bean | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
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(noun) any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food | Synonyms: edible bean |
(noun) any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods | Synonyms: bean plant |
(noun) any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans | - |
beanbag | (noun) a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; thrown in games | - |
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beanball | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beaner |
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beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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beanfeast | (noun) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees | - |
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beanie | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beany |
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beano | (noun) a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards | Synonyms: bingo, keno, lotto |
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beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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beany | (noun) a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen | Synonyms: beanie |
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bogbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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buckbean | (noun) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface | Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock |
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butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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caesarean | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
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calean | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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cerulean | (noun) a light shade of blue | Synonyms: azure, lazuline, sapphire, sky-blue |
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cesarean | (noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
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cetacean | (noun) large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales, dolphins, porpoises, narwhals | Synonyms: blower, cetacean mammal |
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clean | (noun) a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead | Synonyms: clean and jerk |
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cleaner | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent |
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(noun) someone whose occupation is cleaning | - |
(noun) the operator of dry-cleaning establishment | Synonyms: dry cleaner |
cleaners | (noun) shop where dry cleaning is done | Synonyms: dry cleaners |
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cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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cleanliness | (noun) diligence in keeping clean | - |
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(noun) the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections | - |
cleanness | (noun) the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities | - |
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(noun) without moral defects | - |
cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
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cleansing | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleanup |
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cleanup | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleansing |
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(noun) (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) | Synonyms: cleanup position, cleanup spot |
(noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: killing |
crustacean | (noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton | - |
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dean | (noun) an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college | - |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals | - |
(noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: doyen |
deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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(noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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demeanor | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanour, deportment |
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demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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empyrean | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, firmament, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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epicurean | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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faineance | (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: idleness |
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gallinacean | (noun) heavy-bodied largely ground-feeding domestic or game birds | Synonyms: gallinaceous bird |
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gean | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: mazzard, mazzard cherry |
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gleaner | (noun) someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters | - |
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(noun) someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully | - |
hirudinean | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, leech |
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horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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(noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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(noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
jean | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, dungaree |
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jeans | (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, denim |
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larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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lean | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt |
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leaner | (noun) (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake | - |
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leaning | (noun) the act of deviating from a vertical position | - |
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(noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt |
(noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: proclivity, propensity |
(noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: propensity, tendency |
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 |
mean | (noun) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | Synonyms: mean value |
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meander | (noun) an aimless amble on a winding course | Synonyms: ramble |
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(noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river | - |
meanie | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meany, unkind person |
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meaning | (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
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(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
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 |
means | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, way |
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(noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, instrumentation |
(noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: substance |
meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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meanwhile | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meantime |
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meany | (noun) a person of mean disposition | Synonyms: meanie, unkind person |
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miscreant | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: reprobate |
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misdemeanor | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanour, violation |
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misdemeanour | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, violation |
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nauseant | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, vomit, vomitive |
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nemertean | (noun) soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract | Synonyms: nemertine, proboscis worm, ribbon worm |
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ocean | (noun) a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere | - |
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(noun) anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume | Synonyms: sea |
oceanaut | (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: aquanaut |
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oceanfront | (noun) land bordering an ocean | - |
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oceanographer | (noun) a scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas | - |
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oceanography | (noun) the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans | Synonyms: oceanology |
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oceanology | (noun) the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans | Synonyms: oceanography |
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oleander | (noun) an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay |
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paean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, pean |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: pean |
pageant | (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | Synonyms: pageantry |
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(noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony | Synonyms: pageantry |
pageantry | (noun) an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes | Synonyms: pageant |
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(noun) a rich and spectacular ceremony | Synonyms: pageant |
pean | (noun) a formal expression of praise | Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, panegyric |
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(noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) | Synonyms: paean |
peanut | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
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(noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
(noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
(noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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percoidean | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid, percoid fish |
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platyctenean | (noun) ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body | - |
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proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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recreant | (noun) an abject coward | Synonyms: craven, poltroon |
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(noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: apostate, deserter, ratter, renegade, turncoat |
sarcocystidean | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian |
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scarabaean | (noun) any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes | Synonyms: scarabaeid, scarabaeid beetle |
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screwbean | (noun) shrub or small tree of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico having spirally twisted pods | Synonyms: Prosopis pubescens, screw bean, screwbean mesquite, tornillo |
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seance | (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: session, sitting |
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sergeant | (noun) a lawman with the rank of sergeant | Synonyms: police sergeant |
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(noun) any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal | - |
(noun) an English barrister of the highest rank | Synonyms: sergeant-at-law, serjeant-at-law, serjeant |
serjeant | (noun) an English barrister of the highest rank | Synonyms: sergeant-at-law, sergeant, serjeant-at-law |
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soybean | (noun) the most highly proteinaceous vegetable known; the fruit of the soybean plant is used in a variety of foods and as fodder (especially as a replacement for animal protein) | Synonyms: soy, soya, soya bean |
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(noun) erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia | Synonyms: Glycine max, soja, soja bean, soy, soya, soya bean, soybean plant |
(noun) a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food | Synonyms: soy, soya bean |
terpsichorean | (noun) a performer who dances professionally | Synonyms: dancer, professional dancer |
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testacean | (noun) any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell | - |
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theanthropism | (noun) (theology) the doctrine that Jesus was a union of the human and the divine | - |
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(noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: anthropomorphism |
tirolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tyrolean |
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tyrolean | (noun) soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade | Synonyms: tirolean |
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uncleanliness | (noun) lack of cleanly habits | - |
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uncleanness | (noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: dirtiness |
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vengeance | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, retribution |
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weaning | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: ablactation |
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