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adobe
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n 1: the clay from which adobe bricks are made
2: sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates [syn: adobe,
adobe brick]
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be
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n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
[syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4]
v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective
or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good
answer"
2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of
the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"
3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my
umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind
this behavior?"
4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn:
exist, be]
5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during
the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred
people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the
kitchen"
6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000
rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ]
7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone
wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute
my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus";
"This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few
men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute,
represent, make up, comprise, be]
8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a
specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our
resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow]
9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour"
11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My
grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live]
12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used
only in infinitive form; "let her be"
13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]
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bee
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n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and
solitary species
2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold
competitions
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goby
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n 1: small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters
having a large head and elongated tapering body having the
ventral fins modified as a sucker [syn: goby, gudgeon]
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obi
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n 1: (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving
witchcraft and sorcery [syn: obeah, obi]
2: a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and
sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical
Americas [syn: obeah, obi]
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gobi
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n 1: a desert in central China [syn: Gobi, Gobi Desert]
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toby
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n 1: a drinking mug in the shape of a stout man wearing a three-
cornered hat [syn: toby, toby jug, toby fillpot jug]
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b
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n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often
occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
[syn: bacillus, B]
2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated
into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B
complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B]
3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black
crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn:
boron, B, atomic number 5]
4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
[syn: Bel, B]
5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective
circular area that one particle presents to another as a
target for an encounter [syn: barn, b]
6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b]
7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn:
B, type B, group B]
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tobey
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n 1: United States abstract painter influenced by oriental
calligraphy (1890-1976) [syn: Tobey, Mark Tobey]
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jacobi
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n 1: German mathematician (1804-1851) [syn: Jacobi, Karl
Gustav Jacob Jacobi]
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nairobi
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n 1: the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist
safaris [syn: Nairobi, capital of Kenya]
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okeechobee
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n 1: a lake in southeast Florida to the north of the Everglades
[syn: Okeechobee, Lake Okeechobee]
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kobe
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n 1: a port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu; was
damaged by an earthquake in 1995
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dhobi
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bea
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cobey
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coby
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gobie
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koby
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moby
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obie
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robey
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roby
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scobey
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scoby
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sobey
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tobie
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zoghby
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jacoby
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ryobi
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sunobe
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dobe
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