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an
0
n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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antiproton
0
n 1: an unstable negatively charged proton; the antiparticle of
a proton
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awn
0
n 1: slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of
grasses
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baton
0
n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra
or choir [syn: baton, wand]
2: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn:
truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick,
billy club]
3: a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an
office or an authority
4: a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major
or drum majorette
5: a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay
race
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canton
0
n 1: a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the
capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
[syn: Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow, Canton]
2: a small administrative division of a country
v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter,
billet, canton]
2: divide into cantons, of a country
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cretonne
0
n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for
slipcovers and draperies
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crouton
0
n 1: a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or
salads
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etymon
0
n 1: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which
related words in several languages can be derived by
linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root]
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famine
0
n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine,
shortage]
2: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting
in violent hunger and starvation and death
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graviton
0
n 1: a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak)
gravitational interactions between particles
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hyperbaton
0
n 1: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')
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krypton
0
n 1: a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses;
occurs in trace amounts in air [syn: krypton, Kr,
atomic number 36]
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lepton
0
n 1: 100 lepta equal 1 drachma in Greece
2: an elementary particle that participates in weak
interactions; has a baryon number of 0
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nekton
0
n 1: the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of
water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
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phlogiston
0
n 1: a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all
combustible materials and to be released during burning
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photon
0
n 1: a quantum of electromagnetic radiation; an elementary
particle that is its own antiparticle
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piton
0
n 1: a metal spike with a hole for a rope; mountaineers drive it
into ice or rock to use as a hold
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plantain
0
n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small
roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small
spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used
medicinally
2: a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular
greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics [syn:
plantain, plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca]
3: starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple
vegetable throughout the tropics
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proton
0
n 1: a stable particle with positive charge equal to the
negative charge of an electron
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wonton
0
n 1: a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually
served in soup [syn: won ton, wonton]
2: a soup with won ton dumplings [syn: won ton, wonton,
wonton soup]
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breton
0
n 1: a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who
speaks the Breton language)
2: a Celtic language of Brittany
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amman
0
n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman,
capital of Jordan]
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danton
0
n 1: French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille
and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was
guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign
of Terror (1759-1794) [syn: Danton, Georges Jacques
Danton]
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scranton
0
n 1: an industrial city of northeastern Pennsylvania
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stanton
0
n 1: United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of
the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality
(1815-1902) [syn: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton]
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chiton
0
n 1: a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece
2: primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk
having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates [syn:
chiton, coat-of-mail shell, sea cradle,
polyplacophore]
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anne
0
n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if
James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she
was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over
parliament (1665-1714)
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schliemann
0
n 1: German archaeologist who discovered nine superimposed city
sites of Troy; he also excavated Mycenae (1822-1890) [syn:
Schliemann, Heinrich Schliemann]
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magneton
0
n 1: a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or
subatomic particle
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omdurman
0
n 1: a city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White
Nile opposite Khartoum
2: a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under
Kitchener defeated the Sudanese [syn: Omdurman, battle of
Omdurman]
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teton
0
n 1: a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which
was made up of several groups that lived on the plains
[syn: Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota]
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pluton
0
n 1: large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have
solidified deep within the earth [syn: batholith,
batholite, pluton, plutonic rock]
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balaton
0
n 1: a large shallow lake in western Hungary [syn: Balaton,
Lake Balaton, Plattensee]
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futon
0
n 1: mattress consisting of a pad of cotton batting that is used
for sleeping on the floor or on a raised frame
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blanton
0
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branton
0
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glanton
0
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langton
0
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spanton
0
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atlantan
0
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vanzanten
0
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aune
0
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quinton
0
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germiston
0
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suleiman
0
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neuston
0
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exciton
0
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ikhnaton
0