Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Showing deference; deferential.
- adj. Anatomy Carrying down or away. Used of a duct or vessel.
- adj. Serving or adapted to carry or transport.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Showing deference.
- n. That which carries or conveys.
- n. An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Serving to carry; bearing.
- n. That which carries or conveys.
- n. An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bearing off or away; carrying off; conveying away; specifically, in anatomy and physiology, efferent: opposed to afferent: as, the deferent duct of the testes.
- n. That which carries or conveys; a conductor.
- n. Specifically A vessel or duct in the human body for the conveyance of fluids.
- n. (also called the orbit), in the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, a circle upon the circumference of which another circle was supposed to move, this second circle being called the epicycle, and carrying the body of the planet.
- n. In mathematics, the locus of the centers of circles of which a bicircular quartic is drawn as the envelop.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. showing deference
Etymologies
Examples
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Whatever it is, it’s recognizable by many in deferent ways that keeps them coming.
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It must be remembered that the apparent planetary motions are epicyclical, each planet revolving in its own orbit, the epicycle, around the sun, and with the sun, as centre of the epicycle, apparently around the earth in a common orbit, which is called the deferent orbit.
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Meanwhile, Francine, the family's long-serving and eager-to-leave maid, finds her polite and deferent veneer punctured at the end of a lengthy and explosive conflict in which her husband Albert tries to intervene physically.
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LOL not much combat going on in 73. well overt combat,,, i know covert a deferent story.
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I heard a deferent reason as well to the banning of pork.
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As I bent down it was like looking into a deferent dimension.
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I have bowhunted for over 25 years and have shot owned several deferent brands.
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The deferent Japanese waiters stay back in the shadows; this is our ritual, after all.
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People are grouchy because Mr Obama has sold himself as something deferent and has shown himself to e a typical politician.
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Obviously you and I are using deferent definitions of common sense.
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