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bracing
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adj 1: imparting vitality and energy; "the bracing mountain air"
[syn: bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing,
refreshful, tonic]
n 1: a structural member used to stiffen a framework [syn:
brace, bracing]
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casing
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n 1: the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has
a walnut case" [syn: shell, case, casing]
2: the outermost covering of a pneumatic tire
3: the enclosing frame around a door or window opening; "the
casings had rotted away and had to be replaced" [syn:
casing, case]
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facing
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n 1: a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation
or strengthening
2: an ornamental coating to a building [syn: facing, veneer]
3: a protective covering that protects the outside of a building
[syn: facing, cladding]
4: providing something with a surface of a different material
[syn: lining, facing]
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gassing
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n 1: the process of interacting with gas
2: the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with
gas
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lacing
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n 1: a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage
2: a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order
to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) [syn:
lace, lacing]
3: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
[syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing,
lacing, trouncing, whacking]
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pacing
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n 1: (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played
[syn: tempo, pacing]
2: walking with slow regular strides
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passing
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adv 1: to an extreme degree; "extremely cold"; "extremely
unpleasant" [syn: extremely, exceedingly, super,
passing]
adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient
beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal";
"fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing,
short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious]
2: of advancing the ball by throwing it; "a team with a good
passing attack"; "a pass play" [syn: passing(a), pass(a)]
[ant: running(a)]
3: allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection)
satisfactorily; "a passing grade"
4: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a
casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's
structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
[syn: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory]
n 1: (American football) a play that involves one player
throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a
passing play on third and long" [syn: pass, passing
play, passing game, passing]
2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his
passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit,
expiration, going, release]
3: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar
passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: passing,
passage]
4: the end of something; "the passing of winter"
5: a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to
another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of
flatus" [syn: passage, passing]
6: going by something that is moving in order to get in front of
it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car
on the road frightened me" [syn: passing, overtaking]
7: success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future
depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in
introductory chemistry" [syn: passing, pass,
qualifying] [ant: failing, flunk]
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racing
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n 1: the sport of engaging in contests of speed
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sassing
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n 1: an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of
your sass" [syn: sass, sassing, backtalk, back
talk, lip, mouth]
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spacing
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n 1: the time between occurrences of a repeating event; "some
women do not control the spacing of their children"
2: the property possessed by an array of things that have space
between them [syn: spacing, spatial arrangement]
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surpassing
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adj 1: exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in
excellence [syn: transcendent, surpassing]
2: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of
exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian
efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young
Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding,
exceptional, olympian, prodigious, surpassing]
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tracing
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n 1: the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
2: a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of
paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of
the original image [syn: tracing, trace]
3: the discovery and description of the course of development of
something; "the tracing of genealogies"
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amassing
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basing
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bypassing
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chasing
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classing
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degassing
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harassing
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massing
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placing
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hassing
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kassing
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maseng
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