Letters starting with “S”
SÉANCE
- a meeting or session; now specif., a meeting at which a medium seeks to communicate with the spirits of the dead
SECTS
SECTS 1
- path, way, method, party, faction, in LL(EC), doctrine, sect
- a religious body or denomination, esp. a small group that has broken away from an established church
- any group of people having a common leadership, set of opinions, philosophical doctrine, political Principles, etc., specif. a faction of a larger group
SECTS 2. abbrev. Section
- – SECT of secare, to cut: combining form adjective cut, separated
SISTER KENNY
Note: Wikipedia
- Elizabeth Kenny (20 September 1880 – 30 November 1952) was an unaccredited Australian nurse who promoted a controversial new approach to the treatment of poliomyelitis. Her findings ran counter to conventional medical wisdom; they demonstrated the need to exercise muscles affected by polio instead of immobilizing them. Kenny’s principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy, or physiotherapy. She was not a member of a religious order; in some commonwealth nations, the title “sister” is applied to senior qualified nurses and does not necessarily indicate a religious vocation.
SOLAR
- of or having to do with the sun
- produced by or coming from the sun [solar energy]
- depending upon the sun’s light or energy [solar heating]
- fixed or measured by the earth’s motion with relation to the sun [mean solar time]
- [Archaic.] Astrol. under the influence of the sun
SOLAR PLEXUS
- a network of nerves in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach and in front of the aorta, containing ganglia that send nerve impulses to the abdominal viscera
- [informal] the area of the belly just below the sternum
SPECIFIC GRAVITY
- the ratio of the weight or mass of a given volume of a substance to that of an equal volume of another substance (water for liquids and solids, air or hydrogen for gases) used as a standard
SPECTRUM
- the series of colored bands dispersed and arranged in the order of their respective wavelengths by the passage of white light through a prism or other dispersing device and shading continuously from red (produced by the longest wave visible) through violet (produced by the shortest): the six main colors of the spectrum are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet, with a seventh color (indigo) sometimes specified, between blue and violet
- the intensity of any radiation or motion displayed as a function of frequency, or wavelength
- an afterimage
- a continuous range or entire extent [a wide spectrum of opinion]
- a) RADIO SPECTRUM b) ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
SPIRE
SPIRE 1
- to turn, wrap
- a spiral or coil
- any of the convolutions of a spiral or coil
- Zool. The upper part of a spiral shell of a gastropod
SPIRE 2
- a sprout, spike, or stalk of a plant, a blade of grass, etc.
- the top part of a pointed, tapering object or structure, as a mountain peak
- anything that tapers to a point, as a pointed structure capping a tower or steeple – to extend upward, tapering to a point; shoot up or rise in, or put forth, a spire or spires
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