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absentee
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n 1: one that is absent or not in residence
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addressee
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n 1: one to whom something is addressed
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agree
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v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of
the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with
those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord
on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord]
[ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue]
2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something;
"She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her
alone"
3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their
characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many
details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the
check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the
gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe,
gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree,
discord]
4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas
concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort,
accord, concord, fit in, agree]
5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always
agree in English"
6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me"
7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of
my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"
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alee
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adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
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amputee
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n 1: someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
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appointee
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n 1: an official who is appointed
2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn:
appointee, appointment]
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banshee
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n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of
impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
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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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bourgeoisie
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n 1: the social class between the lower and upper classes [syn:
middle class, bourgeoisie]
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brie
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n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
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cc
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adj 1: being ten more than one hundred ninety [syn: two
hundred, 200, cc]
n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
[syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic
centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
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conferee
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n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were
conferred; the conferees were..."
2: a member of a conference
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curie
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n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a
radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of
37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie,
Ci]
2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn:
Curie, Pierre Curie]
3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one
(with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame
Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
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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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debris
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n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
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decree
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n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New
Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
[syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript]
v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree"
2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn
males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
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emcee
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n 1: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an
introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn:
master of ceremonies, emcee, host]
v 1: act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee, compere]
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foresee
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v 1: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse,
foreknow, foresee]
2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him
as President" [syn: envision, foresee]
3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn:
anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]
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lessee
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n 1: a tenant who holds a lease [syn: leaseholder, lessee]
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licensee
0
n 1: someone to whom a license is granted
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tea
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n 1: a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water; "iced tea
is a cooling drink"
2: a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes; "an
Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea"
[syn: tea, afternoon tea, teatime]
3: a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively
cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea
leaves; "tea has fragrant white flowers" [syn: tea,
Camellia sinensis]
4: a reception or party at which tea is served; "we met at the
Dean's tea for newcomers"
5: dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea; "the store
shelves held many different kinds of tea"; "they threw the
tea into Boston harbor" [syn: tea, tea leaf]
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tee
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n 1: the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they
were waiting on the first tee" [syn: tee, teeing
ground]
2: support holding a football on end and above the ground
preparatory to the kickoff [syn: tee, football tee]
3: a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the
ground [syn: tee, golf tee]
v 1: place on a tee; "tee golf balls" [syn: tee, tee up]
2: connect with a tee; "tee two pipes"
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three
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adj 1: being one more than two [syn: three, 3, iii]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
[syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce,
leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary,
ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-
ace]
2: one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn:
trey, three]
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trainee
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n 1: someone who is being trained
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tree
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n 1: a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and
branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both
gymnosperms and angiosperms
2: a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical
tree" [syn: tree, tree diagram]
3: English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish
productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917) [syn: Tree, Sir
Herbert Beerbohm Tree]
v 1: force a person or an animal into a position from which he
cannot escape [syn: corner, tree]
2: plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house
will be shaded in summer"
3: chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with
dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"
4: stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree [syn: tree, shoetree]
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tripe
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n 1: lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine)
used as food
2: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish,
tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce,
codswallop]
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trustee
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n 1: a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property
is entrusted to use for another's benefit [syn: trustee,
legal guardian]
2: members of a governing board [syn: regent, trustee]
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undersea
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adj 1: beneath the surface of the sea [syn: submarine,
undersea]
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vendee
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n 1: a person who buys [syn: buyer, purchaser, emptor,
vendee]
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vi
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units
[syn: six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn:
six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a
dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad]
2: more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent
territory of the United States [syn: United States Virgin
Islands, American Virgin Islands, VI]
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wee
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adj 1: (used informally) very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty,
bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny,
weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty,
itsy-bitsy]
2: very early; "the wee hours of the morning"
n 1: a short time; "bide a wee"
v 1: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive
rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle,
micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water,
relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee,
wee-wee, pass water]
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whoopee
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n 1: noisy and boisterous revelry
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xi
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adj 1: being one more than ten [syn: eleven, 11, xi]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one [syn:
eleven, 11, XI]
2: the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet
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zee
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n 1: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z
zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee";
"he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee,
zed, ezed, izzard]
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cree
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n 1: a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cree
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tv
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n 1: broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects;
"she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a
medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie
Kovacs [syn: television, telecasting, TV, video]
2: an electronic device that receives television signals and
displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a
telly" [syn: television receiver, television, television
set, tv, tv set, idiot box, boob tube, telly,
goggle box]
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yangtze
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n 1: the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into
the East China Sea near Shanghai [syn: Chang Jiang,
Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River, Yangtze
Kiang]
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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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c
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adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
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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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t
0
n 1: a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from
pyrimidine; pairs with adenine [syn: thymine, T]
2: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxythymidine monophosphate, T]
3: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric
ton, MT, tonne, t]
4: the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: T, t]
5: thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine
atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts
the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent
and briefer [syn: triiodothyronine, liothyronine, T]
6: hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism
by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is
65% iodine" [syn: thyroxine, thyroxin,
tetraiodothyronine, T]
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te
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n 1: a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to
selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a
semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of
copper and nickel and silver and gold [syn: tellurium,
Te, atomic number 52]
2: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any
musical scale in solmization [syn: ti, te, si]
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ti
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n 1: a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic
element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane
parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite [syn:
titanium, Ti, atomic number 22]
2: shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally
for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as
food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii [syn:
ti, Cordyline terminalis]
3: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any
musical scale in solmization [syn: ti, te, si]
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v
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adj 1: being one more than four [syn: five, 5, v]
n 1: a unit of potential equal to the potential difference
between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1
ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is
1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a
resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through
it [syn: volt, V]
2: a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel
alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including
carnotite and vanadinite [syn: vanadium, V, atomic
number 23]
3: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn:
five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome,
quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe]
4: the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: V, v]
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yi
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n 1: a Loloish language [syn: Lolo, Yi]
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z
0
n 1: the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the
Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"--
Revelation [syn: omega, Z]
2: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z
zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee";
"he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee, zed,
ezed, izzard]
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zea
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n 1: corn [syn: Zea, genus Zea]
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agee
0
n 1: United States novelist (1909-1955) [syn: Agee, James
Agee]
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albee
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n 1: United States dramatist (1928-) [syn: Albee, Edward
Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen]
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capri
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n 1: an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in
southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful
scenery
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chablis
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n 1: a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy
wines
2: dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling
it [syn: Chablis, white Burgundy]
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tb
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n 1: a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers;
occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
[syn: terbium, Tb, atomic number 65]
2: infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle
bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in
the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute
stages) [syn: tuberculosis, TB, T.B.]
3: a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12
(1,000,000,000,000) bits [syn: terabit, Tbit, Tb]
4: a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12
(1,000,000,000,000) bytes [syn: terabyte, TB]
5: a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40
(1,099,511,627,776) bytes [syn: terabyte, tebibyte, TB,
TiB]
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ddt
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n 1: an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans;
banned in the United States since 1972 [syn:
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, DDT]
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oversea
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adv 1: beyond or across the sea; "He lived overseas for many
years" [syn: oversea, overseas]
adj 1: being or passing over or across the sea; "some overseas
trade in grain arose" [syn: oversea, overseas]
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tennessee
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n 1: a state in east central United States [syn: Tennessee,
Volunteer State, TN]
2: a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near
Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary
of the Ohio River in western Kentucky [syn: Tennessee,
Tennessee River]
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thee
0
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we
0
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ye
0
-
yippee
0
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jaycee
0
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bea
0
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blea
0
-
brea
0
-
bree
0
-
bui
0
-
chea
0
-
chee
0
-
cie
0
-
crea
0
-
thi
0
-
tse
0
-
ve
0
-
vee
0
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abee
0
-
achee
0
-
acree
0
-
adee
0
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akey
0
-
allee
0
-
andree
0
-
askey
0
-
baldree
0
-
beaudry
0
-
bibee
0
-
bibi
0
-
bouchey
0
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bouie
0
-
bouley
0
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bresee
0
-
buie
0
-
childree
0
-
cottee
0
-
couey
0
-
coutee
0
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abductee
0
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adoree
0
-
bbc
0
-
benami
0