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adios
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n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn:
adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au
revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby,
good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]
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close
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adv 1: near in time or place or relationship; "as the wedding
day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until
they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation";
"her mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the
bullet didn't come close"; "don't get too close to the
fire" [syn: near, nigh, close]
2: in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard"
[syn: close, closely, tight]
adj 1: at or within a short distance in space or time or having
elements near each other; "close to noon"; "how close are
we to town?"; "a close formation of ships" [ant:
distant]
2: close in relevance or relationship; "a close family"; "we are
all...in close sympathy with..."; "close kin"; "a close
resemblance" [ant: distant, remote]
3: not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances;
"near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near
equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near
thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she
was close to tears"; "had a close call" [syn: near,
close, nigh] [ant: far]
4: rigorously attentive; strict and thorough; "close
supervision"; "paid close attention"; "a close study"; "kept
a close watch on expenditures"
5: marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a
faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the
observed facts" [syn: close, faithful]
6: (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close
contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game" [syn: close,
tight]
7: crowded; "close quarters" [syn: close, confining]
8: lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully
close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with
smoke" [syn: airless, close, stuffy, unaired]
9: of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very
tight weave" [syn: close, tight]
10: strictly confined or guarded; "kept under close custody"
11: confined to specific persons; "a close secret"
12: fitting closely but comfortably; "a close fit" [syn:
close, snug, close-fitting]
13: used of hair or haircuts; "a close military haircut"
14: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing
administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a
penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing,
close, near, penny-pinching, skinny]
15: inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging
information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends
kept close about it" [syn: close, closelipped,
closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped]
n 1: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point
of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up
at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of
the season" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis,
finish, last, conclusion, close]
2: the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to
say..." [syn: conclusion, end, close, closing,
ending]
3: the concluding part of any performance [syn: finale,
close, closing curtain, finis]
v 1: move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make
shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window" [syn: close,
shut] [ant: open, open up]
2: become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang" [syn:
close, shut] [ant: open, open up]
3: cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners
decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business
closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop" [syn:
close up, close, fold, shut down, close down] [ant:
open, open up]
4: finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.); "The meeting
was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board" [ant:
open]
5: come to a close; "The concert closed with a nocturne by
Chopin" [syn: conclude, close]
6: complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement; "We
closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the deal on the
building"
7: be priced or listed when trading stops; "The stock market
closed high this Friday"; "My new stocks closed at $59 last
night"
8: engage at close quarters; "close with the enemy"
9: cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer
desktop [ant: open]
10: change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and
foot are closer to the intended point of impact
11: come together, as if in an embrace; "Her arms closed around
her long lost relative" [syn: close, come together]
12: draw near; "The probe closed with the space station"
13: bring together all the elements or parts of; "Management
closed ranks"
14: bar access to; "Due to the accident, the road had to be
closed for several hours"
15: fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?"
[syn: close, fill up]
16: unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of;
"close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close
up an umbrella" [syn: close up, close]
17: finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief
pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning"
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grandiose
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adj 1: impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur;
used to show disapproval
2: affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose, hifalutin,
highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da]
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gross
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adj 1: before any deductions; "gross income" [ant: net,
nett]
2: lacking fine distinctions or detail; "the gross details of
the structure appear reasonable"
3: repellently fat; "a bald porcine old man" [syn: gross,
porcine]
4: visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical
features) [syn: megascopic, gross]
5: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a),
complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a),
everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a),
sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a),
utter(a), unadulterated]
6: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a
crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a
revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of
language so vulgar it should have been edited" [syn: crude,
earthy, gross, vulgar]
7: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a
crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of
human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross
injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious,
flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]
n 1: twelve dozen [syn: gross, 144]
2: the entire amount of income before any deductions are made
[syn: gross, revenue, receipts]
v 1: earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
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otiose
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adj 1: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
"otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a
pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless";
"senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless,
purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
2: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the
therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an
unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose,
unavailing]
3: disinclined to work or exertion; "faineant kings under whose
rule the country languished"; "an indolent hanger-on"; "too
lazy to wash the dishes"; "shiftless idle youth"; "slothful
employees"; "the unemployed are not necessarily work-shy"
[syn: faineant, indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful,
work-shy]
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grosz
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n 1: 100 groszy equal 1 zloty in Poland
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bose
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n 1: Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed
statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of
particles; led to the description of fundamental particles
that later came to be known as bosons [syn: Bose,
Satyendra N. Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose]
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chausses
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