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adman
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n 1: someone whose business is advertising [syn: advertiser,
advertizer, adman]
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ain
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adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person
(especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for
your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own
clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain]
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an
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n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
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anchorman
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n 1: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which
several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor,
anchorman, anchorperson]
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bagman
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n 1: a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn:
traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial
traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman]
2: a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money
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ban
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n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition,
ban, proscription]
2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn:
ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]
5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in
Nursing, BAN]
v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
[syn: ban, censor]
2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure;
"Smoking is banned in this building"
3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn:
banish, ban]
4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban,
ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
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batman
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n 1: an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer
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bogeyman
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n 1: an imaginary monster used to frighten children [syn:
bogeyman, bugbear, bugaboo, boogeyman, booger]
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bran
0
n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are
separated from the flour by sifting
2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains
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businessman
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n 1: a person engaged in commercial or industrial business
(especially an owner or executive) [syn: businessman,
man of affairs]
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cameraman
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n 1: a photographer who operates a movie camera [syn:
cameraman, camera operator, cinematographer]
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can
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n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint
etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can]
2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful]
3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can
buoy]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
[syn: can, tin, put up]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
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caveman
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n 1: someone who lives in a cave [syn: caveman, cave man,
cave dweller, troglodyte]
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chessman
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n 1: any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the
game of chess [syn: chessman, chess piece]
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clan
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n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin,
kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
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committeeman
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n 1: a man who is a member of committee
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dairyman
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n 1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: dairyman, dairy
farmer]
2: a man who works in a dairy
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deliveryman
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n 1: someone employed to make deliveries [syn: deliveryman,
delivery boy, deliverer]
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earthman
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n 1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling,
earthman, worldling]
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everyman
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n 1: the ordinary person
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fan
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n 1: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a
surface or surfaces
2: an enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan,
rooter]
3: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff,
devotee, lover]
v 1: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
2: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred"
3: agitate the air
4: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood
there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow,
fan]
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flan
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n 1: open pastry filled with fruit or custard
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freedman
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n 1: a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedman,
freedwoman]
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gagman
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n 1: a comedian who uses gags [syn: gagman, standup
comedian]
2: someone who writes comic material for public performers [syn:
gagman, gagster, gagwriter]
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gasman
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n 1: someone employed by a gas company
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gunman
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n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman,
gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire,
triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
2: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn:
gunman, gun]
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handyman
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n 1: a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
[syn: handyman, jack of all trades, odd-job man]
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hangman
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n 1: an executioner who hangs the condemned person
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headman
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n 1: an executioner who beheads the condemned person [syn:
headsman, headman]
2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief,
chieftain, chief]
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iceman
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n 1: someone who cuts and delivers ice
2: a professional killer [syn: hatchet man, iceman]
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jazzman
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n 1: a musician who plays or composes jazz music [syn: jazz
musician, jazzman]
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lawman
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n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace
officer]
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liftman
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n 1: a man employed to operate an elevator; "in England they
call an elevator man a liftman" [syn: elevator man,
elevator boy, liftman]
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linkman
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n 1: (formerly) an attendant hired to carry a torch for
pedestrians in dark streets [syn: linkboy, linkman]
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lumberman
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n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack,
logger, feller, faller]
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mailman
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n 1: a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman,
mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier]
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man
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n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there
were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult
male] [ant: adult female, woman]
2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a
military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn:
serviceman, military man, man, military personnel]
[ant: civilian]
3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it
was every man for himself"
4: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech,
and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being,
human]
5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the
building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and
courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
7: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his
employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet,
valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman,
man]
8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover
or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes
good care of her man" [ant: woman]
9: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle
of Man]
10: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing
certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the
chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic
advantage" [syn: man, piece]
11: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the
world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because
`mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human
race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans,
mankind, man]
v 1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place;
"Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning"
2: provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks";
"Students were manning the booths"
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merman
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n 1: United States singer who appeared in several musical
comedies (1909-1984) [syn: Merman, Ethel Merman]
2: half man and half fish; lives in the sea
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middleman
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n 1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to
merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn:
jobber, middleman, wholesaler]
2: the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages
the others in talk [syn: interlocutor, middleman]
3: a person who is in a position to give you special assistance;
"he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the
governor" [syn: contact, middleman]
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minuteman
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n 1: an American militiaman prior to and during the American
Revolution
2: a strategic weapon system using a guided missile of
intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear
warheads and dispersed in hardened silos
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motorman
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n 1: the operator of streetcar
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newsman
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n 1: a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
[syn: reporter, newsman, newsperson]
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newspaperman
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n 1: a journalist employed to provide news stories for
newspapers or broadcast media [syn: correspondent,
newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]
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oilman
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n 1: a person who owns or operates oil wells
2: a worker who produces or sells petroleum
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packman
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n 1: someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the
streets or at carnivals) [syn: peddler, pedlar,
packman, hawker, pitchman]
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pan
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n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn:
pan, cooking pan]
2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and
flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and
ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: Pan,
goat god]
3: shallow container made of metal
4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to
other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan]
v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the
room"
2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
[syn: pan, pan out, pan off]
3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned
the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash]
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patrolman
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n 1: a policeman who patrols a given region [syn: flatfoot,
patrolman]
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plan
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n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be
accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they
discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan,
program, programme]
2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan]
3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were
on file" [syn: plan, architectural plan]
v 1: have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He
plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had
planned turmoil and confusion" [syn: plan, be after]
2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his
family"
3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an
attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design]
4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
"design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the
museum" [syn: design, plan]
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pressman
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n 1: someone whose occupation is printing [syn: printer,
pressman]
2: a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers
or broadcast media [syn: correspondent, newspaperman,
newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman]
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repairman
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n 1: a skilled worker whose job is to repair things [syn:
repairman, maintenance man, service man]
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sandman
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n 1: an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's
eyes to make them sleepy
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scan
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n 1: the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed
region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his
binoculars"
2: an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan";
"you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" [syn: scan, CAT
scan]
v 1: examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the
X-ray"
2: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance
over, run down]
3: make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night
sky"
4: conform to a metrical pattern
5: move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
6: read metrically; "scan verses"
7: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read
by the computer" [syn: read, scan]
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schoolman
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n 1: a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages;
versed in scholasticism [syn: Schoolman, medieval
Schoolman]
2: a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation [syn:
academician, schoolman]
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selectman
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n 1: an elected member of a board of officials who run New
England towns
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snowman
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n 1: a figure of a person made of packed snow
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spaceman
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n 1: a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians
called their astronauts cosmonauts" [syn: astronaut,
spaceman, cosmonaut]
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span
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n 1: the complete duration of something; "the job was finished
in the span of an hour"
2: the distance or interval between two points
3: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome,
twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich,
duo, duet, dyad, duad]
4: a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human
hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
5: a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an
obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn:
bridge, span]
6: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle,
span]
v 1: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers
traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3
acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross,
traverse, span, sweep]
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stableman
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n 1: someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses
[syn: stableman, stableboy, groom, hostler,
ostler]
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strongman
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n 1: a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus
2: a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of
force or violence; "he is determined to bring down the Iraqi
strongman"
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superman
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n 1: a person with great powers and abilities [syn: demigod,
superman, Ubermensch]
2: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
superman, window pane, Zen]
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tallyman
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n 1: one who sells goods on the installment plan
2: one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced
or shipped or received [syn: tallyman, tally clerk]
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tan
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adj 1: of a light yellowish-brown color
n 1: a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays
of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn]
2: a light brown the color of topaz [syn: tan, topaz]
3: ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled
triangle [syn: tangent, tan]
v 1: treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert
them into leather
2: get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze]
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trainman
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n 1: an employee of a railroad [syn: trainman, railroader,
railroad man, railwayman, railway man]
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unman
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v 1: cause to lose one's nerve; "an unmanning experience"
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van
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n 1: any creative group active in the innovation and application
of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially
in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new
wave]
2: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn:
vanguard, van]
3: (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or
freight
4: a camper equipped with living quarters [syn: van,
caravan]
5: a truck with an enclosed cargo space
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weatherman
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n 1: predicts the weather [syn: weatherman, weather
forecaster]
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wingman
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n 1: the pilot who positions his aircraft outside and behind (on
the wing of) the leader of a flying formation
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wireman
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n 1: a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring [syn:
wireman, wirer]
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yardman
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n 1: worker in a railway yard
2: a laborer hired to do outdoor work (such as mowing lawns)
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amman
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman,
capital of Jordan]
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han
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n 1: imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from
206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed
its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of
Chinese civilization [syn: Han, Han dynasty]
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cannes
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n 1: a port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an
annual film festival
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gran
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n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
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mann
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n 1: United States educator who introduced reforms that
significantly altered the system of public education
(1796-1859) [syn: Mann, Horace Mann]
2: German writer concerned about the role of the artist in
bourgeois society (1875-1955) [syn: Mann, Thomas Mann]
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nan
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n 1: your grandmother
2: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
3: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the
Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: Nan, Nan River]
4: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped
like a teardrop [syn: nan, naan]
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shan
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n 1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: Tai Long, Shan]
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anne
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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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telemann
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n 1: German baroque composer (1681-1767) [syn: Telemann,
Georg Philipp Telemann]
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taxman
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n 1: someone who collects taxes for the government [syn: tax
collector, taxman, exciseman, collector of internal
revenue, internal revenue agent]
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turkoman
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n 1: a member of a Turkic people living in Turkmenistan and
neighboring areas [syn: Turkoman, Turkmen, Turcoman]
2: the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman [syn: Turkmen,
Turkoman, Turcoman]
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indiaman
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n 1: a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade
with India
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roadman
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n 1: a salesman who travels to call on customers [syn:
traveling salesman, travelling salesman, commercial
traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, bagman]
2: a workman who is employed to repair roads [syn: roadman,
road mender]
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dogman
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legman
0
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ran
0
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safetyman
0
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sideman
0
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than
0
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trackman
0
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wheelman
0
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nightman
0
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gateman
0
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dan
0
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fran
0
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san
0
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diane
0
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joanne
0
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liane
0
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lianne
0
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ariane
0