All English words - page 2591

Meanings of Paraphimosis:

noun

Trapping of the foreskin in a retracted position behind the corona of the penis, forming a constricting band; an instance of this.

Meanings of Paraphrased:

verb

Express the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.

Usage examples:

You can either quote or paraphrase literary texts

noun

A rewording of something written or spoken.

Usage examples:

Scattered here and there in the text are frank paraphrases of lines from virgil, cicero, and quinti…

Meanings of Paraphraser:

noun

A person who expresses the meaning of something written or spoken using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.

Usage examples:

Will is a skilful paraphraser

Meanings of Paraphrases:

noun

Express the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.

Usage examples:

You can either quote or paraphrase literary texts

verb

To state something written or spoken in different words, esp. in a shorter and simpler form to make the meaning clearer

Usage examples:

I’ll have to paraphrase it because i didn’t get a chance to memorize it.

Meanings of Paraphrasia:

noun

Incoherent or disordered speech; paraphasia.

Meanings of Paraphrasing:

verb

Express the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.

Usage examples:

You can either quote or paraphrase literary texts

noun

A rewording of something written or spoken.

Usage examples:

Scattered here and there in the text are frank paraphrases of lines from virgil, cicero, and quinti…

Meanings of Paraphrasis:

noun

A rewording of something written or spoken; a paraphrase.

Usage examples:

God's laws are clear, and need no paraphrasis.

Meanings of Paraphrastically:

adverb

In a paraphrastic manner; by way of paraphrase.

Meanings of Paraphrenia:

noun

In early use: insanity, madness later: specifically mental illness with prominent paranoid or other delusional symptoms; paranoid schizophrenia.

Meanings of Paraphs:

noun

A flourish after a signature, originally as a precaution against forgery.

Usage examples:

Many woodcuts copy manuscript illuminations (or foreign woodcuts, even though in england somewhat c…

Meanings of Paraphysate:

adjective

Having paraphyses.

Meanings of Paraphysis:

noun

A sterile hairlike filament present among the reproductive organs in many lower plants, especially bryophytes, algae, and fungi.

Usage examples:

Perithecia are always smaller than wild-type perithecia and a quarter of them contain only sterile …

Meanings of Paraplegics:

noun

A person affected by paralysis of the legs and lower body.

Usage examples:

Researchers hope the treatment might enable paraplegics to walk again

adjective

Affected by or relating to paralysis of the legs and lower body.

Usage examples:

A paraplegic war veteran

Meanings of Parapodium:

noun

(in a polychaete worm) each of a number of paired muscular bristle-bearing appendages used in locomotion, sensation, or respiration.

Usage examples:

Subsequently work on a brittle star showed expression of the gene in the tube feet, and many found …

Meanings of Parapophysial:

adjective

Of or relating to a parapophysis; of the nature of a parapophysis.

Meanings of Parapraxia:

noun

Faulty performance of a purposive action; an instance of this.

Meanings of Parapraxis:

noun

A minor error in speech or action, (supposedly) representing the fulfilment of an unconscious wish; a freudian slip.

Meanings of Parapsidal:

adjective

Of or relating to the parapsides of an insect; specifically designating two longitudinal marks on the mesoscutum of certain hymenopterans.

Meanings of Parapsis:

noun

A lateral region of the mesoscutum of certain hymenopteran insects, delineated medially by grooves or lines. usually in plural.

Meanings of Parapteron:

noun

Any of several small lateral sclerites of the thoracic segments of an insect, especially those associated with the wing bases.

Meanings of Paraquat:

noun

A toxic fast-acting herbicide, which becomes deactivated in the soil.

Usage examples:

The rochester team studied the effects of a mixture of two common agrochemicals, the herbicide para…

Meanings of Paraquats:

noun

A toxic fast-acting herbicide, which becomes deactivated in the soil.

Usage examples:

The rochester team studied the effects of a mixture of two common agrochemicals, the herbicide para…

Meanings of Paras:

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…

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 Parasangs:

noun

A unit of length used in ancient persia, originally the distance travelled in an hour and usually reckoned to be approx. 6 km (3.7 miles).

Meanings of Parasceve:

noun

The day of preparation for the jewish sabbath, the eve of the sabbath, friday. used chiefly with reference to good friday (in later use only roman catholic church).