slide glide coast | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it, his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill, the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
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 |
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 |
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 |
dry battery | a voltaic battery consisting of two or more dry cells |
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 |
lead-acid battery lead-acid accumulator | a battery with lead electrodes with dilute sulphuric acid as the electrolyte, each cell generates about volts |
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 |
storage battery accumulator | a voltaic battery that stores electric charge |
voltaic battery galvanic battery | battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel |
coast | the area within view, the coast is clear |
battery | a collection of related things intended for use together, took a battery of achievement tests |
battery | a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher |
United States Coast Guard U. S. Coast Guard US Coast Guard | an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce |
battery | group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place |
Adelie Land Terre Adelie Adelie Coast | a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins |
Barbary Coast | the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates |
Barbary Coast | a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of ), we'll tolerate no Barbary Coast in this city! |
gold coast | a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living, usually along a coastal area, Chicago's gold coast is along Lake Michigan |
Ivory Coast Cote d'Ivoire Republic of Cote d'Ivoire | a republic in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, one of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa |
Ghana Republic of Ghana Gold Coast | a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British |
East Coast | the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.) |
West Coast | the western seaboard of the United States from Washington to southern California |
Atlantic Coast | a coast of the Atlantic Ocean |
coast | a slope down which sleds may coast, when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course |
Coast Range Coast Mountains | a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California |
Gulf Coast | a seashore of the Gulf of Mexico |
Pacific Coast | a coast of the Pacific Ocean |
seashore coast seacoast seaoast | the shore of a sea or ocean |
western hemlock Pacific hemlock west coast hemlock Tsuga heterophylla | tall evergreen of western North America, commercially important timber tree |
southern white cedar coast white cedar Atlantic white cedar white cypress white cedar Chamaecyparis thyoides | slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States, resembles American arborvitae |
California redwood coast redwood Sequoia sempervirens | lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur, it flourishes in wet, rainy, foggy habitats |
honeysuckle Australian honeysuckle coast banksia Banksia integrifolia | shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers |
coast rhododendron Rhododendron californicum | medium-sized rhododendron of Pacific coast of North America having large rosy brown-spotted flowers |
coast live oak California live oak Quercus agrifolia | highly variable often shrubby evergreen oak of coastal zone of western North America having small thick usually spiny-toothed dark-green leaves |
coast lily Lilium maritinum | orange-flowered lily of Pacific coast of United States |
coast boykinia Boykinia elata Boykinia occidentalis | plant with leaves mostly at the base and openly branched clusters of small white flowers, western North America |
leatherleaf leathery polypody coast polypody Polypodium scouleri | stiff leathery-leaved fern of western North America having ovate fronds parted to the midrib |
Ivory Coast franc Cote d'Ivoire franc | the basic unit of money in the Ivory Coast |
battery acid electrolyte acid | dilute sulfuric acid used in storage batteries |