A skylight or other device whose purpose is to direct light into a room.
abatjours
abatjours
noun
plural of abatjour
abject
abject
adj
(chiefly with a negative connotation) Complete; downright; utter.
(rare) Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
noun
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
verb
(mycology) Of a fungus: to (forcibly) give off (spores or sporidia).
To cast down (someone or something); to abase; to debase; to degrade; to lower; also, to forcibly impose obedience or servitude upon (someone); to subjugate.
To cast off or out (someone or something); to reject, especially as contemptible or inferior.
abjectedness
abjectedness
noun
(rare) The state of being abjected.
abjection
abjection
noun
(biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores.
(obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down.
A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle.
A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy.
The act of abjuring.
abjurations
abjurations
noun
plural of abjuration
abjuratory
abjuratory
adj
Involving abjuration.
abjurement
abjurement
noun
(rare) renunciation
adjacent
adjacent
adj
(figuratively, postpositive) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Just before, after, or facing.
Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
noun
Something that lies next to something else, especially the side of a right triangle that is neither the hypotenuse nor the opposite.
prep
(figuratively) Related to; suggestive of; bordering on.
Next to; beside.
adjacently
adjacently
adv
In such a way as to be adjacent.
adject
adject
verb
(obsolete) To annex
adjection
adjection
noun
Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
adjectional
adjectional
adj
Pertaining to adjection; that is, or may be, annexed.
adjectitious
adjectitious
adj
(formal) Added; additional.
adjectival
adjectival
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to or functioning as an adjective.
(law) Of or relating to procedure, especially to technicalities thereof.
noun
An adjectival phrase or clause.
adjectivally
adjectivally
adv
As, or in the manner of, an adjective.
adjective
adjective
adj
(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
(law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
(obsolete, reflected in the chemical sense, but extinct as a general sense) Incapable of independent function.
noun
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.
(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.
verb
(transitive) To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.
(transitive, chiefly as a participle) To characterize with an adjective; to describe by using an adjective.
adjectively
adjectively
adv
As an adjective; adjectivally.
adjectives
adjectives
noun
plural of adjective
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjective
adjectivism
adjectivism
noun
The excessive use of adjectives.
adjectivitis
adjectivitis
noun
(humorous) The overuse of adjectives in writing.
adjoinant
adjoinant
adj
(obsolete) Contiguous, adjoining.
adjoint
adjoint
adj
(geometry, of one curve to another curve) Having a relationship of the nature of an adjoint (adjoint curve); sharing multiple points with.
(mathematics) Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation).
(mathematics, category theory, of a functor) That is related to another functor by an adjunction.
noun
(geometry, algebraic geometry) A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used.
(mathematics) The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.
(mathematics, category theory) A functor related to another functor by an adjunction.
(mathematics, linear algebra, of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.
(mathematics, mathematical analysis, of an operator) Hermitian conjugate.
An assistant mayor of a French commune.
An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.
adjoints
adjoints
noun
plural of adjoint
adjournment
adjournment
noun
(rhetoric) Ampliatio.
The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
adjournments
adjournments
noun
plural of adjournment
adjoust
adjt
adjudgment
adjudgment
noun
The action of imposing judgment.
adjudicata
adjudicate
adjudicate
verb
(Scotland, law) To seize, or convey, a debtor's estate as security.
To act as a judge.
To settle a legal case or other dispute.
adjudicated
adjudicated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adjudicate
adjudicates
adjudicates
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjudicate
adjudicating
adjudicating
verb
present participle of adjudicate
adjudication
adjudication
noun
(emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
(law) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
(law, Scotland) A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.
A judgment or sentence.
The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
adjudications
adjudications
noun
plural of adjudication
adjudicative
adjudicative
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjudication or to an adjudicator.
adjudicator
adjudicator
noun
One who adjudicates.
adjudicators
adjudicators
noun
plural of adjudicator
adjudicatory
adjudicatory
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjudication.
adjudicature
adjudicature
noun
An act of adjudication; a judgment.
adjugate
adjugate
noun
(mathematics) The transpose of the respective cofactor matrix, for a given matrix. One of the factors in calculating the inverse of a matrix. Commonly notated as adj(A), where A is the given matrix.
verb
(obsolete) To yoke an animal to something
adjument
adjument
noun
(obsolete) Help; support; that which or one who helps or supports.
adjunct
adjunct
adj
Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.
Connected in a subordinate function.
noun
(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
(dated, metaphysics) A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.
(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that modifies its meaning.
(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
(rhetoric) Symploce.
(syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
adjunction
adjunction
noun
(category theory) Given a pair of categories 𝒞 and 𝒟: an anti-parallel pair of functors F:𝒞→𝒟 and G:𝒟→𝒞 and a natural transformation 𝜂: mbox id_C→GF called “unit” such that for any object A∈𝒞, for any object B∈𝒟, and for any morphism f:A→GB, there is a unique morphism g:FA→B such that Gg∘𝜂_A=f. (Note: there is another natural transformation called “counit” as well but its existence may be derived by theorem.) The pair of functors express a similarity between the pair of categories which is weaker than that of an equivalence of categories.
(law) The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
adjunctions
adjunctions
noun
plural of adjunction
adjunctive
adjunctive
adj
(logic) the property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a
additional; neither basic nor primary
forming an adjunct
noun
(grammar) a connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction
(manufacturing) a substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives."
adjunctively
adjunctively
adv
In an adjunctive way.
adjunctly
adjunctly
adv
In an adjunct manner.
adjuncts
adjuncts
noun
plural of adjunct
adjuntas
adjuration
adjuration
noun
A grave warning.
