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ain
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adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person
(especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for
your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own
clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain]
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ban
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n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition,
ban, proscription]
2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn:
ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]
5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in
Nursing, BAN]
v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
[syn: ban, censor]
2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure;
"Smoking is banned in this building"
3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn:
banish, ban]
4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban,
ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
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bang
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adv 1: directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into
her" [syn: bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt]
n 1: a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a
bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head" [syn:
knock, bash, bang, smash, belt]
2: a sudden very loud noise [syn: bang, clap, eruption,
blast, bam]
3: a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the
forehead [syn: bang, fringe]
4: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a
great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush
from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang,
boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick]
5: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and
marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show
is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" [syn: hit,
smash, smasher, strike, bang]
v 1: strike violently; "slam the ball" [syn: slam, bang]
2: to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive
sound; "One of them banged the sash of the window nearest my
bed"
3: close violently; "He slammed the door shut" [syn: slam,
bang]
4: move noisily; "The window banged shut"; "The old man banged
around the house"
5: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the
hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get
laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck,
jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it,
bang, get it on, bonk]
6: leap, jerk, bang; "Bullets spanged into the trees" [syn:
spang, bang]
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bhang
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n 1: a preparation of the leaves and flowers of the hemp plant;
much used in India
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bin
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n 1: a container; usually has a lid
2: the quantity contained in a bin [syn: bin, binful]
3: an identification number consisting of a two-part code
assigned to banks and savings associations; the first part
shows the location and the second identifies the bank itself
[syn: bank identification number, BIN, ABA transit
number]
v 1: store in bins
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bobbin
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n 1: a winder around which thread or tape or film or other
flexible materials can be wound [syn: bobbin, spool,
reel]
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bun
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n 1: small rounded bread either plain or sweet [syn: bun,
roll]
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bung
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n 1: a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn:
bung, spile]
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]
2: close with a cork or stopper
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cotton
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n 1: soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
[syn: cotton, cotton fiber, cotton wool]
2: fabric woven from cotton fibers
3: erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls
containing seeds with many long hairy fibers [syn: cotton,
cotton plant]
4: thread made of cotton fibers
v 1: take a liking to; "cotton to something"
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dobbin
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n 1: a quiet plodding workhorse [syn: farm horse, dobbin]
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dustbin
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n 1: a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected [syn:
ashcan, trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ash
bin, ash-bin, ashbin, dustbin, trash barrel,
trash bin]
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haemoglobin
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n 1: a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red
blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily
to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues;
"fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals" [syn:
hemoglobin, haemoglobin, Hb]
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robin
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n 1: small Old World songbird with a reddish breast [syn:
robin, redbreast, robin redbreast, Old World robin,
Erithacus rubecola]
2: large American thrush having a rust-red breast and abdomen
[syn: robin, American robin, Turdus migratorius]
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thrombin
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n 1: an enzyme that acts on fibrinogen in blood causing it to
clot
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turbine
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n 1: rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid
is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed
rotor to rotate
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sabin
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n 1: a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption
by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident
sound
2: United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed
the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis
(born 1906) [syn: Sabin, Albert Sabin, Albert Bruce
Sabin]
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sabine
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adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Sabines
n 1: a river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of
Mexico [syn: Sabine, Sabine River]
2: a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central
Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated
into the Roman state in 290 BC
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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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psilocybin
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n 1: a hallucinogenic compound obtained from a mushroom [syn:
psilocybin, psilocin]
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dubbin
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n 1: tallow mixed with oil; used to make leather soft and
waterproof
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scriabin
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n 1: Russian composer of orchestral and piano music (1872-1915)
[syn: Scriabin, Aleksandr Scriabin, Aleksandr
Nikolayevich Scriabin]
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bilirubin
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n 1: an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a
product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce
the yellow appearance observed in jaundice [syn:
bilirubin, hematoidin, haematoidin]
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hemoglobin
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n 1: a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red
blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily
to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues;
"fish have simpler hemoglobin than mammals" [syn:
hemoglobin, haemoglobin, Hb]
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tobin
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n 1: United States economist (1918-2002) [syn: Tobin, James
Tobin]
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myoglobin
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n 1: a hemoprotein that receives oxygen from hemoglobin and
stores it in the tissues until needed
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ashbin
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n 1: a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected [syn:
ashcan, trash can, garbage can, wastebin, ash
bin, ash-bin, ashbin, dustbin, trash barrel,
trash bin]
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been
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bing
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bihn
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binn
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rabbin
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bahn
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banh
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bann
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bunn
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ahn
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ann
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corbin
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byng
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rubin
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