Apollinaris water
() An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. |
Blow valve
() See Snifting valve. |
Branch pilot
() A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation. |
Check
(n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger |
Check
(n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress |
Check
(n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action |
Check
(n.) A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified |
Check
(n.) A written order directing a bank or banker to pay money as therein stated. See Bank check, below. |
Check
(n.) A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard |
Check
(n.) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. |
Check
(n.) Small chick or crack. |
Check
(v. t.) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, esp. his king, in check |
Check
(v. t.) To put a sudden restraint upon |
Check
(v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check |
Check
(v. t.) To chide, rebuke, or reprove. |
Check
(v. t.) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended. |
Check
(v. t.) To make checks or chinks in |
Check
(v. i.) To make a stop |
Check
(v. i.) To clash or interfere. |
Check
(v. i.) To act as a curb or restraint. |
Check
(v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying |
Check
(v. i.) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds. |
Check
(a.) Checkered |
Controlled
(imp. & p. p.) of Control |
Cow-pilot
(n.) A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis) |
Double
(a.) Twofold |
Double
(a.) Being in pairs |
Double
(a.) Divided into two |
Double
(a.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double. |
Double
(adv.) Twice |
Double
(a.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like |
Double
(a.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle |
Double
(a.) To be the double of |
Double
(a.) To pass around or by |
Double
(a.) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two. |
Double
(v. i.) To be increased to twice the sum, number, quantity, length, or value |
Double
(v. i.) To return upon one's track |
Double
(v. i.) To play tricks |
Double
(v. i.) To set up a word or words a second time by mistake |
Double
(n.) Twice as much |
Double
(n.) Among compositors, a doublet (see Doublet, 2.) |
Double
(n.) That which is doubled over or together |
Double
(n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues |
Double
(n.) Something precisely equal or counterpart to another |
Double
(n.) A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence |
Double
(n.) Double beer |
Double
(n.) A feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts. |
Double
(n.) A game between two pairs of players |
Double
(n.) An old term for a variation, as in Bach's Suites. |
Double-acting
(a.) Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions |
| double fault | (tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point |
| double stopping | stopping two strings and producing two notes at the same time |
line-drive double
line double | a double resulting from a line drive |
double
two-base hit
two-bagger
two-baser | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base, he hit a double to deep centerfield |
| check-in | the act of reporting your presence (as at an airport or a hotel) |
check checkout
check-out procedure | the act of inspecting or verifying, they made a check of their equipment, the pilot ran through the check-out procedure |
| spot check | a check on work performance or product quality made at random times without warning, spot checks ensure a high level of performance by employees |
checkup
medical checkup
medical examination
medical exam
medical
health check | a thorough physical examination, includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person |
| check | (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king |
| discovered check | a check on the opponent's king that is delivered by moving a piece out of the line of attack by a queen or rook or bishop |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
water travel
seafaring | travel by water |
| double leg circle | a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast (with legs together) swings his legs in a circle while alternating hands on the pommels |
water sport
aquatics | sports that involve bodies of water |
| water-skiing | skiing on water while being towed by a motorboat |
twin bill
doubleheader
double feature | two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) |
| water polo | a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal |
| double dribble | an illegal dribble in basketball (the player uses both hands to dribble or the player starts to dribble a second time after coming to a stop) |
| double Dutch | the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners |
| daily double | a single bet on two horse races in the same day |
| double reverse | (American football) a running play in which a first reverse is followed by a second reverse |
| check | obstructing an opponent in ice hockey |
| poke check | knocking the puck away by jabbing at it with the hockey stick |
| double play | the act of getting two players out on one play |
| treading water | a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms |
double entry
double-entry bookkeeping | bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another |
double cross
doublerossing | an act of betrayal, he gave us the old double cross, I could no longer tolerate his impudent doublerossing |
duplicity
double-dealing | acting in bad faith, deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another |
| double blind | a test procedure in which the identity of those receiving the intervention is concealed from both the administrators and the subjects until after the test is completed, designed to reduce or eliminate bias in the results |
pilot project
pilot program | activity planned as a test or trial, they funded a pilot project in six states |
| doubling double | raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of , I decided his double was a bluff |
| water conservation | the conservation of water resources |
| double take | a delayed reaction indicating surprise |
water development
water project
water program | making an area of water more useful |
technology
engineering | the practical application of science to commerce or industry |
| aeronautical engineering | the activity of designing and constructing aircraft |
automotive technology
automotive engineering | the activity of designing and constructing automobiles |
| chemical engineering | the activity of applying chemistry to the solution of practical problems |
| attendance check | a call of students' names in a classroom |
bridle
check curb | the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess, his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper |
| double jeopardy | the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried, prohibited in the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution |
| water thrush | brownish North American warbler found near streams |
water ouzel
dipper | small stocky diving bird without webbed feet, frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom |
European water ouzel
Cinclus aquaticus | a water ouzel of Europe |
American water ouzel
Cinclus mexicanus | a water ouzel of western North America |
black rat snake
blacksnake pilot blacksnake
mountain blacksnake
Elaphe obsoleta | large harmless shiny black North American snake |
| water snake | any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water |
common water snake
banded water snake
Natrix sipedon
Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
| water moccasin | any of numerous North American water snakes inhabiting fresh waters |
water moccasin cottonmouth
cottonmouth moccasin
Agkistrodon piscivorus | venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States |