A solemn oath.
adjurations
adjurations
noun
plural of adjuration
adjuratory
adjuratory
adj
Of or pertaining to an adjuration.
adjust
adjust
verb
(intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.
(transitive) To improve or rectify.
(transitive) To modify.
(transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
adjustability
adjustability
noun
The state or condition of being adjustable.
adjustable
adjustable
adj
capable of being adjusted
noun
Anything that can be adjusted.
adjustably
adjustably
adv
In a way that is adjustable.
adjustage
adjustage
noun
(rare, obsolete) Adjustment.
adjustation
adjustation
noun
(rare) Adjustment.
adjusted
adjusted
adj
Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of adjust
adjuster
adjuster
noun
One who adjusts, especially for the insurance industry's employment title "loss adjuster" (or "claims adjuster" in the United States).
adjusters
adjusters
noun
plural of adjuster
adjusting
adjusting
noun
Adjustment.
verb
present participle of adjust
adjustive
adjustive
adj
Tending to adjust.
adjustment
adjustment
noun
The action of adjusting something
The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim
The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration
The settling or balancing of a financial account
adjustmental
adjustmental
adj
Relating to adjustment.
adjustments
adjustments
noun
plural of adjustment
adjustor
adjustor
noun
Alternative form of adjuster
adjustores
adjustoring
adjustors
adjustors
noun
plural of adjustor
adjusts
adjusts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjust
adjutage
adjutage
noun
Alternative form of ajutage
adjutancies
adjutancies
noun
plural of adjutancy
adjutancy
adjutancy
noun
The state or office of being an adjutant, assistant, or helper.
adjutant
adjutant
adj
Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer.
noun
(military) A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
(zoology) Any bird of the genus Leptoptilos, a branch of the stork family (Ciconiidae) native to India and Southeast Asia.
An assistant.
adjutants
adjutants
noun
plural of adjutant
adjutantship
adjutantship
noun
The role or status of adjutant.
adjutator
adjutator
noun
(archaic) Alternative spelling of agitator
adjute
adjute
verb
(obsolete) To add.
adjutor
adjutor
noun
An adjutant; a helper or assistant;
adjutorious
adjutory
adjutory
adj
(obsolete) Serving to help or assist.
adjutrice
adjutrice
noun
Alternative form of adjutrix (“female adjutor”)
adjutrix
adjutrix
noun
A female adjutor.
adjuvant
adjuvant
adj
(medicine) Designating a supplementary form of treatment, especially a cancer therapy administered after removal of a primary tumour. [from 19th c.]
Helping; helpful; assisting. [from 16th c.]
noun
(agriculture) An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of pesticide products, but has little or no pesticidal activity itself. [from mid 20th c.]
(immunology) A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen. [from 20th c.]
(medicine) Something that enhances the effectiveness of a medical treatment; a supplementary treatment. [from 18th c.]
(pharmacology) An additive (as in a drug) that aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient. [from 19th c.]
Someone who helps or facilitates; an assistant, a helper. [from 16th c.]
adjuvants
adjuvants
noun
plural of adjuvant
adjuvate
adjuvate
verb
To help; to further
aerojet
ajanta
ajatasatru
ajit
ajitter
ajoint
ajutment
alentejo
alentejo
Proper noun
A traditional region in southern Portugal.
ammoniojarosite
ammoniojarosite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal yellow mineral containing hydrogen, iron, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
anjanette
antejentacular
antejentacular
adj
(rare, formal) Occurring before breakfast.
antejudiciary
antejuramentum
antiejaculation
antihijack
antijam
antijam
adj
Preventing jamming (communications interference).
antijamming
antijamming
adj
Designed not to jam (become stuck).
Designed to prevent being jammed (communications interference).
antiprojectivity
antjar
apjohnite
apjohnite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, and sulfur.
argentojarosite
argentojarosite
noun
(mineralogy) A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, iron, oxygen, silver, and sulfur.
arrojadite
arrojadite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium.
assubjugate
assubjugate
verb
(obsolete) To bring into subjection.
aunjetitz
autojigger
autojuggernaut
backjoint
backjoint
noun
(architecture) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
bajulate
banjoist
banjoist
noun
One who plays a banjo.
banjoists
banjoists
noun
plural of banjoist
baviaantje
bejant
bejant
noun
A first-year male student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
bemajesty
benjaminite
benjaminite
noun
(mineralogy) A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing bismuth, copper, lead, silver, and sulfur.
benjamite
benjamite
Noun
A Benjaminite.
betjeman
biconjugate
biconjugate
adj
(botany) paired twice
(mathematics) conjugate in two ways
bijugate
bijugate
adj
(botany) Of a compound leaf, having two pairs of leaflets
(botany) Of leaf arrangement, having pairs of (opposite) leaves, spirally arranged, producing a double spiral
bjart
blatjang
blatjang
noun
(South Africa) A spicy South African chutney.
blepharoconjunctivitis
blepharoconjunctivitis
noun
(medicine) The combination of conjunctivitis and blepharitis.
bluejacket
bluejacket
noun
(nautical) A seaman of a British warship
(nautical) An enlisted man in the US Navy.
A uniformed policeman.
bluejackets
bluejackets
noun
plural of bluejacket
bootjack
bootjack
noun
a V-shaped, or forked, device for pulling off boots.
bootjacks
bootjacks
noun
plural of bootjack
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bootjack
bostanji
bostanji
noun
(historical) One of the imperial guards of the Ottoman Empire.