By-speech
(n.) An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. |
Central
(a.) Relating to the center |
Central
(n.) Alt. of Centrale |
Core
(n.) A body of individuals |
Core
(n.) A miner's underground working time or shift. |
Core
(n.) A Hebrew dry measure |
Core
(n.) The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc. |
Core
(n.) The center or inner part, as of an open space |
Core
(n.) The most important part of a thing |
Core
(n.) The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting |
Core
(n.) A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. |
Core
(n.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. |
Core
(v. t.) To take out the core or inward parts of |
Core
(v. t.) To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting. |
Essence
(n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it |
Essence
(n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence) |
Essence
(n.) Constituent substance. |
Essence
(n.) A being |
Essence
(n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter |
Essence
(n.) Perfume |
Essence
(v. t.) To perfume |
Main
(n.) A hand or match at dice. |
Main
(n.) A stake played for at dice. |
Main
(n.) The largest throw in a match at dice |
Main
(n.) A match at cockfighting. |
Main
(n.) A main-hamper. |
Main
(v.) Strength |
Main
(v.) The chief or principal part |
Main
(v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. |
Main
(v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island |
Main
(v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones |
Main
(a.) Very or extremely strong. |
Main
(a.) Vast |
Main
(a.) Unqualified |
Main
(a.) Principal |
Main
(a.) Important |
Main
(a.) Very |
Main-gauche
(n.) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right |
Main-hamper
(n.) A hamper to be carried in the hand |
Main yard
() The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. |
Mar-text
(n.) A blundering preacher. |
Message
(n.) Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. |
Message
(n.) Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger |
Message
(v. t.) To bear as a message. |
Message
(n.) A messenger. |
Neuro-central
(a.) Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra |
Speech
(n.) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words |
Speech
(n.) he act of speaking |
Speech
(n.) A particular language, as distinct from others |
Speech
(n.) Talk |
| speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
surprise attack
coup de main | an attack without warning |
central chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes troglodytes | black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa, closely related to eastern chimpanzees |
central
telephone exchange
exchange | a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication |
| central heating | a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators |
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 |
| core | a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil |
| core | the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place |
| core magnetic core | (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data, now superseded by semiconductor memories, each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit |
| core bit | a hollow drilling bit that is the cutting part of a core drill, allows core samples to be taken |
| core drill | a drill that removes a cylindrical core from the drill hole |
| electric main | a main that distributes electricity |
| gas main | a main that distributes gas |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
highway
main road | a major road for any form of motor transport |
magnetic core memory
core memory | (computer science) a computer memory consisting of an array of magnetic cores, now superseded by semiconductor memories |
| main | a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage |
| main course | a square mainsail |
main deck
second deck | the uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel |
| main drag | the main street of a town or city |
| main line | the principal route of a transportation system |
| main rotor | rotor consisting of large rotating airfoils on a singleotor helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air |
main street
high street | street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town |
| main-topmast | the topmast next above the mainmast |
| main-topsail | a topsail set on the mainmast |
| main yard | yard for a square mainsail |
perfume
essence | a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor |
riser riser pipe
riser pipeline
riser main | a vertical pipe in a building |
sewer main
sewer line | a main in a sewage system |
| visible speech | spectrogram of speech, speech displayed spectrographically |
| water main | main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water |
| speech intelligibility | the intelligibility of speech (usually measured in the presence of noise or distortion) |
| freedom of speech | a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution |
fissure of Rolando
Rolando's fissure
central sulcus
sulcus centralis | a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres, separates the frontal and parietal lobes |
speech organ
vocal organ
organ of speech | any of the organs involved in speech production |
central artery of the retina
arteria centralis retinae | a branch of the ophthalmic artery, enters the eyeball with the optic nerve |
central veins of liver
venae centrales hepatis | terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids |
central vein of retina
vena centrales retinae | vein formed by the union of the retinal veins, accompanies central arteries of the retina in the optic nerve |
central vein of suprarenal gland
vena centralis glandulae suprarenalis | a single draining vein, on the right it empties into the inferior vena cava, on the left it empties into the left renal vein |
centrosome
central body | small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus, contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules |
central nervous system
CNS
systema nervosum centrale | the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord |
| central gyrus | either of two gyri on either side of the central sulcus |
language
speech | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication, language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals |
| central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
| speech perception | the auditory perception (and comprehension) of speech |
feature of speech
feature | (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
| message | a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled, he sent a three-word message |
phone message
telephone message | a message transmitted by telephone |
citation form
main entry word
entry word | the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary |