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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: empowerment - emulsifiable</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="empowerment"> empowerment, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of empowering or state of being empowered. <DD> 2. a taking or assuming of power, often political power; empowering. Ex. As Housing Secretary, Jack Kemp is attempting to make "empowerment" of the poor more than a slogan by training public-housing tenants to manage and even own their projects (Time). </DL> <A NAME="empresario"> empresario, noun, pl. -rios.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of a group of Americans who contracted with the Spanish or Mexican governments to found a colony in Texas before Texas became a republic. </DL> <A NAME="empress"> empress, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the wife of an emperor. Ex. Josephine was empress of France while her husband Napoleon was emperor. <DD> 2. a woman who is the ruler of an empire. Ex. Catherine the Great was empress of Russia in her own right and ruled with no emperor. <DD> 3. a woman having supreme power. </DL> <A NAME="empresscloth"> empress cloth,<DL COMPACT><DD> a woolen fabric for women's dresses, having a finely repped or corded surface. </DL> <A NAME="empresse"> empresse, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) eager; earnestly attentive or polite. </DL> <A NAME="empressement"> empressement, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) cordiality; friendly eagerness. </DL> <A NAME="emprise"> emprise or emprize, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD> 1. an adventure; a daring undertaking. <DD> 2. knightly daring. </DL> <A NAME="empsonian"> Empsonian, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the works, ideas, or style of William Empson, born 1906, an English poet and critic. </DL> <A NAME="empsonic"> Empsonic, adjective. =Empsonian.</DL> <A NAME="emptier"> emptier, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a person or thing that empties. <DD>adj. comparative of empty. </DL> <A NAME="emptily"> emptily, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an empty manner. </DL> <A NAME="emptiness"> emptiness, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being empty; lack of contents. </DL> <A NAME="emptor"> emptor, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) a buyer. </DL> <A NAME="empty"> empty, adjective, -tier, -tiest, verb, -tied, -tying, noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. with nothing or no one in it. Ex. The birds had gone and their nest was left empty. <DD> 2. vacant; unoccupied. Ex. an empty room or house. <DD> 3. having no cargo; unloaded. Ex. an empty ship. <DD> 4. (Figurative.) not real; without meaning. Ex. An empty promise is one that you do not plan to keep. An empty threat has no force behind it. (SYN) hollow, unsubstantial, meaningless. <DD> 5. (Figurative.) lacking knowledge or sense; foolish; frivolous. Ex. The empty coxcomb has no regard to anything ... sacred (Sir Richard Steele). <DD> 6. (Informal, Figurative.) hungry. Ex. I found myself empty (Daniel Defoe). <DD>v.t. to pour out or take out all that is in (a thing); make empty. Ex. He emptied his glass quickly. He emptied the tobacco out of his pipe. (SYN) unload, unburden, evacuate. <DD>v.i. 1. to become empty. Ex. The hall emptied as soon as the concert was over. <DD> 2. to flow out; discharge. Ex. The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico. <DD>noun (Informal.) something that is empty, such as an empty container, freight car, or bottle. Ex. The company makes its own cans and keeps 165,000 shiny empties in a 'jumble bin' (New Yorker). expr. empty of, having no; devoid of. Ex. Tired of wishes, Empty of dreams (Carl Sandburg). </DL> <A NAME="emptycalorie"> empty calorie,<DL COMPACT><DD> a calorie of food without any nutrient in it. Ex. As a response to attacks on snack foods as "empty calories," the present trend is to enrich them with supplemental nutrients (Scientific American). </DL> <A NAME="emptyfieldmyopia"> empty field myopia,<DL COMPACT><DD> a temporary near-sightedness experienced by pilots flying at high altitudes, caused by absence of any well-defined distant object upon which the eye can focus. </DL> <A NAME="emptyhanded"> empty-handed, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having nothing in the hands; bringing or taking nothing, especially nothing of value, such as money or a present. </DL> <A NAME="emptyheaded"> empty-headed, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> silly; stupid. (SYN) witless. </DL> <A NAME="emptying"> emptying, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of a person or thing that empties. <DD> 2. something emptied out. expr. emptyings, (U.S. Informal.) yeast prepared from the lees of beer, etc. </DL> <A NAME="emptynester"> empty nester,<DL COMPACT><DD> a person whose children have grown up and left home. Ex. "Empty nesters," ready to sell their homes after their children have left, have a strong incentive through capital gains tax laws to reinvest quickly in home ownership (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="emptynestsyndrome"> empty nest syndrome,<DL COMPACT><DD> a form of depression supposedly common among women whose children have grown up and left home. </DL> <A NAME="emptyset"> empty set,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) a set that has no members; null set. The set of natural numbers less than 0 is an empty set. </DL> <A NAME="emptysis"> emptysis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a spitting of blood from the lungs. </DL> <A NAME="empurple"> empurple, transitive verb, -pled, -pling.