Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 93
Arthrodia (n.) (Anat.) 滑動關節 A form of diarthrodial articulation in which the articular surfaces are nearly flat, so that they form only an imperfect ball and socket. Arthrodial
Arthrodial (a.) Alt. of Arthrodic.
Arthrodic (a.) Of or pertaining to arthrodia.
Arthrodynia (n.) (Med.) 關節痛 An affection characterized by pain in or about a joint, not dependent upon structural disease.
Arthrodynic (a.) Pertaining to arthrodynia, or pain in the joints; rheumatic.
Compare: Arachnida
Arachnida (n. pl.) (Zool.) 蛛形綱（學名：Arachnida）又名蜘蛛綱，是節肢動物下的一個綱，包括了蜘蛛、蠍子、壁蝨、蟎等。蜘蛛、蠍子等常被大眾誤解為昆蟲，雖然同屬節肢動物門，可是它們都獨立於昆蟲綱之外，屬於蛛形綱。蛛形綱動物的特徵是擁有八隻腳，書肺，體內受精，半變態。蛛形綱動物大多在陸地生活，大部分為肉食性。有一些蜘蛛和蠍子有毒，主要用作自衛及捕獵用途，但大部分的蛛形綱都是無毒的。One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.
Note: They have four pairs of legs, no antenn[ae] nor wings, a pair of mandibles, and one pair of maxill[ae] or palpi. The head is usually consolidated with the thorax. The respiration is either by tranche[ae] or by pulmonary sacs, or by both. The class includes three principal orders: Araneina, or spiders; Arthrogastra, including scorpions, etc.; and Acarina, or mites and ticks.
Arthrogastra (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of the Arachnida, having the abdomen annulated, including the scorpions, harvestmen, etc.; pedipalpi.
Arthrography (n.) The description of joints.
Arthrography (n.) Roentgenographic examination of a joint after injection of radiopaque contrast medium; produces an arthrogram.
Arthrology (n.) That part of anatomy which treats of joints.
Arthromere (n.) (Zool.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca. --Packard.
Arthromere (n.) Any of the segments in the body of a jointed animal like an Arthropod.
Arthropleura (n.) (Zool.) The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.
Arthropod (n.) (Zool.) 節肢動物 One of the Arthropoda.
Arthropod (n.) Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin.
Arthropoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) 【生】節足動物門；節肢動物門 A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea. -- {Ar*throp"o*dal}, a.
Arthropoda (n.) Jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes [syn: {Arthropoda}, {phylum Arthropoda}].
Arthropomata (n. pl.) (Zool.) One of the orders of Branchiopoda. See Branchiopoda.
Arthrosis (n.) (Anat.) Articulation.
Arthrostraca (n. pl.) (Zool.) One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda.
Arthrozoic (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Articulata; articulate.
Artiad (a.) (Chem.) Even; not odd; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals the valence of which is divisible by two without a remainder.
Artichoke (n.) (Bot.) The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.
Artichoke (n.) See Jerusalem artichoke.
Artichoke (n.) Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head [syn: artichoke, globe artichoke, artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus].
Artichoke (n.) A thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart [syn: artichoke, globe artichoke].
Article (n.) [C] （物品的）一件；物品；商品； 文章；論文； 條款，條文 A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other writing, consisting of two or more particulars, or treating of various topics; as, an article in the Constitution. Hence: A clause in a contract, system of regulations, treaty, or the like; a term, condition, or stipulation in a contract; a concise statement; as, articles of agreement.
Article (n.) A literary composition, forming an independent portion of a magazine, newspaper, or cyclopedia.
Article (n.) Subject; matter; concern; distinct. [Obs.]
A very great revolution that happened in this article of good breeding. -- Addison.
This last article will hardly be believed. -- De Foe.
Article (n.) A distinct part. "Upon each article of human duty." -- Paley. "Each article of time." -- Habington.
The articles which compose the blood. -- E. Darwin.
Article (n.) A particular one of various things; as, an article of merchandise; salt is a necessary article.
They would fight not for articles of faith, but for articles of food. -- Landor.
Article (n.) Precise point of time; moment. [Obs. or Archaic]
This fatal news coming to Hick's Hall upon the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to have had no little influence on the jury and all the bench to his prejudice. -- Evelyn.
Article (n.) (Gram.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article.
Article (n.) (Zool.) One of the segments of an articulated appendage.
Articles of Confederation, The compact which was first made by the original thirteen States of the United States. They were adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789.
Articles of impeachment, An instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case.
Articles of war, Rules and regulations, fixed by law, for the better government of the army.
