Crossword-Solution: PARABOLIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parabolic | a. | Alt. of Parabolical |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PARABOLIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Expressed allegorically. | 1 answer |
| Like a curve or allegory | 1 answer |
| having the form of a parabola | 1 answer |
| of, relating to, or shaped like a parabola | 1 answer |
| PARABLE, of the nature of a | 2 answers |
| PARABOLA, of the nature of a | 2 answers |
| parabolical | 12 answers |
| parabolically | 12 answers |
| Allegorical | 14 answers |
| apocryphal | 26 answers |
| mythological | 36 answers |
| mythical | 50 answers |
| Curved | 57 answers |
| Legendary | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECAMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PARABOLIC (5)
This intense heat they project in a parallel beam against any object they choose, by means of a polished parabolic mirror of unknown composition, much as the parabolic mirror of a lighthouse projects a beam of light.
And even if a shell hit on the front of the canal bank, and one were on the back of the bank, five, eight, or ten seconds later one would hear a belated WHIRR, and curved pieces of shell would light--probably parabolic curves or boomerangs.
The Kangaroo immediately adjourned, tracing against the sunset sky a parabolic curve spanning seven provinces, and evanished below the horizon.
The suspense grew almost unbearable as the ball soared in its parabolic flight and the red-haired runner streaked dark across the green.
Sometimes a parabolic sense is still more undeniably present in a dream; sometimes I cannot but suppose my Brownies have been aping Bunyan, and yet in no case with what would possibly be called a moral in a tract; never with the ethical narrowness; conveying hints instead of life’s larger limitations and that sort of sense which we seem to perceive in the arabesque of time and space.
Quotes with PARABOLIC (3)
Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks (explaining our penchant for baseball). A cavewoman thinking too hard about what matter is ultimately made of might fail to notice the tiger sneaking up behind and get cleaned right out of the gene pool. Darwin’s theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond t…
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.
He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1948–1984).