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agree
0
v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of
the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with
those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord
on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord]
[ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue]
2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something;
"She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her
alone"
3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the
gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe,
gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree,
discord]
4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas
concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort,
accord, concord, fit in, agree]
5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always
agree in English"
6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me"
7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of
my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
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alee
0
adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
-
appointee
0
n 1: an official who is appointed
2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn:
appointee, appointment]
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at
0
n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the
halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
[syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85]
2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
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ate
0
n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
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banshee
0
n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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bat
0
n 1: nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form
membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for
echolocation by which they navigate [syn: bat,
chiropteran]
2: (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it
happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" [syn: bat,
at-bat]
3: a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
[syn: squash racket, squash racquet, bat]
4: the club used in playing cricket; "a cricket bat has a narrow
handle and a broad flat end for hitting" [syn: cricket bat,
bat]
5: a club used for hitting a ball in various games
v 1: strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
2: wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids" [syn: bat, flutter]
3: have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
4: use a bat; "Who's batting?"
5: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight;
"We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat,
clobber, drub, thrash, lick]
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be
0
n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during
the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred
people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the
kitchen"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
-
bee
0
n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
-
brat
0
n 1: a very troublesome child [syn: terror, brat, little
terror, holy terror]
2: a small pork sausage [syn: bratwurst, brat]
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brie
0
n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
-
cat
0
n 1: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability
to roar: domestic cats; wildcats [syn: cat, true cat]
2: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's
only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, cat, hombre,
bozo]
3: a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
4: the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like
tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric
stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
[syn: kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea,
African tea]
5: a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the
cat" [syn: cat-o'-nine-tails, cat]
6: a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless
metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction
and farm work [syn: Caterpillar, cat]
7: any of several large cats typically able to roar and living
in the wild [syn: big cat, cat]
8: a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X
rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-
sectional scans along a single axis [syn: computerized
tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial
tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT]
v 1: beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him
last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
-
chat
0
n 1: an informal conversation [syn: chat, confab,
confabulation, schmooze, schmoose]
2: birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat,
chat]
3: songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat,
chat]
v 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the
men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn:
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate,
confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer,
natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
-
combat
0
n 1: an engagement fought between two military forces [syn:
combat, armed combat]
2: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke
out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets";
"the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight,
fighting, combat, scrap]
v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The
Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We
must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they
battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
-
curie
0
n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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debris
0
n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
-
decree
0
n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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fat
0
adj 1: having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered
how fat she was" [ant: lean, thin]
2: having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
3: containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
[syn: fatty, fat] [ant: fat-free, fatless, nonfat]
4: lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: fat,
juicy]
5: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat
land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat,
fertile, productive, rich]
n 1: a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and
consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides);
"pizza has too much fat"
2: a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a
source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital
organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
[syn: adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue]
3: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as
well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber,
avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness]
v 1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out,
plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
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flat
0
adv 1: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
2: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't
answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for
less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight]
[ant: indirectly]
adj 1: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is
higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of
level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with
fine flat seams" [syn: flat, level, plane]
2: having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or
thickness; "flat computer monitors"
3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical
denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical,
flat, unconditional]
4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
"found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat,
prostrate]
5: lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty]
6: (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic
semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural, sharp]
7: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain
leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed, flat]
8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless,
flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]
9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland, flat]
10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
11: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone,
monotonic, monotonous]
12: horizontally level; "a flat roof"
13: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an
illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters";
"a flat two-dimensional painting" [syn: two-dimensional,
2-dimensional, flat]
14: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat, matt,
matte, matted]
15: commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices
remained flat"; "a flat market"
n 1: a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
3: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the
note named
4: freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar,
flatbed, flat]
5: a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat, flat tire]
6: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted
canvas; part of a stage setting
7: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
[syn: apartment, flat]
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gat
0
n 1: a gangster's pistol [syn: gat, rod]
-
gnat
0
n 1: any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges;
black flies; sand flies
2: (British usage) mosquito
-
hat
0
n 1: headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has
shaped crown and usually a brim [syn: hat, chapeau,
lid]
2: an informal term for a person's role; "he took off his
politician's hat and talked frankly"
v 1: put on or wear a hat; "He was unsuitably hatted"
2: furnish with a hat
-
lat
0
n 1: a broad flat muscle on either side of the back [syn:
latissimus dorsi, lat]
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mat
0
adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
2: mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
[syn: mat, matting]
3: sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on
the floor for gymnastic sports [syn: mat, gym mat]
4: a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven; "a mat of weeds
and grass"
5: a master's degree in teaching [syn: Master of Arts in
Teaching, MAT]
6: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
7: a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from
an object placed on it
v 1: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child
entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat,
snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl]
2: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The
fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt
up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]
-
matt
0
adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
-
matte
0
adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores
are smelted
2: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
v 1: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The
fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt
up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]
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pat
0
adv 1: completely or perfectly; "he has the lesson pat"; "had
the system down pat"
adj 1: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a
slick commercial" [syn: glib, pat, slick]
2: exactly suited to the occasion; "a pat reply"
n 1: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, rap, tap]
2: a light touch or stroke [syn: tap, pat, dab]
v 1: pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the
chin [syn: chuck, pat]
2: hit lightly; "pat him on the shoulder" [syn: dab, pat]
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rat
0
n 1: any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger
than a mouse
2: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn:
scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat]
3: 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]
4: one who reveals confidential information in return for money
[syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber]
5: a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's
coiffure
v 1: desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for
one's personal advantage
2: employ scabs or strike breakers in
3: take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: fink,
scab, rat, blackleg]
4: give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
5: catch rats, especially with dogs
6: give away information about somebody; "He told on his
classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce,
tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit,
shop, snitch, stag]
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sat
0
n 1: the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the
Sabbath by Jews and some Christians [syn: Saturday,
Sabbatum, Sat]
-
scat
0
n 1: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for
the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical
instrument [syn: scat, scat singing]
v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed
up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam,
run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills,
take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break
away]
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slat
0
n 1: a thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: slat, spline]
v 1: equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows"
2: close the slats of (windows)
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spat
0
n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering,
spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]
2: a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and
ankles [syn: spat, gaiter]
3: a young oyster or other bivalve
v 1: come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on
us"
2: become permanently attached; "mollusks or oysters spat"
3: strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were
spatting the leaves"
4: clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate
approval [syn: applaud, clap, spat, acclaim] [ant:
boo, hiss]
5: engage in a brief and petty quarrel
6: spawn; "oysters spat"
7: clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the
music" [syn: clap, spat]
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splat
0
n 1: a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
2: a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
v 1: give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
2: split open and flatten for cooking; "splat fish over an open
fire"
3: flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"
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sprat
0
n 1: small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like
sardines [syn: sprat, brisling]
2: small herring processed like a sardine [syn: brisling,
sprat, Clupea sprattus]
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tat
0
n 1: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn:
cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze]
2: a projective technique using black-and-white pictures;
subjects tell a story about each picture [syn: Thematic
Apperception Test, TAT]
v 1: make lacework by knotting or looping [syn: tat,
intertwine]
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vat
0
n 1: a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price
before taxes and its cost of production [syn: VAT,
value-added tax, ad valorem tax]
2: a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [syn:
tub, vat]
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cree
0
n 1: a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cree
-
b
0
n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often
occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
[syn: bacillus, B]
2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B
complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B]
3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black
crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn:
boron, B, atomic number 5]
4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b]
6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn:
B, type B, group B]
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c
0
adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
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d
0
adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
[syn: five hundred, 500, d]
n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin
D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol,
cholecalciferol, D]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and
five [syn: five hundred, 500, D]
3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]
-
dea
0
n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and
regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances;
goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn:
Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement
Agency, DEA]
-
albee
0
n 1: United States dramatist (1928-) [syn: Albee, Edward
Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen]
-
capri
0
n 1: an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in
southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful
scenery
-
chablis
0
n 1: a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy
wines
2: dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling
it [syn: Chablis, white Burgundy]
-
sadat
0
n 1: Egyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a
peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of
Israel) (1918-1981) [syn: Sadat, Anwar Sadat, Anwar
el-Sadat]
-
dat
0
n 1: a digital tape recording of sound [syn: digital
audiotape, DAT]
-
gatt
0
n 1: a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty
to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import
quotas [syn: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
GATT]
-
platte
0
n 1: a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a
tributary of the Missouri River [syn: Platte, Platte
River]
-
nonfat
0
adj 1: without fat or fat solids; "nonfat or fat-free milk"
[syn: nonfat, fat-free, fatless] [ant: fat,
fatty]
-
latke
0
n 1: made of grated potato and egg with a little flour [syn:
potato pancake, latke]
-
begat
0
-
that
0
-
bea
0
-
blea
0
-
brea
0
-
bree
0
-
bui
0
-
chea
0
-
chee
0
-
cie
0
-
crea
0
-
abee
0
-
achee
0
-
acree
0
-
adee
0
-
akey
0
-
allee
0
-
andree
0
-
askey
0
-
baldree
0
-
beaudry
0
-
bibee
0
-
bibi
0
-
bouchey
0
-
bouie
0
-
bouley
0
-
bresee
0
-
buie
0
-
childree
0
-
cottee
0
-
couey
0
-
coutee
0
-
adoree
0
-
dauphinee
0
-
bhatt
0
-
batt
0
-
batte
0
-
blatt
0
-
bratt
0
-
catt
0
-
nat
0
-
pratt
0
-
stat
0
-
arnatt
0
-
biernat
0