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absentee
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n 1: one that is absent or not in residence
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addressee
0
n 1: one to whom something is addressed
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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"
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amputee
0
n 1: someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
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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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banshee
0
n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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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]
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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
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bourgeoisie
0
n 1: the social class between the lower and upper classes [syn:
middle class, bourgeoisie]
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brie
0
n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
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conferee
0
n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were
conferred; the conferees were..."
2: a member of a conference
-
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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de
0
n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
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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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gravy
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n 1: a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients
to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
2: the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking
meats; often a little water is added [syn: gravy, pan
gravy]
3: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden
opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has
created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes
of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn:
boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna
from heaven, windfall, bunce]
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lea
0
n 1: a unit of length of thread or yarn
2: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for
grazing by livestock [syn: pasture, pastureland, grazing
land, lea, ley]
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lee
0
adj 1: towards the side away from the wind [syn: downwind,
lee(a)]
n 1: United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of
black culture in America (born in 1957) [syn: Lee, Spike
Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee]
2: United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway
in the 1930s (1914-1970) [syn: Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose
Louise Hovick]
3: United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred
in martial arts films (1941-1973) [syn: Lee, Bruce Lee,
Lee Yuen Kam]
4: United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with
Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of
parity (born in 1926) [syn: Lee, Tsung Dao Lee]
5: leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution
calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
[syn: Lee, Richard Henry Lee]
6: soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818) [syn: Lee,
Henry Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee]
7: American general who led the Confederate Armies in the
American Civil War (1807-1870) [syn: Lee, Robert E. Lee,
Robert Edward Lee]
8: the side of something that is sheltered from the wind [syn:
lee, lee side, leeward] [ant: windward]
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licensee
0
n 1: someone to whom a license is granted
-
marquee
0
n 1: large and often sumptuous tent [syn: pavilion, marquee]
2: permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. [syn:
marquee, marquise]
-
marquis
0
n 1: humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches
(1878-1937) [syn: Marquis, Don Marquis, Donald Robert
Perry Marquis]
2: nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count [syn:
marquis, marquess]
-
me
0
n 1: a state in New England [syn: Maine, Pine Tree State,
ME]
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navy
0
n 1: an organization of military vessels belonging to a country
and available for sea warfare [syn: navy, naval forces]
2: a dark shade of blue [syn: dark blue, navy, navy blue]
3: the navy of the United States of America; the agency that
maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces
[syn: United States Navy, US Navy, USN, Navy]
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nee
0
adj 1: (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or
family name of a married woman; "Hillary Clinton nee
Rodham"
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nestle
0
n 1: a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace
[syn: cuddle, nestle, snuggle]
v 1: move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position;
"We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children
snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: cuddle,
snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close]
2: lie in a sheltered position; "The little cottage nestles in
the forest"
3: position comfortably; "The baby nestled her head in her
mother's elbow" [syn: nestle, snuggle]
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nominee
0
n 1: a politician who is running for public office [syn:
campaigner, candidate, nominee]
-
parolee
0
n 1: someone released on probation or on parole [syn:
probationer, parolee]
-
payee
0
n 1: a person to whom money is paid
-
pea
0
n 1: seed of a pea plant used for food
2: the fruit or seed of a pea plant
3: a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white
flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
[syn: pea, pea plant]
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pee
0
n 1: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine";
"the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee,
piddle, weewee, water]
2: informal terms for urination; "he took a pee" [syn: peeing,
pee, pissing, piss]
v 1: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive
rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle,
micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water,
relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee,
wee-wee, pass water]
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plea
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n 1: a humble request for help from someone in authority [syn:
supplication, plea]
2: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as
distinguished from a demurrer)
3: an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed
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potpourri
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n 1: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a
great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety
of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn:
assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany,
miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord,
potpourri, motley]
2: a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or
other musical pieces from various sources [syn: medley,
potpourri, pastiche]
3: a jar of mixed flower petals and spices used as perfume
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quay
0
n 1: wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline
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re
0
n 1: a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles
manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is
obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum [syn:
rhenium, Re, atomic number 75]
2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal
creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the
king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re]
3: the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major
scale in solmization [syn: re, ray]
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referee
0
n 1: (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American
football) who is expected to ensure fair play [syn:
referee, ref]
2: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability
for publication [syn: reviewer, referee, reader]
3: an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on
a case
v 1: be a referee or umpire in a sports competition [syn:
referee, umpire]
2: evaluate professionally a colleague's work [syn: referee,
peer review]
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repartee
0
n 1: adroitness and cleverness in reply
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retiree
0
n 1: someone who has retired from active working [syn:
retiree, retired person]
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rupee
0
n 1: the basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents
[syn: Sri Lanka rupee, rupee]
2: the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents
[syn: Seychelles rupee, rupee]
3: the basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa [syn:
Nepalese rupee, rupee]
4: the basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents
[syn: Mauritian rupee, rupee]
5: the basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa [syn:
Pakistani rupee, rupee]
6: the basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise [syn:
Indian rupee, rupee]
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scree
0
n 1: a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff [syn:
talus, scree]
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sea
0
n 1: a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water
partially enclosed by land
2: anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [syn:
ocean, sea]
3: turbulent water with swells of considerable size; "heavy
seas"
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see
0
n 1: the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is
located
v 1: perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight;
"You have to be a good observer to see all the details";
"Can you see the bird in that tree?"; "He is blind--he
cannot see"
2: perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I
just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important
this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [syn:
understand, realize, realise, see]
3: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans
winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this
school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger
generation against established traditions"; "I want to see
results" [syn: witness, find, see]
4: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on
horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk
in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision,
project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image]
5: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I
consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite
as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon,
view, regard]
6: get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I
learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you
have been promoted" [syn: learn, hear, get word, get
wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover,
see]
7: see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will
be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a
show on Broadway"; "see a movie" [syn: watch, view,
see, catch, take in]
8: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How
nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, run into,
encounter, run across, come across, see]
9: find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by
making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she
speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he
speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
[syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain,
watch, learn]
10: be careful or certain to do something; make certain of
something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See
that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the
product" [syn: see, check, insure, see to it,
ensure, control, ascertain, assure]
11: go to see for professional or business reasons; "You should
see a lawyer"; "We had to see a psychiatrist"
12: go to see for a social visit; "I went to see my friend Mary
the other day"
13: go to see a place, as for entertainment; "We went to see the
Eiffel Tower in the morning" [syn: visit, see]
14: take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?";
"I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this
business" [syn: attend, take care, look, see]
15: receive as a specified guest; "the doctor will see you now";
"The minister doesn't see anybody before noon"
16: date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you
know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his
former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date,
see]
17: see and understand, have a good eye; "The artist must first
learn to see"
18: deliberate or decide; "See whether you can come tomorrow";
"let's see--which movie should we see tonight?"
19: observe as if with an eye; "The camera saw the burglary and
recorded it"
20: observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; "The
customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your
passport before you can enter the country" [syn: examine,
see]
21: go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he
saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: experience, see, go
through]
22: accompany or escort; "I'll see you to the door" [syn: see,
escort]
23: match or meet; "I saw the bet of one of my fellow players"
24: make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see
in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" [syn:
interpret, construe, see]
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sightsee
0
v 1: visit famous or interesting sights
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ski
0
n 1: narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for
gliding over snow
v 1: move along on skis; "We love to ski the Rockies"; "My
children don't ski"
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spree
0
n 1: a brief indulgence of your impulses [syn: spree, fling]
v 1: engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as
when shopping
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tea
0
n 1: a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water; "iced tea
is a cooling drink"
2: a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes; "an
Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea"
[syn: tea, afternoon tea, teatime]
3: a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively
cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea
leaves; "tea has fragrant white flowers" [syn: tea,
Camellia sinensis]
4: a reception or party at which tea is served; "we met at the
Dean's tea for newcomers"
5: dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea; "the store
shelves held many different kinds of tea"; "they threw the
tea into Boston harbor" [syn: tea, tea leaf]
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tee
0
n 1: the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they
were waiting on the first tee" [syn: tee, teeing
ground]
2: support holding a football on end and above the ground
preparatory to the kickoff [syn: tee, football tee]
3: a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the
ground [syn: tee, golf tee]
v 1: place on a tee; "tee golf balls" [syn: tee, tee up]
2: connect with a tee; "tee two pipes"
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three
0
adj 1: being one more than two [syn: three, 3, iii]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
[syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce,
leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary,
ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-
ace]
2: one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn:
trey, three]
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trainee
0
n 1: someone who is being trained
-
tree
0
n 1: a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and
branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both
gymnosperms and angiosperms
2: a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical
tree" [syn: tree, tree diagram]
3: English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish
productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917) [syn: Tree, Sir
Herbert Beerbohm Tree]
v 1: force a person or an animal into a position from which he
cannot escape [syn: corner, tree]
2: plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house
will be shaded in summer"
3: chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with
dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"
4: stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree [syn: tree, shoetree]
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trustee
0
n 1: a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property
is entrusted to use for another's benefit [syn: trustee,
legal guardian]
2: members of a governing board [syn: regent, trustee]
-
undersea
0
adj 1: beneath the surface of the sea [syn: submarine,
undersea]
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vendee
0
n 1: a person who buys [syn: buyer, purchaser, emptor,
vendee]
-
vi
0
adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
[syn: six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn:
six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a
dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad]
2: more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent
territory of the United States [syn: United States Virgin
Islands, American Virgin Islands, VI]
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wavy
0
adj 1: (of hair) having waves; "she had long wavy hair"
2: uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves [syn:
crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy, wavelike]
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wee
0
adj 1: (used informally) very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty,
bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny,
weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty,
itsy-bitsy]
2: very early; "the wee hours of the morning"
n 1: a short time; "bide a wee"
v 1: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive
rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle,
micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water,
relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee,
wee-wee, pass water]
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whoopee
0
n 1: noisy and boisterous revelry
-
xi
0
adj 1: being one more than ten [syn: eleven, 11, xi]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one [syn:
eleven, 11, XI]
2: the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet
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zee
0
n 1: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z
zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee";
"he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee,
zed, ezed, izzard]
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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
-
lp
0
n 1: a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at
33.3 rpm [syn: LP, L-P]
-
mc
0
n 1: one million periods per second [syn: megahertz, MHz,
megacycle per second, megacycle, Mc]
-
pawnee
0
n 1: a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska
and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma
2: the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee
-
pc
0
n 1: a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and
designed to be used by one person at a time [syn: personal
computer, PC, microcomputer]
-
tv
0
n 1: broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects;
"she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a
medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie
Kovacs [syn: television, telecasting, TV, video]
2: an electronic device that receives television signals and
displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a
telly" [syn: television receiver, television, television
set, tv, tv set, idiot box, boob tube, telly,
goggle box]
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yangtze
0
n 1: the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into
the East China Sea near Shanghai [syn: Chang Jiang,
Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River, Yangtze
Kiang]
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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]
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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]
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leigh
0
n 1: English film actress (1913-1967) [syn: Leigh, Vivien
Leigh]
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li
0
adj 1: being one more than fifty [syn: fifty-one, 51, li]
n 1: a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal
group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals
[syn: lithium, Li, atomic number 3]
2: Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers
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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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mt
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n 1: a radioactive transuranic element [syn: meitnerium, Mt,
element 109, atomic number 109]
2: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric
ton, MT, tonne, t]
3: a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border
[syn: Montana, Treasure State, MT]
4: the use of computers to translate from one language to
another [syn: machine translation, MT]
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ne
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n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow
in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in
the air in small amounts [syn: neon, Ne, atomic number
10]
2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45
degrees [syn: northeast, nor'-east, northeastward,
NE]
3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: Nebraska,
Cornhusker State, NE]
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ngwee
