billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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blindfold | (noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
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centerfold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centrefold |
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centrefold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centerfold |
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countryfolk | (noun) people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics | Synonyms: country people |
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(noun) people living in the same country; compatriots | Synonyms: country people |
defoliant | (noun) a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off | - |
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defoliation | (noun) causing the leaves of trees and other plants to fall off (as by the use of chemicals) | - |
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(noun) the loss of foliage | - |
defoliator | (noun) an insect that strips the leaves from plants | - |
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enfolding | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: involution |
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exfoliation | (noun) a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin | Synonyms: scale, scurf |
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(noun) the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin | - |
folacin | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction | Synonyms: folate, folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, vitamin Bc, vitamin M |
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folate | (noun) a B vitamin that is essential for cell growth and reproduction | Synonyms: folacin, folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, vitamin Bc, vitamin M |
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fold | (noun) the act of folding | Synonyms: folding |
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(noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: sheep pen, sheepcote, sheepfold |
(noun) a folded part (as in skin or muscle) | Synonyms: plica |
(noun) a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church | Synonyms: congregation, faithful |
(noun) a group of sheep or goats | Synonyms: flock |
(noun) a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock | Synonyms: folding |
(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, flexure, plication |
folder | (noun) covering that is folded over to protect the contents | - |
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(noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, brochure, leaflet, pamphlet |
folderal | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, nonsense, trumpery |
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folderol | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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folding | (noun) the act of folding | Synonyms: fold |
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(noun) the process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape | Synonyms: protein folding |
(noun) a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock | Synonyms: fold |
foldout | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: gatefold |
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foliage | (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliation |
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(noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: leaf, leafage |
foliation | (noun) the production of foil by cutting or beating metal into thin leaves | - |
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(noun) the work of coating glass with metal foil | - |
(noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliage |
(noun) (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock | - |
(noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves | Synonyms: leafing |
folie | (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: disturbance, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
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folio | (noun) a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages | - |
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(noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) | Synonyms: leaf |
(noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: page number, pagination, paging |
folium | (noun) a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock | - |
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folk | (noun) the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community | Synonyms: ethnic music, folk music |
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(noun) people in general (often used in the plural) | Synonyms: common people, folks |
(noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: tribe |
(noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
folklore | (noun) the unwritten lore (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture | - |
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folklorism | (noun) Invention or adaptation of folklore; including any use of a tradition outside the cultural context in which it was created. | - |
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folks | (noun) your parents | - |
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(noun) people in general (often used in the plural) | Synonyms: common people, folk |
folksong | (noun) a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture | Synonyms: folk ballad, folk song |
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folktale | (noun) a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk | Synonyms: folk tale |
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follicle | (noun) any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity | - |
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folliculitis | (noun) inflammation of a hair follicle | - |
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follies | (noun) a revue with elaborate costuming | - |
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follower | (noun) a person who accepts the leadership of another | - |
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(noun) someone who travels behind or pursues another | - |
followers | (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: following |
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following | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit |
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(noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: followers |
followup | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, reexamination, review |
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(noun) an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done | Synonyms: follow-up |
(noun) a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work | Synonyms: follow-up |
folly | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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(noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity |
(noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: foolishness, unwiseness |
(noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, foolishness, madness |
gatefold | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: foldout |
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gentlefolk | (noun) people of good family and breeding and high social status | - |
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homefolk | (noun) the people of your home locality (especially your own family) | - |
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infolding | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: introversion, intussusception, invagination |
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kinfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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kinsfolk | (noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, phratry, sept |
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manifold | (noun) a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes | - |
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(noun) a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions | - |
(noun) a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies | Synonyms: manifold paper |
pinfold | (noun) a pen where stray animals are confined | - |
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portfolio | (noun) the role of the head of a government department | - |
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(noun) a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather | - |
(noun) a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution | - |
(noun) a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers | - |
scaffold | (noun) a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers | - |
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(noun) a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) | - |
scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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sheepfold | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepcote |
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townsfolk | (noun) the people living in a municipality smaller than a city | Synonyms: town, townspeople |
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trifoliata | (noun) small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges | Synonyms: Poncirus trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange |
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unfolding | (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: flowering |
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