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bagatelle
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n 1: a light piece of music for piano
2: something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle,
fluff, frippery, frivolity]
3: a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into
holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred
if the pegs are knocked over [syn: bagatelle, bar
billiards]
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bell
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n 1: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound
when struck
2: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or
buzzing signal when pushed [syn: doorbell, bell,
buzzer]
3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she
heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll]
4: (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time
signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals
4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. [syn:
bell, ship's bell]
5: the shape of a bell [syn: bell, bell shape, campana]
6: a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905)
[syn: Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell]
7: English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member
of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) [syn: Bell, Vanessa
Bell, Vanessa Stephen]
8: United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone
(1847-1922) [syn: Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham
Bell]
9: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells
that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral
instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong]
10: the flared opening of a tubular device
v 1: attach a bell to; "bell cows"
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belle
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n 1: a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of
several rivals; "she was the belle of the ball"
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cartel
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n 1: a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit
competition by controlling the production and distribution
of a product or service; "they set up the trust in the hope
of gaining a monopoly" [syn: trust, corporate trust,
combine, cartel]
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cell
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n 1: any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
2: (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all
organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in
monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants
and animals
3: a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a
chemical reaction [syn: cell, electric cell]
4: a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger
political movement [syn: cell, cadre]
5: a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided
into small sections, each with its own short-range
transmitter/receiver [syn: cellular telephone, cellular
phone, cellphone, cell, mobile phone]
6: small room in which a monk or nun lives [syn: cell,
cubicle]
7: a room where a prisoner is kept [syn: cell, jail cell,
prison cell]
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clientele
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n 1: customers collectively; "they have an upper class
clientele" [syn: clientele, patronage, business]
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compel
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v 1: force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to
fill out this form" [syn: compel, oblige, obligate]
2: necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels
conservation"
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foretell
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v 1: foreshadow or presage [syn: announce, annunciate,
harbinger, foretell, herald]
2: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome
of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate,
call, forebode, anticipate, promise]
3: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode,
portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage,
betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure,
forecast, predict]
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hotel
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n 1: a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals
and other services
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motel
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n 1: a motor hotel
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muscatel
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n 1: wine from muscat grapes [syn: muscat, muscatel,
muscadel, muscadelle]
2: sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine [syn:
muscat, muscatel, muscat grape]
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retell
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v 1: render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" [syn:
recite, retell]
2: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his
parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize,
fictionalise, retell]
3: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her
request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate,
iterate, restate, retell]
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cattell
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n 1: American psychologist (born in England) who developed a
broad theory of human behavior based on multivariate
research (1905-1998) [syn: Cattell, Ray Cattell, R. B.
Cattell, Raymond B. Cattell, Raymond Bernard Cattell]
2: American psychologist and editor (1860-1944) [syn: Cattell,
James McKeen Cattell]
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cavell
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n 1: English nurse who remained in Brussels after the German
occupation in order to help Allied prisoners escape; was
caught and executed by the Germans (1865-1915) [syn:
Cavell, Edith Cavell, Edith Louisa Cavell]
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cornell
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n 1: United States actress noted for her performances in
Broadway plays (1893-1974) [syn: Cornell, Katherine
Cornell]
2: United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in
the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White)
founded Cornell University (1807-1874) [syn: Cornell, Ezra
Cornell]
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befell
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boatel
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brocatelle
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cel
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chell
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clell
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beutel
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bozell
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capelle
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carel
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carmel
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caudell
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chanel
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chapell
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chapelle
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cornelle
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cosell
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danelle
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daniele
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estelle
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patel
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artel
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oftel
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brocatel
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moschatel
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