Butting joint () A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of one or both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as the joints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts |
Butt joint () A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8. |
Division (n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided |
Division (n.) That which divides or keeps apart |
Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body |
Division (n.) Disunion |
Division (n.) Difference of condition |
Division (n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. |
Division (n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another |
Division (n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species. |
Division (n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer. |
Division (n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion. |
Division (n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs. |
Division (n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided. |
Division (n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable. |
Division (n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts |
Division (n.) A grade or rank in classification |
Hooke's joint () A universal joint. See under Universal. |
Joint (n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united |
Joint (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion |
Joint (n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations |
Joint (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting. |
Joint (n.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification. |
Joint (n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc. |
Joint (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together. |
Joint (a.) Joined |
Joint (a.) Involving the united activity of two or more |
Joint (a.) United, joined, or sharing with another or with others |
Joint (a.) Shared by, or affecting two or more |
Joint (v. t.) To unite by a joint or joints |
Joint (v. t.) To join |
Joint (v. t.) To provide with a joint or joints |
Joint (v. t.) To separate the joints |
Joint (v. i.) To fit as if by joints |
Joint-fir (n.) A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed |
Reconstruction (n.) The act of constructing again |
Reconstruction (n.) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War. |
Replacement (n.) The act of replacing. |
Replacement (n.) The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. |
Straight-joint (a.) Having straight joints. |
Straight-joint (a.) Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. |
Straight-joint (a.) In the United States, applied to planking or flooring put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge. |
Surgery (n.) The art of healing by manual operation |
Surgery (n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory. |
Water joint () A joint in a stone pavement where the stones are left slightly higher than elsewhere, the rest of the surface being sunken or dished. The raised surface is intended to prevent the settling of water in the joints. |
replacement replacing | the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another, replacing the star will not be easy |
reconstruction | the activity of constructing something again |
division | the act or process of dividing |
word division hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
division partition partitioning segmentation sectionalization sectionalisation | the act of dividing or partitioning, separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
hormone replacement therapy hormoneeplacement therapy HRT | hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women, believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis |
brain surgery | any surgical procedure involving the brain |
operation surgery surgical operation surgical procedure surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
wrong-site surgery | a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body |
eye operation eye surgery | any surgical procedure involving the eyes |
face lift facelift lift face lifting cosmetic surgery rhytidectomy rhytidoplasty nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face, an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised, some actresses have more than one face lift |
heart surgery | any surgical procedure involving the heart |
closed-heart surgery | heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) |
open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
coronary bypass coronary bypass surgery coronary artery bypass graft CABG | open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart |
port-access coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine |
minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions |
cataract surgery | eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant |
intracapsular surgery | cataract surgery in which the entire lens is removed |
extracapsular surgery | cataract surgery in which only the front of the lens is removed, the back of the lens capsule remains intact and provides support for the lens implant |
cyclodestructive surgery | an eye operation that treats glaucoma by destroying the ciliary body with a laser |
filtration surgery | eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues, a treatment for glaucoma |
laser trabecular surgery | eye surgery that makes many tiny laser burns in an area that will increase the drainage of aqueous humor |
major surgery | any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
minor surgery | any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
plastic surgery reconstructive surgery anaplasty | surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue |
sexhange operation transsexual surgery | surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex |
joint venture | a venture by a partnership or conglomerate designed to share risk or expertise, a joint venture between the film companies to produce TV shows |
division | an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication, the quotient of two numbers is computed |
long division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail |
short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
tree surgery | treatment of damaged or decaying trees |
division Archaebacteria | in some classifications considered a kingdom |
division Eubacteria | oneelled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella |
Cyanophyta division Cyanophyta | prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom, coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) |
Schizophyta division Schizophyta | former term for the Cyanophyta |
Protista division Protista | eukaryotic oneelled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae |
Heterokontophyta division Heterokontophyta | algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths, terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications |
Chrysophyta division Chrysophyta | mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment, yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta |
Phaeophyta division Phaeophyta | coextensive with class Phaeophyceae, in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta |
Euglenophyta division Euglenophyta | free-swimming flagellate algae |
Chlorophyta division Chlorophyta | large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls, classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae, obviously ancestral to land plants |
Rhodophyta division Rhodophyta | lower plants, mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae |
glass lizard glass snake joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
Cynodontia division Cynodontia | a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth |
Dicynodontia division Dicynodontia | a division of Therapsida |
fetlock fetlock joint | the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern |
hock hock-joint | tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals, corresponds to the human ankle |
artificial joint | a metal or plastic part that is surgically implanted to replace a natural joint (possibly elbow or wrist but usually hip or knee) |
ball-and-socket joint | a joint that can rotate within a socket |