Rigid definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary RIG'ID, a. [Gr. to ... soft or flexible, but not fluid. We never say, a rigid stone or rigid iron, nor do we say, rigid ice; but we say, an animal body or limb, when cold, is rigid. Rigid is then opposed to flexible, but expresses less than ...
Equimomental cone of a given rigid body definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Equimomental E`qui*mo ... are equal each to each. Equimomental cone of a given rigid body, a conical surface that has any given vertex, and ... such manner that the moment of inertia of the given rigid body about the line is in all its positions the ...
... 1. Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not flaccid; rigid; applicable to any substance; as stiff wood; stiff paper; cloth ... unshakable, unwavering] 6: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck" [syn: rigid, stiff] 7: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked ... on Date: before 12th century 1. a. not easily bent ; rigid < a stiff collar > b. lacking in suppleness or flexibility < stiff ... stiff price > • stiffish adjective • stiffly adverb • stiffness noun Synonyms: stiff, rigid, inflexible mean difficult to bend. stiff may apply to ...
... a set hollow look"- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain" [syn: fixed, set, rigid] 3: situated in a particular spot or position; "valuable centrally ... in bridge 23. a. to fix firmly ; make immobile ; give rigid form or condition to < set her jaw in determination > b ... reluctant to change < set in their ways > 5. a. immovable, rigid < set frown > b. built-in < a set tub > 6. settled ... s partner. 35 intr. (of a hunting dog) take a rigid attitude indicating the presence of game. 36 intr. dial. or ... to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance. His eyes were ...
... 4: incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate" [syn: inflexible, rigid, unbending] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin ... unwilling to alter a predetermined course or purpose. inflexible implies rigid adherence or even slavish conformity to principle < inflexible in their ... not, and Flexible.] 1. Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding. 2. Firm in will or purpose; not to ... nature of things is inflexible. --I. Watts. Syn: -- Unbending; unyielding; rigid; inexorable; pertinacious; obstinate; stubborn; unrelenting. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary 1 ... situation changes. Workers insisted the new system was too inflexible... = rigid ? flexible ADJ • inflexibility The snag about an endowment mortgage ...
... political right > 9. a. characterized by sharp or harsh outline, rigid execution, and stiff drawing b. sharply defined ; stark < hard shadows ... hard' drugs, esp. heroin. hard disk Computing a large-capacity rigid usu. magnetic storage disk. hard-done-by harshly or unfairly ... character. 7. Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style. Figures harder than even ... of utterance; harsh; as, a hard tone. 11. (Painting) (a) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking ... trying; unyielding; stubborn; stern; flinty; unfeeling; harsh; difficult; severe; obdurate; rigid. See Solid, and Arduous. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Hard Hard ... English Synonyms I. a. 1. Firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, unyielding, rigid. 2. Difficult, embarrassing, perplexing, puzzling, knotty, intricate, understood with ...
Rigidity definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary RIGID'ITY, n. [L. rigiditas.] 1. Stiffness; want of pliability; the ... resisting bending [syn: rigidity, rigidness] 2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness ... ties) Date: 1624 1. the quality or state of being rigid 2. one that is rigid (as in form or conduct) Webster's 1913 Dictionary Rigidity ... i*ty, n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidit['e]. See Rigid.] 1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of ...
... L. tensus, from tendo, to stretch.] Stretched; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as a tense fiber. For the free passage ... the vowel sound in `beat') [ant: lax] 3: taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings" [ant: lax] n 1: a ... more at thin Date: 1668 1. stretched tight ; made taut ; rigid < tense muscles > 2. a. feeling or showing nervous tension < a ... to move, and cf. Toise.] Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. The temples were sunk ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Tight, stretched, strained, rigid, taught. Moby Thesaurus accented, agitated, all-overish, alveolar, antsy, anxious ... pulled, queasy, quivering, rack, ramrodlike, reinforce, renitent, restive, restless, retroflex, rigid, rigidify, rodlike, rounded, rusty, screw up, semivowel, shore up, ...
... 1: incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate" [syn: inflexible, rigid, unbending] Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: 1un- Date: circa 1688 ... and attitudes, which they are unwilling to change. He was rigid and unbending. ...her unbending opposition to the old regime. = inflexible ... s Dictionary of English Synonyms a. 1. Inflexible, unyielding, stiff, rigid, unpliant. 2. Unyielding, resolute, rigid, inflexible, firm, obstinate, stubborn. Moby Thesaurus adamant, adamantine, aloof, arrowlike ... procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, rectilineal, rectilinear, relentless, reserved, right, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, ruler-straight, set, ...
... third kind. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum 2: a simple machine that ... use food as a political lever — Time > 2. a. a rigid piece that transmits and modifies force or motion when forces ... two points and it turns about a third; specifically a rigid bar used to exert a pressure or sustain a weight ... fixed object. 2 Mech. a simple machine consisting of a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum (fixed point) which can be ... Alleviate, Elevate, Leaven, Legerdemain, Levee, Levy, n.] 1. (Mech.) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or ... and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a ...
... outstare the sternest eyes that look. 2. Severe of manner; rigid; harsh; cruel. Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. Ambition ... n. Etymology: OE styrne, prob. f. a Gmc root = be rigid 2. n. 1 the rear part of a ship or ... hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as ... Dictionary of English Synonyms I. a. 1. Forbidding, austere, severe, rigid. 2. Harsh, cruel, severe, bitter, rigorous, strict, hard, unrelenting, inflexible, rigid. 3. Steadfast, immovable, rigidly steadfast, incorruptible, uncompromising. II. n. Hinder ... posterior, postern, prat, rear, rear end, rearward, relentless, resolute, reverse, rigid, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rough, rudderpost, rugged, rump, rusty-dusty, ...
rigidify definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) v 1: become rigid; "The body rigidified" 2: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule ... s verb (-fied; -fying) Date: 1842 transitive verb to make rigid intransitive verb to become rigid • rigidification noun Oxford Reference Dictionary v.tr. & intr. (-ies, -ied) make or become rigid.
... stiff, strong; formed on the root of the G., stiff, rigid. See Starch and Steer.] 1. Stiff; strong; rugged. Many a ... stiffen — more at stare Date: before 12th century 1. a. rigid in or as if in death b. rigidly conforming (as ... sheer (stark madness). 4 completely naked. 5 archaic strong, stiff, rigid. --adv. completely, wholly (stark mad; stark naked). Derivatives: starkly adv ... to stiffen, to freeze. Cf. Starch, a. & n.] 1. Stiff; rigid. --Chaucer. Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark. --Spenser ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. a. 1. Stiff, rigid. 2. Mere, simple, sheer, bare, downright, gross, unmistakable, pure, entire ...