Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 46
Equivalved (a.) Having the valves equal in size and from, as in most bivalve shells.
Equivalvular (a.) Same as Equivalve or Equivalved.
Equivocacy (n.) Equivocalness.
Equivocal (n.) A word or expression capable of different meanings; an ambiguous term; an equivoque.
In languages of great ductility, equivocals like that just referred to are rarely found. -- Fitzed. Hall.
Equivocal (a.) (Literally, called equally one thing or the other; hence:) 有歧義的；模稜兩可的；有疑問的；不確定的；曖昧的 Having two significations equally applicable; capable of double interpretation; of doubtful meaning; ambiguous; uncertain; as, equivocal words; an equivocal sentence.
For the beauties of Shakespeare are not of so dim or equivocal a nature as to be visible only to learned eyes. -- Jeffrey.
Compare: Interpretation
Interpretation (n.) [Mass noun] 解釋；闡明 [U] [C]；翻譯，口譯 [U]；（音樂、戲曲等的）詮釋；（根據自己詮釋的）演出，演奏 [U] [C] The action of explaining the meaning of something.
‘The interpretation of data.’
Interpretation (n.) [Mass noun] [Count noun] An explanation or way of explaining.
‘This action is open to a number of interpretations.’
Interpretation (n.) [Mass noun] [Count noun] A stylistic representation of a creative work or dramatic role.
‘His unique interpretation of the Liszt etudes.’
Compare: Ambiguous
Ambiguous (a.) 含糊不清的；引起歧義的 Open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning.
‘Ambiguous phrases.’
Ambiguous (a.) Not clear or decided.
‘The election result was ambiguous.’
Equivocal (a.) Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal. "Equivocal repentances." -- Milton.
Equivocal (a.) Uncertain, as an indication or sign; doubtful. "How equivocal a test." -- Burke.
Equivocal chord (Mus.), A chord which can be resolved into several distinct keys; one whose intervals, being all minor thirds, do not clearly indicate its fundamental tone or root; the chord of the diminished triad, and the diminished seventh.
Syn: Ambiguous; doubtful; uncertain; indeterminate.
Usage: Equivocal, Ambiguous. We call an expression ambiguous when it has one general meaning, and yet contains certain words which may be taken in two different senses; or certain clauses which can be so connected with other clauses as to divide the mind between different views of part of the meaning intended. We call an expression equivocal when, taken as a whole, it conveys a given thought with perfect clearness and propriety, and also another thought with equal propriety and clearness. Such were the responses often given by the Delphic oracle; as that to Cr[oe]sus when consulting about a war with Persia: "If you cross the Halys, you will destroy a great empire." This he applied to the Persian empire, which lay beyond that river, and, having crossed, destroyed his own empire in the conflict. What is ambiguous is a mere blunder of language; what is equivocal is usually intended to deceive, though it may occur at times from mere inadvertence. Equivocation is applied only to cases where there is a design to deceive.
Equivocal (a.) Open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question" [syn: equivocal, ambiguous] [ant: unambiguous, unequivocal, univocal].
Equivocal (a.) Open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son" -- Anna Jameson.
Equivocal (a.) Uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal".
Equivocally (adv.) In an equivocal manner.
Equivocalness (n.) The state of being equivocal.
Equivocated (imp. & p. p.) of Equivocate.
Equivocating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Equivocate.
Equivocate (a.) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.
Equivocate (v. t.) To render equivocal or ambiguous.
Equivocation (n.) The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.
Equivocator (n.) One who equivocates.
Equivocatory (a.) Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
Equivoque (n.) Alt. of Equivoke
Equivoke (n.) An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations.
Equivoke (n.) An equivocation; a guibble.
Equivorous (a.) Feeding on horseflesh; as, equivorous Tartars.
Equus (n.) A genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc.
-er () .
-er () The termination of many English words, denoting the agent; -- applied either to men or things; as in hater, farmer, heater, grater. At the end of names of places, -er signifies a man of the place; as, Londoner, i. e., London man.
-er () A suffix used to form the comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs; as, warmer, sooner, lat(e)er, earl(y)ier.
Eras (n. pl. ) of Era.
Era (n.) [C] 時代；年代；歷史時期；紀元；【地】代 A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by Ideler to have been an era. -- R. S. Poole.
Era (n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under {Christian}).
The first century of our era. -- M. Arnold.
Era (n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
Painting may truly be said to have opened the new era of culture. -- J. A. Symonds.
Syn: Epoch; time; date; period; age; dispensation. See {Epoch}.
Era (n.) A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event [syn: {era}, {epoch}].
Era (n.) A major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods [syn: {era}, {geological era}].
Era (n.) (Baseball) A measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched [syn: {earned run average}, {ERA}].
Earned run average (n.) (ERA) (In baseball statistics) 防禦率又稱自責分率（ERA，earned run average）是棒球術語，指投手平均每場球所失的自責分。投手因為被打安打或四壞而讓人上壘（因為野手失誤而上壘的不算），然後又因任何原因讓這上壘的人回來得分（就算換投手，惟壘上那人還是原投手要負責的），此時的得分則為自責分。
若某野手失誤讓人上壘，而該守備足以結束此局者，之後只要有失分，都不算自責分；因為若沒發生失誤，此局可以提早結束，所以不是投手的錯。
防禦率的算法：「自責分×9÷所投局數」。
Is the mean of earned runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number of innings pitched and multiplying by nine. Runs resulting from defensive errors (including pitchers' defensive errors) are recorded as unearned runs and omitted from ERA calculations.
Eradiated (imp. & p. p.) of Eradiate.
Eradiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eradiate.
Eradiate (v. i.) (v. i. & v. t.) 放射；發射；輻射 To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate.
Eradiation (n.) 放射；發射 Emission of radiance.
Eradicable (a.) 可根除的 Capable of being eradicated.
Eradicable (a.) Able to be eradicated or rooted out [ant: {ineradicable}].
Eradicated (imp. & p. p.) of Eradicate
Eradicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eradicate
Eradicate (v. t.) 根除，撲滅，根絕，消滅 To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.
Eradicate (v. t.) To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors.
Eradicate (v.) Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: {eliminate}, {annihilate}, {extinguish}, {eradicate}, {wipe out}, {decimate}, {carry off}].
Eradicate (v.) Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: {uproot}, {eradicate}, {extirpate}, {root out}, {exterminate}].
Eradication (n.) 根除；消滅 [U] The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
Eradication (n.) The state of being plucked up by the roots.
Eradication (n.) The complete destruction of every trace of something [syn: {eradication}, {obliteration}].
Eradicative (n.) (Med.) A medicine that effects a radical cure. -- Whitlock.
Eradicative (a.) 根除的；消滅的 Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
Erasable (a.) 可消除的 Capable of being erased.
Erasable (a.) Capable of being effaced; "the fire's worst scars were effaceable by a comprehensive program of reforestation"; "a signal too loud to be erasable in a single pass through the erase head" [syn: {effaceable}, {erasable}].
Erased (imp. & p. p.) of Erase.
Erasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Erase.
Erase (v. t.) 擦掉，抹去 [（+from）]；消除，清除；忘卻；【電腦】擦除，清除 (v. i.) 被擦去，被抹掉；擦去記號（或字跡）；消去錄音 To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.
Erase (v. t.) Fig.: To obliterate; to expunge; to blot out; -- used of ideas in the mind or memory. -- Burke.
Erase (v.) Remove from memory or existence; "The Turks erased the Armenians in 1915" [syn: {erase}, {wipe out}].
Erase (v.) Remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!" [syn: {erase}, {rub out}, {score out}, {efface}, {wipe off}].
Erase (v.) Wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" [syn: {erase}, {delete}] [ant: {record}, {tape}].
Erased (p. pr. & a.) Rubbed or scraped out; effaced; obliterated.
Erased (p. pr. & a.) Represented with jagged and uneven edges, as is torn off; -- used esp. of the head or limb of a beast. Cf. Couped.
Erasement (n.) The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.
Eraser (n.) One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.
Erasion (n.) The act of erasing; a rubbing out; obliteration.
Erastian (n.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State.
Erastianism (n.) The principles of the Erastains.
Erasure (n.) The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
Erative (a.) Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry.
Erato (n.) The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.
Erbium (n.) A rare metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.
Ercedeken (n.) An archdeacon.
Erd (n.) The earth.
Ere (adv.) Before; sooner than.
Ere (adv.) Rather than.
Ere (v. t.) To plow. [Obs.] See Ear, v. t.
Erebus (n.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
Erebus (n.) The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus.
Erect (a.) 直立的，垂直的，豎起的；【醫】（陰莖）勃起的 Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. -- Milton.
Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins. -- Gibbon.
Erect (a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view Superior worlds, and look all nature through. -- Pope.
Erect (a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
But who is he, by years Bowed, but erect in heart? -- Keble.
Erect (a.) Watchful; alert.
Vigilant and erect attention of mind. -- Hooker.
Erect (a.) (Bot.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached.
Erect (a.) (Her.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
Erected (imp. & p. p.) of Erect.
Erecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Erect.
Erect (v. t.) To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc.
Erect (v. t.) To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine.
Erect (v. t.) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
That didst his state above his hopes erect. -- Daniel.
I, who am a party, am not to erect myself into a judge. -- Dryden.
Erect (v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
It raiseth the dropping spirit, erecting it to a loving complaisance. -- Barrow.
Erect (v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, or the like. "To erect conclusions." -- Sir T. Browne. "Malebranche erects this proposition." -- Locke.
Erect (v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. "To erect a new commonwealth." -- Hooker.
Erecting shop (Mach.), A place where large machines, as engines, are put together and adjusted.
Syn: To set up; raise; elevate; construct; build; institute; establish; found.
Erect (v. i.) To rise upright. [Obs.]
By wet, stalks do erect. -- Bacon.
Erect (a.) Upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: erect, vertical, upright] [ant: unerect].
Erect (a.) Of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: tumid, erect].
Erect (v.) Construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise, erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle, level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear down].
Erect (v.) Cause to rise up [syn: rear, erect].
Erectable (a.) Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. -- Col. G. Montagu.
Erecter (n.) An erector; one who raises or builds.
Erectile (a.) 可使直立的；【醫】勃起的 Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated; as, erectile tissue.
Erectile (a.) Of or pertaining to an erection [5]; as, erectile dysfunction.
Erectile tissue (Anat.), A tissue, such as that contained in the penis, which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by accumulation of blood in and the consequent distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.
Erectile (a.) Capable of being raised to an upright position; "erectile feathers".
Erectile (a.) Filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ" [syn: erectile, cavernous].
Erectility (n.) The quality or state of being erectile.
Erection (n.) 直立，豎直 [U]；建立，建造 [U]；建築物 [C]；【醫】勃起 [C] [U] The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
Erection (n.) The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. -- Sidney
Erection (n.) State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
Erection (n.) Anything erected; a building of any kind.
Erection (n.) (Physiol.) The state of a body part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue; -- used especially of the penis; as, to get or have an erection.
Erection (n.) An erect penis [syn: erection, hard-on].
Erection (n.) A structure that has been erected.
Erection (n.) The act of building or putting up [syn: erecting, erection].
Erective (a.) Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
Erectly (adv.) In an erect manner or posture.
Erectly (adv.) In a straight-backed manner; "the old man still walks erectly" [syn: erectly, straight-backed].
Erectness (n.) Uprightness of posture or form.
Erectness (n.) The property of being upright in posture [syn: erectness, uprightness].
Erectness (n.) Position at right angles to the horizon [syn: verticality, verticalness, erectness, uprightness].
Erecto-patent (a.) (Bot.) Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
Erecto-patent (a.) (Zool.) Standing partially spread and erect; -- said of the wings of certain insects.
Erector (n.) [C] 建立者，建造者 One who, or that which, erects.
Erector (n.) (Anat.) 【解】豎立肌 A muscle which raises any part.
Erector (n.) (Physics) An attachment to a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument, for making the image erect instead of inverted.
Erector spinae (n.) 豎脊肌 Sacrospinalis.
Erector spinae (n.) The erector spinae (ES) is one of the core and paraspinal muscles, is a large and superficial muscle that lies just deep to the thoracolumb ar fascia and arises from the erector spinae aponeurosis (ESA).
Erelong (adv.) 不久；一會兒 Before the elapse of a long time; soon; -- usually separated, ere long.
A man, . . . following the stag, erelong slew him. -- Spenser.
The world, erelong, a world of tears must weep. -- Milton.
Erelong (adv.) (Archaic + literary) In the near future : Before long, Soon.
// Behold how the evening now steals over the fields, the shadows of the trees creeping farther and farther into the meadow, and erelong the stars will come to bathe in these retired waters. -- Henry David Thoreau
Eremacausis (n.) A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
Eremitage (n.) See Hermitage.
Eremite (n.) A hermit.
Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. -- Keats. Eremitic
Eremite (n.) A Christian recluse [ant: cenobite, coenobite].