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beefeater
2
n 1: officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British
monarch [syn: yeoman, yeoman of the guard, beefeater]
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air
0
n 1: a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for
breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of; "air
pollution"; "a smell of chemicals in the air"; "open a
window and let in some air"; "I need some fresh air"
2: the region above the ground; "her hand stopped in mid air";
"he threw the ball into the air"
3: a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or
thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air";
"an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's
headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance" [syn:
air, aura, atmosphere]
4: a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by
the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck"
[syn: breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air]
5: the mass of air surrounding the Earth; "there was great heat
as the comet entered the atmosphere"; "it was exposed to the
air" [syn: atmosphere, air]
6: once thought to be one of four elements composing the
universe (Empedocles)
7: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she
was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody,
air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase]
8: medium for radio and television broadcasting; "the program
was on the air from 9 til midnight"; "the president used the
airwaves to take his message to the people" [syn: air,
airwave]
9: travel via aircraft; "air travel involves too much waiting in
airports"; "if you've time to spare go by air" [syn: air
travel, aviation, air]
v 1: expose to fresh air; "aerate your old sneakers" [syn: air
out, air, aerate]
2: be broadcast; "This show will air Saturdays at 2 P.M."
3: broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We
cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send,
broadcast, beam, transmit]
4: make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare" [syn:
publicize, publicise, air, bare]
5: expose to warm or heated air, so as to dry; "Air linen"
6: expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen; "air the
old winter clothes"; "air out the smoke-filled rooms" [syn:
vent, ventilate, air out, air]
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anteater
0
n 1: toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body
covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on
ants and termites [syn: pangolin, scaly anteater,
anteater]
2: any of several tropical American mammals of the family
Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and
termites [syn: anteater, New World anteater]
3: nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that
feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order
Tubulidentata [syn: aardvark, ant bear, anteater,
Orycteropus afer]
4: small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws
for feeding on termites; nearly extinct [syn: numbat,
banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus]
5: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a
long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to
New Guinea [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater]
6: a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a
long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to
Australia [syn: echidna, spiny anteater, anteater]
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are
0
n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
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barkeeper
0
n 1: an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar
[syn: bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper,
mixologist]
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beaker
0
n 1: a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for
chemistry
2: a cup (usually without a handle)
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beater
0
n 1: a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
2: an implement for beating
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beekeeper
0
n 1: a farmer who keeps bees for their honey [syn: beekeeper,
apiarist, apiculturist]
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beeper
0
n 1: an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when
the person carrying it is being paged [syn: beeper,
pager]
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beleaguer
0
v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of
his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug,
beleaguer]
2: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged
Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in,
circumvent]
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bleacher
0
n 1: a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)
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bookkeeper
0
n 1: someone who records the transactions of a business
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breeder
0
n 1: a person who breeds animals [syn: breeder, stock
breeder]
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cheater
0
n 1: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
[syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster,
beguiler, slicker]
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cheerleader
0
n 1: an enthusiastic and vocal supporter; "he has become a
cheerleader for therapeutic cloning"
2: someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting
event
-
copyreader
0
n 1: an editor who prepares text for publication [syn: copy
editor, copyreader, text editor]
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creeper
0
n 1: any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
2: a person who crawls or creeps along the ground [syn:
crawler, creeper]
3: any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern
hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves
on stiff tail feathers and their feet [syn: creeper, tree
creeper]
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dieter
0
n 1: a person who diets
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doorkeeper
0
n 1: an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or
legislative chamber [syn: usher, doorkeeper]
2: the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western
Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church [syn:
doorkeeper, ostiary, ostiarius]
3: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman,
door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper,
ostiary]
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eater
0
n 1: someone who consumes food for nourishment [syn: eater,
feeder]
2: any green goods that are good to eat; "these apples are good
eaters"
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feature
0
n 1: a prominent attribute or aspect of something; "the map
showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his
best characteristics" [syn: feature, characteristic]
2: the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose
and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his
features"; "his lineaments were very regular" [syn:
feature, lineament]
3: the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie
theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'" [syn:
feature, feature film]
4: a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;
"they ran a feature on retirement planning" [syn: feature,
feature article]
5: (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic
unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the
same kind [syn: feature of speech, feature]
6: an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised
more than other articles
v 1: have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most
famous chefs in France" [syn: have, feature] [ant:
lack, miss]
2: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was
sporting a new hat" [syn: sport, feature, boast]
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feeder
0
n 1: an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening
2: someone who consumes food for nourishment [syn: eater,
feeder]
3: a branch that flows into the main stream [syn: feeder,
tributary, confluent, affluent] [ant: distributary]
4: a machine that automatically provides a supply of some
material; "the feeder discharged feed into a trough for the
livestock" [syn: self-feeder, feeder]
5: an outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds [syn:
bird feeder, birdfeeder, feeder]
6: an animal that feeds on a particular source of food; "a bark
feeder"; "a mud feeder"
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heater
0
n 1: device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room [syn:
heater, warmer]
2: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung
late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke"
[syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet]
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keeper
0
n 1: someone in charge of other people; "am I my brother's
keeper?"
2: one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals [syn:
custodian, keeper, steward]
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leader
0
n 1: a person who rules or guides or inspires others [ant:
follower]
2: a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to
draw customers [syn: drawing card, loss leader, leader]
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leaper
0
n 1: someone who bounds or leaps (as in competition) [syn:
bounder, leaper]
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meter
0
n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme
International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn:
meter, metre, m]
2: any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity
3: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn:
meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence]
4: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
[syn: meter, metre, time]
v 1: measure with a meter; "meter the flow of water"
2: stamp with a meter indicating the postage; "meter the mail"
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peter
0
n 1: disciple of Jesus and leader of the Apostles; regarded by
Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope
[syn: Peter, Simon Peter, Saint Peter, St. Peter,
Saint Peter the Apostle, St. Peter the Apostle]
2: obscene terms for penis [syn: cock, prick, dick,
shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz]
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preacher
0
n 1: someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel [syn:
preacher, preacher man, sermonizer, sermoniser]
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reader
0
n 1: a person who enjoys reading
2: someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a
certain number of issues of a publication [syn: subscriber,
reader]
3: a person who can read; a literate person
4: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability
for publication [syn: reviewer, referee, reader]
5: someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark
corrections [syn: proofreader, reader]
6: someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone
ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church [syn:
lector, reader]
7: a public lecturer at certain universities [syn: lector,
lecturer, reader]
8: one of a series of texts for students learning to read
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reaper
0
n 1: someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: harvester,
reaper]
2: Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
[syn: Grim Reaper, Reaper]
3: farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields [syn:
harvester, reaper]
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seeker
0
n 1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after
truth" [syn: seeker, searcher, quester]
2: a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward
some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
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sleeper
0
n 1: a rester who is sleeping [syn: sleeper, slumberer]
2: a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country
who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a
prearranged signal
3: an unexpected achiever of success; "the winner was a true
sleeper--no one expected him to get it"
4: one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway
track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper" [syn:
tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper]
5: a passenger car that has berths for sleeping [syn: sleeping
car, sleeper, wagon-lit]
6: pajamas with feet; worn by children
7: a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
8: tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the
bottom in shallow water [syn: sleeper, sleeper goby]
9: an unexpected hit; "that movie was the sleeper of the summer"
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sneaker
0
n 1: a canvas shoe with a pliable rubber sole [syn: gym shoe,
sneaker, tennis shoe]
2: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn:
fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon,
stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary]
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speaker
0
n 1: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks
(especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone
especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an
utterer of useful maxims" [syn: speaker, talker,
utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser]
2: electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals
into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance [syn:
loudspeaker, speaker, speaker unit, loudspeaker
system, speaker system]
3: the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; "the leader
of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of
Representatives"
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speeder
0
n 1: a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit [syn: speeder,
speed demon]
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steeper
0
n 1: a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping
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sweeper
0
n 1: an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.)
2: a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt
as the implement is pushed over a carpet [syn: carpet
sweeper, sweeper]
3: little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an
oblong compressed body
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teacher
0
n 1: a person whose occupation is teaching [syn: teacher,
instructor]
2: a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his
teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"
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teeter
0
n 1: a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum;
the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
[syn: seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter,
teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board]
v 1: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter,
seesaw, totter]
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leaker
0
n 1: a surreptitious informant; "the president wanted to know
who the leakers were"
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liter
0
n 1: a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume
of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions;
now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75
pints) [syn: liter, litre, l, cubic decimeter,
cubic decimetre]
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peeper
0
n 1: a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of
others [syn: voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper]
2: an informal term referring to the eye
3: an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds
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streaker
0
n 1: someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked
through a public place
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treater
0
n 1: someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to
reach a settlement) [syn: negotiator, negotiant,
treater]
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weeper
0
n 1: a person who weeps [syn: weeper, crier]
2: a hired mourner
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ayr
0
n 1: a port in southwestern Scotland
-
centimeter
0
n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter
[syn: centimeter, centimetre, cm]
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deciliter
0
n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter [syn:
deciliter, decilitre, dl]
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deeper
0
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leaguer
0
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lieder
0
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meeker
0
-
neater
0
-
sweeter
0
-
weaker
0
-
bleaker
0
-
cheeper
0
-
sleeker
0
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ayer
0
-
aer
0
-
ayre
0
-
schlieper
0
-
streeper
0
-
keiper
0
-
kieper
0
-
leeper
0
-
leiper
0
-
neeper
0
-
pieper
0
-
scheper
0
-
teper
0