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acclimate
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v 1: get used to a certain climate; "They never acclimatized in
Egypt" [syn: acclimatize, acclimatise, acclimate]
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amalgamate
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adj 1: joined together into a whole; "United Industries"; "the
amalgamated colleges constituted a university"; "a
consolidated school" [syn: amalgamate, amalgamated,
coalesced, consolidated, fused]
v 1: to bring or combine together or with something else;
"resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: mix,
mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate]
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animate
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adj 1: belonging to the class of nouns that denote living
beings; "the word `dog' is animate" [ant: inanimate]
2: endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life;
"we are animate beings" [ant: inanimate, non-living,
nonliving]
3: endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the
living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"-
T.E.Lawrence [syn: sentient, animate] [ant: insensate,
insentient]
v 1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the
imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate,
enliven, exalt]
2: give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" [syn:
animize, animise, animate]
3: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn:
enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate]
[ant: blunt, deaden]
4: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
"This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive,
renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
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approximate
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adj 1: not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10
o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate" [syn:
approximate, approximative, rough]
2: very close in resemblance; "sketched in an approximate
likeness"; "a near likeness" [syn: approximate, near]
3: located close together; "with heads close together";
"approximate leaves grow together but are not united" [syn:
approximate, close together(p)]
v 1: be close or similar; "Her results approximate my own" [syn:
approximate, come close]
2: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or
time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" [syn:
estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge]
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automate
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v 1: make automatic or control or operate automatically;
"automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the
robot" [syn: automatize, automatise, automate]
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checkmate
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n 1: complete victory
2: a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible
attack on the opponent's king [syn: checkmate, mate]
v 1: place an opponent's king under an attack from which it
cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov
checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" [syn:
checkmate, mate]
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chromate
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n 1: any salt or ester of chromic acid
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classmate
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n 1: an acquaintance that you go to school with [syn:
schoolmate, classmate, schoolfellow, class fellow]
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collimate
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v 1: make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the
ditch to the highway" [syn: parallel, collimate]
2: adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
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consummate
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adj 1: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a
consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful
speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance
of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance" [syn:
consummate, masterful, masterly, virtuoso(a)]
2: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary
qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a
consummate performance" [syn: complete, consummate]
3: 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]
v 1: fulfill sexually; "consummate a marriage"
2: make perfect; bring to perfection
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cremate
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v 1: reduce to ashes; "Cremate a corpse"
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decimate
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v 1: kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
2: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire
population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish,
eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]
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desquamate
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v 1: peel off in scales; "dry skin desquamates" [syn:
desquamate, peel off]
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dichromate
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n 1: a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid [syn:
bichromate, dichromate]
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estimate
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n 1: an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;
"an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long
it would take" [syn: estimate, estimation,
approximation, idea]
2: a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody; "many
factors are involved in any estimate of human life"; "in my
estimation the boy is innocent" [syn: estimate,
estimation]
3: a document appraising the value of something (as for
insurance or taxation) [syn: appraisal, estimate,
estimation]
4: a statement indicating the likely cost of some job; "he got
an estimate from the car repair shop"
5: the respect with which a person is held; "they had a high
estimation of his ability" [syn: estimate, estimation]
v 1: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or
time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"
[syn: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge]
2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon,
count on, figure, forecast]
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flatmate
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n 1: an associate who shares an apartment with you
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glutamate
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n 1: a salt or ester of glutamic acid
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guesstimate
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n 1: an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing [syn:
guesstimate, guestimate]
v 1: estimate based on a calculation
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helpmate
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n 1: a helpful partner [syn: helpmate, helpmeet]
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housemate
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n 1: someone who resides in the same house with you
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inmate
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n 1: one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone
confined to a prison or hospital)
2: a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being
treated [syn: inpatient, inmate] [ant: outpatient]
3: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn:
convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird]
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intimate
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adj 1: marked by close acquaintance, association, or
familiarity; "intimate friend"; "intimate relations
between economics, politics, and legal principles" - V.L.
Parrington
2: having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal
atmosphere; "had a cozy chat"; "a relaxed informal manner";
"an intimate cocktail lounge"; "the small room was cozy and
intimate" [syn: cozy, intimate, informal]
3: having mutual interests or affections; of established
friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an
intimate footing with those she slanders" [syn: familiar,
intimate]
4: involved in a sexual relationship; "the intimate (or sexual)
relations between husband and wife"; "she had been intimate
with many men"; "he touched her intimate parts" [syn:
intimate, sexual]
5: innermost or essential; "the inner logic of Cubism"; "the
internal contradictions of the theory"; "the intimate
structure of matter" [syn: inner, internal, intimate]
6: thoroughly acquainted through study or experience; "this
girl, so intimate with nature"-W.H.Hudson; "knowledgeable
about the technique of painting"- Herbert Read [syn:
intimate, knowledgeable, versed]
n 1: someone to whom private matters are confided [syn:
confidant, intimate]
v 1: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his
wife" [syn: intimate, adumbrate, insinuate]
2: imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for
more clarification" [syn: suggest, intimate]
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messmate
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n 1: (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the
same mess (as on a ship)
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overestimate
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n 1: an appraisal that is too high [syn: overestimate,
overestimation, overvaluation, overappraisal]
2: a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high
[syn: overestimate, overestimation, overrating,
overreckoning]
v 1: make too high an estimate of; "He overestimated his own
powers" [syn: overestimate, overrate] [ant:
underestimate, underrate]
2: assign too high a value to; "You are overestimating the value
of your old car" [syn: overvalue, overestimate] [ant:
underestimate, undervalue]
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palmate
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adj 1: (of the feet of water birds) having three toes connected
by a thin fold of skin
2: of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a
common point [syn: palmate, palm-shaped]
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playmate
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n 1: a companion at play [syn: playmate, playfellow]
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primate
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n 1: a senior clergyman and dignitary [syn: archpriest,
hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate]
2: any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight
and flexible hands and feet
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roommate
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n 1: an associate who shares a room with you [syn: roommate,
roomie, roomy]
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schoolmate
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n 1: an acquaintance that you go to school with [syn:
schoolmate, classmate, schoolfellow, class fellow]
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shipmate
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n 1: an associate on the same ship with you
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stalemate
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n 1: a situation in which no progress can be made or no
advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the
negotiations" [syn: deadlock, dead end, impasse,
stalemate, standstill]
2: drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves
would place his king in check
v 1: subject to a stalemate
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sublimate
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adj 1: made pure
n 1: the product of vaporization of a solid
v 1: direct energy or urges into useful activities
2: make more subtle or refined [syn: rarefy, sublimate,
subtilize]
3: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and
separate through the process of distillation; "purify the
water" [syn: purify, sublimate, make pure, distill]
4: change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor
without first melting; "sublime iodine"; "some salts sublime
when heated" [syn: sublime, sublimate]
5: vaporize and then condense right back again [syn: sublime,
sublimate]
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underestimate
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n 1: an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less
than the true or actual value [syn: underestimate,
underestimation, underrating, underreckoning]
v 1: assign too low a value to; "Don't underestimate the value
of this heirloom-you may sell it at a good price" [syn:
undervalue, underestimate] [ant: overestimate,
overvalue]
2: make a deliberately low estimate; "The construction company
wanted the contract badly and lowballed" [syn: lowball,
underestimate]
3: make too low an estimate of; "he underestimated the work that
went into the renovation"; "Don't underestimate the danger of
such a raft trip on this river" [syn: underestimate,
underrate] [ant: overestimate, overrate]
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workmate
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n 1: a fellow worker
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teammate
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n 1: a fellow member of a team; "it was his first start against
his former teammates" [syn: teammate, mate]
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carbamate
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n 1: a salt (or ester) of carbamic acid
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diplomate
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n 1: medical specialist whose competence has been certified by a
diploma granted by an appropriate professional group
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bromate
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v 1: react with bromine [syn: bromate, brominate]
2: treat with bromine [syn: bromate, brominate]
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bichromate
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n 1: a salt of the hypothetical dichromic acid [syn:
bichromate, dichromate]
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reanimate
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v 1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
"This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired
my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate,
revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify,
revivify]
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casemate
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cyclamate
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racemate
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coelomate
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sulphamate
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formate
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soulmate
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