Vintage 1911 Edition of Roget's Thesaurus (eBook)

 3.  POWER IN OPERATION

      #161. Production.-- N. {ant. 162, 158} production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together &c. v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement &c. (completion) 729. flowering, fructification; inflorescence.      bringing forth &c. v.: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation &c. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen &c. 357.      spontaneous generation; archegenesis, archebiosis; biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis1; authorship, publication; works, oeuvre.      biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny; tocogony, vacuolization.      edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.      V. produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish &c. (complete) 729.      flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world.      make productive &c. 168; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate; procreate, progenerate, propagate; engender; bring into being, call into being, bring into existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring up.      induce, superinduce; suscitate|; cause &c. 153; acquire &c. 775.      Adj. produced, producing &c. v.; productive of; prolific &c. 168; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous.      digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic; ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous.      architectonic.      Phr. ex nihilo nihil; fiat lux; materiam superabat opus [Ovid]; nemo dat quod non habet [Latin].

     #162. [Nonproduction.] Destruction.-- N. {ant. 161} destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.      fall, downfall, ruin, peridition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.      extinction, annihilation; destruction of life &c. 361; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom.      destroying &c. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition &c. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, devastation, razzia; incendiarism; revolution &c. 146; extirpation &c. (extraction) 301; commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation &c. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.      V. be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.      destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual &c. 756; sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset, subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish*, undo; break up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.      smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground.      deal destruction, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle &c. (render useless) 645; devour, swallow up, desolate, devastate, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincement of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate &c. 301.      Adj. destroyed & c. v.; perishing &c. v.; trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of -destruction &c. n.; extinct; all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing.      destructive, subversive, ruinous, incendiary, deletory|; destroying &c. n. suicidal; deadly &c. (killing) 361.      Adv. with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.      Phr. delenda est Carthago; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit; ecrasez l'infame [Voltaire].

     #163. Reproduction.-- N. reproduction, renovation; restoration &c. 660; renewal; new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration, palingenesis, revivication; apotheosis; resuscitation, reanimation, resurrection, reappearance; regrowth; Phoenix.      generation &c. (production) 161; multiplication.      V. reproduce; restore &c. 660; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge.      crop up, spring up like mushrooms.      Adj. reproduced &c. v.; renascent, reappearing; reproductive; suigenetic.

     #164. Producer.-- N. producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover; maker &c. (agent) 690; prime mover.

     #165. Destroyer.-- N. destroyer &c. (destroy &c. 162); cankerworm &c. (bane) 663; assassin &c. (killer) 361; executioner &c. (punish) 975; biblioclast, eidoloclast, iconoclast, idoloclast; nihilist.

     #166. Paternity.-- N. paternity; parentage; consanguinity &c. 11.      parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba; genitor, progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire, grandfather; great- grandfather; fathership, fatherhood; mabap.      house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.      motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias, grandmother.      Adj. paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal.      Phr. avi numerantur avorum; "happy he with such a mother" [Tennyson]; hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo; philosophia stemma non inspicit [Seneca].

     #167. Posterity.-- N. posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.      child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.      straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture.      Adj. filial; diphyletic.      Phr. "the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth].

     #168. Productiveness -- N. productiveness &c. adj.; fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty|.      pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation; superfetation.      milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish, rowen; protoplasm; fertilization.      V. make -productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify; teem, multiply; produce &c. 161; conceive.      Adj. productive,...