Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 29

Endosmotic (a.) Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic. -- Carpenter.

Endosperm (n.) (Bot.) The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

Endosperm (n.) Nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants.

Endospermic (a.) (Bot.) Relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm.

Endospore (n.) (Bot.) The thin inner coat of certain spores.

Endosporous (a.) (Bot.) Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.

Endoss (v. t.) To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Endosteal (a.) (Physiol.) Relating to endostosis; as, endosteal ossification.

Endosternite (n.) (Zool.) The part of each apodeme derived from the intersternal membrane in Crustacea and insects.

Endosteum (n.) (Anat.) The layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone.

Endosteum (n.) Vascular membrane that lines the inner surface of long bones.

Endostoma (n.) (Zool.) A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.

Endostome (n.) (Bot.) The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.

Endostome (n.) (Zool.) And endostoma.

Endostosis (n.) (Physiol.) A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place within the substance of the cartilage.

Endostyle (n.) (Zool.) A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.

Endotheca (n.) (Zool.) The tissue which partially fills the interior of the interseptal chambers of most madreporarian corals. It usually consists of a series of oblique tranverse septa, one above another. -- En`do*the"cal, a.

Endothecium (n.) (Bot.) The inner lining of an anther cell.

Endothelial (a.) (Anat.) Of, or relating to, endothelium.

Endothelial (a.) Of or relating to or located in the endothelium.

Endothelia (n. pl. ) of Endothelium.

Endothelium (n.) (Anat.) The thin epithelium lining the blood vessels, lymphatics, and serous cavities. See Epithelium.

Endothelium (n.) An epithelium of mesoblastic origin; a thin layer of flattened cells that lines the inside of some body cavities.

Endotheloid (a.) (Anat.) Like endothelium.

Endothorax (n.) (Zool.) An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

Endowed (imp. & p. p.) of Endow.

Endowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Endow.

Endow (v. t.) 捐贈;資助;向……捐錢(或物);賦予 [H] [+with] To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.

Endowing hospitals and almshouses. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.

Endow (v. t.) To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

Endow (v.) Give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue].

Endow (v.) Furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered" [syn: endow, dower].

Endow (v.) [ T ] 向(院校、醫院等)捐款,捐贈,資助 To give a large amount of money to pay for creating a college, hospital, etc. or to provide an income for it.

// The state of Michigan has endowed three institutes to do research for industry.

// This hospital was endowed by the citizens of Strasbourg in the 16th century.

Idiom:

Be endowed with sth (C2) 天生具備,生來具有(某種特性或品質) To have a particular quality or feature.

// Some lucky people are endowed with both brains and beauty.

// Sardinia is generously endowed with prehistoric sites.

Well endowed (a.) 天賦甚多的;擁有很多(尤指金錢或財產)的 Having a lot of something, especially money or possessions.

// The city is well endowed with modern medical facilities.

// [ Before noun ] It is a very well-endowed college.

Well endowed (a.) (男性)陰莖粗大的;(女性)胸部豐滿的 (Humorous approving)  (Of a man) Having large sexual organs, or (of a woman) having large breasts.

// He's very well endowed!

Well endowed (a.) 天賦好的;【口】【幽】生殖器大的;生殖器健全的 (1.) (Informal, humorous) (Of a woman) Having large breasts. (2.) (Informal, humorous) (Of a man) Having large genitals. (3.) (Of an organization) Having a lot of money.

// Well-endowed colleges.

Endower (v. t.) To endow. [Obs.] -- Waterhouse.

Endower (n.) One who endows.

Endowment (n.) (基金、財產等的)捐贈 [U];捐贈的基金、財產等 [P1]; 才能,天資 [P1] The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.

Endowment (n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.

Endowment (n.) That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.

His early endowments had fitted him for the work he was to do. -- I. Taylor.

Endowment (n.) Natural abilities or qualities [syn: {endowment}, {gift}, {talent}, {natural endowment}].

Endowment (n.) The capital that provides income for an institution [syn: {endowment}, {endowment fund}].

Endowment (n.) The act of endowing with a permanent source of income; "his generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time".

Endowment (n.) The bestowing or assuring of a dower to a woman. It is sometimes used: metaphorically, for the setting a provision for a charitable institution, as the endowment of a hospital.

Endowment (n.) [ C or U ] (給院校、醫院等的)捐款,捐贈,資助 Money that is given to a college, hospital, etc. in order to provide it with an income, or the giving of this money.

// The school has received an endowment of $50,000 to buy new books for the library.

Endowment (n.) [ C ] 天賦;天資;才能 Something that you have from birth, often a quality.

// There are tests that can establish a baby's genetic endowment.

Endozoa (n. pl.) See Entozoa.

Endrudge (v. t.) To make a drudge or slave of.

End-to-end encryption (n.) 端到端加密 End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a system of communication where only the communicating users can read the messages. In principle, it prevents potential eavesdroppers including telecom providers, Internet providers, and even the provider of the communication service from being able to access the cryptographic keys needed to decrypt the conversation.[1] The systems are designed to defeat any attempts at surveillance or tampering because no third parties can decipher the data being communicated or stored. For example, companies that use end-to-end encryption are unable to hand over texts of their customers' messages to the authorities.[2]

Endued (imp. & p. p.) of Endue.

Enduing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Endue.

Indue (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. {Indued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Induing}.] [Written also {endue}.] To put on, as clothes; to draw on.

The baron had indued a pair of jack boots. -- Sir W. Scott.

Indue (v. t.) To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities.

Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. -- Dryden.

Indued with intellectual sense and souls. -- Shak.

Endue (v. t.) . 賦予……(才能、天資);授予 [+with] [H];【罕】穿,戴 To invest. -- Latham.

Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. -- Luke xxiv. 49.

Endue them . . . with heavenly gifts. -- Book of Common Prayer.

Endue (v. t.) An older spelling of {Endow}. -- Tillotson.

Endue (v.) Give qualities or abilities to [syn: {endow}, {indue}, {gift}, {empower}, {invest}, {endue}]

Enduement (n.) Act of enduing; induement.

Endurable (a.) Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.

Endurably (adv.) In an endurable manner.

Endurance (n.) [U] 忍耐,耐久力;持久(力);耐久(力) A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.

Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. -- Sir W. Scott.

Endurance (n.) The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.

Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. -- Sir W. Temple.

Syn: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.

Endurance (n.) The power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance".

Endurance (n.) A state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: {survival}, {endurance}].

Endurance (n.) [ U ] (C2) 忍耐力,耐受力 The ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a long time.

// Running a marathon is a test of human endurance.

// The pain was bad beyond endurance.

Endurant (a.) 能忍耐的 Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc..

Endured (imp. & p. p.) of Endure.

Enduring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Endure.

Endure (v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.

Endure (v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

Endure (v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.

Endure (v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.

Endure (v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.

Endure (v.) (Experience) (B2) [ T ] 忍耐;忍受 To suffer something difficult, unpleasant, or painful.

// We had to endure a nine-hour delay at the airport.

// She's already had to endure three painful operations on her leg.

Endure (v.) (Continue) [ I ] (Formal) 持續;持久 To continue to exist for a long time.

// The political system established in 1400 endured until about 1650.

Endurement (n.) Endurance.

Endurer (n.) One who, or that which, endures or lasts; one who bears, suffers, or sustains.

Enduring (a.) Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.

Endways (adv.) Alt. of Endwise.

Endwise (adv.) On end; erectly; in an upright position.

Endwise (adv.) With the end forward.

Endyma (n.) See Ependyma.

Endyses (n. pl. ) of Endysis.

Endysis (n.) The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set of feathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.

Enecate (v. t.) To kill off; to destroy.

Eneid (n.) Same as Aeneid.

Enemata (n. pl. ) of Enema.

Enema (n.) An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.

Enemies (n. pl. ) of Enemy.

Enemy (n.) One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.

Enemy (a.) Hostile; inimical.

Enepidermic (a.) Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.

Energetic (a.) Alt. of Energetical.

Energetical (a.) 精力旺盛的;精神飽滿的;有力的;積極的 Having energy or energies; possessing a capacity for vigorous action or for exerting force; active.

Energetical (a.) Exhibiting energy; operating with force, vigor, and effect; forcible; powerful; efficacious; as, energetic measures; energetic laws.

Energetically (adv.) 精力充沛地;積極地 In an energetic manner.

Energetics (n.) That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena.

Energic (a.) Alt. of Energical.

Energical (a.) In a state of action; acting; operating.

Energical (a.) Having energy or great power; energetic.

Energized (imp. & p. p.) of Energize.

Energizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Energize.

Energize (v. i.) To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.

Energize (v. t.) To give strength or force to; to make active; to alacrify; as, to energize the will.

Energizer (n.) One who, or that which, gives energy, or acts in producing an effect.

Energizing (a.) Capable of imparting or exercising energy.

Energumen (n.) One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.

Energies (n. pl. ) of Energy.

Energy (n.) Internal or inherent power; capacity of acting, operating, or producing an effect, whether exerted or not; as, men possessing energies may suffer them to lie inactive.

The great energies of nature are known to us only by their effects. -- Paley.

Energy (n.) Power efficiently and forcibly exerted; vigorous or effectual operation; as, the energy of a magistrate.

Energy (n.) Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.

Energy (n.) (Physics) Capacity for performing work.

Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the element, relative to some given body or point. The available kinetic energy of a material system unconnected with any other system is that energy which is due to the motions of the parts of the system relative to its center of mass. The potential energy of a body or system is that energy which is not kinetic; -- energy due to configuration. Kinetic energy is sometimes called actual energy. Kinetic energy is exemplified in the vis viva of moving bodies, in heat, electric currents, etc.; potential energy, in a bent spring, or a body suspended a given distance above the earth and acted on by gravity.

Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, & Degradation of energy, etc. (Physics) See under Accumulation, Conservation, Correlation, etc.

Syn: Force; power; potency; vigor; strength; spirit; efficiency; resolution.

Energy (n.) (Physics) A thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms" [syn: energy, free energy].

Energy (n.) Forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour, zip].

Energy (n.) Enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy" [syn: energy, push, get-up-and-go].

Energy (n.) An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim].

Energy (n.) A healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vim, vitality].

Energy (n.) Any source of usable power; "the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy".

Energy (n.) The federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 [syn: Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOE].

Energy, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois

Population (2000): 1175

Housing Units (2000): 519

Land area (2000): 1.185826 sq. miles (3.071276 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.008844 sq. miles (0.022907 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.194670 sq. miles (3.094183 sq. km)

FIPS code: 24166

Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17

Location: 37.772398 N, 89.025519 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Energy, IL

Energy

Enervated (imp. & p. p.) of Enervate.

Enervating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enervate.

Enervate (v. t.) 使衰弱 To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.

Enervate (a.) 衰弱的,無力的 Weakened; weak; without strength of force.

Enervation (n.) The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

Enervation (n.) The state of being weakened; effeminacy.

Enervative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening.

Enerve (v. t.) To weaken; to enervate.

Enervous (a.) Lacking nerve or force; enervated.

Enfamish (v. t.) To famish; to starve.

Enfect (a.) Contaminated with illegality.

Enfeebled (imp. & p. p.) of Enfeeble.

Enfeebling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enfeeble.

Enfeeble (v. t.) 使衰弱;使無力 To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. -- Prescott.

Syn: To weaken; debilitate; enervate.

Enfeeble (v.) Make weak; "Life in the camp drained him" [syn: {enfeeble}, {debilitate}, {drain}]

Enfeeblement (n.) 衰弱 The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

Enfeeblement (n.) Serious weakening and loss of energy [syn: {debilitation}, {enervation}, {enfeeblement}, {exhaustion}].

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