column
Webster Dictionary
anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column
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eightieth
Webster Dictionary
the quotient of a unit divided by eighty; one of eighty equal parts
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fourscore
(ˈfɔrˈskɔr, ˈfoʊrˈskoʊr)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
four times twenty; eighty.
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columella
(columella)
Princeton's WordNet
a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal
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abacus
Webster Dictionary
the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column
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architrave
Webster Dictionary
the lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column
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backbone
Webster Dictionary
the column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column
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shaft
Webster Dictionary
the body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple
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semicolumn
Webster Dictionary
a half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis
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footing
Webster Dictionary
the act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column
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capital
Webster Dictionary
the head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column
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thermometer
(θərˈmɒm ɪ tər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an instrument for measuring temperature, often a sealed glass tube containing a column of liquid, as mercury, that expands and contracts with temperature changes, the temperature being read where the top of the column coincides with a calibrated scale on the tube or frame.
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water barometer
Webster Dictionary
a barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height
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pillar
Webster Dictionary
the general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament
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pedestal
Webster Dictionary
the base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column
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mentalism
(mentalism)
Princeton's WordNet
(philosophy) a doctrine that mind is the true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness
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dualism
(dualism)
Princeton's WordNet
the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil
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object
Webster Dictionary
that which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc
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columnar
Webster Dictionary
formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column
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correlation table
(correlation table)
Princeton's WordNet
a two-way tabulation of the relations between correlates; row headings are the scores on one variable and column headings are the scores on the second variables and a cell shows how many times the score on that row was associated with the score in that column
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epichordal
Webster Dictionary
upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it
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mind
Webster Dictionary
memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc
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ninetieth
Webster Dictionary
next in order after the eighty-ninth
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fourscore
Webster Dictionary
four times twenty; eighty
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ninetieth
Webster Dictionary
the next in order after the eighty-ninth
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ninety
Webster Dictionary
nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men
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harmonics
Webster Dictionary
secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones
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ninescore
Webster Dictionary
nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty
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eighty
Webster Dictionary
the sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects
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eightieth
Webster Dictionary
consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions
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