Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 212
Symbolize (v. i.) To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
Symbolize (v. t.) To make to agree in properties or qualities.
Symbolize (v. t.) To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic.
Symbolize (v. t.) To represent by a symbol or symbols.
Symbolizer (n.) One who symbolizes.
Symbological (a.) Pertaining to a symbology; versed in, or characterized by, symbology.
Symbologist (n.) One who practices, or who is versed in, symbology.
Symbology (n.) The art of expressing by symbols.
Symbranchii (n. pl.) An order of slender eel-like fishes having the gill openings confluent beneath the neck. The pectoral arch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary. Called also Symbranchia.
Symmetral (a.) Commensurable; symmetrical.
Symmetrian (n.) One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.
Symmetric (a.) Symmetrical.
Symmetrical (a.) 對稱的；勻稱的；整齊的 Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.
Symmetrical (a.) (Biol.) Having the organs or parts of one side corresponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry. See {Symmetry}, 2.
Symmetrical (a.) (Bot.) Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.
Symmetrical (a.) (Bot.) Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.
Symmetrical (a.) (Math.) Having a common measure; commensurable.
Symmetrical (a.) (Math.) Having corresponding parts or relations.
Note: A curve or a plane figure is symmetrical with respect to a given line, and a line, surface, or solid with respect to a plane, when for each point on one side of the line or plane there is a corresponding point on the other side, so situated that the line joining the two corresponding points is perpendicular to the line or plane and is bisected by it. Two solids are symmetrical when they are so situated with respect to an intervening plane that the several points of their surfaces thus correspond to each other in position and distance. In analysis, an expression is symmetrical with respect to several letters when any two of them may change places without affecting the expression; as, the expression a^{2b + ab^{2} + a^{2}c + ac^{2} + b^{2c + bc^{2}, is symmetrical with respect to the letters a, b, c. -- Sym*met"ric*al*ly, adv. -- Sym*met"ric*al*ness, n.
Symmetrical (a.) Having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts [syn: {symmetrical}, {symmetric}] [ant: {asymmetric}, {asymmetrical}].
Symmetrical (a.) Exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities [syn: {harmonious}, {proportionate}, {symmetrical}].
Symmetrically (adv.) 相稱性地；對稱地；勻稱地 In a symmetrical manner; "they were symmetrically arranged" [ant: Asymmetrically].
Symmetrician (n.) Same as Symmetrian. [R.] -- Holinshed.
Symmetrian (n.) One eminently studious of symmetry of parts. [R.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Symmetrist (n.) One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.
Compare: Eminently
Eminently (adv.) 突出地；極好地 [Often as submodifier] To a notable degree; very.
‘An eminently readable textbook.’
Compare: Submodifier
Submodifier (n.) 次修飾語 An adverb used in front of an adjective or another adverb to modify its meaning, for example very in very cold or unusually in an unusually large house.
Symmetrized (imp. & p. p.) of Symmetrize.
Symmetrizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Symmetrize.
Symmetrize (v. t.) To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.
Symmetry (n.) 對稱，調和，勻稱 A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.
Symmetry (n.) The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.
Symmetry (n.) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.
Symmetry (n.) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity.
Symmetry (n.) (mathematics) An attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane [syn: {symmetry}, {symmetricalness}, {correspondence}, {balance}] [ant: {asymmetry}, {dissymmetry}, {imbalance}].
Symmetry (n.) Balance among the parts of something [syn: {symmetry}, {proportion}] [ant: {disproportion}].
Symmetry (n.) (Physics) The property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions [syn: {isotropy}, {symmetry}] [ant: {anisotropy}].
Sympathetic (a.) 同情的；有同情心的；贊同的，支持的 [F] [（+to/ towards）]；合意的；和諧的；交感神經的；交感性的；【物】共振的，共鳴的 Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
Sympathetic (a.) Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.
Sympathetic (a.) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
Sympathetic (a.) Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber.
Sympathetic nervous system (n.) 交感神經；交感神經系統 The part of the autonomic nervous system that tends to act in opposition to the parasympathetic nervous system, as by speeding up the heartbeat and causing contraction of the blood vessels. It regulates the function of the sweat glands and stimulates the secretion of glucose in the liver. The sympathetic nervous system is activated especially under conditions of stress. Compare Parasympathetic nervous system.
Sympathetical (a.) Sympathetic.
Sympathetically (adv.) In a sympathetic manner.
Sympathetically (adv.) With respect to the sympathetic nervous system; "the stimulus acted sympathetically."
Sympathetically (adv.) In a sympathetic manner; "she listened to him sympathetically" [syn: sympathetically, empathetically] [ant: unsympathetically].
Sympathist (n.) One who sympathizes; a sympathizer. [R.] -- Coleridge.
Sympathized (imp. & p. p.) of Sympathize.
Sympathizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sympathize.
Sympathize (v. i.) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. -- Buckminster.
Sympathize (v. i.) To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures. -- Addison.
Sympathize (v. i.) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. -- Dryden.
Sympathize (v. t.) To experience together. [Obs.] "This sympathized . . . error." -- Shak.
Sympathize (v. t.) To ansew to; to correspond to. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Sympathize (v.) Share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of [syn: sympathize, sympathise].
Sympathize (v.) Be understanding of; "You don't need to explain -- I understand!" [syn: sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise, understand].
Sympathize (v.) To feel or express sympathy or compassion [syn: commiserate, sympathize, sympathise].
Sympathizer (n.) One who sympathizes.
Sympathizer (n.) Commiserates with someone who has had misfortune [syn: sympathizer, sympathiser, comforter].
Sympathizer (n.) Someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful [syn: sympathizer, sympathiser, well-wisher].
Sympathies (n. pl. ) of Sympathy.
Sympathy (n.) 同情，贊同，同感，慰問，吊唁 Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
Sympathy (n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
Sympathy (n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
Sympathy (n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.
Sympathy (n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
Sympathy (n.) (Understanding) (B2) [ U ] (An expression of) 同情（心），理解 Understanding and care for someone else's suffering.
// The president has sent a message of sympathy to the relatives of the dead soldiers.
// I don't have much sympathy for her - I think she's brought her troubles on herself.
Compare: Empathy
Empathy (n.) [ U ] (C2) 同情；同感，共鳴 The ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation.
Offer/ send your sympathies (Formal) 慰問，弔唁，弔慰 To express your sadness to someone because a relation or friend of theirs has recently died.
// I went along to the funeral in order to offer my sympathies.
Sympathy (n.) (Support) (C2) [ U ] 支持，贊同 Support and agreement.
// I must confess I have some sympathy with his views.
Sympathies (n. pl.) 支持 Support.
// Of those people questioned, 93 percent said their sympathies were with the teachers.
He is known to have right-wing sympathies.
Come out in sympathy with sb (UK) 參加罷工以支持（某人） To stop working in order to show your support for other workers who are on strike.
// The railway workers came out in sympathy with the miners.
Sympetalous (a.) (Bot.) Having the petals united; gamopetalous.
Sympetalous (a.) Having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel [syn: gamopetalous, sympetalous].
Symphonic (a.) Symphonious.
Symphonic (a.) (Mus.) Relating to, or in the manner of, symphony; as, the symphonic form or style of composition.
Symphonic (a.) Relating to or characteristic or suggestive of a symphony; "symphonic choir."
Symphonic (a.) Harmonious in sound; "the symphonic hum of a million insects" [syn: symphonic, symphonious].
Symphonious (a.) Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious.
Followed with acclamation and the sound Symphonious of ten thousand harps. -- Milton.
Symphonious (a.) (Mus.) Symphonic.
Symphonious (a.) Harmonious in sound; "the symphonic hum of a million insects" [syn: symphonic, symphonious].
Symphonist (n.) A composer of symphonies.
Symphonist (n.) A composer of symphonies.
Symphonized (imp. & p. p.) of Symphonize.
Symphonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Symphonize.
Symphonize (v. i.) To agree; to be in harmony. [R.] -- Boyle.
Symphonize (v.) Play or sound together, in harmony [syn: symphonize, symphonise].
Symphonies (n. pl. ) of Symphony.
Symphony (n.) A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.
The trumpets sound, And warlike symphony in heard around. -- Dryden.
Symphony (n.) A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.
With harp and pipe and symphony. -- Chaucer.
Symphony (n.) (Mus.) An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.
Symphony (n.) (Mus.) An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.
Symphony (n.) A long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra [syn: symphony, symphonic music].
Symphony (n.) A large orchestra; can perform symphonies; "we heard the Vienna symphony" [syn: symphony orchestra, symphony, philharmonic].
Symphyla (n. pl.) An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.
Symphyseal (a.) Of or pertaining to to symphysis.
Symphyseotomy (n.) The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section.
Symphyses (n. pl. ) of Symphysis.
Symphysis (n.) An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.
Symphysis (n.) The union or coalescence of bones; also, the place of union or coalescence; as, the symphysis of the lower jaw. Cf. Articulation.
Symphysotomy (n.) Symphyseotomy.
Symphytism (n.) Coalescence; a growing into one with another word.
Sympiesometer (n.) A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.
Symplectic (a.) Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
Symplectic (n.) The symplectic bone.
Symploce (n.) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.
Sympode (n.) A sympodium.
Sympodial (a.) Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.
Sympodia (n. pl. ) of Sympodium.
Sympodium (n.) An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.
Symposiac (a.) Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.
Symposiac (n.) A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.
Symposiarch (n.) The master of a feast.
Symposiast (n.) One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.
Symposion (n.) A drinking together; a symposium.
Symposia (n. pl. ) of Symposium.
Symposium (n.) A drinking together; a merry feast. -- T. Warton.
Symposium (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
Symposium (n.) A meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations.
Symptom (n.) (Med.) Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.
Like the sick man, we are expiring with all sorts of good symptoms. -- Swift.
Symptom (n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.
Syn: Mark; note; sign; token; indication. Symptomatic
Symptom (n.) (Medicine) Any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease.
Symptom (n.) Anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence.
Symptomatic (a.) Alt. of Symptomatical.
Symptomatical (a.) Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.
Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. -- Macaulay.
Symptomatical (a.) According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases. -- Symp`tom*at"ic*al*ly, adv.
Symptomatology (n.) (Med.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
Note: It includes diagnosis, or the determination of the disease from its symptoms; and prognosis, or the determination of its probable course and event.
Syn- () A prefix meaning with, along with, together, at the same time. Syn- becomes sym- before p, b, and m, and syl- before l. Synacme
Compare: Trace
Trace (n.) [F. trace. See Trace, v. t. ] A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace. -- Milton.
Trace (n.) (Chem. & Min.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
Trace (n.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase. -- Pope.
Trace (n.) (Descriptive Geom. & Persp.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
Trace (n.) (Fort.) The ground plan of a work or works.
Syn.-Vestige; mark; token. See Vestige.
Compare: Calumniate
Calumniate (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Calumniated; p. pr. & vb. n. calumniating.] [L. calumniatus, p. p. of calumniari. See Calumny, and cf. Challenge, v. t.] To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel.
Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. -- Strype.
Syn. -- To asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.
Compare: Citadel
Citadel (n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Syn. -- Stronghold. See Fortress.
Synacme (n.) Alt. of Synacmy.
Synacmy (n.) (Bot.) Same as Synanthesis. Synaeresis
Synaeresis (n.) Alt. of Syneresis.
Syneresis (n.) (Gram.) The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.
Synagogical (a.) Of or pertaining to a synagogue.