<DL COMPACT><DD> to tinge or color with purple. </DL> <A NAME="empurpled"> empurpled, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> made purple; colored with purple. </DL> <A NAME="empusa"> Empusa, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Legend.) a cannibal monster sentin various shapes by Hecate to frighten travelers. </DL> <A NAME="empyema"> empyema, noun, pl. -emata.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) a collection of pus in a body cavity, especially in the lung cavity, resulting from infection of the lungs, as in pneumonia. </DL> <A NAME="empyemic"> empyemic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having to do with or like empyema. <DD> 2. affected with empyema. </DL> <A NAME="empyreal"> empyreal, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. of the empyrean; celestial; heavenly; pure. <DD> 2. sublime; elevated. <DD> 3. formed of pure fire or light. <DD>noun the empyrean; region of celestial purity. </DL> <A NAME="empyrean"> empyrean, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was once supposed to exist. Ex. ... this color is such an indescribably deep blue that one faintly grasps the medieval concept of the empyrean (Hardy and Perrin). <DD> 2. the visible heavens; the sky; firmament; vault of the heavens. Ex. the blue empyrean. <DD> 3. the abode of God and the angels. <DD>adj. =empyreal. </DL> <A NAME="empyreuma"> empyreuma, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the disagreeable smell or taste of organic substances burned in closed containers. </DL> <A NAME="empyreumatic"> empyreumatic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like empyreuma; smelling or tasting disagreeably. </DL> <A NAME="ems"> EMS (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> European Monetary System. </DL> <A NAME="emu"> emu, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large, three-toed Australian bird like an ostrich but smaller. Emus cannot fly, but they can run very fast. Also, emeu. </DL> <A NAME="emu"> e.m.u. or EMU (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> electromagnetic unit or units. </DL> <A NAME="emuapple"> emu apple,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. an Australian tree of the mahogany family that has a sour, edible fruit. <DD> 2. the fruit. </DL> <A NAME="emubush"> emu bush,<DL COMPACT><DD> either of two Australian shrubs or small trees of the soapberry family, whose leaves are eaten by sheep for food when grass and other herbage are killed by drought and heat. </DL> <A NAME="emulable"> emulable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be emulated; worthy of emulation. </DL> <A NAME="emulant"> emulant, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who emulates; rival. </DL> <A NAME="emulate"> emulate, verb, -lated, -lating, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to try to equal or excell. Ex. The ambitious youngman emulated his father's ability to make friends easily. The proverb tells us to emulate the industry of the ant. After reading the life of Pitt, who became Prime Minister at 24, he [Randolph Churchill] frankly aspired to emulate him (C. L. Sulzberger). <DD> 2. to rival with some success; vie with. Ex. Thine eye would emulate the diamond (Shakespeare). <DD>adj. (Obsolete.) ambitious; emulous. </DL> <A NAME="emulation"> emulation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. imitation in order to equal or excel; desire to equal or excel. Ex. Emulation of the lives of great men influences many ambitious young men. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) jealous rivalry; envy. </DL> <A NAME="emulative"> emulative, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. tending to emulate. <DD> 2. of or caused by emulation. adv. emulatively. </DL> <A NAME="emulator"> emulator, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who emulates. </DL> <A NAME="emulatory"> emulatory, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or like emulation. </DL> <A NAME="emulgent"> emulgent, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. (Anatomy.) draining out, as a renal artery or vein. <DD>noun 1. (Anatomy.) an emulgent vessel. <DD> 2. (Pharmacy.) a medicine or agent that stimulates the flow of bile. </DL> <A NAME="emulous"> emulous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. wishing to equal or excel. Ex. Members of the team were emulous of the deeds of former athletes. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) jealous; envious. adv. emulously. noun emulousness. </DL> <A NAME="emulsifiable"> emulsifiable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be emulsified. </DL> <A NAME="emulsification"> emulsification, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of emulsifying or process of being emulsified. </DL> <A NAME="emulsifier"> emulsifier, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an agent or substance that emulsifies. </DL> <A HREF="emulsify.dic">NEXT</A>