Word Meanings - SINGLE-ACTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.

• Actuation
  A bringing into action; movement.
• Duramen
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• Durian
  Alt. of Durion
• Enginer
  A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
• Forceps
  A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers,
• Actinograph
  An instrument for measuring and recording the variations in the actinic or chemical force of rays of light.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Actinozoon
  One of the Actinozoa.
• DURAMATER
  The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.
• Actuator
  One who actuates, or puts into action.
• Durance
  Continuance; duration. See Endurance.
• Durion
  The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.
• Enginery
  The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
• Force pump
  A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
• Actinoid
  Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.
• Havior
  Behavior; demeanor.
• Actinula
  A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
• DURIANDURION
  The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.
• Actress
  A female actor or doer.

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