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boot
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n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car
3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a
great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush
from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang,
boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick]
4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg
5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the
foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron
heel]
6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron
and slowly crushed
7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball
a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn:
kick, boot, kicking]
v 1: kick; give a boot to
2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial
processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot,
bring up]
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bruit
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v 1: tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next
president would be a woman" [syn: rumor, rumour,
bruit]
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brut
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adj 1: (of champagne) extremely dry
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brute
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adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a
dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"
[syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish,
brutal]
n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage,
brute, wildcat]
2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn:
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature,
fauna]
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butte
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n 1: a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has
a flat top and sloping sides
2: a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
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chute
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n 1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air
and retards your fall [syn: parachute, chute]
2: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn:
chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough]
v 1: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn:
chute, parachute, jump]
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coot
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n 1: slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks
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cute
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adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness
or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little
apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn:
cunning, cute]
2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious
performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms"
[syn: cute, precious]
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flute
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n 1: a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed
at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near
the closed end across which the breath is blown [syn:
flute, transverse flute]
2: a tall narrow wineglass [syn: flute, flute glass,
champagne flute]
3: a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow
concave groove on the shaft of a column) [syn: flute,
fluting]
v 1: form flutes in
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fruit
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n 1: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
2: an amount of a product [syn: yield, fruit]
3: the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long
enough to see the fruit of his policies"
v 1: cause to bear fruit
2: bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"
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hoot
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n 1: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
2: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn:
boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing,
razz, snort, bird]
3: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn";
"not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn,
darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's
damn, tinker's dam]
v 1: to utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of
the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice,
and dance"
2: utter the characteristic sound of owls
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jute
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n 1: a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks
2: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and
merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons
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loot
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n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty,
pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money]
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce,
lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch,
shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
v 1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer
plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder]
2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn:
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle,
ransack, pillage, foray]
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lute
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n 1: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface
to make it impervious to gas or liquid [syn: lute,
luting]
2: chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-
shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
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moot
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adj 1: of no legal significance (as having been previously
decided)
2: open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" [syn:
arguable, debatable, disputable, moot]
n 1: a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise;
"he organized the weekly moot"
v 1: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the
possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your
mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over,
deliberate]
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mute
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adj 1: expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent
curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the
words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief";
"choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
[syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless]
2: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb,
mute, silent]
n 1: a deaf person who is unable to speak [syn: mute, deaf-
mute, deaf-and-dumb person]
2: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
v 1: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn:
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
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newt
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n 1: small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of
North America and Europe and northern Asia [syn: newt,
triton]
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root
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n 1: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or
leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually
it anchors the plant to the ground
2: the place where something begins, where it springs into
being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter
was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source
of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn:
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]
3: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are
removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root,
root word, base, stem, theme, radical]
4: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of
times, equals a given number
5: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted
into an equation [syn: solution, root]
6: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote
than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant,
ascendent, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant,
descendent]
7: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related
words in several languages can be derived by linguistic
processes [syn: etymon, root]
8: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as
support [syn: root, tooth root]
v 1: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly"
2: come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her
depression"
3: plant by the roots
4: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn:
rout, root, rootle]
5: become settled or established and stable in one's residence
or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle,
root, take root, steady down, settle down]
6: cause to take roots
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route
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n 1: an established line of travel or access [syn: path,
route, itinerary]
2: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
[syn: road, route]
v 1: send documents or materials to appropriate destinations
2: send via a specific route
3: divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to
the engine cylinders"
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salute
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n 1: an act of honor or courteous recognition; "a musical salute
to the composer on his birthday" [syn: salute,
salutation]
2: a formal military gesture of respect [syn: salute,
military greeting]
3: an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like
bowing or lifting the hat
v 1: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!";
"Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink,
pledge, salute, wassail]
2: greet in a friendly way; "I meet this men every day on my way
to work and he salutes me"
3: express commendation of; "I salute your courage!"
4: become noticeable; "a terrible stench saluted our nostrils"
5: honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead
soldiers
6: recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation;
assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the
soldiers have to salute" [syn: salute, present]
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scoot
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v 1: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash,
shoot]
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shoot
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n 1: a new branch
2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every
weekend during the summer"
v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit,
pip]
2: kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip]
3: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast,
shoot]
4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene";
"shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take]
5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash,
shoot]
7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street";
"He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot,
shoot down, charge, buck]
8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific
objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the
accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn:
photograph, snap, shoot]
10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully;
"The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject
hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot]
13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors;
"shoot cloth"
14: throw dice, as in a crap game
15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's
inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate,
shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away]
16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes
sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate,
bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout]
20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the
patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]
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snoot
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n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob,
prig, snot, snoot]
2: informal terms for the nose [syn: beak, honker, hooter,
nozzle, snoot, snout, schnozzle, schnoz]
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suit
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n 1: a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers
or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color;
"they buried him in his best suit" [syn: suit, suit of
clothes]
2: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law
whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family
brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit, suit,
case, cause, causa]
3: (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the
suits care about is the bottom line"
4: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a
woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief
and intense courtship" [syn: courtship, wooing,
courting, suit]
5: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or
rank
6: playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each
set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards in
the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit
is trumps?"
v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn:
suit, accommodate, fit]
2: be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me"
3: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit
a young woman!" [syn: befit, suit, beseem]
4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
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toot
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n 1: a blast of a horn
2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse,
carousal, bender, toot, booze-up]
v 1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn:
honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
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uproot
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v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn:
uproot, deracinate]
2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of
political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
[syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out,
exterminate]
3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate,
deracinate, root out]
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scute
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n 1: large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or
the underside of a snake
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shute
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n 1: English writer who settled in Norway after World War II
(1899-1960) [syn: Shute, Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute
Norway]
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beirut
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n 1: capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western
Lebanon on the Mediterranean [syn: Bayrut, Beirut,
capital of Lebanon]
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beabout
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bebout
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