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be
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n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during
the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred
people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the
kitchen"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
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bee
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n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
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blocky
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adj 1: resembling a block in shape [syn: blockish, blocky]
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blotchy
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adj 1: marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots [syn:
blotched, blotchy, splotched]
2: marred by discolored spots or blotches; "blotchy skin"
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bobby
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n 1: an informal term for a British policeman
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body
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n 1: the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or
human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire"
[syn: body, organic structure, physical structure]
2: a group of persons associated by some common tie or
occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed
out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative
body"
3: a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they
found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body]
4: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is
distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
5: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk,
body]
6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body
of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
7: the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
"wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough
consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency,
consistence, eubstance, body]
8: the central message of a communication; "the body of the
message was short"
9: the main mass of a thing
10: a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of
a violin) [syn: soundbox, body]
11: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car
was badly rusted"
v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body,
personify]
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botchy
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adj 1: poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an
unskillful attempt" [syn: botchy, butcherly,
unskillful]
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choppy
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adj 1: marked by abrupt transitions; "choppy prose" [syn:
choppy, jerky]
2: rough with small waves; "choppy seas"
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cocky
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adj 1: overly self-confident or self-assertive; "a very cocky
young man"
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copy
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n 1: a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or
school record) [syn: transcript, copy]
2: a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing;
"she made a copy of the designer dress"; "the clone was a
copy of its ancestor"
3: matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials [syn:
copy, written matter]
4: material suitable for a journalistic account; "catastrophes
make good copy"
v 1: copy down as is; "The students were made to copy the
alphabet over and over"
2: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the
passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older
siblings" [syn: imitate, copy, simulate]
3: reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell";
"copy the genetic information" [syn: replicate, copy]
4: make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture
by Rembrandt" [syn: copy, re-create]
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hobby
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n 1: an auxiliary activity [syn: avocation, by-line,
hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity]
2: a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted
on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride [syn:
hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse]
3: small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small
birds [syn: hobby, Falco subbuteo]
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kohlrabi
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n 1: plant cultivated for its enlarged fleshy turnip-shaped
edible stem [syn: kohlrabi, Brassica oleracea
gongylodes]
2: fleshy turnip-shaped edible stem of the kohlrabi plant [syn:
kohlrabi, turnip cabbage]
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lobby
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n 1: a large entrance or reception room or area [syn:
anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall,
foyer, lobby, vestibule]
2: the people who support some common cause or business or
principle or sectional interest
3: a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
[syn: lobby, pressure group, third house]
v 1: detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the
outer garments of; as for political or economic favors
[syn: lobby, buttonhole]
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snobby
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adj 1: befitting or characteristic of those who incline to
social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of
people considered inferior [syn: clannish, cliquish,
clubby, snobbish, snobby]
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cloggy
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adj 1: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil
was heavy and easily saturated" [syn: clayey, cloggy,
heavy]
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knobby
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adj 1: having knobs; "had knobbly knees" [syn: knobby,
knobbly]
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squabby
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adj 1: short and fat [syn: squab, squabby]
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b
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n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often
occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
[syn: bacillus, B]
2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B
complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B]
3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black
crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn:
boron, B, atomic number 5]
4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b]
6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn:
B, type B, group B]
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clotty
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robby
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bea
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kabi
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nabi
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scobee
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scobie
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stobie
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swaby
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blobby
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bobbi
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bobbie
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dhabi
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dobbie
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dobey
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dobie
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gobby
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hobbie
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rabi
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robbie
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