Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 16
Elfkin (n.) A little elf.
Elfland (n.) 小妖精國；仙境 Fairyland. -- Tennyson.
Elflock (n.) 糾結的頭髮；鬈髮 Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
Compare: Elf
Elf (n.) [C] （神話中）淘氣的小鬼，小精靈；頑皮的小孩；(名詞複數：elves) A supernatural creature of folk tales, typically represented as a small, delicate, elusive figure in human form with pointed ears, magical powers, and a capricious nature.
‘Birthmarks were thought to be bruises left by elves.’
‘With his pointed chin, he might have been an elf out of story-land.’
ELF (Abbreviation) Extremely low frequency.
Elgin marbles (n.) 埃爾金石雕 Greek sculptures in the British Museum. They were obtained at Athens, about 1811, by Lord Elgin.
Elicit (a.) Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident. [Obs.] "An elicit act of equity." -- Jer. Taylor.
Elicited (imp. & p. p.) of Elicit.
Eliciting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elicit.
Elicit (v. t.) 引出；誘出 [（+from）]；引起 To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.
Elicit (v.) Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" [syn: {arouse}, {elicit}, {enkindle}, {kindle}, {evoke}, {fire}, {raise}, {provoke}].
Elicit (v.) Deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" [syn: {educe}, {evoke}, {elicit}, {extract}, {draw out}].
Elicit (v.) Derive by reason; "elicit a solution".
Elicitate (v. t.) To elicit. [Obs.]
Elicitation (n.) 引出；誘出；抽出 The act of eliciting. [Obs.] -- Abp. Bramhall.
Elicitation (n.) Stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors; "the elicitation of his testimony was not easy" [syn: {evocation}, {induction}, {elicitation}].
Elided (imp. & p. p.) of Elide.
Eliding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elide.
Elide (v. t.) To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
Elide (v. t.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
Eligibility (n.) 被選舉資格；適任；合格 The quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.
Eligibility (n.) The quality or state of being eligible; "eligibility of a candidate for office"; "eligibility for a loan" [ant: {ineligibility}].
Eligibility (n.) Capacity to be elected.
Eligibility (n.) Citizens are in general eligible to all offices; the exceptions arise from the want of those qualifications which the constitution requires; these are such as regard his person, his property, or relations to the state.
Eligibility (n.) In. general, no person is eligible to any office, until he has attained the full age of twenty-one years; no one can be elected a senator of the United States, who shall not have attained the age of thirty years, been a 'citizen of th e United States nine years and who shall not be an inhabitant of the, state for which he shall be chosen. Const. art. 1, s. 3. No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, is eligible to the office of president, and no person shall be eligible to that office, who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States. Const. art. 2, s. 1.
Eligibility (n.) A citizen may be ineligible in consequence of his relations to the state; for example, holding an office incompatible with the office sought. Vide Ineligibility. Because he has not paid the taxes the law requires; because he has not resided a sufficient length of time in the state.
Eligibility (n.) He may be ineligible for want of certain property qualifications required by some, law.
Eligible (a.) 有資格當選的；法律上合格的 [F] [（+for）] [+to-v]；（尤指婚姻等）合適的，合意的 That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
Eligible (a.) Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
The more eligible of the two evils. -- Burke.
Eligible (a.) Qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen; "eligible to run for office"; "eligible for retirement benefits"; "an eligible bachelor" [ant: {ineligible}].
Eligible (a.) Fit or proper to be chosen; worthy of choice; desirable.
// To marry an eligible bachelor.
Eligible (a.) Meeting the stipulated requirements, as to participate, compete, or work; qualified.
Eligible (a.) Legally qualified to be elected or appointed to office.
// Eligible for the presidency.
Eligible (n.) 合格者，合適的人 A person or thing that is eligible.
// Among the eligibles, only a few are running for office.
Eligibleness (n.) 適任；合格 The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.
Eligibly (adv.) 可被選地；合適地 In an eligible manner.
Elijah (n.) 以利亞 A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols; he was persecuted for rebuking Ahab and Jezebel (king and queen of Israel); he was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire (circa 9th century BC)
Elimate (v. t.) To render smooth; to polish.
Eliminant (n.) The result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
Eliminated (imp. & p. p.) of Eliminate.
Eliminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eliminate.
Eliminate (v. t.) 排除，消除，消滅 [（+from）]；（比賽中）淘汰 [（+from）]；不加考慮，忽視 To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. -- Young.
Eliminate (v. t.) (Alg.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
Eliminate (v. t.) To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. -- Lowth.
Eliminate (v. t.) To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]
Eliminate (v. t.) (Physiol.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
Eliminate (v.) Terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: {extinguish}, {eliminate}, {get rid of}, {do away with}].
Eliminate (v.) Do away with [syn: {obviate}, {rid of}, {eliminate}] [ant: {ask}, {call for}, {demand}, {involve}, {necessitate}, {need}, {postulate}, {require}, {take}].
Eliminate (v.) Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: {eliminate}, {annihilate}, {extinguish}, {eradicate}, {wipe out}, {decimate}, {carry off}].
Eliminate (v.) Dismiss from consideration or a contest; "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration" [syn: {rule out}, {eliminate}, {winnow out}, {reject}].
Eliminate (v.) Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: {excrete}, {egest}, {eliminate}, {pass}].
Eliminate (v.) Remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race".
Eliminate (v.) Remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations.
Eliminate (v.) (C1) [ T ] 排除；消除；清除 To remove or take away someone or something.
// A move towards healthy eating could help eliminate heart disease.
// We eliminated the possibility that it could have been an accident.
// The police eliminated him from their enquiries.
Eliminate (v.) (C1) [ T often passive ] （比賽中）淘汰 To defeat someone so that they cannot continue in a competition.
// He was eliminated in the third round of the competition.
Eliminate (v.) [ T ] (Slang) 消滅；幹掉 To murder someone.
// A police officer was accused of helping a drug gang eliminate rivals.
Elimination (n.) 排除；除去，根除 [U] [C]；淘汰 [U] The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.) the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
Elimination (n.) (Alg.) Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
Elimination (n.) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See {Eliminate}, 4.]
Elimination (n.) The act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: {elimination}, {riddance}].
Elimination (n.) The bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: {elimination}, {evacuation}, {excretion}, {excreting}, {voiding}].
Elimination (n.) Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives [syn: {elimination}, {reasoning by elimination}].
Elimination (n.) The act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations.
Elimination (n.) The murder of a competitor [syn: {elimination}, {liquidation}].
Eliminative (a.) Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
Elinguate (v. t.) To deprive of the tongue.
Elinguation (n.) Punishment by cutting out the tongue.
Elinguid (a.) Tongue-tied; dumb.
Eliquament (n.) A liquid obtained from fat, or fat fish, by pressure.
Eliquation (n.) The process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.
Elison (n.) Division; separation.
Elison (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.
Elisor (n.) An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
Elite (n.) 精華；精英；優秀分子 A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.
Elite (n.) See Army organization, Switzerland.
Elite (a.) Selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges" [syn: elect, elite].
Elite (n.) A group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status [syn: elite, elite group].
Elite (a.) Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the cognoscenti. Also used as a general positive adjective. This term is not actually native hacker slang; it is used primarily by crackers and warez d00dz, for which reason hackers use it only with heavy irony. The term used to refer to the folks allowed in to the ?hidden? or ?privileged? sections of BBSes in the early 1980s (which, typically, contained pirated software). Frequently, early boards would only let you post, or even see, a certain subset of the sections (or ?boards?) on a BBS. Those who got to the frequently legendary ?triple super secret? boards were elite. Misspellings of this term in warez d00dz style abound; the forms l337 eleet, and 31337 (among others) have been sighted.
A true hacker would be more likely to use ?wizardly?. Oppose lamer.
Elite, leet () A term used to describe skilled crackers or hackers, or their deeds. In the last sense, compare to elegant.
