Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 48
Semisavage (a.) Half savage.
Semisavage (n.) One who is half savage.
Semi-Saxon (a.) Half Saxon; -- specifically applied to the language intermediate between Saxon and English, belonging to the period 1150-1250.
Semisextile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.
Semisolid (a.) Partially solid.
Semisoun (n.) A half sound; a low tone.
Semispheric (a.) Alt. of Semispherical.
Semispherical (a.) Having the figure of a half sphere.
Semispheroidal (a.) Formed like a half spheroid.
Semisteel (n.) Puddled steel.
Semitae (n. pl. ) of Semita.
Semita (n.) A fasciole of a spatangoid sea urchin.
Semitangent (n.) The tangent of half an arc.
Semite (n.) One belonging to the Semitic race. Also used adjectively.
Semiterete (a.) Half terete.
Semitertian (a.) Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.
Semitertian (n.) An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.
Semitic (a.) Of or pertaining to Shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the Caucasian race which includes the Arabs, Jews, and related races.
Semitic languages (n.) 閃米語族；閃語族又稱閃米語族或塞姆語族 The Semitic languages [2] [3] are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family originating in the Middle East. Semitic languages are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of Western Asia, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, as well as in often large expatriate communities in North America and Europe, with smaller communities in the Caucasus and Central Asia. The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen School of History, [4] who derived the name from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis.
The most widely spoken Semitic languages today are (numbers given are for native speakers only) Arabic (300 million), [5] Amharic (22 million), [6] Tigrinya (7 million), [7] Hebrew (unknown; 5 million native and non-native L1 speakers), [8]Tigre (~1.05), Aramaic (575,000 to 1 million largely Assyrian fluent speakers) [9] [10] [11] and Maltese (520,000 speakers). [12]
Semitic languages occur in written form from a very early historical date, with East Semitic Akkadian and Eblaite texts (written in a script adapted from Sumerian cuneiform) appearing from the 29th century BCE and the 25th century BCE in Mesopotamia and the northern Levant respectively. The only earlier attested languages are Sumerian, Elamite (both language isolates), Egyptian and unclassified Lullubi. However, most scripts used to write Semitic languages are abjads – a type of alphabetic script that omits some or all of the vowels, which is feasible for these languages because the consonants in the Semitic languages are the primary carriers of meaning.
Among them are the Ugaritic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and South Arabian alphabets. The Ge'ez script, used initially in Yemen, and later also for writing the Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea, is technically an abugida – a modified abjad in which vowels are notated using diacritic marks added to the consonants at all times, in contrast with other Semitic languages which indicate diacritics based on need or for introductory purposes. Maltese is the only Semitic language written in the Latin script and the only Semitic language to be an official language of the European Union.
The Semitic languages are notable for their nonconcatenative morphology. That is, word roots are not themselves syllables or words, but instead are isolated sets of consonants (usually three, making a so-called triliteral root). Words are composed out of roots not so much by adding prefixes or suffixes, but rather by filling in the vowels between the root consonants (although prefixes and suffixes are often added as well). For example, in Arabic, the root meaning "write" has the form k-t-b. From this root, words are formed by filling in the vowels and sometimes adding additional consonants, e.g. كتاب kitāb "book", كتب kutub "books", كاتب kātib "writer", كتّاب kuttāb "writers", كتب kataba "he wrote", يكتب yaktubu "he writes", etc.
Semitism (n.) A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.
Semitone (n.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
Semitonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.
Semitransept (n.) The half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.
Semitranslucent (a.) Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.
Semitransparency (n.) Imperfect or partial transparency.
Semitransparent (a.) Half or imperfectly transparent.
Semiverticillate (a.) Partially verticillate.
Semivif (a.) Only half alive.
Semivitreous (a.) Partially vitreous.
Semivitrification (n.) The quality or state of being semivitrified.
Semivitrification (n.) A substance imperfectly vitrified.
Semivitrified (a.) Half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.
Semivocal (a.) Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
Semivowel (n.) A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.
Semivowel (n.) The sign or letter representing such a sound.
Semiweekly (a.) Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.
Semiweekly (n.) That which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical.
Semiweekly (adv.) At intervals of half a week each.
Semolella (n.) See Semolina.
Semolina (n.) The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.
Semolino (n.) Same as Semolina.
Semoule (n.) Same as Semolina.
Sempervirent (a.) Always fresh; evergreen.
Sempervive (n.) The houseleek.
Sempervivum (n.) A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.
Sempiternal (a.) 永久的；永恆的 Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end. -- Sir M. Hale.
Sempiternal (a.) Without beginning or end; eternal. --Blackmore.
Sempiternal (a.) Having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth" [syn: dateless, endless, sempiternal].
Sempiterne (a.) Sempiternal.
Sempiternity (n.) Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.
Sempre (adv.) Always; throughout; as, sempre piano, always soft.
Sempster (n.) A seamster.
Sempstress (n.) A seamstress.
Sempstressy (n.) Seamstressy.
Semster (n.) A seamster.
Semuncia (n.) A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound.
Sen (n.) A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.
Sen (adv., prep., & conj.) Since.
Senary (a.) Of six; belonging to six; containing six.
Senate (n.) 參議院，上議院，評議會 An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
Senate (n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.
Senate (n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.
Senate (n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.
Senate (n.) The governing body
of the Universities of Cambridge and
Senate (n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.
Senator (n.) 參議院議員，上議院議員，現任參議員 A member of a senate.
