
Apart (adv.) Into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart"; "torn asunder" [syn: apart, asunder].
Apart (a.) Remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure].
Apart (a.) Having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt they were a group apart" -- Vannever Bush.
Apartment (n.) A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. -- Fielding.
Apartment (n.) A set or suite of rooms. -- De Quincey.
Apartment (n.) A compartment. [Obs.] -- Pope.
Apartment (n.) A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them.
Efficiency apartment, A small apartment[4], sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pull out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency.
Apartment (n.) A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house [syn: apartment, flat].
Apartment (n.) (A2) [ C ] (mainly US) (UK usually flat) （尤指在同一樓層的）公寓套房 A set of rooms for living in, especially on one floor of a building.
// I'll give you the keys to my apartment.
// They have six luxury apartments for sale.
// A holiday apartment.
Apartments (n. pl.) （公共大樓、城堡等中大而豪華的）套間 A set of large rooms with expensive furniture and decoration in, for example, a public building or castle.
// The Royal Apartments are open to the public.
Apartness (n.) 孤立；冷漠 The quality of standing apart.
Apastron (n.) (pl. Apastra) (Astronomy) 遠星點 That point in the orbit of a double star where the smaller star is farthest from its primary. Apathetic (opposed to Periastron).
Apastron (n.) (pl. Apastra) (Astronomy) 遠星點 The point at which the stars of a binary system are farthest apart (opposed to Periastron).
Compare: Periastron
Periastron (n.) (pl. Periastra) 近星點 The point at which the stars of a binary system are closest (opposed to Apastron).
Apathetic (a.) Alt. of Apathetical
Apathetic (a.) 無興趣的；懈怠的；（尤指對重要事情）不關心的，無動於衷的 Showing no interest or energy and unwilling to take action, especially over something important.
// Young people today are so apathetic about politics.
// Don't be so apathetic - how are you going to get a job if you don't even start looking?
Apathetical (a.) 冷淡的；無動於衷的 Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless. a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older
Apathetical (a.) Showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent. an apathetic audience
Syn: indifferen
Apathetic (a.) Showing little or no emotion or animation; "a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older."
Apathetic (a.) Marked by a lack of interest; "an apathetic audience"; "the universe is neither hostile nor friendly; it is simply indifferent" [syn: apathetic, indifferent].
Apathetically (adv.) 冷淡地；無動於衷地 In an apathetic manner. Apathetically.
Apathetically (adv.) In an apathetic manner; "she behaves apathetically these days."
Apathist (n.) One who is destitute of feeling.
Compare: Destitute
Destitute (a.) 一無所有的，赤貧的，一貧如洗的 Without money, food, a home, or possessions.
// The floods left thousands of people destitute.
Destitute (a.) Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.
In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. -- Ps. cxli. 8.
Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. -- Burke.
Destitute (a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.
They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. -- Heb. xi. 37.
Destitute (v. t.) To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.]
To forsake or destitute a plantation. -- Bacon.
Destitute (v. t.) To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. [Obs.]
Destituted of all honor and livings. -- Holinshed.
Destitute (v. t.) To disappoint. [Obs.]
When his expectation is destituted. -- Fotherby.
Destitute (a.) Poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken].
Destitute (a.) Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent].
Apathistical (a.) 缺乏感情的，缺乏興趣的，無動於衷的 Apathetic; une motional.
Apathies (n. pl. ) of Apathy.
Apathy (n.) 缺乏感情或興趣，冷漠 Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." -- Macaulay.
A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. -- Prescott.
According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. -- Fleming.
Note: In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
Syn: Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern; stoicism; supineness; sluggishness.
Apathy (n.) An absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
Apathy (n.) The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally [syn: apathy, indifference, numbness, spiritlessness].
Apatite (n.) (Min.) 磷灰石 Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.
Apatite (n.) A common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus.
Apaume (n.) See Appaumé.
Appaumé (n.) (Heraldry) Opened out so as to show the palm of the hand.
Appaum'e (n.) (Her.) A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.
Ape (n.) (Zool.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.
Note: The ape of the Old Testament was probably the rhesus monkey of India, and allied forms.
Ape (n.) One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic. -- Byron.
Ape (n.) A dupe. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ape (n.) [ C ] 猿；無尾猿；類人猿 An animal like a large monkey with no tail, that uses its arms to move through trees.
// Chimpanzees and gorillas are both apes.
Idiom: Go ape
Go ape (Also offensive) (Go apeshit) (Informal) 暴跳如雷 To become extremely angry.
// She went ape because I was half an hour late.
Aped (imp. & p. p.) of Ape.
Aping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ape.
Ape (v. t.) To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. "How he apes his sire." -- Addison.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. -- Burke.
