capibara | (noun) pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | Synonyms: capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris |
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capillarity | (noun) a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries | Synonyms: capillary action |
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capillary | (noun) a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action | Synonyms: capillary tube, capillary tubing |
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(noun) any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules | Synonyms: capillary vessel |
capital | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, chapiter |
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(noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase |
(noun) a seat of government | - |
(noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product | - |
(noun) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | - |
(noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets | Synonyms: working capital |
capitalisation | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalization |
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(noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalization |
(noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalization |
(noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalization |
capitalism | (noun) an economic system based on private ownership of capital | Synonyms: capitalist economy |
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capitalist | (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
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(noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
capitalization | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalisation |
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(noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalisation |
(noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalisation |
(noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalisation |
capitate | (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
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capitation | (noun) a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person | - |
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capitol | (noun) a building occupied by a state legislature | - |
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capitula | (noun) a short scripture reading; done after a psalmody. | - |
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capitulation | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: fall, surrender |
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(noun) a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic | - |
(noun) a document containing the terms of surrender | - |
capitulum | (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: head |
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(noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: ear, spike |
(noun) an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree | - |
capiz | (noun) marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell | Synonyms: Placuna placenta, window oyster, windowpane oyster |
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chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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(noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
escapism | (noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy | Synonyms: escape |
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escapist | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: dreamer, wishful thinker |
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landscaping | (noun) working as a landscape gardener | Synonyms: landscape gardening |
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(noun) a garden laid out for esthetic effect | - |
landscapist | (noun) someone who paints landscapes | - |
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(noun) someone who arranges features of the landscape or garden attractively | Synonyms: landscape architect, landscape gardener, landscaper |
overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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(noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
(noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |