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at
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n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the
halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
[syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85]
2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
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bat
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n 1: nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form
membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for
echolocation by which they navigate [syn: bat,
chiropteran]
2: (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it
happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" [syn: bat,
at-bat]
3: a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
[syn: squash racket, squash racquet, bat]
4: the club used in playing cricket; "a cricket bat has a narrow
handle and a broad flat end for hitting" [syn: cricket bat,
bat]
5: a club used for hitting a ball in various games
v 1: strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
2: wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids" [syn: bat, flutter]
3: have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
4: use a bat; "Who's batting?"
5: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight;
"We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat,
clobber, drub, thrash, lick]
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brat
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n 1: a very troublesome child [syn: terror, brat, little
terror, holy terror]
2: a small pork sausage [syn: bratwurst, brat]
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cat
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n 1: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability
to roar: domestic cats; wildcats [syn: cat, true cat]
2: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's
only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, cat, hombre,
bozo]
3: a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!"
4: the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like
tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric
stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
[syn: kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea,
African tea]
5: a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the
cat" [syn: cat-o'-nine-tails, cat]
6: a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless
metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction
and farm work [syn: Caterpillar, cat]
7: any of several large cats typically able to roar and living
in the wild [syn: big cat, cat]
8: a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X
rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-
sectional scans along a single axis [syn: computerized
tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial
tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT]
v 1: beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails
2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After
drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged
continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him
last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast,
sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch,
puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk,
regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
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chat
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n 1: an informal conversation [syn: chat, confab,
confabulation, schmooze, schmoose]
2: birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat,
chat]
3: songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat,
chat]
v 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the
men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn:
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate,
confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer,
natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
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combat
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n 1: an engagement fought between two military forces [syn:
combat, armed combat]
2: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke
out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets";
"the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight,
fighting, combat, scrap]
v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The
Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We
must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they
battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
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fat
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adj 1: having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered
how fat she was" [ant: lean, thin]
2: having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
3: containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue"
[syn: fatty, fat] [ant: fat-free, fatless, nonfat]
4: lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: fat,
juicy]
5: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat
land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat,
fertile, productive, rich]
n 1: a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and
consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides);
"pizza has too much fat"
2: a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a
source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital
organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
[syn: adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue]
3: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as
well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber,
avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness]
v 1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out,
plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
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flat
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adv 1: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind"
2: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't
answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for
less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight]
[ant: indirectly]
adj 1: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is
higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of
level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with
fine flat seams" [syn: flat, level, plane]
2: having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or
thickness; "flat computer monitors"
3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical
denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical,
flat, unconditional]
4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground;
"found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat,
prostrate]
5: lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty]
6: (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic
semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural, sharp]
7: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain
leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed, flat]
8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid
hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid
beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless,
flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid]
9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland
little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland, flat]
10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola"
11: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's
faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone,
monotonic, monotonous]
12: horizontally level; "a flat roof"
13: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an
illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters";
"a flat two-dimensional painting" [syn: two-dimensional,
2-dimensional, flat]
14: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat, matt,
matte, matted]
15: commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices
remained flat"; "a flat market"
n 1: a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah"
2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started
3: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the
note named
4: freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar,
flatbed, flat]
5: a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat, flat tire]
6: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted
canvas; part of a stage setting
7: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
