adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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(noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adhesion, adhesiveness, bond |
adherent | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
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apheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: pheresis |
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(noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: aphaeresis |
asthenosphere | (noun) the lower layer of the crust | - |
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atmosphere | (noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: air, aura |
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(noun) the mass of air surrounding the Earth | Synonyms: air |
(noun) the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body | - |
(noun) a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade | Synonyms: atm, standard atmosphere, standard pressure |
(noun) the weather or climate at some place | Synonyms: atmospheric state |
(noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, ambience |
bathysphere | (noun) spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration | - |
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biosphere | (noun) the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist | - |
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blastosphere | (noun) early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs | Synonyms: blastula |
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chromosphere | (noun) a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun | - |
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coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
decipherer | (noun) a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text | - |
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(noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decoder |
exosphere | (noun) the outermost atmospheric layer | - |
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featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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gatherer | (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, collector |
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(noun) a person who gathers | - |
geosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: lithosphere |
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gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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heliosphere | (noun) the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system | - |
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hemisphere | (noun) either half of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral hemisphere |
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(noun) half of the terrestrial globe | - |
(noun) half of a sphere | - |
here | (noun) the present location; this place; location, proximal pronoun; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, singular, proximal | - |
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hereafter | (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come |
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(noun) life after death | Synonyms: afterlife |
hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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heredity | (noun) the total of inherited attributes | Synonyms: genetic endowment |
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(noun) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next | - |
hereness | (noun) the state of being here in this place | - |
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heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | Synonyms: unorthodoxy |
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(noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | Synonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy |
heretic | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: misbeliever, religious outcast |
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(noun) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) | - |
houhere | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, lacebark, ribbonwood |
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hydrosphere | (noun) the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor | - |
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incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
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inherency | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherence |
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ionosphere | (noun) the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high concentration of free electrons | - |
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isothere | (noun) a line on a map linking places with the same mean summer temperature. | - |
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leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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lithosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: geosphere |
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magnetosphere | (noun) the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field | - |
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megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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mesosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere | - |
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motherese | (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, babytalk |
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nowhere | (noun) an insignificant place | - |
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oosphere | (noun) a gamete; used especially of lower plants | - |
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ozonosphere | (noun) a layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun | Synonyms: ozone layer |
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pheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: apheresis |
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photosphere | (noun) the intensely luminous surface of a star (especially the sun) | - |
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plasmapheresis | (noun) plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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smotherer | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: stifler |
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somewhere | (noun) an indefinite or unknown location | - |
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sphere | (noun) any spherically shaped artifact | - |
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(noun) a particular aspect of life or activity | Synonyms: sector |
(noun) the geographical area in which one nation is very influential | Synonyms: sphere of influence |
(noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin |
(noun) a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses) | - |
(noun) a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center | - |
(noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, orbit |
stratosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere | - |
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there | (noun) a location other than here; that place; location, medial pronoun; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, distal; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, singular, distal | - |
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theremin | (noun) an electronic musical instrument; melodies can be played by moving the right hand between two rods that serve as antennas to control pitch; the left hand controls phrasing | - |
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thereness | (noun) the state of being there--not here--in position | - |
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(noun) real existence | - |
thermosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the mesosphere and the exosphere | - |
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tollgatherer | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollkeeper, tollman |
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troposphere | (noun) the lowest atmospheric layer; from 4 to 11 miles high (depending on latitude) | - |
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uintathere | (noun) a variety of dinocerate | Synonyms: dinoceras |
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usherette | (noun) a female usher | - |
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whereabouts | (noun) the general location where something is | - |
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wherefore | (noun) the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores' | Synonyms: why |
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wherewithal | (noun) the necessary means (especially financial means) | - |
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woolgatherer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: daydreamer |
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