Air hole () A hole to admit or discharge air |
Air hole () A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air |
Black hole () A dungeon or dark cell in a prison |
Cat-hole (n.) One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed. |
Conduction (n.) The act of leading or guiding. |
Conduction (n.) The act of training up. |
Conduction (n.) Transmission through, or by means of, a conductor |
Defect (n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection |
Defect (n.) Failing |
Defect (v. i.) To fail |
Defect (v. t.) To injure |
Electron (n.) Amber |
Hand-hole (n.) A small hole in a boiler for the insertion of the hand in cleaning, etc. |
Hole (a.) Whole. |
Hole (n.) A hollow place or cavity |
Hole (n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal |
Hole (n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in |
Hole (n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. |
Hole (v. i.) To go or get into a hole. |
Peeping hole () See Peephole. |
Pit-hole (n.) A pit |
Semi- () A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly |
Semi-Arian (n.) A member of a branch of the Arians which did not acknowledge the Son to be consubstantial with the Father, that is, of the same substance, but admitted him to be of a like substance with the Father, not by nature, but by a peculiar privilege. |
Semi-Arian (a.) Of or pertaining to Semi-Arianism. |
Semi-Arianism (n.) The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Arians. |
Semi-Christianized (a.) Half Christianized. |
Semi circumference (n.) Half of a circumference. |
Semi crustaceous (a.) Half crustaceous |
Semi-Pelagian (n.) A follower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448), who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, and maintaining the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on the other hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, the inability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of the saints. |
Semi-Pelagian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Semi-Pelagians, or their tenets. |
Semi-Pelagianism (n.) The doctrines or tenets of the Semi-Pelagians. |
Semi pupa (n.) The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa. |
Semi-Saxon (a.) Half Saxon |
Sight-hole (n.) A hole for looking through |
Teaze-hole (n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced. |
-type (n.) A combining form signifying impressed form |
Type (n.) The mark or impression of something |
Type (n.) Form or character impressed |
Type (n.) A figure or representation of something to come |
Type (n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities |
Type (n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals |
Type (n.) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy |
Type (n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. |
Type (n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. |
Type (n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively |
Type (v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand |
Type (v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of |
Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. |
Woodbury-type (n.) A print from such a plate. |
electron microscopy | microscopy with the use of electron microscopes |
electron spin resonance ESR electron paramagnetic resonance | microwave spectroscopy in which there is resonant absorption of radiation by a paramagnet |
air hole | a hole that allows the passage of air |
Black Hole of Calcutta | a dungeon ( feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula, the next morning only were still alive |
bore bore-hole drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
buttonhole button hole | a hole through which buttons are pushed |
ear hole | a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears |
electron accelerator | collider that consists of an accelerator that collides electrons and positrons |
electron gun | the electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathodeay tube or electron microscope, consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it |
electron microscope | a microscope that is similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light |
electron multiplier | a vacuum tube that amplifies a flow of electrons |
finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
foxhole fox hole | a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire |
funk hole | dugout as a place of safe retreat (when in a funk) |
glory hole lazaretto | a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship |
hole | an opening deliberately made in or through something |
hole golf hole | one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course, he played holes |
hole card | (poker) a playing card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown |
lens electron lens | electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons |
lubber's hole | hole in a platform on a mast through which a sailor can climb without going out on the shrouds |
mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
nail hole | a hole left after a nail is removed |
n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
posthole post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
semi-abstraction | a semiabstract painting |
semi-detached house | a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side |
semitrailer semi | a trailer having wheels only in the rear, the front is supported by the towing vehicle |
shot hole | drill hole for a charge of an explosive |
smoke hole | a vent (as in a roof) for smoke to escape |
sound hole | a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones |
trailer truck tractor trailer trucking rig rig articulated lorry semi | a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together |
tube vacuum tube thermionic vacuum tube thermionic tube electron tube thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
vent venthole vent-hole blowhole | a hole for the escape of gas or air |
blemish defect mar | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body), a facial blemish |
body type somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
defect shortcoming | a failing or deficiency, that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information |
trap cakehole hole maw yap gob | informal terms for the mouth |
blood group blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A type A group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B type B group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB type AB group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |