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alive
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adj 1: possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve
is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive";
"burned alive"; "a live canary" [syn: alive(p), live]
[ant: dead]
2: (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit; "she was
wonderfully alive for her age"; "a face alive with mischief"
3: having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive
face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he
heard the good news" [syn: animated, alive] [ant:
unanimated]
4: (followed by `to' or `of') aware of; "is alive to the moods
of others"
5: in operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still
alive"; "an active tradition" [syn: active, alive(p)]
6: mentally perceptive and responsive;"an alert mind"; "alert to
the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the
dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of
his predicament" [syn: alert, alive(p), awake(p)]
7: capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very
much alive" [syn: alive, live]
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archive
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n 1: a depository containing historical records and documents
v 1: put into an archive [syn: archive, file away]
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arrive
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v 1: 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]
2: succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published his
book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in
science!"; "You will go far, my boy!" [syn: arrive, make
it, get in, go far]
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beehive
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n 1: any workplace where people are very busy
2: a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as
in a hollow tree [syn: beehive, hive]
3: a hairdo resembling a beehive
4: a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees [syn:
beehive, hive]
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chive
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n 1: perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for
seasoning [syn: chives, chive, cive, schnittlaugh,
Allium schoenoprasum]
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connive
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v 1: encourage or assent to illegally or criminally
2: form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner [syn: scheme,
intrigue, connive]
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contrive
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v 1: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an
attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design]
2: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or
principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to
measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive,
devise, excogitate, formulate, forge]
3: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the
corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a
spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: project, cast,
contrive, throw]
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deprive
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v 1: take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the
Jews of all their assets" [syn: deprive, strip,
divest]
2: keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
3: take away [syn: deprive, impoverish] [ant: enrich]
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derive
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v 1: reason by deduction; establish by deduction [syn: deduce,
infer, deduct, derive]
2: obtain; "derive pleasure from one's garden" [syn: derive,
gain]
3: come from; "The present name derives from an older form"
4: develop or evolve from a latent or potential state [syn:
derive, educe]
5: 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]
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dive
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n 1: a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall [syn:
honkytonk, dive]
2: a headlong plunge into water [syn: dive, diving]
3: a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft [syn: dive, nose
dive, nosedive]
v 1: drop steeply; "the stock market plunged" [syn: dive,
plunge, plunk]
2: plunge into water; "I was afraid to dive from the board into
the pool"
3: swim under water; "the children enjoyed diving and looking
for shells"
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drive
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n 1: the act of applying force to propel something; "after
reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off" [syn:
drive, thrust, driving force]
2: a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a
machine; "a variable speed drive permitted operation through
a range of speeds"
3: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a
particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they
worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for
a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery";
"contributed to the war effort" [syn: campaign, cause,
crusade, drive, movement, effort]
4: a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the
driveway" [syn: driveway, drive, private road]
5: the trait of being highly motivated; "his drive and energy
exhausted his co-workers"
6: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver; "he sliced
his drive out of bounds" [syn: drive, driving]
7: the act of driving a herd of animals overland
8: a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the
family for a drive in his new car" [syn: drive, ride]
9: a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or
desire
10: (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads
data from a storage medium
11: a wide scenic road planted with trees; "the riverside drive
offers many exciting scenic views" [syn: drive, parkway]
12: (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
v 1: operate or control a vehicle; "drive a car or bus"; "Can
you drive this four-wheel truck?"
2: travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the
university every morning"; "They motored to London for the
theater" [syn: drive, motor]
3: cause someone or something to move by driving; "She drove me
to school every day"; "We drove the car to the garage"
4: force into or from an action or state, either physically or
metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives
me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram]
5: to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive
pressure on, or motivate strongly; "She is driven by her
passion"
6: cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy";
"push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" [syn:
repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat
back] [ant: attract, draw, draw in, pull, pull in]
7: compel somebody to do something, often against his own will
or judgment; "She finally drove him to change jobs"
8: push, propel, or press with force; "Drive a nail into the
wall"
9: cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force;
"drive the ball far out into the field"
10: strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for
years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to
make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral
thesis" [syn: tug, labor, labour, push, drive]
11: move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you
driving at?" [syn: drive, get, aim]
12: have certain properties when driven; "This car rides
smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: drive, ride]
13: work as a driver; "He drives a bread truck"; "She drives for
the taxi company in Newark"
14: move by being propelled by a force; "The car drove around
the corner"
15: urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn"
16: proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work"
[syn: drive, take]
17: strike with a driver, as in teeing off; "drive a golf ball"
18: hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally; "drive a
ball"
19: excavate horizontally; "drive a tunnel"
20: cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by
controlling; "The amplifier drives the tube"; "steam drives
the engines"; "this device drives the disks for the
computer"
21: hunting: search for game; "drive the forest"
22: hunting: chase from cover into more open ground; "drive the
game"
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endive
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n 1: widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green;
either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are
usually blanched [syn: endive, witloof, Cichorium
endivia]
2: variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges
[syn: chicory escarole, endive, escarole]
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five
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adj 1: being one more than four [syn: five, 5, v]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn:
five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome,
quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe]
2: a team that plays basketball [syn: basketball team, five]
3: a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows
five pips [syn: five-spot, five]
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hive
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n 1: a teeming multitude
2: a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees [syn:
beehive, hive]
3: a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as
in a hollow tree [syn: beehive, hive]
v 1: store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived
lots of information"
2: move together in a hive or as if in a hive; "The bee swarms
are hiving"
3: gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm"
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jive
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n 1: a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s;
flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
[syn: swing, swing music, jive]
v 1: dance to jive music; dance the jive
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live
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adv 1: not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live"
adj 1: actually being performed at the time of hearing or
viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you
live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves
performers actually in the physical presence of a live
audience" [syn: live, unrecorded] [ant: recorded]
2: exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a
live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live
wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball
is one in play" [ant: dead]
3: possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is
alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned
alive"; "a live canary" [syn: alive(p), live] [ant:
dead]
4: highly reverberant; "a live concert hall"
5: charged with an explosive; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb"
6: elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively
tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy
turf" [syn: bouncy, live, lively, resilient,
springy]
7: abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a
really live bunch"
8: in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be
set in type or already set but not yet proofread"
9: of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option"
10: charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live
wire" [syn: hot, live]
11: capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very
much alive" [syn: alive, live]
v 1: inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in
Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the
islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells
near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the
woods" [syn: populate, dwell, live, inhabit]
2: lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had
to live frugally after the war"
3: continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went
without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions
survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver
lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can
a person last without food and water?" [syn: survive,
last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold
out]
4: support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage";
"Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many
people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn:
exist, survive, live, subsist]
5: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
6: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or
sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known
hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug
addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I
lived through two divorces" [syn: know, experience,
live]
7: pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept
yourself and others if you really want to live"
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overdrive
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n 1: the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or
concentration; "Troops are ready to go into overdrive as
soon as the signal is given"; "Melissa's brain was in
overdrive"
2: a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed
with less output power
v 1: drive or work too hard; "The teacher is overworking his
students"; "Overdriving people often suffer stress"
2: make use of too often or too extensively [syn: overuse,
overdrive]
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revive
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v 1: cause to regain consciousness; "The doctors revived the
comatose man" [syn: resuscitate, revive]
2: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
"This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive,
renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
3: be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength;
"Interest in ESP revived"
4: restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state; "He
revived this style of opera"; "He resurrected the tango in
this remote part of Argentina" [syn: revive, resurrect]
5: return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She
revived after the doctor gave her an injection" [syn: come
to, revive, resuscitate]
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rive
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v 1: tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to
bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips" [syn:
rend, rip, rive, pull]
2: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument;
"cleave the bone" [syn: cleave, split, rive]
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shrive
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v 1: grant remission of a sin to; "The priest absolved him and
told him to say ten Hail Mary's" [syn: shrive, absolve]
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skive
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v 1: remove the surface of; "skive leather"
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skydive
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v 1: jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before
opening one's parachute [syn: sky dive, skydive]
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strive
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v 1: attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our
customers happy" [syn: endeavor, endeavour, strive]
2: to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear"
[syn: strive, reach, strain]
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survive
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v 1: continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went
without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions
survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver
lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long
can a person last without food and water?" [syn: survive,
last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold
out]
2: continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He
survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: survive, pull
through, pull round, come through, make it] [ant:
succumb, yield]
3: support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage";
"Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many
people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day" [syn:
exist, survive, live, subsist]
4: live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
[syn: outlive, outlast, survive]
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thrive
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v 1: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is
thriving"; "business is booming" [syn: boom, thrive,
flourish, expand]
2: make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or
reach a high point in historical significance or importance;
"The new student is thriving" [syn: thrive, prosper, fly
high, flourish]
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mi
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n 1: destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of
the blood supply to the heart muscle [syn: myocardial
infarction, myocardial infarct, MI]
2: a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet
(1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile [syn:
nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi, geographical
mile, Admiralty mile]
3: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters;
historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of
arc in latitude [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut
mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile]
4: a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly
1609.344 meters [syn: mile, statute mile, stat mi,
land mile, international mile, mi]
5: a midwestern state in north central United States in the
Great Lakes region [syn: Michigan, Wolverine State,
Great Lakes State, MI]
6: the government agency in the United Kingdom that is
responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on
British territory [syn: Security Service, MI, Military
Intelligence Section 5]
7: the government agency in the United Kingdom that is
responsible for internal security and counterintelligence
overseas [syn: Secret Intelligence Service, MI, Military
Intelligence Section 6]
8: the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major
scale in solmization
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clive
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n 1: British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in
1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774)
[syn: Clive, Robert Clive, Baron Clive, Baron Clive
of Plassey]
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nosedive
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n 1: a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline; "the stock took a
nosedive"
2: a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft [syn: dive, nose
dive, nosedive]
v 1: plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of
aircraft
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wive
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v 1: take (someone) as a wife
2: marry a woman, take a wife
3: provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife
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vive
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dr
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shive
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