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acquit
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v 1: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was
cleared of the murder charges" [syn: acquit, assoil,
clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate] [ant:
convict]
2: behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he
bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well
during these difficult times" [syn: behave, acquit,
bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry]
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admit
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v 1: declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or
truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that
she might have forgotten" [syn: admit, acknowledge]
[ant: deny]
2: allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members
into our club building"; "This pipe admits air" [syn:
admit, allow in, let in, intromit] [ant: refuse,
reject, turn away, turn down]
3: allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to
exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of;
"admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the
New Jersey Bar" [syn: admit, let in, include] [ant:
exclude, keep out, shut, shut out]
4: admit into a group or community; "accept students for
graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to
admit a new member" [syn: accept, admit, take, take
on]
5: afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution";
"This short story allows of several different
interpretations" [syn: admit, allow]
6: give access or entrance to; "The French doors admit onto the
yard"
7: have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can
accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people";
"The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" [syn:
accommodate, hold, admit]
8: serve as a means of entrance; "This ticket will admit one
adult to the show"
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associate
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adj 1: having partial rights and privileges or subordinate
status; "an associate member"; "an associate professor"
n 1: a person who joins with others in some activity or
endeavor; "he had to consult his associate before
continuing"
2: a friend who is frequently in the company of another;
"drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion,
comrade, fellow, familiar, associate]
3: a person with subordinate membership in a society,
institution, or commercial enterprise; "associates in the law
firm bill at a lower rate than do partners"
4: any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected
with another; "first was the lightning and then its
thunderous associate"
5: a degree granted by a two-year college on successful
completion of the undergraduates course of studies [syn:
associate degree, associate]
v 1: make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect
these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these
facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn:
associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link
up, connect] [ant: decouple, dissociate]
2: keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange
people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues" [syn:
consort, associate, affiliate, assort]
3: bring or come into association or action; "The churches
consociated to fight their dissolution" [syn: consociate,
associate]
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befit
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v 1: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not
suit a young woman!" [syn: befit, suit, beseem]
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chit
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n 1: a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks
respect; "she was incensed that this chit of a girl should
dare to make a fool of her in front of the class"; "she's a
saucy chit"
2: the bill in a restaurant; "he asked the waiter for the check"
[syn: check, chit, tab]
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commit
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v 1: perform an act, usually with a negative connotation;
"perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery" [syn:
perpetrate, commit, pull]
2: give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She
committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to
a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn:
give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote]
3: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After
the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was
committed to prison" [syn: commit, institutionalize,
institutionalise, send, charge]
4: confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the
general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: entrust,
intrust, trust, confide, commit]
5: make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: invest,
put, commit, place] [ant: disinvest, divest]
6: engage in or perform; "practice safe sex"; "commit a random
act of kindness" [syn: commit, practice]
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crotchet
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n 1: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn:
hook, crotchet]
2: a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole
note [syn: quarter note, crotchet]
3: a strange attitude or habit [syn: oddity, queerness,
quirk, quirkiness, crotchet]
4: a small tool or hooklike implement
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emit
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v 1: expel (gases or odors) [syn: emit, breathe, pass off]
2: give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or
radiation, vapor, etc.; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful
rays which the sun emits" [syn: emit, give out, give
off] [ant: absorb, take in]
3: express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She
let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that
nobody could understand" [syn: utter, emit, let out,
let loose]
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flit
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n 1: a sudden quick movement [syn: flit, dart]
2: a secret move (to avoid paying debts); "they did a moonlight
flit"
v 1: move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The
hummingbird flitted among the branches" [syn: flit,
flutter, fleet, dart]
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freshet
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n 1: the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain
or melting snow [syn: freshet, spate]
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grit
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n 1: a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone [syn: grit,
gritrock, gritstone]
2: fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try
it" [syn: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand,
gumption]
v 1: cover with a grit; "grit roads"
2: clench together; "grit one's teeth"
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it
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n 1: the branch of engineering that deals with the use of
computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and
transmit information [syn: information technology, IT]
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latchet
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n 1: a leather strap or thong used to attach a sandal or shoe to
the foot
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lit
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adj 1: provided with artificial light; "illuminated
advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a
brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn:
illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted]
2: set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted
cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" [syn: lighted, lit] [ant:
unlighted, unlit]
n 1: the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a
course in Russian lit" [syn: literature, lit]
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omit
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v 1: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The
bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the
top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave
off, omit, take out] [ant: include]
2: leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?";
"The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten" [syn:
neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out,
overlook, overleap] [ant: attend to, take to heart]
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permit
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n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something
[syn: license, licence, permit]
2: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization
[syn: license, permission, permit]
3: large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies [syn:
permit, Trachinotus falcatus]
v 1: consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to
visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police
search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
[syn: permit, allow, let, countenance] [ant:
disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit,
proscribe, veto]
2: make it possible through a specific action or lack of action
for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in";
"This sealed door won't allow the water come into the
basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn:
let, allow, permit] [ant: keep, prevent]
3: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing
or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not
permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in
the hospital" [syn: allow, permit, tolerate]
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quit
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v 1: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your
little brother" [syn: discontinue, stop, cease, give
up, quit, lay off] [ant: bear on, carry on,
continue, preserve, uphold]
2: give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy
will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over
the financial scandal" [syn: leave office, quit, step
down, resign] [ant: take office]
3: go away or leave [syn: depart, take leave, quit] [ant:
stay]
4: turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
[syn: foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish]
5: give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat;
"In the second round, the challenger gave up" [syn: drop
out, give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the
wayside, throw in, throw in the towel, quit, chuck up
the sponge] [ant: enter, participate]
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recommit
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v 1: commit once again, as of a crime
