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align
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v 1: place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or
straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets
of paper on the table" [syn: align, aline, line up,
adjust] [ant: skew]
2: be or come into adjustment with
3: align oneself with a group or a way of thinking [syn:
align, array]
4: bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable
coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car";
"ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate,
coordinate]
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almandine
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n 1: a purple variety of the ruby spinel
2: a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate [syn:
almandite, almandine]
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anodyne
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adj 1: capable of relieving pain; "the anodyne properties of
certain drugs"; "an analgesic effect" [syn: analgesic,
analgetic, anodyne]
n 1: a medicine used to relieve pain [syn: analgesic,
anodyne, painkiller, pain pill]
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assign
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v 1: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a
task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute,
assign]
2: give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: assign,
allot, portion]
3: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to
Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn:
impute, ascribe, assign, attribute]
4: select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The
teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
[syn: assign, specify, set apart]
5: attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last
statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The
teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the
story" [syn: put, assign]
6: make undue claims to having [syn: arrogate, assign]
7: transfer one's right to
8: decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The
biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" [syn:
assign, attribute]
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benign
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adj 1: not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive
(especially of a tumor) [ant: malignant]
2: pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign
smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air"
[syn: benign, benignant] [ant: malign]
3: kindness of disposition or manner; "the benign ruler of
millions"; "benign intentions"
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brine
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n 1: water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all
saltwater" [syn: seawater, saltwater, brine] [ant:
fresh water, freshwater]
2: a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling
v 1: soak in brine
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celandine
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n 1: North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange
flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn:
jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam,
celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis]
2: perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow
flowers [syn: celandine, greater celandine,
swallowwort, swallow wort, Chelidonium majus]
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combine
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n 1: harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while
moving across the field
2: a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit
competition by controlling the production and distribution of
a product or service; "they set up the trust in the hope of
gaining a monopoly" [syn: trust, corporate trust,
combine, cartel]
3: an occurrence that results in things being united [syn:
combining, combine]
v 1: have or possess in combination; "she unites charm with a
good business sense" [syn: unite, combine]
2: put or add together; "combine resources" [syn: compound,
combine]
3: combine so as to form a whole; mix; "compound the
ingredients" [syn: compound, combine]
4: add together from different sources; "combine resources"
5: join for a common purpose or in a common action; "These
forces combined with others"
6: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: aggregate, combine]
7: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"
[syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle,
immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge]
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condign
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adj 1: fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of
punishment; "condign censure"
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confine
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v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of
this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your
friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit,
bound, confine, throttle]
2: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a
day" [syn: limit, circumscribe, confine]
3: prevent from leaving or from being removed
4: close in; darkness enclosed him" [syn: enclose, hold in,
confine]
5: deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: confine,
detain] [ant: free, liberate, loose, release,
unloose, unloosen]
6: to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement;
"This holds the local until the express passengers change
trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the
stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention
center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
[syn: restrain, confine, hold]
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consign
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v 1: commit forever; commit irrevocably
2: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your
baggage" [syn: consign, charge]
3: send to an address
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decline
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n 1: change toward something smaller or lower [syn: decline,
diminution]
2: a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual
falling off from a better state [syn: decline,
declination] [ant: improvement, melioration]
3: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn:
decay, decline]
4: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity,
fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope]
[ant: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise,
upgrade]
v 1: grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" [syn:
worsen, decline] [ant: ameliorate, better,
improve, meliorate]
2: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn:
refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline] [ant:
accept, have, take]
3: show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on
a hike" [syn: refuse, decline] [ant: accept, consent,
go for]
4: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn:
decline, go down, wane]
5: go down; "The roof declines here"
6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices
slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct]
7: inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages,
speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
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heterodyne
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adj 1: of or relating to the beat produced by heterodyning two
oscillations
v 1: combine (a radio frequency wave) with a locally generated
wave of a different frequency so as to produce a new
frequency equal to the sum or the difference between the
two
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incarnadine
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v 1: make flesh-colored
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sardine
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n 1: small fatty fish usually canned [syn: sardine,
pilchard]
2: any of various small edible herring or related food fishes
frequently canned
3: a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony [syn: sard,
sardine, sardius]
4: small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe;
smaller and rounder than herring [syn: pilchard, sardine,
Sardina pilchardus]
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bahrain
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n 1: an island in the Persian Gulf [syn: Bahrain, Bahrain
Island, Bahrein, Bahrein Island]
2: an island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi
Arabia; oil revenues funded progressive programs until
reserves were exhausted in 1970s [syn: Bahrain, State of
Bahrain, Bahrein]
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muscadine
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n 1: native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many
cultivated varieties [syn: muscadine, Vitis
rotundifolia]
2: dull-purple grape of southern United States [syn:
muscadine, bullace grape]
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aerodyne
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superheterodyne
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acridine
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gardyne
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jardine
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considine
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hirundine
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