Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of gist is as below...

Tautologist :: Tautologist (n.) One who uses tautological words or phrases.

Soprano :: Soprano (n.) The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

Phonetist :: Phonetist (n.) One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.

Statutable :: Statutable (a.) Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy..

Conscription :: Conscription (n.) An enrolling or registering.

Oligist :: Oligist (a.) Hematite or specular iron ore; -- prob. so called in allusion to its feeble magnetism, as compared with magnetite..

Phlogisticating :: Phlogisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Phlogisticat.

Chair :: Chair (n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself..

Register :: Register (n.) That which registers or records.

Zoophyta :: Zoophyta (n. pl.) An extensive artificial and heterogeneous group of animals, formerly adopted by many zoologists. It included the c/lenterates, echinoderms, sponges, Bryozoa, Protozoa, etc..

Syndic :: Syndic (n.) An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate..

Integrate :: Integrate (v. t.) To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time..

Stop :: Stop (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop..

Haemadromograph :: Haemadromograph (n.) An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.

Actuary :: Actuary (n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally..

Phlogistian :: Phlogistian (n.) A believer in the existence of phlogiston.

Gist :: Gist (n.) The main point, as of a question; the point on which an action rests; the pith of a matter; as, the gist of a question..

Eozoon :: Eozoon (n.) A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species of gigantic Foraminifera, but others consider it a concretion, without organic structure..

Neologist :: Neologist (n.) One who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language.

Finger :: Finger (n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion..

Random Fonts

Most Popular