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acumen
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n 1: a tapering point
2: shrewdness shown by keen insight [syn: insightfulness,
acumen]
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albumin
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n 1: a simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues
and liquids [syn: albumin, albumen]
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bitumen
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n 1: any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of
hydrocarbons
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crewman
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n 1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor, crewman]
2: a member of a flight crew [syn: crewman, crew member]
3: a member of a work crew
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gunman
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n 1: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman,
gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire,
triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
2: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn:
gunman, gun]
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hangman
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n 1: an executioner who hangs the condemned person
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helmsman
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n 1: the person who steers a ship [syn: helmsman, steersman,
steerer]
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henchman
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n 1: someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate,
collaborator, henchman, partner in crime]
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herdsman
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n 1: someone who drives a herd [syn: herder, herdsman,
drover]
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horseman
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n 1: a man skilled in equitation [syn: horseman, equestrian,
horseback rider]
2: a person who breeds and cares for horses [syn: horseman,
horse fancier]
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houseman
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n 1: an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining
supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British
term) [syn: intern, interne, houseman, medical
intern]
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human
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adj 1: characteristic of humanity; "human nature"
2: relating to a person; "the experiment was conducted on 6
monkeys and 2 human subjects"
3: having human form or attributes as opposed to those of
animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human body";
"human kindness"; "human frailty" [ant: nonhuman]
n 1: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae
characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech,
and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being,
human]
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huntsman
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n 1: someone who hunts game [syn: hunter, huntsman]
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inhuman
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adj 1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood";
"cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn:
cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate]
2: belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something
dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
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lineman
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n 1: one of the players on the line of scrimmage
2: the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole
3: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone
lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]
4: (American football) the position of a player on a football
team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
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linesman
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n 1: official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists
the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of
bounds or offside)
2: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone
lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]
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lumen
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n 1: a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given
out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source
of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all
directions [syn: lumen, lm]
2: a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the
intestine"
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marksman
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n 1: someone skilled in shooting [syn: marksman,
sharpshooter, crack shot]
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nonhuman
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adj 1: not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate
to human beings; "nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees"
[ant: human]
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rumen
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n 1: the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here
food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for
chewing [syn: rumen, first stomach]
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subhuman
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adj 1: less than human or not worthy of a human being; "treated
natives as subhuman"; "a subhuman spectacle"; "the
subhuman primates" [ant: superhuman]
2: unfit for human beings; "subhuman conditions of life"
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superhuman
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adj 1: above or beyond the human or demanding more than human
power or endurance; "superhuman beings"; "superhuman
strength"; "soldiers driven mad by superhuman misery"
[ant: subhuman]
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bergman
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n 1: Swedish film actress (1915-1982) [syn: Bergman, Ingrid
Bergman]
2: Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored
the psychology of the characters (born 1918) [syn: Bergman,
Ingmar Bergman]
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draftsman
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n 1: a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines
[syn: draftsman, draughtsman, draftsperson]
2: an artist skilled at drawing [syn: draftsman, drawer]
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dutchman
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n 1: a native or inhabitant of Holland [syn: Netherlander,
Dutchman, Hollander]
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eastman
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n 1: United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing
photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced
roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color
photography (1854-1932) [syn: Eastman, George Eastman]
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goodman
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n 1: United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band
(including black as well as white musicians) and introduced
a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986) [syn: Goodman,
Benny Goodman, Benjamin David Goodman, King of Swing]
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truman
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n 1: elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd
President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945
and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of
atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972) [syn: Truman,
Harry Truman, Harry S Truman, President Truman]
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newman
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n 1: United States film actor (born in 1925) [syn: Newman,
Paul Newman, Paul Leonard Newman]
2: English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and
Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later
turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
[syn: Newman, John Henry Newman, Cardinal Newman]
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trackman
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gownsman
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bumann
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