Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter V - Page 7
Vat (n.) A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
Vat (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A vessel for holding holy water.
Vatted (imp. & p. p.) of Vat.
Vatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vat.
Vat (v. t.) 把……盛入大桶；在大桶裡染（處理） To put or transfer into a vat.
VAT (n.) 增值稅 A tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production [syn: VAT, Value-added tax, ad valorem tax].
Vat (n.) （染色、釀造等用的）大桶；大盆；瓮；缸 [C] A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [syn: tub, vat].
VAT, () [UDF] Virtual Allocation Table (UDF, CD-R)
Vatfuls (n. pl. ) of Vatful.
Vatful (n.) As much as a vat will hold; enough to fill a vat.
Vatic (a.) Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical].
Vatic (a.) 預言的 Prophetic, oracular.
Vatical (a.) Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical.
Vatican
(n.) 梵蒂岡宮；羅馬教廷 A magnificent
assemblage of buildings at
Note: The word is often used to indicate the papal authority.
Thunders of the Vatican, the anathemas, or denunciations, of the pope.
Vatican (n.) The residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City [syn: Vatican, Vatican Palace].
Vaticanism (n.) 教皇絕對主義 The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; -- a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics.
Vaticanist (n.) 梵蒂岡主義者；教皇至上論者 One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.
Vaticide (n.) The murder, or the murderer, of a prophet. "The caitiff vaticide." -- Pope.
Vaticinal (a.) Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic. -- T. Warton.
Vaticinate (v. i. & t.) To prophesy; to foretell; to practice prediction; to utter prophecies.
Vaticinate (v.) Predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration [syn: prophesy, vaticinate].
Vaticinate (v.) Foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy.
Vaticination (n.) Prediction; prophecy.
It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous, vaticination. -- I. Taylor.
Vaticination (n.) Knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) [syn: prophecy, prognostication, vaticination].
Vaticinator (n.) [L.] One who vaticinates; a prophet.
Vaticine (n.) A prediction; a vaticination. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Vaudeville (n.) A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
Vaudeville (n.) A theatrical piece, usually a comedy, the dialogue of which is intermingled with light or satirical songs, set to familiar airs.
The early vaudeville, which is the forerunner of the opera bouffe, was light, graceful, and piquant. -- Johnson's Cyc.
Vaudeville (n.) A variety show when performed live in a theater (see above); as, to play in vaudeville; a vaudeville actor.
Vaudeville (n.) A variety show with songs and comic acts etc. [syn: vaudeville, music hall].
Vaudois (n. sing. & pl.) [F.] An inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of the Swiss canton of Vaud.
Vaudois (n. sing. & pl.) [F.] A modern name of the Waldenses.
Vaudois (n.) A Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century [syn: Waldenses, Vaudois].
Vaudoux (n. & a.) See Voodoo.
Vault (n.) (Arch.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. -- Gray.
Vault (n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar. "Charnel vaults." -- Milton.
The silent vaults of death. -- Sandys.
To banish rats that haunt our vault. -- Swift.
Vault (n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.
That heaven's vault should crack. -- Shak.
Vault (n.) A leap or bound. Specifically:
Vault (n.) (Man.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
Vault (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
Note:
The l in this word was formerly often suppressed in pronunciation.
Barrel vault, Cradle vault, Cylindrical vault, or Wagon
vault (Arch.), A
kind of vault having two parallel abutments, and the same section
or profile at all points.
It may be rampant, as over a staircase (see Rampant vault, under Rampant), or curved in plan, as around the apse of a church.
Coved vault. (Arch.) See under 1st Cove, v. t.
Groined vault (Arch.), A vault having groins, that is, one in which different cylindrical surfaces intersect one another, as distinguished from a barrel, or wagon, vault.
Rampant vault. (Arch.) See under Rampant.
Ribbed vault (Arch.), A vault differing from others in having solid ribs which bear the weight of the vaulted surface. True Gothic vaults are of this character.
Vault light, A partly glazed plate inserted in a pavement or ceiling to admit light to a vault below.
Vaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Vault.
Vaulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vault.
Vault (v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.
The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. -- Sir W. Scott.
Vault (v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. -- Webster (1623).
Vault (v. i.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. -- Shak.
Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree. -- Dryden.
Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth. -- Addison.
Vault (v. i.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
Vault (n.) A burial chamber (usually underground) [syn: vault, burial vault].
Vault (n.) A strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables [syn: vault, bank vault].
Vault (n.) An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof.
Vault (n.) The act of jumping over an obstacle [syn: vault, hurdle].
Vault (v.) Jump across or leap over (an obstacle) [syn: vault, overleap].
Vault (v.) Bound vigorously
Vaultage (n.) Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Vaulted (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.
Vaulted (a.) Covered with an arch, or vault.
Vaulted (a.) (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.
Vaulted (a.) Having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: domed, vaulted].
Vaulter (n.) One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. -- B. Jonson.
Vaulter (n.) An athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole [syn: vaulter, pole vaulter, pole jumper].
Vaulting (n.) The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.
Vaulting (n.) Act of one who vaults or leaps.
Vaulting (a.) Revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights; "vaulting ambition" [syn: overreaching, vaulting].
Vaulting (n.) (Architecture) A vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting".
Vaulting (n.) A light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down [syn: curvet, vaulting].
Vaulty (a.) Arched; concave. [Obs.] "The vaulty heaven." -- Shak.
Vaunce (v. i.) To advance. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vaunted (imp. & p. p.) of Vaunt.
Vaunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaunt.
Vaunt (v. i.) To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. -- Gov. of Tongue.
Vaunt (v. t.) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. In the latter sense, the term usually used is flaunt.
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. -- 1 Cor. xiii. 4.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. -- Milton.
Vaunt (n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts. -- Milton.
Vaunt (n.) The first part. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Vaunt (v. t.) To put forward; to display. [Obs.] "Vaunted spear." -- Spenser.
And what so else his person most may vaunt. -- Spenser.
Vaunt (n.) Extravagant self-praise.
Vaunt (v.) Show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade].
Vaunt-courier (n.) See Van-courier. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Vaunter (n.) One who vaunts; a boaster.
Vaunter (n.) A very boastful and talkative person [syn: bragger, braggart, boaster, blowhard, line-shooter, vaunter].
Vauntful (a.) Given to vaunting or boasting; vainly ostentatious; boastful; vainglorious.
Vauntingly (adv.) In a vaunting manner.
Vauntingly (adv.) In a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large].
Vauntmure (n.) (Fort.) A false wall; a work raised in front of the main wall. [Written also vaimure, and vamure.] -- Camden.
Vauquelinite (n.) (Min.) Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.
Vaut (v. i.) To vault; to leap. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vaut (n.) A vault; a leap. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Vauty (a.) Vaulted. "The haughty vauty welkin." [Obs.] -- Taylor (1611).
Vavasor (n.) (Feud. Law) The vassal or tenant of a baron; one who held under a baron, and who also had tenants under him; one in dignity next to a baron; a title of dignity next to a baron. -- Burrill. "A worthy vavasour." -- Chaucer. [Also written vavasour, vavassor, valvasor, etc.]
Vavasours subdivide again to vassals, exchanging land and cattle, human or otherwise, against fealty. -- Motley.
Vavasory (n.) (Feud. Law) The quality or tenure of the fee held by a vavasor; also, the lands held by a vavasor.
Vaward (n.) The fore part; van. [Obs.]
Since we have the vaward of the day. -- Shak.
Vaza parrot () (Zool.) Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis, native of Madagascar; -- called also vasa parrot.
Veadar (n.) The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.
Veadar (n.) Included seven times in every 19 years [syn: Veadar, Adar Sheni].
Veal (n.) The flesh of a calf when killed and used for food.
Veal (n.) Meat from a calf [syn: veal, veau].
Vection (n.) Vectitation. [Obs.]
Vectitation (n.) The act of carrying, or state of being carried. [Obs.]
Vector (n.) Same as Radius vector.
Vector (n.) (Math.) A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.
Note: In a triangle, either side is the vector sum of the other two sides taken in proper order; the process finding the vector sum of two or more vectors is vector addition (see under Addition).
Vector (n.) A variable quantity that can be resolved into components.
Vector (n.) A straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction.
Vector (n.) Any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease; "mosquitos are vectors of malaria and yellow fever"; "fleas are vectors of the plague"; "aphids are transmitters of plant diseases"; "when medical scientists talk about vectors they are usually talking about insects" [syn: vector, transmitter].
Vector (n.) (Genetics) A virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell.
Vector, () A member of a vector space.
Vector, () A line or movement defined by its end points, or by the current position and one other point. See vector graphics.
Vector, () A memory location containing the address of some code, often some kind of exception handler or other operating system service. By changing the vector to point to a different piece of code it is possible to modify the behaviour of the operating system. Compare hook.
Vector, () A one-dimensional array. (1996-09-30)
Vecture (n.) The act of carrying; conveyance; carriage. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Veda (n.) The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, Constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.
Note: The language of the Vedas is usually called Vedic Sanskrit, as distinguished from the later and more settled form called classical Sanskrit.
Veda (n.) (From the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') Any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads [syn: Vedic literature, Veda].
Vedanta (n.) A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the "Anta," or end or substance. -- Balfour (Cyc. of India.)
Vedanta (n.) (From the Sanskrit for `end of the Veda') One of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints rooted in the Upanishads as opposed to Mimamsa which relies on the Vedas and Brahmanas
Vedantic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Vedas.
Vedantist (n.) One versed in the doctrines of the Vedantas.
Vedette (n.) A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost of an army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.
Vedro (n.) A Russian liquid measure, equal to 3.249 gallons of U. S. standard measure, or 2.706 imperial gallons. -- McElrath.
Veered (imp. & p. p.) of Veer.
Veering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Veer.
Veer (v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north. "His veering gait." -- Wordsworth.
And as he leads, the following navy veers. -- Dryden.
An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about. -- Burke.
To veer and haul (Naut.), To vary the course or direction; -- said of the wind, which veers aft and hauls forward.
The wind is also said to veer when it shifts with the sun.
Veer (v. t.) To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.
To veer and haul (Naut.), To pull tight and slacken alternately. -- Totten.
To veer away or To veer out (Naut.), To let out; to slacken and let run; to pay out; as, to veer away the cable; to veer out a rope.
Veer (v.) Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut].
Veer (v.) Shift to a clockwise direction; "the wind veered" [ant: back].
Veering (a.) Shifting. -- Veer"ing*ly, adv.
Veering (n.) The act of turning aside suddenly [syn: swerve, swerving, veering].
Veery (n.) (Zool.) An American thrush ({Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.
Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion. -- Thoreau.
Veery (n.) Tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song [syn: veery, Wilson's thrush, Hylocichla fuscescens].
Vega (n.) A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.
Vega (n.) [Sp.] An open tract of ground; a plain, esp. one which is moist and fertile, as those used for tobacco fields. [Sp. Amer. & Phil. Islands]
Vega (n.) Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635) [syn: Vega, Lope de Vega, Lope Felix de Vega Carpio].
Vega (n.) The brightest star in the constellation Lyra.
Vega, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 936
Housing Units (2000): 407
Land area (2000): 1.079959 sq. miles (2.797082 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.079959 sq. miles (2.797082 sq. km)
FIPS code: 75188
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 35.245547 N, 102.425112 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79092
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Vega, TX
Vega
Vegetability (n.) The quality or state of being vegetable. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Vegetable (a.) 蔬菜的，植物的 Of or pertaining to plants; having the nature of, or produced by, plants; as, a vegetable nature; vegetable growths, juices, etc.
Blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold. -- Milton.
Vegetable (a.) Consisting of, or comprising, plants; as, the vegetable kingdom.
Vegetable alkali (Chem.), An alkaloid.
Vegetable brimstone. (Bot.) See Vegetable sulphur, below.
Vegetable butter (Bot.), A name of several kinds of concrete vegetable oil; as that produced by the Indian butter tree, the African shea tree, and the Pentadesma butyracea, a tree of the order Guttiferae, also African. Still another kind is pressed from the seeds of cocoa ({Theobroma).
Vegetable flannel, A textile material, manufactured in Germany from pine-needle wool, a down or fiber obtained from the leaves of the Pinus sylvestris.
Vegetable ivory. See Ivory nut, under Ivory.
Vegetable jelly. See Pectin.
Vegetable kingdom. (Nat. Hist.) See the last Phrase, below.
Vegetable leather. (a) (Bot.) A shrubby West Indian spurge ({Euphorbia punicea), with leathery foliage and crimson bracts.
Vegetable leather. (b) See Vegetable leather, under Leather.
Vegetable marrow (Bot.), An egg-shaped gourd, commonly eight to ten inches long. It is noted for the very tender quality of its flesh, and is a favorite culinary vegetable in England. It has been said to be of Persian origin, but is now thought to have been derived from a form of the American pumpkin.
Vegetable oyster (Bot.), The oyster plant. See under Oyster.
Vegetable parchment, Papyrine.
Vegetable sheep (Bot.), A white woolly plant ({Raoulia eximia) of New Zealand, which grows in the form of large fleecy cushions on the mountains.
Vegetable silk, A cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree ({Chorisia speciosa). It is used for various purposes, as for stuffing cushions, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers.
Vegetable sponge. See 1st Loof.
Vegetable sulphur, The fine and highly inflammable spores of the club moss ({Lycopodium clavatum); witch meal.
