A plant cultivated for its edible parts, such as the roots of the beet, the leaves of spinach, the flower buds of broccoli, or the fruit or seeds of certain species, as beans, corn, and squash, A person who has permanently lost consciousness, due to damage to the brain, but remains alive; sometimes continued life requires support by machinery such as breathing tubes. Such a person is said to be in a vegetative state, Any plant, adjective_ a substance resembling tallow, obtained from various plants; as, Chinese vegetable tallow, obtained from the seeds of the tallow tree. Indian vegetable tallow is a name sometimes given to piney tallow, a cottonlike, fibrous material obtained from the coating of the seeds of a Brazilian tree (Chorisia speciosa). It is used for various purposes, as for stuffing cushions, and the like, but is incapable of being spun on account of a want of cohesion among the fibers, papyrine

To replace (a software program) with a more recently released, enhanced version, To improve the quality of (livestock or crops) through breeding, To exchange a possession for one of greater value or quality; trade up, verb_ to improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components, give better travel conditions to, computing to replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name, noun_ the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components), a reservation that is improved, A hardware device that provides greater performance than an earlier model, adverb & adjective_ Uphill

The regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect, as in music, the theater, or athletics, In the design and construction of machinery, the proper adjustment of the parts of any machine so that its operations will follow in a given order to produce a given result, as in the movement of the needle, shuttle, and feed of a sewing-machine in consecutive order, uncountable The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine, verb_ Present participle of time

A small ornamental button mounted on a short post for insertion through an eyelet, as on a dress shirt, Any of various protruding pins or pegs in machinery, used mainly as a support or pivot, A post; an upright prop or support; specifically, one of the small beams or scantlings in a building, of the height of a single story, which, with the laths nailed upon them, form the walls of the different rooms. See cut under siding, transitive verb_ To provide with or construct with studs or a stud, To be scattered over, To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs