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Adumbrate
verb · 78% connection
To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Annular
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Annulated
adjective · 78% connection
Furnished with, or composed of, rings; ringed; surrounded by rings of color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Areola
noun · 78% connection
The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Armillary
noun · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Bonnet
noun · 78% connection
A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. T…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Cloud
noun · 78% connection
That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Coil
noun · 78% connection
A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Cumu-cirro-stratus
noun · 78% connection
Nimbus, or rain cloud. See Nimbus, and Cloud.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Cumulostratus
noun · 78% connection
A form of cloud. See Cloud.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Cyclorama
noun · 78% connection
A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Eclipse
noun · 78% connection
An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Eriometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffractio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Fog
noun · 78% connection
Watery vapor condensed in the lower part of the atmosphere and disturbing its transparency. It differs from cloud only in being near t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Gardant
adjective · 78% connection
Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Gimbals
noun · 78% connection
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Gyroscope
noun · 78% connection
A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.
Halo
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: halo, opposite, consisting, colored, ring.