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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>ENVIOUS</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="envious"> envious, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. feeling or showing discontent because of a wish to have something that someone else has; full of envy. Ex. The weak are often envious of the strong. He was envious of his cousin's success. <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) <DD> a. malicious; spiteful. <DD> b. enviable. adv. enviously. noun enviousness. </DL> <A NAME="environ"> environ, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to hem in; surround; enclose. <DD>noun (Informal.) surrounding parts; environs. Ex. After all, the environ was teeming with illegally parked cars" (Alan Coren). </DL> <A NAME="environal"> environal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> environmental. </DL> <A NAME="environment"> environment, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. all of the surrounding things, conditions, and influences affecting the growth or development of living things. Ex. A child's character is greatly influenced by his home environment. Differences in environment often account for differences in plants of the same kind found in different places. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) surroundings. Ex. Abraham Lincoln grew up in an environment of poverty. <DD> 3. the condition of the air, water, soil, plants, and animals; natural surroundings. Ex. a rabies-free environment. <DD> 4. the act or fact of surrounding. Ex. The environment of his troops by enemy ambushers forced his surrender. <DD> 5. a work of environmental art. Ex. ... the $2.5 million Pepsi-Cola pavilion at the Osaka World's Fair in Japan ... will include among its features environments that can be manipulated by the viewer (Benjamin de Brie Taylor). </DL> <A NAME="environmental"> environmental, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having to do with environment. Ex. Important as environmental factors are for the shaping of human destiny, we now see clearly that man's influence on his environment [is] ... no less important than is the environment (Science News). <DD> 2. of or having to do with environmental art. adv. environmentally. </DL> <A NAME="environmentalart"> environmental art,<DL COMPACT><DD> a form of art that seeks to enlarge the aesthetic experience by surrounding the spectator with an artistic interior or exterior display of objects, instead of confronting him with a fixed object or image within a standard space. Ex. Luminal, minimal, and three-dimensional pop art have contributed to the development of environmental art in rejecting fixed walls and standard spaces and in becoming concerned with the commercial and urban world beyond the galleries (Benjamin de Brie Taylor). </DL> <A NAME="environmentalimpactstatement"> environmental impact statement,<DL COMPACT><DD> a review of the possible consequences that a proposed idea or project may have on the environment. Ex. To block a ... low-income housing project by bringing a long series of challenges to the project's environmental impact statements (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="environmentalism"> environmentalism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the view that the environment, rather than hereditary factors or individual initiative, is the dominating force in effecting change. </DL> <A NAME="environmentalist"> environmentalist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person concerned with problems of the environment and especially with the effects of uncontrolled pollution on the earth's atmosphere. Ex. Some environmentalists reject all of modern technology and call for a return to a simple, pastoral life free of fumes, artificial chemicals and any noise but the chirping of birds and the croaking of frogs (Science News). <DD> 2. an advocate or supporter of environmentalism. Ex. Sometimes it seems as if any single life were no more than a leaf borne along by whatever stream it happened to fall upon, and such was the argument of the environmentalists in their heyday (Harper's). <DD> 3. an artist who creates environmental art. </DL> <A NAME="environmentalistic"> environmentalistic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or based on environmentalism. </DL> <A NAME="environmentalscience"> environmental science,<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of environmental problems, especially those created by pollution. Ex. As a group of marine biologists, we are actively involved in various facets of environmental science--a less emotive and more encompassing term than pollution studies (J. R. Lewis). </DL> <A NAME="environmentalterrorism"> environmental terrorism,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or practice of engaging in sabotage of polluters of the environment or in civil disobedience to further an environmental cause. Ex. [The corporation] a major Oregon lumberer, labeled the spiking tactics [of live trees] "environmental terrorism" (Maclean's). <DD> 2. the act or practice of engaging in sabotage that damages the environment in order to gain a political objective. </DL> <A NAME="environmentalterrorist"> environmental terrorist, =ecoterrorist.</DL> <A NAME="environs"> environs, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> surrounding districts or areas; vicinity; surroundings. Ex. the beautiful environs of Hudson Bay. </DL> <A NAME="envisage"> envisage, transitive verb, -aged, -aging.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. to form a mental picture of; visualize. Ex. The architect looked at the plans and envisaged the finished house. <DD> 2. to look in the face of; face. Ex. envisage terror. </DL> <A NAME="envisagement"> envisagement, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of envisaging. </DL> <A NAME="envision"> envision, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to see as if in a vision; envisage. Ex. The mother envisioned her little girl as a prima ballerina. </DL> <A NAME="envoi"> envoi, noun. =envoy (2).</DL> <A NAME="envoutement"> envoutement, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> sympathetic magic in which a doll or other image of a person is used, usually to do him harm. </DL> <A NAME="envoy"> envoy (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a messenger or representative. Ex. The next envoy was given the same curt answer. (SYN) agent, deputy. <DD> 2. a diplomat ranking next below an ambassador and next above a minister. Ex. Contrary to expectation, the two French envoys have not yet left Antsirabe, Madagascar (London Times). <DD> 3. any person sent to represent a government or ruler for diplomatic purposes. </DL> <A NAME="envoy"> envoy (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a short concluding stanza, especially to a ballade. <DD> 2. a postscript to a literary work, often addressed to a friend or patron of the author. Also, envoi. </DL> <A NAME="envoyship"> envoyship, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the position or function of an envoy. </DL> <A NAME="envy"> envy, noun, pl. -vies, verb, -vied, -vying.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. discontent or ill will at another's good fortune because one wishes it had been his; dislike for a person who has what one wants. Ex. Some boys were full of envy when they saw my new bicycle, but my friends were glad for me. The nightingale ... provoketh envy of the lesser songsters (Robert Bridges). <DD> 2. the object of such feeling; person who is envied. Ex. She was the envy of the younger girls in school. <DD> 3. (Obsolete.) malice; ill will. <DD>v.t. 1. to feel envy toward. Ex. Poor people envy the rich; sometimes the rich envy the poor. <DD> 2. to feel envy because of. Ex. He envied his friend's success. <DD> 3. (Obsolete.) to begrudge. <DD>v.i. (Obsolete.) to feel or show envy. Ex. But now I envy at their liberty (Shakespeare). adv. envyingly. </DL> <A NAME="enwall"> enwall, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) to enclose in a wall. </DL> <A NAME="enwind"> enwind, transitive verb, -wound or -winded, -winding.<DL COMPACT><DD> to wind or coil about; encircle. </DL> <A NAME="enwomb"> enwomb, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to enclose in or as if in a womb. </DL> <A NAME="enwrap"> enwrap, transitive verb, -wrapped, -wrapping. =wrap.</DL> <A NAME="enwreathe"> enwreathe, transitive verb, -wreathed, -wreathing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to wreathe around; encircle; surround. Ex. (Figurative.) Enwreathed in smiles of satisfaction, she greeted her guests. </DL> <A NAME="enwrite"> enwrite, transitive verb, -wrote, -written, -writing.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Poetic.) to write upon something; inscribe; imprint. Ex. What wild heart histories seemed to lie enwritten upon those crystalline, celestial spheres (Edgar Allan Poe). </DL> <A NAME="enyo"> Enyo, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) a goddess of war, associated with Ares. </DL> <A NAME="enzootic"> enzootic, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. (of diseases) continuously prevalent among animals in a certain region. <DD>noun an enzootic disease. </DL> <A NAME="enzym"> enzym, noun. =enzyme.</DL> <A NAME="enzymatic"> enzymatic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an enzyme or enzymes. Ex. Having completed their whole enzymatic journey in a fraction of a second, the hydrogen electrons join the hydrogen protons (Life). </DL> <A NAME="enzymatically"> enzymatically, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the manner of an enzyme or enzymes. </DL> <A NAME="enzyme"> enzyme, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a protein substance produced in living cells, that influences a chemical reaction within a plant or animal without being changed itself; an organic catalyst. Enzymes help break down food so that it can be digested. Pepsin is an enzyme. Ex. The biologic catalysts (enzymes) differ from the inorganic catalysts in that they are sensitive to heat and light (Heber W. Youngken). </DL> <A NAME="enzymedetergent"> enzyme detergent,<DL COMPACT><DD> a detergent containing water-soluble enzymes that break down protein and are derived from bacteria. The enzymes dissolve most stains, but are commonly regarded as dangerous skin and respiratory irritants. Ex. In Britain, failing any voluntary and urgent action, a total ban on the manufacture of enzyme detergents might well be in the public interest (New Scientist). </DL> <A HREF="enzymein.dic">NEXT</A>