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bed
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n 1: a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he
sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and
chair"
2: a plot of ground in which plants are growing; "the gardener
planted a bed of roses"
3: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he
searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed,
bottom]
4: (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock);
"they found a bed of sandstone"
5: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with
profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: seam, bed]
6: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
"slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn:
layer, bed]
7: the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form
is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or
magazine or book etc.
8: a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad
track; "the track bed had washed away"
v 1: furnish with a bed; "The inn keeper could bed all the new
arrivals"
2: place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
3: put to bed; "The children were bedded at ten o'clock"
4: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever
intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the
hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get
laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck,
jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it,
bang, get it on, bonk]
5: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes
to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, turn in,
bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack,
sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise, get up,
rise, turn out, uprise]
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bedspread
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n 1: decorative cover for a bed [syn: bedspread, bedcover,
bed cover, bed covering, counterpane, spread]
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behead
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v 1: cut the head of; "the French King was beheaded during the
Revolution" [syn: decapitate, behead, decollate]
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bread
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n 1: food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised
with yeast or baking powder and then baked [syn: bread,
breadstuff, staff of life]
2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage,
clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce,
lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch,
shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
v 1: cover with bread crumbs; "bread the pork chops before
frying them"
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cornbread
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n 1: bread made primarily of cornmeal
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crossbred
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adj 1: bred from parents of different varieties or species [ant:
purebred]
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dead
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adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn:
abruptly, suddenly, short, dead]
2: completely and without qualification; used informally as
intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a
perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly
miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead
tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely, perfectly,
utterly, dead]
adj 1: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have
life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was
marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: alive(p),
live]
2: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity
to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or
heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals";
"the fire is dead" [ant: live]
3: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I
could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all
that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all
in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]
4: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
5: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead
volcano of the Cascade Range"
6: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity;
unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help";
"numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]
7: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from
the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled
her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous
television coverage of atrocities" [syn: dead, deadened]
8: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of
some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording
studio"
9: not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn:
dead, idle]
10: not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water";
"stagnant water" [syn: dead(a), stagnant]
11: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
12: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
13: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a
dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
14: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
15: complete; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness" [syn:
dead(a), utter]
16: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery";
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery
drained" [syn: dead, drained]
17: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever
happens here"
n 1: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
[ant: living]
2: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with
death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
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gingerbread
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n 1: cake flavored with ginger
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inbred
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adj 1: produced by inbreeding [ant: outbred]
2: normally existing at birth; "mankind's connatural sense of
the good" [syn: connatural, inborn, inbred]
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infrared
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adj 1: having or employing wavelengths longer than light but
shorter than radio waves; lying outside the visible
spectrum at its red end; "infrared radiation"; "infrared
photography"
n 1: the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum;
electromagnetic wave frequencies below the visible range;
"they could sense radiation in the infrared" [syn:
infrared, infrared frequency]
2: electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than
visible light but shorter than radio waves [syn: infrared,
infrared light, infrared radiation, infrared emission]
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misread
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v 1: read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data"
2: interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!" [syn:
misread, misinterpret]
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outspread
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adj 1: fully extended in width; "outspread wings"; "with arms
spread wide" [syn: outspread, spread]
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overspread
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v 1: spread across or over; "A big oil spot spread across the
water" [syn: spread, overspread]
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packthread
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n 1: a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages
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proofread
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v 1: read for errors; "I should proofread my manuscripts" [syn:
proofread, proof]
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purebred
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adj 1: bred for many generations from member of a recognized
breed or strain [ant: crossbred]
n 1: a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of
horses [syn: thoroughbred, purebred, pureblood]
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reread
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v 1: read anew; read again; "He re-read her letters to him"
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retread
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n 1: a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it
new treads [syn: retread, recap]
v 1: use again in altered form; "retread an old plot" [syn:
rework, make over, retread]
2: give new treads to (a tire) [syn: retread, remold,
remould]
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shortbread
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n 1: very rich thick butter cookie [syn: shortbread,
shortbread cookie]
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sweetbread
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n 1: edible glands of an animal [syn: sweetbread,
sweetbreads]
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thoroughbred
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adj 1: having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred
animal [syn: pedigree(a), pedigreed, pureblood,
pureblooded, thoroughbred]
n 1: a well-bred person
2: a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross
between Arabian stallions and English mares
3: a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of
horses [syn: thoroughbred, purebred, pureblood]
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unread
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adj 1: not informed through reading; "he seems to have been
wholly unread in political theory"- V.L.Parrington
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widespread
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adj 1: widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine";
"widespread fear of nuclear war"
2: distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading
operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges";
"widespread nuclear fallout" [syn: far-flung, widespread]
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wingspread
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n 1: distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or
insect) when fully extended
2: linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil [syn:
wingspan, wingspread]
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interbred
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adj 1: bred of closely related parents
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flatbread
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n 1: any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough
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ethelred
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n 1: king of the English who succeeded to the throne after his
half-brother Edward the Martyr was murdered; he struggled
unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016) [syn:
Ethelred, Ethelred II, Ethelred the Unready]
2: king of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred; Alfred
joined Ethelred's battle against the invading Danes and
succeeded him on his death (died in 871) [syn: Ethelred,
Ethelred I]
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underbred
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adj 1: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: ill-
bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred,
yokelish]
2: of inferior or mixed breed; "an underbred dog"
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sowbread
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n 1: common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers [syn:
sowbread, Cyclamen hederifolium, Cyclamen
neopolitanum]
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bled
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whitbread
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shewbread
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waybread
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crispbread
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