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Analysis
noun · 78% connection
the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride's father’
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Antonomasia
noun · 78% connection
The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Brilliant
adjective · 78% connection
A diamond or other gem of the finest cut, formed into faces and facets, so as to reflect and refract the light, by which it is rendere…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Broach
noun · 78% connection
A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Burin
noun · 78% connection
The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Carbon
noun · 78% connection
An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Carbonado
noun · 78% connection
A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinct…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Crystal
noun · 78% connection
A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Diamond
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling a diamond; made of, or abounding in, diamonds; as, a diamond chain; a diamond field.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Die
noun · 78% connection
A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Drawplate
noun · 78% connection
A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Drop
noun · 78% connection
That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Exoskeleton
noun · 78% connection
The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Feed
verb · 78% connection
To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Flint glass
unknown · 78% connection
A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
For
preposition · 78% connection
Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
Hob
noun · 78% connection
A threaded and fluted hardened steel cutter, resembling a tap, used in a lathe for forming the teeth of screw chasers, worm wheels, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tool, hardened, steel, point, formerly.
