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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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algae
0
n 1: primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic
organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves [syn:
alga, algae]
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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]
-
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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fee
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n 1: a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
2: an interest in land capable of being inherited
v 1: give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond
the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter";
"fee the steward" [syn: tip, fee, bung]
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flea
0
n 1: any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for
ability to leap
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flee
0
v 1: run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" [syn:
flee, fly, take flight]
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free
0
adv 1: without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"
[syn: loose, free]
adj 1: able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion
or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free
country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of
racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free
choice" [ant: unfree]
2: unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not
fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free
expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" [ant: bound]
3: costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
[syn: complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p),
gratuitous]
4: not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane"
5: not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him";
"he pulled his arm free and ran" [syn: detached, free]
6: not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free
man" [ant: unfree]
7: not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between
classes"; "spare time on my hands" [syn: spare, free]
8: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
"young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn:
barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent]
9: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been
told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free,
loose, liberal]
n 1: people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"
[syn: free, free people]
v 1: grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free,
liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose]
[ant: confine, detain]
2: relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" [syn: rid, free,
disembarrass]
3: remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged
the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He
finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was
buried in the rubble" [syn: dislodge, free] [ant:
deposit, lodge, stick, wedge]
4: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;
"She exempted me from the exam" [syn: exempt, relieve,
free] [ant: apply, enforce, implement]
5: make (information) available for publication; "release the
list with the names of the prisoners" [syn: free,
release]
6: free from obligations or duties [syn: free, discharge]
7: free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the
cluttered floor" [syn: free, disengage] [ant: block,
close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate,
occlude]
8: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"
[syn: absolve, justify, free] [ant: blame, fault]
9: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my
bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the
throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign, free,
give up]
10: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction
or physical decomposition [syn: release, free,
liberate]
11: make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the
dictator's bank account" [syn: unblock, unfreeze,
free, release] [ant: block, freeze, immobilise,
immobilize]
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gee
0
n 1: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used
to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it
is accelerated [syn: g, gee, g-force]
v 1: turn to the right side; "the horse geed"
2: give a command to a horse to turn to the right side
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glee
0
n 1: great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness,
glee, gleefulness]
2: malicious satisfaction [syn: gloat, gloating, glee]
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he
0
n 1: a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert
gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in
economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases
(as those found in Texas and Kansas) [syn: helium, He,
atomic number 2]
2: the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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id
0
n 1: a state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: Idaho, Gem State,
ID]
2: a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show
your ID in order to get in" [syn: ID, I.D.]
3: (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying
all psychic activity
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interviewee
0
n 1: a person who is interviewed
-
knee
0
n 1: hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and
fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
[syn: knee, knee joint, human knee, articulatio
genus, genu]
2: joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds
to the human knee [syn: stifle, knee]
3: the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering
for the knee
-
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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marquee
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n 1: large and often sumptuous tent [syn: pavilion, marquee]
2: permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. [syn:
marquee, marquise]
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marquis
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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]
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me
0
n 1: a state in New England [syn: Maine, Pine Tree State,
ME]
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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
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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]
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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
-
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
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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
-
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
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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
-
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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thuggee
0
n 1: murder and robbery by thugs
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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]
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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]
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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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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
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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
-
mc
0
n 1: one million periods per second [syn: megahertz, MHz,
megacycle per second, megacycle, Mc]
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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
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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]
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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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e
0
n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal
reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes
free radicals in the body [syn: vitamin E, tocopherol,
E]
2: a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding
plutonium with neutrons [syn: einsteinium, Es, E,
atomic number 99]
3: the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees [syn:
east, due east, eastward, E]
4: the base of the natural system of logarithms; approximately
equal to 2.718282...
5: the 5th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: E, e]
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g
0
n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a
kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g]
2: a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine [syn:
guanine, G]
3: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxyguanosine monophosphate, G]
4: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn:
thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G,
grand, thou, yard]
5: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used
to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is
accelerated [syn: g, gee, g-force]
6: a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9
(1,000,000,000) bytes [syn: gigabyte, G, GB]
7: a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30
(1,073,741,824) bytes [syn: gigabyte, gibibyte, G,
GB, GiB]
8: (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and
distance in Newton's law of gravitation [syn: gravitational
constant, universal gravitational constant, constant of
gravitation, G]
9: the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: G, g]
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leigh
0
n 1: English film actress (1913-1967) [syn: Leigh, Vivien
Leigh]
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mi
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn:
September, Sep, Sept]
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si
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
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
0
n 1: corn [syn: Zea, genus Zea]
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agee
0
n 1: United States novelist (1909-1955) [syn: Agee, James
Agee]
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albee
0
n 1: United States dramatist (1928-) [syn: Albee, Edward
Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen]
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capri
0
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]