Element (n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. |
Element (n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed |
Element (n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything |
Element (n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole |
Element (n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber. |
Element (n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed. |
Element (n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered |
Element (n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former. |
Element (n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression. |
Element (n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based |
Element (n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art |
Element (n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question |
Element (n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers |
Element (n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire |
Element (n.) the conditions and movements of the air. |
Element (n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury. |
Element (n.) The whole material composing the world. |
Element (n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper. |
Element (v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles. |
Element (v. t.) To constitute |
Spring (v. i.) To leap |
Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence |
Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. |
Spring (v. i.) To fly back |
Spring (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface |
Spring (v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth |
Spring (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor |
Spring (v. i.) To grow |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to spring up |
Spring (v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to explode |
Spring (v. t.) To crack or split |
Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring |
Spring (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong |
Spring (v. t.) To pass over by leaping |
Spring (v. i.) A leap |
Spring (v. i.) A flying back |
Spring (v. i.) Elastic power or force. |
Spring (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. |
Spring (v. i.) Any source of supply |
Spring (v. i.) Any active power |
Spring (v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source |
Spring (v. i.) A race |
Spring (v. i.) A youth |
Spring (v. i.) A shoot |
Spring (v. i.) That which causes one to spring |
Spring (v. i.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow |
Spring (v. i.) The time of growth and progress |
Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. |
Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position |
leap leaping spring saltation bound bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
spring break | a week or more of recess during the spring term at school |
leopard frog spring frog Rana pipiens | common North American green or brownish frog having white-edged dark oval spots |
green frog spring frog Rana clamitans | similar to bullfrog, found in or near marshes and ponds, of United States and Canada |
spring peeper Hyla crucifer | a small brown tree toad having a shrill call heard near wetlands of eastern United States and Canada in early spring |
spring chicken | a young chicken having tender meat |
spring cankerworm | variably colored looper, larva of Paleacrita vernata |
air cushion air spring | a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion |
box spring | a coiled bedspring in a frame that is covered with cloth |
coil spring volute spring | a spring in the shape of a coil |
component constituent element | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up, especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system, spare components for cars, a component or constituent element of a system |
detector sensor sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
heating element | the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat |
leaf spring | long narrow spring consisting of several layers of metal springs bracketed together |
logic element | an electronic device that performs an elementary logic operation |
pixel pel picture element | (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution |
set gun spring gun | a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off |
spiral spring | a spring that is wound like a spiral |
spring | a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed, the spring was broken |
spring balance spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
spring mattress | a mattress containing springs in a rigid frame |
threshold element threshold gate | a logic element that performs a threshold operation |
give spring springiness | the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length |
plot element | a component or element of the plot of a story |
component constituent element factor ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
green onion spring onion scallion | a young onion before the bulb has enlarged, eaten in salads |
egg roll spring roll | minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried |
spring water | water from a spring |
spring | a point at which water issues forth |
element | the most favorable environment for a plant or animal, water is the element of fishes |
hot spring thermal spring | a natural spring of water at a temperature ofF or above |
spring fountain outflow outpouring natural spring | a natural flow of ground water |
young person youth younker spring chicken | a young person (especially a young man or boy) |
Carolina spring beauty Claytonia caroliniana | similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers, eastern North America |
spring beauty Clatonia lanceolata | small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm |
Virginia spring beauty Claytonia virginica | small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, eastern North America |
spring cress Cardamine bulbosa | small white-flowered cress common in wet places in eastern North America |
winter heath spring heath Erica carnea | dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
spring squill Scilla verna sea onion | European scilla with small blue or purple flowers |
spring vetchling spring vetch Lathyrus vernus | bushy European perennial having nodding racemose violet-blue flowers |
spring vetch Vicia sativa | herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building |
cleavers clivers goose grass catchweed spring cleavers Galium aparine | annual having the stem beset with curved prickles, North America and Europe and Asia |
footsteps-of-spring Sanicula arctopoides | sanicle of northwestern United States and British Columbia having yellow flowers |
identity identity element identity operator | an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates, the identity under numerical multiplication is |
element | a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone |
element of a cone | a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base |
element of a cylinder | a straight line running the length of the cylinder |
element | the situation in which you are happiest and most effective, in your element |
chemical element element | any of the more than known substances (of which occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter |
transuranic element | any element having an atomic number greater than (which is the atomic number of uranium), all are radioactive |