Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 39
Enviable (a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
One of most enviable of human beings. -- Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.
Enviable (a.) Causing envy; "an enviable position."
Envie (v. i.) To vie; to emulate; to strive. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Envier (n.) One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.
Envigor (v. t.) To invigorate. [Obs.]
Envious (a.) Malignant; mischievous; spiteful. [Obs.]
Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch. -- Shak.
Envious (a.) Feeling or exhibiting envy; actuated or directed by, or proceeding from, envy; -- said of a person, disposition, feeling, act, etc.; jealously pained by the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging; -- followed by of, at, and against; as, an envious man, disposition, attack; envious tongues.
My soul is envious of mine eye. -- Keble.
Neither be thou envious at the wicked. -- Prov. xxiv. 19.
Envious (a.) Inspiring envy. [Obs. or Poetic]
He to him leapt, and that same envious gage Of victor's glory from him snatched away. -- Spenser.
Envious (a.) Excessively careful; cautious. [Obs.]
No men are so envious of their health. -- Jer. Taylor. -- En"vi*ous*ly, adv. -- En"vi*ous*ness, n.
Envious (a.) Showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection" [syn: covetous, envious, jealous].
Environed (imp. & p. p.) of Environ.
Environing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Environ.
Environ (v. t.) To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.
Dwelling in a pleasant glade,
With mountains round about environed. -- Spenser.
Environed he was with many foes. -- Shak.
Environ me with darkness whilst I write. -- Donne.
Environ (adv.) About; around. [Obs.]
Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes. -- Fairfax.
Environ (v.) Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: surround, environ, ring, skirt, border].
Environment (n.) Act of environing; state of being environed.
Environment (n.) That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
It is no friendly environment, this of thine. -- Carlyle.
Environment (n.) The totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room."
Environment (n.) The area in which something exists or lives; "the country -- the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, environs, surroundings, surround].
Environment (n.) (Nature) The environment [ S ] (B1) 自然環境 The air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live.
// Certain chemicals have been banned because of their damaging effect on the environment.
// We're not doing enough to protect the environment from pollution.
Environment (n.) (Surroundings) (B2) [ C ] 環境；周圍狀況 The conditions that you live or work in and the way that they influence how you feel or how effectively you can work.
// The office is quite bright and airy - it's a pleasant working environment.
// As a parent you try to create a stable home environment.
Environmental (a.) (B1) 自然環境的；有關環境的 Relating to the environment.
// People are becoming far more aware of environmental issues.
Environmental (a.) Of or pertaining to the environment; as, environmental factors.
Environmental (a.) Of or pertaining to the environment (definition 2); as, environmental pollution; environmental disaster; environmental cleanup; environmental deterioration.
Thousands of dead fish and other marine species, suffocated by a rotting, glutinous morass which spreads over kilometres of coral reefs.
This scenario has all the hallmarks of a unnatural environmental disaster resulting from environmental negligence. However this isn't the case, instead the cause -- coral spawn slick deoxygenation -- is a natural event which has the potential to occur periodically on the reefs of the West Pilbara. -- Michael Borowitzka ("Natural event spawns environmental disaster" in Murdoch News, October 12, 1995)
Environmental (a.) Of or relating to the external conditions or surroundings; "environmental factors."
Environmental (a.) Concerned with the ecological effects of altering the environment; "environmental pollution."
Environmentalist (n.) [ C ] (C1) 環境保護主義者；環境保護論者 A person who is interested in or studies the environment and who tries to protect it from being damaged by human activities.
Environmentalist (n.) Someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution [syn: environmentalist, conservationist].
Environs (n. pl.) [F.] The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. -- Chesterfield.
Environs (n.) The area in which something exists or lives; "the country -- the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, environs, surroundings, surround].
Environs (n.) An outer adjacent area of any place [syn: environs, purlieu].
Environs (n.) (pl.) (Formal) （尤指城鎮）附近的地方，周邊地區 The area surrounding a place, especially a town.
Envisaged (imp. & p. p.) of Envisage.
Envisaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envisage.
Envisage (v. t.) To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. [R.] -- Keats.
