English words starting with par

Meanings of Par:

noun

The number of strokes a first-class player should normally require for a particular hole or course.

Usage examples:

Woosnam had advanced from his overnight position of three under par

verb

Play (a hole) in par.

Usage examples:

He calmly parred the 17th

abbreviation

Paragraph.

Usage examples:

See par. 3.1 above

combining form

Variant spelling of para-1 shortened before a vowel or h (as in paraldehyde, parody, parhelion ).

prefix

Beside; adjacent to.

Usage examples:

Parataxis

Meanings of Par for the course:

phrase

What is normal or expected in any given circumstances.

Usage examples:

Looking gorgeous is par for the course with her

idiom

What should be expected because of past experience

Usage examples:

The school budget is going to be cut again this year, but then that’s par for the course.

Meanings of Par-excellence:

adjective

Of the best quality of its type

Usage examples:

He praised her as the teacher par excellence.

Meanings of Para:

noun

A paratrooper.

Usage examples:

We aren't missing nato, a few battalions of paras and mech infantry would be nice, but they won't c…

prefix

Beside; adjacent to.

Usage examples:

Parataxis

abbreviation

Paragraph.

Usage examples:

See par. 3.1 above

proper noun

A state in northern brazil, on the atlantic coast at the delta of the amazon; capital, belém. it is a region of dense rainforest.

Meanings of Parabanate:

noun

A salt or ester of parabanic acid or of one of its substituted derivatives.

Meanings of Parabasal:

adjective

Designating or relating to a specialized type of golgi complex found near the nucleus and kinetosome in certain protozoans. in early use also: a kinetoplast (now rare or disused). chiefly in "parabasal body".

Meanings of Parabases:

noun

(in ancient greek comedy) a direct address to the audience, sung or chanted by the chorus on behalf of the author.

Usage examples:

The chorus is important, and peculiar to old comedy are the agon and parabasis.

Meanings of Parabasis:

noun

(in ancient greek comedy) a direct address to the audience, sung or chanted by the chorus on behalf of the author.

Usage examples:

The chorus is important, and peculiar to old comedy are the agon and parabasis.

Meanings of Parabema:

noun

The area of an orthodox church on each side of the bema, separated from it by a wall.

Meanings of Parabiosis:

noun

The anatomical joining of two individuals, especially artificially in physiological research.

Usage examples:

In this study, we demonstrated by parabiosis that type i alveolar epithelial cells and lung fibrobl…

Meanings of Parabiotically:

adverb

In a parabiotic manner.

Meanings of Parablast:

noun

Especially in the terminology of w. his: a layer of cells that gives rise to the blood vessels and connective tissue of the embryo (embryonic mesenchyme), (supposedly) located outside the blastoderm.

Meanings of Parable:

noun

A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by jesus in the gospels.

Usage examples:

The parable of the blind men and the elephant

Meanings of Parablepsy:

noun

Scribal oversight, especially the erroneous assimilation of the spelling of a word to that of another in the text; an instance of this. chiefly in relation to the editing of old, especially classical, texts.

Meanings of Parableptic:

adjective

Of or relating to parablepsis.

Meanings of Parables:

noun

A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by jesus in the gospels.

Usage examples:

The parable of the blind men and the elephant

Meanings of Parabola:

noun

A symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. the path of a projectile under the influence of gravity follows a curve of this shape.

Usage examples:

The solutions to the equations describing the motions produced by this law are called conic section…

Meanings of Parabolanus:

noun

In the church in alexandria and constantinople in the 5th and 6th centuries: a member of a class of unordained helpers who attended the sick in times of plague, etc. usually in plural.

Meanings of Parabolas:

noun

A symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. the path of a projectile under the influence of gravity follows a curve of this shape.

Usage examples:

The solutions to the equations describing the motions produced by this law are called conic section…

Meanings of Parabole:

noun

= "parabola"–1c.

Meanings of Parabolic:

adjective

Of or like a parabola or part of one.

Usage examples:

A parabolic mirror behind a spotlight projects a parallel beam

Meanings of Parabolist:

noun

A user of metaphor or allegory; a person who narrates in parables.

Meanings of Parabolization:

noun

The process of making something parabolic or paraboloidal.

Meanings of Parabolize:

verb

To express or represent parabolically; to set forth in a parable.

Meanings of Parabolized:

verb

To express or represent parabolically; to set forth in a parable.