英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Voltigeur
(n.)
A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
Voltigeur
(n.)
One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each
regiment of the French infantry.
Voltmeter
(n.)
An instrument for measuring in volts the differences of
potential between different points of an electrical circuit.
Voltzite
(n.)
An oxysulphide of lead occurring in implanted spherical
globules of a yellowish or brownish color; -- called also voltzine.
Volubilate
(a.)
Alt. of Volubile
Volubile
(a.)
Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble.
Volubility
(n.)
The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the
senses of the adjective).
Voluble
(a.)
Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to
roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
Voluble
(a.)
Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of
rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble,
tongue.
Voluble
(a.)
Changeable; unstable; fickle.
Voluble
(a.)
Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the
voluble stem of hop plants.
Volume
(n.)
A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping
or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
Volume
(n.)
Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together,
whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one
work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which
is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
Volume
(n.)
Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a
turn; a convolution; a coil.
Volume
(n.)
Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic
units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the
volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
Volume
(n.)
Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
Volumed
(a.)
Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist.
Volumed
(a.)
Having volume, or bulk; massive; great.
Volumenometer
(n.)
An instrument for measuring the volume of a body,
especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its
presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
Volumenometry
(n.)
The method or process of measuring volumes by means
of the volumenometer.