From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. -- McCosh.
Envisage (v.) Form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" [syn: imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage].
Envisagement (n.) The act of envisaging.
Envision (v.) Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image].
Envision (v.) Picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" [syn: envision, foresee].
Envision (v. t.) To picture mentally, especially some future event or events.
// To envision a bright future.
Envisioning (n.) Visual imagery. [syn: picturing, envisioning]
Envolume (v. t.) To form into, or incorporate with, a volume. [R.]
Envolup (v. t.) To wrap up; to envelop. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Envoy (n.) [C] 使者；外交使節；全權公使；特使 One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
Envoy (n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. -- Skeat.
Envoy (n.) A diplomat having less authority than an ambassador [syn: {envoy}, {envoy extraordinary}, {minister plenipotentiary}].
Envoy (n.) Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else [syn: {emissary}, {envoy}].
Envoy (n.) A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry [syn: {envoy}, {envoi}].
Envoy, () Motorola's integrated personal wireless communicator. Envoy is a personal digital assistant which incorporates two-way wireless and wireline communication. It was announced on 7 March 1994 and released in the third quarter of 1994. It runs Genral Magic's Magic Cap operating system and Telescript(TM) communications language on Motorola's Dragon chip set. This includes the highly integrated Motorola 68349 processor and a special purpose application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) referred to as Astro. This chip set was designed specifically for Magic Cap and Telescript.
A user can write on the Envoy communicator with the accompanying stylus or a finger, to type and select or move objects on its screen. An on-screen keyboard can be used to input information, draw or write personal notations, or send handwritten messages and faxes.
Envoy can send a wireless message to another Envoy, PC or fax; broadcast a message to a group, with each member of that group receiving the message in their preferred format; gather information based on your requirements; schedule a meeting and automatically invite attendees; screen, route and organize messages; send a business card to another Envoy across a conference room table; access real-time scheduling and pricing information for US airline flights, then order tickets via fax or electronic mail; keep track of contacts through an address book; receive daily news summaries and stock information; capture, organize and review business and personal expenses on-the-go; gather, edit and analyze information in spreadsheets and graphs compatible with Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel; shop in an electronic mall. (1995-01-18)
Envoy, () International law. In diplomatic language, an envoy is a minister of the second rank, on whom his sovereign or government has conferred a degree of dignity and respectability, which, without being on a level with an ambassador, immediately follows, and among ministers, yields the preeminence to him alone.
Envoy, () Envoys are either ordinary or extraordinary; by custom the latter is held in greater consideration. Vattel, liv. 4, c. 6, Sec. 72.
Envoyship (n.) 使節身分 The office or position of an envoy.
Envies (n. pl. ) of Envy.
Envy (n.) Malice; ill will; spite. [Obs.]
If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people. -- Shak.
Envy (n.) Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of Caesar.
Envy is a repining at the prosperity or good of another, or anger and displeasure at any good of another which we want, or any advantage another hath above us. -- Ray.
No bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more. -- Milton.
Envy, to which the ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learned or brave. -- Pope.
Envy (n.) Emulation; rivalry. [Obs.]
Such as cleanliness and decency Prompt to a virtuous envy. -- Ford.
Envy (n.) Public odium; ill repute. [Obs.]
To lay the envy of the war upon Cicero. -- B. Jonson.
Envy (n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.
This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world. -- Macaulay.
Envied (imp. & p. p.) of Envy.
Envying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Envy.
Envy (v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
A woman does not envy a man for his fighting courage, nor a man a woman for her beauty. -- Collier.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. -- Rambler.
Envy (v. t.) To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon; to begrudge.
I have seen thee fight, When I have envied thy behavior. -- Shak.
Jeffrey . . . had actually envied his friends their cool mountain breezes. -- Froude.
Envy (v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. -- T. Gray.
Envy (v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage. [Obs.]
If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall. -- J. Fletcher.
Envy (v. t.) To hate. [Obs.] -- Marlowe.
Envy (v. t.) To emulate. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Envy (v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked? -- Jer. Taylor.
Envy (v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail. [Obs.] "He has . . . envied against the people." -- Shak.