Apeak (adv. & a.) (Naut.) 垂直，豎著錨 In a vertical line. The anchor in apeak, when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it, and the ship is them said to be hove apeak. [Spelt also apeek.]
Apehood (n.) The state of being an ape.
Apellous (a.) Destitute of skin. -- Brande & C.
Apennine (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.
Apepsy (n.) (Med.) Defective digestion, indigestion. -- Coxe.
Aper (n.) One who apes.
Aper (n.) Someone who copies the words or behavior of another [syn: copycat, imitator, emulator, ape, aper].
Aperea (n.) (Zool.) The wild Guinea pig of Brazil ({Cavia aperea).
Aperea (n.) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig [syn: aperea, wild cavy, Cavia porcellus].
Aperient (a.) (Med.) 有輕瀉作用的 Gently opening the bowels; laxative.
Aperient (n.) 通便劑；輕瀉劑 An aperient medicine or food. -- Arbuthnot.
Aperient (a.) Mildly laxative.
Aperient (n.) A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels [syn: purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient].
Aperitive (a.) Serving to open; aperient. -- Harvey.
Apert (a.) Open; evident; undisguised. [Archaic] -- Fotherby.
Apert (adv.) Openly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Apertion (n.) [L. apertio.] The act of opening; an opening; an aperture. [Archaic] -- Wiseman.
Apertly (adv.) Openly; clearly. [Archaic]
Apertness (n.) Openness; frankness. [Archaic]
Aperture (n.) The act of opening. [Obs.]
Aperture (n.) 孔，隙縫，洞；（相機、望遠鏡等的鏡頭的）光圈；孔徑 An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall.
An aperture between the mountains. -- Gilpin.
The back aperture of the nostrils. -- Owen.
Aperture (n.) (Opt.) The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture.
Note: The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture, which signifies the angular breadth of the pencil of light which the instrument transmits from the object or point viewed; as, a microscope of 100[deg] aperture.
Aperture (n.) A device that controls amount of light admitted.
Aperture (n.) A natural opening in something.
Aperture (n.) An man-made opening; usually small.
Aperies (n. pl. ) of Apery
Apery (n.) A place where apes are kept. [R.] -- Kingsley.
Apery (n.) The practice of aping; an apish action. -- Coleridge.
Apery (n.) The act of mimicking; imitative behavior [syn: apery, mimicry].
Apeshit (n.)（In phrase Go apeshit 勃然大怒的） (North American) (Vulgar slang) 怒的，狂暴的 Express wild excitement or anger.
Apeshit (n.) A state of anger and rage that produces behavior more closely resembling that of an enraged ape than a human.
Apetalous (a.) (Bot.) Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].
Apetalous (a.) (Of flowers) Having no petals [syn: apetalous, petalless] [ant: petaled, petalled, petalous].
Apetalousness (n.) The state of being apetalous.
APEX (Pseudo-blend) Applied Physics Express.
Apexes (n. pl. ) of Apex.
Apices (n. pl. ) of Apex.
Apex (n.) [L.] [C] 頂，頂點；尖端 The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.
Apex (n.) (Mining) The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. [U. S.]
{Apex of the earth's motion} (Astron.), That point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.
Apex (n.) The highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid" [syn: {vertex}, {peak}, {apex}, {acme}].
Apex (n.) The point on the celestial sphere toward which the sun and solar system appear to be moving relative to the fixed stars [syn: {apex}, {solar apex}, {apex of the sun's way}] [ant: {antapex}].
APEX Advanced Packet EXchange.
Apex, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 20212
Housing Units (2000): 8028
Land area (2000): 10.536900 sq. miles (27.290445 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.059767 sq. miles (0.154797 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 10.596667 sq. miles (27.445242 sq. km)
FIPS code: 01520
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.731952 N, 78.852878 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27502
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Aphaeresis (n.) Same as Apheresis. aphaeretic
Aphaeresis (n.) (Linguistics) Omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' [syn: aphaeresis, apheresis].
Aphakia (n.) (Med.) An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. -- Dunglison.
Aphakia (n.) Absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts).
Aphakial (a.) (Med.) Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes.
Aphaniptera (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.
Aphanipterous (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera.
Aphanite (n.) (Min.) A very compact, dark-colored rock, consisting of hornblende, or pyroxene, and feldspar, but neither of them in perceptible grains.
Aphanite (n.) Fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye.
Aphanitic (a.) (Min.) Resembling aphanite; having a very fine-grained structure. Aphasia
Aphanitic (a.) Of or relating to aphanite.
Aphasia (n.) Alt. of Aphasy.
Aphasy (n.) (Med.) Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.
