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can
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n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint
etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can]
2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful]
3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can
buoy]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn:
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy,
bathroom]
v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"
[syn: can, tin, put up]
2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or
position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company
terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire,
give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away,
sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant:
employ, engage, hire]
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catholicon
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n 1: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought
by the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon,
cure-all]
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con
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adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was
written pro and con" [ant: pro]
n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro]
2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn:
convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird]
3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person
to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game,
bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence
game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]
v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your
lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con,
learn]
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gherkin
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n 1: any of various small cucumbers pickled whole
2: small prickly cucumber
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icon
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n 1: (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple
picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file
or a concept in a graphical user interface
2: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or
abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the
pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images
projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn:
picture, image, icon, ikon]
3: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden
panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: icon, ikon]
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zircon
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n 1: a common mineral occurring in small crystals; chief source
of zirconium; used as a refractory when opaque and as a gem
when transparent [syn: zircon, zirconium silicate]
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conn
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v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
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anne
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n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if
James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she
was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over
parliament (1665-1714)
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yukon
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n 1: a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon
Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea [syn:
Yukon, Yukon River]
2: a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold
rush in the 1890s [syn: Yukon, Yukon Territory]
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rubicon
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n 1: the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul;
Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of
war
2: a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically
results in irrevocable commitment [syn: Rubicon, point of
no return]
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ikon
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n 1: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or
abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the
pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images
projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn:
picture, image, icon, ikon]
2: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden
panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: icon, ikon]
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racon
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n 1: a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded
signals in response to help navigators determine their
position [syn: radar beacon, racon]
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ancon
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archon
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chaconne
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stereopticon
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caan
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caen
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mascon
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comecon
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eirenicon
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berken
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churkin
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