| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| sidelight | (noun) light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow | Synonyms: running light |
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| sigh | (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | Synonyms: suspiration |
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| (noun) a sound like a person sighing | - |
| sight | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: survey, view |
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| (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense |
| (noun) an instance of visual perception | - |
| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) a range of mental vision | - |
| (noun) a place of interest, especially to visitors | - |
| (noun) anything that is seen | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| sightedness | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, seeing |
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| sighting | (noun) the act of observing | - |
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| sightlessness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, cecity |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| sights | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | - |
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| sightseeing | (noun) going about to look at places of interest | Synonyms: rubber-necking |
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| sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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| skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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| slagheap | (noun) pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | - |
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| slaughter | (noun) the killing of animals (as for food) | - |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre |
| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| slaughterer | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: butcher |
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| slaughterhouse | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, shambles |
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| 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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| slight | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: rebuff |
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| slightness | (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: delicacy |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slimness |
| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, triviality |
| slough | (noun) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) | - |
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| (noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: gangrene, sphacelus |
| (noun) a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) | - |
| (noun) a hollow filled with mud | - |
| sloughing | (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: shedding |
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| snowplough | (noun) a vehicle used to push snow from roads | Synonyms: snowplow |
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| sorgho | (noun) any of several sorghums cultivated as a source of syrup | Synonyms: sorgo, sugar sorghum, sweet sorghum |
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| sorghum | (noun) made from juice of sweet sorghum | Synonyms: sorghum molasses |
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| (noun) economically important Old World tropical cereal grass | - |
| sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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| (noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
| spaceflight | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spacefaring |
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| spaghetti | (noun) pasta in the form of long strings | - |
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| (noun) spaghetti served with a tomato sauce | - |
| spaghettini | (noun) thin spaghetti | - |
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| spotlight | (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye |
| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| staghead | (noun) an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance | Synonyms: hexenbesen, witch broom, witches' broom |
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| staghound | (noun) a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound | - |
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| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| steamtightness | (noun) The property of being being sealed in such a way that steam cannot leak out. | - |
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| stepdaughter | (noun) a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| sticktight | (noun) parasitic on especially the heads of chickens | Synonyms: Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing | Synonyms: beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold |
| stoplight | (noun) a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections | Synonyms: traffic light, traffic signal |
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| (noun) a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop | Synonyms: brake light |
| straight | (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straightaway |
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| (noun) a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) | - |
| (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person |
| straightaway | (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
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| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| straightener | (noun) a device for straightening | - |
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| straightforwardness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: downrightness |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: singleness |
| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straightness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, heterosexuality |
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| (noun) freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
| (noun) (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl | - |
| (noun) having honest intentions | Synonyms: good faith |
| (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: directness |
| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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| stronghold | (noun) a strongly fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fastness |
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| sunlight | (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sun, sunshine |
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| superhighway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, throughway, thruway |
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| (noun) an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form | Synonyms: information superhighway |
| taillight | (noun) lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: rear lamp, rear light, tail lamp |
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| thigh | (noun) the part of the leg between the hip and the knee | - |
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| (noun) the upper joint of the leg of a fowl | Synonyms: second joint |
| thighbone | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, femur |
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| thoroughbred | (noun) a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horses | Synonyms: pureblood, purebred |
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| (noun) a racehorse belonging to a breed that originated from a cross between Arabian stallions and English mares | - |
| (noun) a well-bred person | - |
| thoroughfare | (noun) a public road from one place to another | - |
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| thoroughness | (noun) conscientiousness in performing all aspects of a task | - |
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| (noun) property of being marked by full detail, complete in all respects. | - |
| thoroughwort | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum |
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| thought | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought process |
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| (noun) the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about | Synonyms: idea |
| (noun) the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual | - |
| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, view |
| thoughtfulness | (noun) a considerate and thoughtful act | Synonyms: consideration |
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| (noun) the trait of thinking carefully before acting | - |
| (noun) kind and considerate regard for others | Synonyms: considerateness, consideration |
| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, musing, reflection, reflexion, rumination |
| thoughtlessness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: unthoughtfulness |
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| (noun) the quality of failing to be considerate of others | Synonyms: inconsiderateness, inconsideration |
| throughput | (noun) output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time) | - |
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| throughway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, thruway |
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| tightening | (noun) the act of making something tighter | - |
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| tightfistedness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightness |
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| tightness | (noun) lack of movement or room for movement | Synonyms: tautness |
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| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness |
| (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, density |
| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: constriction |
| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: stringency |
| tightrope | (noun) tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground | - |
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| tights | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: leotards |
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| tightwad | (noun) a miserly person | Synonyms: cheapskate |
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| tonight | (noun) the present or immediately coming night | - |
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| torchlight | (noun) light from a torch or torches | - |
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| tough | (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie |
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| (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo |
| (noun) someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing | Synonyms: street fighter |
| toughie | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, stumper |
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| (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough |
| toughness | (noun) the property of being big and strong | Synonyms: huskiness, ruggedness |
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| (noun) enduring strength and energy | Synonyms: stamina, staying power |
| (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: formidability |
| (noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: temper |
| trough | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: gutter |
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| (noun) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | Synonyms: manger |
| (noun) a long narrow shallow receptacle | - |
| (noun) a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) | - |
| (noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, till |
| (noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: bowl |
| tughrik | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mongolia | Synonyms: tugrik |
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| twilight | (noun) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | - |
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| (noun) a condition of decline following successes | - |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall |
| unenlightenment | (noun) a lack of understanding | - |
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| unneighborliness | (noun) an unneighborly disposition | - |
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| unrighteousness | (noun) failure to adhere to moral principles | - |
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| unsightliness | (noun) ugliness that is unpleasant to look at | - |
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| unthoughtfulness | (noun) the trait of not thinking carefully before acting | Synonyms: thoughtlessness |
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| upright | (noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board | Synonyms: upright piano |
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| (noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: vertical |
| uprightness | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: rectitude |
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| (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, verticality, verticalness |
| (noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: erectness |
| waggonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: wagonwright, wainwright |
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| wagonwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wainwright |
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| wainwright | (noun) a wagon maker | Synonyms: waggonwright, wagonwright |
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| watertightness | (noun) The condition of being so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. | Synonyms: waterproofness |
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| weeknight | (noun) any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday | - |
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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) | - |
| wheelwright | (noun) someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels | Synonyms: wheeler |
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