| acclimation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimatisation, acclimatization |
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| acclimatisation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatization |
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| acclimatization | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatisation |
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| acclivity | (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
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| anaclisis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others; especially a libidinal attachment to e.g. a parental figure | - |
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| anemoclinometer | (noun) A type of instrument which measures the inclination of the wind to the horizontal plane. | - |
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| anticlimax | (noun) a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one | Synonyms: bathos |
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| (noun) a disappointing decline after a previous rise | - |
| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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| bicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, biker, cyclist, wheeler |
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| bioclimatology | (noun) the study of effects of climate on living organisms | - |
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| chlortetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases | Synonyms: Aureomycin |
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| clianthus | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes | Synonyms: glory pea |
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| cliche | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, commonplace, platitude |
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| click | (noun) depression of a button on a computer mouse | Synonyms: mouse click |
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| (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: detent, dog, pawl |
| (noun) a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) | Synonyms: suction stop |
| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, clink |
| client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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| (noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
| (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
| clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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| clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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| cliff | (noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: drop-off, drop |
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| cliffhanger | (noun) an episode that ends in suspense | - |
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| (noun) a contest whose outcome is uncertain up to the very end | - |
| climacteric | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, menopause |
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| (noun) a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause | - |
| climate | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: clime |
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| (noun) the prevailing psychological state | Synonyms: mood |
| climatologist | (noun) someone who is expert in climatology | - |
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| climatology | (noun) meteorology of climates and their phenomena | - |
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| climax | (noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: coming, orgasm, sexual climax |
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| (noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play | Synonyms: culmination |
| (noun) arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness | - |
| (noun) the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding | Synonyms: flood tide |
| (noun) the most severe stage of a disease | - |
| climb | (noun) the act of climbing something | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climbing, mounting |
| (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, raise, rise, upgrade |
| climber | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climbing iron, crampon, crampoon |
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| (noun) someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains | - |
| (noun) someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior | Synonyms: social climber |
| (noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: mounter |
| (noun) a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants | - |
| climbing | (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, mounting |
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| clime | (noun) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time | Synonyms: climate |
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| clinch | (noun) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | - |
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| (noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: hug, squeeze |
| (noun) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | - |
| (noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clench |
| (noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clamp |
| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| cling | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: clingstone |
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| clingfilm | (noun) a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food | Synonyms: cling film, Saran Wrap |
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| clingfish | (noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | - |
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| clingstone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: cling |
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| clinic | (noun) a healthcare facility for outpatient care | - |
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| (noun) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity | - |
| (noun) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists | - |
| clinician | (noun) a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments | - |
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| clinid | (noun) mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds | Synonyms: clinid fish |
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| clink | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, click |
| clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
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| (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
| clinocephalism | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephaly |
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| clinocephaly | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephalism |
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| clinodactyly | (noun) a congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned | - |
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| clinometer | (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: inclinometer |
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| clintonia | (noun) any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries | Synonyms: Clinton's lily |
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| clip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clipping, snip |
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| (noun) a sharp slanting blow | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, magazine |
| (noun) any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together | - |
| (noun) an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress | - |
| (noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: time |
| clipboard | (noun) a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers | - |
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| clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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| (noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
| (noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
| (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
| clipping | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, snip |
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| (noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| clique | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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| cliquishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, exclusiveness |
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| clit | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clitoris |
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| clitic | (noun) a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. | - |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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| clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| cyclicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodicity |
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| cycling | (noun) the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle | - |
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| cyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, biker, wheeler |
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| declination | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: regrets |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, dec |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: decline |
| decline | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
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| (noun) a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: diminution |
| (noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: declination |
| declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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| declivity | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall |
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| disinclination | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike | - |
| doxycycline | (noun) an antibiotic derived from tetracycline that is effective against many infections | Synonyms: Vibramycin |
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| eclipse | (noun) one celestial body obscures another | Synonyms: occultation |
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| eclipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: ellipsis |
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| ecliptic | (noun) the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator | - |
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| encyclical | (noun) a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world | Synonyms: encyclical letter |
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| heterocyclic | (noun) a compound containing a heterocyclic ring | Synonyms: heterocycle, heterocyclic compound |
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| hydroxytetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: oxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, Terramycin |
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| inclination | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclining |
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| (noun) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect | Synonyms: tendency |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: lean, leaning, list, tilt |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: disposition, tendency |
| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking | - |
| (noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, dip, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
| (noun) (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) | Synonyms: angle of inclination |
| (noun) (astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees | Synonyms: inclination of an orbit |
| incline | (noun) an inclined surface connecting two levels | Synonyms: ramp |
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| (noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: side, slope |
| inclining | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclination |
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| inclinometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the angle of magnetic dip (as from an airplane) | Synonyms: dip circle |
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| (noun) an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon | - |
| (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: clinometer |
| iridocyclitis | (noun) inflammation of the iris and ciliary body of the eye | - |
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| isoclinal | (noun) an isogram connecting points of equal magnetic inclination | Synonyms: isoclinic line |
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| meclizine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Antivert) used to treat or prevent motion sickness | Synonyms: Antivert, meclizine hydrochloride |
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| minocycline | (noun) tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: Minocin |
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| monocline | (noun) a geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction | - |
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| motorcycling | (noun) riding a motorcycle | - |
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| motorcyclist | (noun) a traveler who rides a motorcycle | - |
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| nontricyclic | (noun) a class of antidepressant drugs that are not tricyclic drugs and do not act by inhibiting MAO | Synonyms: nontricyclic antidepressant, nontricyclic antidepressant drug, nontricyclic drug |
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| oxyphencyclimine | (noun) an anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers | Synonyms: Daricon |
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| oxytetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trademark Terramycin) obtained from a soil actinomycete; used to treat various bacterial and rickettsial infections | Synonyms: hydroxytetracycline, oxytetracycline hydrochloride, Terramycin |
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| palaeoclimatology | (noun) the study of the climate of past ages | Synonyms: paleoclimatology |
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| paleoclimatology | (noun) the study of the climate of past ages | Synonyms: palaeoclimatology |
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| paperclip | (noun) a wire or plastic clip for holding sheets of paper together | Synonyms: gem clip, paper clip |
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| phencyclidine | (noun) a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: angel dust, PCP, phencyclidine hydrochloride |
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| proclitic | (noun) a clitic that is associated with a following word. | - |
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| proclivity | (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: leaning, propensity |
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| procyclidine | (noun) drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in Parkinsonism | Synonyms: Kemadrin |
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| recliner | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: lounger, reclining chair |
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| reclining | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position | - |
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| recycling | (noun) the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
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| (noun) used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
| tetracycline | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Achromycin) derived from microorganisms of the genus Streptomyces and used broadly to treat infections | Synonyms: Achromycin |
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| triclinium | (noun) a dining table with couches along three sides in ancient Rome | - |
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| (noun) a dining room (especially a dining room containing a dining table with couches along three sides) | - |
| tricyclic | (noun) an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain | Synonyms: tricyclic antidepressant, tricyclic antidepressant drug |
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| unicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a unicycle | - |
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