<B>anaglyph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an embossed or engraved ornament worked in low relief, such as on a cameo or coin. <DD><B> 2. </B>a picture consisting of two images superimposed, one printed in red, the other in green, viewed with a red light filter over one eye and a green over the other, giving a stereoscopic effect. It is used as a still picture or part of a motion picture. </DL>
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<B>anaglyphic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an anaglyph or anaglyptics. </DL>
<A NAME="anaglyphoscope">
<B>anaglyphoscope, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device through which anaglyphs (def. 2) are viewed, consisting of a pair of red and green light filters. </DL>
<B>anaglyptics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art of carving or decorating in low relief. </DL>
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<B>anagoge, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the spiritual meaning or interpretation, as of Scripture. <DD><B> 2. </B>an Old Testament typification of something in the New Testament. </DL>
<A NAME="anagogic">
<B>anagogic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with anagoge; spiritual; mystical. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Psychoanalysis.) of or having to do with unconscious striving toward morally uplifting ideals. adv. <B>anagogically.</B> </DL>
<B>anagram, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a word or phrase formed from another by transposing or rearranging the letters. (Examples:) lived--devil; north--thorn. <BR><I>expr. <B>anagrams,</B> </I>a game in which the players make words by changing and adding letters. </DL>
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<B>anagrammatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or containing an anagram or anagrams. adv. <B>anagrammatically.</B> </DL>
<B>anagrammatism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the making of anagrams. </DL>
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<B>anagrammatist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who makes anagrams. </DL>
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<B>anagrammatize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-tized,</B> <B>-tizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make into or use as an anagram or anagrams. </DL>
<A NAME="anagrams">
<B>anagrams, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (sing. in use). See under <B>anagram.</B> </DL>
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<B>anal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with the anus. <DD><B> 2. </B>at or near the anus. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Psychoanalysis.) of or having to do with a pattern of personality traits supposed to have developed from the stage when the child's interest was focused on excretory habits and control of defecation. An anal character is supposed to be manifested by extreme neatness, miserliness, stubbornness, and self-control. adv. <B>anally.</B> </DL>
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<B>anal.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>analogous. <DD><B> b. </B>analogy. <DD><B> 2a. </B>analysis. <DD><B> b. </B>analytic. </DL>
<A NAME="analcime">
<B>analcime, </B>noun. <B>=analcite.</B></DL>
<A NAME="analcite">
<B>analcite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a whitish or slightly tinted variety of zeolite (hydrous aluminum sodium silicate) occurring in trap rocks. </DL>
<A NAME="analecta">
<B>analecta, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> analects (especially in referring to Greek or Latin authors). </DL>
<A NAME="analects">
<B>analects, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> literary gleanings; collections of fragments or extracts (usually as part of a title). <BR> <I>Ex. the Confucian Analects.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="analemma">
<B>analemma, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a graduated scale representing the sun's declination at any date of the year, drawn on the Torrid Zone of a terrestrial globe, often in the shape of a long figure 8 centered on the equator. </DL>
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<B>analeptic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>restorative; strengthening. <BR> <I>Ex. an analeptic medicine.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>restoring to consciousness. <DD><I>noun </I> a restorative. </DL>
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<B>anal fin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fin located near the anus on the underside of fishes (contrasted with <I>dorsal fin</I>). </DL>
<A NAME="analgesia">
<B>analgesia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> deadening, or absence of the sense, of pain without loss of consciousness. See also <B>anesthesia.</B> </DL>
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<B>analgesic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or causing analgesia. <DD><I>noun </I> a drug that relieves or lessens pain. </DL>
<B>analog computer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an electronic calculating machine or automatic control which deals directly with physical quantities, such as weights, voltages, or lengths, rather than with a numerical code. </DL>
<A NAME="analogic">
<B>analogic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of analogy. <BR> <I>Ex. Each language has its own fashions in word-composition which may be either extended indefinitely by analogic creation or suffered to fall into desuetude quite unpredictably (Simeon Potter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="analogical">
<B>analogical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>based on analogy; using analogy. <DD><B> 2. </B>expressing an analogy, as the <I>heart</I> of an apple, the <I>mouth</I> of a cave. adv. <B>analogically.</B> </DL>
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<B>analogical change,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Linguistics.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the alteration of one linguistic form, such as an inflected word, in conformity with another form regarded as similar. The alteration, in children's usage, of <I>men</I> to <I>mans</I> in conformity with the predominant pattern of forming English plurals is done by analogical change. <DD><B> 2. </B>the replacement of such a form by another regarded as equivalent and perhaps preferable, such as the substitution of <I>frozen</I> for the earlier <I>froren</I> because of the pattern suggested by other parts of the verb, <I>freeze</I> and <I>froze.</I> </DL>
<B>analogist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who searches for, points out, or argues from analogies. </DL>
<A NAME="analogize">
<B>analogize, </B>verb, <B>-gized,</B> <B>-gizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to use analogy or analogies; speak in or reason from analogy. <DD><B> 2. </B>to show itself analogous; be in general harmony. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make, or show to be, analogous. </DL>
<A NAME="analogon">
<B>analogon, </B>noun. <B>=analogue.</B></DL>
<A NAME="analogous">
<B>analogous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>alike in some way; similar in the quality or feature that is being thought of, or in circumstances or uses; comparable (to). <BR> <I>Ex. The human heart is analogous to a pump. Who can say that the anatomy of modern despotism is significantly analogous to the anatomy of despotism in the declining Roman Empire? (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> (SYN) corresponding, like. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) corresponding in function, but not in structure and origin. <BR> <I>Ex. The wing of a fly is analogous to the wing of a bird.</I> adv. <B>analogously.</B> noun <B>analogousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="analogue">
<B>analogue, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an analogous word, thing, circumstance, or situation. (SYN) parallel. <DD><B> 2. </B>an organ or part analogous to another organ or part (distinguished from <I>homologue</I>). <DD><B> 3. </B>a substance which interferes in a biochemical reaction because of its structural similarity to one of the normal reactants. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with analog computers. <BR> <I>Ex. The analogue machine is just what its name implies: a physical analogy to the ... problem (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<B>analogy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a likeness in some ways between things that are otherwise unlike; similarity. <BR> <I>Ex. There is an analogy between the human heart and a pump.</I> (SYN) resemblance, correspondence, equivalence. <DD><B> 2. </B>comparison of such things. <BR> <I>Ex. Historical analogies, as between Napoleon and Hitler, ought not to be carried too far.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Biology.) correspondence of organs or other parts in function but not in structure and origin (distinguished from <I>homology</I>). <DD><B> 4. </B>(Logic.) the inference that things alike in certain respects will be alike in others. <BR> <I>Ex. a prediction based on the analogy of history. Deductions based on analogy are frequently open to doubt. Analogy ... proceeds on the basis of similarity between two situations. If the similarity is close enough, one may conjecture that a conclusion which holds in one situation should hold in the other (Scientific American).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Mathematics.) proportion; agreement of ratios. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Linguistics.) <DD><B> a. </B><B>=analogical change.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The similarity between words like "man" and "pan" sometimes causes children to make the analogy "mans" for "men."</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the creation of a new word based on the pattern of an old one, as <I>astronaut</I> on the model of <I>Argonaut.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="analphabet">
<B>analphabet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an illiterate person. </DL>
<B>analphabetic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>illiterate; unlettered. <DD><B> 2. </B>not utilizing a conventional alphabet. <BR> <I>Ex. In Jespersen's analphabetic notation each sound is represented by a set of symbols consisting of Greek and Latin letters and Arabic numerals.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> an illiterate person; an alphabet. </DL>
<A NAME="analysand">
<B>analysand, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person being psychoanalyzed. </DL>
