| doofus | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: dimwit, half-wit, nitwit |
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| doohickey | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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| doom | (noun) an unpleasant or disastrous destiny | Synonyms: day of reckoning, doomsday, end of the world |
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| doomed | (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: lost |
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| doomsday | (noun) an unpleasant or disastrous destiny | Synonyms: day of reckoning, doom, end of the world |
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| (noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, end of the world, eschaton, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
| door | (noun) a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle | - |
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| (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: doorway, room access, threshold |
| (noun) a room that is entered via a door | - |
| (noun) a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road) | - |
| (noun) anything providing a means of access (or escape) | - |
| doorbell | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, buzzer |
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| doorcase | (noun) the frame that supports a door | Synonyms: doorframe |
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| doorframe | (noun) the frame that supports a door | Synonyms: doorcase |
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| doorhandle | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorknob |
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| doorjamb | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorpost |
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| doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
| (noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
| doorknob | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorhandle |
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| doorknocker | (noun) a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door | Synonyms: knocker, rapper |
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| doorlock | (noun) a lock on an exterior door | - |
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| doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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| doormat | (noun) a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering | Synonyms: welcome mat |
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| (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: weakling, wuss |
| doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
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| doorplate | (noun) a nameplate fastened to a door; indicates the person who works or lives there | - |
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| doorpost | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorjamb |
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| doorsill | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorstep, threshold |
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| doorstep | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, threshold |
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| doorstop | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstopper |
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| doorstopper | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstop |
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| doorway | (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, room access, threshold |
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| dooryard | (noun) a yard outside the front or rear door of a house | - |
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| doubloon | (noun) a former Spanish gold coin | - |
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| dragoon | (noun) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen | - |
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| driftwood | (noun) wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore | - |
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| drool | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slobber |
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| (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
| drooler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, slobberer |
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| droop | (noun) a shape that sags | Synonyms: sag |
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| drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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| dyewood | (noun) any wood from which dye is obtained | - |
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| ectozoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, epizoan, epizoon |
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| elkwood | (noun) small deciduous tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in formations like umbrellas at the ends of branches | Synonyms: elk-wood, Magnolia tripetala, umbrella magnolia, umbrella tree |
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| elmwood | (noun) hard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture | Synonyms: elm |
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| entozoon | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endoparasite, endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan |
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| epizoon | (noun) any external parasitic organism (as fleas) | Synonyms: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan |
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| eyetooth | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth |
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| falsehood | (noun) the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting | Synonyms: falsification |
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| (noun) a false statement | Synonyms: falsity, untruth |
| fatherhood | (noun) the status of a father | - |
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| (noun) the status of a religious leader | - |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: paternity |
| festoon | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoonery |
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| (noun) an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work | - |
| (noun) a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves | - |
| festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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| feverroot | (noun) coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers | Synonyms: horse gentian, tinker's root, Triostium perfoliatum, wild coffee |
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| fingerroot | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerflower |
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| fireroom | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: stokehold, stokehole |
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| firewood | (noun) wood used for fuel | - |
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| fishhook | (noun) a sharp barbed hook for catching fish | - |
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| flagroot | (noun) perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Acorus calamus, calamus, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag |
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| flashflood | (noun) a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration | Synonyms: flash flood |
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| flatfoot | (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: pes planus, splayfoot |
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| (noun) a policeman who patrols a given region | Synonyms: patrolman |
| flood | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flowage |
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| (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: outpouring, overflow |
| (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood lamp, floodlight, photoflood |
| (noun) the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide) | Synonyms: flood tide, rising tide |
| (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, inundation |
| (noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, inundation, torrent |
| floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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| (noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
| floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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| flooding | (noun) a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | Synonyms: implosion therapy |
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| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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| floor | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: flooring |
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| (noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: level, storey, story |
| (noun) a large room in a exchange where the trading is done | Synonyms: trading floor |
| (noun) the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business | - |
| (noun) the parliamentary right to address an assembly | - |
| (noun) a lower limit | Synonyms: base |
| (noun) the occupants of a floor | - |
| (noun) the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water | - |
| (noun) the ground on which people and animals move about | - |
| (noun) the lower inside surface of any hollow structure | - |
| floorboard | (noun) a board in the floor | Synonyms: floor board |
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| (noun) the floor of an automobile | - |
| flooring | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: floor |
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| (noun) building material used in laying floors | - |
| floorshow | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: cabaret, floor show |
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| floorwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: shopwalker |
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| floozie | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| floozy | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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| food | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: nutrient |
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| (noun) anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking | Synonyms: food for thought, intellectual nourishment |
| (noun) any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment | Synonyms: solid food |
| foodgasm | (noun) An extreme feeling of pleasure caused by seeing food | - |
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| foodie | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, gastronome, gourmet |
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| foodstuff | (noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: grocery |
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| (noun) a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | Synonyms: food product |
| fool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: jester, motley fool |
| foolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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| foolhardiness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: rashness, recklessness |
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| foolishness | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity |
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| (noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, unwiseness |
| (noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, madness |
| foolscap | (noun) a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
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| foot | (noun) travel by walking | - |
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| (noun) any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates | Synonyms: invertebrate foot |
| (noun) the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings | Synonyms: animal foot |
| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a support resembling a pedal extremity | - |
| (noun) the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint | Synonyms: human foot, pes |
| (noun) (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | Synonyms: metrical foot, metrical unit |
| (noun) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot | Synonyms: infantry |
| (noun) the lower part of anything | - |
| (noun) a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger | - |
| (noun) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard | Synonyms: ft |
| footage | (noun) film that has been shot | - |
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| (noun) a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done | - |
| football | (noun) any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | Synonyms: football game |
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| (noun) the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football | - |
| footballer | (noun) an athlete who plays American football | Synonyms: football player |
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| footbath | (noun) a small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet | - |
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| footboard | (noun) a vertical board or panel forming the foot of a bedstead | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform on which to stand or brace the feet | - |
| footbridge | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: overcrossing, pedestrian bridge |
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| footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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| footedness | (noun) the property of favoring one foot over the other (as in kicking a ball) | - |
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| footer | (noun) a printed note placed below the text on a printed page | Synonyms: footnote |
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| (noun) a person who travels by foot | Synonyms: pedestrian, walker |
| (noun) (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet | - |
| footfall | (noun) the sound of a step of someone walking | Synonyms: footstep, step |
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| footfault | (noun) a fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline | - |
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| footgear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footwear |
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| foothill | (noun) a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain | - |
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| foothold | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: beachhead |
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| (noun) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing | Synonyms: footing |
| (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: bridgehead |
| footing | (noun) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, ground |
| (noun) status with respect to the relations between people or groups | Synonyms: terms |
| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| footlocker | (noun) a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks) | Synonyms: locker |
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| footman | (noun) a man employed as a servant in a large establishment (as a palace) to run errands and do chores | - |
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| footmark | (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footprint, step |
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| footnote | (noun) a printed note placed below the text on a printed page | Synonyms: footer |
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| footpad | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: padder |
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| footpath | (noun) a trodden path | Synonyms: pathway |
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| footplate | (noun) the platform in the cab of a locomotive on which the engineer stands to operate the controls | - |
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| footprint | (noun) the area taken up by some object | - |
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| (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footmark, step |
| (noun) a trace suggesting that something was once present or felt or otherwise important | - |
| footrace | (noun) a race run on foot | Synonyms: foot race, run |
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