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chute
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n 1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air
and retards your fall [syn: parachute, chute]
2: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn:
chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough]
v 1: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn:
chute, parachute, jump]
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commute
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n 1: a regular journey of some distance to and from your place
of work; "there is standing room only on the high-speed
commute"
v 1: exchange positions without a change in value; "These
operators commute with each other" [syn: commute,
transpose]
2: travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of
work and home
3: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often
transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute,
transpose]
4: exchange a penalty for a less severe one [syn: commute,
convert, exchange]
5: exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or
category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He
changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches";
"convert holdings into shares" [syn: change, exchange,
commute, convert]
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compute
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v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn:
calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out,
reckon, figure]
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coot
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n 1: slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks
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cruet
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n 1: bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table
[syn: cruet, crewet]
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cute
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adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness
or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little
apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn:
cunning, cute]
2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious
performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms"
[syn: cute, precious]
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dilute
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adj 1: reduced in strength or concentration or quality or
purity; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute
acetic acid" [syn: diluted, dilute] [ant:
undiluted]
v 1: lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
"cut bourbon" [syn: dilute, thin, thin out, reduce,
cut]
2: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or
inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients
with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load,
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]
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dispute
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n 1: a disagreement or argument about something important; "he
had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable
differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans
and Democrats" [syn: dispute, difference, difference
of opinion, conflict]
2: coming into conflict with [syn: dispute, contravention]
v 1: take exception to; "She challenged his claims" [syn:
challenge, dispute, gainsay]
2: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the
question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows
are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel,
dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
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disrepute
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n 1: the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will
bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the
school has fallen into disrepute" [syn: disrepute,
discredit] [ant: reputation, repute]
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fruit
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n 1: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
2: an amount of a product [syn: yield, fruit]
3: the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long
enough to see the fruit of his policies"
v 1: cause to bear fruit
2: bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"
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hoot
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n 1: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
2: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn:
boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing,
razz, snort, bird]
3: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn";
"not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn,
darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's
damn, tinker's dam]
v 1: to utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of
the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice,
and dance"
2: utter the characteristic sound of owls
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impute
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v 1: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to
Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
[syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute]
2: attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source;
"The teacher imputed the student's failure to his
nervousness"
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intuit
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v 1: know or grasp by intuition or feeling
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jute
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n 1: a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks
2: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and
merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons
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minute
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adj 1: infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike
threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
[syn: infinitesimal, minute]
2: characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination;
"a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny";
"an exact and minute report" [syn: minute, narrow]
n 1: a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour;
"he ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: minute, min]
2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo";
"it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment,
mo, minute, second, bit]
3: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party
began" [syn: moment, minute, second, instant]
4: a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree [syn:
minute, arcminute, minute of arc]
5: a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the
meeting"
6: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an
hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn:
hour, minute]
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moot
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adj 1: of no legal significance (as having been previously
decided)
2: open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" [syn:
arguable, debatable, disputable, moot]
n 1: a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise;
"he organized the weekly moot"
v 1: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the
possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your
mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over,
deliberate]
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mute
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adj 1: expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent
curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the
words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief";
"choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
[syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless]
2: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb,
mute, silent]
n 1: a deaf person who is unable to speak [syn: mute, deaf-
mute, deaf-and-dumb person]
2: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
v 1: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn:
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
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newt
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n 1: small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of
North America and Europe and northern Asia [syn: newt,
triton]
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permute
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v 1: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often
transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute,
transpose]
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pollute
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v 1: make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
[syn: pollute, foul, contaminate]
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pursuit
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n 1: the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture;
"the culprit started to run and the cop took off in
pursuit" [syn: pursuit, chase, pursual, following]
2: a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;
"the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of
fame"; "a quest for wealth" [syn: pursuit, pursuance,
quest]
3: an auxiliary activity [syn: avocation, by-line, hobby,
pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity]
4: a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually
pleasantly); "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main
pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his
interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited
pursuits" [syn: pastime, interest, pursuit]
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recruit
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n 1: a recently enlisted soldier [syn: recruit, military
recruit]
2: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn:
recruit, enlistee]
v 1: register formally as a participant or member; "The party
recruited many new members" [syn: enroll, inscribe,
enter, enrol, recruit]
2: seek to employ; "The lab director recruited an able crew of
assistants"
3: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army";
"recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy, raise]
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refute
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v 1: overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker
refuted his opponent's arguments" [syn: refute, rebut]
2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: refute, rebut,
controvert]
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repute
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n 1: the state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn:
repute, reputation] [ant: discredit, disrepute]
v 1: look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a
joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He
is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, repute,
regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to
be]
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root
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n 1: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or
leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually
it anchors the plant to the ground
2: the place where something begins, where it springs into
being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter
was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source
of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn:
beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]
3: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are
removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root,
root word, base, stem, theme, radical]
4: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of
times, equals a given number
5: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted
into an equation [syn: solution, root]
6: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote
than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant,
ascendent, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant,
descendent]
7: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related
words in several languages can be derived by linguistic
processes [syn: etymon, root]
8: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as
support [syn: root, tooth root]
v 1: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly"
2: come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her
depression"
3: plant by the roots
4: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn:
rout, root, rootle]
5: become settled or established and stable in one's residence
or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle,
root, take root, steady down, settle down]
6: cause to take roots
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salute
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n 1: an act of honor or courteous recognition; "a musical salute
to the composer on his birthday" [syn: salute,
salutation]
2: a formal military gesture of respect [syn: salute,
military greeting]
3: an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like
bowing or lifting the hat
v 1: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!";
"Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink,
pledge, salute, wassail]
2: greet in a friendly way; "I meet this men every day on my way
to work and he salutes me"
3: express commendation of; "I salute your courage!"
4: become noticeable; "a terrible stench saluted our nostrils"
5: honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead
soldiers
6: recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation;
assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the
soldiers have to salute" [syn: salute, present]
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scoot
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v 1: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash,
shoot]
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shoot
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n 1: a new branch
2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every
weekend during the summer"
v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit,
pip]
2: kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip]
3: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast,
shoot]
4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene";
"shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take]
5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the
yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash,
shoot]
7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street";
"He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot,
shoot down, charge, buck]
8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific
objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the
accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn:
photograph, snap, shoot]
10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully;
"The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject
hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot]
13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors;
"shoot cloth"
14: throw dice, as in a crap game
15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's
inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate,
shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away]
16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes
sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate,
bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout]
20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the
patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]
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suit
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n 1: a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers
or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color;
"they buried him in his best suit" [syn: suit, suit of
clothes]
2: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law
whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family
brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit, suit,
case, cause, causa]
3: (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the
suits care about is the bottom line"
4: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a
woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief
and intense courtship" [syn: courtship, wooing,
courting, suit]
5: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or
rank
6: playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each
set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards in
the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit
is trumps?"
v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn:
suit, accommodate, fit]
2: be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me"
3: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit
a young woman!" [syn: befit, suit, beseem]
4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
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toot
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n 1: a blast of a horn
2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse,
carousal, bender, toot, booze-up]
v 1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn:
honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
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uproot
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v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and
foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn:
uproot, deracinate]
2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of
political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption"
[syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out,
exterminate]
3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has
spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate,
deracinate, root out]
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cahoot
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n 1: collusion; "in cahoots with"
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bluett
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blewitt
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hewett
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hewitt
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bluet
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