English words for 'Alternative form of type foundry.'
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adj
- (literary, now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, of or related to metalwork, blacksmithing, and metallurgy.
- (Roman mythology) Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German and Celtic gods.
- (astronomy) Of or related to the proposed planet Vulcan or a cluster of asteroids at the same location in the Solar System.
adj
- of metal e.g.
- used of the back and knees; stooped
- fixed in your purpose
- (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
noun
- a special way of doing something
- grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- An inclination or talent.
- Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
- Old dried stalks of grasses.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
verb
noun
- A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
- The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
- A plant that produces chips out of semiconductors in the microelectronics industry.
- factory where metal castings are produced
adj
noun
- Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
- Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
- (countable) An ironic statement.
- (informal) Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected.
- (rhetoric) The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.
- witty language used to convey insults or scorn
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
adj
noun
noun
- (metallurgy) The metal to be welded (rather than that used to weld).
- (chiefly alchemy) one that was hoped to be transmuted into a precious metal.
- A common or inexpensive metal.
- (electrochemistry) Any metal at the lower end of the electrochemical series that oxidizes readily.
- a metal that is common and not considered precious
adj
noun
noun
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- (informal) The design of any text.
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- bowl for baptismal water
verb
noun
- (carpentry, masonry) A template; a pattern.
- (husbandry) A tool for sharpening scythes, composed typically of a piece of wood smeared with grease and sand.
- An instrument used in dressing flax.
- (metallurgy) A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
- A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
- a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
- a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure
- an implement for sharpening scythes
verb
noun
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
verb
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
name
noun
noun
- A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
- The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
- A plant that produces chips out of semiconductors in the microelectronics industry.
- factory where metal castings are produced
noun
- (metallurgy) The metal to be welded (rather than that used to weld).
- (chiefly alchemy) one that was hoped to be transmuted into a precious metal.
- A common or inexpensive metal.
- (electrochemistry) Any metal at the lower end of the electrochemical series that oxidizes readily.
- a metal that is common and not considered precious
noun
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- (informal) The design of any text.
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- bowl for baptismal water
verb
noun
- (carpentry, masonry) A template; a pattern.
- (husbandry) A tool for sharpening scythes, composed typically of a piece of wood smeared with grease and sand.
- An instrument used in dressing flax.
- (metallurgy) A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
- A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
- a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
- a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure
- an implement for sharpening scythes
verb
noun
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
verb
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
adj
- (literary, now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of vulcanian, of or related to metalwork, blacksmithing, and metallurgy.
- (Roman mythology) Of, related to, or created by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalwork, considered equivalent to the Greek Hephaestus and several German and Celtic gods.
- (astronomy) Of or related to the proposed planet Vulcan or a cluster of asteroids at the same location in the Solar System.
adj
- of metal e.g.
- used of the back and knees; stooped
- fixed in your purpose
- (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
noun
- a special way of doing something
- grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- An inclination or talent.
- Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
- Old dried stalks of grasses.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
verb
adj
noun
- Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
- Dramatic irony: a theatrical effect in which the meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
- (countable) An ironic statement.
- (informal) Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected.
- (rhetoric) The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.
- witty language used to convey insults or scorn
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs