press+close+together

  • 31coarctate — 1. SYN: coarct. 2. Pressed together. * * * co·arc·tate (ko ahrkґtāt) 1. to press close together or contract. 2. pressed together or restrained …

    Medical dictionary

  • 32coarctate — adj. having a hard covering, shelled (about an insect or chrysalis); pressed together; constricted, narrowed (Medicine) v. (Medicine) press close together; become pressed together; become constricted or narrowed (of blood vessels, canals or other …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 33coarctated — adj. having a hard covering, shelled (about an insect or chrysalis); pressed together; constricted, narrowed (Medicine) v. (Medicine) press close together; become pressed together; become constricted or narrowed (of blood vessels, canals or other …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 34coarctates — adj. having a hard covering, shelled (about an insect or chrysalis); pressed together; constricted, narrowed (Medicine) v. (Medicine) press close together; become pressed together; become constricted or narrowed (of blood vessels, canals or other …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 35coarctating — adj. having a hard covering, shelled (about an insect or chrysalis); pressed together; constricted, narrowed (Medicine) v. (Medicine) press close together; become pressed together; become constricted or narrowed (of blood vessels, canals or other …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 36serried — ser|ried [ˈserid] adj [no comparative] [usually before noun] literary [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: serry to press close together (16 19 centuries), from French serrer, from Late Latin serare to lock ] standing or arranged closely together in rows ▪… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 37bobby pin — noun Etymology: perhaps from 4bob Date: 1932 a flat wire hairpin with prongs that press close together …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 38condenser — 1. An apparatus for cooling a gas to a liquid, or a liquid to a solid. 2. In dentistry, a manual or powered instrument used for packing a plastic or unset material into a cavity of a tooth; …

    Medical dictionary

  • 39cuddle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. snuggle, nestle, curl up, huddle; clasp, fondle. See endearment. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To nestle] Syn. snuggle, huddle, curl up; see nestle . 2. [To embrace] Syn. caress, enfold, fondle; see caress …

    English dictionary for students

  • 40condensata —   , condensatum, condensatus   L. condenso, press close together. Spikelets crowded in the inflorescence …

    Etymological dictionary of grasses