annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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annelid | (noun) worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally | Synonyms: annelid worm, segmented worm |
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annex | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annexe, extension, wing |
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annexa | (noun) accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) | Synonyms: adnexa |
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annexation | (noun) the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation | - |
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(noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: appropriation |
annexe | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, extension, wing |
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archiannelid | (noun) small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae | - |
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banner | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
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(noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
(noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
banneret | (noun) a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command | Synonyms: knight banneret, knight of the square flag |
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cannelloni | (noun) tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese | - |
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cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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channel | (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | Synonyms: distribution channel |
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(noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | - |
(noun) a television station and its programs | Synonyms: television channel, TV channel |
(noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct |
(noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass | Synonyms: transmission channel |
(noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: communication channel, line |
(noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels | - |
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: groove |
channelisation | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelization |
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channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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channels | (noun) official routes of communication | - |
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cleanness | (noun) the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities | - |
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(noun) without moral defects | - |
flannel | (noun) a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing | - |
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(noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, washcloth, washrag |
(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: gabardine, tweed, white |
flannelbush | (noun) any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers | Synonyms: California beauty, flannel bush |
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flannelette | (noun) a cotton fabric imitating flannel | - |
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gannet | (noun) large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish | - |
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humanness | (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, manhood |
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leanness | (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: spareness, thinness |
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(noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
mannequin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, manikin, mannikin |
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(noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannikin, model |
manner | (noun) a way of acting or behaving | Synonyms: personal manner |
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(noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, mode, style, way |
(noun) a kind | - |
mannerism | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, pose |
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(noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, idiosyncrasy |
manners | (noun) social deportment | - |
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meanness | (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: beastliness |
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(noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
planner | (noun) a notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc. | - |
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(noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, deviser |
scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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(noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
(noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
(noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
scintiscanner | (noun) The apparatus used to make a scintigram. | Synonyms: scintigraph |
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spanner | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: wrench |
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swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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tanner | (noun) a craftsman who tans skins and hides | - |
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(noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970 | Synonyms: sixpence |
tannery | (noun) workplace where skins and hides are tanned | - |
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uncleanness | (noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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wanness | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor |
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