Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 60

Exanimate (v. t.) To deprive of animation or of life. [Obs.]

Exanimate (a.) 無生氣的;已死的 Lifeless; dead. [R.] "Carcasses exanimate". -- Spenser.

Exanimate (a.) Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. [R.]

"Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love". -- Thomson.

Exanimate (a.) Deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body" [syn: {lifeless}, {exanimate}].

Compare: Animation

Animation (n.) [Mass noun] 生氣,活潑,熱烈 [U];激勵;興奮 [U] [S1] The state of being full of life or vigour; liveliness.

They started talking with animation.

Animation (n.) (Archaic)  The state of being alive.

The body began to show tiny signs of animation.

Animation (n.) The technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the film is shown as a sequence.

A combination of live action with 3-D animation.

[Count noun] Animations as backdrops for live action.

Animation (n.) The manipulation of electronic images by means of a computer in order to create moving images.

Exanimation (n.) Deprivation of life or of spirits. [R.] -- Bailey.

Compare: Deprivation

Deprivation (n.)  [ C  or  U ]  (C2) 缺失,缺乏,匱乏 A  situation  in which you do not have things or  conditions that are usually  considered necessary  for a  pleasant  life.

// They used  sleep  deprivation as a  form of  torture.

// There is  awful  deprivation in the  shanty  towns.

// There were  food  shortages  and other deprivations during the Civil War.

Exanimous (a.) Lifeless; dead. [Obs.] -- Johnson.

Exannulate (a.) Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; -- said of certain genera of ferns.

Exanthem (n.) 【醫】疹;疹病 Same as {Exanthema}.

Exanthem (n.) Eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease [syn: {exanthem}, {exanthema}, {skin eruption}].

Exanthemata (n. pl.) of Exanthema

Exanthema (n.) (Med. ) [如天花;麻疹等] An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. -- Dunglison. Exanthematic

Exanthema (n.) Eruption on the skin occurring as a symptom of a disease [syn: {exanthem}, {exanthema}, {skin eruption}].

Exanthematic (a.) Alt. of Exanthematous.

Exanthematous (a.) Of, relating to, or characterized by, exanthema; efflorescent; as, an exanthematous eruption.

Exanthesis (n.) An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.

Exantlate (v. t.) To exhaust or wear out.

Exantlation (n.) Act of drawing out ; exhaustion.

Exarate (v. t.) To plow up; also, to engrave; to write. [Obs.] -- Blount.

Exarate (a.)   Grooved or furrowed.

Exarate (a.) (指蛹)觸角,足,翼等不與身體緊連的 Of a pupa :  having the appendages not cemented to the body. -- compare  obtect.

Exarate (a.) (Zoology) (Of the pupa of such insects as ants and ees) having the legs, wings antennae, etc. free and moable.

Exaration (n.) Act of plowing; also, act of writing. [Obs.] -- Bailey.

Exarch (n.) (東羅馬帝國的)總督;(東正教的)督;主教 A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

Exarch (n.) A bishop in one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in North America.

Exarch (n.) A bishop in eastern Christendom who holds a place below a patriarch but above a metropolitan.

Exarch (n.) A viceroy who governed a large province in the Roman Empire.

Compare: Viceroy

Viceroy (n.) (pl. Viceroys) [C](代表國王管轄行省或殖民地的)總督;(美洲產的)一種黑色蝴蝶 A ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign.

Viceroy (n.) The governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of a king or sovereign

Viceroy (n.) (Or  viceroy butterfly) A showy North American nymphalid butterfly (Limenitis archippus) closely mimicking the monarch in coloration but smaller.

Exarchate (n.) The office or the province of an exarch. -- Jer. Taylor.

Exarchate (n.) A diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church [syn: {eparchy}, {exarchate}].

Exarillate (a.) (Bot.) Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.

Exarticulate (a.) (Not  comparable) (Zoology)  Having but one joint; -- said of certain insects.

Exarticulation (n.) 脫臼 Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. -- Bailey.

Exsasperated (imp. & p. p.) of Exasperate.

Exasperating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exasperate.

