Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 5
Calcar (n.) (Zool.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
Calcar (n.) (Anat.) A spur, or spurlike prominence.
Calcar (n.) (Anat.) A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot. Calcarate
Calcarate (a.) Alt. of Calcarated
Calcarated (a.) (Bot.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred. -- Gray.
Calcarated (a.) (Zool.) Armed with a spur.
Calcareo-argillaceous (a.) consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.
Calcareo-bituminous (a.) Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen. -- Lyell.
Calcareo-siliceous (a.) Consisting of, or containing calcareous and siliceous earths.
Calcareous (a.) Partaking of the nature of calcite or calcium carbonate; consisting of, or containing, calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime.
Calcareous spar. See as Calcite.
Calcareous (a.) Composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk [syn: calcareous, chalky].
Calcareousness (n.) Quality of being calcareous.
Calcariferous (a.) Lime-yielding; calciferous
Calcarine (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.
Calcavella (n.) A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos.].
Calceated (a.) Fitted with, or wearing, shoes. -- Johnson.
Calced (a.) Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.
Calced (a.) Used of certain religious orders who wear shoes [syn: calced, shod] [ant: discalceate, discalced, unshod].
Calcedon (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.
Calcedonic (a.) Alt. of Calcedonian
Calcedonian (a.) See Chalcedonic.
Calceiform (a.) (Bot.) Shaped like a slipper, as one petal of the lady's-slipper; calceolate.
Calceiform (a.) Of slipper-shaped blossoms; "the calceiform lip of certain orchids" [syn: calceolate, calceiform].
Calceolaria (n.) (Bot.) A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plants, brought from South America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.
Calceolaria (n.) Any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip [syn: calceolaria, slipperwort].
Calceolate (a.) Slipper-ahaped. See Calceiform.
Calceolate (a.) Of slipper-shaped blossoms; "the calceiform lip of certain orchids" [syn: calceolate, calceiform].
Calces (n. pl.) See Calx.
Compare: Calcic
Calcic (a.) (Chiefly of minerals) 鈣質的 Containing or relatively rich in calcium.
‘Calcic plagioclase.’
Calx (n.; pl.) (Chem.) Quicklime. [Obs.]
Calx (n.; pl.) (Chem.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.
Note: Metallic calxes are now called oxides.
Calx (n.; pl.) Broken and refuse glass, returned to the post.
(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.
Calciferous (a.) 【化】生碳酸鈣的；含碳酸鈣的 Bearing, producing, or containing calcite, or carbonate of lime.
Calciferous epoch (Geol.), An epoch in the American lower Silurian system, immediately succeeding the Cambrian period. The name alludes to the peculiar mixture of calcareous and siliceous characteristics in many of the beds. See the Diagram under Geology.
Calciferous (a.) Bearing or producing or containing calcium or calcium carbonate or calcite.
Calcific (a.) Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles. -- Huxley.
Calcific (a.) Involving or resulting from calcification.
Calcification (n.) (Physiol.) 石灰化；【生理】（組織等之）鈣化；鈣化物質 The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.
Calcification (n.) A process that impregnates something with calcium (or calcium salts).
Calcification (n.) Tissue hardened by deposition of lime salts.
Calcification (n.) An inflexible and unchanging state; "the calcification of negotiations".
Calcified (a.) Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.
Calciform (a.) In the form of chalk or lime.
Calcified (imp. & p. p.) of Calcify
Calcifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calcify
Calcify (v. t.) 使鈣化 To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Calcify (v. i.) 鈣化 To become changed into a stony or calcareous condition, in which lime is a principal ingredient, as in the formation of teeth.
Calcify (v.) Become impregnated with calcium salts [ant: decalcify].
Calcify (v.) Become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify".
Calcify (v.) Turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over the centuries".
Calcify (v.) Convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock".
Calcigenous (a.) (Chem.) Tending to form, or to become, a calx or earthlike substance on being oxidized or burnt; as magnesium, calcium. etc.
