Helen Fenton

Anticyclone: Definition and part of speech

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Anticyclone

  1. n. A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone.

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.

Antidote: Definition and part of speech

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Antidote

  1. v. t. To fortify or preserve by an antidote.
  2. n. A remedy to counteract the effects of poison, or of anything noxious taken into the stomach; — used with against, for, or to; as, an antidote against, for, or to, poison.
  3. n. Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce.
  4. v. t. To counteract or prevent the effects of, by giving or taking an antidote.

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.