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better
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adv 1: comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent
manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a
greater degree etc.; "She had never sung better"; "a deed
better left undone"; "better suited to the job"
2: from a position of superiority or authority; "father knows
best"; "I know better." [syn: better, best]
adj 1: (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same
class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or
desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than
another; "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din"; "a
better coat"; "a better type of car"; "a suit with a
better fit"; "a better chance of success"; "produced a
better mousetrap"; "she's better in math than in history"
[ant: worse]
2: (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or
fitness; "her health is better now"; "I feel better" [ant:
worse, worsened]
3: (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more
advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be better to
speak to him"; "the White House thought it best not to
respond" [syn: better(p), best(p)]
4: more than half; "argued for the better part of an hour"
n 1: something superior in quality or condition or effect; "a
change for the better"
2: someone who bets [syn: bettor, better, wagerer,
punter]
3: a superior person having claim to precedence; "the common man
has been kept in his place by his betters"
4: the superior one of two alternatives; "chose the better of
the two"
v 1: surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record";
"break a record" [syn: better, break]
2: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his
changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate,
meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate,
worsen]
3: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn:
better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant:
decline, worsen]
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bettor
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n 1: someone who bets [syn: bettor, better, wagerer,
punter]
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bonesetter
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n 1: someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets
broken bones
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checker
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n 1: an attendant who checks coats or baggage
2: one who checks the correctness of something
3: one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of
checkers [syn: checker, chequer]
v 1: mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
[syn: check, checker, chequer]
2: variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns [syn:
checker, chequer]
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cheddar
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n 1: a village in southwestern England where cheddar cheese was
first made
2: hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in
southwestern England [syn: cheddar, cheddar cheese,
Armerican cheddar, American cheese]
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debtor
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n 1: a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the
obligation of paying a debt [syn: debtor, debitor]
[ant: creditor]
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doubleheader
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n 1: two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the
same two teams play two games on the same day) [syn: twin
bill, doubleheader, double feature]
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fetter
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n 1: a shackle for the ankles or feet [syn: fetter, hobble]
v 1: restrain with fetters [syn: fetter, shackle]
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fletcher
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n 1: prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis
Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625) [syn:
Fletcher, John Fletcher]
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header
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n 1: a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below
it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with
the text" [syn: heading, header, head]
2: horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or
window [syn: header, lintel]
3: brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall [syn:
header, coping, cope]
4: a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists,
studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel
joists, studs, or rafters
5: a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a
wagon
6: (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
7: a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the
shrubbery"
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homesteader
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n 1: someone who settles lawfully on government land with the
intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter,
homesteader, nester]
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setter
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n 1: one who sets written material into type [syn: compositor,
typesetter, setter, typographer]
2: a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game
but now to point
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shedder
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n 1: an attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and
spiller of blood" [syn: shedder, spiller]
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shredder
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n 1: a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent
the wrong people from reading them)
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spreader
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n 1: a hand tool for spreading something; "he used his knife as
a spreader"
2: a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or
fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions [syn:
broadcaster, spreader]
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stepper
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n 1: a professional dancer [syn: hoofer, stepper]
2: a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates
in small discrete steps [syn: stepper, stepping motor]
3: a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while
walking or trotting [syn: stepper, high stepper]
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sweater
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n 1: a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of
the body [syn: sweater, jumper]
2: a person who perspires [syn: perspirer, sweater]
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wrecker
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n 1: someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
2: someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
[syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist]
3: a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove
cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck, tow car,
wrecker]
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bedder
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n 1: an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed
[syn: bedder, bedding plant]
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decker
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n 1: English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632) [syn:
Dekker, Decker, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Decker]
2: (often used in combinations) something constructed with
multiple levels; "they rode in a double-decker bus"
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sledder
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n 1: someone who rides a sled
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threader
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n 1: a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops [syn:
bodkin, threader]
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edda
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n 1: tropical starchy tuberous root [syn: taro, taro root,
cocoyam, dasheen, edda]
2: either of two distinct works in Old Icelandic dating from the
late 13th century and consisting of 34 mythological and
heroic ballads composed between 800 and 1200; the primary
source for Scandinavian mythology
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bobsledder
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getter
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redder
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deader
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vedda
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kedah
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tedder
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