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amber
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adj 1: of a medium to dark brownish yellow color [syn: amber,
brownish-yellow, yellow-brown]
n 1: a deep yellow color; "an amber light illuminated the room";
"he admired the gold of her hair" [syn: amber, gold]
2: a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used
for jewelry
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antechamber
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n 1: a large entrance or reception room or area [syn:
anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall,
foyer, lobby, vestibule]
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are
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n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn:
are, ar]
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bedchamber
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n 1: a room used primarily for sleeping [syn: bedroom,
sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, chamber,
bedchamber]
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birr
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n 1: the basic unit of money in Ethiopia; equal to 100 cents
2: sound of something in rapid motion; "whir of a bird's wings";
"the whir of the propellers" [syn: whir, whirr,
whirring, birr]
v 1: make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car
engine purred" [syn: whizz, whiz, whirr, whir,
birr, purr]
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bur
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n 1: seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr]
2: small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr]
v 1: remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr]
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burr
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n 1: seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr]
2: rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or
cutting
3: United States politician who served as vice president under
Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander
Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836) [syn: Burr,
Aaron Burr]
4: rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece
5: small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr]
v 1: remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr]
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camber
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n 1: a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road)
2: a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher
than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal
force [syn: bank, cant, camber]
3: the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer
together at the bottom than at the top
v 1: curve upward in the middle
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chamber
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n 1: a natural or artificial enclosed space
2: an enclosed volume in the body; "the chambers of his heart
were healthy"
3: a room where a judge transacts business
4: a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial
assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"
5: a room used primarily for sleeping [syn: bedroom, sleeping
room, sleeping accommodation, chamber, bedchamber]
v 1: place in a chamber
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clamber
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n 1: an awkward climb; "reaching the crest was a real clamber"
v 1: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber,
scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle,
sputter]
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cucumber
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n 1: a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest
times for its cylindrical green fruit [syn: cucumber,
cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus]
2: cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh
eaten as a vegetable; related to melons [syn: cucumber,
cuke]
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cumber
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v 1: hold back [syn: restrain, encumber, cumber,
constrain]
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dimmer
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n 1: a rheostat that varies the current through an electric
light in order to control the level of illumination
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disencumber
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v 1: release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot
extricate myself from this task" [syn: extricate,
untangle, disentangle, disencumber]
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dismember
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v 1: separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered
the tourist"
2: divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our
funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"
[syn: dismember, take apart, discerp]
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ember
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n 1: a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and
is glowing or smoldering [syn: ember, coal]
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encumber
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v 1: hold back [syn: restrain, encumber, cumber,
constrain]
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limber
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adj 1: (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a
supple mind"; "a limber imagination" [syn: limber,
supple]
2: (used of artifacts) easily bent
3: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely
[syn: limber, supple]
n 1: a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun
or caisson
v 1: attach the limber; "limber a cannon" [syn: limber,
limber up]
2: cause to become limber; "The violist limbered her wrists
before the concert"
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lumbar
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adj 1: of or relating to or near the part of the back between
the ribs and the hipbones; "lumbar vertebrae"
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lumber
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n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building
material [syn: lumber, timber]
2: an implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: baseball
bat, lumber]
v 1: move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across
the room" [syn: lumber, pound]
2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: log, lumber]
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mamba
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n 1: arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is
often fatal
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marimba
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n 1: a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a
chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small
mallets [syn: marimba, xylophone]
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member
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n 1: one of the persons who compose a social group (especially
individuals who have joined and participate in a group
organization); "only members will be admitted"; "a member
of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of
his family" [syn: member, fellow member] [ant:
nonmember]
2: anything that belongs to a set or class; "snakes are members
of the class Reptilia"; "members of the opposite sex"
3: an external body part that projects from the body; "it is
important to keep the extremities warm" [syn: extremity,
appendage, member]
4: an organization that is a member of another organization
(especially a state that belongs to a group of nations); "the
library was a member of the interlibrary loan association";
"Canada is a member of the United Nations"
5: the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism) [syn:
penis, phallus, member]
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misremember
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v 1: remember incorrectly; "I misremembered the date"
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number
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n 1: the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite
quantity of units or individuals; "he had a number of
chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the
figure was about a thousand" [syn: number, figure]
2: a concept of quantity involving zero and units; "every number
has a unique position in the sequence"
3: a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer
program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had
a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he
ever did" [syn: act, routine, number, turn, bit]
4: the number is used in calling a particular telephone; "he has
an unlisted number" [syn: phone number, telephone number,
number]
5: a symbol used to represent a number; "he learned to write the
numerals before he went to school" [syn: numeral, number]
6: one of a series published periodically; "she found an old
issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room" [syn:
issue, number]
7: a select company of people; "I hope to become one of their
number before I die"
8: a numeral or string of numerals that is used for
identification; "she refused to give them her Social Security
number" [syn: number, identification number]
9: a clothing measurement; "a number 13 shoe"
10: the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns
and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities
involved (singular or dual or plural); "in English the
subject and the verb must agree in number"
11: an item of merchandise offered for sale; "she preferred the
black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number"
v 1: 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]
2: give numbers to; "You should number the pages of the thesis"
3: enumerate; "We must number the names of the great
mathematicians" [syn: number, list]
4: put into a group; "The academy counts several Nobel Prize
winners among its members" [syn: count, number]
5: determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books
on your shelf?"; "Count your change" [syn: count, number,
enumerate, numerate]
6: place a limit on the number of [syn: number, keep down]
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outnumber
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v 1: be larger in number
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remember
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v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't
remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her
last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do
you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories"
[syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call
up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block,
draw a blank, forget]
2: keep in mind for attention or consideration; "Remember the
Alamo"; "Remember to call your mother every day!"; "Think of
the starving children in India!" [syn: remember, think
of] [ant: bury, forget]
3: recapture the past; indulge in memories; "he remembered how
he used to pick flowers" [syn: remember, think back]
4: show appreciation to; "He remembered her in his will"
5: mention favorably, as in prayer; "remember me in your
prayers"
6: mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship;
"Remember me to your wife" [syn: commend, remember]
7: exercise, or have the power of, memory; "After the shelling,
many people lost the ability to remember"; "some remember
better than others"
8: call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or
something, as in a ceremony; "We remembered the 50th
anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the
dead of the First World War" [syn: commemorate, remember]
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rumba
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n 1: syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba [syn:
rumba, rhumba]
2: a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with
Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and
violent movement [syn: rumba, rhumba]
3: a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance [syn: rumba,
rhumba]
v 1: dance the rhumba [syn: rhumba, rumba]
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samba
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n 1: large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves
and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and
one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood
[syn: obeche, obechi, arere, samba, Triplochiton
scleroxcylon]
2: music composed for dancing the samba
3: a lively ballroom dance from Brazil
4: a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers
v 1: dance the samba
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slumber
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n 1: a natural and periodic state of rest during which
consciousness of the world is suspended; "he didn't get
enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless
slumber" [syn: sleep, slumber]
2: a dormant or quiescent state
v 1: be asleep [syn: sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's,
catch some Z's] [ant: wake]
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sombre
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adj 1: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains";
"sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
[syn: drab, sober, somber, sombre]
2: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful
music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" [syn:
somber, sombre, melancholy]
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timber
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n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building
material [syn: lumber, timber]
2: a beam made of wood
3: a post made of wood
4: land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: forest,
woodland, timberland, timber]
5: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice
or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was
rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell
summoned them to meet" [syn: timbre, timber, quality,
tone]
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timbre
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n 1: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a
voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her
soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the
broken bell summoned them to meet" [syn: timbre,
timber, quality, tone]
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trimmer
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n 1: a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs;
"untouched by the pruner's axe" [syn: pruner, trimmer]
2: a machine that trims timber
3: capacitor having variable capacitance; used for making fine
adjustments [syn: trimmer, trimming capacitor]
4: joist that receives the end of a header in floor or roof
framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or
chimney etc. [syn: trimmer, trimmer joist]
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umber
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adj 1: of the color of any of various natural brown earth
pigments
n 1: an earth pigment
2: a medium brown to dark-brown color [syn: chocolate,
coffee, deep brown, umber, burnt umber]
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rhumba
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n 1: syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba [syn:
rumba, rhumba]
2: a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with
Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and
violent movement [syn: rumba, rhumba]
3: a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance [syn: rumba,
rhumba]
v 1: dance the rhumba [syn: rhumba, rumba]
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december
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n 1: the last (12th) month of the year [syn: December, Dec]
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november
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n 1: the month following October and preceding December [syn:
November, Nov]
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september
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n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn:
September, Sep, Sept]
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humber
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n 1: an estuary in central northeastern England formed by the
Ouse River and the Trent River
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gamba
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n 1: viol that is the bass member of the viol family with
approximately the range of the cello [syn: viola da
gamba, gamba, bass viol]
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zomba
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n 1: a city in southern Malawi; was the capital until 1971
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sambar
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n 1: a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
[syn: sambar, sambur, Cervus unicolor]
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liquidambar
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n 1: aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree [syn: sweet gum,
liquidambar]
2: any tree of the genus Liquidambar
3: sweet gum [syn: genus Liquidambar, Liquidambar]
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columba
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n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and
Caelum [syn: Columba, Dove]
2: type genus of the Columbidae: typical pigeons [syn:
Columba, genus Columba]
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sambur
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n 1: a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
[syn: sambar, sambur, Cervus unicolor]
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chimer
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renumber
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bir
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buhr
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tamber
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bemba
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pemba
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cochabamba
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krimmer
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toowoomba
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