Word Meanings - DIPTYCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially: A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets

Additional info about word: DIPTYCH

1. Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially: A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych. 2. A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

Related words: (words related to DIPTYCH)

• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• SERIES MOTOR
  A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• PAINTING
  The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• PAINT
  1. To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. 2. To color one's face by way of beautifying it. Let her paint an inch thick. Shak.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.