All English words - page 3753

Meanings of Optioning:

verb

Buy or sell an option on.

Usage examples:

His second script will have been optioned by the time you read this

noun

A thing that is or may be chosen.

Usage examples:

Choose the cheapest options for supplying energy

Meanings of Options:

noun

A thing that is or may be chosen.

Usage examples:

Choose the cheapest options for supplying energy

verb

Buy or sell an option on.

Usage examples:

His second script will have been optioned by the time you read this

Meanings of Optoacoustic:

adjective

Of or relating to both light and sound; specifically designating or relating to an effect whereby a light beam periodically interrupted at an audio frequency produces an audible sound when made to irradiate an enclosed body of gas; photoacoustic.

Meanings of Optogram:

noun

An image formed on the retina which, after death, has been rendered permanent by chemical fixatives.

Meanings of Optokinetic:

adjective

Designating or relating to the action of turning of the eyes or body towards a moving object; specifically designating a physiological form of nystagmus elicited by the fixation of objects that are rapidly traversing the visual field (a response typically found in mammals).

Meanings of Optometer:

noun

An instrument for testing the refractive power of the eye.

Usage examples:

He immediately became hypermetropic (long sighted) in that eye, but using his optometer found ‘the …

Meanings of Optometrical:

adjective

Optometric.

Meanings of Optometrist:

noun

A person who practises optometry.

Usage examples:

Now, there are only 5,000 optometrists, 15,000 ophthalmic surgeons and 25,000 opticians.

Meanings of Optometrists:

noun

A person who practises optometry.

Usage examples:

Now, there are only 5,000 optometrists, 15,000 ophthalmic surgeons and 25,000 opticians.

Meanings of Optometry:

noun

The occupation of measuring eyesight, prescribing corrective lenses, and detecting eye disease.

Usage examples:

Deriving from his specialised knowledge of optometry, this cylindrical lens imitates what happens i…

Meanings of Optophone:

noun

An instrument designed to enable a blind person to read, in which a photoelectric cell is used to scan a text and produce electric signals that are converted into audible ones corresponding to the different characters.

Meanings of Optotype:

noun

A type or letter of definite size used for testing acuteness of vision; a test-type.

Meanings of Opts:

verb

Make a choice from a range of possibilities.

Usage examples:

Consumers will opt for low-priced goods

Meanings of Opulence:

noun

Great wealth or luxuriousness.

Usage examples:

Rooms of spectacular opulence

Meanings of Opulences:

noun

Great wealth or luxuriousness.

Usage examples:

Rooms of spectacular opulence

Meanings of Opulencies:

noun

Opulence.

Meanings of Opulency:

noun

Opulence.

Meanings of Opulent:

adjective

Ostentatiously costly and luxurious.

Usage examples:

The opulent comfort of a limousine

Meanings of Opulently:

adverb

In an expensive and luxurious way

Usage examples:

The hotel has spacious and opulently furnished double rooms., he and his family lived opulently.

Meanings of Opuntia:

noun

A cactus of a genus that comprises the prickly pears.

Usage examples:

In contrast to cultivated opuntias, wild opuntias generally do not develop young cladodes when extr…

Meanings of Opuntias:

noun

A cactus of a genus that comprises the prickly pears.

Usage examples:

In contrast to cultivated opuntias, wild opuntias generally do not develop young cladodes when extr…

Meanings of Opuntioid:

adjective

Resembling an opuntia in structure. later also: of or relating to the cactus subfamily opuntioideae.

noun

A cactus of the subfamily opuntioideae.

Meanings of Opus:

noun

A separate composition or set of compositions.

Usage examples:

Although some composers still assign opus numbers to keep track of their output, it is no longer cu…

Meanings of Opuscle:

noun

Opuscule.

Meanings of Opuscula:

noun

A small or minor literary or musical work.

Usage examples:

Thomas wrote an opusculum dedicated to the question: what did aristotle actually teach?