Definitions
Etymologies
- Back-formation from advection. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And those snowmen will be all -- again, just part of their memories, because, by tomorrow, we are expecting that warmer air to advect from the south.”
“One strong low pressure system was forecast to persistently advect northeast over the Southeastern states and into the Tennessee Valley and Mid-Atlantic states.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘advect’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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To Convey
Verbs meaning convey
port, ferry, advect, transport, transmit, traject, conduct, confer
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Transfer (verb)
Words meaning transfer (verb).
translocate, transpose, transmit, translate, advect, transfuse, ferry
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