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being
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n 1: the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually
coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" [syn:
being, beingness, existence] [ant: nonbeing,
nonentity, nonexistence]
2: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act
or function independently [syn: organism, being]
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bellowing
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n 1: a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his
bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellow, bellowing,
holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar,
roaring, yowl]
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billowing
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adj 1: characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy
storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging
waves" [syn: billowy, billowing(a), surging]
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blowing
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n 1: processing that involves blowing a gas
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blown
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adj 1: being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor; "blown
clouds of dust choked the riders"; "blown soil mounded on
the window sill"
2: breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, pursy,
short-winded, winded]
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bone
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adj 1: consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance";
"the bony framework of the body"
n 1: rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of
vertebrates [syn: bone, os]
2: the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
[syn: bone, osseous tissue]
3: a shade of white the color of bleached bones [syn: bone,
ivory, pearl, off-white]
v 1: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on
my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind
away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot
up, bone]
2: remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it"
[syn: bone, debone]
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borrowing
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n 1: the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another
source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"
[syn: borrowing, adoption]
2: obtaining funds from a lender
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bowing
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adj 1: showing an excessively deferential manner [syn: bowed,
bowing]
n 1: bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or
submission or shame or greeting [syn: bow, bowing,
obeisance]
2: managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument; "the
violinist's bowing was excellent"
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churchgoing
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adj 1: actively practicing a religion
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clone
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n 1: a person who is almost identical to another [syn: ringer,
dead ringer, clone]
2: a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived
from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual
reproduction [syn: clone, clon]
3: an unauthorized copy or imitation [syn: knockoff, clone]
v 1: make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a
sheep nowadays"
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clothing
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n 1: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body [syn:
clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear,
wearable, habiliment]
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cone
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n 1: any cone-shaped artifact
2: a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a
point [syn: cone, conoid, cone shape]
3: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
[syn: cone, strobilus, strobile]
4: a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to
bright light and to color [syn: cone, cone cell, retinal
cone]
v 1: make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
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crone
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n 1: an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam,
beldame, witch, crone]
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crowing
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adj 1: exhibiting self-importance; "big talk" [syn: boastful,
braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, big,
cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-
aggrandising]
n 1: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his
fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
[syn: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing,
line-shooting, gasconade]
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disown
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v 1: prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting
[syn: disinherit, disown] [ant: bequeath, leave,
will]
2: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents
repudiated their son" [syn: disown, renounce,
repudiate]
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drone
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n 1: stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially
honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen
2: an unchanging intonation [syn: monotone, drone,
droning]
3: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags
behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger,
trailer, poke]
4: an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote
control [syn: drone, pilotless aircraft, radio-
controlled aircraft]
5: a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single
continuous tone [syn: drone, drone pipe, bourdon]
v 1: make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was
droning on"
2: talk in a monotonous voice [syn: drone, drone on]
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easygoing
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adj 1: not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block";
"at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace" [syn: easy,
easygoing, leisurely]
2: not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without
hardship; "what a cushy job!"; "the easygoing life of a
parttime consultant"; "a soft job" [syn: cushy, soft,
easygoing]
3: relaxed and informal in attitude or standards; "an easygoing
teacher who allowed extra time for assignments"
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flowing
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adj 1: designed or arranged to offer the least resistant to
fluid flow; "a streamlined convertible" [syn:
streamlined, aerodynamic, flowing, sleek]
n 1: the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
[syn: flow, flowing]
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foregoing
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adj 1: especially of writing or speech; going before
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forgoing
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n 1: the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or
surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege
etc.) [syn: renunciation, forgoing, forswearing]
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glowing
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adj 1: highly enthusiastic; "glowing praise"
n 1: the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving
at a point on a surface [syn: radiance, glow,
glowing]
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going
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adj 1: in full operation; "a going concern"
n 1: the act of departing [syn: departure, going, going
away, leaving]
2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit,
expiration, going, release]
3: advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going";
"the proposal faces tough sledding" [syn: going,
sledding]
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groan
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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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growing
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adj 1: relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season
for corn"; "good growing weather"
n 1: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing
organically; a purely biological unfolding of events
involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to
a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous
development in children" [syn: growth, growing,
maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis]
[ant: nondevelopment]
2: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by
slow crystallization from the molten state
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grown
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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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hone
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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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knowing
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adj 1: evidencing the possession of inside information [syn:
knowing, wise(p), wise to(p)]
2: characterized by conscious design or purpose; "intentional
damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of
time" [syn: intentional, knowing]
3: alert and fully informed; "a knowing collector of rare
books"; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"
[syn: knowledgeable, knowing]
4: highly educated; having extensive information or
understanding; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable
critic"; "a knowledgeable audience" [syn: knowing,
knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated,
well-read]
n 1: a clear and certain mental apprehension
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known
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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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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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lone
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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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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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mown
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adj 1: (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand
implement or machine; "the smell of newly mown hay" [syn:
mown, cut] [ant: uncut, unmown]
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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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phone
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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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pone
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n 1: cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or
fried (southern) [syn: cornpone, pone]
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prone
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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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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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scone
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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
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adj 1: fastened with stitches [syn: sewed, sewn, stitched]
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showing
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n 1: the display of a motion picture [syn: screening,
showing, viewing]
2: something shown to the public; "the museum had many exhibits
of oriental art" [syn: display, exhibit, showing]
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slowing
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n 1: a decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms
race" [syn: deceleration, slowing, retardation] [ant:
acceleration]
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sown
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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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stowing
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n 1: the act of packing or storing away [syn: stowage,
stowing]
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thoroughgoing
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adj 1: performed comprehensively and completely; "an exhaustive
study"; "made a thorough search"; "thoroughgoing
research" [syn: exhaustive, thorough,
thoroughgoing]
2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a),
complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a),
everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a),
sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a),
utter(a), unadulterated]
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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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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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unknowing
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adj 1: unaware because of a lack of relevant information or
knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the
circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his
rudeness was unwitting" [syn: ignorant,
unknowledgeable, unknowing, unwitting]
n 1: ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn:
ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness]
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zone
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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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cohn
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n 1: German botanist who is generally recognized as founding
bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants [syn:
Cohn, Ferdinand Julius Cohn]
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mon
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n 1: the second day of the week; the first working day [syn:
Monday, Mon]
2: a member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent
parts of Thailand
3: the Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon
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rhone
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n 1: a major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near
Marseilles; "the valley of the Rhone is famous for its
vineyards" [syn: Rhone, Rhone River]
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bayonne
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n 1: a city in northeastern New Jersey
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leone
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n 1: the basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 cents
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sone
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n 1: a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a
1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold
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burrowing
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choosing
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doing
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flown
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mowing
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shown
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strewn
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theatregoing
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throwing
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boeing
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joan
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rone
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sloane
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bestowing
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beaune
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soane
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