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alt
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n 1: angular distance above the horizon (especially of a
celestial object) [syn: elevation, EL, altitude,
ALT]
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asphalt
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n 1: mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially
for paving but also for roofing
2: a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as
residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of
hydrocarbons [syn: asphalt, mineral pitch]
v 1: cover with tar or asphalt; "asphalt the driveway"
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assault
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n 1: close fighting during the culmination of a military attack
2: a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who
appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped
3: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946
4: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse
against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault,
ravishment]
v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger
assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
[syn: assail, assault, set on, attack]
2: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman
was raped on her way home at night" [syn: rape, ravish,
violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage]
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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basalt
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n 1: the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey
fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of
plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene
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bolt
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adv 1: in a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat
bolt upright" [syn: rigidly, stiffly, bolt]
2: directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her"
[syn: bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt]
n 1: a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder [syn:
thunderbolt, bolt, bolt of lightning]
2: a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an
empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
3: the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
[syn: bolt, deadbolt]
4: the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the
door" [syn: dash, bolt]
5: a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length
6: a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener
7: a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)
v 1: move or jump suddenly; "She bolted from her seat"
2: secure or lock with a bolt; "bolt the door" [ant: unbolt]
3: swallow hastily
4: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody
along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant
absconded with the cash from the safe" [syn: abscond,
bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make
off]
5: leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted
when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to
tell silly stories, I ran out" [syn: run off, run out,
bolt, bolt out, beetle off]
6: eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"
[syn: gobble, bolt]
7: make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric"
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default
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n 1: loss due to not showing up; "he lost the game by default"
2: act of failing to meet a financial obligation [syn:
default, nonpayment, nonremittal]
3: loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid [syn:
nonpayment, default, nonremittal] [ant: payment]
4: an option that is selected automatically unless an
alternative is specified [syn: default option, default]
v 1: fail to pay up [syn: default, default on] [ant: ante
up, pay, pay up]
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dolt
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n 1: a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!"
[syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard,
dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish,
pillock]
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exalt
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v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's
children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud,
extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim]
2: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the
prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his
phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink,
inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify]
3: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the
imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate,
enliven, exalt]
4: raise in rank, character, or status; "exalted the humble
shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser"
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fault
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n 1: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or
inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to
point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in
spite of his grammatical faults" [syn: mistake, error,
fault]
2: an imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the
crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should
send it back to the manufacturer" [syn: defect, fault,
flaw]
3: the quality of being inadequate or falling short of
perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her
novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did"
[syn: demerit, fault] [ant: merit, virtue]
4: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the
displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they
built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the
faulting of the earth's crust" [syn: fault, faulting,
geological fault, shift, fracture, break]
5: (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect
in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short
circuit etc.); "it took much longer to find the fault than to
fix it"
6: responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's
fault"
7: (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside
the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"
v 1: put or pin the blame on [syn: blame, fault] [ant:
absolve, free, justify]
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gestalt
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n 1: a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a
whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its
parts
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halt
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adj 1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a
game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame,
gimpy, game]
n 1: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the
negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during
the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled
him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his
seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay,
stop, stoppage]
2: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the
bottom of the hill" [syn: stop, halt]
3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or
movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn:
freeze, halt]
v 1: cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress";
"halt the presses" [syn: halt, hold, arrest]
2: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped
in front of a store window" [syn: stop, halt] [ant: get
going, go, start]
3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election";
"Halt the process" [syn: stop, halt, block, kibosh]
4: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem
the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt]
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jolt
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n 1: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt";
"all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock
absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock]
2: an abrupt spasmodic movement [syn: jerk, jerking, jolt,
saccade]
v 1: move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn:
jolt, jar]
2: disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by
the play"
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kingbolt
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n 1: bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle
[syn: kingbolt, kingpin, swivel pin]
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malt
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n 1: a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: malted, malt,
malted milk]
2: a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too
alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer [syn: malt, malt
liquor]
3: a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after
having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially
in brewing and distilling
v 1: treat with malt or malt extract; "malt beer"
2: turn into malt, become malt
3: convert grain into malt
4: convert into malt
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millivolt
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n 1: a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt [syn:
millivolt, mV]
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moult
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n 1: periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer
skin in reptiles [syn: molt, molting, moult,
moulting, ecdysis]
v 1: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds
every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult,
slough]
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revolt
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n 1: organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one
faction tries to wrest control from another [syn:
rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising,
uprising]
v 1: make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices
tripled again"
2: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn:
disgust, gross out, revolt, repel]
3: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The
pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt,
nauseate, sicken, churn up]
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salt
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adj 1: (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare;
"a salt apology"
n 1: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a
metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
2: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to
season and preserve food [syn: salt, table salt, common
salt]
3: negotiations between the United States and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki
designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons
[syn: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT]
4: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth
[syn: salt, saltiness, salinity]
v 1: add salt to
2: sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields
with mines and traps"
3: add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with
jokes"
4: preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"
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thunderbolt
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n 1: a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder [syn:
thunderbolt, bolt, bolt of lightning]
2: a shocking surprise; "news of the attack came like a
bombshell" [syn: bombshell, thunderbolt, thunderclap]
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unbolt
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v 1: undo the bolt of; "unbolt the door" [ant: bolt]
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vault
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n 1: a burial chamber (usually underground) [syn: vault,
burial vault]
2: a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for
safekeeping of valuables [syn: vault, bank vault]
3: an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
4: the act of jumping over an obstacle [syn: vault, hurdle]
v 1: jump across or leap over (an obstacle) [syn: vault,
overleap]
2: bound vigorously
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volt
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n 1: a unit of potential equal to the potential difference
between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1
ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is
1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a
resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through
it [syn: volt, V]
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deadbolt
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n 1: the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
[syn: bolt, deadbolt]
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humboldt
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n 1: German philologist noted for his studies of the relation
between language and culture (1767-1835) [syn: Humboldt,
Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt, Baron Karl Wilhelm von
Humboldt]
2: German naturalist who explored Central and South America and
provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe
(1769-1859) [syn: Humboldt, Baron Alexander von Humboldt,
Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt]
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ostwald
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n 1: German chemist (1853-1932) [syn: Ostwald, Wilhelm
Ostwald]
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schwarzwald
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n 1: a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany [syn: Black
Forest, Schwarzwald]
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archivolt
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holt
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megavolt
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walt
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smolt
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anhalt
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faribault
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boult
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poult
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shalt
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smalt
0
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volte
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covalt
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ewald
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laxalt
0
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boussingault
0
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bohmerwald
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electronvolt
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grunewald
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