Boiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boil |
Boiling (a.) Heated to the point of bubbling |
Boiling (n.) The act of ebullition or of tumultuous agitation. |
Boiling (n.) Exposure to the action of a hot liquid. |
Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." |
Curve (a.) Bent without angles |
Curve (a.) A bending without angles |
Curve (a.) A line described according to some low, and having no finite portion of it a straight line. |
Curve (a.) To bend |
Curve (v. i.) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction |
Dew-point (n.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere. |
Diagram (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration |
Diagram (n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it |
Diagram (v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram. |
Dust-point (n.) An old rural game. |
Equilibrium (n.) Equality of weight or force |
Equilibrium (n.) A level position |
Equilibrium (n.) A balancing of the mind between motives or reasons, with consequent indecision and doubt. |
Libration point (n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body. |
Liquid (a.) Flowing freely like water |
Liquid (a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do |
Liquid (a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones. |
Liquid (a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness |
Liquid (a.) Fluid and transparent |
Liquid (a.) Clear |
Liquid (n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form |
Liquid (n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute |
Point (v. t. & i.) To appoint. |
Point (n.) That which pricks or pierces |
Point (n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others |
Point (n.) Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape |
Point (n.) The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle |
Point (n.) An indefinitely small space |
Point (n.) An indivisible portion of time |
Point (n.) A mark of punctuation |
Point (n.) Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree |
Point (n.) That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character |
Point (n.) Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc. |
Point (n.) A small matter |
Point (n.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time |
Point (n.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles |
Point (n.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes. |
Point (n.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended |
Point (n.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon. |
Point (n.) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below) |
Point (n.) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef. |
Point (n.) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. |
Point (n.) Lace wrought the needle |
Point (n.) A switch. |
Point (n.) An item of private information |
curve curve ball breaking ball bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
point after point after touchdown extra point | in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown |
springboard jumping-off point point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
boiling stewing simmering | cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil |
Turkish bath steam bath vapor bath vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
three-point turn | the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs |
bluepoint blue point | small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island |
blue point Siamese | Siamese cat having a bluish creamolored body and dark grey points |
basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
bend curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
blind curve blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
block diagram | a diagram showing the interconnections between the components of system (especially an electronic system) |
boiling water reactor BWR | a nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator, the water boils in the reactor core and the steam produced can drive a steam turbine |
corner street corner turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
diagram | a drawing intended to explain how something works, a drawing showing the relation between the parts |
diamond point | a very hard small point made from a diamond |
dishwasher detergent dishwashing detergent dishwashing liquid | a low-sudsing detergent designed for use in dishwashers |
distributor point breaker point point | a contact in the distributor, as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs |
dry point | a steel needle for engraving without acid on a bare copper plate |
dry point | a print produced by dry point engraving |
gros point | needlepoint embroidery done with large stitches |
gros point | a needlepoint stitch covering two horizontal and two vertical threads |
liquid crystal display LCD | a digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field, used for portable computer displays and watches etc. |
liquid detergent | a detergent in liquid form |
liquid metal reactor | a nuclear reactor using liquid metal as a coolant |
liquid soap | soap in liquid form |
petit point | needlepoint done with small stitches |
petit point tent stitch | a small diagonal needlepoint stitch |
point | sharp end, he stuck the point of the knife into a tree, he broke the point of his pencil |
point power point | a wall socket |
point gunpoint | the gun muzzle's direction, he held me up at the point of a gun |
point-and-shoot camera | a lightweight photographic camera with an autofocus |
point lace needlepoint | lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern |
soap scoop max liquid ecstasy grievous bodily harm goop Georgia home boy easy lay | street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate |
sodium-vapor lamp sodium-vapour lamp | lamp in which an electric current passed through a tube of sodium vapor makes a yellow light, used is street lighting |
spearhead spearpoint spear-point | the head and sharpened point of a spear |
steam bath steam room vapor bath vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
three-way switch three-point switch | an electric switch that has three terminals, used to control a circuit from two different locations |
vapor lock vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internalombustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor) |
Venn diagram Venn's diagram | a diagram that uses circles to represent mathematical or logical sets pictorially inside a rectangle (the universal set), elements that are common to more than one set are represented by intersections of the circles |
well point wellpoint | a perforated tube driven into the ground to collect water from the surrounding area |
wiring diagram | a schematic drawing of the wiring of an electrical system |
boiling point | being highly angry or excited, ready to boil over, after an hour of waiting I was at the boiling point |
vanishing point | the appearance of a point on the horizon at which parallel lines converge |
point spot | an outstanding characteristic, his acting was one of the high points of the movie |
point | a distinguishing or individuating characteristic, he knows my bad points as well as my good points |
selling point | a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers |
vapor density vapour density | the density of a gas relative to the density of hydrogen |