All English words - page 2486

Meanings of Ostracize:

verb

Exclude from a society or group.

Usage examples:

She was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers

Meanings of Ostracized:

verb

Exclude from a society or group.

Usage examples:

She was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers

Meanings of Ostracizer:

noun

A person who or thing which ostracizes, or causes ostracism.

Meanings of Ostracizing:

verb

Exclude from a society or group.

Usage examples:

She was declared a witch and ostracized by the villagers

Meanings of Ostracod:

noun

A minute aquatic crustacean of the class ostracoda.

Usage examples:

Adult land-locked fish eat mostly zooplankton, especially larger varieties such as copepods, cladoc…

Meanings of Ostracoda:

plural noun

A class of minute aquatic crustaceans that have a hinged shell from which the antennae protrude, and a reduced number of appendages.

Usage examples:

Hemoglobins have been described in a select number of crustacean groups, including the branchiopoda…

Meanings of Ostracoderm:

noun

An early jawless fossil fish of the cambrian to devonian periods, having a heavily armoured body.

Usage examples:

By the middle devonian the armoured jawless ostracoderms were in decline, and instead the jawed fis…

Meanings of Ostreaceous:

adjective

Of the nature of an oyster or oyster-shell; resembling or characteristic of an oyster; oyster-like. compare ostracean , "ostraceous".

Meanings of Ostreicultural:

noun

The breeding of oysters for food or pearls.

Meanings of Ostreiculture:

noun

The breeding of oysters for food or pearls.

Meanings of Ostreophage:

noun

An eater or lover of oysters; = ostreophagist .

Meanings of Ostreophagist:

noun

A person who or thing which eats or feeds on oysters.

Meanings of Ostrich:

noun

A flightless swift-running african bird with a long neck, long legs, and two toes on each foot. it is the largest living bird, with males reaching a height of up to 2.75 m.

Usage examples:

Both of these bird families had reduced wings and could not fly, and looked something like living r…

Meanings of Ostriches:

noun

A flightless swift-running african bird with a long neck, long legs, and two toes on each foot. it is the largest living bird, with males reaching a height of up to 2.75 m.

Usage examples:

Both of these bird families had reduced wings and could not fly, and looked something like living r…

Meanings of Ot:

suffix

Forming nouns which were originally diminutives.

Usage examples:

Ballot

abbreviation

Occupational therapist.

Meanings of Otacousticon:

noun

An instrument to assist hearing, such as an ear trumpet.

Meanings of Otalgia:

noun

Earache.

Usage examples:

The main presenting symptoms were otalgia, sensation of blocked ears, hearing loss, otorrhoea and p…

Meanings of Otalgic:

adjective

Used for the treatment of otalgia; of, relating to, or associated with otalgia.

Meanings of Otaries:

noun

An eared seal (i.e. a sea lion or a fur seal); an otariid.

Meanings of Otarioid:

adjective

Resembling or related to the eared seals; (specifically) of or relating to the superfamily otarioidea, which comprises otariids together with walruses.

noun

An otarioid mammal.

Meanings of Otc:

abbreviation

(in the uk) officers' training corps.

adjective

Abbreviation for over-the-counter

Meanings of Othematoma:

noun

Haematoma of the auricle.

Meanings of Otheoscope:

noun

A modification of crookes's radiometer in which the black or driving surface is stationary, whilst the cooling surface is movable.

Meanings of Other:

adjective

Denoting a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about.

Usage examples:

Stick the camera on a tripod or some other means of support

pronoun

A person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about.

Usage examples:

A language unrelated to any other

verb

View or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself.

Usage examples:

A critique of the ways in which the elderly are othered by society

Not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

determiner

As well as the thing or person already mentioned

Usage examples:

The product has many other time-saving features., there is no other work available at the moment., …

Meanings of Other-end:

pronoun

The second of two things or people, or the item or person that is left from a group or set of things

Usage examples:

Hold the racket in one hand and the ball in the other., some people like living in big cities, but …

adjective

Used to describe amounts of money, usually small amounts, that are added together and not listed under a separate name in financial records

Usage examples:

These expenses are included under the headings 'utilities', 'taxes', and 'other'.