Helen Fenton

Augural: Definition and part of speech

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Augural

  1. a. Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Audience: Definition and part of speech

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Audience

  1. a. An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.
  2. a. The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
  3. a. Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Audient: Definition and part of speech

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Audient

  1. n. A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church.
  2. a. Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Audiometer: Definition and part of speech

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Audiometer

  1. n. An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Audiphone: Definition and part of speech

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Audiphone

  1. n. An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Audit: Definition and part of speech

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Audit

  1. a. A general receptacle or receiver.
  2. a. An audience; a hearing.
  3. a. An examination in general; a judicial examination.
  4. a. The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.