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alter
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v 1: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation;
"The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth
pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my
thinking about the issue" [syn: change, alter,
modify]
2: become different in some particular way, without permanently
losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her
mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The
supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the
season" [syn: change, alter, vary]
3: make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered"
4: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn:
interpolate, alter, falsify]
5: remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" [syn: alter,
neuter, spay, castrate]
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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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assaulter
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n 1: someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor,
assailant, assaulter]
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defaulter
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n 1: someone who fails to make a required appearance in court
2: someone who fails to meet a financial obligation [syn:
defaulter, deadbeat]
3: a contestant who forfeits a match
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delta
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n 1: a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river
divides before entering a larger body of water; "the
Mississippi River delta"; "the Nile delta"
2: an object shaped like an equilateral triangle
3: the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
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molter
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n 1: an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles)
that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or
cuticle or skin or hair) [syn: molter, moulter]
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salter
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n 1: someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other
foods
2: someone who makes or deals in salt [syn: salter, salt
merchant]
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vaulter
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n 1: an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a
long pole [syn: vaulter, pole vaulter, pole jumper]
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gibraltar
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n 1: location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone
promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically
important because it can control the entrance of ships into
the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules [syn:
Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe]
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malta
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n 1: a republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean;
achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 [syn:
Malta, Republic of Malta]
2: a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the
Mediterranean Sea
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volta
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n 1: Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied
electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)
[syn: Volta, Count Alessandro Volta, Conte Alessandro
Volta, Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio
Volta]
2: a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin
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walter
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n 1: German conductor (1876-1962) [syn: Walter, Bruno
Walter]
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yalta
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n 1: a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the
Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt,
Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945
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colter
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n 1: a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts
vertically through the soil [syn: colter, coulter]
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coulter
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n 1: a sharp steel wedge that precedes the plow and cuts
vertically through the soil [syn: colter, coulter]
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kelter
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n 1: in working order; "out of kilter"; "in good kilter" [syn:
kilter, kelter]
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melter
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n 1: a worker who melts substances (metal or wax etc.)
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bolter
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exalter
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poulter
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quilter
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belter
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superaltar
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boelter
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boulter
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holter
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wolter
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pelta
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shelta
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milter
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