limacine | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacoid |
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limacoid | (adjective) of or resembling a slug | Synonyms: limacine |
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liman | (noun) a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river | - |
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limb | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, branch |
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(noun) the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles | - |
(noun) either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip | - |
(noun) one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm, leg, wing, flipper | - |
(noun) (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet | - |
(noun) any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree | Synonyms: tree branch |
limbed | (adjective) having or as if having limbs, especially limbs of a specified kind (usually used in combination) | - |
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limber | (adjective) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely | Synonyms: supple |
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(adjective) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable | Synonyms: supple |
(adjective) (used of artifacts) easily bent | - |
(noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson | - |
(verb) cause to become limber | - |
(verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
limbers | (noun) a channel or gutter on either side of a ship's keelson; carries bilge water into the pump well | - |
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limbic | (adjective) of or relating to or forming a limbus | - |
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limbless | (adjective) having no limbs | - |
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limbo | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) | - |
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(noun) an imaginary place for lost or neglected things | - |
(noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: oblivion |
limbus | (noun) a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure | - |
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lime | (noun) the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees | - |
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(noun) any of various related trees bearing limes | Synonyms: Citrus aurantifolia, lime tree |
(noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: basswood, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
(noun) a caustic substance produced by heating limestone | Synonyms: calcium hydrate, calcium hydroxide, caustic lime, hydrated lime, lime hydrate, slaked lime |
(noun) a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide | Synonyms: burnt lime, calcined lime, calcium oxide, calx, fluxing lime, quicklime, unslaked lime |
(noun) a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds | Synonyms: birdlime |
(verb) cover with lime so as to induce growth | - |
(verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: birdlime |
limeade | (noun) sweetened beverage of lime juice and water | - |
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limekiln | (noun) a kiln used to reduce naturally occurring forms of calcium carbonate to lime | - |
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limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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(noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
limen | (noun) the smallest detectable sensation | Synonyms: threshold |
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limerick | (noun) a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | - |
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limestone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
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limewater | (noun) solution of calcium hydroxide in water used as an antacid | - |
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limey | (noun) a man of English descent | Synonyms: John Bull |
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limit | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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(noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line |
(noun) as far as something can go | - |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limitation |
(noun) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity | Synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation |
(noun) final or latest limiting point | Synonyms: terminal point, terminus ad quem |
(verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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(noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
(noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
(noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
limited | (adjective) small in range or scope | - |
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(adjective) not unlimited | - |
(adjective) not excessive | - |
(adjective) including only a part | - |
(adjective) mediocre | Synonyms: modified |
(adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: circumscribed |
(adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: special |
(noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: express |
limitedly | (adverb) in a limited manner | - |
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limitedness | (noun) The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. | - |
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limiter | (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: clipper |
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limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
(noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
limitless | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: unlimited |
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(adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, measureless, unmeasured |
(adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: boundless, unbounded |
limitlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness |
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limn | (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, portray |
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(verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: delineate, outline |
limner | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: portrait painter, portraitist, portrayer |
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limnimeter | (noun) a tide gage used for measuring lake level variations. | - |
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limning | (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, depiction, line drawing |
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limnological | (adjective) of or relating to limnology | - |
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limnologically | (adverb) with regard to or concerning limnology | - |
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limnologist | (noun) a specialist in the study of freshwater ponds and lakes | - |
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limnology | (noun) the scientific study of bodies of fresh water for their biological and physical and geological properties | - |
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limo | (noun) large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur | Synonyms: limousine |
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limonene | (noun) a liquid terpene with a lemon odor; found in lemons and oranges and other essential oils | - |
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limonite | (noun) a widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocite | - |
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limousine | (noun) large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur | Synonyms: limo |
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limp | (adjective) lacking or having lost rigidity | - |
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(adjective) without energy or will | Synonyms: wilted |
(noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, hobble |
(verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, hobble |
(verb) proceed slowly or with difficulty | - |
limpa | (noun) a rye bread made with molasses or brown sugar | - |
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limper | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: hobbler |
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limpet | (noun) any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas | - |
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(noun) mollusk with a low conical shell | - |
limpid | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, lucid, luculent, pellucid, perspicuous |
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(adjective) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity | Synonyms: crystal clear, crystalline, lucid, pellucid, transparent |
(adjective) clear and bright | Synonyms: liquid |
limpidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: pellucidity, pellucidness |
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(noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
limpidly | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: lucidly, pellucidly, perspicuously |
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limping | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness |
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limpkin | (noun) wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call | Synonyms: Aramus pictus |
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limply | (adverb) without rigidity | - |
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limpness | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flabbiness, flaccidity |
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