Calcigerous (a.) Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.
Calcimine (n.) A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. [Also spelt kalsomine.]
Calcimined (imp. &p. p.) of Calcimine
Calcimining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calcimine
Calcimine (v. t.) 粉刷 To wash or cover with calcimine; as, to calcimine walls.
Calcimine (n.) 粉刷用塗料 A water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings.
Calcimine (v.) Cover with calcimine; "calcimine the walls".
Calciminer (n.) One who calcimines.
Calcinable (a.) That may be calcined; as, a calcinable fossil.
Calcinate (v. i.) To calcine. [R.]
Calcination (n.) (Chem.) 鍛燒；已鍛燒之狀態；經鍛燒之物 The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.
Calcination (n.) The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
Calcination (n.) The conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature.
Calcinatory (n.) A vessel used in calcination.
Calciden (imp. & p. p.) of Calcine
Calcining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calcine
Calcine (v. i.) 燒成石灰 To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid from limestone, and thus (usually) to produce disintegration; as to, calcine bones.
Calcine (v. i.) To oxidize, as a metal by the action of heat; to reduce to a metallic calx.
Calcine (v. i.) To be converted into a powder or friable substance, or into a calx, by the action of heat. "Calcining without fusion" -- Newton.
Calcine (v.) (v. t.) 燒成石灰；鍛燒 Heat a substance so that it oxidizes or reduces.
Calciner (n.) One who, or that which, calcines.
Calcispongiae (n. pl.) (Zool.) 鈣質海綿 An order of marine sponges, containing calcareous spicules. See Porifera.
Calcite (n.) (Min.) 【礦】方解石 [U] Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar.
Note: Argentine is a pearly lamellar variety; aphrite is foliated or chalklike; dogtooth spar, a form in acute rhombohedral or scalenohedral crystals; calc-sinter and calc-tufa are lose or porous varieties formed in caverns or wet grounds from calcareous deposits; agaric mineral is a soft, white friable variety of similar origin; stalaclite and stalagmite are varieties formed from the drillings in caverns. Iceland spar is a transparent variety, exhibiting the strong double refraction of the species, and hence is called doubly refracting spar.
Calcite (n.) A common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone.
Calcitrant (a.) Kicking. Hence: Stubborn; refractory.
Calcitrate (v. i. & i.) To kick.
Calcitration (n.) Act of kicking.
Calcium (n.) 【化】鈣 [U] An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.
Note: Calcium is widely and abundantly disseminated, as in its compounds calcium carbonate or limestone, calcium sulphate or gypsum, calcium fluoride or fluor spar, calcium phosphate or apatite.
Calcium light, An intense light produced by the incandescence of a stick or ball of lime in the flame of a combination of oxygen and hydrogen gases, or of oxygen and coal gas; -- called also Drummond light and lime light.
Calcium (n.) A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals [syn: calcium, Ca, atomic number 20].
Calcium Symbol: Ca Atomic number: 20 Atomic weight: 40.08 Soft grey metallic element belonging to group 2 of the periodic table.
Used a reducing agent in the extraction of thorium, zirconium and uranium. Essential element for living organisms.
Calcium, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 3346
Housing Units (2000): 1134
Land area (2000): 5.586979 sq. miles (14.470208 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.586979 sq. miles (14.470208 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11671
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 44.034761 N, 75.842114 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13616
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Calcium, NY
Calcium
Calcivorous (a.) 嗜鈣的 Eroding, or eating into, limestone.
Calcographer (n.) One who practices calcography.
Calcographic (a.) Alt. of Calcographical
Calcographical (a.) Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.
Calcography (n.) 著色粉筆畫法；蠟筆畫法 The art of drawing with chalk.
Calc-sinter (n.) [化] 鈣華；石灰華 See under Calcite.
Calc-spar (n.) 方解石 Same as Calcite.
Calc-tufa (n.) See under Calcite.
