| speed | 1. To go; to fare. "To warn him now he is too farre sped." (Remedy of Love) 2. To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare. "Ships heretofore in seas lke fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed." (Waller) 3. To fare well; to have success; to prosper. "Save London, and send true lawyers their meed! For whoso wants money with them shall not speed!" (Lydgate) "I told ye then he should prevail, and speed On his bad errand." (Milton) 4. To make haste; to move with celerity. "I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility." (Shak) 5. To be expedient. Origin: AS. Spdan, fr. Spd, n.; akin to D. Spoeden, G. Sich sputen. See Speed. 1. Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success. "For common speed." "O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day." (Gen. Xxiv. 12) 2. The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel. "Speed, to describe whose swiftness number fails." (Milton) In kinematics, speedis sometimes used to denote the amount of velocity without regard to direction of motion, while velocity is not regarded as known unless both the direction and the amount are known. 3. One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success. "Hercules be thy speed!" God speed, Good speed; prosperity. See Godspeed. Speed gauge, Speed indicator, and Speed recorder, a power lathe with a rapidly revolving spindle, for turning small objects, for polishing, etc.; a hand lathe. Speed pulley, a cone pulley with steps. Synonym: Haste, swiftness, celerity, quickness, dispatch, expedition, hurry, acceleration. See Haste. Origin: AS. Spd success, swiftness, from spwan to succeed; akin to D. Spoedd, OHG. Spuot success, spuot to succees, Skr. Spha to increase, grow fat. B. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| speedwell | <botany> Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| speight | <zoology> A woodpecker; called also specht, spekt, spight. Origin: G. Specht, probably akin to L. Picus: cf. D. Specht. See Pie a magpie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| speiss | <chemistry> A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt. Origin: Cf. G. Speise food, mixed metal for bells, etc Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spekboom | <botany> The purslane tree of South Africa, said to be the favorite food of elephants. Origin: D, lit. Fat tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spelding | A haddock or other small fish split open and dried in the sun. Synonym: speldron. Origin: Scot. Speld to spread out, spelder to split. Spread open; cf. G. Spalten split. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spelencephaly | Synonym: porencephaly. Origin: spelaion, cave, + enkephalos, brain (05 Mar 2000) |
| spell | 1. To tell; to relate; to teach. "Might I that legend find, By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes." (T. Warton) 2. To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. "Spelled with words of power." "He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot." (Sir G. Buck) 3. To constitute; to measure. "The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect." (Fuller) 4. To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, especially. The proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography. "The word "satire" ought to be spelled with i, and not with y." (Dryden) 5. To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible. "To spell out a God in the works of creation." (South) "To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident." (Milton) Origin: OE. Spellen, spellien, tell, relate, AS. Spellian, fr. Spell a saying, tale; akin to MHG. Spellen to relate, Goth. Spilln.e Spell a tale. In sense 4 and those following, OE. Spellen, perhaps originally a different word, and from or influenced by spell a splinter, from the use of a piece of wood to point to the letters in schools: cf. D. Spellen to spell. Cf. Spell splinter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spelling | The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spelt | <botany> A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland. Synonym: German wheat. Origin: AS. Spelt, fr. L. Spelta. <chemistry> Spelter. See: Spalt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spelter | <chemistry> Zinc; especially so called in commerce and arts. Origin: Cf. LG. Spialter, G. & D. Spiauter. Cf. Pewter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spence | 1. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. "In . . . His spence, or "pantry" were hung the carcasses of a sheep or ewe, and two cows lately slaughtered." (Sir W. Scott) "Bluff Harry broke into the spence, And turned the cowls adrift." (Tennyson) 2. The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat. Origin: OF. Despense, F. Depense, buffet, buttery, fr. OF. Despendre to spend, distribute, L. Dispendere, dispensum. See Dispense, Spend. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spend | 1. To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely. "He spends as a person who knows that he must come to a reckoning." (South) 2. To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it. "The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air." (Bacon) 3. To be diffused; to spread. "The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes." (Bacon) 4. <chemical> To break ground; to continue working. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spendthrift | One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. "A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life." (Mrs. R. H. Davis) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Spens' syndrome | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms : Funiculus Spermaticus, Cord, Spermatic, Cords, Spermatic, Spermatic Cords
Synonyms : Spermatic Cord Torsions, Testicular Torsions, Torsion, Spermatic Cord, Torsion, Testicular, Torsions, Spermatic Cord, Torsions, Testicular
Synonyms : Spermatid, Spermatoblast
Synonyms : Cyst, Epididymal, Cysts, Epididymal, Epididymal Cysts, Spermatoceles
Synonyms : Contraceptive Agents, Spermatocidal, Spermatocidal Drugs, Spermatocides, Spermicidal Contraceptive Agents, Vaginal Spermicides, Agents, Spermatocidal, Agents, Spermatocidal Contraceptive, Agents, Spermicidal, Agents, Spermicidal Contraceptive
| spectacle blur |
the indistinct vision with spectacles occurring after removal of hard contact lenses, particularly non
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| spectroscopic analysis |
spectrum analysis, analysis by means of determining the wave length(s) at which electromagnetic energy is absorbed by a sample.
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| spectroscope |
A spectrometer is an optical instrument for measuring properties of light over some portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The measured variable is often the light intensity but could also be the polarization state, for instance. ...
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| specialization |
Specialization is the separation of tasks within a system. In a multicellular creature, cells are specialized for functions such as bone construction or oxygen transport. In capitalist societies, individual workers specialize for functions such as building construction or gasoline transport. In both cases, specialization enables the accomplishment of otherwise unatainable goals. ...
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| spectrum |
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a small home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Based on a Zilog Z80 CPU running at 3.50 MHz, the Spectrum came with either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM (an expansion pack was also available to upgrade the former). The hardware designer was Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research and the software was written by Steve Vickers (on contract from Nine Tiles Ltd, the authors of Sinclair BASIC). ...
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| SPE | specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement |
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| SPE | be specific about |
| SPE | determine the essential quality of |
| SPE | a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes |
| SPE | an example regarded as typical of its class |
| SPE | a bottle for holding urine specimens |
| SPE | based on pretense |
| SPE | plausible but false |
| SPE | plausible but false |
| SPE | an argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious |
| SPE | in a specious manner |
| SPE | an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive |