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barbell
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n 1: a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used
in weightlifting
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bell
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n 1: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound
when struck
2: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or
buzzing signal when pushed [syn: doorbell, bell,
buzzer]
3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she
heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll]
4: (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time
signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals
4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. [syn:
bell, ship's bell]
5: the shape of a bell [syn: bell, bell shape, campana]
6: a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
[syn: Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell]
7: English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member
of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) [syn: Bell, Vanessa
Bell, Vanessa Stephen]
8: United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone
(1847-1922) [syn: Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell]
9: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells
that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral
instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong]
10: the flared opening of a tubular device
v 1: attach a bell to; "bell cows"
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belle
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n 1: a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of
several rivals; "she was the belle of the ball"
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bluebell
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n 1: sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: wild hyacinth,
wood hyacinth, bluebell, harebell, Hyacinthoides
nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta]
2: one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large
erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies
and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New
Mexico and Texas [syn: prairie gentian, tulip gentian,
bluebell, Eustoma grandiflorum]
3: perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-
shaped blue flowers [syn: harebell, bluebell, Campanula
rotundifolia]
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cowbell
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n 1: a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be
easily located
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decibel
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n 1: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the
logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some
reference intensity [syn: decibel, dB]
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doorbell
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n 1: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or
buzzing signal when pushed [syn: doorbell, bell,
buzzer]
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harebell
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n 1: sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: wild hyacinth,
wood hyacinth, bluebell, harebell, Hyacinthoides
nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta]
2: perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-
shaped blue flowers [syn: harebell, bluebell, Campanula
rotundifolia]
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mademoiselle
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n 1: small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch;
found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
[syn: silver perch, mademoiselle, Bairdiella
chrysoura]
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materiel
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n 1: equipment and supplies of a military force [syn:
materiel, equipage]
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misspell
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v 1: spell incorrectly
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morel
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n 1: any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella
having a brownish spongelike cap
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motel
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n 1: a motor hotel
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pastel
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adj 1: lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the
naive music"
2: delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink"
n 1: any of various pale or light colors
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personnel
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n 1: group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is
necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" [syn:
force, personnel]
2: the department responsible for hiring and training and
placing employees and for setting policies for personnel
management [syn: personnel department, personnel office,
personnel, staff office]
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propel
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v 1: cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship"
[syn: propel, impel]
2: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my
career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move,
prompt, incite]
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quell
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v 1: suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of
dissent"; "quench a rebellion" [syn: squelch, quell,
quench]
2: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay,
appease]
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ravel
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n 1: French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937)
[syn: Ravel, Maurice Ravel]
2: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking"
[syn: run, ladder, ravel]
v 1: disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?" [syn: ravel,
unravel, ravel out] [ant: knot, ravel, tangle]
2: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: ravel,
tangle, knot] [ant: ravel, ravel out, unknot,
unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle]
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rebel
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n 1: `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers
by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War;
`greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
[syn: Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback]
2: a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the
constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving
conditions) [syn: insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom
fighter, rebel]
3: someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
[syn: maverick, rebel]
v 1: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
[syn: rebel, arise, rise, rise up]
2: break with established customs [syn: rebel, renegade]
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repel
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v 1: 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]
2: be repellent to; cause aversion in [syn: repel, repulse]
[ant: appeal, attract]
3: force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the
onslaught"; "rebuff the attack" [syn: repel, repulse,
fight off, rebuff, drive back]
4: reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" [syn:
rebuff, snub, repel]
5: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn:
disgust, gross out, revolt, repel]
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resell
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v 1: sell (something) again after having bought it
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retell
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v 1: render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" [syn:
recite, retell]
2: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his
parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize,
fictionalise, retell]
3: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her
request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate,
iterate, restate, retell]
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smell
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n 1: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the
nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous
form; "she loved the smell of roses" [syn: smell, odor,
odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception]
2: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn:
olfactory property, smell, aroma, odor, odour,
scent]
3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect
that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a
clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the
smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling,
flavor, flavour, look, smell]
4: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents [syn:
smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality]
5: the act of perceiving the odor of something [syn: smell,
smelling]
v 1: inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
2: emit an odor; "The soup smells good"
3: smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells"
4: have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches
smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" [syn:
smack, reek, smell]
5: become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I
sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out
corruption" [syn: smell, smell out, sense]
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spell
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n 1: a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a
magical incantation [syn: enchantment, spell, trance]
2: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by
someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" [syn: go,
spell, tour, turn]
3: a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by
some action or condition; "he was here for a little while";
"I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a
patch of bad weather" [syn: while, piece, spell,
patch]
4: a verbal formula believed to have magical force; "he
whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around
its base is a charm in Balinese" [syn: spell, magic
spell, magical spell, charm]
v 1: orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of; "How
do you spell this word?" "We had to spell out our names for
the police officer" [syn: spell, spell out]
2: indicate or signify; "I'm afraid this spells trouble!" [syn:
spell, import]
3: write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally
accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the
word wrong in this letter" [syn: spell, write]
4: relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn; "She spelled
her husband at the wheel"
5: place under a spell [ant: unspell]
6: take turns working; "the workers spell every four hours"
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swell
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adj 1: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car";
"had a great time at the party"; "you look simply
smashing" [syn: bang-up, bully, corking,
cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat,
nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell,
smashing]
n 1: the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
[syn: swell, crestless wave]
2: a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
3: a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
4: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
[syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau,
swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
v 1: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The
music swelled to a crescendo"
2: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother
was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son" [syn:
swell, puff up]
3: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are
swelling" [syn: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy,
tumesce]
4: come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral
things); "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
[syn: well up, swell]
5: come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the
currents well up" [syn: well, swell]
6: cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
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cabell
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n 1: United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958) [syn:
Cabell, James Branch Cabell]
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bel
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n 1: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
2: Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad
including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil
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l
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adj 1: being ten more than forty [syn: fifty, 50, l]
n 1: a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume
of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions;
now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75
pints) [syn: liter, litre, l, cubic decimeter,
cubic decimetre]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five [syn:
fifty, 50, L]
3: a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a
perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen
per square centimeter [syn: lambert, L]
4: the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: L, l]
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marcel
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n 1: a hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made
by a heated curling iron
v 1: make a marcel in a woman's hair
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moselle
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n 1: German white wine from the Moselle valley or a similar wine
made elsewhere
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nobel
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n 1: Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite
and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes
(1833-1896) [syn: Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
Nobel]
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noel
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n 1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: Christmas,
Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide,
Noel]
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jezebel
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n 1: wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old
Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the
worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets
of Israel (9th century BC)
2: a shameless impudent scheming woman
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handbell
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n 1: a bell that is held in the hand
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beal
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behl
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atwell
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bandshell
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bardell
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battelle
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bedel
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carmel
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rochelle
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mirabelle
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bael
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gabelle
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annabel
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boscobel
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christabel
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clarabelle
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pachelbel
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