Aphasia (n.) 【醫】失語症 Inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) Because of a brain lesion.
Aphasic (a.) 患失語症的 Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.
Aphasic (a.) Related to or affected by aphasia; "aphasic speech."
Aphasic (a.) Unable to speak because of a brain lesion.
Aphasic (n.) 失語症患者 Someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language.
Aphelia (n. pl. ) of Aphelion.
Aphelion (n.) (Astron.) 【天】遠日點 That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.
Apheliotropic (a.) Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc. -- Darwin.
Apheliotropism (n.) The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
Aphemia (n.) (Med.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.
Apheresis (n.) (Gram.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.
Apheresis (n.) (Surg.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] -- Dunglison.
Apheresis (n.) (Linguistics) Omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' [syn: aphaeresis, apheresis].
Apheresis (n.) A procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion [syn: apheresis, pheresis].
Aphesis (n.) The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. -- New Eng. Dict.
Aphesis (n.) The gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'.
Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form. -- A*phet"ic*al*ly, adv. -- New Eng. Dict.
Aphetism (n.) An aphetized form of a word. -- New Eng. Dict.
Aphetize (v. t.) To shorten by aphesis.
These words . . . have been aphetized. -- New Eng. Dict.
Aphid (n.) (Zool.) One of the genus Aphis; an aphidian.
Aphid (n.) Any of various small plant-sucking insects.
Aphis (n.; pl.) Aphides. [NL.] (Zool.) A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphid[ae], including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
Note: Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power of producing living young in rapid succession, and these in turn may produce others of the same kind for several generations, before sexual individuals appear. They suck the sap of plants by means of a tubular proboscis, and owing to the wonderful rapidity of their reproduction become very destructive to vegetation. Many of the Aphid[ae] excrete honeydew from two tubes near the end of the body.
Aphides (n. pl.) (Zool.) See Aphis.
Aphidian (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the family Aphidae.
Aphidian (n.) One of the aphides; an aphid.
Aphidivorous () (Zool.) Devouring aphides; aphidophagous.
Aphidophagous (a.) (Zool.) Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
Aphilanthropy (n.) Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. -- Coxe.
Aphides (n. pl. ) of Aphis.
Aphis (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
Note: Besides the true males and females, there is a race of wingless asexual individuals which have the power of producing living young in rapid succession, and these in turn may produce others of the same kind for several generations, before sexual individuals appear. They suck the sap of plants by means of a tubular proboscis, and owing to the wonderful rapidity of their reproduction become very destructive to vegetation.
Many of the Aphid[ae] excrete honeydew from two tubes near the end of the body.
Aphides (n. pl.) (Zool.) See Aphis.
Aphis lion (n.) (Zool.) 蚜獅 The larva of the lacewinged flies ({Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvae of the ladybugs ({Coccinella).
Aphis lion (n.) Carnivorous larva of lacewing flies [syn: aphid lion, aphis lion].
Aphlogistic (a.) 無火焰的，不能燃燒的 Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame. Aphonia
Aphonia (n.) Alt. of Aphony.
Aphonia, Aphony () Loss of voice or vocal utterance.
Aphonia (n.) A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice [syn: aphonia, voicelessness].
Aphis lion (n.) Aphony (n.) (Med.)【醫】失音；失音症 Loss of voice or vocal utterance. Aphonic
Aphonic (a.) Alt. of Aphonous.
Aphonic (a.) Being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech [syn: aphonic, voiceless].
Aphonous (a.) Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal ; incapable of all but whispered speech.
Aphorism (n.) 格言；警句；箴言 A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.
The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." -- Fleming.
Syn: Axiom; maxim; adage; proverb; apothegm; saying; saw; truism; dictum. See {Axiom}. Aphorismatic
Aphorism (n.) A short pithy instructive saying [syn: {aphorism}, {apothegm}, {apophthegm}].
Aphorism (n.) Predigested wisdom.
The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697.
Aphorismatic (a.) Alt. of Aphorismic
Aphorismic (a.) Pertaining to aphorisms, or having the form of an aphorism.
Aphorismer (n.) A dealer in aphorisms. [Used in derogation or contempt.] -- Milton.
Aphorist (n.) A writer or utterer of aphorisms. Aphoristic
Aphorist (n.) Someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms.
Aphoristic (a.) Alt. of Aphoristical.
Aphoristical (a.) In the form of, or of the nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style.
The method of the book is aphoristic. -- De Quincey.
Aphoristic (a.) Containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom" [syn: axiomatic, aphoristic].
Aphoristic (a.) Terse and witty and like a maxim; "much given to apothegmatic instruction" [syn: aphoristic, apothegmatic, epigrammatic].