All English words - page 2577

Meanings of Palings:

noun

A fence made from pointed wooden or metal posts.

Usage examples:

The post and wire fence at the end of the road needed attention - in the long term, a hedge, wooden…

Meanings of Palinodes:

noun

A poem in which the poet retracts a view or sentiment expressed in a former poem.

Usage examples:

But although it revises the spiritual meaning of paralysis, east coker is not a palinode of eliot's…

Meanings of Palinodial:

adjective

Of the nature of a retraction or recantation.

Meanings of Palinodist:

noun

A writer of palinodes; a composer of palinodic verse.

Meanings of Palinody:

noun

An ode or song in which the author retracts a view or sentiment expressed in a former poem; (more generally) a recantation or retraction, especially of a formal kind.

Meanings of Palisaded:

adjective

Enclosed or fortified with a palisade.

Usage examples:

A palisaded earthwork once lay across the neck of the promontory

verb

Enclose or provide (a building or place) with a palisade.

Usage examples:

He palisaded the ends of the streets, and made the town a roughly fortified camp

Meanings of Palisades:

noun

A fence of wooden stakes or iron railings fixed in the ground, forming an enclosure or defence.

Usage examples:

At this time fortifications consisted mainly of earth banks and wooden palisades

verb

Enclose or provide (a building or place) with a palisade.

Usage examples:

He palisaded the ends of the streets, and made the town a roughly fortified camp

Meanings of Palisado:

noun

Palisade.

Meanings of Palisander:

noun

Dark ornamental wood derived from any of various tropical american trees, especially jacaranda, brazilian rosewood (dalbergia nigra), and (us) purple heart (peltogyne paniculata).

Meanings of Paliurus:

noun

Originally: the spiny shrub paliurus spina-christi, also called christ's thorn. later also: any of the eurasian shrubs and small trees which constitute the genus paliurus (family rhamnaceae); (in form paliurus) the genus itself.

Meanings of Palki:

noun

Chiefly in south asia: a palanquin.

Meanings of Palladia:

noun

A safeguard or source of protection.

Usage examples:

He regarded himself as the palladium of the american cause

Meanings of Palladian:

adjective

Relating to or denoting the neoclassical style of andrea palladio, in particular with reference to the phase of english architecture from c. 1715, when there was a revival of interest in palladio and his english follower, inigo jones, and a reaction against the baroque.

Meanings of Palladic:

adjective

Of or containing palladium, especially in the trivalent or tetravalent state.

Meanings of Palladious:

adjective

= palladous .

Meanings of Palladous:

adjective

Of or containing palladium in the bivalent state.

Meanings of Pallas:

proper noun

Asteroid 2, discovered in 1802. it is the second largest (diameter 523 km).

Meanings of Pallbearer:

noun

A person helping to carry or officially escorting a coffin at a funeral.

Usage examples:

Four pall-bearers carried his coffin, which was decorated with wreaths of red and yellow roses, int…

Meanings of Pallbearers:

noun

A person helping to carry or officially escorting a coffin at a funeral.

Usage examples:

Four pall-bearers carried his coffin, which was decorated with wreaths of red and yellow roses, int…

Meanings of Palled:

verb

Form a friendship.

Usage examples:

She palled up with some english chaps

noun

A friend.

Usage examples:

We've been pals for a long time

Meanings of Palleting:

noun

A raised platform in the magazine of a warship on which the powder barrels are stored.

Meanings of Palletization:

noun

Palletizing.

Meanings of Palletizing:

verb

Place, stack, or transport (goods) on a pallet or pallets.

Usage examples:

The finished pieces are crated and palletized for shipment by ocean freight

Meanings of Pallia:

noun

A woollen vestment conferred by the pope on an archbishop, consisting of a narrow circular band placed round the shoulders with a short lappet hanging from front and back.

Usage examples:

Within a short time of his election, a formal inauguration ceremony takes place, at which the wooll…

Meanings of Pallial:

adjective

Relating to the pallium or mantle of a mollusc or brachiopod.

Usage examples:

The eggs remain in the pallial cavity of the female