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educate

To bring up or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the mental activities or senses; to expand, strengthen, and discipline, as the mind, a faculty, etc.; to form and regulate the principles and character of; to prepare and fit for any calling or business by systematic instruction; to cultivate; to train; to instruct; as, to educate a child; to educate the eye or the taste.

Educated

Formed or developed by education; as, an educated man.

educatee

a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution.

Education

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education.

Educationist

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

Educative

Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.

Educe

To bring or draw out; to cause to appear; to produce against counter agency or influence; to extract; to evolve; as, to educe a form from matter.

Educt

That which is educed, as by analysis.

Eduction

The act of drawing out or bringing into view.

Eductive

Tending to draw out; extractive.

Eductor

One who, or that which, brings forth, elicits, or extracts.

Edulcorate

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.

Edulcorative

Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water.

Edulcorator

A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

Eel

An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eels of Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.

Eelgrass

A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

Eelpot

A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

Eelpout

A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value. A fresh-water fish, the burbot.

Eelspear

A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

Een

The old plural of Eye.

Eerily

In a strange, unearthly way.

Eery Eerie

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

Eet

imp. of Eat.

Effable

Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable.

Efface

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

Effacement

The act if effacing; also, the result of the act.

Effect

To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be.

Effectible

Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible.

Effective

That which produces a given effect; a cause.

Effectively

With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.

Effectless

Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless.

Effectual

Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.

Effectuate

To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

Effeminacy

Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men.

Effeminately

In an effeminate or womanish manner; weakly; softly; delicately.

Effendi

Master; sir; -- a Turkish title of respect, applied esp. to a state official or man of learning, as one learned in the law, but often simply as the courtesy title of a gentleman.

Effervesce

To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form.

Effervescency Effervescence

A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.

Effervescent

Gently boiling or bubbling, by means of the disengagement of gas

Effet

The common newt; -- called also asker, eft, evat, and ewt.

Effete

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile.

Efficacious

Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law.

efficacy

Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.

efficiency apartment

a small apartment{4}, sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pulled out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency.

efficiency efficience

The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects; efficient power; effectual agency.

efficient

Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power.

Effigiate

To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt.

Effigiation

The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy.

Effigy

The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.

Efflate

To fill with breath; to puff up.

Efflation

The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind.

Efflorescence

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

Efflorescency

The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence.

Efflorescent

That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt.

Efflower

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

Effluent

A stream that flows out of another stream or lake.

Effluvium

Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.

Efflux

To run out; to flow forth; to pass away.

Efforce

To force; to constrain; to compel to yield.

effortful

requiring great physical effort. Opposite of effortless.

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