Absorbing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Absorb |
Absorbing
(a.) Swallowing, engrossing |
Absorption
(n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear |
Absorption
(n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action |
Absorption
(n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. |
Absorption
(n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind |
Alum root
() A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties. |
Chay root
() The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. |
Choy root
() See Chay root. |
Hair
(n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body. |
Hair
(n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin. |
Hair
(n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes |
Hair
(n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. |
Hair
(n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar). |
Hair
(n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm. |
Hair
(n.) A haircloth. |
Hair
(n.) Any very small distance, or degree |
Hair'sbreadth
() The diameter or breadth of a hair |
Hair-brown
(a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Hair grass
() A grass with very slender leaves or branches |
Hair-salt
(n.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. |
Lady's hair
() A plant of the genus Briza (B. media) |
Maid's hair
() The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum). |
Root
(v. i.) To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine. |
Root
(v. i.) Hence, to seek for favor or advancement by low arts or groveling servility |
Root
(v. t.) To turn up or to dig out with the snout |
Root
(n.) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion, or the sweet flag. |
Root
(n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphytic orchids. |
Root
(n.) An edible or esculent root, especially of such plants as produce a single root, as the beet, carrot, etc. |
Root
(n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support |
Root
(n.) An ancestor or progenitor |
Root
(n.) A primitive form of speech |
Root
(n.) The cause or occasion by which anything is brought about |
Root
(n.) That factor of a quantity which when multiplied into itself will produce that quantity |
Root
(n.) The fundamental tone of any chord |
Root
(n.) The lowest place, position, or part. |
Root
(n.) The time which to reckon in making calculations. |
Root
(v. i.) To fix the root |
Root
(v. i.) To be firmly fixed |
Root
(v. t.) To plant and fix deeply in the earth, or as in the earth |
Root
(v. t.) To tear up by the root |
Zone
(n.) A girdle |
Zone
(n.) One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature. |
Zone
(n.) The portion of the surface of a sphere included between two parallel planes |
Zone
(n.) A band or stripe extending around a body. |
Zone
(n.) A band or area of growth encircling anything |
Zone
(n.) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections. |
Zone
(n.) Circuit |
Zone
(v. t.) To girdle |
hair care
haircare
hairdressing | care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair |
| hair coloring | the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair |
| zone fire | artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations |
brewer's mole
hair-tailed mole
Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
| guard hair | coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals |
| hair | a filamentous projection or process on an organism |
whisker
vibrissa
sensory hair | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat |
earless seal
true seal
hair seal | any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers |
camel's hair
camelhair | a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel |
cross hair
cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
curler
hair curler
roller crimper | a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it, a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight |
haircloth
hair | cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair, used for upholstery or stiffening in garments |
hairdressing
hair tonic
hair oil
hair grease | a toiletry for the hair |
hairpiece
false hair
postiche | a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment |
| hair shirt | an uncomfortable shirt made of coarse animal hair, worn next to the skin as a penance |
| hair slide | a decorative hinged clip that girls and women put in their hair to hold it in place |
| hair space | (printing) the narrowest of the spaces used to separate words or letters |
| hair spray | toiletry consisting of a commercial preparation that is sprayed on the hair to hold it in place |
| hair trigger | a gun trigger that responds with little pressure |
hand blower
blow dryer
blow drier
hair dryer
hair drier | a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair, used for styling hair |
mousse
hair mousse
hair gel | toiletry consisting of an aerosol foam used in hair styling |
root cellar
cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
sable sable brush
sable's hair pencil | an artist's brush made of sable hairs |
traffic island
safety island
safety isle
safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
twilight zone
no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
| hair coloring | coloring of the hair, her hairoloring was unusual: a very pale gold |
absorptivity
absorption factor | (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body |
| erogenous zone | any area of the body especially sensitive to sexual stimulation |
| hair cell | a sensory epithelial cell present in the organ of Corti |
| hair pilus | any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal, there is a hair in my soup |
| ingrown hair | a hair that does not emerge from the follicle but remains embedded in the skin (usually causing inflammation) |
| hair | a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head), helps to prevent heat loss, he combed his hair, each hair consists of layers of dead keratinized cells |
| body hair | short hair growing over a person's body |
| mane head of hair | growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being |
hairdo
hairstyle
hair style
coiffure
coif | the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) |
| facial hair | hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) |
pubic hair
bush
crotch hair | hair growing in the pubic area |
root
tooth root | the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support |
| root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
dorsal root
dorsal horn | one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers |
ventral root
ventral horn
anterior root
anterior horn | one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers |
language area
language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
| hair follicle | a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair, small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them |
zone
zona | (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure |
preoccupation
preoccupancy
absorption
engrossment | the mental state of being preoccupied by something |
concentration
engrossment absorption immersion | complete attention, intense mental effort |
| comfort zone | the temperature range (between anddegrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating |
| self-absorption | preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else |
eigenvalue
eigenvalue of a matrix
eigenvalue of a square matrix
characteristic root of a square matrix | (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant |
root
root word
base
stem theme radical | (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed, thematic vowels are part of the stem |