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circumcision
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n 1: (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day
celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on
January 1st [syn: Circumcision, Feast of the
Circumcision, January 1]
2: the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after
birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite
3: the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of
males
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collision
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n 1: (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come
together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an
exchange of energy and a change of direction" [syn:
collision, hit]
2: an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object;
"three passengers were killed in the collision"; "the
collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill"
3: a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a
collision of interests"
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concision
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n 1: terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by
expressing a great deal in just a few words [syn:
conciseness, concision, pithiness, succinctness]
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decision
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n 1: the act of making up your mind about something; "the burden
of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly"
[syn: decision, determination, conclusion]
2: a position or opinion or judgment reached after
consideration; "a decision unfavorable to the opposition";
"his conclusion took the evidence into account"; "satisfied
with the panel's determination" [syn: decision,
determination, conclusion]
3: (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has
occurred; "had little trouble in taking a unanimous decision
over his opponent"
4: the outcome of a game or contest; "the team dropped three
decisions in a row"
5: the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of
character or purpose; "a man of unusual decisiveness" [syn:
decisiveness, decision] [ant: indecision,
indecisiveness]
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derision
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n 1: contemptuous laughter
2: the act of deriding or treating with contempt [syn:
derision, ridicule]
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division
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n 1: an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry
divisions were held in reserve"
2: one of the portions into which something is regarded as
divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written
part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the
BBC's engineering division" [syn: part, section,
division]
3: the act or process of dividing
4: an administrative unit in government or business
5: discord that splits a group [syn: division, variance]
6: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D
for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
[syn: class, division]
7: (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a
larger category
8: (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
9: a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two
or more wings [syn: division, air division]
10: a group of ships of similar type [syn: division, naval
division]
11: an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of
multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
12: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the
creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn:
division, partition, partitioning, segmentation,
sectionalization, sectionalisation]
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envision
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v 1: 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]
2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him
as President" [syn: envision, foresee]
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excision
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n 1: the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens
a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset
young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the
proposed clause" [syn: deletion, excision, cut]
2: surgical removal of a body part or tissue [syn: ablation,
extirpation, cutting out, excision]
3: the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion
of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a
person off from a religious society [syn: excommunication,
excision]
4: the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from
existence [syn: extirpation, excision, deracination]
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incision
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n 1: a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn:
incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent]
2: the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by
a surgeon as part of an operation) [syn: incision,
section, surgical incision]
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indecision
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n 1: doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or
courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but
the opportunity was lost" [syn: indecision,
indecisiveness, irresolution]
2: the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or
purpose; "the king's incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil
in his court" [syn: indecisiveness, indecision] [ant:
decision, decisiveness]
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precision
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n 1: the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance;
"he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton"; "note
the meticulous precision of his measurements" [syn:
preciseness, precision] [ant: impreciseness,
imprecision]
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profusion
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n 1: the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of
detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" [syn:
profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia]
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prolusion
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n 1: a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book
[syn: foreword, preface, prolusion]
2: exercising in preparation for strenuous activity [syn: warm-
up, tune-up, prolusion]
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protrusion
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n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects
from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an
obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the
rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well
developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn:
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity,
gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance,
protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion,
projection, jut, jutting]
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provision
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n 1: a stipulated condition; "he accepted subject to one
provision" [syn: provision, proviso]
2: the activity of supplying or providing something [syn:
provision, supply, supplying]
3: the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in
the event of something happening; "his planning for
retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" [syn:
planning, preparation, provision]
4: a store or supply of something (especially of food or
clothing or arms)
v 1: supply with provisions [syn: provision, purvey]
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rescission
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n 1: (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract
and the return of the parties to the positions they would
have had if the contract had not been made; "recission may
be brought about by decree or by mutual consent" [syn:
recission, rescission]
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revision
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n 1: the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration
and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of
his opinion" [syn: revision, alteration]
2: the act of rewriting something [syn: revision, revisal,
revise, rescript]
3: something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much
better" [syn: rewrite, revision, rescript]
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scission
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n 1: the act of dividing by cutting or splitting
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subdivision
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n 1: an area composed of subdivided lots
2: the act of subdividing; division of something previously
divided
3: a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a
branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the
Germanic branch of Indo-European languages" [syn: branch,
subdivision, arm]
4: a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or
musical); "he always turns first to the business section";
"the history of this work is discussed in the next section"
[syn: section, subdivision]
5: a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of
something already divided [syn: subsection, subdivision]
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submersion
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n 1: sinking until covered completely with water [syn:
submergence, submerging, submersion, immersion]
2: the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn:
submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing]
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suffusion
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n 1: the process of permeating or infusing something with a
substance [syn: permeation, pervasion, suffusion]
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supervision
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n 1: management by overseeing the performance or operation of a
person or group [syn: supervision, supervising,
superintendence, oversight]
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television
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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: a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects
(stationary or moving) between distant points [syn:
television, television system]
3: 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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transfusion
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n 1: the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or
artery [syn: transfusion, blood transfusion]
2: the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another
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vision
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n 1: a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death"
2: the ability to see; the visual faculty [syn: sight,
vision, visual sense, visual modality]
3: the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged
from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual
sensation of intense light" [syn: vision, visual
sensation]
4: the formation of a mental image of something that is not
perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular
imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals
what the world could be" [syn: imagination,
imaginativeness, vision]
5: a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural
appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"
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tv
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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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parisian
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Paris or its
inhabitants; "Parisian restaurants can be expensive"
n 1: a native or resident of Paris
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misprision
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reclusion
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divison
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recision
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