English dictionary: words starting with u - page 209

Meanings of Uranyl:

noun

The cation uo22+, present in some compounds of uranium.

Usage examples:

Uranyl acetate

Meanings of Urate:

noun

A salt or ester of uric acid.

Usage examples:

This may be due to genetic factors, but usually drugs including alcohol result in the low urate ren…

Meanings of Urates:

noun

A salt or ester of uric acid.

Usage examples:

This may be due to genetic factors, but usually drugs including alcohol result in the low urate ren…

Meanings of Urb:

noun

An urban area, a city.

Meanings of Urban:

adjective

In, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city.

Usage examples:

The urban population

Meanings of Urban-legend:

noun

A story or statement that is not true but is often repeated, and believed by many to be true

Meanings of Urban-myth:

noun

A story or statement that is not true but is often repeated, and believed by many to be true

Meanings of Urbane:

adjective

(of a person) courteous and refined in manner.

Usage examples:

They are charming and urbane

Meanings of Urbanely:

adverb

In a way that is urbane (= confident, relaxed, and polite)

Usage examples:

"so sorry to have kept you," he said urbanely., though selfish and ruthless, he was urbanely charmi…

Meanings of Urbanisation:

noun

The process of making an area more urban.

Usage examples:

He saw nature being destroyed by urbanization

Meanings of Urbanise:

verb

Make or become urban in character.

Usage examples:

Once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized

Meanings of Urbanised:

verb

Make or become urban in character.

Usage examples:

Once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized

adjective

Made urban in character.

Usage examples:

Urbanized areas

Meanings of Urbanises:

verb

Make or become urban in character.

Usage examples:

Once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized

Meanings of Urbanising:

verb

Make or become urban in character.

Usage examples:

Once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized

Meanings of Urbanism:

noun

The way of life characteristic of cities and towns.

Usage examples:

A lot of their songs are about cities and urbanism

Meanings of Urbanist:

noun

An advocate of or expert in city planning.

Usage examples:

For the better part of the last half century, urbanists, planners, and environmentalists have raile…

Meanings of Urbanistic:

adjective

Of or relating to urban development or town planning.

Meanings of Urbanistically:

adverb

In a way that relates to the life of cities and towns, or the study and planning of them

Usage examples:

They need to find a logical, economic solution that is both historically and urbanistically sensiti…

Meanings of Urbanists:

noun

An advocate of or expert in city planning.

Usage examples:

For the better part of the last half century, urbanists, planners, and environmentalists have raile…

Meanings of Urbanite:

noun

A person who lives in a town or city.

Usage examples:

Such countryside leisure activities suck in large numbers of urbanites and their cars

Meanings of Urbanites:

noun

A person who lives in a town or city.

Usage examples:

Such countryside leisure activities suck in large numbers of urbanites and their cars

Meanings of Urbanization:

noun

The process of making an area more urban.

Usage examples:

He saw nature being destroyed by urbanization

Meanings of Urbanize:

verb

Make or become urban in character.

Usage examples:

Once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized

Meanings of Urbanized:

adjective

Made urban in character.

Usage examples:

Urbanized areas

verb

Make or become urban in character.

Usage examples:

Once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized

Meanings of Urbanizes:

verb

Make or become urban in character.

Usage examples:

Once an agrarian society, the island has recently been urbanized