Symbolize (v. i.) To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
Symbolize (v. t.) To make to agree in properties or qualities.
Symbolize (v. t.) To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic.
Symbolize (v. t.) To represent by a symbol or symbols.
Symbolizer (n.) One who symbolizes.
Symbological (a.) Pertaining to a symbology; versed in, or characterized by, symbology.
Symbologist (n.) One who practices, or who is versed in, symbology.
Symbology (n.) The art of expressing by symbols.
Symbranchii (n. pl.) An order of slender eel-like fishes having the gill openings confluent beneath the neck. The pectoral arch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary. Called also Symbranchia.
Symmetral (a.) Commensurable; symmetrical.
Symmetrian (n.) One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.
Symmetric (a.) Symmetrical.
Symmetrical (a.) Involving or exhibiting symmetry; proportional in parts; having its parts in due proportion as to dimensions; as, a symmetrical body or building.
Symmetrical (a.) Having the organs or parts of one side corresponding with those of the other; having the parts in two or more series of organs the same in number; exhibiting a symmetry. See Symmetry, 2.
Symmetrical (a.) Having an equal number of parts in the successive circles of floral organs; -- said of flowers.
Symmetrical (a.) Having a likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regular.
Symmetrical (a.) Having a common measure; commensurable.
Symmetrical (a.) Having corresponding parts or relations.
Symmetrician (n.) Same as Symmetrian.
Symmetrist (n.) One eminently studious of symmetry of parts.
Symmetrized (imp. & p. p.) of Symmetrize
Symmetrizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Symmetrize
Symmetrize (v. t.) To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.
Symmetry (n.) A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; the union and conformity of the members of a work to the whole.
Symmetry (n.) The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.
Symmetry (n.) Equality in the number of parts of the successive circles in a flower.
Symmetry (n.) Likeness in the form and size of floral organs of the same kind; regularity.
Sympathetic (a.) Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
Sympathetic (a.) Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.
Sympathetic (a.) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
Sympathetic (a.) Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber.
Sympathetical (a.) Sympathetic.
Sympathetically (adv.) In a sympathetic manner.
Sympathist (n.) One who sympathizes; a sympathizer.
Sympathized (imp. & p. p.) of Sympathize
Sympathizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sympathize
Sympathize (v. i.) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
Sympathize (v. i.) To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
Sympathize (v. i.) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
Sympathize (v. t.) To experience together.
Sympathize (v. t.) To ansew to; to correspond to.
Sympathizer (n.) One who sympathizes.
Sympathies (pl. ) of Sympathy
Sympathy (n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
Sympathy (n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
Sympathy (n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
Sympathy (n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.
Sympathy (n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
Sympetalous (a.) Having the petals united; gamopetalous.
Symphonic (a.) Symphonious.
Symphonic (a.) Relating to, or in the manner of, symphony; as, the symphonic form or style of composition.
Symphonious (a.) Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious.
Symphonious (a.) Symphonic.
Symphonist (n.) A composer of symphonies.
Symphonized (imp. & p. p.) of Symphonize
Symphonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Symphonize
Symphonize (v. i.) To agree; to be in harmony.
Symphonies (pl. ) of Symphony
Symphony (n.) A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.
Symphony (n.) A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.
Symphony (n.) An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.
Symphony (n.) An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.
Symphyla (n. pl.) An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.
Symphyseal (a.) Of or pertaining to to symphysis.
Symphyseotomy (n.) The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section.
Symphyses (pl. ) of Symphysis
Symphysis (n.) An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.
Symphysis (n.) The union or coalescence of bones; also, the place of union or coalescence; as, the symphysis of the lower jaw. Cf. Articulation.
Symphysotomy (n.) Symphyseotomy.
Symphytism (n.) Coalescence; a growing into one with another word.
Sympiesometer (n.) A sensitive kind of barometer, in which the pressure of the atmosphere, acting upon a liquid, as oil, in the lower portion of the instrument, compresses an elastic gas in the upper part.
Symplectic (a.) Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
Symplectic (n.) The symplectic bone.
Symploce (n.) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth.
Sympode (n.) A sympodium.
Sympodial (a.) Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem.
Sympodia (pl. ) of Sympodium
Sympodium (n.) An axis or stem produced by dichotomous branching in which one of the branches is regularly developed at the expense of the other, as in the grapevine.
Symposiac (a.) Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happening where company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.
Symposiac (n.) A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.
Symposiarch (n.) The master of a feast.
Symposiast (n.) One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.
Symposion (n.) A drinking together; a symposium.
Symposia (pl. ) of Symposium
Symposium (n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
Symposium (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
Symptom (n.) Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms exhibited.
Symptom (n.) A sign or token; that which indicates the existence of something else; as, corruption in elections is a symptom of the decay of public virtue.
Symptomatic (a.) Alt. of Symptomatical
Symptomatical (a.) Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else.
Symptomatical (a.) According to symptoms; as, a symptomatical classification of diseases.
Symptomatology (n.) The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.
Syn- () A prefix meaning with, along with, together, at the same time. Syn- becomes sym- before p, b, and m, and syl- before l.
Synacme (n.) Alt. of Synacmy
Synacmy (n.) Same as Synanthesis.
Synaeresis (n.) Alt. of Syneresis
Syneresis (n.) The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.
Synagogical (a.) Of or pertaining to a synagogue.