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n 1: 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha in Zambia
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ni
0
n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is
resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in
pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn:
nickel, Ni, atomic number 28]
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p
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n 1: a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family
that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as
organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive
and occurs in several allotropic forms [syn: phosphorus,
P, atomic number 15]
2: the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: P, p]
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qi
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n 1: the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is
thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional
Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms
in the body is believed to be essential for good health
[syn: qi, chi, ch'i, ki]
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sep
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n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn:
September, Sep, Sept]
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si
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n 1: a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the
most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay
and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a
semiconductor in transistors [syn: silicon, Si, atomic
number 14]
2: a complete metric system of units of measurement for
scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and
mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current
(ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole)
and luminous intensity (candela); "Today the United States is
the only country in the world not totally committed to the
Systeme International d'Unites" [syn: Systeme International
d'Unites, Systeme International, SI system, SI, SI
unit, International System of Units, International
System]
3: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any
musical scale in solmization [syn: ti, te, si]
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t
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n 1: a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from
pyrimidine; pairs with adenine [syn: thymine, T]
2: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxythymidine monophosphate, T]
3: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric
ton, MT, tonne, t]
4: the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: T, t]
5: thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine
atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts
the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent
and briefer [syn: triiodothyronine, liothyronine, T]
6: hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism
by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is
65% iodine" [syn: thyroxine, thyroxin,
tetraiodothyronine, T]
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te
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n 1: a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to
selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a
semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of
copper and nickel and silver and gold [syn: tellurium,
Te, atomic number 52]
2: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any
musical scale in solmization [syn: ti, te, si]
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ti
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n 1: a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic
element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane
parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite [syn:
titanium, Ti, atomic number 22]
2: shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally
for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as
food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii [syn:
ti, Cordyline terminalis]
3: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any
musical scale in solmization [syn: ti, te, si]
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v
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adj 1: being one more than four [syn: five, 5, v]
n 1: a unit of potential equal to the potential difference
between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1
ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is
1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a
resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through
it [syn: volt, V]
2: a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel
alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including
carnotite and vanadinite [syn: vanadium, V, atomic
number 23]
3: 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]
4: the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: V, v]
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yi
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n 1: a Loloish language [syn: Lolo, Yi]
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z
0
n 1: the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the
Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--
Revelation [syn: omega, Z]
2: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z
zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee";
"he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee, zed,
ezed, izzard]
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zea
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n 1: corn [syn: Zea, genus Zea]
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agee
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n 1: United States novelist (1909-1955) [syn: Agee, James
Agee]
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albee
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n 1: United States dramatist (1928-) [syn: Albee, Edward
Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen]
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capri
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n 1: an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in
southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful
scenery
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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]
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ranee
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n 1: (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a
raja [syn: rani, ranee]
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rb
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n 1: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group;
burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in
carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite [syn: rubidium,
Rb, atomic number 37]
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se
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n 1: a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and
tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable
grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the
light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in
sulfide ores (as pyrite) [syn: selenium, Se, atomic
number 34]
2: the compass point midway between south and east; at 135
degrees [syn: southeast, sou'-east, southeastward,
SE]
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tb
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n 1: a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers;
occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
[syn: terbium, Tb, atomic number 65]
2: infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle
bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in
the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute
stages) [syn: tuberculosis, TB, T.B.]
3: a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12
(1,000,000,000,000) bits [syn: terabit, Tbit, Tb]
4: a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12
(1,000,000,000,000) bytes [syn: terabyte, TB]
5: a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40
(1,099,511,627,776) bytes [syn: terabyte, tebibyte, TB,
TiB]
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ddt
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n 1: an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans;
banned in the United States since 1972 [syn:
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, DDT]
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lsd
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n 1: a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic
acid [syn: lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD]
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mit
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n 1: an engineering university in Cambridge [syn: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, MIT]
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olea
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n 1: evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
[syn: Olea, genus Olea]