bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
beige | (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
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beigel | (noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust | Synonyms: bagel |
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beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
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bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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(noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
eigenvalue | (noun) (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant | Synonyms: characteristic root of a square matrix, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix |
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eight | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
eighteen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
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eighteenth | (noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
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eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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eighth | (noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
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(noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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(noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
(noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
eightieth | (noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
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eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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(noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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eighty | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, LXXX |
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featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
foreigner | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, noncitizen, outlander |
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(noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: outsider |
foreignness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness |
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freight | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freightage |
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(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
(noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight rate, freightage |
freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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(noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |
freighter | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, merchant ship, merchantman |
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heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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(noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
(noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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(noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
(noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
lightweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
(noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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(noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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(noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
neigh | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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neighbor | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbour |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbour |
neighborhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighbourhood |
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(noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity |
(noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) | - |
(noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: region |
neighborliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighbourliness |
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neighbour | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbor |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbor |
neighbourhood | (noun) people living near one another | Synonyms: neighborhood |
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(noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity |
neighbourliness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors | Synonyms: good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness, neighborliness |
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overweight | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
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paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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peignoir | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, wrapper |
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pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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reign | (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: sovereignty |
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(noun) the period during which a monarch is sovereign | - |
(noun) a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful | - |
seigneur | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seignior |
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seigneury | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigniory |
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(noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigniory, signory |
seignior | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seigneur |
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seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
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(noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
sleigh | (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sledge |
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sleight | (noun) adroitness in using the hands | Synonyms: dexterity, manual dexterity |
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sovereign | (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |
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sovereignty | (noun) the authority of a state to govern another state | - |
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(noun) government free from external control | - |
(noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: reign |
unneighborliness | (noun) an unneighborly disposition | - |
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weigela | (noun) deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers | Synonyms: Weigela florida |
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weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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weigher | (noun) an official who weighs and records the weight | - |
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weighing | (noun) careful consideration | Synonyms: advisement, deliberation |
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weight | (noun) an artifact that is heavy | - |
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(noun) sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms | Synonyms: exercising weight, free weight |
(noun) the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity | - |
(noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weightiness |
(noun) an oppressive feeling of heavy force | - |
(noun) a unit used to measure weight | Synonyms: weight unit |
(noun) a system of units used to express the weight of something | Synonyms: system of weights |
(noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weighting |
weightiness | (noun) the property of being comparatively great in weight | Synonyms: heaviness |
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(noun) the relative importance granted to something | Synonyms: weight |
weighting | (noun) (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance | Synonyms: weight |
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weightlessness | (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: lightness |
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weightlift | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlifting |
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weightlifter | (noun) an athlete who lifts barbells | Synonyms: lifter |
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weightlifting | (noun) bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights | Synonyms: weightlift |
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welterweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the lightweight division and lighter than those in the middleweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 141 and 147 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds | - |
(noun) a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase) | - |