Octave
(n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included |
Octave
(n.) The eighth tone in the scale |
Octave
(n.) The whole diatonic scale itself. |
Octave
(n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each |
Octave
(n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe. |
Octave
(a.) Consisting of eight |
Open
(a.) Free of access |
Open
(a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like |
Open
(a.) Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view |
Open
(a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted |
Open
(a.) Without reserve or false pretense |
Open
(a.) Not concealed or secret |
Open
(a.) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc. |
Open
(a.) Not settled or adjusted |
Open
(a.) Free |
Open
(a.) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs |
Open
(a.) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s. |
Open
(a.) Not closed or stopped with the finger |
Open
(a.) Produced by an open string |
Open
(n.) Open or unobstructed space |
Open
(v. t.) To make or set open |
Open
(v. t.) To spread |
Open
(v. t.) To disclose |
Open
(v. t.) To make known |
Open
(v. t.) To enter upon |
Open
(v. t.) To loosen or make less compact |
Open
(v. i.) To unclose |
Open
(v. i.) To expand |
Open
(v. i.) To begin |
Open
(v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game. |
Open-air
(a.) Taking place in the open air |
Open-eyed
(a.) With eyes widely open |
Open-handed
(a.) Generous |
Open-headed
(a.) Bareheaded. |
Open-hearted
(a.) Candid |
Open-mouthed
(a.) Having the mouth open |
Parallel
(a.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant |
Parallel
(a.) Having the same direction or tendency |
Parallel
(a.) Continuing a resemblance through many particulars |
Parallel
(n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line |
Parallel
(n.) Direction conformable to that of another line, |
Parallel
(n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points |
Parallel
(n.) A comparison made |
Parallel
(n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars |
Parallel
(n.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude |
Parallel
(n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress. |
Parallel
(n.) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page. |
Parallel
(v. t.) To place or set so as to be parallel |
Parallel
(v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like. |
Parallel
(v. t.) To equal |
| open sesame | any very successful means of achieving a result |
| open primary | a primary in which any registered voter can vote (but must vote for candidates of only one party) |
open frame
break | any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare, the break in the eighth frame cost him the match |
| open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
| fireplace hearth open fireplace | an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built, the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it, he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it, the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires |
open-air market
open-air marketplace
market square | a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold |
| open circuit | an incomplete electrical circuit in which no current flows |
open-end wrench
tappet wrench | a wrench having parallel jaws at fixed separation (often on both ends of the handle) |
| open-hearth furnace | a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it |
| open sight | rear gunsight having an open notch instead of a peephole or telescope |
| open weave | a weave in which warp threads never come together, leaving interstices in the fabric |
parallel bars
bars | gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights |
parallel circuit
shunt circuit | a closed circuit in which the current divides into two or more paths before recombining to complete the circuit |
parallel interface
parallel port | an interface between a computer and a printer where the computer sends multiple bits of information to the printer simultaneously |
uneven parallel bars
uneven bars | a pair of parallel bars set at different heights, used in women's gymnastics |
analogue
analog
parallel | something having the property of being analogous to something else |
| open door | freedom of access, he maintained an open door for all employees |
open
surface | information that has become public, all the reports were out in the open, the facts had been brought to the surface |
Euclid's fifth axiom
parallel axiom | only one line can be drawn through a point parallel to another line |
open interval
unbounded interval | an interval that does not include its endpoints |
| octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse |
| open account | an unpaid credit order |
| open letter | a letter of protest, addressed to one person but intended for the general public |
open-door policy
open door | the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries |
| open secret | something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known, their love affair was an open secret |
| Parallel Lives | a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch, used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays |
octave
musical octave | a musical interval of eight tones |
| open sesame | a magical command, used by Ali Baba |
| open | a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play |
open-face sandwich
open sandwich | sandwich without a covering slice of bread |
mutual fund
mutual fund company
open-end fund
open-end investment company | a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares |
| open shop | a company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union |
| open house | an informal party of people with hospitality for all comers |
| Open University | a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school |
| open society | a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy), America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists |
| open order | a military formation leaving enough space between ranks to allow an inspecting officer to pass |
latitude line of latitude
parallel of latitude
parallel | an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator |
outdoors
out-of-doors
open air
open | where the air is unconfined, he wanted to get outdoors a little, the concert was held in the open air, camping in the open |
| open clear | a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water, finally broke out of the forest into the open |
| open chain | a chain of atoms in a molecule whose ends are not joined to form a ring |
| parallel-veined leaf | a leaf whose veins run in parallel from the stem |
open-end credit
revolving credit
charge account credit | a consumer credit line that can be used up to a certain limit or paid down at any time |
credit account
charge account
open account | credit extended by a business to a customer |
multiprocessing
parallel processing | simultaneous processing by two or more processing units |
| open-hearth process | a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace |
parallel operation
simultaneous operation | the simultaneous execution of two or more operations |
| parallel | (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes), parallels never meet |
| open marriage | a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other |
chronic glaucoma
open-angle glaucoma | glaucoma caused by blockage of the canal of Schlemm, produces gradual loss of peripheral vision, open-angle glaucoma is the most common type of glaucoma |
compound fracture
open fracture | bone fracture associated with lacerated soft tissue or an open wound |