biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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diva | (noun) a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star | Synonyms: prima donna |
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divagation | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, diversion |
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(noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, excursus, parenthesis |
divan | (noun) a long backless sofa (usually with pillows against a wall) | - |
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(noun) a Muslim council chamber or law court | Synonyms: diwan |
(noun) a collection of Persian or Arabic poems (usually by one author) | Synonyms: diwan |
(noun) a Muslim council of state | Synonyms: diwan |
divarication | (noun) branching at a wide angle | - |
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dive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: nose dive, nosedive |
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(noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: diving |
(noun) a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall | Synonyms: honkytonk |
diver | (noun) large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes | Synonyms: loon |
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(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: plunger |
(noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: frogman, underwater diver |
divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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diversification | (noun) the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) | Synonyms: variegation |
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(noun) the condition of being varied | - |
diversion | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: recreation |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, digression, divagation |
(noun) an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack | Synonyms: diversionary attack |
diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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diversity | (noun) the condition or result of being changeable | - |
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(noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diverseness, multifariousness, variety |
diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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divertimento | (noun) a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form | Synonyms: serenade |
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divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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(noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
divide | (noun) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | Synonyms: water parting, watershed |
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(noun) a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility) | - |
dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
divider | (noun) a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) | Synonyms: partition |
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(noun) a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements | - |
(noun) a person who separates something into parts or groups | - |
(noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: splitter |
divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
(noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
divine | (noun) a clergyman or other person in religious orders | Synonyms: churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic |
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diviner | (noun) someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of supernatural powers | - |
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diving | (noun) a headlong plunge into water | Synonyms: dive |
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(noun) an athletic competition that involves diving into water | Synonyms: diving event |
divinity | (noun) the quality of being divine | - |
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(noun) the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth | Synonyms: theology |
(noun) white creamy fudge made with egg whites | Synonyms: divinity fudge |
(noun) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force | Synonyms: deity, god, immortal |
divisibility | (noun) the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons | - |
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division | (noun) the act or process of dividing | - |
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(noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed | - |
(noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
(noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole | Synonyms: part, section |
(noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: variance |
(noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat | - |
(noun) a group of ships of similar type | Synonyms: naval division |
(noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | Synonyms: air division |
(noun) an administrative unit in government or business | - |
(noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | - |
(noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | - |
(noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: class |
divisor | (noun) the number by which a dividend is divided | - |
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(noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: factor |
divorce | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorcement |
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divorcee | (noun) a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband | Synonyms: grass widow |
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divorcement | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorce |
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divot | (noun) a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) | - |
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(noun) (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke | - |
divulgement | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgence |
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divulgence | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgement |
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divvy | (noun) short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society | - |
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endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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(noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof |
individual | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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(noun) a single organism | - |
individualisation | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualization, individuation |
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individualism | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individuality, individuation |
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(noun) the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs | Synonyms: laissez faire |
(noun) a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence | - |
individualist | (noun) a person who pursues independent thought or action | - |
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individuality | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individualism, individuation |
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(noun) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | Synonyms: identity, personal identity |
individualization | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individuation |
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individuation | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individualism, individuality |
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(noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individualization |
indivisibility | (noun) (arithmetic) The state of being impossible to divide by a specific integer without leaving a remainder. | - |
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medivac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medevac, medical evacuation |
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nosedive | (noun) a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft | Synonyms: dive, nose dive |
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(noun) a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline | - |
recidivism | (noun) habitual relapse into crime | - |
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recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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(noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
skydiver | (noun) a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord | - |
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skydiving | (noun) performing acrobatics in free fall before pulling the ripcord of a parachute | - |
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subdivider | (noun) someone who divides parts into smaller parts (especially a divider of land into building sites) | - |
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subdivision | (noun) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | - |
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(noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subsection |
(noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | Synonyms: section |
(noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, branch |
(noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | - |