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05820620-n:
an item of information that is typical of a class or group
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00029933-a:
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
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00038260-a:
(of tumors, e.g.) slow to heal or develop and usually painless
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00040325-a:
(of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt
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00040685-a:
(of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct
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00041051-a:
(of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive
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00041361-a:
(of e.g. volcanos) capable of erupting
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00041618-a:
(used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being
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00041841-a:
( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action
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00042692-a:
rendered active; e.g. rendered radioactive or luminescent or photosensitive or conductive
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00043615-a:
of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.
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00076739-a:
rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning
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00081367-v:
give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to
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00153499-n:
a systematic method of diagnosing a disorder (e.g., headache) that lacks unique symptoms or signs
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00154689-n:
establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country
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00155085-n:
ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country
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00199707-n:
the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
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00202411-a:
(of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back
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00214148-n:
an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
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Glosses
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00350876-a:
of an optical system (e.g. eye or opera glasses) adjusted to produce a clear image
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00404726-n:
the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)
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Glosses
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00508340-n:
a game in which prizes (e.g., candies or coins) are concealed in a container and for a small sum a player can draw one out at random
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00568813-n:
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
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Glosses
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00577749-n:
service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.)
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Glosses
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00603981-v:
train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
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Glosses
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00654765-n:
surveillance by electronic means (e.g. television)
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Glosses
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00659421-a:
as the hard flattened scales of e.g. sharks
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00670741-a:
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
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00680005-a:
of metal e.g.
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00691497-a:
(of e.g. closets or refrigerators) extending very far enough back to allow a person to enter
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00702773-a:
(of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds
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00702962-a:
(of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds
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00713784-n:
act of loading and unloading and moving goods within e.g. a factory especially using mechanical devices
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00725704-a:
of e.g. advice
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00728225-a:
(of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment
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00741867-a:
being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful
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00761260-a:
(of e.g. journeys or deliveries) direct from point of origin to point of destination
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00763272-a:
(of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive
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00763407-a:
of a path e.g.
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00768397-a:
(of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
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00768927-a:
hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy
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00777069-n:
the co-option of another person's personal information (e.g., name, Social Security number, credit card number, passport) without that person's knowledge and the fraudulent use of such knowledge
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00778575-n:
fraud that arises from a disparity between the instrument intended to be executed and the instrument actually executed; e.g., leading someone to sign the wrong contract
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00778809-n:
fraud which intentionally causes a person to execute and instrument or make an agreement or render a judgment; e.g., misleading someone about the true facts
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00779809-n:
a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated
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00785555-a:
(of e.g. property) capable of being parted or divided
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00786790-a:
lacking necessary documents (as for e.g. permission to live or work in a country)
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00807925-n:
the proportional limitation of production or distribution of something (e.g. crude oil or natural gas) to some fractional part of the total capacity of each producer
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00824183-a:
of the eastern part of a city e.g. Manhattan
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00854869-a:
emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
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00868603-a:
entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
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00909545-a:
being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)
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00911327-a:
not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
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00935792-a:
(of persons, e.g.) having gained full status
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00936456-n:
the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
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Glosses
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00938305-a:
(of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end
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Glosses
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00966152-v:
announce one's arrival, e.g. at hotels or airports
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01024228-a:
(used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable
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01028796-a:
(used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied
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01030033-n:
a vigil before certain feasts (as e.g. Easter)
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Glosses
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01033714-n:
canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church)
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Glosses
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01036624-n:
participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox)
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01041916-a:
being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
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Glosses
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01044891-v:
speak disparagingly of; e.g., make a racial slur
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Glosses
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01055360-n:
a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
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01058650-a:
(of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination
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01059306-n:
feeding a baby or animal according to a fixed schedule (e.g., every 4 hours)
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01072297-a:
(used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry
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01088478-a:
emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)
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01091728-a:
(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
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Glosses
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01179004-n:
occasion when workers continue to work as a protest against e.g. proposed dismissal or closure of the factory
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Glosses
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01188783-n:
a judgment entered in favor of the defendant when the plaintiff has not continued his action (e.g., has not appeared in court)
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Glosses
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01210375-a:
(used of e.g. detergents) producing few suds
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Glosses
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01210477-a:
(used of e.g. detergents) producing many suds
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Glosses
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01241455-a:
flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
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Glosses
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01251128-a:
having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
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01259391-a:
wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
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01273773-a:
defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration
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01289701-a:
rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush
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01315980-n:
any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats
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01316288-n:
any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote
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Glosses
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01319467-n:
any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals
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01321123-n:
female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster
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01326015-n:
a showy growth of e.g. feathers or skin on the head of a bird or other animal
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01332070-a:
of or belonging to or being a rock composed of fragments of older rocks (e.g., conglomerates or sandstone)
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Glosses
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01363482-v:
apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil
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Glosses
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01381044-n:
spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis
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Glosses
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01382699-n:
spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws)
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01383027-n:
cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever
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Glosses
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01414216-n:
any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen)
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01418947-n:
flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites
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01449354-a:
without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition
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Glosses
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01458302-n:
a lash-like appendage used for locomotion (e.g., in sperm cells and some bacteria and protozoa)
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Glosses
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01460457-n:
animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
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Glosses
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01487496-a:
of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g.
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Glosses
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01498166-v:
to put something (eg trust) in something
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Glosses
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01517755-a:
member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon
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Glosses
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01533169-n:
Old World finches; e.g. canaries and serins
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Glosses
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01552523-n:
e.g. ovenbirds
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Glosses
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01562668-a:
traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g.
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01598319-a:
being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development
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01598592-a:
departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development
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01616350-a:
(of e.g. evidence) not objective or easily verified
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Glosses
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01649695-v:
play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note
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Glosses
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01662771-v:
form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
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01689411-n:
any of a small family of lizards widely distributed in warm areas; all are harmless and useful as destroyers of e.g. slugs and insects
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01699652-a:
(of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture
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01720091-a:
(of e.g. lines or paths) not parallel; converging
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01753652-a:
capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria
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01758510-n:
beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
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01783017-n:
general term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes
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01785667-n:
long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars
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01788564-a:
(of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns
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01813289-a:
of metals e.g.; not made shiny and smooth by friction
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01826844-n:
Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms
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01829369-a:
(of e.g. an engine) having the power increased by fitting with a supercharger
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01832813-n:
American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys
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01841102-n:
small American woodpecker that feeds on sap from e.g. apple and maple trees
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01853039-a:
(of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary
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01887623-n:
mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle
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01888045-n:
young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo
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01895850-n:
layer of cells that secretes the chitinous cuticle in e.g. arthropods
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01898459-n:
long slender feather on the necks of e.g. turkeys and pheasants
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01899062-n:
dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
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01901828-n:
a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
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01909906-n:
one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth
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01928926-a:
(of e.g. a molecule) made reactive or more reactive
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01932151-n:
minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar
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01955318-n:
tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface
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01988701-n:
shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales
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01997119-n:
minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
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02036397-a:
wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment
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02081933-a:
allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
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02106006-v:
perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles
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02117866-a:
cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands
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02175014-n:
common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines
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02175569-n:
a common metallic green European beetle: larvae feed on plant roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. roses
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02178411-n:
small weevil having a prolonged snout; destructive to e.g. grains and nuts
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02181235-n:
sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
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02201138-v:
to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
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02235520-a:
made slick by e.g. ice or grease
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02236495-n:
plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)
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02252972-n:
blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets
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02260863-n:
small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter
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02264021-n:
winged insect resembling a dragonfly; the larvae (doodlebugs) dig conical pits where they wait to catch e.g. ants
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02270945-n:
lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces
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02284611-n:
small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants
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02291748-n:
any of several small yellowish or buff-colored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens
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02294577-n:
larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco
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02302244-n:
large American moth having yellow wings with purplish or brownish markings; larvae feed on e.g. maple and pine trees
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02304565-a:
vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze
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02309971-a:
(of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate
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02316392-n:
radially symmetrical marine invertebrates including e.g. starfish and sea urchins and sea cucumbers
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02322387-n:
tentacular tubular process of most echinoderms (starfish and sea urchins and holothurians) having a sucker at the end and used for e.g. locomotion and respiration
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02332447-n:
small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields
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02336275-n:
any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields
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02354234-a:
(of the eye or ear e.g.) without the aid of an optical or acoustical device or instrument
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02365397-a:
(of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject
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02386962-a:
short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
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02404868-a:
pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
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02405160-a:
pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')
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02407959-n:
any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
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02413037-a:
flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
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02427724-n:
any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers
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02440250-n:
terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos)
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02452813-n:
beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
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02463582-a:
believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
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Glosses
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02464132-v:
avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
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02491308-a:
(of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon
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02506947-n:
an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
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02507148-n:
an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
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found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
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one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
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interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight
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keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"
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a computer that represents information by variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages)
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a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead
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of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube
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an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item
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an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (eg removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it
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a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)
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dried by bringing a sprayed substance (e.g. milk or soap) into contact with hot air and recovering it in the form of a powder
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a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself
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brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys
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a bandage of cloth impregnated with a substance (e.g., plaster of Paris) that hardens soon after it is applied
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a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.)
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a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic
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a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic
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a large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup
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a kitchen utensil used for mashing (e.g. potatoes)
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a medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration)
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a chain (usually with a handle at the end) that is pulled in order to operate some mechanism (e.g. to flush a toilet)
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a house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated
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a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
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a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
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a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
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a hinge with two long straps; one strap is fastened to the surface of a moving part (e.g., a door or lid) and the other is fastened to the adjacent stationary frame
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a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
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a place equipped with instruments for testing (e.g. engines or machinery or computer programs etc.) under working conditions
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a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording)
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a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g.
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gauge for indicating the level of water in e.g. a tank or boiler or reservoir
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an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
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equality of measure (e.g., equality of height above sea level or equality of loudness etc.)
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the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
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used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
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the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
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a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency)
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scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
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animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels
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any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation; e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skull
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tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments
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a hormone that is released by nerve impulses (e.g., norepinephrine or vasopressin)
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small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
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the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image')
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the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b
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an index of the relation between any two sets of scores that can both be represented on ordered binary dimensions (e.g., male-female)
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a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their relation to other variables
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use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework
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a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals)
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a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
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a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
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antonyms that are commonly associated (e.g., `wet' and `dry')
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antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry')
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a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
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a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate
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an infinitive with an adverb between `to' and the verb (e.g., `to boldly go')
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an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')
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an adjective that classifies its noun (e.g., `a nervous disease' or `a musical instrument')
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06323822-n:
a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'
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a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view'
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an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General'
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a list of those who are ill (e.g. on a warship or in a regiment etc)
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a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record)
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an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
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an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes
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detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)
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the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
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a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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the family of languages that includes most of the languages spoken in Africa south of the Sahara; the majority of them are tonal languages but there are important exceptions (e.g., Swahili or Fula)
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the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'
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a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)
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a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')
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an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
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special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
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a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')
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a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')
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07131022-n:
two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)
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two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
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07168623-n:
(often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
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a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind
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07267795-n:
staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable
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personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
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a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant
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07585208-n:
liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
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pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings
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bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream
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07607832-n:
a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco)
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a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
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07621264-n:
colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies
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small piece of e.g. bread or cake
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07625324-n:
individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell
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07693439-n:
pinwheel-shaped rolls spread with cinnamon and sugar and filled with e.g. jam before baking
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mushrooms stuffed with any of numerous mixtures of e.g. meats or nuts or seafood or spinach
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berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies
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tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies
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07767709-n:
olives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento
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the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries
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07787270-n:
small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino
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07789911-n:
codfish preserved in salt; must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding; used in e.g. codfish cakes
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mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock
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07822687-n:
powder made of ground chili peppers mixed with e.g. cumin and garlic and oregano
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07832741-n:
a mayonnaise sauce flavored with herbs and mustard and capers; served with e.g. salad and cold meat
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07842753-n:
beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly
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07843464-n:
light fluffy dish of egg yolks and stiffly beaten egg whites mixed with e.g. cheese or fish or fruit
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07865196-n:
meat or fish stir-fried with vegetables (e.g., celery, onions, peppers or bean sprouts) seasoned with ginger and garlic and soy sauce; served with rice; created in the United States and frequently served in Chinese restaurants there
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07873807-n:
Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
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07877675-n:
ground beef mixed with raw egg and e.g. onions and capers and anchovies; eaten raw
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07878283-n:
parboiled head of cabbage scooped out and filled with a hash of chopped e.g. beef or ham and baked; served with tomato or cheese sauce
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infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves
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a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)
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08118849-n:
the division of a business (e.g. a service garage) that sells replacement parts
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a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
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08369615-n:
a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
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08405267-n:
the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)
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09229709-n:
a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
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a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
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09244331-n:
small granule (of e.g. chrysolite) found in some meteoric rocks
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09302616-n:
elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
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09308743-n:
a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak)
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09629477-n:
someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations)
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09815455-n:
(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
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09928451-n:
an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts)
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someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
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10132502-n:
someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
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10360578-n:
a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon)
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10386618-n:
a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing)
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a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing)
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10518349-n:
a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
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10605848-n:
someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party)
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10734568-n:
someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing
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10781984-n:
a worker who winds (e.g., a winch or clock or other mechanism)
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11412334-n:
the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago
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11437111-n:
a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond
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11439690-n:
any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
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11499510-n:
a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons)
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11532547-n:
the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy
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11533999-n:
a part of a plant (e.g., a leaf) that has been modified to provide protection for insects or mites or fungi
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11550340-n:
fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
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11682659-n:
small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual
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11685179-n:
a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
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11689197-n:
hard shiny grey seed of a bonduc tree; used for making e.g. jewelry
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11691990-n:
persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
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11805956-n:
low-growing chiefly perennial plant usually with small white flowers suitable for e.g. rock gardens
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11950028-n:
in some classifications many plants usually assigned to the genus Chrysanthemum have been divided among other genera: e.g. Argyranthemum; Dendranthema; Leucanthemum; Tanacetum
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11994827-n:
chiefly Old World strong-smelling weedy herbs; comprises plants sometimes included in other genera: e.g. Tanacetum; Tripleurospermum
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12156819-n:
dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
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12197359-n:
tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract
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12281974-n:
small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes
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12397431-n:
source of e.g. bhang and hashish as well as fiber
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12406155-n:
hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture
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12477401-n:
Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope
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12481641-n:
strong fiber that resembles hemp; obtained from sansevieria and used for e.g. cordage
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12524010-n:
dark red hardwood derived from the cocobolo and used in making musical instruments e.g. clarinets
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12533437-n:
root of licorice used in flavoring e.g. candy and liqueurs and medicines
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12550788-n:
pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey
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12565912-n:
East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning
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nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons
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parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests
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when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls
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12783316-n:
floating aquatic carnivorous perennial of central and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia having whorls of 6 to 9 leaves ending in hinged lobes for capturing e.g. water fleas
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erect annual herb with oval leaves and pink flowers; used to flavor e.g. meats or soups or salads; southeastern Europe and naturalized elsewhere
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a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves
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12980840-n:
any of various fungi of the family Peronosporaceae parasitic on e.g. grapes and potatoes and melons
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12997128-n:
category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes
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13052431-n:
type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers
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13084479-n:
organisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses
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13086220-n:
a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season
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(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes
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13103023-n:
a plant that climbs by its adventitious roots e.g. ivy
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13126192-n:
root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem
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13126308-n:
crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips
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13137409-n:
a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry)
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13137672-n:
fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple
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13137951-n:
an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e.g. grape; tomato; cranberry
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13138308-n:
fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube
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13139055-n:
a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
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13145040-n:
native grape of northeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties e.g. Concord grapes
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13183251-n:
small genus of Old World ferns; superseded in some classification systems which place plants of this genus in e.g. genera Asplenium and Pleurosorus
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13191318-n:
includes some plants usually placed in e.g. genus Dicksonia: terrestrial ferns resembling bracken; tropical America; Malaysia to Australia and Polynesia; southwestern Europe and Atlantic islands
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13261597-n:
personal income that you did not earn (e.g., dividends or interest or rent income)
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13277179-n:
the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
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13302621-n:
the cost of marketing (e.g., the cost of transferring title and moving goods to the customer)
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13335008-n:
common stock classified as A or B where A has certain advantages (e.g., voting power) that B does not
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13341350-n:
(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
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13354769-n:
capital available for the operations of a firm (e.g. manufacturing or transportation) as distinct from financial transactions and long-term improvements
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13396861-n:
a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)
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13415381-n:
a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
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13430495-n:
the synthesis in living organisms of more complex substances (e.g., living tissue) from simpler ones together with the storage of energy
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13451073-n:
the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys)
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13529831-n:
urinary incontinence that occurs when the bladder is so full that it continually leaks urine; often attributable to a blocked urethra (e.g., due to prostate enlargement) or weak bladder muscles or nerve damage
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13548531-n:
the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes
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13625482-n:
(computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error
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13655089-n:
a unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch; used to specify thickness (e.g., of sheets or wire)
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13797561-n:
agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)
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13893786-n:
a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
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13930725-n:
(psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal attachment to e.g. a parental figure
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14002915-n:
(aeronautics) the state of equilibrium in which centrifugal forces due to a rotating mass (e.g., a propeller) do not produce force in the shaft and so vibration is reduced
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14101317-n:
obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving
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14157782-n:
hereditary condition in which certain anesthetics (e.g., halothane) cause high body temperatures and muscle rigidity
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14216404-n:
a disease affecting the canes of various bush fruits (e.g., raspberries or currants)
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14308472-n:
syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours
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14313154-n:
involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease)
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14373407-n:
an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood
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14582716-n:
a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals)
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14592610-n:
generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
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14599641-n:
a dilute solution of acetic acid that is used as a solvent (e.g. for a drug)
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14602851-n:
a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus)
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14670639-n:
a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)
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14701143-n:
resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax
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14703190-n:
a protein gelatin obtained by boiling e.g. skins and hoofs of cattle and horses
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14703345-n:
made from casein; used for e.g. plywood and cabinetwork
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14735347-n:
a milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives
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14757172-n:
insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers
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14759147-n:
fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb
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14760696-n:
a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen
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14779796-n:
a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)
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14808273-n:
a neurotransmitter involved in e.g. sleep and depression and memory
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14821043-n:
a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat
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14946939-n:
a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp
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14953968-n:
an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin)
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14959939-n:
plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
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14965501-n:
highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics
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14985383-n:
a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
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15036916-n:
toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions)
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15062641-n:
a waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow
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15153472-n:
the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age)
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15201505-n:
the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
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15208540-n:
the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis
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15234212-n:
overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball
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15234348-n:
a period of overtime play to resolve a tie; e.g. basketball
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15234469-n:
overtime play in order to break a tie; e.g. tennis and soccer
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15234587-n:
(sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf
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15263283-n:
(New Testament) in Revelations it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness
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