bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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caprifig | (noun) wild variety of the common fig used to facilitate pollination of certain figs | Synonyms: Ficus carica sylvestris |
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cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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configuration | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: conformation, contour, form, shape |
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(noun) an arrangement of parts or elements | Synonyms: constellation |
configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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disfiguration | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfigurement, mutilation |
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(noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfigurement |
disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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(noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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(noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
(noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
(noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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effigy | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: image, simulacrum |
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fig | (noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: figure |
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(noun) fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried | - |
(noun) Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit | Synonyms: common fig, common fig tree, Ficus carica |
figeater | (noun) large greenish June beetle of southern United States | Synonyms: green June beetle |
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fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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(noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
(noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
(noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
(noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
fighter | (noun) a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air | Synonyms: attack aircraft, fighter aircraft |
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(noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, scrapper |
(noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, hero, paladin |
fighting | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap |
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figment | (noun) a contrived or fantastic idea | - |
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figuration | (noun) decorating with a design | - |
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(noun) representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory | - |
figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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(noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
figure | (noun) a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating | - |
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(noun) a model of a bodily form (especially of a person) | - |
(noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, pattern |
(noun) the impression produced by a person | - |
(noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: number |
(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
(noun) a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground | - |
(noun) a diagram or picture illustrating textual material | Synonyms: fig |
(noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope |
(noun) a well-known or notable person | Synonyms: name, public figure |
(noun) an amount of money expressed numerically | - |
(noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: digit |
(noun) a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape | - |
figurehead | (noun) figure on the bow of some sailing vessels | - |
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(noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
figurer | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, estimator, reckoner |
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figurine | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: statuette |
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figuring | (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, reckoning |
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figwort | (noun) any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia | - |
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firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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(noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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(noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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prizefighter | (noun) a professional boxer | Synonyms: gladiator |
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subfigure | (noun) a figure that is a part of another figure | - |
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transfiguration | (noun) the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify | - |
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(noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances | Synonyms: metamorphosis |