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hose
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n 1: socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British
include underwear) [syn: hosiery, hose]
2: man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries
covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a
doublet
3: a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas [syn: hose,
hosepipe]
v 1: water with a hose; "hose the lawn" [syn: hose, hose
down]
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impose
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v 1: compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose
courtesy" [syn: enforce, impose]
2: impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage
on the students" [syn: inflict, bring down, visit,
impose]
3: impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: levy, impose]
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nose
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n 1: the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract;
the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he
has a cold in the nose" [syn: nose, olfactory organ]
2: a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of
an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry"
3: the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he
ducked under the nose of the gun"
4: a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose"
5: a symbol of inquisitiveness; "keep your nose out of it"
6: the sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a
good nose"
7: a natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals"
8: a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged [syn:
nozzle, nose]
v 1: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always
nosing around the office" [syn: intrude, horn in,
pry, nose, poke]
2: advance the forward part of with caution; "She nosed the car
into the left lane"
3: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the
drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind]
4: push or move with the nose
5: rub noses [syn: nuzzle, nose]
6: defeat by a narrow margin
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oppose
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v 1: be against; express opposition to; "We oppose the ban on
abortion"
2: fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would
oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!" [syn: fight, oppose,
fight back, fight down, defend]
3: contrast with equal weight or force [syn: oppose,
counterbalance]
4: set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best
athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the
Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against
each other" [syn: pit, oppose, match, play off]
5: act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to
everything I say" [syn: react, oppose]
6: be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion" [syn:
oppose, controvert, contradict]
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pose
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n 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on
airs with me" [syn: airs, pose]
2: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic
purposes
3: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn:
affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness]
v 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn:
present, pose]
2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the
woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, pose,
sit, posture]
3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: pose,
impersonate, personate]
4: behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others;
"Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to
impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of
herself" [syn: pose, posture]
5: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your
things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent
of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
[syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay]
6: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question
really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get,
puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder,
flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze,
dumbfound]
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propose
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v 1: make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator
proposed to abolish the sales tax" [syn: propose,
suggest, advise]
2: present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He
proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She
proposed a new theory of relativity" [syn: project,
propose]
3: propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon" [syn: aim,
purpose, purport, propose]
4: put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an
honor or position; "The President nominated her as head of
the Civil Rights Commission" [syn: nominate, propose]
5: ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday
night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for
only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself
to the young woman" [syn: propose, declare oneself,
offer, pop the question]
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prose
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n 1: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
2: matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
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repose
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n 1: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility);
"took his repose by the swimming pool" [syn: rest,
ease, repose, relaxation]
2: the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: peace,
peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity,
heartsease, ataraxis]
3: a disposition free from stress or emotion [syn: repose,
quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity,
tranquility]
v 1: put or confide something in a person or thing; "These
philosophers reposed the law in the people"
2: be inherent or innate in; [syn: rest, reside, repose]
3: lie when dead; "Mao reposes in his mausoleum"
4: lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on
the couch" [syn: recumb, repose, recline]
5: put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table";
"lay the patient carefully onto the bed" [syn: lay, put
down, repose]
6: to put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed
its confidence in the King"
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rose
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adj 1: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the
roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate,
rosaceous]
n 1: any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses [syn:
rose, rosebush]
2: pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed
after fermentation began [syn: blush wine, pink wine,
rose, rose wine]
3: a dusty pink color [syn: rose, rosiness]
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transpose
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n 1: a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a
given matrix
v 1: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often
transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute,
transpose]
2: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient
Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn:
transfer, transpose, transplant]
3: cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a
smaller size" [syn: counterchange, transpose,
interchange]
4: transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other
side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
5: put (a piece of music) into another key
6: exchange positions without a change in value; "These
operators commute with each other" [syn: commute,
transpose]
7: change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"
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bose
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n 1: Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed
statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of
particles; led to the description of fundamental particles
that later came to be known as bosons [syn: Bose,
Satyendra N. Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose]
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beaus
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beaux
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bows
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elbows
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jumbos
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knows
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lows
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owes
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plainclothes
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rainbows
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tows
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ohs
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bestows
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dubose
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boase
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boes
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bowes
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boze
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sows
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woes
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hoboes
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