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Gas :: Gas (n.) An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from vapors, as steam, which become liquid on a reduction of temperature. In present usage, since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure, the term has resumed nearly its original signification, and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeriform state..

Presignification :: Presignification (n.) The act of signifying or showing beforehand.

Equipollent :: Equipollent (a.) Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently..

Transitive :: Transitive (a.) Effected by transference of signification.

General :: General (a.) Not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression..

Technically :: Technically (adv.) In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession..

Aqua :: Aqua (n.) Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed..

Notation :: Notation (n.) Literal or etymological signification.

Consignificant :: Consignificant (a.) Having joint or equal signification; synonymous.

Equipollency :: Equipollency (n.) Sameness of signification of two or more propositions which differ in language.

Comprehensibly :: Comprehensibly (adv.) With great extent of signification; comprehensively.

Consignification :: Consignification (n.) Joint signification.

Synonyma :: Synonym (n.) One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous..

#NAME? :: -ee () A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer..

Conjugate :: Conjugate (n.) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in signification..

Astrology :: Astrology (n.) In its etymological signification, the science of the stars; among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the art of judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects..

Tantamount :: Tantamount (a.) Equivalent in value, signification, or effect..

Emphasis :: Emphasis (n.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience..

Deuteroscopy :: Deuteroscopy (n.) That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.

Linguistics :: Linguistics (n.) The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology..

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