FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: NOUN
- A person who dresses in especially stylish fashions.
- A picture, usually a full-page advertisement, showing the latest fashion in clothing.
- An engraving exhibiting current fashions in dress.
- An illustration of current styles in dress.
- A person who consistently wears the latest fashions.
- A plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress
- A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- The condition of being swollen.
- A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- A rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
- The undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- A crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- The act or process of swelling.
- In a cannon, an enlargement near the muzzle: it is not present in guns as now made.
- Same as swell-box, swell-keyboard, swell-organ, or swell-pedal. See also organ, 6.
- A mechanical contrivance in the harpsichord and in both the pipe-organ and the reed-organ by which the loudness of the tones may be varied by opening or shutting the lid or set of blinds of a closed box, case, or chamber within which are the sounding strings, pipes, or vibrators.
- In geology, an extensive area from whose central region the strata dip quaquaversally to a moderate amount, so as to give rise to a geologically and topographically peculiar type of structure.
- In coal-mining, a channel washed out or in some way eroded in a coal-seam, and afterward filled up with clay or sand. Also called, in some English coal-fields, a horse, and in others a want; sometimes also a horse-back, and in the South Wales coal-field a swine-back.
- A man of great claims to admiration; one of distinguished personality; hence, one who puts on such an appearance, or endeavors to appear important or distinguished; a dandy: as, a howling swell (a conspicuously great swell).
- In a stop-motion of a loom, a curved lever in the shuttle-box, which raises a catch out of engagement with the stop or stop-finger whenever the shuttle fairly enters the shuttle-box, but which, when the shuttle fails to enter, permits such engagement, thus bringing into action mechanism that stops the loom. Compare stop-motion.
- The sign ⟨ or ⟩, used to denote the above.
- In a gunstock, the enlarged and thickened part.
- A wave, especially when long and unbroken; collectively, the waves or fluctuations of the sea after a storm, often called ground-swell; billows; a surge: as, a heavy swell.
- An elevation above a level, especially a gradual and even rise: as, a swell of land.
- The act of swelling; augmentation in bulk; expansion; distention; increase in volume, intensity, number, force, etc.
- A device on an instrument, such as an organ or harpsichord, for regulating volume.
- The sign indicating such a crescendo.
- A crescendo followed by a gradual diminuendo.
- One who is fashionably dressed or socially prominent.
- A rise in the land; a rounded elevation.
- A long wave on water that moves continuously without breaking.
- A swollen part; a bulge or protuberance.
- In music: A gradual increase and following decrease in loudness or force; a crescendo combined with a diminuendo. Compare messa di voce.
FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- Fashionably elegant; stylish.
- Excellent; wonderful.
- Very good
FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: VERB
- N/A
- Expand abnormally
- Cause to become swollen
- Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- As of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things
- Come up
FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To rise in swells, as the sea.
- To rise or extend above the surrounding level, as clouds.
- To be or become filled or puffed up, as with pride, arrogance, or anger.
- To rise from within.
- To cause to increase in volume, size, number, degree, or intensity.
- To fill with emotion.
- To grow in loudness or intensity.
- To increase in force, size, number, or degree.
- To increase in size or volume as a result of internal pressure; expand.
- To bulge out, as a sail.
FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: TRANSITIVE VERB
- N/A
- To increase the size, bulk, or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate, or increase.
- To aggravate; to heighten.
FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- N/A
- To increase gradually the intensity, force, or volume of: as, to swell a tone. See swell, n., 4.
- To increase the bulk, size, amount, or number of; cause to expand, dilate, or increase.
- To rise and gather; well up.
- To be puffed up with some feeling; show outwardly elation or excitement; hence, to strut; look big: as, to swell with pride, anger, or rage.
- To rise in altitude; rise above a given level.
- To belly, as sails; bulge out, as a cask in the middle; protuberate.
- To grow in bulk; bulge; dilate or expand; increase in size or extent by addition of any kind; grow in volume, intensity, or force: literally or figuratively, and used in a great variety of applications.
- First-rate of its kind; hence, elegant; stylish.
- Excellent
- To inflate; puff up; raise to arrogance.
- Come up, as of a liquid
FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: RELATED WORDS
- Exornation, Bantam work, Gaudery, Clothe, Chic, Clothespress, Doll up, Swell, Sheik, Fop, Dude, Gallant, Beau, Dandy, Clotheshorse
- Neat, Fop, Corking, Dandy, Dude, Groovy, Bully, Well, Smashing, Great, Good, Cracking, Peachy, Cool, Distend
FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Aguise, Exornation, Bantam work, Gaudery, Clothe, Chic, Clothespress, Doll up, Swell, Sheik, Fop, Dude, Gallant, Beau, Dandy
- Neat, Fop, Corking, Dandy, Dude, Groovy, Bully, Well, Smashing, Great, Good, Cracking, Peachy, Cool, Distend
FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Julie had not been long at the _Amour peintre_ before Elodie came down to her in the shop, looking like a fashion plate.
- Of what we're not sure, but it involves polyester I bet you didn't know I was a fashion plate.
- His mother owned an edgy, fashion-forward clothing store, his aunt owned a clothing factory and his grandmother was simply a vintage fashion plate.
- The second is that when you quarter the wake or swell, the boat will try to steer away from the wake or swell.
- When landing down a secondary swell, attempt to touch down on the back side, not on the face of the swell.
- On a buoy report, Swell Direction is the compass direction from which the swell wave are coming from.
- Athenians and swell their pride, no less than the public and private material goods the Empire brings them swell their appetites.
- Distant groundswells and the ideal swell direction is from the northwest year round with the NE swell.
- NW mixing with secondary swell from the SW get reinforcement from W wind swell.
- Including top quality forecast resources, expect most of it to occur on higher risk days swell and WSW swell.
- NNW winds rough up a small blend of NW swell mix and minor S swell.
- Expand, dilate, bloat, enlarge, swell, stretch, swell out.
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FASHION PLATE vs SWELL: QUESTIONS
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