Chimney-piece (n.) A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. |
Fabrication (n.) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing |
Fabrication (n.) That which is fabricated |
Gunter's scale () A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. |
Individual (a.) Not divided, or not to be divided |
Individual (a.) Of or pertaining to one only |
Individual (n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind |
Individual (n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal. |
Individual (n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission. |
Piece (n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing |
Piece (n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work |
Piece (n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind |
Piece (n.) A literary or artistic composition |
Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon |
Piece (n.) A coin |
Piece (n.) A fact |
Piece (n.) An individual |
Piece (n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. |
Piece (n.) A castle |
Piece (v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces |
Piece (v. t.) To unite |
Piece (v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts |
Production (n.) The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view |
Production (n.) That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor |
Production (n.) The act of lengthening out or prolonging. |
Scale (n.) The dish of a balance |
Scale (n.) The sign or constellation Libra. |
Scale (v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale |
Scale (n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. |
Scale (n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish |
Scale (n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura |
Scale (n.) A scale insect. (See below.) |
Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement |
Scale (n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. |
Scale (n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. |
Scale (n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. |
Scale (v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales |
Scale (v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth |
Scale (v. t.) To scatter |
Scale (v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. |
Scale (v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae |
Scale (v. i.) To separate |
Scale (n.) A ladder |
Scale (n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. |
Scale (n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale. |
Scale (n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances |
Scale (n.) A basis for a numeral system |
Scale (n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave |
Scale (n.) Gradation |
Scale (n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts |
whole unit | an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity, how big is that part compared to the whole?, the team is a unit |
person individual someone somebody mortal soul | a human being, there was too much for one person to do |
dramatic production dramatic performance | the act of performing a drama, the group joined together in a dramatic production |
line-drive single line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
single bingle | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
economy of scale | the saving in cost of production that is due to mass production |
rack single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
production | (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law, the appellate court demanded the production of all documents |
cinch breeze picnic snap duck soup child's play pushover walkover piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
single entry single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
lying prevarication fabrication | the deliberate act of deviating from the truth |
c fuck fucking screw screwing ass nooky nookie piece of ass piece of tail roll in the hay shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
fabrication assembly | the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) |
production | the act or process of producing something, Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous, the production of white blood cells |
production | the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services |
production | (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale, he introduced more efficient methods of production |
mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
boring drilling oil production | the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum |
fabrication manufacture manufacturing | the act of making something (a product) from raw materials, the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals, an improvement in the manufacture of explosives, manufacturing is vital to Great Britain |
fabrication fictionalization fictionalisation | writing in a fictional form |
art artistic creation artistic production | the creation of beautiful or significant things, art does not need to be innovative to be good, I was never any good at art, he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully |
Binet-Simon Scale | the first intelligence test |
single combat | a fight between two people, in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat |
scale | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
fish scale | scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish |
small civet Viverricula indica Viverricula malaccensis | a common civet of southeast Asia |
scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
soft scale | an insect active in all stages |
brown soft scale Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
armored scale | insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female |
San Jose scale Aspidiotus perniciosus | small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees |
small white Pieris rapae | small widely distributed form |
bikini two-piece | a woman's very brief bathing suit |
booster booster rocket booster unit takeoff booster takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
Bunker Buster Guided Bomb Unit- GBU- | a , pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding, used to penetrate hardened underground facilities |
central processing unit CPU C.P.U. central processor processor mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
chessman chess piece | any of white and black pieces used in playing the game of chess |
collector's item showpiece piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
detached house single dwelling | a house that stands alone |
firearm piece small-arm | a portable gun, he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster |
fowling piece | a light shotgun used for fowling |
furniture piece of furniture article of furniture | furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy, they had too much furniture for the small apartment, there was only one piece of furniture in the room |
fur-piece | a neckpiece made of fur |
knee piece | armor plate that protects the knee |
loudspeaker speaker speaker unit loudspeaker system speaker system | electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance |
man piece | game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games, he taught me to set up the men on the chess board, he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage |
masking piece masking | scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen |
objet d'art art object piece | a work of art of some artistic value, this store sells only objets d'art, it is not known who created this piece |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
piece | a separate part of a whole, an important piece of the evidence |