The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressi…
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Hydrosphere
the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor
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The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; a…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography, Human geography.The global sum of all ecosystems, including land, water, and atmosphere
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography, Human geography.study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography, Human geography.The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its struct…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography, Human geography.The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on t…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography, Human geography.The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and des…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography, Human geography.The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography, Human geography.(oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas ti…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography.A description of the ocean.
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography.That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography.The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography.The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Human geography.the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several min…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography.The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place o…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography.That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography.of Ease
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Physical geography.Act of environing; state of being environed.
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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connecte…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface int…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.To breathe out. Hence: To emit, as vapor; to send out, as an odor; to evaporate; as, the earth exhales vapor; marshes exhale noxious e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.A paling; a hurdle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color fr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.A second growth of grass; aftergrass.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portion…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.Containing sensible moisture; damp; moist; as, a humidair or atmosphere; somewhat wet or watery; as, humid earth; consisting of water…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: watery, layer, earth, surface, includes.One who, or that which, lays.
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