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Traditional English :: avow
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avowal.html - v.tr. 1 admit, confess. 2 a refl. admit that one is (avowed himself the author). b (as avowed adj.) admitted (the avowed author). avowal n. avowedly adv. [ME f. OF avouer acknowledge f. L advocare (as AD-, vocare call)] |
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Traditional English :: avocado
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avowal.html - n. (pl. -os) 1 (in full avocado pear) a pear-shaped fruit with rough leathery skin, a smooth oily edible flesh, and a large stone. 2 the tropical evergreen tree, Persea americana, native to Central America, bearing this fruit. Also called alligator pear. 3 the light green colour of the flesh of this fruit. [Sp., = advocate (substituted for Aztec ahuacatl)] |
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Traditional English :: avocation
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avowal.html - n.
1 a minor occupation.
2 colloq. a vocation or calling. [L avocatio f. avocare call away] |
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Traditional English :: avocet
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avowal.html - n. any wading bird of the genus Recurvirostra with long legs and a long slender upward-curved bill and usu. black and white plumage. [F avocette f. It. avosetta] |
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Traditional English :: Avogadro's constant
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avowal.html - n. (also Avogadro's number) Physics the number of atoms or molecules in one mole of a substance. [A. Avogadro, It. physicist d. 1856] |
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Traditional English :: Avogadro's law
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avowal.html - n. Physics the law that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules. |
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