ammunition | (noun) projectiles to be fired from a gun | Synonyms: ammo |
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(noun) information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint | - |
(noun) any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction | - |
autoimmunity | (noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | - |
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barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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chemoimmunology | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: immunochemistry |
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chipmunk | (noun) a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body | - |
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communalism | (noun) the practice of communal living and common ownership | - |
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(noun) loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole | - |
commune | (noun) a body of people or families living together and sharing everything | - |
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(noun) the smallest administrative district of several European countries | - |
communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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communication | (noun) something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups | - |
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(noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communicating |
(noun) a connection allowing access between persons or places | - |
communications | (noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | Synonyms: communication theory |
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communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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(noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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communisation | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communization |
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(noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communization |
(noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communization, nationalisation, nationalization |
communism | (noun) a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society | - |
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(noun) a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | - |
communist | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
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community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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(noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
(noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
(noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
(noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
(noun) common ownership | - |
(noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
communization | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communisation |
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(noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communisation |
(noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, nationalisation, nationalization |
emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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excommunication | (noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excision |
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(noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, exclusion |
homunculus | (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: manikin, mannikin |
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(noun) a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell | - |
immune | (noun) a person who is immune to a particular infection | - |
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immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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immunity | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: exemption, granting immunity |
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(noun) the quality of being unaffected by something | - |
(noun) the state of not being susceptible | Synonyms: unsusceptibility |
(noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: resistance |
immunization | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunisation |
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immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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immunochemistry | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: chemoimmunology |
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immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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immunogen | (noun) any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body | Synonyms: immunizing agent |
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immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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immunoglobulin | (noun) a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response | Synonyms: Ig, immune gamma globulin, immune globulin, immune serum globulin |
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immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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immunologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in immunology | - |
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immunology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system | - |
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immunopathology | (noun) the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system | - |
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immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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immunosuppressive | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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immunotherapy | (noun) therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system | - |
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intercommunication | (noun) mutual communication; communication with each other | - |
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intercommunion | (noun) participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox) | - |
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munch | (noun) a large bite | - |
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muncher | (noun) a chewer who makes a munching noise | - |
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mundaneness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundanity, sophistication, worldliness |
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(noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundanity, ordinariness |
mundanity | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, sophistication, worldliness |
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(noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, ordinariness |
mung | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung bean, munggo |
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(noun) erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: mung bean, mung bean plant, Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiata |
(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung bean, munggo |
munggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
municipality | (noun) people living in a town or city having local self-government | - |
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(noun) an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government | - |
munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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muniments | (noun) deeds and other documentary evidence of title to land | - |
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munition | (noun) weapons considered collectively | Synonyms: arms, implements of war, weaponry, weapons system |
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(noun) defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it | Synonyms: fortification |
(noun) military supplies | Synonyms: ordnance, ordnance store |
munj | (noun) tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets | Synonyms: munja, Saccharum bengalense, Saccharum munja |
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munja | (noun) tough Asiatic grass whose culms are used for ropes and baskets | Synonyms: munj, Saccharum bengalense, Saccharum munja |
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munjeet | (noun) perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient | Synonyms: Indian madder, Rubia cordifolia |
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muntjac | (noun) small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark | Synonyms: barking deer |
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osmund | (noun) any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters | Synonyms: flowering fern |
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radiocommunication | (noun) medium for communication | Synonyms: radio, wireless |
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radioimmunoassay | (noun) immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled | - |
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remuneration | (noun) the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses | - |
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(noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, salary, wage |
remunerator | (noun) a person who pays money for something | Synonyms: payer |
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telecommunication | (noun) (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance | - |
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(noun) (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically | Synonyms: telecom |
uncommunicativeness | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative | - |
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