Senator (n.) A member of the king's council; a king's councilor.
Senator (n.) [ C ] (Written abbreviation Sen.) 參議員A politician who has been elected to a Senate.
// Only two senators voted against the bill.
// [ As form of address ] It's a pleasure to meet you, Senator.
Senatorial (a.) 參議院的，參議員的 Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.
Senatorial (a.) Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators; as, the senatorial districts of a State.
Senatorially (adv.) In a senatorial manner.
Senatorian (a.) Senatorial.
Senatorious (a.) Senatorial.
Senatorship (n.) 參議員之職 The office or dignity of a senator.
Senatusconsult (n.) A decree of the Roman senate.
Sent (imp. & p. p.) of Send.
Sending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Send.
Send (v. t.) 送給，傳,寄，派遣，發射，使陷於 To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. -- Jer. xxiii. 21.
I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. -- John viii. 42.
Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the message requires. -- Swift.
Send (v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
He . . . sent letters by posts on horseback. -- Esther viii. 10.
O send out thy light an thy truth; let them lead me. -- Ps. xliii. 3.
Send (v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
Send (v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition. "God send him well!" -Shak.
The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke. -- Deut. xxviii. 20.
And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. -- Matt. v. 45.
God send your mission may bring back peace. -- Sir W. Scott.
Send (v. i.) 寄信，派人，播送 To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? -- 2 Kings vi. 32.
Send (v. i.) (Naut.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts. --Totten.
To send for, To request or require by message to come or be brought.
Send (n.) (Naut.) 波浪的推進力；船受浪推動向上抬起 The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily. [Written also scend.] --W. C. Russell. "The send of the sea". -- Longfellow.
Send (v.) Cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation" [syn: send, direct].
Send (v.) To cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place; "He had sent the dispatches downtown to the proper people and had slept" [syn: send, send out].
Send (v.) Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" [syn: mail, post, send].
Send (v.) Transport commercially [syn: transport, send, ship].
Send (v.) Assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place].
Send (v.) Transfer; "The spy sent the classified information off to Russia" [syn: send, get off, send off].
Send (v.) Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge].
Send (v.) Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit].
Sendai (n.)
A city of northeast
Sendal (n.) A light thin stuff of silk.
Sender (n.) One who sends.
Senecas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Western New York. This tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the Five Nations.
Senecio (n.) (Bot.) 千里光（學名：Senecio scandens）是菊科千里光屬的植物。別名九里明、蔓黃菀（台灣植物志）。形態[編輯]
多年生草本。木質細長的莖呈攀援狀，上部多分枝。橢圓狀三角形或卵狀披針形的葉子互生，邊緣常有淺齒，葉子的下部常有2～4對深裂片。頭狀花序頂生，排列成傘房花序狀，秋季開黃色花，舌狀花8～9枚，管狀花多數。圓柱形瘦果，有縱溝和短毛。
A very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.
Senecio (n.) Enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds [syn: Senecio, genus Senecio].
Senectitude (n.) Old age. [R.] "Senectitude, weary of its toils." -- H. Miller.
Senega (n.) (Med.) [植] 美遠志，美遠志根 (可提取祛痰藥) Seneca root.
Senega (n.) Dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin.
Senega (n.) Perennial bushy herb of central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest; similar to Seneca snakeroot [syn: senega, Polygala alba].
Seneca root (n.) (pl. Seneca roots) A plant of the species Polygala senega. (Synonyms) (Polygala senega): Seneca snakeroot, senega snakeroot, senegaroot, rattlesnake root, mountain flax.
Senega (n.) The dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
Senega (n.) The plant itself.
Senegal (n.) Gum senegal. See under Gum.
Senegal (n.) 塞內加爾 [國名] A republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960 [syn: {Senegal}, {Republic of Senegal}].
Senegal (n.) 塞內加爾 Senegal officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania in the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast, and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal also borders The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country. Senegal also shares a maritime border with Cape Verde. Senegal's economic and political capital is Dakar. It is the westernmost country in the mainland of the Old World, or Afro-Eurasia,[9] and owes its name to the Senegal River, which borders it to the east and north. The name "Senegal" comes from the Wolof "Sunuu Gaal", which means "Our Boat". Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 square kilometres (76,000 sq mi) and has an estimated population of about 15 million[2]. The climate is Sahelian, but there is a rainy season.
Senegin (n.) 【醫】 遠志皂甙；遠志精 A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.
Senescence (n.) The state of growing old; decay by time.
Senescence (n.) The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age [syn: aging, ageing, senescence].
Senescence (n.) The property characteristic of old age [syn: agedness, senescence].
Senescent (a.) Growing old; decaying with the lapse of time. "The night was senescent." -- Poe. "With too senescent air." -- Lowell.
Senescent (a.) Growing old [syn: aging, ageing, senescent].
Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.
Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. -- Milton.
Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. -- Hallam.
Seneschal (n.) The chief steward or butler of a great household [syn: major-domo, seneschal].
Seneschalship (n.) The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal.
Senge (v. t.) To singe. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Sengreen (n.) (Bot.) The houseleek.
Senile (a.) 高齡的，衰老的，高齡所致的，老年的 Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.
Senility (n.) 高齡，老邁，老態龍鐘 The quality or state of being senile; old age.
Senior (a.) 年長的；資格較老的 More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
Senior (a.) Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
Senior (n.) 地位較高的年長者，前輩；大學高年級學生 A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.