Envy (n.) A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another [syn: envy, enviousness].
Envy (n.) Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: envy, invidia].
Envy (v.) Feel envious towards; admire enviously.
Envy (v.) Be envious of; set one's heart on [syn: envy, begrudge].
Envy (n.) Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
Envyned (a.) Stored or furnished with wine. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Enwall (v. t.) See Inwall. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Enwallow (v. t.) To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow.
So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. -- Spenser.
Enwheel (v. t.) To encircle. -- Shak
Enwiden (v. t.) To widen. [Obs.]
Enwind (v. t.) To wind about; to encircle.
In the circle of his arms Enwound us both. -- Tennyson.
Enwoman (v. t.) To endow with the qualities of a woman. [R.] -- Daniel.
Enwombed (imp. & p. p.) of Enwomb.
Enwombing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enwomb.
Enwomb (v. t.) To conceive in
the womb. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Enwomb (v. t.) To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a
gulf, pit, or cavern. -- Donne.
Enwrap (v. t.) To envelop. See Inwrap.
Enwrap (v.) Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose].
Enwrapment (n.) Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope. -- Shuckford.
Inwreathe (v. t.) To surround or encompass as with a wreath. [Written also enwreathe.]
Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. -- Milton.
Enwreathe (v. t.) See Inwreathe. -- Shelton.
Enzootic (a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.
Enzootic (a.) Of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases.
Enzyme (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A protein produced by a living organism, capable of catalyzing a chemical reaction. Almost all processes in living organisms require some form of enzyme to cause the reactions to occur at a rate sufficient to support life.
There are a very wide variety of enzymes, each specifically catalyzing a different chemical reaction, the sum of which cause the bulk of the physiological changes observed as life processes. Enzymes, like most proteins, are synthesized by the protein-synthetic mechanism of the living cell, at special sites on ribosomes, using the genetic information in messenger RNA transcribed from the genetic instructions stored as nuleotide sequences in the DNA (or in some viruses, the RNA) of the genome. Some examples of enzymes are: pepsin, diastase, rennet, DNA polymerase, invertase, glucose oxidase, protease, and ribonuclease. There are many other types of enzyme.
Note: The 1913 Webster defined an enzyme as: An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment.
Enzyme (n.) Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions.
Eocene (a.) (Geol.) Pertaining to the first in time of the three subdivisions into which the Tertiary formation is divided by geologists, and alluding to the approximation in its life to that of the present era; as, Eocene deposits.
Eocene (n.) The Eocene formation. -- Lyell.
Eocene (n.) From 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals [syn: Eocene, Eocene epoch].
Eolian (a.) Aeolian.
Eolian (a.) (Geol.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes.
Eolian attachment, Eolian harp. See [AE]olian.
Eolian (n.) A member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks [syn: Aeolian, Eolian].
Aeolic (a.) [AE]olian, 1; as, the [AE]olic dialect; the [AE]olic mode.
Aeolic (a.) (Phys. Geog.) Pertaining to, caused by, or designating, the action of the wind in modifying the earth's surface; as, [ae]olic erosion; [ae]olic sand. Same as Aeolian [3]. [Written also eolic.]
Eolic (a. & n.) See Aeolic.
Eolic (n.) The dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis [syn: Aeolic, Aeolic dialect, Eolic].
AEolipile, AEolipyle (n.) An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]
Note: Such an apparatus was first described by Hero of Alexandria about 200 years b. c. It has often been called the first steam engine. aeolotropic
Eolipile (n.) Same as Aeolipile.
Eolis (n.) (Zo["o]l.) A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. See Ceratobranchia. [Written also [AE]olis.] Eon
Eon (n.) Alt. of Aeon.
Aeon (n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
The eons of geological time. -- Huxley.
Aeon (n.) (Gnostic Philos.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Among the higher [ae]ons are Mind, Reason, Power, Truth, and Life. -- Am. Cyc.
Note: Eons were considered to be emanations sent forth by God from the depths of His grand solitude to fulfill
various functions in the material and spiritual universe.
Eon (n.) The longest division of geological time [syn: eon, aeon].
