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noun

1. A glycoside forming in the leaves of the common locust tree; C₁₆H₁₂O₅.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of acacin

noun

1. (historical) The name of the garden in Athens where the academics met.
2. (poetic) An academy; a place of learning.
3. (poetic) The scholarly life, environment, or community.
4. A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant.

noun

1. plural of academe

noun

1. (collective) The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
2. Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.

adj

1. (rare) academic

noun

1. (historical, obsolete) A follower of Plato.
2. (obsolete) A member of an academy, university, or college.

adj

1. (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
2. Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
3. Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato
4. Having a love of or aptitude for learning.
5. Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance.
6. In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
7. So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
8. Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.

noun

1. (archaic) A student in a college.
2. (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
3. (plural only) Academic studies.
4. (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
5. A member of the Academy; an academician.
6. A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.

adj

1. (rare) Belonging to the school of Plato; believing in Plato's philosophy; sceptical .
2. Pertaining to a university or other form of higher education.

noun

1. (plural only) Academic dress, consisting of a cap and gown.

adv

1. In an academic style or way; from an academic perspective.

noun

1. (Britain) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities, typically on special occasions such as graduation.

noun

1. (now chiefly US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
2. A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts.

noun

1. plural of academician

noun

1. A membership in a national academy of arts or sciences

noun

1. (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
2. (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
3. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
4. Speculative thoughts and attitudes.

noun

1. plural of academicism

noun

1. Academia.
2. plural of academic

noun

1. plural of academy

verb

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of academize.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of academise

verb

1. present participle of academise

noun

1. Alternative form of academicism

noun

1. An academic philosopher.
2. An academician.
3. an academic.

noun

1. A member of an academy.

noun

1. Process or action of academizing.

verb

1. (transitive) To make academic.
2. (transitive, UK, education) To convert (a school) into a publicly-run academy.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of academize

verb

1. present participle of academize

noun

1. (UK, education) A school directly funded by central government, independent of local control.
2. (classical studies, usually capitalized) Plato's philosophical system based on skepticism; Plato's followers.
3. (classical studies, usually capitalized) The garden where Plato taught.
4. (obsolete) The knowledge disseminated in an Academy.
5. (with the, without reference to any specific academy) Academia.
6. A body of established opinion in a particular field, regarded as authoritative.
7. A school or place of training in which some special art is taught.
8. A society of learned people united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science.
9. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university; typically a private school.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A mineral found in Nova Scotia consisting of red chabazite.

noun

1. (dated) A member of the former Acalephae group, now a part of the Cnidaria phylum.

Proper noun

1. A group of coelenterates including the jellyfish and sea nettles.

noun

1. An acaleph.

noun

1. Alternative form of acaleph

adj

1. Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae, or jellyfishes.

noun

1. plural of acaleph

adj

1. (botany) Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

adj

1. Lacking a calyx of calycle

adj

1. Of or pertaining to the Acalyptratae group.

noun

1. A muscoid fly belonging to the subsection Acalyptratae.

adj

1. (very rare) Bearing prickles or thistles; prickly.

adj

1. (botany): Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a member of the Acanthaceae family.
2. Armed with prickles, as a plant.

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus, or its leaves.

noun

1. (mineralogy) A mineral form of silver sulfide, Ag₂S, that is a major ore of silver, that forms slender prisms.

adj

1. In a manner similar to Acanthocephala.

noun

1. Any of parasitic intestinal worms comprising the phylum Acanthocephala.

adj

1. (zoology) Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

noun

1. Alternative form of acanthodian

noun

1. (paleontology) A tubular spine in some bryozoans.

noun

1. Alternative form of acanthopterygian

noun

1. (zoology) A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

adj

1. (zoology) Acanthopterygious
2. (zoology) Spiny-winged.

adj

1. (zoology) Similar to an acanthopterygian.

noun

1. (zoology) Any fish of the superorder Acanthopterygii.

noun

1. plural of acanthosis

noun

1. plural of acanthus

noun

1. (organic chemistry) n-methyl-n',n'-diphenylurea, used to stabilize chemicals and as a plasticizer.

noun

1. Any substance which kills acarids (mites and ticks).

adj

1. (medicine) Of or caused by acari or mites.

noun

1. (zoology) Synonym of acarid.

noun

1. plural of acarine

noun

1. plural of acarocecidium

noun

1. A plant gall caused by an acarid mite

noun

1. (pathology) inflammation of the skin caused by mites

adj

1. (botany) Having no carpels.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of acarpellous

adj

1. (poetry, prosody) Designating a line of verse having the required number of syllables in the last foot

noun

1. (poetry, prosody) A verse which has the complete number of feet and syllables

noun

1. plural of acatalectic

noun

1. Alternative form of acatalepsy

noun

1. Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

adj

1. Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible; inconceivable.

noun

1. An adherent of acatalepsy

noun

1. (pathology) A loss of the ability to understand, especially to understand speech

adj

1. Not categorical; not subject to being included in a category.

noun

1. (obsolete) caterer

noun

1. (obsolete) Cates: provisions; food.

adj

1. (biology, zoology) Tailless.

noun

1. The condition of being acaulescent

adj

1. (botany) Having no stem or caulis, or only a very short one concealed in the ground.

Adjective

1. acaulescent

adj

1. acaulous

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To overwhelm; to encumber.

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
2. (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
3. (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.
4. (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
5. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of accede

noun

1. The act of acceding

noun

1. One who accedes.

noun

1. plural of acceder

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accede

verb

1. present participle of accede

adv

1. (music) Abbreviation of accelerando.

noun

1. (colloquial) acceleration

adj

1. Able to be given increased speed; able to be accelerated.

adv

1. (music) With a gradual increase in speed.

noun

1. (by extension) Accelerating or exponential advancement or development (of a thing).
2. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at an increasing speed.

noun

1. plural of accelerando

adj

1. Causing acceleration or speeding up; accelerating.

noun

1. (figurative) Something that speeds up a process or the uptake of something else.
2. A substance used to catalyze the vulcanization of rubber.
3. In the context of fire protection, a substance that accelerates the development of a fire, especially some hydrocarbon-based fuel used to spread a fire caused by arson.

noun

1. plural of accelerant

adj

1. (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

verb

1. (intransitive) Grow; increase.
2. (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
3. (obsolete) Alternative form of accelerated
4. (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
5. (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
6. (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
7. (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
8. (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.

adj

1. Happening sooner than expected.
2. Moving or progressing faster than is usual.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of accelerate

adv

1. In an accelerated manner.

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accelerate

noun

1. An act of acceleration.

verb

1. present participle of accelerate

adv

1. In an accelerating manner.

noun

1. (countable) The amount by which a speed or velocity increases (and so a scalar quantity or a vector quantity).
2. (physics) The change of velocity with respect to time (can include deceleration or changing direction).
3. (uncountable) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as opposed to retardation or deceleration.
4. The advancement of students at a rate that places them ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.

noun

1. plural of acceleration

adj

1. Relating to acceleration; adding to velocity; quickening.

noun

1. (chemistry) A substance which speeds up chemical reactions.
2. (computing) A computer component using dedicated hardware to accelerate the processing and display of graphics.
3. (computing) An accelerator key.
4. (historical) A light van to take mails between a post office and a railway station.
5. (photography) A chemical that reduces development time.
6. (physics) A device that accelerates charged subatomic particles; a particle accelerator.
7. (physiology, medicine) A muscle or nerve that speeds the performance of an action.
8. (vehicles) A pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate when it is pressed.
9. A device for causing acceleration.
10. One who, or that which, accelerates.

noun

1. plural of accelerator

adj

1. accelerative

noun

1. (geology) An instrument used to record the acceleration of the ground during an earthquake.
2. (military) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.

noun

1. An instrument for measuring acceleration.
2. An instrument made for detecting and measuring vibrations.

noun

1. plural of accelerometer

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To set on fire; to kindle.

noun

1. Capacity for being kindled; inflammability.

adj

1. (obsolete) Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable

adj

1. (obsolete) kindled

noun

1. (obsolete) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition.

noun

1. (Roman Catholicism) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

noun

1. (archaic) Utterance.
2. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
3. (informal, sometimes proscribed) A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
4. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
5. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
6. (mathematics) A prime symbol.
7. (music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
8. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
9. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
10. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
11. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
12. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
13. (sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
14. (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
15. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
16. A word; a significant tone or sound.
17. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
18. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.

verb

1. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
2. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
3. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of accent

verb

1. present participle of accent

adj

1. Of a word, having no diacritical mark; unaccented.
2. Speaking without an accent.

noun

1. (music, obsolete) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
2. (obsolete) The ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla.
3. Any bird of the Eurasian genus Prunella, such as the dunnock.

noun

1. plural of accentor

noun

1. plural of accent

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accent

adj

1. Capable of being accentuated

adj

1. Designating verse rhythms based on stress accents.
2. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

noun

1. The quality of being accentual.

adv

1. In an accentual manner; in accordance with accent.

verb

1. (transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
2. (transitive) To mark with a written accent.
3. (transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.