AUTOSTRADE | • autostrade n. A highway in southern Europe. • AUTOSTRADA n. (Italian) a motorway. |
BALUSTRADE | • balustrade n. A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace… • BALUSTRADE n. a row of columns supporting a stair rail. |
BIODEGRADE | • biodegrade v. To decompose as a result of biological action, especially by microorganisms. • BIODEGRADE v. to break down by biological action. |
CENTIGRADE | • centigrade adj. (Of a scale) Having 100 divisions between two fixed points. • centigrade adj. Celsius (since 1948). • centigrade n. (Uncountable) A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its… |
CIRRIGRADE | • cirrigrade adj. (Zoology) moved or moving by means of cirri. • CIRRIGRADE adj. moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages. |
DORSIGRADE | • DORSIGRADE adj. walking on the back of the toes. |
INTERGRADE | • intergrade v. To pass or change from one state to another by steps or stages. • intergrade n. An intermediate grade. • INTERGRADE n. an intermediate grade. |
MASQUERADE | • masquerade n. An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing… • masquerade n. The act of wearing a mask or dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball. • masquerade n. (Figuratively) An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal… |
MULTIGRADE | • multigrade adj. Having the characteristics of multiple grades of a product (especially of a lubricating oil). • multigrade adj. (Education) Relating to students of differing grade levels. • MULTIGRADE n. a brand of black and white photographic paper coated with a mixture of emulsions which are sensitive to the colour of the printing light used and which produce different contrast grades as a result. |
ORTHOGRADE | • orthograde adj. Walking or standing with the body upright. • ORTHOGRADE adj. walking with the body upright. |
RETROGRADE | • retrograde adj. Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating. • retrograde adj. Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing. • retrograde adj. Of the order of something: inverse, reverse. |
SALTIGRADE | • saltigrade adj. (Zoology) Having feet or legs formed for leaping. • saltigrade n. (Zoology, obsolete) One of the Saltigradae, a former tribe of spiders (now treated as the family Salticidae)… • SALTIGRADE n. a kind of jumping spider. |
SPINIGRADE | • spinigrade adj. (Zoology) Moving by means of spines. • SPINIGRADE n. a type of spiny echinoderm. |
TARDIGRADE | • tardigrade adj. Sluggish; moving slowly. • tardigrade n. (Zoology) A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada. • tardigrade n. Sloth. |