The act of shortening, or reducing.
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a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word; "‘NATO’ is an initialism for North…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.The act of mixing; mixture.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an/ passion of affection that binds a p…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can no…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.of Blend
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.One who classifies.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.of Combine
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.of Compound
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation.the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected form…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, Roots and affixes, Borrowing and loanwords, Historical word formation, Greek and Latin origins.The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.
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To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.a blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.An orthographic projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian, the eye being supposed at an infinite distance, and in the east…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch wav…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.Kind; sort.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: phonological, orthographic, sound, appearance, describe.To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.
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