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become
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v 1: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became
annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting
more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went
into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go, get]
2: undergo a change or development; "The water turned into ice";
"Her former friend became her worst enemy"; "He turned
traitor" [syn: become, turn]
3: come into existence; "What becomes has duration"
4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
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bum
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adj 1: of very poor quality; flimsy [syn: bum, cheap,
cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]
n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the
bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
2: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help
the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum]
3: person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler,
loafer, do-nothing, layabout, bum]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
v 1: ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch, bum,
cadge, grub, sponge]
2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
[syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse
about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's
time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge
about]
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chum
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n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their
activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony,
pal, sidekick]
2: bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped
overboard to attract fish
3: a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an
important food fish [syn: chum salmon, chum,
Oncorhynchus keta]
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come
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n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is
ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed,
seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
v 1: move toward, travel toward something or somebody or
approach something or somebody; "He came singing down the
road"; "Come with me to the Casbah"; "come down here!";
"come out of the closet!"; "come into the room" [syn:
come, come up] [ant: depart, go, go away]
2: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She
arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until
after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go
away, go forth, leave]
3: come to pass; arrive, as in due course; "The first success
came three days later"; "It came as a shock"; "Dawn comes
early in June"
4: reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or
position; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand
the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I
came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came
untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his
face went red"; "your wish will come true"
5: to be the product or result; "Melons come from a vine";
"Understanding comes from experience" [syn: come, follow]
6: be found or available; "These shoes come in three colors; The
furniture comes unassembled"
7: come forth; "A scream came from the woman's mouth"; "His
breath came hard" [syn: issue forth, come]
8: be a native of; "She hails from Kalamazoo" [syn: hail,
come]
9: extend or reach; "The water came up to my waist"; "The
sleeves come to your knuckles"
10: exist or occur in a certain point in a series; "Next came
the student from France"
11: cover a certain distance; "She came a long way"
12: come under, be classified or included; "fall into a
category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall,
come]
13: happen as a result; "Nothing good will come of this"
14: add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to
$2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number,
add up, come, amount]
15: develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything";
"nothing came of his grandiose plans" [syn: come, add
up, amount]
16: be received; "News came in of the massacre in Rwanda" [syn:
come, come in]
17: come to one's mind; suggest itself; "It occurred to me that
we should hire another secretary"; "A great idea then came
to her" [syn: occur, come]
18: come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for
example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble
family"; "he comes from humble origins" [syn: derive,
come, descend]
19: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?";
"How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come a
long way" [syn: do, fare, make out, come, get
along]
20: experience orgasm; "she could not come because she was too
upset"
21: have a certain priority; "My family comes first"
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crumb
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n 1: a very small quantity of something; "he gave only a crumb
of information about his plans"; "there were few crumbs of
comfort in the report"
2: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum
out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
3: small piece of e.g. bread or cake
v 1: coat with bread crumbs; "crumb a cutlet"
2: break into crumbs
3: remove crumbs from; "crumb the table"
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cum
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n 1: the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is
ejaculated by the male genital tract [syn: semen, seed,
seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come]
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pH
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n 1: (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the
reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per
liter; provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the
acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and
greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more
acidic); [syn: pH, pH scale]
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h
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n 1: a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a
colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the
simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the
universe [syn: hydrogen, H, atomic number 1]
2: a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force
of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the
rate of one ampere per second [syn: henry, H]
3: the constant of proportionality relating the energy of a
photon to its frequency; approximately 6.626 x 10^-34 joule-
second [syn: Planck's constant, h]
4: the 8th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: H, h]
5: (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity equal to the
internal energy of a system plus the product of its volume
and pressure; "enthalpy is the amount of energy in a system
capable of doing mechanical work" [syn: heat content,
total heat, enthalpy, H]
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th
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n 1: the fifth day of the week; the fourth working day [syn:
Thursday, Th]
2: a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic
element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear
reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands [syn:
thorium, Th, atomic number 90]
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mph
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n 1: the ratio of the distance traveled (in miles) to the time
spent traveling (in hours) [syn: miles per hour, mph]
2: a speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel [syn:
miles per hour, mph]
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aitch
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bache
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blaich
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laiche
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raiche
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mh
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sh
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hgh
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pih
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kwh
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bluhm
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brum
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brumm
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clum
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crum
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crumm
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ancrum
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baucum
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boyum
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