Eon (n.) An immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago" [syn: eon, aeon].
Eon (n.) (Gnosticism) A divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe [syn: eon, aeon].
EON, () Enhanced Other Networks (RDS).
Eophyte (n.) (Paleon.) A fossil plant which is found in the lowest beds of the Silurian age.
Eophytic (a.) Of or pertaining to eophytes.
Eos (n.) (Gr. Myth.) Aurora, the goddess of morn.
Eos (n.) (Greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of Hyperion; identified with Roman Aurora.
EOS, () Electrical OverStress.
EOS, () Extended Operating System (OS).
Eosaurus (n.) (Paleon.) An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.
Eosin (n.) (Chem.) A yellow or brownish red dyestuff obtained by the action of bromine on fluorescein, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.
Eosin (n.) A red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studying cell structures [syn: eosin, bromeosin].
Eosphorite (n.) (Min.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name.
Eozoic (a.) (Geol.) Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found.
Note: This term has been proposed for the strata formerly called Azoic, and is preferred especially by those geologists who regard the eozo["o]n as of organic origin. See Arch[ae]an.
Eozoons (n. pl. ) of Eozoon.
Eozoa (n. pl. ) of Eozoon.
Eozoon (n.) (Paleon.) A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure.
Eozoonal (a.) (Paleon.) Pertaining to the eozoon; containing eozoons; as, eozoonal limestone.
Ep- () See Epi-.
EP, () Enterprise Portal (SAP)
Epacris (n.) (Bot.) A genus of shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, etc., having pretty white, red, or purple blossoms, and much resembling heaths.
Epacris (n.) Any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers.
Epact (n.) (Chron.) The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year.
Annual epact, The excess of the solar year over the lunar year, -- being eleven days.
Menstrual epact, or Monthly epact, The excess of a calendar month over a lunar.
Epagoge (n.) (Logic) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.
Epagogic (a.) Inductive. -- Latham.
Epalate (a.) (Zo["o]l.) Without palpi.
Epanadiplosis (n.) (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice." -- Phil. iv. 4.
Epanalepsis (n.) (Rhet.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter. -- Gibbs.
Epanalepsis (n.) Repetition after intervening words.
Epanaphora
(n.)
(Rhet.) Same as Anaphora. -- Gibbs.
Epanaphora (n.) Repetition of a word or phrase
at the beginning of successive clauses [syn: epanaphora,
anaphora].
Epanastrophe (n.) (Rhet.) Same as Anadiplosis. -- Gibbs.
Epanodos (n.) (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order , as in the following: O more exceeding love, or law more just?
Just law, indeed, but more exceeding love! -- Milton.
Epanodos (n.) Recapitulation of the main ideas of a speech (especially in reverse order).
Epanodos (n.) Repetition of a group of words in reverse order
Epanody (n.) (Bot.) The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form; -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an ancestral condition.
Epanorthosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!
Epanorthosis (n.) Immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification; "Seems, madam! Nay, it is."
Epanthous (a.) (Bot.) Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.
Eparch (n.) In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.
Eparch (n.) A bishop or metropolitan in charge of an eparchy in the Eastern Church.
Eparch (n.) The governor or prefect of an eparchy in ancient Greece.
Eparchy (n.) A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
Eparchy (n.) A province in ancient Greece.
Eparchy (n.) A diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church [syn: eparchy, exarchate].
Eparterial (a.) (Anat.) Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.
Epaule (n.) (Fort.) The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
Epaulement (n.) (Fort.) A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy. Epaulet
Epaulet (n.) Alt. of Epaulette.
Epaulette (n.) (Mil.) A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot.
Note: In the United States service the epaulet is reserved for full dress uniform. Its use was abolished in the British army in 1855. Epauleted
Epaulet (n.) Adornment consisting of an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder [syn: epaulet, epaulette].
Epaulet, (n.) An ornamented badge, serving to distinguish a military officer from the enemy -- that is to say, from the officer of lower rank to whom his death would give promotion.
Epauleted (a.) Alt. of Epauletted.
Epauletted (a.) Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets.