afterimage | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: aftersensation |
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agammaglobulinemia | (noun) a rare immunological disorder characterized by the virtual absence of gamma globulin in the blood and consequent susceptibility to infection | - |
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antiferromagnet | (noun) any material that has antiferromagnetic properties. | - |
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antiferromagnetism | (noun) magnetic field creates parallel but opposing spins; varies with temperature | - |
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damage | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: harm, hurt, scathe |
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(noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: legal injury, wrong |
(noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: harm, impairment |
(noun) loss of military equipment | Synonyms: equipment casualty |
(noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: price, terms |
damages | (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
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demagnetisation | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetization |
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demagnetization | (noun) the process of removing magnetization | Synonyms: demagnetisation |
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demagog | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagogue, rabble-rouser |
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demagogue | (noun) a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices | Synonyms: demagog, rabble-rouser |
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demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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demagogy | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagoguery |
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diamagnet | (noun) a substance that exhibits diamagnetism | - |
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diamagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like copper or bismuth that become magnetized in a magnetic field with a polarity opposite to the magnetic force; unlike iron they are slightly repelled by a magnet | - |
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electromagnet | (noun) a temporary magnet made by coiling wire around an iron core; when current flows in the coil the iron becomes a magnet | - |
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electromagnetics | (noun) the branch of physics concerned with electromagnetic phenomena | Synonyms: electromagnetism |
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electromagnetism | (noun) the branch of physics concerned with electromagnetic phenomena | Synonyms: electromagnetics |
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(noun) magnetism produced by an electric current | - |
ferrimagnetism | (noun) a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment | - |
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ferromagnet | (noun) any material that has ferromagnetic properties. | - |
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ferromagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed | - |
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haemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: hemagglutination |
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hemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: haemagglutination |
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homage | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: court |
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hypogammaglobulinemia | (noun) an abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the blood and increased risk of infection | - |
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image | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture |
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(noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum |
(noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: persona |
(noun) the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public | - |
(noun) an iconic mental representation | Synonyms: mental image |
(noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype |
(noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope |
(noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: range, range of a function |
(noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: double, look-alike |
imagery | (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
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imaginary | (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
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imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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(noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
(noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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(noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
imagism | (noun) a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery | - |
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imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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(noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
mag | (noun) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it | Synonyms: magazine |
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magazine | (noun) a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored | Synonyms: powder magazine, powder store |
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(noun) product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object | - |
(noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clip |
(noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: cartridge |
(noun) a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it | Synonyms: mag |
(noun) a business firm that publishes magazines | Synonyms: magazine publisher |
magdalen | (noun) a reformed prostitute | - |
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magenta | (noun) a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta | - |
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maggot | (noun) the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter | - |
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magic | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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(noun) any art that invokes supernatural powers | Synonyms: thaumaturgy |
magician | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, wizard |
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(noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, prestidigitator |
magilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: megilp |
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magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistrature |
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magistrate | (noun) a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses) | - |
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magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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maglev | (noun) high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction | Synonyms: magnetic levitation |
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magma | (noun) molten rock in the earth's crust | - |
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magnanimity | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, munificence, openhandedness |
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magnanimousness | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, nobility, nobleness |
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magnate | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
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magnesia | (noun) a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium | Synonyms: magnesium oxide, periclase |
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magnesite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium | - |
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magnesium | (noun) a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine) | Synonyms: atomic number 12, Mg |
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magnet | (noun) (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field | - |
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(noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractive feature, attractor |
magnetics | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetism |
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magnetisation | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetization |
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(noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetization |
(noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetization |
magnetism | (noun) the branch of science that studies magnetism | Synonyms: magnetics |
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(noun) attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force | Synonyms: magnetic attraction, magnetic force |
magnetite | (noun) an oxide of iron that is strongly attracted by magnets | Synonyms: magnetic iron-ore |
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magnetization | (noun) the physical property of being magnetic | Synonyms: magnetisation |
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(noun) the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) | Synonyms: magnetic induction, magnetisation |
(noun) the extent or degree to which something is magnetized | Synonyms: magnetisation |
magneto | (noun) a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine | Synonyms: magnetoelectric machine |
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magnetograph | (noun) a scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations (especially variations of the earth's magnetic field) | - |
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magnetohydrodynamics | (noun) the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and electrically conducting fluids (as plasma or molten metal) | - |
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magnetometer | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: gaussmeter |
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magneton | (noun) a unit of magnetic moment of a molecular or atomic or subatomic particle | - |
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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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magnetron | (noun) a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators | - |
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magnification | (noun) the act of expanding something in apparent size | - |
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(noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, enlargement |
(noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement |
(noun) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object | - |
magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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(noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
magnifico | (noun) a person of distinguished rank or appearance | - |
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magnifier | (noun) a scientific instrument that magnifies an image | - |
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magniloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, ornateness, rhetoric |
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magnitude | (noun) the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) | - |
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(noun) relative importance | - |
(noun) a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10 | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
magnolia | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Magnolia; valued for their longevity and exquisite fragrant blooms | - |
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(noun) dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine | - |
magnoliopsid | (noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside | Synonyms: dicot, dicotyledon, exogen |
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magnum | (noun) a large wine bottle for liquor or wine | - |
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magpie | (noun) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call | - |
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(noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others | Synonyms: pack rat, scavenger |
(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, prater, spouter |
maguey | (noun) Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine | Synonyms: Agave cantala, cantala |
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(noun) Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal | Synonyms: Agave atrovirens |
magus | (noun) a magician or sorcerer of ancient times | - |
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(noun) a member of the Zoroastrian priesthood of the ancient Persians | - |
ohmage | (noun) the ohmic resistance of a conductor | - |
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paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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phantasmagoria | (noun) a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream) | - |
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pilgrimage | (noun) a journey to a sacred place | Synonyms: pilgrim's journey |
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plumage | (noun) the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds | Synonyms: plume |
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rummage | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: ransacking |
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(noun) a jumble of things to be given away | - |
salmagundi | (noun) cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing | - |
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(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety |
scrimmage | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, melee |
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(noun) (American football) practice play between a football team's squads | - |
scrummage | (noun) (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession | Synonyms: scrum |
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termagant | (noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman | Synonyms: shrew |
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