[syn: apartment, flat]
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gat
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n 1: a gangster's pistol [syn: gat, rod]
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gnat
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n 1: any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges;
black flies; sand flies
2: (British usage) mosquito
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hat
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n 1: headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has
shaped crown and usually a brim [syn: hat, chapeau,
lid]
2: an informal term for a person's role; "he took off his
politician's hat and talked frankly"
v 1: put on or wear a hat; "He was unsuitably hatted"
2: furnish with a hat
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lat
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n 1: a broad flat muscle on either side of the back [syn:
latissimus dorsi, lat]
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mat
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adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
2: mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
[syn: mat, matting]
3: sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on
the floor for gymnastic sports [syn: mat, gym mat]
4: a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven; "a mat of weeds
and grass"
5: a master's degree in teaching [syn: Master of Arts in
Teaching, MAT]
6: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
7: a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from
an object placed on it
v 1: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child
entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat,
snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl]
2: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The
fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt
up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]
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matt
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adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
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matte
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adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a
photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat,
matt, matte, matted]
n 1: a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores
are smelted
2: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking
highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness,
lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
v 1: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The
fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt
up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]
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naught
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n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for
naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing,
nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
2: complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
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not
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adv 1: negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak
French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not
many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non]
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nought
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n 1: a mathematical element that when added to another number
yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought,
cipher, cypher]
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overwrought
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adj 1: deeply agitated especially from emotion; "distraught with
grief" [syn: distraught, overwrought]
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pat
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adv 1: completely or perfectly; "he has the lesson pat"; "had
the system down pat"
adj 1: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a
slick commercial" [syn: glib, pat, slick]
2: exactly suited to the occasion; "a pat reply"
n 1: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, rap, tap]
2: a light touch or stroke [syn: tap, pat, dab]
v 1: pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the
chin [syn: chuck, pat]
2: hit lightly; "pat him on the shoulder" [syn: dab, pat]
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pinnate
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adj 1: (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each
side of a common axis [syn: pinnate, pinnated]
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plot
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n 1: a secret scheme to do something (especially something
underhand or illegal); "they concocted a plot to discredit
the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the
start" [syn: plot, secret plan, game]
2: a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a
bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch" [syn: plot,
plot of land, plot of ground, patch]
3: the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.; "the
characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
4: a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
v 1: plan secretly, usually something illegal; "They plotted the
overthrow of the government"
2: make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows
interactions among variables or how something is constructed
[syn: diagram, plot]
3: make a plat of; "Plat the town" [syn: plat, plot]
4: devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play,
movie, or ballet); "the writer is plotting a new novel"
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pot
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n 1: metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round
and deep; often has a handle and lid
2: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn:
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty,
stool, throne]
3: the quantity contained in a pot [syn: pot, potful]
4: a container in which plants are cultivated [syn: pot,
flowerpot]
5: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money";
"he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the
winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost
plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint,
mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad]
6: the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
[syn: pot, jackpot, kitty]
7: slang for a paunch [syn: pot, potbelly, bay window,
corporation, tummy]
8: a resistor with three terminals, the third being an
adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios
and TV sets [syn: potentiometer, pot]
9: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green
goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke,
skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane]
v 1: plant in a pot; "He potted the palm"
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rat
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n 1: any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger
than a mouse
2: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn:
scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat]
3: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
"only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum
out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a
contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog,
rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke,
crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git]
4: one who reveals confidential information in return for money
[syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber]
5: a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's
coiffure
v 1: desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for
one's personal advantage
2: employ scabs or strike breakers in
3: take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: fink,
scab, rat, blackleg]
4: give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat
5: catch rats, especially with dogs
6: 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]
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rot
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n 1: a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
[syn: putrefaction, rot]
2: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal
action [syn: decomposition, rot, rotting,
putrefaction]
3: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false
statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff,
rot, hogwash]
v 1: break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn:
decompose, rot, molder, moulder]
2: become physically weaker; "Political prisoners are wasting
away in many prisons all over the world" [syn: waste,
rot]
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sat
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n 1: the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the
Sabbath by Jews and some Christians [syn: Saturday,
Sabbatum, Sat]
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scat
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n 1: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for
the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical
instrument [syn: scat, scat singing]
v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed
up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam,
run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills,
take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break
away]
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shot
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adj 1: varying in color when seen in different lights or from
different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or
shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and
iridescent" [syn: changeable, chatoyant,
iridescent, shot]
n 1: the act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but
accurate" [syn: shooting, shot]
2: a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed
past his ear" [syn: shot, pellet]
3: (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a
club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to
get out of the bunker"; "a good shot requires good balance
and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot" [syn:
stroke, shot]
4: a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion"
[syn: shot, crack]
5: a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to
shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter" [syn: shot,
shooter]
6: a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of
action in a film [syn: scene, shot]
7: the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a
syringe; "the nurse gave him a flu shot" [syn: injection,
shot]
8: a small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey" [syn:
nip, shot]
9: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and
intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was
`drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig
at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam,
dig, barb, jibe, gibe]
10: an estimate based on little or no information [syn: guess,
guesswork, guessing, shot, dead reckoning]
11: an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held
camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried
to get unposed shots of his friends" [syn: snapshot,
snap, shot]
12: sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in
the shot put; "he trained at putting the shot"
13: an explosive charge used in blasting
14: a blow hard enough to cause injury; "he is still recovering
from a shot to his leg"; "I caught him with a solid shot to
the chin"
15: an attempt to score in a game
16: informal words for any attempt or effort; "he gave it his
best shot"; "he took a stab at forecasting" [syn: shot,
stab]
17: the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified
destination [syn: blastoff, shot]
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slat
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n 1: a thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: slat, spline]
v 1: equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows"
2: close the slats of (windows)
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slot
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n 1: a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in
which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable;
"he developed a version of slot grammar"
2: a small slit (as for inserting a coin or depositing mail);
"he put a quarter in the slot"
3: a time assigned on a schedule or agenda; "the TV program has
a new time slot"; "an aircraft landing slot" [syn: time
slot, slot]
4: a position in a hierarchy or organization; "Bob Dylan
occupied the top slot for several weeks"; "she beat some
tough competition for the number one slot"
5: the trail of an animal (especially a deer); "he followed the
deer's slot over the soft turf to the edge of the trees"
6: (computer) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a
plug-in circuit board; "the PC had three slots for additional
memory" [syn: slot, expansion slot]
7: a slot machine that is used for gambling; "they spend hours
and hours just playing the slots" [syn: slot, one-armed
bandit]
v 1: assign a time slot; "slot a television program"
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snot
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n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob,
prig, snot, snoot]
2: nasal mucus
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sot
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n 1: a chronic drinker [syn: drunkard, drunk, rummy,
sot, inebriate, wino]
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sought
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adj 1: that is looked for; "the long sought relatives"
2: being searched for; "the most sought-after item was the
silver candelabrum" [syn: sought, sought-after(a)]
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spat
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n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering,
spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss]
2: a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and
ankles [syn: spat, gaiter]
3: a young oyster or other bivalve
v 1: come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on
us"
2: become permanently attached; "mollusks or oysters spat"
3: strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were
spatting the leaves"
4: clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate
approval [syn: applaud, clap, spat, acclaim] [ant:
boo, hiss]
5: engage in a brief and petty quarrel
6: spawn; "oysters spat"
7: clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the
music" [syn: clap, spat]
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spinet
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n 1: a small and compactly built upright piano
2: early model harpsichord with only one string per note
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splat
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n 1: a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor"
2: a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair
v 1: give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
2: split open and flatten for cooking; "splat fish over an open
fire"
3: flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"
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spot
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n 1: a point located with respect to surface features of some
region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot
on a planet" [syn: topographic point, place, spot]
2: a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv
programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
3: an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the
high points of the movie" [syn: point, spot]
4: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn:
smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]
5: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a
leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice";
"a fleck of red" [syn: spot, speckle, dapple, patch,
fleck, maculation]
6: a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific
performer or performance; "they changed his spot on the
program"
7: a business establishment for entertainment; "night spot"
8: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the
treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office,
spot, billet, place, situation]
9: a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism"
[syn: touch, spot]
10: a small piece or quantity of something; "a spot of tea"; "a
bit of paper"; "a bit of lint"; "I gave him a bit of my
mind" [syn: spot, bit]
11: a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the
suit) [syn: spot, pip]
12: a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a
restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage
performer [syn: spotlight, spot]
13: a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to
indicate its value; "an eight-spot"
14: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he
made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear,
smirch, spot, stain]
v 1: catch sight of [syn: descry, spot, espy, spy]
2: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out
of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make
out the faces in this photograph" [syn: spot, recognize,
recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make
out, tell apart]
3: mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished" [syn:
blemish, spot]
4: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
[syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]
5: become spotted; "This dress spots quickly"
6: mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition;
"spot the areas that one should clearly identify"
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sprat
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n 1: small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like
sardines [syn: sprat, brisling]
2: small herring processed like a sardine [syn: brisling,
sprat, Clupea sprattus]
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squat
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adj 1: short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy
musculature; "some people seem born to be square and
chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman";
"dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a
little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red
smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure" [syn: chunky,
dumpy, low-set, squat, squatty, stumpy]
2: having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground [syn:
squat, underslung]
n 1: exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with
the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles [syn: knee
bend, squat, squatting]
2: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: jack,
doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit,
diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit]
3: the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with
the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels [syn: squat,
squatting]
v 1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth
while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect
themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, crouch,
scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]
2: be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The
building squatted low"
3: occupy (a dwelling) illegally
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swat
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n 1: a sharp blow
v 1: hit swiftly with a violent blow; "Swat flies"
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tat
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n 1: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn:
cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze]
2: a projective technique using black-and-white pictures;
subjects tell a story about each picture [syn: Thematic
Apperception Test, TAT]
v 1: make lacework by knotting or looping [syn: tat,
intertwine]
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taut
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adj 1: pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead";
"a tight rope" [syn: taut, tight]
2: subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his
face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the
strings of a bow"
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thought
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n 1: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking
about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered
my mind" [syn: idea, thought]
2: the process of using your mind to consider something
carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for
thought" [syn: thinking, thought, thought process,
cerebration, intellection, mentation]
3: the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual;
"19th century thought"; "Darwinian thought"
4: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or
certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your
persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn:
opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought]
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tot
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n 1: a small amount (especially of a drink); "a tot of rum"
2: a young child [syn: toddler, yearling, tot, bambino]
v 1: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot
up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add
together, tally, add up]
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trot
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n 1: a slow pace of running [syn: jog, trot, lope]
2: radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be
established throughout the world by continuing revolution
[syn: Trotskyite, Trotskyist, Trot]
3: a literal translation used in studying a foreign language
(often used illicitly) [syn: pony, trot, crib]
4: a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike
the ground together
v 1: run at a moderately swift pace [syn: trot, jog, clip]
2: ride at a trot
3: cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home"
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vat
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n 1: a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price
before taxes and its cost of production [syn: VAT,
value-added tax, ad valorem tax]
2: a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [syn:
tub, vat]
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watt
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n 1: a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power
dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a
resistance of 1 ohm [syn: watt, W]
2: Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the
steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819)
[syn: Watt, James Watt]
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wrought
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adj 1: shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a
pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped handgrip";
"the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet"
[syn: shaped, molded, wrought]
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yacht
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n 1: an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for
cruising or racing [syn: yacht, racing yacht]
v 1: travel in a yacht
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scot
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n 1: a native or inhabitant of Scotland [syn: Scot,
Scotsman, Scotchman]
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scott
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n 1: award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999) [syn:
Scott, George C. Scott]
2: English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month
after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey
(1868-1912) [syn: Scott, Robert Scott, Robert Falcon
Scott]
3: United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and
who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866) [syn:
Scott, Winfield Scott]
4: British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
[syn: Scott, Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott]
5: United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a
non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the
Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858) [syn:
Scott, Dred Scott]
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sadat
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n 1: Egyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a
peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of
Israel) (1918-1981) [syn: Sadat, Anwar Sadat, Anwar
el-Sadat]
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montserrat
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n 1: a volcanic island in the Caribbean; in the West Indies
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gatt
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n 1: a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty
to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import
quotas [syn: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade,
GATT]
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nonfat
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adj 1: without fat or fat solids; "nonfat or fat-free milk"
[syn: nonfat, fat-free, fatless] [ant: fat,
fatty]
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