Calc-tufa (n.) [化] 石灰華 A soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime [syn: tufa, calc- tufa].
Calculable (a.) 可計算的；可預想到的；可信賴的 That may be calculated or ascertained by calculation.
Calculable (a.) Capable of being calculated or estimated; "a calculable risk"; "calculable odds" [ant: incalculable].
Calculary (a.) (Med.) 結石的 Of or pertaining to calculi.
Calculary (n.) A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.
Calculater (imp. & p. p.) of Calculate
Calculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Calculate
Calculate (v. i.) 計算；作打算 To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
A calencar exacity calculated than any othe. -- North.
Calculate (v. i.) To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of; as, to calculate or cast one's nativity.
A cunning man did calculate my birth. -- Shak.
Calculate (v. i.) To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end; as, to calculate a system of laws for the government and protection of a free people. [Religion] is . . . calculated for our benefit. -- Abp. Tillotson.
Calculate (v. i.) To plan; to expect; to think. [Local, U. S.]
Syn: To compute; reckon; count; estimate; rate.
Usage: To Calculate, Compute. Reckon, Count. These words indicate the means by which we arrive at a given result in regard to quantity. We calculate with a view to obtain a certain point of knowledge; as, to calculate an eclipse. We compute by combining given numbers, in order to learn the grand result. We reckon and count in carrying out the details of a computation. These words are also used in a secondary and figurative sense. "Calculate is rather a conjection from what is, as to what may be; computation is a rational estimate of what has been, from what is; reckoning is a conclusive conviction, a pleasing assurance that a thing will happen; counting indicates an expectation. We calculate on a gain; we compute any loss sustained, or the amount of any mischief done; we reckon on a promised pleasure; we count the hours and minutes until the time of enjoyment arrives" -- Crabb.
Calculate (v. i.) To make a calculation; to forecast consequences; to estimate; to compute.
The strong passions, whether good or bad, never calculate. -- F. W. Robertson.
Calculate (v. t.) 計算 [+（that）] [+wh-]；估計；預測；推測 [+（that）] [+wh- ] Make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure].
Calculate (v.) Judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast].
Calculate (v.) Keep an account of [syn: account, calculate].
Calculate (v.) Predict in advance [syn: forecast, calculate].
Calculate (v.) Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public [syn: calculate, aim, direct].
Calculate (v.) Have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon].
Calculated (p. p. & a.) 預先計畫的；可能的；計算而得的；故意的 Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.
Calculated (p. p. & a.) Adapted by calculation, contrivance. or forethought to accomplish a purpose; as, to use arts calculated to deceive the people.
Calculated (p. p. & a.) Likely to produce a certain effect, whether intended or not; fitted; adapted; suited.
The only danger that attends multiplicity of publication is, that some of them may be calculated to injure rather than benefit society. -- Goldsmith.
The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws. -- Hawthorne.
Calculated (a.) Carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony" [syn: deliberate, calculated, measured].
Calculating (a.) 計算的；有算計的；慎重的 Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.
Calculating (a.) Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition.
Calculating machine, A machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.
Calculating (n.) The act or process of making mathematical computations or of estimating results.
Calculating (a.) Used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd]
Calculation (n.) 計算 [U]；計算結果 [C] The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." -- Nichol.
The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. -- Boyle.
Calculation (n.) An expectation based on circumstances.
The lazy gossips of the port,
Abhorrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. -- Tennyson.
Calculation (n.) The procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods [syn: calculation, computation, computing].
Calculation (n.) Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities [syn: calculation, computation, figuring, reckoning].
Calculation (n.) Planning something carefully and intentionally; "it was the deliberation of his act that was insulting" [syn: calculation, deliberation].
Calculative (a.) 計算的；善於計算的；精明的 Of or pertaining to calculation; involving calculation.
Long habits of calculative dealings. -- Burke.
Calculative (a.) Used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd].
Calculator (n.) [C] 計算者；計算表 One who computes or reckons: one who estimates or considers the force and effect of causes, with a view to form a correct estimate of the effects.
