acedia | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: laziness, sloth |
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bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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(noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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(noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
cyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cypripedia | (noun) a plant or flower of the genus Cypripedium | - |
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encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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hypermedia | (noun) a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together | Synonyms: hypermedia system, interactive multimedia, interactive multimedia system |
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hypnopedia | (noun) teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep) | Synonyms: sleep-learning |
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immediacy | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediateness, instancy, instantaneousness |
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(noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediateness |
(noun) immediate intuitive awareness | Synonyms: immediate apprehension |
immediateness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, instancy, instantaneousness |
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(noun) lack of an intervening or mediating agency | Synonyms: immediacy |
intermediary | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediator, mediator |
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intermediate | (noun) a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained | - |
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intermediation | (noun) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | Synonyms: mediation |
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intermediator | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, mediator |
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mediacy | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediateness |
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median | (noun) the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items | Synonyms: median value |
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mediant | (noun) (music) the third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant | - |
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mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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mediateness | (noun) the quality of being mediate | Synonyms: mediacy |
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mediation | (noun) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | Synonyms: intermediation |
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(noun) a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party | - |
mediator | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediator |
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mediatrix | (noun) a woman who is a mediator | - |
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misopedia | (noun) hatred of children | - |
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multimedia | (noun) transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.) | Synonyms: multimedia system |
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paediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist |
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paediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: pediatric medicine, pediatrics, pedology |
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pediatrician | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrist |
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pediatrics | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children | Synonyms: paediatrics, pediatric medicine, pedology |
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pediatrist | (noun) a specialist in the care of babies | Synonyms: baby doctor, paediatrician, pediatrician |
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remediation | (noun) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil | Synonyms: redress, remedy |
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submediant | (noun) (music) the sixth note of a major or minor scale (or the third below the tonic) | - |
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tragedian | (noun) an actor who specializes in tragic roles | - |
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(noun) a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies | - |