All English words - page 1243

Meanings of Eliminant:

noun

An agent that causes or promotes excretion of waste material, foreign or toxic substances, etc.

adjective

Causing or promoting excretion. now chiefly historical.

Meanings of Eliminate:

verb

Completely remove or get rid of (something).

Usage examples:

A policy that would eliminate inflation

Meanings of Eliminating:

adjective

Leading to exclusion from consideration or further participation.

Usage examples:

Teams who had fought their way through the eliminating rounds

verb

Completely remove or get rid of (something).

Usage examples:

A policy that would eliminate inflation

Meanings of Eliminations:

noun

The complete removal or destruction of something.

Usage examples:

The elimination of extreme poverty is a key objective

Meanings of Eliminative:

adjective

Of, relating to, or causing elimination of waste material, foreign or toxic substances, etc., from the body.

Meanings of Eliminator:

noun

A thing that completely removes or gets rid of something.

Usage examples:

The goats served as natural grass eliminators

Meanings of Eliminators:

noun

A thing that completely removes or gets rid of something.

Usage examples:

The goats served as natural grass eliminators

Meanings of Elisha:

proper noun

(9th century bc), a hebrew prophet, disciple and successor of elijah.

Meanings of Elision:

noun

The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in i'm, let's ).

Usage examples:

The shortening of words by elision

Meanings of Elisor:

noun

(now chiefly us). either of two people appointed by the court to select a jury (or occasionally perform other duties), when the sheriff is disqualified from acting.

Meanings of Elite:

noun

A select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society.

Usage examples:

The elite of britain's armed forces

Meanings of Elites:

noun

A select group that is superior in terms of ability or qualities to the rest of a group or society.

Usage examples:

The elite of britain's armed forces

Meanings of Elitism:

noun

The belief that a society or system should be led by an elite.

Usage examples:

Local government in the nineteenth century was the very essence of elitism

Meanings of Elitist:

adjective

Relating to or supporting the view that a society or system should be led by an elite.

Usage examples:

Older men with an elitist attitude about music

noun

A person who believes that a society or system should be led by an elite.

Usage examples:

Critics portray him as an out-of-touch elitist

Meanings of Elitists:

noun

A person who believes that a society or system should be led by an elite.

Usage examples:

Critics portray him as an out-of-touch elitist

adjective

Relating to or supporting the view that a society or system should be led by an elite.

Usage examples:

Older men with an elitist attitude about music

Meanings of Elixir:

noun

A magical or medicinal potion.

Usage examples:

An elixir guaranteed to induce love

Meanings of Elixirs:

noun

A magical or medicinal potion.

Usage examples:

An elixir guaranteed to induce love

Meanings of Elizabethans:

noun

A person alive during the reign of queen elizabeth i.

Usage examples:

The elizabethans clothed this quest in poetry.

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of the reign of queen elizabeth i.

Usage examples:

An elizabethan manor house

Meanings of Elkhounds:

noun

A large hunting dog of a scandinavian breed with a shaggy grey coat.

Usage examples:

She was like a terrier worrying an elk hound, charging in and pressing an attack so fast and furiou…

Meanings of Ell:

noun

A former measure of length (equivalent to six hand breadths) used mainly for textiles, locally variable but typically about 45 inches in england and 37 inches in scotland.

Usage examples:

Accordingly, edinburgh would keep the ell for linear measure, linlithgow the firlot for dry measure…

Meanings of Elliott:

noun

The theory that stock market prices move up and down in a regular way, making it possible for investors to know which direction they will move before it happens

Usage examples:

Prechter is a pioneer of elliott wave theory, a statistical analysis tool that is used to predict, …

Meanings of Ellipse:

noun

A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base.

Usage examples:

For example he shows how to deform a circle into an ellipse and proves other results on deforming c…

Meanings of Ellipses:

noun

A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base.

Plural of ellipsis specialized

Meanings of Ellipsis:

noun

The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.

Usage examples:

It is very rare for an ellipsis to occur without a linguistic antecedent

Meanings of Ellipsoids:

noun

A three-dimensional figure symmetrical about each of three perpendicular axes, whose plane sections normal to one axis are circles and all the other plane sections are ellipses.

Usage examples:

It was found that the maximum total force is experienced when the major axis of the ellipsoid is pe…