In the article of death [L. in articulo mortis], At the moment of death; in the dying struggle.
Lords of the articles (Scot. Hist.), A standing committee of the Scottish Parliament to whom was intrusted the drafting and preparation of the acts, or bills for laws.
The Thirty-nine Articles, Statements (thirty-nine in number) of the tenets held by the Church of England.
Article (v. i.) To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant. [R.]
Then he articled with her that he should go away when he pleased. -- Selden.
Articled (imp. & p. p.) of Article.
Articling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Article.
Article (v. t.) To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable. -- Jer. Taylor.
Article (v. t.) To accuse or charge by an exhibition of articles.
He shall be articled against in the high court of admiralty. -- Stat. 33 Geo. III.
Article (v. t.) 訂約將……收為學徒或見習生 [（+to）] To bind by articles of covenant or stipulation; as, to article an apprentice to a mechanic.
Article (n.) Nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication.
Article (n.) One of a class of artifacts; "an article of clothing"
Article (n.) A separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) [syn: article, clause].
Article (n.) (Grammar) A determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase.
Article (v.) Bind by a contract; especially for a training period.
Articled (a.) Bound by articles; apprenticed; as, an articled clerk.
Articled (a.) Bound by contract [syn: apprenticed, articled, bound, indentured].
Articular (n.) Of or pertaining to the joints; as, an articular disease; an articular process.
Articular (n.) Alt. of Articulary.
Articulary (n.) (Anat.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.
Articulary (a.) Relating to or affecting the joints of the body; "the articular surfaces of bones"; "articular disease" [syn: articular, articulary].
Articularly (adv.) In an articular or an articulate manner.
Articulata (n.) (Zool.) 有鉸綱（學名：Articulata），又名尾莖綱（Pygocaulia）[1]，是腕足動物門的一個已廢止的綱級分類 One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.
Note: It includes those Invertebrata having the body composed of a series of ringlike segments (arthromeres). By some writers, the unsegmented worms (helminths) have also been included; by others it is restricted to the Arthropoda. It corresponds nearly with the Annulosa of some authors. The chief subdivisions are Arthropoda (Insects, Myriapoda, Malacopoda, Arachnida, Pycnogonida, Crustacea); and Anarthropoda, including the Annelida and allied forms.
Articulata (n.) One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge.
Articulata (n.) A subdivision of the Crinoidea.
Compare: Encrinoidea
Encrinoidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.
Articulate (a.) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] -- Bacon.
Articulate (a.) 發音清晰的；善於表達的；有關節的 Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.
Articulate (a.) Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.
Total changes of party and articulate opinion. -- Carlyle.
Articulate (n.) (Zool.) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
Articulated (imp. & p. p.) of Articulate.
Articulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Articulate.
Articulate (v. i.) 清楚地講話；清晰地發音；用關節連接起來；接合；【語】發音 To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.
Articulate (v. i.) To treat or make terms. [Os.] -- Shak.
Articulate (v. i.) To join or be connected by articulation.
Articulate (v. t.) 清晰地吐（字）；清晰地發（音）；明確有力地表達；使成為系統的整體；使相互連貫 To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.
Articulate (v. t.) To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. [Obs.]
Articulate (v. t.) To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language.
Articulate (v. t.) To express distinctly; to give utterance to.
Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. -- Bibliotheca Sacra.
To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. -- Carlyle.
Articulate (a.) Expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language; "articulate speech"; "an articulate orator"; "articulate beings" [ant: {inarticulate}, {unarticulate}].
Articulate (a.) Consisting of segments held together by joints [syn: {articulated}, {articulate}] [ant: {unarticulated}].
Articulate (v.) Provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: {joint}, {articulate}].
Articulate (v.) Put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: {give voice}, {formulate}, {word}, {phrase}, {articulate}].
Articulate (v.) Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: {pronounce}, {articulate}, {enounce}, {sound out}, {enunciate}, {say}].
Articulate (v.) Unite by forming a joint or joints; "the ankle bone articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle bones".
Articulate (v.) Express or state clearly [syn: {articulate}, {enunciate}, {vocalize}, {vocalise}].
Articulated (a.) （載重車等）鉸接式的；articulate 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.
Articulated (a.) Produced, as a letter, syllable, or word, by the organs of speech; pronounced.
Articulated (a.) Consisting of segments held together by joints [syn: {articulated}, {articulate}] [ant: {unarticulated}].
Articulately (adv.) After the manner, or in the form, of a joint.
Articulately (adv.) Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. -- Paley.
Articulately (adv.) With distinct utterance of the separate sounds.
Articulately (adv.) With eloquence; "he expressed his ideas eloquently" [syn: {eloquently}, {articulately}] [ant: {inarticulately}, {ineloquently}].
Articulately (adv.) 表達清楚地 In an articulate manner; "he argued articulately for his plan" [syn: {articulately}, {eloquently}] [ant: {inarticulately}].
Articulateness (n.) 清晰 Quality of being articulate.
Articulateness (n.) The quality of being facile in speech and writing [syn: {fluency}, {volubility}, {articulateness}].
Articulation (n.) (Anat.) （清楚的）發音；發出的（子）音；發音動作；連接，接合；（骨頭等的）關節；【植】節；【無】清晰度 A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.
Note: Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united (synarthrosis), or slightly movable, when they are united intervening substance (amphiarthrosis), or they may be more or less freely movable, when the articular surfaces are covered with synovial membranes, as in complete joints (diarthrosis). The last (diarthrosis) includes hinge joints, admitting motion in one plane only (ginglymus), ball and socket joints (enarthrosis), pivot and rotation joints, etc.
Articulation (n.) (Bot.) The connection of the parts of a plant by joints, as in pods.
Articulation (n.) One of the nodes or joints, as in cane and maize.
Articulation (n.) One of the parts intercepted between the joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. -- Lindley.
Articulation (n.) The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.
Articulation (n.) The state of being jointed; connection of parts.
That definiteness and articulation of imagery. -- Coleridge.
Articulation (n.) The utterance of the elementary sounds of a language by the appropriate movements of the organs, as in pronunciation; as, a distinct articulation.
Articulation (n.) A sound made by the vocal organs; an articulate utterance or an elementary sound, esp. a consonant.
Articulation (n.) The aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech.
Articulation (n.) The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made [syn: {articulation}, {join}, {joint}, {juncture}, {junction}].
Articulation (n.) Expressing in coherent verbal form; "the articulation of my feelings"; "I gave voice to my feelings" [syn: {articulation}, {voice}].
Articulation (n.) (Anatomy) The point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) [syn: {joint}, {articulation}, {articulatio}].
Articulation (n.) The act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible.
Articulative (a.) 發音清晰的 Of or pertaining to articulation. -- Bush.
Articulative (a.) Of or relating to articulation; "articulatory features"; "articulatory phonetics" [syn: {articulatory}, {articulative}].
Articulator (n.) 發音清楚的人或物；【語】發音器官 One who, or that which, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.
Articulator (n.) Someone who pronounces words.
Articulator (n.) A movable speech organ.
Articuli (n. pl. ) of Articulus.
Articulus (n.) (Zoology) [醫] 關節 A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage.
Artifact (n.) [ C ] US spelling of Artefact.
Artefact (n.) Same as {artifact}.
Syn: Artifact.
Artefact (n.) A man-made object taken as a whole [syn: {artifact}, {artefact}] [ant: {natural object}].
Artifact (n.) (Arch[ae]ol.) 工藝品；手工藝品；加工品 A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.
Syn: artefact.
Artifact (n.) Any product of human workmanship; -- applied both to objects made for practical purposes as well as works of art. It is contrasted to {natural object}, i.e. anything produced by natural forces without the intervention of man.
Syn: Artefact.
Artifact (n.) (Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
Syn: Artefact.
Artifact (n.) (Technology) An object, oservation, phenomenon, or result arising from hidden or unexpected causes extraneous to the subject of a study, and therefore spurious and having potential to lead one to an erroneous conclusion, or to invalidate the study. In experimental science, artifacts may arise due to inadvertant contamination of equipment, faulty experimental design or faulty analysis, or unexpected effects of agencies not known to affect the system under study.
Syn: Artefact.
Artifact (n.) A man-made object taken as a whole [syn: {artifact}, {artefact}] [ant: {natural object}].
Artifice (n.) 奸計；詭計 [U] [C]；狡詐；欺騙 [U]；巧妙辦法 [C] A handicraft; a trade; art of making. [Obs.]
Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
The material universe . . . in the artifice of God, the artifice of the best Mechanist. -- Cudworth.
Artifice (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.
His [Congreve's] plots were constructed without much artifice. -- Craik.
Artifice (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick.
Note: [Now the usual meaning.]
Those who were conscious of guilt employed numerous artifices for the purpose of averting inquiry. -- Macaulay.
Artifice (n.) A deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) [syn: {ruse}, {artifice}].
Artificer (n.) 技工；技師；巧匠；設計者；發明家；創造者 An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
Artificer (n.) A cunning or artful fellow.
Artificer (n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
Artificial (a.) 人工的，人造的；假的；矯揉造作的，不自然的；人為的 Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. -- Shak.
Artificial (a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. "Artificial tears." -- Shak.
Artificial (a.) Artful; cunning; crafty. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Artificial (a.) Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses. -- Gibbon.
{Artificial arguments} (Rhet.), Arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. -- Johnson.
{Artificial classification} (Science), An arrangement based on superficial characters, and not expressing the true natural relations species; as, "the artificial system" in botany, which is the same as the Linn[ae]an system.
{Artificial horizon}. See under {Horizon}.
{Artificial light}, Any light other than that which proceeds from the heavenly bodies.
{Artificial lines}, Lines on a sector or scale, so contrived as to represent the logarithmic sines and tangents, which, by the help of the line of numbers, solve, with tolerable exactness, questions in trigonometry, navigation, etc.
{Artificial numbers}, Logarithms.
{Artificial person} (Law). See under {Person}.
{Artificial sines}, {tangents}, etc., The same as logarithms of the natural sines, tangents, etc. -- Hutton.
Artificial (a.) Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: {artificial}, {unreal}] [ant: {natural}].
Artificial (a.) Artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" [syn: {artificial}, {contrived}, {hokey}, {stilted}].
Artificial (a.) Not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes.
Artificial (a.) What is the result of, or relates to, the arts; opposed to natural; thus we say a corporation is an artificial person, in opposition to a natural person. Artificial accession is the uniting one property to another by art, opposed to a simple natural union. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 503.
Artificial (a.) (B2) 人造的，人工的；仿造的 Made by people, often as a copy of something natural.
// Clothes made of artificial fibres.
// An artificial heart.
// An artificial lake.
// Artificial fur/ sweeteners/ flowers.
Artificial (a.) (C2) (Disapproving) 虛假的，不真誠的；矯揉造作的 Not sincere.
// Their cheerfulness seemed rather strained and artificial.
Artificiality (n.) 人工製造，人為；人為的事，人造物；不自然，矯揉造作 The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
Artificiality (n.) The quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally.
Artificialize (v. t.) 使人工化 To render artificial.
Artificially (adv.) 人工地，人為地，不自然地 In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
Artificially (adv.) Ingeniously; skillfully.
Artificially (adv.) Craftily; artfully.
Artificialness (n.) 人為之事；不自然；裝作 The quality of being artificial.
Artificious (a.) Artificial. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Artilize (v. t.) To make resemble. [Obs.]
If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. -- Bolingbroke.
Artillerist (n.) 砲手；砲兵；研究砲術者 A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.
Artillery (n.) Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows. [Obs.]
And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad. -- 1 Sam. xx. 40.
Artillery (n.) 火砲；大砲 [U]；砲兵，砲隊 [the S] [G] ；砲術 [U] Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
Note: The word is sometimes used in a more extended sense, including the powder, cartridges, matches, utensils, machines of all kinds, and horses, that belong to a train of artillery.
Artillery (n.) The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.
Artillery (n.) The science of artillery or gunnery. -- Campbell.
{Artillery park}, or {Park of artillery}, A collective body of siege or field artillery, including the guns, and the carriages, ammunition, appurtenances, equipments, and persons necessary for working them.
{Artillery park}, or {Park of artillery}, The place where the artillery is encamped or collected.
{Artillery train}, or {Train of artillery}, A number of pieces of ordnance mounted on carriages, with all their furniture, ready for marching.
Artillery (n.) Large but transportable armament [syn: {artillery}, {heavy weapon}, {gun}, {ordnance}].
Artillery (n.) An army unit that uses big guns [syn: {artillery}, {artillery unit}].
Artillery (n.) A means of persuading or arguing; "he used all his conversational weapons" [syn: {weapon}, {artillery}].
Artillery (n.) Sam. 20:40, (Heb. keli, meaning "apparatus;" here meaning collectively any missile weapons, as arrows and lances. In Revised Version, "weapons"). This word is derived from the Latin artillaria = equipment of war.
Artilleryman (n.) 砲兵；砲手 A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.
Artilleryman (n.) A serviceman in the artillery [syn: {artilleryman}, {cannoneer}, {gunner}, {machine gunner}].
Artiodactyla (n. pl.) One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; -- opposed to Perissodactyla.
Artiodactyla (n.) An order of hooved mammals of the subclass Eutheria (including pigs and peccaries and hippopotami and members of the suborder Ruminantia) having an even number of functional toes [syn: Artiodactyla, order Artiodactyla].
Artiodactyle (n.) (Zool.) One of the Artiodactyla.
Syn: artiodactyl, even-toed ungulate, artiodactyl mammal.