Acid (a.) Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste |
Acid (a.) Of or pertaining to an acid |
Acid (n.) A sour substance. |
Acid (n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are called oxygen acids or oxacids. |
Barbituric acid () A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea. |
Batteries (pl. ) of Battery |
Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating. |
Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him. |
Battery (v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense. |
Battery (v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field. |
Battery (v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. |
Battery (v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. |
Battery (v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity. |
Battery (v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position |
Battery (v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. |
Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down. |
Battery (v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together. |
Black lead () Plumbago |
Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burner |
Cyanuric acid () an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid |
Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. |
Lead (n.) An article made of lead or an alloy of lead |
Lead (n.) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. |
Lead (n.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. |
Lead (n.) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs |
Lead (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. |
Lead (v. t.) To cover, fill, or affect with lead |
Lead (v. t.) To place leads between the lines of |
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection |
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known |
Lead (v. t.) To conduct or direct with authority |
Lead (v. t.) To go or to be in advance of |
Lead (v. t.) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad |
Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course) |
Lead (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with |
Lead (v. i.) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc. |
Lead (v. t.) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place |
Lead (n.) The act of leading or conducting |
Lead (n.) precedence |
Lead (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round |
Lead (n.) An open way in an ice field. |
Lead (n.) A lode. |
Lead (n.) The course of a rope from end to end. |
Lead (n.) The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke. |
Lead (n.) the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment. |
Lead (n.) The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet. |
Monte-acid (n.) An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory. |
Salso-acid (a.) Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity |
Water battery () A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. |
Water battery () A battery nearly on a level with the water. |
battery assault and battery | an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact |
barrage barrage fire battery bombardment shelling | the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target, they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops, the shelling went on for hours without pausing |
lead | the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge, the lead was in the dummy |
lead | a position of leadership (especially in the phrase `take the lead'), he takes the lead in any group, we were just waiting for someone to take the lead, they didn't follow our lead |
A battery | the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube |
c acid back breaker battery-acid dose dot Elvis loony toons Lucy in the sky with diamonds pane superman window pane Zen | street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
aspirin acetylsalicylic acid Bayer Empirin St. Joseph | the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid, used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form, used as an antipyretic, slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets |
barbital veronal barbitone diethylbarbituric acid diethylmalonylurea | a barbiturate used as a hypnotic |
battery electric battery | a device that produces electricity, may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series |
battery stamp battery | a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores |
B battery | battery for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube |
car battery automobile battery | a lead-acid storage battery in a motor vehicle, usually a -volt battery of six cells, the heart of the car's electrical system |
C battery | battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube |
charger battery charger | a device for charging or recharging batteries |
clip lead | a short piece of wire with alligator clips on both ends |
dry battery | a voltaic battery consisting of two or more dry cells |
ethacrynic acid Edecrin | diuretic (trade name Edecrin) used to treat edema |
flashlight battery | a small dry battery containing dry cells, used to power flashlights |
grid storage-battery grid | a perforated or corrugated metal plate used in a storage battery as a conductor and support for the active material |
ibuprofen isobutylphenyl propionic acid Advil Motrin Nuprin | a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic medicine (trade names Advil and Motrin and Nuprin) used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an antipyretic, daily use of ibuprofen can irritate the stomach |
jumper cable jumper lead lead booster cable | a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire, it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads |
K jet super acid special K honey oil green cat valium super C | street names for ketamine |
lead pencil lead | mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness, the marking substance in a pencil |
lead leading | thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing |
lead-acid battery lead-acid accumulator | a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte, each cell generates about volts |
lead-in | wire connecting an antenna to a receiver or a transmitter to a transmission line |
lead line sounding line | (nautical) plumb line for determining depth |
lead pencil | pencil that has graphite as the marking substance |
leash tether lead | restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal |
lysergic acid diethylamide LSD | a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid |
mefenamic acid Ponstel | a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug (trade name Ponstel) used to treat mild pain (especially menstrual cramps) |
nalidixic acid NegGram | antibacterial agent used especially to treat genitourinary infections |
nickel-iron battery nickel-iron accumulator | a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide, each cell gives about . volts |
quartz battery quartz mill | a stamp mill for stamping quartz |
solar array solar battery solar panel | electrical device consisting of a large array of connected solar cells |
sounding lead | a metal bob at the end of a sounding line |
storage battery accumulator | a voltaic battery that stores electric charge |
valproic acid Depokene | anticonvulsant (trade name Depokene) used to prevent some kinds of seizures |
voltaic battery galvanic battery | battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel |
spark advance lead | the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internalombustion engine |
lead | an advantage held by a competitor in a race, he took the lead at the last turn |
gastric juice gastric acid | digestive secretions of the stomach glands consisting chiefly of hydrochloric acid and mucin and the enzymes pepsin and rennin and lipase |
acid test | a rigorous or crucial appraisal |
lead track trail | evidence pointing to a possible solution, the police are following a promising lead, the trail led straight to the perpetrator |
lead lead-in lede | the introductory section of a story, it was an amusing lead-in to a very serious matter |
lead lead story | a news story of major importance |
tip lead steer confidential information wind hint | an indication of potential opportunity, he got a tip on the stock market, a good lead for a job |
lead sheet | a sheet containing the words and melody for a song (and some indication of harmony) written in simple form |
psychedelic rock acid rock | a musical style that emerged in the s, rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience |
battery | a collection of related things intended for use together, took a battery of achievement tests |