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beaker
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n 1: a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for
chemistry
2: a cup (usually without a handle)
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beater
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n 1: a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter
2: an implement for beating
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beeper
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n 1: an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when
the person carrying it is being paged [syn: beeper,
pager]
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beggar
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n 1: a pauper who lives by begging [syn: beggar, mendicant]
v 1: be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"
2: reduce to beggary [syn: beggar, pauperize, pauperise]
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beleaguer
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v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of
his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug,
beleaguer]
2: surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged
Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in,
circumvent]
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bleacher
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n 1: a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.)
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bleeder
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n 1: someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable
bleeding [syn: hemophiliac, haemophiliac, bleeder,
hemophile, haemophile]
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breeder
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n 1: a person who breeds animals [syn: breeder, stock
breeder]
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cheater
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n 1: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
[syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster,
beguiler, slicker]
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cipher
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n 1: a message written in a secret code [syn: cipher,
cypher]
2: a mathematical element that when added to another number
yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought, cipher,
cypher]
3: 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]
4: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody,
nonentity]
5: a secret method of writing [syn: cipher, cypher,
cryptograph, secret code]
v 1: convert ordinary language into code; "We should encode the
message for security reasons" [syn: code, encipher,
cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code]
2: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn:
calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out,
reckon, figure]
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creature
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n 1: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn:
animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature,
fauna]
2: a human being; `wight' is an archaic term [syn: creature,
wight]
3: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform
unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn:
creature, tool, puppet]
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creeper
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n 1: any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
2: a person who crawls or creeps along the ground [syn:
crawler, creeper]
3: any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern
hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves
on stiff tail feathers and their feet [syn: creeper, tree
creeper]
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feature
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n 1: a prominent attribute or aspect of something; "the map
showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his
best characteristics" [syn: feature, characteristic]
2: the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose
and mouth and chin; "an expression of pleasure crossed his
features"; "his lineaments were very regular" [syn:
feature, lineament]
3: the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie
theater; "the feature tonight is `Casablanca'" [syn:
feature, feature film]
4: a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine;
"they ran a feature on retirement planning" [syn: feature,
feature article]
5: (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic
unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the
same kind [syn: feature of speech, feature]
6: an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised
more than other articles
v 1: have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most
famous chefs in France" [syn: have, feature] [ant:
lack, miss]
2: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was
sporting a new hat" [syn: sport, feature, boast]
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preacher
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n 1: someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel [syn:
preacher, preacher man, sermonizer, sermoniser]
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schoolteacher
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n 1: a teacher in a school below the college level [syn:
schoolteacher, school teacher]
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teacher
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n 1: a person whose occupation is teaching [syn: teacher,
instructor]
2: a personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his
teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"
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nietzsche
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n 1: influential German philosopher remembered for his concept
of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values;
considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of
existentialism (1844-1900) [syn: Nietzsche, Friedrich
Wilhelm Nietzsche]
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chirr
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v 1: make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas
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churr
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v 1: make a vibrant sound, as of some birds [syn: churr,
whirr]
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beecher
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n 1: United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition
of slavery (1813-1887) [syn: Beecher, Henry Ward
Beecher]
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cheaper
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her
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bleaker
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chirre
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beacher
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gleacher
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