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bidder
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n 1: someone who makes an offer
2: someone who makes a bid at cards
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consider
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v 1: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I
consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation
quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider,
reckon, view, regard]
2: give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of
moving" [syn: study, consider]
3: take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the
case of China"; "Consider the following case" [syn:
consider, take, deal, look at]
4: show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider
her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was
lenient" [syn: consider, count, weigh]
5: 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]
6: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very
smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is
her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be
inferior" [syn: think, believe, consider, conceive]
7: look at attentively [syn: regard, consider]
8: look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem" [syn:
view, consider, look at]
9: regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem;
"Please consider your family"
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reconsider
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v 1: consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a
view to changing; "Won't you reconsider your decision?"
2: consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with
a view to altering it
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rigger
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n 1: someone who rigs ships
2: a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists [syn:
rigger, rigger brush]
3: someone who works on an oil rig [syn: rigger, oil rigger]
4: a sailing vessel with a specified rig; "a square rigger"
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ripper
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n 1: a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the
Ripper was probably a madman"
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shipper
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n 1: someone who ships goods
2: a company in the business of shipping freight
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sipper
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n 1: a drinker who sips
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sitter
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n 1: Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe
and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) [syn:
Sitter, Willem de Sitter]
2: an organism (person or animal) that sits [ant: stander]
3: a person engaged to care for children when the parents are
not home [syn: babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter]
4: a person who poses for a painter or sculptor [syn: artist's
model, sitter]
5: a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody,
broody hen, setting hen, sitter]
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skipper
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n 1: a student who fails to attend classes
2: an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship [syn:
master, captain, sea captain, skipper]
3: the naval officer in command of a military ship [syn:
captain, skipper]
v 1: work as the skipper on a vessel
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skitter
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v 1: to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the
extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to
higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter,
scuttle]
2: glide easily along a surface
3: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
[syn: skim, skip, skitter]
4: twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the
surface of water
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slicker
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n 1: a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and
pigment to make it waterproof [syn: oilskin, slicker]
2: a person with good manners and stylish clothing
3: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
[syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster,
beguiler, slicker]
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slipper
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n 1: low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually
worn indoors [syn: slipper, carpet slipper]
2: a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
[syn: skidder, slider, slipper]
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snicker
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n 1: a disrespectful laugh [syn: snicker, snort, snigger]
v 1: laugh quietly [syn: snicker, snigger]
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snigger
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n 1: a disrespectful laugh [syn: snicker, snort, snigger]
v 1: laugh quietly [syn: snicker, snigger]
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sticker
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n 1: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or
leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker,
sticker, spikelet]
2: an adhesive label [syn: gummed label, sticker, paster]
3: a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
[syn: poser, stumper, toughie, sticker]
4: a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or
stabbing [syn: dagger, sticker]
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stripper
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n 1: a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish
2: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves
and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper,
stemmer, sprigger]
3: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing
to music [syn: stripper, striptease artist, striptease,
stripteaser, exotic dancer, ecdysiast, peeler]
4: an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten
barrels a day [syn: stripper well, stripper]
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switcher
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n 1: a person who administers punishment by wielding a switch or
whip [syn: switcher, whipper]
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ticker
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n 1: the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and
between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood
through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping
wildly" [syn: heart, pump, ticker]
2: a small portable timepiece [syn: watch, ticker]
3: a character printer that automatically prints stock
quotations on ticker tape [syn: ticker, stock ticker]
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chitter
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v 1: make high-pitched sounds, as of birds [syn: chitter,
twitter]
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nicker
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n 1: the characteristic sounds made by a horse [syn: neigh,
nicker, whicker, whinny]
v 1: make a characteristic sound, of a horse [syn: neigh,
nicker, whicker, whinny]
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rigor
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n 1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern
winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor,
rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness,
rigourousness]
2: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency,
validity, rigor, rigour]
3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor,
rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency,
hardness, stiffness]
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spitter
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n 1: a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)
[syn: spitter, expectorator]
2: an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or
Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he
throws it [syn: spitball, spitter]
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vigor
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n 1: forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy";
"he's full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour,
zip]
2: active strength of body or mind [syn: vigor, vigour,
dynamism, heartiness]
3: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing);
"his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity
of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour,
vim]
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kidder
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sicker
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thicker
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quittor
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ridder
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sidor
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widder
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