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between
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adv 1: in the interval; "dancing all the dances with little rest
between" [syn: between, betwixt]
2: in between; "two houses with a tree between" [syn: between,
'tween]
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eighteen
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adj 1: being one more than seventeen [syn: eighteen, 18,
xviii]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
[syn: eighteen, 18, XVIII]
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fifteen
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adj 1: being one more than fourteen [syn: fifteen, 15, xv]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one
[syn: fifteen, 15, XV]
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green
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adj 1: of the color between blue and yellow in the color
spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass; "a green
tree"; "green fields"; "green paint" [syn: green,
greenish, light-green, dark-green]
2: concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the
political principles of the Green Party
3: not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit";
"fried green tomatoes"; "green wood" [syn: green, unripe,
unripened, immature] [ant: mature, ripe]
4: looking pale and unhealthy; "you're looking green"; "green
around the gills"
5: naive and easily deceived or tricked; "at that early age she
had been gullible and in love" [syn: fleeceable, green,
gullible]
n 1: green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing
grass [syn: green, greenness, viridity]
2: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area;
"they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons,
common, green]
3: United States labor leader who was president of the American
Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the
struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations
(1873-1952) [syn: Green, William Green]
4: an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
5: a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward
through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River
[syn: Green, Green River]
6: an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a
golf course; "the ball rolled across the green and into the
bunker" [syn: green, putting green, putting surface]
7: any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten
as vegetables [syn: greens, green, leafy vegetable]
8: street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid,
special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]
v 1: turn or become green; "The trees are greening"
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latrine
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n 1: a public toilet in a military area
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lean
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adj 1: lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too
thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry
look"-Shakespeare [syn: thin, lean] [ant: fat]
2: lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean
ore"; "lean fuel" [ant: rich]
3: containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy
allowance" [syn: lean, skimpy]
4: not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year"
n 1: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs
from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the
ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a
heavy inclination to the right" [syn: tilt, list,
inclination, lean, leaning]
v 1: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned
over the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, slant,
angle]
2: cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the
wall"
3: have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be
inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures";
"These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" [syn:
tend, be given, lean, incline, run]
4: rely on for support; "We can lean on this man"
5: cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree"
[syn: list, lean]
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lien
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n 1: the right to take another's property if an obligation is
not discharged
2: a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body
between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells
involved in immune responses [syn: spleen, lien]
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machine
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n 1: any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or
modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of
human tasks
2: an efficient person; "the boxer was a magnificent fighting
machine"
3: an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals
efficiently; "the war machine"
4: a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying
force at some other point [syn: machine, simple machine]
5: a group that controls the activities of a political party;
"he was endorsed by the Democratic machine" [syn: machine,
political machine]
6: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an
internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
[syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar]
v 1: turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery
2: make by machinery; "The Americans were machining while others
still hand-made cars"
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marine
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adj 1: of or relating to the sea; "marine explorations"
2: relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or
seamen; "nautical charts"; "maritime law"; "marine insurance"
[syn: nautical, maritime, marine]
3: of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land
and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps); "marine
barracks"
4: relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the
sea
5: native to or inhabiting the sea; "marine plants and animals
such as seaweed and whales"
n 1: a member of the United States Marine Corps [syn: Marine,
devil dog, leatherneck, shipboard soldier]
2: a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land
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mean
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adj 1: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected
value; "the average income in New England is below that
of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the
mean annual rainfall" [syn: average, mean(a)]
2: characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean
mood" [syn: hateful, mean]
3: having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that
liberal obedience without which your army would be a base
rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd
with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something
essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" [syn:
base, mean, meanspirited]
4: excellent; "famous for a mean backhand"
5: marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence
in the slums"; "a mean hut" [syn: beggarly, mean]
6: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative
of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly
tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly, tight]
7: (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve
contempt [syn: beggarly, mean]
8: of no value or worth; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic"
[syn: bastardly, mean]
n 1: an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of
the numbers and dividing by some function of n [syn:
mean, mean value]
v 1: mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand
what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" [syn: mean,
intend]
2: have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that
we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: entail, imply,
mean]
3: denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An
example sentence would show what this word means" [syn:
mean, intend, signify, stand for]
4: have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to
help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to
return early that night" [syn: intend, mean, think]
5: have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means
nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything"
6: intend to refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk
about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about
people who gossip!" [syn: think of, have in mind, mean]
7: destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers
were meant for you"
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mien
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n 1: dignified manner or conduct [syn: bearing, comportment,
presence, mien]
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nineteen
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adj 1: being one more than eighteen [syn: nineteen, 19,
xix]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one
[syn: nineteen, 19, XIX]
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obscene
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adj 1: designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often
becomes flagrantly obscene"-Margaret Mead
2: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene
massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs";
"repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent
novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene,
repugnant, repulsive]
3: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd
whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture";
"obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn:
lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]
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queen
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n 1: the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such
as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
2: a female sovereign ruler [syn: queen, queen regnant,
female monarch] [ant: Rex, king, male monarch]
3: the wife or widow of a king
4: something personified as a woman who is considered the best
or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of
cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
5: a competitor who holds a preeminent position [syn: king,
queen, world-beater]
6: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot,
faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer,
poof, poove, pouf]
7: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
8: (chess) the most powerful piece
9: an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony
of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only
a few males [syn: queen, queen mole rat]
10: female cat [syn: tabby, queen]
v 1: promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
2: become a queen; "her pawn queened"
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saline
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adj 1: containing salt; "a saline substance "; "salty tears"
n 1: an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water
[syn: saline solution, saline]
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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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scene
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n 1: the place where some action occurs; "the police returned to
the scene of the crime"
2: an incident (real or imaginary); "their parting was a sad
scene"
3: the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature
of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view, aspect,
prospect, scene, vista, panorama]
4: a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of
action in a film [syn: scene, shot]
5: a situation treated as an observable object; "the political
picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has
changed in the last century" [syn: picture, scene]
6: a subdivision of an act of a play; "the first act has three
scenes"
7: a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a
tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: fit, tantrum, scene,
conniption]
8: graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic
representation of a visual percept; "he painted scenes from
everyday life"; "figure 2 shows photographic and schematic
views of the equipment" [syn: scene, view]
9: the context and environment in which something is set; "the
perfect setting for a ghost story" [syn: setting, scene]
10: the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to
suggest a particular locale; "they worked all night painting
the scenery" [syn: scenery, scene]
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screen
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n 1: a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected
for viewing [syn: screen, silver screen, projection
screen]
2: a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight;
"they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" [syn:
blind, screen]
3: the display that is electronically created on the surface of
the large end of a cathode-ray tube [syn: screen, CRT
screen]
4: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a
screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness";
"the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest
concealment is to match perfectly the color of the
background" [syn: screen, cover, covert, concealment]
5: a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted
in a frame; "they put screens in the windows for protection
against insects"; "a metal screen protected the observers"
6: the personnel of the film industry; "a star of stage and
screen" [syn: filmdom, screenland, screen]
7: a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or
grading particles [syn: sieve, screen]
8: a door that consists of a frame holding metallic or plastic
netting; used to allow ventilation and to keep insects from
entering a building through the open door; "he heard the
screen slam as she left" [syn: screen door, screen]
9: partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that
serves to divide a space
v 1: test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;
"screen the blood for the HIV virus" [syn: screen,
test]
2: examine methodically; "screen the suitcases"
3: examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples";
"screen the job applicants" [syn: screen, screen out,
sieve, sort]
4: project onto a screen for viewing; "screen a film"
5: prevent from entering; "block out the strong sunlight" [syn:
screen, block out]
6: separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff [syn: riddle,
screen]
7: protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm [syn: shield,
screen]
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serene
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adj 1: not agitated; without losing self-possession; "spoke in a
calm voice"; "remained calm throughout the uproar"; "he
remained serene in the midst of turbulence"; "a serene
expression on her face"; "she became more tranquil";
"tranquil life in the country" [syn: calm,
unagitated, serene, tranquil]
2: completely clear and fine; "serene skies and a bright blue
sea"
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sheen
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n 1: the visual property of something that shines with reflected
light [syn: shininess, sheen, luster, lustre]
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sixteen
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adj 1: being one more than fifteen [syn: sixteen, 16, xvi]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one
[syn: sixteen, 16, XVI]
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spleen
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n 1: a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body
between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells
involved in immune responses [syn: spleen, lien]
2: a feeling of resentful anger [syn: irascibility, short
temper, spleen, quick temper]
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sunscreen
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n 1: a cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA)
to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn
[syn: sunscreen, sunblock, sun blocker]
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teen
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adj 1: being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the
teen years" [syn: adolescent, teen, teenage,
teenaged]
n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn:
adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
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thirteen
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adj 1: being one more than twelve [syn: thirteen, 13,
xiii]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of twelve and one [syn:
thirteen, 13, XIII, baker's dozen, long dozen]
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umpteen
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adj 1: innumerable but many [syn: umpteen, umteen]
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unclean
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adj 1: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty
unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty
slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on
the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a
dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her
sisters preened themselves" [syn: dirty, soiled,
unclean] [ant: clean]
2: having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure
according to dietary or ceremonial laws; "unclean meat"; "and
the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 [syn:
unclean, impure] [ant: clean]
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unseen
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adj 1: not observed [syn: unobserved, unseen]
n 1: a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine
spirit [syn: spiritual world, spiritual domain,
unseen]
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vaccine
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n 1: immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead
pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the
production of antibodies [syn: vaccine, vaccinum]
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in-between
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adj 1: being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a
series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a
mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" [syn:
in-between, mediate, middle]
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seen
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mcqueen
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