Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 54
Etiolation (n.) 黃化；白化；蒼白化 The operation of blanching plants, by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant.
Etiolation (n.) (Med.) Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease. -- Dunglison.
Etiolation (n.) A pale and sickly appearance; "his etiolation signaled years in prison".
Etiolation (n.) The act of weakening by stunting the growth or development of something; "the etiolation of the critical tradition".
Etiolation (n.) (Botany) The act of causing a plant to develop without chlorophyll by growing it without exposure to sunlight; "the etiolation of celery".
Etiolin (n.) (Bot.) 蒼白化植物黃素 A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll. -- Encyc. Brit.
Compare: Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll (n.) = Chlorophyl , 【植】【生化】葉綠素 [U] A green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis. Its molecule contains a magnesium atom held in a porphyrin ring.
‘The green colouring comes from chlorophyll, the same pigment that is found in foliage.’
Etiological (a.) 【醫】 病因學的；病原學的 Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological.
Etiological (a.) Of or relating to the philosophical study of causation [syn: etiological, etiologic, aetiological, aetiologic].
Etiological (a.) Relating to the etiology of a disease; "etiological agent" [syn: etiological, etiologic, aetiological, aetiologic].
Compare: Aetiology
Aetiology (n.) 原因論；【醫】病原學，病因學 The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things; etiology. AS
Aetiology (n.) The assignment of a cause.
Aetiology (n.) (Med.) The cause or origin of a disease. Now more commonly written etiology.
Etiology (n.) 窮本溯源；原因論；所有原因 The science of causes. Same as aetiology.
Etiology (n.) The cause of a disease [syn: etiology, aetiology].
Etiology (n.) The philosophical study of causation [syn: etiology, aetiology].
Etiology (n.) The cause or origin of a disease, condition, or constellation of symptoms or signs, as determined by medical diagnosis or research. [syn: tiology].
Compare: Tiology
Tiology (n.) Obsolete spelling of aetiology.
Etiquette (n.) [U] 禮節；禮儀；（同業間的）規矩；成規 The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society.
The pompous etiquette to the court of Louis the Fourteenth. -- Prescott.
Etiquette (n.) Rules governing socially acceptable behavior.
Etna (n.) 酒精燈煮水器 A kind of small, portable, cooking apparatus for which heat is furnished by a spirit lamp.
There should certainly be an etna for getting a hot cup of coffee in a hurry. -- V. Baker.
Etna (n.) An inactive volcano in Sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in Europe (10,500 feet) [syn: Etna, Mount Etna, Mt Etna].
Etna (n.) A gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air [syn: bunsen burner, bunsen, etna].
Etna, WY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wyoming
Population (2000): 123
Housing Units (2000): 55
Land area (2000): 1.959234 sq. miles (5.074393 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.959234 sq. miles (5.074393 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25475
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 43.031124 N, 111.016042 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83118
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Headwords:
Etna, WY
Etna
Etna, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 781
Housing Units (2000): 362
Land area (2000): 0.788999 sq. miles (2.043499 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.788999 sq. miles (2.043499 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22972
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 41.457350 N, 122.896875 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Etna, CA
Etna
Etna, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 3924
Housing Units (2000): 1934
Land area (2000): 0.746751 sq. miles (1.934076 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.746751 sq. miles (1.934076 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24160
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.500338 N, 79.948755 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15223
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Etna, PA
Etna
Etnean (a.) Pertaining to Etna,
a volcanic mountain in
Compare: Estoile
Estoile (n.) [OF.] (Her.) A six-pointed star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet. [Written also ['e]toile.]
Estoile of eight points, A star which has four straight and four wavy rays.
Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoil['e], under Cross.
Etoile (n.) (Her.) See Estoile.
Etrurian (a.) Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy. "Etrurian Shades." -- Milton,
Etrurian (n.) A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
Etruscan (n.) Of or relating to Etruria.
Etruscan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Etruria.
Etruscan (n.) A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria; the Etruscans influenced the Romans (who had suppressed them by about 200 BC).
Etterbeek (n.) 埃特爾貝克 Is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It neighbours the municipalities of the City of Brussels, Ixelles, Auderghem, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and Schaerbeek.
The main university campus of Vrije Universiteit Brussel is called Campus Etterbeek, although it is geographically not within Etterbeek but in the adjacent municipality of Ixelles.
Etter pike (n.) (Zool.) The stingfish, or lesser weever ({Tranchinus vipera).
Ettin (n.) A giant. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Ettle (v. t.) To earn. [Obs.] See Addle, to earn. -- Boucher.
Etude (n.) 練習曲 A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.
Etude (n.) (Mus.) A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.
Etude (n.) A short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity.
Etui (n.) （放針線、化妝品等之）小盒子 A case for one or several small articles; esp., a box in which scissors, tweezers, and other articles of toilet or of daily use are carried.
Etui (n.) Small ornamental ladies' bag for small articles.
Etwee (n.) See Etui. -- Shenstone.
Etym (n.) See Etymon. -- H. F. Talbot.
Etymic (a.) Relating to the etymon; as, an etymic word.
Etymologer (n.) 詞源學者 An etymologist.
Etymologer (n.) (Rare) An expert in or student of etymology; = "etymologist".
In later use sometimes specifically: a person who practises etymology in an unscientific or primitive way.
Etymological (a.) 詞源的；詞源學的 Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words. -- Et`y*mo*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Etymological (a.) Based on or belonging to etymology; "I merely drew an etymological distinction".
Etymologicon (n.) 語源字典 An etymological dictionary or manual.
Etymologist (n.) 詞源學家 One who investigates the derivation of words.
Etymologist (n.) A lexicographer who specializes in etymology.
Etymologize (v. t.) 追溯（字的）語源 (v. i.) 研究語源 To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word. -- Camden
Etymologize (v. t.) To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots.
How perilous it is to etymologize at random. -- Trench.
Etymologize (v.) Give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word); "The linguist probably etymologized the words incorrectly"; "Although he is not trained in this, his hobby is etymologizing" [syn: {etymologize}, {etymologise}].
Etymologize (v.) Construct the history of words [syn: {etymologize}, {etymologise}].
Etymologies (n. pl. ) of Etymology
Etymology (n.) 字源學；詞形變化；詞源學 That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
Etymology (n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Etymology (n.) A history of a word.
Etymology (n.) The study of the sources and development of words.
Etymology (n.) 語源學，是一門用於研究字詞來源的學科。英語的「etymology」一詞本身源於「希臘語：έτυμος」（真實）與「希臘語：λόγος」（字、理性或學問）兩字。 Is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. [1] By extension, the term "the etymology (of a word)" means the origin of the particular word.
For a language such as Greek with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods of their history and when they entered the languages in question. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about languages that are too old for any direct information to be available.
By analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method, linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In this way, word roots have been found that can be traced all the way back to the origin of, for instance, the Indo-European language family.
Even though etymological research originally grew from the philological tradition, much current etymological research is done on language families where little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian.
The word etymology derives from the Greek word ἐτυμολογία (etumología), itself from ἔτυμον (étumon), meaning "true sense", and the suffix -logia, denoting "the study of". [2] [3]
In linguistics, the term etymon refers to a word or morpheme (e.g., stem [4] or root [5]) from which a later word derives. For example, the Latin word candidus, which means "white", is the etymon of English candid.
Etymons (n. pl. ) of Etymon
Etyma (n. pl. ) of Etymon
Etymon (n.) 詞源（形式）；詞的原形（原義） An original form; primitive word; root.
Etymon (n.) Original or fundamental signification. [R.]
Given as the etymon or genuine sense of the word. -- Coleridge.
Etymon (n.) A simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root].
Etypical (a.) (Biol.) Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.
Eu (n.) (Chem.) The chemical symbol for Europium, an element with atomic number 63 and atomic weight 151.96.
Syn: Europium.
Eu () A prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-.
Eu (n.) A bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group [syn: europium, Eu, atomic number 63].
Eu (n.) An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union" [syn: European Union, EU, European Community, EC, European Economic Community, EEC, Common Market, Europe].
EU, () Execution Unit (CPU)
Eucairite (n.) (Min.) A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery of the metal selenium.
Eucalyn (n.) (Chem.) An unfermentable sugar, obtained as an uncrystallizable sirup by the decomposition of melitose; also obtained from a Tasmanian eucalyptus, -- whence its name.
Eucalyptol (n.) (Chem.) A volatile, terpenelike oil ({C10H18O), which is the main constituent of the oil of eucalyptus. It has cockroach repellent activity and is used as a flavoring aid in pharmaceuticals. Chemically it is 1,3,3-trimethyl-2-oxabicyclo-[2,2,2]-octane. -- MI11
Syn: cineole, cajeputol.
Note: In the 1913 Webster eucalytpol was defined as an oil "consisting largely of cymene". Cymene
(isopropyltoluene, C10H14) differs from that of the substance currently called eucalyptol, in having an unsaturated ring and no oxygen. Para-cymene does occur in eucalyptus oil as well as some other essential oils.
Compare: Bloodwood
Bloodwood (n.) (Bot.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree ({Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia H[ae]matoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ({ H[ae]matoxylon campechianum).
Eucalyptus (n.) (Bot.) A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even of the California Sequoia.
Syn: eucalyptus tree, gum tree, eucalypt.
Note: They have rigid, entire leaves with one edge turned toward the zenith. Most of them secrete resinous gums, whence they called gum trees, and their timber is of great value. Eucalyptus Globulus is the blue gum; E. gigantea, the stringy bark: E. amygdalina, the peppermint tree. E. Gunnii, the Tasmanian cider tree, yields a refreshing drink from wounds made in the bark in the spring. Other species yield oils, tars, acids, dyes and tans. It is said that miasmatic valleys in Algeria and Portugal, and a part of the unhealthy Roman Campagna, have been made more salubrious by planting groves of these trees.
Eucalyptus (n.) Wood of any of various eucalyptus trees valued as timber.
Eucalyptus (n.) A tree of the genus Eucalyptus [syn: eucalyptus, eucalypt, eucalyptus tree].
Eucharis (n.) (Bot.) A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.
Eucharist (n.) 【宗】聖餐；聖體 The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving. [Obs.]
Eucharist (n.) (Eccl.) The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion. -- See {Sacrament}. Eucharistic
Eucharist (n.) A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine [syn: {Holy Eucharist}, {Eucharist}, {sacrament of the Eucharist}, {Holy Sacrament}, {Liturgy}, {Eucharistic liturgy}, {Lord's Supper}].
Eucharist (n.) [ S or U ] (Specialized) （基督教）聖餐儀式；聖餐中的麵包和葡萄酒 The Christian ceremony based on Jesus Christ's last meal with his disciples (= the first twelve men who believed in him) or the holy bread and wine used in this ceremony.
See also:
Communion (n.) [ U ] (Formal) （思想感情的）交流，溝通，交融 A close relationship with someone in which feelings and thoughts are exchanged.
// He found spiritual communion with her.
// He lived in close communion with nature/ God.
Communion (n.) [ C, + sing/ pl. verb ] (Literary) 派別；團體；（尤指）教會，教派 A group of people who are united by the same, especially religious, beliefs.
// The author has a vision of an emerging worldwide Christian communion.
Communion (n.) [ U ] (Formal Holy Communion) （基督教教會的）聖餐（儀式） A Christian ceremony based on Jesus' last meal with his disciples (= the twelve men who first believed in him).
Eucharistic (a.) Alt. of Eucharistical
Eucharistical (a.) Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing. [Obs.]
The eucharistical part of our daily devotions. -- Ray.
Eucharistical (a.) 聖餐的；聖體的 Pertaining to the Lord's Supper. "The eucharistic sacrament." -- Sir. G. C. Lewis.
Euchite (n.) One who resolves religion into prayer. [Obs.] -- Gauden.
Euchloric (a.) (Chem.) Relating to, or consisting of, euchlorine; as, euchloric gas. -- Davy. [archaic]
Euchlorine (n.) (Chem.) A yellow or greenish yellow gas, first prepared by Davy, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine. Euchologion
Euchologion (n.) Alt. of Euchology
Euchology (n.) (Eccl.) A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.
Euchologue (n.) Euchology. [R.]
Euchre (n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.
Euchre (v. t.) To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump.
Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme. [Slang.]
Euchre (n.) A card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand [syn: euchre, five hundred].
Euchroic (a.) (Chem.) Having a fine color.
Euchroic acid (Chem.), An organic, imide acid, obtained as a colorless crystalline substance, C12H4N2O8 by heating an ammonium salt of mellitic acid. By reduction it is changed to a dark blue substance (euchrone), -- hence its name.
Euchroite (n.) (Min.) A mineral occurring in transparent emerald green crystals. It is hydrous arseniate of copper.
Euchrone (n.) (Chem.) A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.
Euchymy (n.) (Med.) A good state of the blood and other fluids of the body.
Euclase (n.) (Min.) A brittle gem occurring in light green, transparent crystals, affording a brilliant clinodiagonal cleavage. It is a silicate of alumina and glucina.
Euclid (n.) A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.
Euclid (n.) Greek geometer (3rd century BC).
Euclid
Ottawa Euclid
(Named after the Greek geometer, fl ca 300 BC.) A Pascal descendant for development of verifiable system software. No goto, no side effects, no global assignments, no functional arguments, no nested procedures, no floats, no enumeration types. Pointers are treated as indices of special arrays called collections. To prevent aliasing, Euclid forbids any overlap in the list of actual parameters of a procedure. Each procedure gives an imports list, and the compiler determines the identifiers that are implicitly imported. Iterators.
Ottawa Euclid is a variant.
["Report on the Programming Language Euclid", B.W. Lampson et al, SIGPLAN Notices 12(2):1-79, Feb 1977].
(1998-11-23)
Euclid, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 52717
Housing Units (2000): 26123
Land area (2000): 10.707882 sq. miles (27.733286 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.858078 sq. miles (2.222413 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.565960 sq. miles (29.955699 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25704
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.595563 N, 81.519176 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44117
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Euclid, OH
Euclid
Euclidian (n.) Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid.
Euclidian space (Geom.), The kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also flat space, and homaloidal space.
Euclidian (a.) Relating to geometry as developed by Euclid; "Euclidian geometry" [syn: euclidian, euclidean].
Eucopepoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group which includes the typical copepods and the lerneans.
Eucrasy () (Med.) Such a due mixture of qualities in bodies as constitutes health or soundness. --Quincy.
Euctical () Expecting a wish; supplicatory. [R.]
Sacrifices . . . distinguished into expiatory, euctical, and eucharistical. -- Bp. Law. Eudemon
Eudemon (n.) Alt. of Eudaemon
Eudaemon (n.) A good angel. -- Southey. Eudemonics
Eudaemon (n.) A benevolent spirit [syn: eudemon, eudaemon, good spirit] [ant: cacodaemon, cacodemon].
Eudemonics (n.) Alt. of Eudaemonics
Eudaemonics (n.) That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics. -- J. Grote. Eudemonism
Eudemonism (n.) Alt. of Eudaemonism
Eudaemonism (n.) That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well-being. Eudemonist
Eudemonist (n.) Alt. of Eudaemonist
Eudaemonist (n.) One who believes in eudemonism.
I am too much of a eud[ae]monist; I hanker too much after a state of happiness both for myself and others. -- De Quincey. Eudemonistic
Eudemonistic (a.) Alt. of Eudaemonistic
Eudaemonistic (a.) Of or pertaining to eudemonism. Eudemonistical
Eudemonistical (a.) Alt. of Eudaemonistical
Eudaemonistical (a.) Eudemonistic.
Eudialyte (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.
Eudiometer (n.) (Chem.) An instrument for the volumetric measurement of gases; -- so named because frequently used to determine the purity of the air.
Note: It usually consists of a finely graduated and calibrated glass tube, open at one end, the bottom; and having near the top a pair of platinum wires fused in, to allow the passage of an electric spark, as the process involves the explosion and combustion of one of the ingredients to be determined. The operation is conducted in a trough of mercury, or sometimes over water. Cf. Burette. Ure's eudiometer has the tube bent in the form of the letter. U. Eudiometric
Eudiometer (n.) Measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases
Eudiometric (a.) Alt. of Eudiometrical
Eudiometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a eudiometer; as, eudiometrical experiments or results.
Eudiometry (n.) (Chem.) The art or process of determining the constituents of a gaseous mixture by means of the eudiometer, or for ascertaining the purity of the air or the amount of oxygen in it.
Eudipleura (n. pl.) (Biol.) The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. -- Syd. Soc. Lex.
Eudoxian (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Eudoxius, patriarch of Antioch and Constantinople in the 4th century, and a celebrated defender of the doctrines of Arius.
Euganoidei (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group which includes the bony ganoids, as the gar pikes.
Euge (n.) Applause. [Obs.] -- Hammond.
Eugenia (n.) (Bot.) A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees which produce allspice and cloves of commerce.
Eugenia (n.) Tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood [syn: Eugenia, genus Eugenia].
Eugenic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cloves; as, eugenic acid.
Compare: Eugenol
Eugenol (n.) (Chem.) 【化】丁香油酚；丁香酸 A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called Eugenic acid. （丁香酚；丁香油酚；丁香油精；丙烯基甲氧苯酚）
It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves.
Eugenic (a.) Well-born; of high birth. -- Atlantic Monthly.
Eugenic (a.) 優生（學）的 Pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced [ant: cacogenic, dysgenic].
Eugenics (n.) 優生學 The science of improving stock, whether human or animal. -- F. Galton.
Eugenics (n.) The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) [ant: cacogenics, dysgenics].
Eugenin (n.) (Chem.) 丁香寧 A colorless, crystalline substance extracted from oil of cloves; -- called also clove camphor.
Eugenol (n.) (Chem.) 丁香油 A colorless, aromatic, liquid hydrocarbon, C10H12O2 resembling the phenols, and hence also called eugenic acid. It is found in the oils of pimento and cloves.
Eugeny () Nobleness of birth. [Obs.] Eugetic
Eugetic (a.) Alt. of Eugetinic
Eugetinic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, eugenol; as, eugetic acid.
Eugh (n.) The yew. [Obs.] -- Dryden. Eugubian
Eugubian (a.) Alt. of Eugubine
Eugubine (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient town of Eugubium (now Gubbio); as, the Eugubine tablets, or tables, or inscriptions.
Euharmonic (a.) (Mus.) Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.