A description unconformable to previous accounts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"I feel an unconformable pressure at my rear end...". From Wordnik.com. [[birth] miracle of life or a pain in the proverbial] Reference
Our arrival at the main salon was met with unconformable stares from a couple sitting at a round table in the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Witch from Bilbao] Reference
For a while he sat quietly in a job in Europe waiting to see if the furor would blow over, but the controversy made him unconformable and he retired. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2007] Reference
Be intangible and hard to catch; be secret and proud and inwardly unconformable. From Wordnik.com. [O Rare Don Marquis] Reference
A warrant of the Lord Admiral to stop unconformable ministers from going beyond sea. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the State of Virginia] Reference
A warrant of the Lord Admiral to stop unconformable ministers from going beyond. sea. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the State of Virginia.] Reference
A warrant of the Lord Admiral to stop unconformable ministers from going beyond the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on the State of Virginia] Reference
This Miocene, though much disturbed, is decidedly unconformable with the underlying Cretaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
Circumference, tho 'indeed we retain still a Quilted one underneath, which makes us not altogether unconformable to the. From Wordnik.com. [Spectator, August 16, 1711] Reference
Huntington's Chorea, which usually appears to be a good dominant, although the last investigators (Muncey and Davenport) found some unconformable cases. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
The end result is that the spacebar is in-between the "V" and "B" something that is very off putting and unconformable for the touch typists amongst you. From Wordnik.com. [Pocket-lint.com] Reference
These beds are dipping and unconformable with the rocks above; while they make but 800 feet of the wall or less, they have a geological thickness of 12,000 feet. From Wordnik.com. [Canyons of the Colorado] Reference
Along the Atlantic coast the Mesozoic peneplain may be traced shoreward to where it disappears from view beneath an unconformable cover of early Tertiary marine strata. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Field observations suggest that the metasediment footwall (predominantly quartzites) are the basal unit of the Central Slave Cover Sequence and are unconformable on top of basement gneiss. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference
July 4 would be one such day when thousands of business process outsourcing (BPO) employees in the Tricity may feel a little unconformable, maybe even embarrassed, holidaying on the American independence day. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
There is not one of us but has reduced our outward Petticoat to its ancient Sizable Circumference, tho 'indeed we retain still a Quilted one underneath, which makes us not altogether unconformable to the Fashion; but 'tis on Condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays] Reference
The requirement of an expensive vicarious leisure acts indirectly, selectively, by guiding the formation of our taste, -- of our sense of what is right in these matters, -- and so weeds out unconformable departures by withholding approval of them. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Although there are numerous degradational/aggradational cycles within the Chinle Formation, a single unconformable horizon within or at the base of the Sonsela Member that can be traced across the entire western United States (the "Tr-4 unconformity") probably does not exist. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
“‘There will be no difference,’ he said, ‘between the unconformable ministers and you, when they come to the practice of the ordinances out of the kingdom.’. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Christianity] Reference
"To those MPs, who have already received new jobs, but feel unconformable in this position. From Wordnik.com. [Хартия'97 :: Новости из Беларуси - Белорусские новости - Республика Беларусь - Минск] Reference
"'There will be no difference,' he said, 'between the unconformable ministers and you, when they come to the practice of the ordinances out of the kingdom.'. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Christianity] Reference
3 Judges, one in each Bench, of that Beligion in this Kingdoe; and the oflScers of the Army are, I think, generally of the same stamp, & so are many if not most of the private souldiers, the Protestants beeing laid aside, tho not at all unconformable. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
Cambrian, piles of unconformable strata below. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
When her brother Emmanuel came down on her without a word of warning, bringing a girl with eyes that, as she said, made her feel foolish to look at, and a manner part scared, part stony, and wholly unconformable, telling her to keep this precious-bit madam like a bale of goods till called for, and to do the best with it she could, she was justified, she said, in splurging against his thoughtlessness and want of consideration, taking a body like that all of a heap, without With your leave or By your leave, or giving one a chance of saying Yes I will, or. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.