Exasperate (v. t.) 使惱怒;激怒 [+by/ at];【古】使(疾病、痛苦等)加劇 To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.

To exsasperate them against the king of France. -- Addison.

Exasperate (v. t.) To make grievous, or more grievous or malignant; to aggravate; to imbitter; as, to exasperate enmity.

To exasperate the ways of death. -- Sir T. Browne.

Syn: To irritate; provoke. See {Irritate}.

Exasperate (a.) 被激怒的,惱怒的;【生物學】具硬突起的,(表面))粗糙的 Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. -- Mrs. Browning.

Exasperate (v.) Exasperate or irritate [syn: {exacerbate}, {exasperate}, {aggravate}].

Exasperate (v.) Make furious [syn: {infuriate}, {exasperate}, {incense}].

Exasperate (v.) Make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: {worsen}, {aggravate}, {exacerbate}, {exasperate}] [ant: {ameliorate}, {amend}, {better}, {improve}, {meliorate}].

Exasperater (n.) 激怒他人者 One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

Exasperation (n.) 惱怒;惹人惱怒的事;激怒 The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger.

Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. -- South.

Exasperation (n.) Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation. "Exasperation of the fits." -- Sir H. Wotton.

Exasperation (n.) An exasperated feeling of annoyance [syn: {aggravation}, {exasperation}].

Exasperation (n.) Actions that cause great irritation (or even anger).

Exaspidean (a.) 跗骨鞘 (Zoology) Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds.

Exauctorate (v. t.) See {Exauthorate}. [Obs.]

Exauctoration (n.) See {Exauthoration}.

Exaugurate (v. t.) To annul the consecration of; to secularize; to unhellow. [Obs.] -- Holland.

Exauguration (n.) The act of exaugurating; desecration. [Obs.]

Exauthorate (v. t.) To deprive of authority or office; to depose; to discharge. [Obs.]

Exauthorated for their unworthiness. -- Jer. Taylor.

Exauthoration (n.) Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.

Exauthorize (v. t.) To deprive of authority. [Obs.] -- Selden.

Excalceate (v. t.) To deprive of shoes.

Excalceation (n.) The act of depriving or divesting of shoes.

Excalfaction (n.) A heating or warming; calefaction.

Excalfactive (a.) Serving to heat; warming.

Excalfactory (a.) Heating; warming.

Excalibur (n.) The name of King Arthur's mythical sword.

Excamb (v. t.) Alt. of Excambie.

Excambie (v. t.) To exchange; -- used with reference to transfers of land.

Excambion (n.) Alt. of Excambium.

Excambium (n.) Exchange; barter; -- used commonly of lands.

Excandescence (n.) A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence.

Excandescence (n.) Violent anger; a growing angry.

Excandescent (a.) White or glowing with heat.

Excantation (n.) Disenchantment by a countercharm.

Excarnate (v. t.) To deprive or clear of flesh.

Excarnation (n.) The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

Excarnificate (v. t.) To clear of flesh; to excarnate.

Excarnification (n.) The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation.

Excavated (imp. & p. p.) of Excavate.

Excavating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excavate.

Excavate (v. t.) 挖掘;發掘;開鑿;挖掘;發掘 To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.

Excavate (v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

Excavate (v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.

Excavation (n.) 挖掘,挖掘的洞,發掘 The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

Excavation (n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

Excavation (n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.

Excavation (n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

Excavator (n.) 開鑿者;挖掘機;發掘者 One who, or that which, excavates or hollows out; a machine, as a dredging machine, or a tool, for excavating.

Excave (v. t.) To excavate.

Excecate (v. t.) To blind.

Excecation (n.) The act of making blind.

Excedent (v. t.) Excess.

Exceeded (imp. & p. p.) of Exceed.

Exceeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exceed.

Exceed (v. t.) 超過,勝過,超越 To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.

Exceed (v. i.) To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.

Exceed (v. i.) To be more or greater; to be paramount.

Exceedable (a.) Capable of exceeding or surpassing.

Exceeder (n.) One who exceeds.

Exceeding (a.) More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless.

Exceeding (adv.) In a very great degree; extremely; exceedingly.

