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April: Definition and part of speech

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April

  1. n. Fig.: With reference to April being the month in which vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc.
  2. n. The fourth month of the year.

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.

A priori: Definition and part of speech

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A priori

  1. Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible.
  2. Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

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.

Apsis: Definition and part of speech

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Apsis

  1. n. Same as Apse.
  2. n. One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides.
  3. n. In a curve referred to polar coordinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.

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.

Apt: Definition and part of speech

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Apt

  1. v. t. To fit; to suit; to adapt.
  2. a. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
  3. a. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; — used of things.
  4. a. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; — used of persons.
  5. a. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.

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.

Apriority: Definition and part of speech

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Apriority

  1. n. The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.

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.

Apron: Definition and part of speech

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Apron

  1. n. The infolded abdomen of a crab.
  2. n. An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.
  3. n. Something which by its shape or use suggests an apron;
  4. n. The fat skin covering the belly of a goose or duck.
  5. n. A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot.
  6. n. A leaden plate that covers the vent of a cannon.
  7. n. A piece of carved timber, just above the foremost end of the keel.
  8. n. A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.
  9. n. A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.
  10. n. The piece that holds the cutting tool of a planer.
  11. 1n. 1 The infolded abdomen of a crab.

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.