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Air compressor 14. (Paint.)
(a) The representation or reproduction of the effect of
the atmospheric medium through which every object in
nature is viewed. --New Am. Cyc.
(b) Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of
that portrait has a good air. --Fairholt.
15. (Man.) The artificial motion or carriage of a horse.
Note: Air is much used adjectively or as the first part of a
compound term. In most cases it might be written
indifferently, as a separate limiting word, or as the
first element of the compound term, with or without the
hyphen; as, air bladder, air-bladder, or airbladder;
air cell, air-cell, or aircell; air-pump, or airpump.
Air balloon. See Balloon.
Air bath.
(a) An apparatus for the application of air to the body.
(b) An arrangement for drying substances in air of any
desired temperature.
Air castle. See Castle in the air, under Castle.
Air compressor, a machine for compressing air to be used as
a motive power.
Air crossing, a passage for air in a mine.
Air cushion, an air-tight cushion which can be inflated;
also, a device for arresting motion without shock by
confined air.
Air fountain, a contrivance for producing a jet of water by
the force of compressed air.
Air furnace, a furnace which depends on a natural draft and
not on blast.
Air line, a straight line; a bee line. Hence
Air-line, adj.; as, air-line road.
Air lock (Hydr. Engin.), an intermediate chamber between
the outer air and the compressed-air chamber of a
pneumatic caisson. --Knight.
Air port (Nav.), a scuttle or porthole in a ship to admit
air.
Air spring, a spring in which the elasticity of air is
utilized.
Air thermometer, a form of thermometer in which the
contraction and expansion of air is made to measure
changes of temperature.
Air threads, gossamer.
Air trap, a contrivance for shutting off foul air or gas
from drains, sewers, etc.; a stench trap.
Air trunk, a pipe or shaft for conducting foul or heated
air from a room.
Air valve, a valve to regulate the admission or egress of
air; esp. a valve which opens inwardly in a steam boiler
and allows air to enter.
Air way, a passage for a current of air; as the air way of
an air pump; an air way in a mine.
In the air.
(a) Prevalent without traceable origin or authority, as
rumors.
(b) Not in a fixed or stable position; unsettled.
(c) (Mil.) Unsupported and liable to be turned or taken
in flank; as, the army had its wing in the air.
To take air, to be divulged; to be made public.
To take the air, to go abroad; to walk or ride out. CompressorCompressor Com*press"or, n. [L.]
Anything which serves to compress; as:
(a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
(b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp.,
the femoral artery) or other part.
(c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass
plates an object to be examined with the microscope; --
called also compressorium.
(d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an
air compressor. compressoriumCompressor Com*press"or, n. [L.]
Anything which serves to compress; as:
(a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
(b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp.,
the femoral artery) or other part.
(c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass
plates an object to be examined with the microscope; --
called also compressorium.
(d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an
air compressor. Depressomotor
Depressomotor De*pres`so*mo"tor, a. (Med.)
Depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as
depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular
activity. -- n. Any agent that depresses the activity of the
motor centers, as bromides, etc.
DepressorDepressor De*press"or, n.
1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a
part.
Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the
activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the
heart. Depressor nerveDepressor De*press"or, n.
1. One who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.
2. (Anat.) A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a
part.
Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the
activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the
heart. Impressor
Impressor Im*press"or, n. [LL., a printer.]
One who, or that which, impresses. --Boyle.
Oppressor
Oppressor Op*press"or, n. [L.]
One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others;
one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable
severity.
The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. --Shak.
To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor.
--Swift.
PressorPressor Press"or, a. (Physiol.)
Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of
pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which
excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger
contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of
the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor.
--Landois & Stirling. Suppressor
Suppressor Sup*press"or, n. [L., hider.]
One who suppresses.
Meaning of PRESSO from wikipedia
- The
Suzuki S-
Presso is a city car
produced by
Maruti Suzuki, Suzuki's
subsidiary in
India since 2019. It
slots above the Alto and
below the
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Presso was a
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between October 2004 and
November 2007.
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Santa Maria presso San
Satiro (Saint Mary near
Saint Satyrus) is a
church in Milan. The
Italian Renaissance structure (1476–1482)
houses the
early medieval...
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Santa Maria dei
Miracoli presso San
Celso is a
church and a
sanctuary in Milan, Lombardy,
northern Italy. The
construction was
begun by Gian
Giacomo Dolcebuono...
- Riva
presso Chieri is a
comune (muni****lity) in the
Metropolitan City of
Turin in the
Italian region Piedmont,
located about 15
kilometres (9 mi) southeast...
- The third-generation
model is
built on the same
underpinnings as the S-
Presso.
Since 2006, the Alto has been India's best-selling car and
crossed the...
- trompe-l'œil The
interior of
Santa Maria presso San Satiro,
Milan viewed from the nave The trompe-l'œil
choir at
Santa Maria presso San Satiro, by
Donato Bramante...
- 1992. Nafta-Società
Italaia pel
Petrolio e Affini;
volumetto conservato presso il
Museo Fisogni. June 1922. "Puntata di
domenica 3
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- Satyri). The
church of
Santa Maria presso San
Satiro in
Milan refers to him.
Satyrus (disambiguation)
Santa Maria presso San
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