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at
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n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the
halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
[syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85]
2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
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bat
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n 1: nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form
membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for
echolocation by which they navigate [syn: bat,
chiropteran]
2: (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it
happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" [syn: bat,
at-bat]
3: a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
[syn: squash racket, squash racquet, bat]
4: the club used in playing cricket; "a cricket bat has a narrow
handle and a broad flat end for hitting" [syn: cricket bat,
bat]
5: a club used for hitting a ball in various games
v 1: strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
2: wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids" [syn: bat, flutter]
3: have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
4: use a bat; "Who's batting?"
5: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight;
"We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat,
clobber, drub, thrash, lick]
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brat
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n 1: a very troublesome child [syn: terror, brat, little
terror, holy terror]
2: a small pork sausage [syn: bratwurst, brat]
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cat
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n 1: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability
to roar: domestic cats; wildcats [syn: cat, true cat]
2: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's
only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, cat, hombre,
bozo]
3: a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
4: the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like
tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric
stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
[syn: kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea,
African tea]
5: a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the
cat" [syn: cat-o'-nine-tails, cat]
6: a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless
metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction
and farm work [syn: Caterpillar, cat]
7: any of several large cats typically able to roar and living
in the wild [syn: big cat, cat]
8: a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X
rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-
sectional scans along a single axis [syn: computerized
tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial
tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT]
v 1: beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him
last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
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chat
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n 1: an informal conversation [syn: chat, confab,
confabulation, schmooze, schmoose]
2: birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat,
chat]
3: songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat,
chat]
v 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the
men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn:
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate,
confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer,
natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
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combat
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n 1: an engagement fought between two military forces [syn:
combat, armed combat]
2: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke
out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets";
"the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight,
fighting, combat, scrap]
v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The
Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We
must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they
battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
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fat
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adj 1: having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered
how fat she was" [ant: lean, thin]
2: having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
3: containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
[syn: fatty, fat] [ant: fat-free, fatless, nonfat]
4: lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: fat,
juicy]
5: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat
land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat,
fertile, productive, rich]
n 1: a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and
consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides);
"pizza has too much fat"
2: a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a
source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital
organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
[syn: adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue]
3: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as
well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber,
avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness]
v 1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out,
plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
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flat
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adv 1: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
2: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't
answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for
less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight]
[ant: indirectly]
adj 1: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is
higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of
level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with
fine flat seams" [syn: flat, level, plane]
2: having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or
thickness; "flat computer monitors"
3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical
denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical,
flat, unconditional]
4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
"found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat,
prostrate]
5: lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty]
6: (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic
semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural, sharp]
7: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain
leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed, flat]
8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless,
flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]
9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland, flat]
10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
11: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone,
monotonic, monotonous]
12: horizontally level; "a flat roof"
13: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an
illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters";
"a flat two-dimensional painting" [syn: two-dimensional,
2-dimensional, flat]
14: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat, matt,
matte, matted]
15: commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices
remained flat"; "a flat market"
n 1: a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
3: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the
note named
4: freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar,
flatbed, flat]
5: a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat, flat tire]
6: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted
canvas; part of a stage setting
7: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
[syn: apartment, flat]
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gat
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n 1: a gangster's pistol [syn: gat, rod]
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gnat
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n 1: any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges;
black flies; sand flies
2: (British usage) mosquito
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hat
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n 1: headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has
shaped crown and usually a brim [syn: hat, chapeau,
lid]
2: an informal term for a person's role; "he took off his
politician's hat and talked frankly"
v 1: put on or wear a hat; "He was unsuitably hatted"
2: furnish with a hat
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helot
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n 1: (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned
by the feudal lord [syn: serf, helot, villein]
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lat
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n 1: a broad flat muscle on either side of the back [syn:
latissimus dorsi, lat]
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mat
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adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
2: mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
[syn: mat, matting]
3: sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on
the floor for gymnastic sports [syn: mat, gym mat]
4: a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven; "a mat of weeds
and grass"
5: a master's degree in teaching [syn: Master of Arts in
Teaching, MAT]
6: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
7: a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from
an object placed on it
v 1: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child
entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat,
snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl]
2: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The
fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt
up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]
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matt
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adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
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matte
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adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores
are smelted
2: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
v 1: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The
fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt
up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]
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pat
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adv 1: completely or perfectly; "he has the lesson pat"; "had
the system down pat"
adj 1: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a
slick commercial" [syn: glib, pat, slick]
2: exactly suited to the occasion; "a pat reply"
n 1: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, rap, tap]
2: a light touch or stroke [syn: tap, pat, dab]
v 1: pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the
chin [syn: chuck, pat]
2: hit lightly; "pat him on the shoulder" [syn: dab, pat]
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pellet
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n 1: a small sphere
2: a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed
past his ear" [syn: shot, pellet]
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rat
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n 1: any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger
than a mouse
2: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn:
scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat]
3: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum
out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
4: one who reveals confidential information in return for money
[syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber]
5: a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's
coiffure
v 1: desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for
one's personal advantage
2: employ scabs or strike breakers in
3: take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: fink,
scab, rat, blackleg]
4: give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
5: catch rats, especially with dogs
6: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce,
tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit,
shop, snitch, stag]
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sat
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n 1: the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the
Sabbath by Jews and some Christians [syn: Saturday,
Sabbatum, Sat]
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scat
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n 1: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for
the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical
instrument [syn: scat, scat singing]
v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed
up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam,
run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills,
take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break
away]
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slat
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n 1: a thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: slat, spline]
v 1: equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows"
2: close the slats of (windows)
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spat
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n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering,
spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]
2: a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and
ankles [syn: spat, gaiter]
3: a young oyster or other bivalve
v 1: come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on
us"
2: become permanently attached; "mollusks or oysters spat"
3: strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were
spatting the leaves"
4: clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate
approval [syn: applaud, clap, spat, acclaim] [ant:
boo, hiss]
5: engage in a brief and petty quarrel
6: spawn; "oysters spat"
7: clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the
music" [syn: clap, spat]
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splat
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n 1: a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
2: a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
v 1: give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
2: split open and flatten for cooking; "splat fish over an open
fire"
3: flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"
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sprat
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n 1: small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like
sardines [syn: sprat, brisling]
2: small herring processed like a sardine [syn: brisling,
sprat, Clupea sprattus]
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tat
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n 1: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn:
cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze]
2: a projective technique using black-and-white pictures;
subjects tell a story about each picture [syn: Thematic
Apperception Test, TAT]
v 1: make lacework by knotting or looping [syn: tat,
intertwine]
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vat
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n 1: a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price
before taxes and its cost of production [syn: VAT,
value-added tax, ad valorem tax]
2: a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [syn:
tub, vat]
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zealot
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n 1: a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first
century who fought to the death against the Romans and who
killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans
2: a fervent and even militant proponent of something [syn:
partisan, zealot, drumbeater] [ant: nonpartisan,
nonpartizan]
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gatt
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n 1: a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty
to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import
quotas [syn: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
GATT]
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nonfat
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adj 1: without fat or fat solids; "nonfat or fat-free milk"
[syn: nonfat, fat-free, fatless] [ant: fat,
fatty]
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that
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nat
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pratt
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stat
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mellott
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pelot
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