अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

Having nice or quick sensibility; susceptible to slight impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.

High, or shrill, in respect to some other sound; -- opposed to grave or low; as, an acute tone or accent.

Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.

To give an acute sound to; as, he acutes his rising inflection too much.

Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.

In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.

The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.

Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.

Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

Having sharp-pointed leaves.

Having acute lobes, as some leaves.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

Without limit; endlessly.

Meanwhile; temporary.

At one's pleasure; as one wishes.

A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.

As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear, etc. It becomes ac- before qu, as in acquiesce.

To compel; to drive.