Raymond's Picture Dictionary

Monday, December 11, 2006

Type of Head Covering



CROWN
A circular, often jewelled, head-dress, especially one worn as a mark of royalty or honour.



BERET
A soft, visorless cap with a close-fitting headband and a wide, round top often with a tab at its center.



TURBAN
A man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.



SUNBONNET
A bonnet with a large brim shading the face and sometimes a piece projecting over the neck, worn by women and children.





HELMET
Any of various forms of protective head covering worn by soldiers, firefighters, divers, cyclists, etc. and a metal, leather etc covering to protect the head.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Meaning of "C"

CHANDELIER
A branched, decorative lighting fixture that holds a number of bulbs or candles and is suspended from a ceiling.


CHURN
A vessel or device in which cream or milk is agitated to separate the oily globules from the caseous and serous parts, used to make butter.




CENSER
A container, usually covered, in which incense is burned, esp. during religious services; thurible.



CASTANETS
A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of slightly concave shells of ivory or hardwood, held in the palm of the hand by a connecting cord over the thumb and clapped together with the fingers. Often used in the plural.





CASK
A container made and shaped like a barrel, esp. one larger and stronger, for holding liquids.

KIND of BIRDS

PENGUIN
Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers.

MOCKINGBIRD
Long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds.

PELICAN
Large long-winged, warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish.

TOUCAN
Any of several usually brightly colored, fruit-eating birds of the family Ramphastidae, of tropical America, having a very large bill.


OSTRICH
A large, two-toed, swift-footed flightless bird, Struthio camelus, indigenous to Africa, and Arabia, domesticated for its plumage: the largest of living birds.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Suffix of phone

ALLOPHONE
Any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t-sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.



XYLOPHONE
a musical instrument consisting of a graduated series of wooden bars, usually sounded by striking with small wooden hammers.
MELLOPHONE
A marching or military band brass instrument similar in appearance and range to the French horn but slightly smaller and simpler to play.



TELEPHONE
An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals.





CELLPHONE
A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

KIND of BOATS


GONDOLA
A long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat having a tall, ornamental stem and stern and sometimes a small cabin for passengers, rowed or poled by a single person who stands at the stern, facing forward: used esp. on the canals of Venice, Italy.


CANOE
Any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.


FRIGATE
A fast naval vessel of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, generally having a lofty ship rig and heavily armed on one or two decks.




SCOW
A large flatbottom boat with square ends, used chiefly for transporting freight.



UMIAK
A large open Inuit or Eskimo boat made of skins stretched on a wooden frame, usually propelled by paddles.

Monday, November 06, 2006

Flying Wings


SPACE SHUTTLE
Any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.



DELTA WING
A triangularly shaped surface that serves as both wing and horizontal stabilizer of a space vehicle and some supersonic aircraft.

GLIDER
A motorless, heavier-than-air aircraft for gliding from a higher to a lower level by the action of gravity or from a lower to a higher level by the action of air currents.



BIPLANE
An airplane having two pairs of wings fixed at different levels, especially one above and one below the fuselage.




DIRIGIBLE

Aircraft consisting of an elongated, gas-filled balloon or a rigid structure with gas-filled compartments, and having motors and rudders to drive and guide it.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Sea Animals



SEA URCHIN
---Any of various echinoderms of the class Echinoidea, having a soft body enclosed in a round, symmetrical, calcareous shell covered with long spines.




MORAY EEL
---Any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.





CUTTLEFISH
--- Any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia that have ten arms and a calcareous internal shell and eject a dark inky fluid when in danger.




Hippocampus
---A complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of gray matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories




STARFISH
---Any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.

Friday, October 20, 2006

FIGHTER



SUMO
---A form of wrestling in Japan in which a contestant wins by forcing his opponent out of the ring or by causing him to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the soles of his feet, contestants usually being men of great height and weight.




BOXING
---The act, technique, or profession of fighting with the fists, with or without boxing gloves.




KARATE
---A Japanese art of self-defense in which sharp blows and kicks are administered to pressure-sensitive points on the body of an opponent.





WRESTLING
---A sport in which two opponents struggle hand to hand in order to pin or press each other's shoulders to the mat or ground, with the style, rules, and regulations differing widely in amateur and professional matches.




ULTIMATE FIGHTING
---A one-on-one competition combining boxing, jujitsu, wrestling, and other martial arts and staged for spectators