Word Meanings - MATTER-OF-FACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

• Turnspit
  One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office.
• Fanciful
  Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.
• Turnicimorphae
  A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera, resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.
• Turningness
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
• Turnstile
  A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
• Imaginative
  Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
• Turnstone
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of m
• Absolute
  Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
• Realities
  of Reality
• Turnip-shell
  Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.
• Turntable
  A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
• Absolutely
  In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.
• Absoluteness
  The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
• Turning
  of Turn
• Turnkeys
  of Turnkey
• Turnverein
  A company or association of gymnasts and athletes.

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