The term is also used to describe exclusive forums ({ftp sites, BBSs) used for trading pirated software, cracking tools, or phreaking codes. (1997-01-31)
Leet () A derivitave of the 80's software piracy scene. Originally "elite" was used to show status on a BBS. Commonly the people who cracked the software, or had sysop access on a board would be referred to as Elite. Later it became common to just use "leet." With the internet explosion it was later used to describe hackers as well as crackers. Due to it being great to be known as leet, newbies started adopting the term and using to describe themselves, often with numerical variations. Anyone who considers themselves "leet" should be able to tell you who/ what Razor1911 is, anyone failing to answer this question should be laughed at.
"Wow, those guys that run this new board are leet, they had win 3.1 a week before it came out!"
Elix (v. t.) To extract.
Elixate (v. t.) To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
Elixation (n.) A seething; digestion.
Elixir (n.) (Med.) 鍊金藥，不老長壽藥；萬能藥；靈丹妙藥 A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
Elixir (n.) (Alchemy) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.
Elixir (n.) The refined spirit; the quintessence.
The . . . elixir of worldly delights. -- South.
Elixir (n.) Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
The grand elixir, to support the spirits of human nature. -- Addison.
Elixir (n.) A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.
Elixir (n.) Hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold [syn: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone, elixir].
Elixir (n.) A substance believed to cure all ills.
Elizabethan (a.) Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature.
Elizabethan (n.) One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
Elk (n.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti.
Elk (n.) Alt. of Elke.
Elke (n.) The European wild or whistling swan (Cygnus ferus).
Elknut (n.) The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.
Elkwood (n.) The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).
Ell (n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37.
Ell (n.) See L.
Ellachick (n.) A fresh-water tortoise (Chelopus marmoratus) of California; -- used as food.
Ellagic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.
Ellebore (n.) Hellebore.
Elleborin (n.) See Helleborin.
Elleck (n.) The red gurnard or cuckoo fish.
Ellenge (n) Alt. of Ellingeness.
Ellinge (n) Alt. of Ellingeness.
Ellengeness (n) Alt. of Ellingeness.
Ellingeness (n) See Elenge, Elengeness.
Elles (adv. & conj.) See Else.
Ellipse (n.) 橢圓形 (Geom.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.
Ellipse (n.) (Gram.) Omission. See {Ellipsis}.
Ellipse (n.) The elliptical orbit of a planet.
Ellipse (n.) A closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant" [syn: {ellipse}, {oval}].
Ellipses (n. pl. ) of Ellipsis.
Ellipsis (n.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.
Ellipsis (n.) An ellipse.
Ellipsograph (n.) An instrument for describing ellipses; -- called also trammel.
Ellipsoid (n.) A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a).
Ellipsoid (a.) Alt. of Ellipsoidal.
Ellipsoidal (a.) Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.
Elliptic (a.) Alt. of Elliptical.
Elliptical (a.) Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
The planets move in elliptic orbits. -- Cheyne.
The billiard sharp who any one catches, His doom's extremely hard He's made to dwell In a dungeon cell On a spot that's always barred.
And there he plays extravagant matches In fitless finger-stalls On a cloth untrue With a twisted cue And elliptical billiard balls! -- Gilbert and Sullivan (The Mikado: The More Humane Mikado Song).
Elliptical (a.) Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
Elliptical (a.) Leaving out information essential to comprehension; so concise as to be difficult to understand; obscure or ambiguous; -- of speech or writing; as, an elliptical comment.
Elliptic chuck. See under Chuck.
Elliptic compasses, An instrument arranged for drawing ellipses.
Elliptic function. (Math.) See Function.
Elliptic integral. (Math.) See Integral.
Elliptic polarization. See under Polarization.
Elliptical (a.) Rounded like an egg [syn: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate].
Elliptical (a.) Characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor [syn: elliptic, elliptical].
Elliptically (adv.) In the form of an ellipse.
Elliptically (adv.) With a part omitted; as, elliptically expressed.
Ellipticity (n.) Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is 1/29966.
Note: Some writers use ellipticity as the ratio of the difference of the two semiaxes to the minor axis, instead of the major. -- Nichol.
Elliptic-lanceolate (a.) (Bot.) Having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.
Elliptograph (n.) Same as Ellipsograph.
Ellwand (n.) Formerly, a measuring rod an ell long.
Elm (n.) (Bot.) A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva.
Elm beetle (Zo["o]l.), One of several species of beetles (esp. Galeruca calmariensis), which feed on the leaves of the elm.
Elm borer (Zo["o]l.), One of several species of beetles of which the larv[ae] bore into the wood or under the bark of the elm (esp. Saperda tridentata).
Elm butterfly (Zo["o]l.), One of several species of butterflies, which, in the caterpillar state, feed on the leaves of the elm (esp. Vanessa antiopa and Grapta comma). See Comma butterfly, under Comma.
Elm moth (Zo["o]l.), One of numerous species of moths of which the larv[ae] destroy the leaves of the elm (esp. Eugonia subsignaria, called elm spanworm).
Elm sawfly (Zo["o]l.), A large sawfly ({Cimbex Americana"> Elm sawfly (Zo["o]l.), A large sawfly ({Cimbex Americana). The larva, which is white with a black dorsal stripe, feeds on the leaves of the elm.
Elm (n.) Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees [syn: elm, elm tree].
Elm (n.) Hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture [syn: elm, elmwood].
ELM, () ELectronic Mailer (Unix)
Elm, () A full-screen MUA for Unix, MS-DOS, MS Windows, and OS/2. (1996-03-20)
Elm, () Hos. 4:13; rendered "terebinth" in the Revised Version. It is the Pistacia terebinthus of Linn., a tree common in Palestine, long-lived, and therefore often employed for landmarks and in designating places (Gen. 35:4; Judg. 6:11, 19. Rendered "oak" in both A.V. and R.V.). (See TEIL TREE.)
Elmen (a.) Belonging to elms.
Elmo's fire () See Corposant; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under Saint.
Elmy (a.) Abounding with elms.
El Niño (n.) (pl. El Niños) 聖嬰現象 An irregularly recurring flow of unusually warm surface waters from the Pacific Ocean toward and along the western coast of South America that prevents upwelling of nutrient-rich cold deep water and that disrupts typical regional and global weather patterns .
Compare: LA NIÑA
LA NIÑA (n.) (pl. La Niñas) 反聖嬰現象 An irregularly recurring upwelling of unusually cold water to the ocean surface along the western coast of South America that often occurs following an El Niño and that disrupts typical regional and global weather patterns especially in a manner opposite to that of El Niño.
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Is one of the most important sources of annual global climate variability, second only to the earth-sun relationship that drives the seasons. El Niño and its counterpart La Niña are associated with characteristic patterns of rainfall and temperature, which can include extreme events such as flooding and drought.
Elocation (n.) A removal from the usual place of residence.
Elocation (n.) Departure from the usual state; an ecstasy.
Elocular (a.) Having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.
Elocution (n.) 演說術；朗誦法 Utterance by speech. [R.]
[Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. -- Milton.
Elocution (n.) Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." -- Whately
Elocution (n.) Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction. [Obs.]
To express these thoughts with elocution. -- Dryden.
Elocution (n.) An expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture.
Elocution (n.) Elocutionary (adj.) , Elocutionist (n.) : The study of how to speak clearly and in a way that is effective and socially acceptable.
Elocution (n.) A style of speaking especially in public.
Elocution (n.) The art of effective public speaking.
Elocution (n.) [ U ] 演講術，演講技巧 The art of careful public speaking, using clear pronunciation and good breathing to control the voice.
// Classes in elocution.
Elocutionary (a.) Pertaining to elocution.
Elocutionary (a.) Of or relating to elocution; "elocutionary recitals".
Elocutionary (a.) (Used of style of speaking) Overly embellished; "an elocutionary Oxonian delivery".
Elocutionist (n.) One who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
Elocutionist (n.) A public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery.
Elocutive (a.) Pertaining to oratorical expression. [Obs.] -- Feltham.