Crossword-Solution: OSMOSIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Osmosis | n. | Osmose. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OSMOSIS (5)
Widely used for language descriptions but seldom documented anywhere, so that it must usually be learned by osmosis from other hackers.
With the Moslems it is a universal law--and in the Moslem Paradise there are no women--save the Houries! The playground of a man-fenced "society"; the work-ground of a man-taught church; and this "osmosis" of social nutrition, this leakage and seepage of values which should circulate normally, called charity; these are not a sufficient field for the activities of women.
Theories are put forward, most learned theories, introducing capillary action, osmosis and cellular imbibition, to explain why the caulicle ascends and the radical descends.
Owing to their minuteness, the root-hairs are in most cases immersed in the water film that surrounds the soil particles, and the soil-water is taken directly into the roots from the soil-water film by the process known as osmosis.
This poisoned needle business isn’t as easy as some people seem to think nowadays.” “Then he might have absorbed it from the water,” I insisted, recalling a recent case of Kennedy’s and adding, “by osmosis.” “You saw how difficult it was to dissolve in water,” Craig rejected quietly.
Quotes with OSMOSIS (3)
And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.
I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 74 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).