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abseil
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n 1: (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made
by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and
wrapped around the body [syn: rappel, abseil]
v 1: lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a
mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the
mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You
have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical
climbing" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]
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aisle
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n 1: a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
2: passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or
passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in
stores [syn: aisle, gangway]
3: part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by
rows of pillars or columns
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assail
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v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger
assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
[syn: assail, assault, set on, attack]
2: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start
warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939
and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian
towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend]
3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning
paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack,
round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]
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carboxyl
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adj 1: relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl
radical [syn: carboxyl, carboxylic]
n 1: the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic
of organic acids [syn: carboxyl, carboxyl group]
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docile
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adj 1: willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed;
"the docile masses of an enslaved nation" [ant:
obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate]
2: ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for
instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile,
teachable]
3: easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and
obedient" [syn: docile, gentle]
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domicile
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n 1: (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or
principal establishment and to where, whenever you are
absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to
have one and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal
residence?" [syn: domicile, legal residence]
2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest
dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes
for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile,
abode, habitation, dwelling house]
v 1: make one's home in a particular place or community; "may
parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack,
domicile, domiciliate]
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ensile
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v 1: store in a silo; "ensile fodder for the cows"
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extensile
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adj 1: capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out;
"an extensile tongue"; "an extensible measuring rule"
[syn: extensile, extensible] [ant: inextensible,
nonextensile, nonprotractile]
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facile
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adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth;
"too facile a solution for so complex a problem"
2: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand"
3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to
dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn:
eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued,
smooth-spoken]
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fissile
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adj 1: capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable
nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: fissionable,
fissile] [ant: nonfissionable]
2: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction
of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant:
nonfissile]
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flexile
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adj 1: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible
birches" [syn: flexible, flexile] [ant: inflexible]
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foresail
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n 1: the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel
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headsail
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n 1: any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel
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hydroxyl
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n 1: the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and
some acids and alcohols [syn: hydroxyl, hydroxyl group,
hydroxyl radical]
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mainsail
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n 1: the lowermost sail on the mainmast
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missile
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n 1: a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear
explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control
2: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets
but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile]
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prehensile
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adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an
object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" [ant:
nonprehensile]
2: having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely
prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
3: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are
avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous
eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser";
"grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew
richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with
raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous,
grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]
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reconcile
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v 1: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists
had to accommodate the new results with the existing
theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate]
2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with
one's abilities" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, reconcile]
3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
[syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate,
settle]
4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn:
resign, reconcile, submit]
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resale
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n 1: the selling of something purchased
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sessile
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adj 1: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move
about; "sessile marine animals and plants" [ant:
vagile]
2: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening
stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is
attached directly to a substrate" [syn: sessile,
stalkless] [ant: pedunculate, stalked]
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skysail
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n 1: the sail above the royal on a square-rigger
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spritsail
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n 1: a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit
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staysail
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n 1: a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts)
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tensile
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adj 1: of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile
pull"
2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile
copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the
leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of
highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable,
pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
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topsail
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n 1: a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the
lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast
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wassail
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n 1: a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices
and roasted apples; especially at Christmas
v 1: celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in
uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party
made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is
gone!" [syn: revel, racket, make whoopie, make
merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail]
2: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's
drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge,
salute, wassail]
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wholesale
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adv 1: at a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale"
[ant: retail]
2: on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food
wholesale" [syn: wholesale, in large quantities]
adj 1: ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations";
"wholesale destruction" [syn: sweeping, wholesale]
n 1: the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large
quantities for resale to consumers [ant: retail]
v 1: sell in large quantities [ant: retail]
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decile
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n 1: (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution
of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval
contains one-tenth of the scores
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outsail
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v 1: sail faster or better than; "They outsailed the Roman
fleet"
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scissile
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trysail
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cresyl
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