Alternate
(a.) Being or succeeding by turns |
Alternate
(a.) Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals |
Alternate
(a.) Distributed, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. |
Alternate
(n.) That which alternates with something else |
Alternate
(n.) A substitute |
Alternate
(n.) A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means. |
Alternate
(v. t.) To perform by turns, or in succession |
Alternate
(v. i.) To happen, succeed, or act by turns |
Alternate
(v. i.) To vary by turns |
Bearing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
Bearing
(n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self |
Bearing
(n.) Patient endurance |
Bearing
(n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it |
Bearing
(n.) Purport |
Bearing
(n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth |
Bearing
(n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports |
Bearing
(n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
Bearing
(n.) Improperly, the unsupported span |
Bearing
(n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing |
Bearing
(n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
Bearing
(n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
Bearing
(n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc. |
Bearing
(n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
Bearing
(n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
Bearing cloth
() A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. |
Bearing rein
() A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up |
Cream-fruit
(n.) A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice. |
Fruit
(v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc. |
Fruit
(v. t.) The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. |
Fruit
(v. t.) The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it. |
Fruit
(v. t.) The spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them. |
Fruit
(v. t.) The produce of animals |
Fruit
(v. t.) That which is produced |
Fruit
(v. i.) To bear fruit. |
Fruit'y
(a.) Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit |
Grape fruit
() The shaddock. |
Rush-bearing
(n.) A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. |
perjury
bearing false witness
lying under oath | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
fruit bat
megabat | large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit |
harpy harpy bat
tube-nosed bat
tube-nosed fruit bat | any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes |
fruit fly
pomace fly | any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits |
Mediterranean fruit fly
medfly
Ceratitis capitata | small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit |
ball bearing
needle bearing
roller bearing | bearings containing small metal balls |
| bearing | a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily |
bearing rein
checkrein | a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position |
| bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
charge bearing heraldic bearing
armorial bearing | heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield |
| fruit machine | a coin-operated gambling machine that produces random combinations of symbols (usually pictures of different fruits) on rotating dials, certain combinations win money for the player |
| journal bearing | the bearing of a journal |
| thrust bearing | a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution |
yield
fruit | an amount of a product |
bearing
comportment
presence
mien | dignified manner or conduct |
carriage
bearing posture | characteristic way of bearing one's body, stood with good posture |
| forbidden fruit | originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, it is now used to refer to anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality) |
| fruit of the poisonous tree | a rule that once primary evidence is determined to have been illegally obtained any secondary evidence following from it may also not be used |
| fruit | the consequence of some effort or action, he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies |
| fruit cocktail | a mixture of sliced or diced fruits |
candied fruit
succade
crystallized fruit | fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals |
compote
fruit compote | dessert of stewed or baked fruit |
| fruit custard | a custard containing fruit |
| fruit bar | cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars |
| edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
carambola
star fruit | deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit, used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert |
citrus
citrus fruit
citrous fruit | any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp, grown in warm regions |
tangelo
ugli
ugli fruit | large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin |
| dried fruit | fruit preserved by drying |
| passion fruit | egg-shaped tropical fruit of certain passionflower vines, used for sherbets and confectionery and drinks |
genipap
genipap fruit | a succulent orange-sized tropical fruit with a thick rind |
kiwi
kiwi fruit
Chinese gooseberry | fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh |
| fruit salad | salad composed of fruits |
fruit juice
fruit crush | drink produced by squeezing or crushing fruit |
fruit drink
ade | a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice |
| fruit punch | a punch made of fruit juices mixed with water or soda water (with or without alcohol) |
bearing
heading
aim | the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies |
| fruit grower | someone who grows fruit commercially |
surrogate alternate
replacement | someone who takes the place of another person |
samara
key fruit
key | a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple |
banana passion fruit
Passiflora mollissima | cultivated for fruit |
| fruit tree | tree bearing edible fruit |
genipap fruit
jagua
marmalade box
Genipa Americana | tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit |
tangelo
tangelo tree
ugli fruit
Citrus tangelo | hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange, cultivated especially in Florida |
| fruit | the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
aggregate fruit
multiple fruit
syncarp | fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple |
simple fruit
bacca | an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape, tomato, cranberry |
drupe
stone fruit | fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube |
pome
false fruit | a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part |
accessory fruit
pseudocarp | fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary, as apple or strawberry |