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antibody
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n 1: any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the
body or produced in response to an antigen which it
neutralizes, thus producing an immune response
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body
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n 1: the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or
human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire"
[syn: body, organic structure, physical structure]
2: a group of persons associated by some common tie or
occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed
out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative
body"
3: a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they
found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body]
4: an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is
distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
5: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk,
body]
6: a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body
of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
7: the property of holding together and retaining its shape;
"wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough
consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency,
consistence, eubstance, body]
8: the central message of a communication; "the body of the
message was short"
9: the main mass of a thing
10: a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of
a violin) [syn: soundbox, body]
11: the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car
was badly rusted"
v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body,
personify]
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busybody
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n 1: a person who meddles in the affairs of others [syn:
busybody, nosy-parker, nosey-parker, quidnunc]
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de
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n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
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disembody
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v 1: free from a body or physical form or reality
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embody
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v 1: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil
wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the
feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth,
embody, substantiate]
2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form;
"This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
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gaudy
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adj 1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring";
"garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts";
"a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
[syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish,
gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky,
tatty, tawdry, trashy]
2: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display
[syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty]
n 1: (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held
a college
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homebody
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n 1: a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to
wandering or travel [syn: stay-at-home, homebody]
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nobody
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n 1: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher,
nobody, nonentity]
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shoddy
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adj 1: cheap and shoddy; "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on
the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist [syn:
cheapjack, shoddy, tawdry]
2: of inferior workmanship and materials; "mean little jerry-
built houses" [syn: jerry-built, shoddy]
3: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or
inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm";
"deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading
similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are
misleading"; "shoddy business practices" [syn: deceptive,
misleading, shoddy]
n 1: reclaimed wool fiber
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somebody
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n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
[syn: person, individual, someone, somebody,
mortal, soul]
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toddy
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n 1: a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and
spices and served hot [syn: hot toddy, toddy]
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wadi
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n 1: gully or streambed in northern Africa and the Middle East
that remains dry except during rainy season
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d
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
[syn: five hundred, 500, d]
n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin
D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol,
cholecalciferol, D]
2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and
five [syn: five hundred, 500, D]
3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]
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dea
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n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and
regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances;
goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn:
Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement
Agency, DEA]
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soddy
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n 1: a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses
[syn: sod house, soddy, adobe house]
2: English chemist whose work on radioactive disintegration led
to the discovery of isotopes (1877-1956) [syn: Soddy,
Frederick Soddy]
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peabody
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n 1: educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United
States (1804-1894) [syn: Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody,
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody]
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irrawaddy
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n 1: the main river of Myanmar rising in the north and flowing
south through the length of Burma to empty into the Andaman
Sea [syn: Irrawaddy, Irrawaddy River]
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anybody
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cloddy
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everybody
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noddy
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droddy
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roddy
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waddy
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alodie
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canady
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corradi
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deandrade
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boddie
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boddy
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poddy
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swaddy
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