Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Bloody flux
() The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. |
Critical
(n.) Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions. |
Critical
(n.) Pertaining to criticism or the critic's art |
Critical
(n.) Inclined to make nice distinctions, or to exercise careful judgment and selection |
Critical
(n.) Inclined to criticise or find fault |
Critical
(n.) Characterized by thoroughness and a reference to principles, as becomes a critic |
Critical
(n.) Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture |
Dove plant
() A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove |
Flax-plant
(n.) A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. |
Flux
(n.) The act of flowing |
Flux
(n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux. |
Flux
(n.) The state of being liquid through heat |
Flux
(n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite. |
Flux
(n.) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part |
Flux
(n.) The matter thus discharged. |
Flux
(n.) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of a given surface in a unit of time. |
Flux
(n.) Flowing |
Flux
(v. t.) To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux. |
Flux
(v. t.) To cause to become fluid |
Flux
(v. t.) To cause a discharge from |
Heat
(n.) A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode if motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric. |
Heat
(n.) The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body |
Heat
(n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold |
Heat
(n.) Indication of high temperature |
Heat
(n.) A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace |
Heat
(n.) A violent action unintermitted |
Heat
(n.) Utmost violence |
Heat
(n.) Agitation of mind |
Heat
(n.) Animation, as in discourse |
Heat
(n.) Sexual excitement in animals. |
Heat
(n.) Fermentation. |
Heat
(v. t.) To make hot |
Heat
(v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion |
Heat
(v. t.) To excite ardor in |
Heat
(v. i.) To grow warm or hot by the action of fire or friction, etc., or the communication of heat |
Heat
(v. i.) To grow warm or hot by fermentation, or the development of heat by chemical action |
Heat
(imp. & p. p.) Heated |
Horse power
() The power which a horse exerts. |
Horse power
() A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute |
Horse power
() A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery |
Ice plant
() A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic |
Minimum
(n.) The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case |
Nuclear
(a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus |
Plant
(n.) A vegetable |
Plant
(n.) A bush, or young tree |
Plant
(n.) The sole of the foot. |
Plant
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business |
Plant
(n.) A plan |
Plant
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. |
plant
flora
plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| flux | in constant change, his opinions are in flux, the newness and flux of the computer industry |
| plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
| accession rise to power | the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne), Elizabeth's accession in |
| power dive | a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine |
| power play | (ice hockey) a play in which one team has a numerical advantage over the other as a result of penalties, the team was unable to capitalize on the power play |
| power play | a play in which there is a concentration of players in one location on the field of play, they used a power play to return the kickoff |
| power walking | a form of cardiopulmonary exercise consisting of rapid walking accompanied by vigorous swinging of the arms |
somatic cell nuclear transplantation
somatic cell nuclear transfer
SCNT
nuclear transplantation | moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another |
| nuclear terrorism | the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials, assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism |
power play
squeeze play squeeze | an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power, she laughed at this sexual power play and walked away |
| power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people |
| nuclear deterrence | the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence, when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction |
| plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
little black ant
Monomorium minimum | tiny glossy black ant, nests outdoors but invades houses for food |
leaf bug
plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug
four-lined leaf bug
Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
tarnished plant bug
Lygus lineolaris | widespread plant and fruit pest |
plant louse
louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
woolly aphid
woolly plant louse | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
jumping plant louse
psylla
psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
plant hopper
planthopper | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants |
| assembly plant | a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product |
atomic warhead
nuclear warhead
thermonuclear warhead
nuke | the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb |
| bottling plant | a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps |
| chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
| electrical system electrical plant | utility that provides electricity |
electric meter
power meter | a meter for measuring the amount of electric power used |
factory
mill manufacturing plant
manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
| flux applicator | an applicator for applying flux (as in soldering) |
| gas heat | heating system that burns natural gas |
gearing
gear geartrain
power train
train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed, the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain |
| hammer power hammer | a power tool for drilling rocks |
| heat engine | any engine that makes use of heat to do work |
| heat exchanger | device that transfers heat from one liquid to another without allowing them to mix |
heating system
heating plant
heating
heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
heat lamp
infrared lamp | electric heater consisting of a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation, the bathroom could be warmed by an infrared lamp |
| heat pump | apparatus that extracts heat from a liquid that is at a higher temperature than its surroundings, can be used to transfer heat from a reservoir outside in order to heat a building |
| heat-seeking missile | a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine) |
| heat shield | a protective covering that protects a spacecraft from overheating on reentry |
| heat sink | a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat |
| maximum and minimum thermometer | thermometer that records the highest and lowest temperatures reached during a period of time |
nautilus
nuclear submarine
nuclear-powered submarine | a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power |
| nuclear-powered ship | ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor |
nuclear reactor
reactor | (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements |
| nuclear rocket | a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant |
nuclear weapon
atomic weapon | a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction |
packinghouse
packing plant | a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products |
| periwinkle plant derivative | an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer |
| plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |