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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: ocellate - octave</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="ocellate"> ocellate, adjective. =ocellated.</DL> <A NAME="ocellated"> ocellated, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having ocelli or eyelike spots. <DD> 2. eyelike. Ex. ocellated spots or markings. </DL> <A NAME="ocellation"> ocellation, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an eyelike spot or marking. </DL> <A NAME="ocellus"> ocellus, noun, pl. ocelli.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a little eye; one of the rudimentary, single-lens eyes found in certain invertebrates, especially one of the simple eyes, usually three in number, situated between the compound eyes of insects. Ex. Ocelli ... may function in increasing the irritability of the organism to light (Harbaugh and Goodrich). <DD> 2. an eyelike spot or marking. There are ocelli on peacock feathers and certain butterfly wings. </DL> <A NAME="ocelot"> ocelot, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a spotted and streaked wildcat somewhat like a leopard, but smaller, found from Texas south through Mexico and into parts of South America. Ex. The ocelot, ... a nocturnal cat, lives in forests and thick vegetation [and] makes his meals off small mammals and birds (Science News Letter). </DL> <A NAME="och"> och, interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Irish and Scottish.) an exclamation of surprise, regret, sorrow, or other emotion. </DL> <A NAME="ocher"> ocher, noun, adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. any one of various earthy mixtures containing clay and iron oxide, ranging in coloring from pale yellow to orange, brown, and red, used as pigments. <DD> 2. a pale brownish yellow. <DD> 3. (Slang.) money. <DD>adj. pale brownish-yellow. <DD>v.t. to color or mark with ocher. Also, ochre. </DL> <A NAME="ocherous"> ocherous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or containing ocher. <DD> 2. like ocher; brownish-yellow. </DL> <A NAME="ochlocracy"> ochlocracy, noun, pl. -cies.<DL COMPACT><DD> government by the mob; mob rule. Ex. The commonest of the old charges against democracy was that it passed into ochlocracy (James Bryce). </DL> <A NAME="ochlocrat"> ochlocrat, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an advocate of ochlocracy. </DL> <A NAME="ochlocratic"> ochlocratic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or having the form of ochlocracy. adv. ochlocratically. </DL> <A NAME="ochlocratical"> ochlocratical, adjective. =ochlocratic.</DL> <A NAME="ochone"> ochone, interjection.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish and Irish.) an exclamation of lamentation. </DL> <A NAME="ochre"> ochre, noun, adjective, transitive verb, ochred, ochring. =ocher.</DL> <A NAME="ochrea"> ochrea, noun, pl. ochreae. =ocrea.</DL> <A NAME="ochreous"> ochreous, adjective. =ocherous.</DL> <A NAME="ochroid"> ochroid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like ocher in color; brownish-yellow. </DL> <A NAME="ock"> -ock,<DL COMPACT><DD> (suffix.) diminutive, as in dunnock, hillock. </DL> <A NAME="ocker"> Ocker or ocker, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Australian Slang.) a type of boorish, self-righteous, and often bigoted Australian man. </DL> <A NAME="ockhamsrazor"> Ockham's Razor, =Occam's Razor.</DL> <A NAME="oclock"> o'clock,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of the clock; by the clock. Ex. What o'clock is it? It is one o'clock. <DD> 2. as if on the dial of a clock. 12 o'clock in an airplane is the horizontal direction straight ahead, or the vertical position straight overhead. </DL> <A NAME="ocotillo"> ocotillo, noun, pl. -los.<DL COMPACT><DD> a spiny, scarlet-flowered shrub, a candlewood, growing in the southwestern United States and in Mexico. When the plants are not blooming, they look like dead sticks. </DL> <A NAME="ocr"> OCR (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> optical character recognition (the ability of a computer unit to recognize printed characters or words and convert them into computer code without keyboard operation). </DL> <A NAME="ocrea"> ocrea, noun, pl. ocreae.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a tubular stipule or stipules sheathing the stem above the node, as in buckwheat. <DD> 2. a similar part or growth on an animal, as on the legs of some birds. Also, ochrea. </DL> <A NAME="ocreate"> ocreate, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having an ocrea or ocreae; sheathed. </DL> <A NAME="ocs"> OCS (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) Officer Candidate School. </DL> <A NAME="oct"> oct-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) the form of octo-, or octa-, before vowels, as in octane. </DL> <A NAME="oct"> oct.,<DL COMPACT><DD> octavo. </DL> <A NAME="oct"> Oct.,<DL COMPACT><DD> October. </DL> <A NAME="octa"> octa-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) a variant of octo-, as in octachord. </DL> <A NAME="octachord"> octachord, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) <DD> 1. an instrument having eight strings. <DD> 2. a diatonic series of eight notes or tones. </DL> <A NAME="octachordal"> octachordal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the octachord. </DL> <A NAME="octad"> octad, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a group or series of eight. <DD> 2. (Chemistry.) an element, atom, or radical with a valence of eight. </DL> <A NAME="octadic"> octadic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an octad. </DL> <A NAME="octagon"> octagon, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plane figure having eight angles and eight sides. </DL> <A NAME="octagonal"> octagonal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having eight angles and eight sides. adv. octagonally. </DL> <A NAME="octahedral"> octahedral, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. having eight plane faces. <DD> 2. of or like an octahedron. Ex. The direction ... at right angles to an octahedral plane is called an octahedral direction (Science News). adv. octahedrally. </DL> <A NAME="octahedrite"> octahedrite, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mineral, titanium dioxide, commonly occurring in octahedral crystals. </DL> <A NAME="octahedron"> octahedron, noun, pl. -drons, -dra.<DL COMPACT><DD> a solid figure having eight plane faces or sides. </DL> <A NAME="octal"> octal, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or based upon the number eight, as a numbering system based upon units of eight. </DL> <A NAME="octamerism"> octamerism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the state of being octamerous. <DD> 2. (Humorous.) the state of being in eight parts. </DL> <A NAME="octamerous"> octamerous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. (of an animal) having eight radiating parts or organs. <DD> 2. (of a flower) having eight members in each whorl. </DL> <A NAME="octameter"> octameter, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a line of poetry having eight feet or measures. <DD>adj. consisting of eight feet or measures. </DL> <A NAME="octane"> octane, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless, liquid hydrocarbon that occurs in petroleum and belongs to the methane series. High quality gasoline contains more octane than lower grades. </DL> <A NAME="octanenumber"> octane number or rating,<DL COMPACT><DD> a number indicating the quality of a motor fuel, based on its antiknock properties. The higher the compression ratio of an engine, the higher the octane number of its fuel to have satisfactory performance. </DL> <A NAME="octangle"> octangle, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun =octagon. <DD>adj. =octagonal. </DL> <A NAME="octangular"> octangular, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having eight sides; octagonal. </DL> <A NAME="octans"> Octans, noun, genitive Octantis.<DL COMPACT><DD> a southern constellation near the south celestial pole. </DL> <A NAME="octant"> octant, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. one eighth of a circle; a 45-degree angle or arc. <DD> 2. one of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three planes intersecting at one point. <DD> 3a. an instrument having an arc of 45 degrees, used in navigation to measure the altitude of heavenly bodies in order to determine latitude and longitude. <DD> b. an aircraft sextant by which angles up to 90 degrees may be measured against an artificial horizon of the bubble type. <DD> 4. (Astronomy.) the position of a planet, the moon, or other heavenly body when 45 degrees distant from another. </DL> <A NAME="octantis"> Octantis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> genitive of Octans. </DL> <A NAME="octapeptide"> octapeptide, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a polypeptide chain made up of eight amino acids. Ex. All the known actions of renin, including the principal ones of raising the arterial blood pressure ... are mediated through the octapeptide angiotension (New Scientist). </DL> <A NAME="octaphonic"> octaphonic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with high-fidelity sound transmission or reproduction over eight different channels. </DL> <A NAME="octarchy"> octarchy, noun, pl. -chies.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. government by eight persons. <DD> 2. a group of eight states, each under its own ruler. </DL> <A NAME="octaval"> octaval, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an octave or series of eight; octal. </DL> <A NAME="octavalent"> octavalent, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) having a valence of eight. </DL> <A NAME="octave"> octave, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the interval between a musical tone and another tone having twice or half as many vibrations. From middle C to the C above it is an octave. <DD> 2. an eighth note above or below a given tone, having twice or half as many vibrations per second. <DD> 3. the series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, filling the interval between a tone and its octave. <DD> 4. the sounding together of a tone and its octave. <DD> 5. a group of eight. <DD> 6. a group of eight lines of poetry. <DD> 7. the first eight lines of a sonnet. <DD> 8. a church festival and the week after it. <DD> 9. the last day of such a week. <DD> 10. the eighth in a series of eight parries in fencing. <DD>adj. 1. consisting of eight (of anything). <DD> 2. producing notes one octave higher. Ex. an octave flute (piccolo), the octave stop of an organ. </DL> <A HREF="octavo.dic">NEXT</A>