Exceedingly (adv.) To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. It signifies more than very.

Exceedingly (adv.) (Formal) 非常;特別;極其 To a very great degree. [syn: {Extremely}].

// He was clever, handsome, and exceedingly rich.

Excelled (imp. & p. p.) of Excel.

Excelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excel.

Excel (v. t.) 勝過,擅長,優於;勝過其他 To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

Excelling others, these were great; Thou, greater still, must these excel. -- Prior.

I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. -- Eccl. ii. 13.

Excel (v. t.) To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.

She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood. --Milton.

Excel (v. i.) To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. -- Gen. xlix. 4.

Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel. -- Pope.

Excel (v.) Distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math" [syn: excel, stand out, surpass].

Microsoft Excel

Excel, () A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.  Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. (1997-01-14)

Excel, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama

Population (2000): 582

Housing Units (2000): 253

Land area (2000): 1.649436 sq. miles (4.272020 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.649436 sq. miles (4.272020 sq. km)

FIPS code: 24880

Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01

Location: 31.427308 N, 87.340587 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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

Headwords:

Excel, AL

Excel

Excelled (Use  excelled  in a sentence) (v.) Excelled is defined as done very well at, or been superior to others.

// If you always got A's in your science classes at school, this is an example of when you excelled at science.

Excellence (n.)  優秀;傑出;卓越 [U] [+in/ at];長處;優點 [C] The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

Consider first that great Or bright infers not excellence. -- Milton.

Excellence (n.) An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

With every excellence refined. -- Beattie.

Excellence (n.) A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form {excellency}.

I do greet your excellence With letters of commission from the king. -- Shak.

Syn: Superiority; pre["e]minence; perfection; worth; goodness; purity; greatness.

Excellence (n.) The quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree.

Excellence (n.) An outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine" [syn: {excellence}, {excellency}].

Excellencies (n. pl. ) of Excellency.

Excellency (n.) (大寫)閣下(對大使、大臣、總督、主教等的尊稱)[C];優點;美德 [P] Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

His excellency is over Israel. -- Ps. lxviii. 34.

Extinguish in men the sense of their own excellency. -- Hooker.

Excellency (n.) A title of honor given to certain high dignitaries, esp. to viceroys, ministers, and ambassadors, to English colonial governors, etc. It was formerly sometimes given to kings and princes.

Excellency (n.) A title used to address dignitaries (such as ambassadors or governors); usually preceded by `Your' or `His' or `Her'; "Your Excellency".

Excellency (n.) An outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine" [syn: excellence, excellency].

Excellent (a.) 出色的;傑出的;優等的 [Z] Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action.

To love . . . What I see excellent in good or fair. -- Milton.

Excellent (a.) Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance. [Obs. or Ironical] "An excellent hypocrite." -- Hume.

Their sorrows are most excellent. -- Beau. & Fl.

Syn: Worthy; choice; prime; valuable; select; exquisite; transcendent; admirable; worthy.

Excellent (adv.) Excellently; eminently; exceedingly. [Obs.] "This comes off well and excellent." -- Shak.

Excellent (a.) Very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first-class mind" [syn: excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendid].

Excellently (adv.) In an excellent manner; well in a high degree.

Excellently (adv.) In a high or superior degree; -- in this literal use, not implying worthiness. [Obs.]

When the whole heart is excellently sorry. -- J. Fletcher.

Excellently (adv.) Extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously" [syn: excellently, magnificently, splendidly, famously].

Excelsior (n.) A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

Excelsior (a.) More lofty; still higher; ever upward.

Excelsior (n.) Thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing [syn: excelsior, wood shavings].

Excelsior, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota

Population (2000): 2393

Housing Units (2000): 1254

Land area (2000): 0.625972 sq. miles (1.621260 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.047039 sq. miles (0.121831 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.673011 sq. miles (1.743091 sq. km)

FIPS code: 20078

Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27

Location: 44.900616 N, 93.566740 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 55331

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

Headwords:

Excelsior, MN

Excelsior

Excentral (a.) (Bot.) Out of the center. Excentric

Excentric (a.) Alt. of Excentrical

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