| interrogator | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: inquisitor |
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| interrogatory | (noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: examination, interrogation |
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| interrupt | (noun) a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out | - |
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| interrupter | (noun) a device for automatically interrupting an electric current | - |
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| interruption | (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: break, disruption, gap |
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| (noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: break |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, pause, suspension |
| intersection | (noun) the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path) | - |
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| (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, crossway |
| (noun) a point where lines intersect | Synonyms: intersection point, point of intersection |
| (noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: convergence, overlap |
| (noun) the set of elements common to two or more sets | Synonyms: Cartesian product, product |
| (noun) a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations | - |
| intersex | (noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite |
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| interspersal | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersion |
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| interspersion | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersal |
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| interstate | (noun) one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States | Synonyms: interstate highway |
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| interstice | (noun) small opening between things | - |
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| (noun) a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ | - |
| intertrigo | (noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs) | - |
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| interval | (noun) the distance between things | Synonyms: separation |
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| (noun) a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints | - |
| (noun) the difference in pitch between two notes | Synonyms: musical interval |
| (noun) a definite length of time marked off by two instants | Synonyms: time interval |
| intervenor | (noun) (law) a party who interposes in a pending proceeding | - |
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| intervention | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intercession |
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| (noun) (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings | - |
| (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: treatment |
| (noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others | Synonyms: interposition |
| (noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries | Synonyms: interference |
| interview | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: audience, consultation |
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| (noun) the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists | - |
| interviewee | (noun) a person who is interviewed | - |
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| interviewer | (noun) a person who conducts an interview | - |
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| intestacy | (noun) the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will | - |
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| intestine | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: bowel, gut |
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| inti | (noun) the basic unit of money in Peru | - |
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| intifada | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifadah |
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| intifadah | (noun) an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 | Synonyms: intifada |
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| intima | (noun) the innermost membrane of an organ (especially the inner lining of an artery or vein or lymphatic vessel) | - |
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| intimacy | (noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: closeness, familiarity |
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| (noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: closeness |
| (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, involvement, liaison |
| intimate | (noun) someone to whom private matters are confided | Synonyms: confidant |
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| intimation | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, inkling |
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| (noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: breath, hint |
| intimidation | (noun) the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something | Synonyms: bullying |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, deterrence |
| (noun) the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid | - |
| (noun) the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc. | - |
| intolerance | (noun) impatience with annoyances | - |
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| (noun) unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs | - |
| intonation | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: chanting |
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| (noun) singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong | - |
| (noun) the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations | - |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: modulation, pitch contour |
| intoxicant | (noun) a drug that can produce a state of intoxication | - |
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| (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant |
| intoxication | (noun) excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety | - |
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| (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, tipsiness |
| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: poisoning, toxic condition |
| intractability | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractableness |
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| intractableness | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractability |
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| intrados | (noun) the interior curve of an arch | - |
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| intranet | (noun) a restricted computer network; a private network created using World Wide Web software | - |
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| intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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| intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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| intransitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
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| intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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| intransitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitiveness |
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| intravasation | (noun) entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel | - |
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| intrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: entrenchment |
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| intrepidity | (noun) resolute courageousness | Synonyms: dauntlessness |
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| intricacy | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, elaboration, involution |
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| intrigue | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: machination |
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| (noun) a clandestine love affair | - |
| intriguer | (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: designer |
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| intro | (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: introduction, presentation |
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| (noun) a brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music | - |
| introduction | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, intromission |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, launching, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, origination |
| (noun) the first section of a communication | - |
| (noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: intro, presentation |
| (noun) a basic or elementary instructional text | - |
| (noun) a new proposal | - |
| introductoriness | (noun) The quality of being introducing; of giving a preview or idea of. | - |
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| introit | (noun) a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services | - |
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| introitus | (noun) entrance or opening to a hollow organ or tube (especially the vaginal opening) | - |
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| introject | (noun) (psychoanalysis) parental figures (and their values) that you introjected as a child; the voice of conscience is usually a parent's voice internalized | - |
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| introjection | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the internalization of the parent figures and their values; leads to the formation of the superego | - |
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| (noun) (psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that the internalized representation takes over the psychological functions of the external objects | - |
| intromission | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, introduction |
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| intron | (noun) sequence of a eukaryotic gene's DNA that is not translated into a protein | Synonyms: noncoding DNA |
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| introspection | (noun) the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct | Synonyms: self-contemplation, self-examination |
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| introspectionism | (noun) a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection. | - |
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| introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| intruder | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, trespasser |
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| intrusion | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) entrance by force or without permission or welcome | - |
| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: encroachment, invasion |
| (noun) rock produced by an intrusive process | - |
| (noun) the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation | - |
| intrusiveness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: meddlesomeness, officiousness |
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| intubation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization |
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| intuition | (noun) instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) | - |
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| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: hunch, suspicion |
| intuitionism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition | - |
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| intumescence | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescency, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescency |
| intumescency | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescence |
| intussusception | (noun) (biology) growth in the surface area of a cell by the deposit of new particles between existing particles in the cell wall | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, invagination |
| jacinth | (noun) a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone | Synonyms: hyacinth |
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| joint | (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff, stick |
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| (noun) junction by which parts or objects are joined together | - |
| (noun) a disreputable place of entertainment | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulatio, articulation |
| (noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: roast |
| (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: articulation, join, junction, juncture |
| jointer | (noun) a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together | Synonyms: jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane |
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| jointure | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, unification, union, uniting |
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| (noun) (law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower | Synonyms: legal jointure |
| jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| labyrinth | (noun) complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost | Synonyms: maze |
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| (noun) a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium | Synonyms: inner ear, internal ear |
| labyrinthitis | (noun) inflammation of the inner ear; can cause vertigo and vomiting | Synonyms: otitis interna |
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| labyrinthodont | (noun) an amphibian of the superorder Labyrinthodontia | - |
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| lint | (noun) cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds | - |
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| (noun) fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers | - |
| lintel | (noun) horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window | Synonyms: header |
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| lintwhite | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, linnet |
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| macintosh | (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, mack, mackintosh |
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| (noun) a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric | Synonyms: mackintosh |
| mackintosh | (noun) a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric | Synonyms: macintosh |
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| (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, macintosh, mack |
| maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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| maintenance | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, upkeep |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
| (noun) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community | Synonyms: criminal maintenance |
| (noun) means of maintenance of a family or group | - |
| (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: alimony |
| mezzotint | (noun) print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade | - |
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| microprint | (noun) extremely small print, read by a magnifying device. | - |
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| midpoint | (noun) a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure | Synonyms: center, centre |
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| midwinter | (noun) the middle of winter | - |
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| mint | (noun) a plant where money is coined by authority of the government | - |
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| (noun) a candy that is flavored with a mint oil | Synonyms: mint candy |
| (noun) the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied | - |
| (noun) any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers | - |
| (noun) any member of the mint family of plants | - |
| (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, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| mintage | (noun) act or process of minting coins | - |
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| (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, specie |
| (noun) fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin | - |
| minter | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, moneyer |
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| mintiness | (noun) The state or condition of having a flavour or essence of mint. | - |
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| mintmark | (noun) a mark on a coin that identifies the mint where it was produced | - |
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| misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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| misprint | (noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: erratum, literal, literal error, typo, typographical error |
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| needlepoint | (noun) embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry | Synonyms: needlepoint embroidery |
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| (noun) lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern | Synonyms: point lace |
| newsprint | (noun) cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers | Synonyms: newspaper |
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| ninth | (noun) one part in nine equal parts | Synonyms: one-ninth |
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| (noun) position nine in a countable series of things | - |
| noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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