Vegetable tallow, A substance resembling tallow, obtained from various plants; as, Chinese vegetable tallow, obtained from the seeds of the tallow tree. Indian vegetable tallow is a name sometimes given to piney tallow.
Vegetable wax, A waxy excretion on the leaves or fruits of certain plants, as the bayberry.
Vegetable kingdom (Nat. Hist.), That primary division of living things which includes all plants. The classes of the vegetable kingdom have been grouped differently by various botanists. The following is one of the best of the many arrangements of the principal subdivisions.
I. Phaenogamia (called also Phanerogamia). Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds. [ 1. Dicotyledons (called also Exogens). -- Seeds with two or more cotyledons. Stems with the pith, woody fiber, and bark concentrically arranged. Divided into two subclasses: Angiosperms, having the woody fiber interspersed with dotted or annular ducts, and the seeds contained in a true ovary; Gymnosperms, having few or no ducts in the woody fiber, and the seeds naked. 2. Monocotyledons (called also Endogens). -- Seeds with single cotyledon. Stems with slender bundles of woody fiber not concentrically arranged, and with no true bark.] II. Cryptogamia. Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division. [ 1. Acrogens. -- Plants usually with distinct stems and leaves, existing in two alternate conditions, one of which is nonsexual and sporophoric, the other sexual and oophoric. Divided into Vascular Acrogens, or Pteridophyta, having the sporophoric plant conspicuous and consisting partly of vascular tissue, as in Ferns, Lycopods, and Equiseta, and Cellular Acrogens, or Bryophyta, having the sexual plant most conspicuous, but destitute of vascular tissue, as in Mosses and Scale Mosses. 2. Thallogens. – Plants without distinct stem and leaves, consisting of a simple or branched mass of cellular tissue, or reduced to a single cell. Reproduction effected variously. Divided into Algae, which contain chlorophyll or its equivalent, and which live upon air and water, and Fungi, which contain no chlorophyll, and live on organic matter. (Lichens are now believed to be fungi parasitic on included algae.]
Note: Many botanists divide the Phaenogamia primarily into Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, and the latter into Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons. Others consider Pteridophyta and Bryophyta to be separate classes. Thallogens are variously divided by different writers, and the places for diatoms, slime molds, and stoneworts are altogether uncertain. For definitions, see these names in the Vocabulary.
Vegetable (n.) Plants having distinct flowers and true seeds.
Vegetable (n.) Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division.
Vegetable (n.) (Biol.) 蔬菜，植物，無精打采之人 A plant. See Plant.
Vegetable (n.) A plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; also, the edible part of such a plant, as prepared for market or the table.
Vegetable (n.) A person who has permanently lost consciousness, due to damage to the brain, but remains alive; sometimes continued life requires support by machinery such as breathing tubes. Such a person is said to be in a vegetative state.
Note: Vegetables and fruits are sometimes loosely distinguished by the usual need of cooking the former for the use of man, while the latter may be eaten raw; but the distinction often fails, as in the case of quinces, barberries, and other fruits, and lettuce, celery, and other vegetables. Tomatoes if cooked are vegetables, if eaten raw are fruits.
Vegetable (n.) Edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant [syn: {vegetable}, {veggie}, {veg}].
Vegetable (n.) Any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
Vegetal (a.) 植物的；有關植物生長的 Of or pertaining to vegetables, or the vegetable kingdom; of the nature of a vegetable; vegetable.
All creatures vegetal, sensible, and rational. -- Burton.
Vegetal (a.) (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals.
Vegetal (n.) 植物；蔬菜 A vegetable. [R.] -- B. Jonson.
Vegetal (a.) Composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor" [syn: vegetal, vegetational, vegetative].
Vegetal (a.) (Of reproduction) Characterized by asexual processes [syn: vegetal, vegetative].
Vegetality (n.) 植物性 The quality or state of being vegetal, or vegetable.
Vegetality (n.) (Biol.) The quality or state of being vegetal, or exhibiting those physiological phenomena which are common to plants and animals. See Vegetal, a., 2.
Vegetarian (n.) 素食者；食草動物 One who holds that vegetables and fruits are the only proper food for man. Strict vegetarians eat no meat, eggs, or milk, and are sometimes referred tro as vegans.
Vegetarian (a.) 素食主義者的；吃素的；素菜的 Of or pertaining to vegetarianism; as, a vegetarian diet.
Vegetarian (n.) Eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products.
Vegetarianism (n.) 素食主義 The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.
Vegetarianism (n.) A diet excluding all meat and fish.
Vegetated (imp. & p. p.) of Vegetate.
Vegetating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vegetate.