Ambition is no exact calculator. -- Burke.
Calculator (n.) An expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) [syn: calculator, reckoner, figurer, estimator, computer].
Calculator (n.) A small machine that is used for mathematical calculations [syn: calculator, calculating machine].
Calculator (n.) Syn. for bitty box.
Bitty box calculator (Or "calculator") A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it. The term is especially used of small, obsolescent, single-tasking-only personal computers such as the Atari 800, Osborne, Sinclair, VIC-20, TRS-80 or IBM PC, but the term is a general pejorative opposite of "real computer" (see Get a real computer!).
See also mess-dos, toaster, toy. (1994-11-29)
Calculatory (a.) Belonging to calculation. -- Sherwood.
Calcule (n.) Reckoning; computation. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Calcule (v. i.) To calculate. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Calculi (n. pl.) See Calculus.
Calculous (a.) 石一般的；結石的；【醫】結石症的 Of the nature of a calculus; like stone; gritty; as, a calculous concretion. -- Sir T. Browne.
Calculous (a.) Caused, or characterized, by the presence of a calculus or calculi; a, a calculous disorder; affected with gravel or stone; as, a calculous person.
Calculous (a.) Relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi.
Calculi (n. pl. ) of Calculus
Calculus (n.) (Med.) 結石 Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
Calculus (n.) (Math.) 計算法；微積分 A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.
Barycentric calculus, A method of treating geometry by defining a point as the center of gravity of certain other points to which co["e]fficients or weights are ascribed.
Compare: Barycenter
Barycenter (n.) (British barycentre) 重心 See Barycentric.
Barycentric (a.) 重心的 Relating to the center of gravity.
‘When the results of the analysis started coming in, it turned out that the initial estimate was almost entirely correct: The scores of all the triplet and pulse candidates, both barycentric and non-barycentric, had indeed gone down.’
Compare: Center of gravity
Center of gravity (n.) 重心 A point from which the weight of a body or system may be considered to act. In uniform gravity it is the same as the center of mass.
‘The wires are attached to the harness with clamps, each individually adjusted, since even people of the same height and weight have different centers of gravity.’
Caldron (n.) 大鍋；大汽鍋 A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.] "Caldrons of boiling oil." -- Prescott.
Caldron (n.) A very large pot that is used for boiling [syn: caldron, cauldron].
Caleche (n.) See Calash.
Compare: Calash
Calash (n.) 篷車；車篷；女用篷形頭巾 Another term for calèche.
Calèche (also caleche, calash) (n.) [Historical] A light low-wheeled carriage with a removable folding hood.
‘Their role is taken by rusting blue and white taxis and elegant caleches: carriages drawn by horses that sometimes look as if they could win the Derby.’
Calèche (also caleche, calash) (n.) [Historical] [Canadian] A two-wheeled one-horse vehicle with a seat for the driver on the splashboard.
Calèche (also caleche, calash) (n.) [Historical] A woman's hooped silk hood.
Caleche (n.) 摺篷式軟帽 A woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century [syn: calash, caleche].
Caleche (n.) 雙馬四輪馬車（Calash之變體） The folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage [syn: calash, caleche, calash top].
Caledonia (n.) 加勒多尼亞（蘇格蘭舊稱或詩中別稱） The ancient Latin name of Scotland; -- still used in poetry.
Caledonia (n.) The geographical area (in Roman times) to the north of the Antonine Wall; now a poetic name for Scotland.
Caledonian (a.) 古蘇格蘭的；蘇格蘭的 Of or pertaining to Caledonia or Scotland; Scottish; Scotch.
Caledonian (n.) 古蘇格蘭人 A native or inhabitant of Caledonia or Scotland.
Caledonite (n.) (Min.) 鉛綠礬；成分：Pb5Cu2(CO3)(SO4)3(OH)6；A hydrous sulphate of copper and lead, found in some parts of Caledonia or Scotland.