2: commit again; "It was recommitted into her custody"
3: send back to a committee; "The bill was recommitted three
times in the House"
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refit
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n 1: outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts)
v 1: fit out again
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remit
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n 1: the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is
expected to deal with or has authority to deal with; "they
set up a group with a remit to suggest ways for
strengthening family life"
2: (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law
case to another court) [syn: remission, remitment,
remit]
v 1: send (money) in payment; "remit $25"
2: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn:
postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table,
shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off]
3: release from (claims, debts, or taxes); "The taxes were
remitted"
4: refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or
authority or court for decision [syn: remit, remand,
send back]
5: forgive; "God will remit their sins"
6: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn:
slacken, remit]
7: diminish or abate; "The pain finally remitted"
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shit
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n 1: obscene terms for feces [syn: crap, dirt, shit,
shite, poop, turd]
2: obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot
of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
[syn: bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit,
crap, dogshit]
3: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: jack,
doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit,
diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit]
4: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: shit,
dump]
5: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or
irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole, bastard,
cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker,
motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB]
6: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn";
"not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn,
darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's
damn, tinker's dam]
v 1: 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]
2: have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
[syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a
crap, ca-ca, crap, make]
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skit
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n 1: a short theatrical episode
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slit
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n 1: a long narrow opening
2: obscene terms for female genitals [syn: cunt, puss,
pussy, slit, snatch, twat]
3: a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn:
incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent]
4: a narrow fissure
v 1: make a clean cut through; "slit her throat" [syn: slit,
slice]
2: cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the victim"
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spit
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n 1: a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea [syn:
spit, tongue]
2: a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands
and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts
the digestion of starches [syn: saliva, spit, spittle]
3: a skewer for holding meat over a fire
4: the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) [syn:
spit, spitting, expectoration]
v 1: expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth;
"The father of the victim spat at the alleged murderer"
[syn: spit, ptyalize, ptyalise, spew, spue]
2: utter with anger or contempt [syn: spit, spit out]
3: rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick"
[syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-
patter]
4: drive a skewer through; "skewer the meat for the BBQ" [syn:
skewer, spit]
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split
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adj 1: having been divided; having the unity destroyed;
"Congress...gave the impression of...a confusing sum of
disconnected local forces"-Samuel Lubell; "a league of
disunited nations"- E.B.White; "a fragmented coalition";
"a split group" [syn: disconnected, disunited,
fragmented, split]
2: (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the
grain; "we bought split logs for the fireplace"
n 1: extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in
front and the other in back)
2: a bottle containing half the usual amount
3: a promised or claimed share of loot or money; "he demanded
his split before they disbanded"
4: a lengthwise crack in wood; "he inserted the wedge into a
split in the log"
5: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a
rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn:
rip, rent, snag, split, tear]
6: an old Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea
7: a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped
cream and cherries and nuts
8: (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing
after the first bowl; "he was winning until he got a split in
the tenth frame"
9: an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a
corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; "they
announced a two-for-one split of the common stock" [syn:
split, stock split, split up]
10: the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he
gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip,
split]
11: division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism
like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy" [syn:
schism, split]
v 1: separate into parts or portions; "divide the cake into
three equal parts"; "The British carved up the Ottoman
Empire after World War I" [syn: divide, split, split
up, separate, dissever, carve up] [ant: unify,
unite]
2: separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument;
"cleave the bone" [syn: cleave, split, rive]
3: discontinue an association or relation; go different ways;
"The business partners broke over a tax question"; "The
couple separated after 25 years of marriage"; "My friend and
I split up" [syn: separate, part, split up, split,
break, break up]
4: go one's own way; move apart; "The friends separated after
the party" [syn: separate, part, split]
5: come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal
pressure; "The bubble burst" [syn: burst, split, break
open]
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sprit
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n 1: a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally
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submit
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v 1: refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted
the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject]
2: put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
[syn: submit, state, put forward, posit]
3: yield to the control of another
4: hand over formally [syn: present, submit]
5: refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes
to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn:
relegate, pass on, submit]
6: yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to
the military pressure" [syn: submit, bow, defer,
accede, give in]
7: accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"
[syn: take, submit]
8: make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a
grant to the NSF" [syn: put in, submit]
9: make over as a return; "They had to render the estate" [syn:
render, submit]
10: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
[syn: resign, reconcile, submit]
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transmit
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v 1: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn:
convey, transmit, communicate]
2: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound
carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound";
"Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct,
transmit, convey, carry, channel]
3: broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We
cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send,
broadcast, beam, transmit]
4: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport,
channel, channelize, channelise]
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unfit
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adj 1: below the required standards for a purpose; "an unfit
parent"; "unfit for human consumption" [ant: fit]
2: not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition;
"fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service";
"drunk and unfit for service" [ant: fit]
3: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad
heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth" [syn:
bad, unfit, unsound]
v 1: make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you"
[syn: disqualify, unfit, indispose] [ant: dispose,
qualify]
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brit
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n 1: a native or inhabitant of Great Britain [syn: Britisher,
Briton, Brit]
2: the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish [syn: brit,
britt]
3: minute crustaceans forming food for right whales [syn:
brit, britt]
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britt
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n 1: the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish [syn:
brit, britt]
2: minute crustaceans forming food for right whales [syn:
brit, britt]
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schmidt
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n 1: German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born
in 1918) [syn: Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut
Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt]
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planchet
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n 1: a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin [syn:
planchet, coin blank]
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cushat
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n 1: Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck [syn:
wood pigeon, ringdove, cushat, Columba palumbus]
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cit
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barritt
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boblitt
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burditt
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ashet
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pritchett
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rochet
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wishart
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