最新 人气 评论 赞 踩
Status in quo
2   0   0   0
Alt. of Status quo
Status quo
2   0   0   0
The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war.
Statutable
a.
2   0   0   0
Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy.
Statutable
a.
4   0   0   0
Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures.
Statutably
adv.
2   0   0   0
Conformably to statute.
Statute
n.
2   0   0   0
An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law; the written will of the legislature expressed with all the requisite forms of legislation; -- used in distinction fraom common law. See Common law, under Common, a.
Statute
a.
3   0   0   0
An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
Statute
a.
2   0   0   0
An assemblage of farming servants (held possibly by statute) for the purpose of being hired; -- called also statute fair.
Statutory
a.
2   0   0   0
Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.
Staunch
2   0   0   0
Alt. of Staunchness
Staunchly
2   0   0   0
Alt. of Staunchness
Staunchness
2   0   0   0
See Stanch, Stanchly, etc.
Staurolite
n.
4   0   0   0
A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite.
Staurolitic
a.
2   0   0   0
Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.
Stauroscope
n.
2   0   0   0
An optical instrument used in determining the position of the planes of light-vibration in sections of crystals.
Staurotide
n.
2   0   0   0
Staurolite.
Stave
n.
2   0   0   0
One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
Stave
n.
2   0   0   0
One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
Stave
n.
2   0   0   0
A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
Stave
n.
3   0   0   0
The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
Staved
imp. & p. p.
3   0   0   0
of Stave
Stove
4   0   0   0
of Stave
Staving
p. pr. & vb. n.
3   0   0   0
of Stave
Stave
n.
2   0   0   0
To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
Stave
n.
3   0   0   0
To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
Stave
n.
2   0   0   0
To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
Stave
n.
2   0   0   0
To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
Stave
n.
2   0   0   0
To furnish with staves or rundles.
Stave
n.
2   0   0   0
To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
Stave
v. i.
2   0   0   0
To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.