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acetone
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n 1: the simplest ketone; a highly inflammable liquid widely
used as an organic solvent and as material for making
plastics [syn: acetone, propanone, dimethyl ketone]
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atone
0
v 1: make amends for; "expiate one's sins" [syn: expiate,
aby, abye, atone]
2: turn away from sin or do penitence [syn: repent, atone]
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baritone
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adj 1: lower in range than tenor and higher than bass; "a
baritone voice"; "baritone oboe"
n 1: a male singer [syn: baritone, barytone]
2: the second lowest adult male singing voice [syn: baritone,
baritone voice]
3: the second lowest brass wind instrument [syn: baritone,
baritone horn]
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bloodstone
0
n 1: green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood [syn:
bloodstone, heliotrope]
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bluestone
0
n 1: bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building
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brimstone
0
n 1: an old name for sulfur [syn: brimstone, native sulfur,
native sulphur]
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brownstone
0
n 1: a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings
2: a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color
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capstone
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n 1: a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination [syn:
finishing touch, capstone, copestone]
2: a stone that forms the top of wall or building [syn:
capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher]
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cherrystone
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n 1: small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked
as in e.g. clams casino [syn: cherrystone, cherrystone
clam]
2: a half-grown quahog [syn: cherrystone, cherrystone clam]
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cobblestone
0
n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make
roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett]
v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone]
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copestone
0
n 1: a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination [syn:
finishing touch, capstone, copestone]
2: a stone that forms the top of wall or building [syn:
capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher]
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cornerstone
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n 1: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun
or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole
argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis,
base, foundation, fundament, groundwork,
cornerstone]
2: a stone in the exterior of a large and important building;
usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate
ceremonies
3: a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls
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fieldstone
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n 1: stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as
building material
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flagstone
0
n 1: stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving
stones [syn: flag, flagstone]
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freestone
0
n 1: fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the
pit
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gallstone
0
n 1: a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts [syn:
gallstone, bilestone]
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gemstone
0
n 1: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for
jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she
had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem,
gemstone, stone]
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gravestone
0
n 1: a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone,
headstone, tombstone]
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grindstone
0
n 1: a revolving stone shaped like a disk; used to grind or
sharpen or polish edge tools
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groan
0
n 1: an utterance expressing pain or disapproval [syn: groan,
moan]
v 1: indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students
groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The
ancient door soughed when opened" [syn: groan, moan]
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grown
0
adj 1: (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown
woman" [syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown,
grown, grownup]
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hailstone
0
n 1: small pellet of ice that falls during a hailstorm
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halftone
0
n 1: a print obtained from photoengraving
2: an engraving used to reproduce an illustration [syn:
halftone, halftone engraving, photoengraving]
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headstone
0
n 1: the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
[syn: keystone, key, headstone]
2: a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone,
headstone, tombstone]
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hearthstone
0
n 1: a stone that forms a hearth
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hipbone
0
n 1: large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up
of the ilium and ischium and pubis [syn: hipbone,
innominate bone]
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holystone
0
n 1: a soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship
v 1: scrub with a holystone; "holystone the ship's deck"
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hone
0
n 1: a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening
razors
v 1: sharpen with a hone; "hone a knife"
2: make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!"
[syn: perfect, hone]
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hornstone
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n 1: a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of
heat on clay rocks [syn: hornfels, hornstone]
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intone
0
v 1: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The
students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn:
tone, chant, intone]
2: recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm;
"The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone,
intonate, cantillate]
3: speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a
particular tone; "please intonate with sadness" [syn:
intonate, intone]
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kerbstone
0
n 1: a paving stone forming part of a curb [syn: curbstone,
kerbstone]
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keystone
0
n 1: a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith
is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the
ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn:
anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin,
lynchpin]
2: the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
[syn: keystone, key, headstone]
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known
0
adj 1: apprehended with certainty; "a known quantity"; "the
limits of the known world"; "a musician known throughout
the world"; "a known criminal" [ant: unknown]
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limestone
0
n 1: a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was
deposited by the remains of marine animals
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loan
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n 1: the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
2: a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a
German word borrowed into modern English [syn: loanword,
loan]
v 1: give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend
you my car"; "loan me some money" [syn: lend, loan]
[ant: borrow]
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lodestone
0
n 1: a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess
polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be
attracted magnetically [syn: lodestone, loadstone]
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lone
0
adj 1: lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when
we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone
skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a
tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler"
[syn: alone(p), lone(a), lonely(a), solitary]
2: characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a
lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a
solitary walk" [syn: lone(a), lonely(a), solitary]
3: being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the
lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an
only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary
instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" [syn:
lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a),
solitary(a)]
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milestone
0
n 1: stone post at side of a road to show distances [syn:
milestone, milepost]
2: a significant event in your life (or in a project)
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millstone
0
n 1: (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps; "she was
an albatross around his neck" [syn: albatross,
millstone]
2: any load that is difficult to carry
3: one of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are
rotated against one another to grind the grain
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moan
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n 1: an utterance expressing pain or disapproval [syn: groan,
moan]
v 1: indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students
groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The
ancient door soughed when opened" [syn: groan, moan]
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monotone
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adj 1: of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and
never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never
increasing in value [syn: monotonic, monotone] [ant:
nonmonotonic]
2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone,
monotonic, monotonous]
n 1: an unchanging intonation [syn: monotone, drone,
droning]
2: a single tone repeated with different words or different
rhythms (especially in rendering liturgical texts)
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moonstone
0
n 1: a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster;
some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are
plagioclase feldspar
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oilstone
0
n 1: a whetstone for use with oil
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overblown
0
adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous,
pontifical, portentous]
2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
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overtone
0
n 1: (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality;
"overtones of despair"
2: a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the
fundamental frequency [syn: overtone, partial, partial
tone]
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own
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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]
v 1: have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in
Florida"; "How many cars does she have?" [syn: own,
have, possess]
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peptone
0
n 1: any of various water-soluble compounds that form by
hydrolysis in the digestion of proteins to amino acids
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phone
0
n 1: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical
signals that can be transmitted over distances and then
converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to
him on the telephone" [syn: telephone, phone,
telephone set]
2: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without
concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
[syn: phone, speech sound, sound]
3: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals
into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it
was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" [syn:
earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone]
v 1: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by
telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two
aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: call,
telephone, call up, phone, ring]
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pitchstone
0
n 1: dark acid granitic glass
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postpone
0
v 1: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn:
postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table,
shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off]
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prone
0
adj 1: having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a
child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone"
2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate]
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rhinestone
0
n 1: an imitation diamond made from rock crystal or glass or
paste
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roan
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adj 1: (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat
thickly sprinkled with white or grey; "a roan horse"
n 1: a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to
resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
2: a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white
or gray
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sandstone
0
n 1: a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with
some cement (clay or quartz etc.)
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scone
0
n 1: small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds
or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally)
on a griddle
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sewn
0
adj 1: fastened with stitches [syn: sewed, sewn, stitched]
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siltstone
0
n 1: a fine-grained sandstone of consolidated silt
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soapstone
0
n 1: a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel;
used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments [syn:
soapstone, soaprock, soap-rock, steatite]
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sown
0
adj 1: sprinkled with seed; "a seeded lawn" [syn: seeded,
sown]
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stone
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adj 1: of any of various dull tannish or grey colors
n 1: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he
threw a rock at me" [syn: rock, stone]
2: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a
definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special
stone to mark the site"
3: material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those
making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock";
"stone is abundant in New England and there are many
quarries" [syn: rock, stone]
4: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry;
"he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels
made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone,
stone]
5: an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human
body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed
more than twenty stone"
6: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some
fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that
contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes
before cooking" [syn: stone, pit, endocarp]
7: United States jurist who was named chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone,
Harlan Fisk Stone]
8: United States filmmaker (born in 1946) [syn: Stone, Oliver
Stone]
9: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) [syn:
Stone, Lucy Stone]
10: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes
(1907-1989) [syn: Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein
Stone]
11: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme
Court as chief justice (1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan
Fiske Stone]
12: United States architect (1902-1978) [syn: Stone, Edward
Durell Stone]
13: a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a
heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone"
v 1: kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the
woman who had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stone,
lapidate]
2: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: pit,
stone]
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throne
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n 1: the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.; "the king
sat on his throne"
2: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
3: the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or
bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on
ceremonial occasions
v 1: sit on the throne as a ruler
2: put a monarch on the throne; "The Queen was enthroned more
than 50 years ago" [syn: enthrone, throne] [ant:
dethrone]
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thrown
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adj 1: caused to fall to the ground; "the thrown rider got back
on his horse"; "a thrown wrestler"; "a ball player thrown
for a loss"
2: twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread; "thrown
silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn"
[syn: thrown, thrown and twisted]
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tombstone
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n 1: a stone that is used to mark a grave [syn: gravestone,
headstone, tombstone]
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tone
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n 1: the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a
conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
[syn: tone, tone of voice]
2: (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that
serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing
dialect uses four tones"
3: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice
or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was
rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell
summoned them to meet" [syn: timbre, timber, quality,
tone]
4: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect
that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a
clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the
smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling,
flavor, flavour, look, smell]
5: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another
color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that
she wanted" [syn: shade, tint, tincture, tone]
6: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical
sound; "the singer held the note too long" [syn: note,
musical note, tone]
7: a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing
with pure tones of different frequencies" [syn: tone, pure
tone]
8: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that
facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my
tonicity" [syn: tonicity, tonus, tone] [ant:
amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony]
9: a musical interval of two semitones [syn: tone, whole
tone, step, whole step]
10: the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that
reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author;
"the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is
that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her
behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome"
v 1: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The
students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn:
tone, chant, intone]
2: vary the pitch of one's speech [syn: tone, inflect,
modulate]
3: change the color or tone of; "tone a negative"
4: change to a color image; "tone a photographic image"
5: give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles" [syn:
tone, tone up, strengthen]
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touchstone
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n 1: a basis for comparison; a reference point against which
other things can be evaluated; "the schools comply with
federal standards"; "they set the measure for all
subsequent work" [syn: standard, criterion, measure,
touchstone]
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trombone
0
n 1: a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length
can be varied by a U-shaped slide
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turnstone
0
n 1: migratory shorebirds of the plover family that turn over
stones in searching for food
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unbeknown
0
adv 1: without someone's knowledge; "unbeknownst to me, she made
all the arrangements" [syn: unbeknown, unbeknownst]
adj 1: (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without
the knowledge of; "a crisis unbeknown to me"; "she had
been ill for months, unbeknownst to the family" [syn:
unbeknown(p), unbeknownst(p)]
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undertone
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n 1: a quiet or hushed tone of voice; "spoke in undertones"
2: a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit
meaning [syn: undertone, undercurrent]
3: a pale or subdued color [syn: undertone, tinge]
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unknown
0
adj 1: not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an
unknown writer"; "an unknown source" [ant: known]
2: being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an
unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless
owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: nameless, unidentified,
unknown, unnamed]
3: not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from
unknown depths"
4: not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes
of the war" [syn: obscure, unknown, unsung]
5: not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many
strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into
the house" [syn: strange, unknown]
n 1: an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels
out the unknown" [syn: unknown, unknown region, terra
incognita]
2: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they
are found [syn: stranger, alien, unknown] [ant:
acquaintance, friend]
3: a variable whose values are solutions of an equation [syn:
unknown, unknown quantity]
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whetstone
0
n 1: a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives
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zone
0
n 1: a locally circumscribed place characterized by some
distinctive features
2: any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely
divided according to latitude or longitude [syn: zone,
geographical zone]
3: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a
distinctive feature or characteristic
4: (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure [syn: zone,
zona]
v 1: regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns [syn:
zone, district]
2: separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off"
[syn: partition, zone]
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ketone
0
n 1: any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group
linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals
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curbstone
0
n 1: a paving stone forming part of a curb [syn: curbstone,
kerbstone]
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sunstone
0
n 1: a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other
minerals [syn: sunstone, aventurine]
-
wheatstone
0
n 1: English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone
bridge (1802-1875) [syn: Wheatstone, Sir Charles
Wheatstone]
-
whinstone
0
n 1: any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks
consisting of chert or basalt) [syn: whinstone, whin]
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barbitone
0
n 1: a barbiturate used as a hypnotic [syn: barbital,
veronal, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid,
diethylmalonylurea]
-
barytone
0
n 1: a male singer [syn: baritone, barytone]
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oxytone
0
n 1: word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
-
yellowstone
0
n 1: a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the
Yellowstone National Park [syn: Yellowstone, Yellowstone
River]
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paroxytone
0
n 1: word having stress or acute accent on the next to last
syllable
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birthstone
0
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clinkstone
0
-
duotone
0
-
flown
0
-
flowstone
0
-
greenstone
0
-
ironstone
0
-
microtone
0
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mudstone
0
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overthrown
0
-
potstone
0
-
shown
0
-
tinstone
0
-
toadstone
0
-
veinstone
0
-
sharon
0
-
bastogne
0
-
lactone
0