| outlandishness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: bizarreness, weirdness |
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| outlaw | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, felon, malefactor |
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| outlawry | (noun) illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| outlay | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement, spending |
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| (noun) money paid out; an amount spent | Synonyms: expenditure, outgo, spending |
| outlet | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: release, vent |
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| (noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: exit, issue, way out |
| (noun) a place of business for retailing goods | Synonyms: mercantile establishment, retail store, sales outlet |
| (noun) receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices | Synonyms: electric outlet, electric receptacle, electrical outlet, wall plug, wall socket |
| outlier | (noun) an extreme deviation from the mean | - |
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| (noun) a person who lives away from his place of work | - |
| outline | (noun) a schematic or preliminary plan | Synonyms: schema, scheme |
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| (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: abstract, precis, synopsis |
| (noun) the line that appears to bound an object | Synonyms: lineation |
| outlook | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: lookout |
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| (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: expectation, prospect |
| (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mentality, mind-set, mindset |
| outpatient | (noun) a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated | - |
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| outport | (noun) a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade) | - |
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| outpost | (noun) a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops | - |
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| (noun) a settlement on the frontier of civilization | Synonyms: frontier settlement |
| (noun) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location | Synonyms: outstation |
| outpouring | (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: flood, overflow |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, onslaught |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: discharge, run |
| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: flush, gush |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, spring |
| output | (noun) production of a certain amount | Synonyms: yield |
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| (noun) final product; the things produced | Synonyms: end product |
| (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: outturn, turnout |
| (noun) signal that comes out of an electronic system | Synonyms: output signal |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: production, yield |
| outrage | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: scandalisation, scandalization |
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| (noun) a wantonly cruel act | - |
| (noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: scandal |
| (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: indignation |
| outrageousness | (noun) the quality of being outrageous | Synonyms: enormity |
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| (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: exorbitance |
| outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
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| outrider | (noun) an escort who rides ahead (as a member of the vanguard) | - |
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| outrigger | (noun) a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull | - |
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| outset | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, showtime, start, starting time |
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| outside | (noun) the outer side or surface of something | Synonyms: exterior |
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| (noun) the region that is outside of something | Synonyms: exterior |
| outsider | (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: foreigner |
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| (noun) a contestant (human or animal) not considered to have a good chance to win | - |
| outsize | (noun) an unusual garment size (especially one that is very large) | - |
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| outskirt | (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: fringe |
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| outskirts | (noun) outlying areas (as of a city or town) | - |
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| outsole | (noun) the outer sole of a shoe or boot that is the bottom of the shoe and makes contact with the ground | - |
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| outspokenness | (noun) the trait of being blunt and outspoken | Synonyms: frankness |
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| outstation | (noun) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location | Synonyms: outpost |
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| outstroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving toward the crankshaft | - |
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| outtake | (noun) a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film | - |
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| outthrust | (noun) an outcropping of rock that extends outward | - |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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| outwardness | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: externality |
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| (noun) a concern with or responsiveness to outward things (especially material objects as opposed to ideal concepts) | - |
| (noun) concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit | - |
| outwork | (noun) subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area | - |
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| pout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, hornpout |
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| (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: eelpout |
| (noun) a disdainful grimace | Synonyms: moue, wry face |
| pouter | (noun) one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out | Synonyms: pouter pigeon |
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| (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, sourpuss |
| poutine | (noun) a Canadian dish made with french fries and cheese curds topped with a light brown gravy | - |
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| printout | (noun) the output of a computer in printed form | - |
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| pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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| putout | (noun) an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout) | - |
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| raceabout | (noun) a small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail | - |
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| ragout | (noun) well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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| (noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
| (noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
| rigout | (noun) a person's costume (especially if bizarre) | - |
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| roundabout | (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
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| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| rout | (noun) an overwhelming defeat | - |
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| (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: mob, rabble |
| route | (noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: road |
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| (noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: itinerary, path |
| routemarch | (noun) a long training march for troops | - |
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| router | (noun) (computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks | - |
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| (noun) a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery | - |
| (noun) a power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves | - |
| routine | (noun) an unvarying or habitual method or procedure | Synonyms: modus operandi |
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| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, procedure, subprogram, subroutine |
| (noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, number, turn |
| routineness | (noun) The state or quality of being routine, of possessing the traits of being quotidian, and repeating a pattern regularly. | - |
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| runabout | (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: roadster, two-seater |
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| scout | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, pathfinder |
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| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
| (noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | Synonyms: talent scout |
| scouter | (noun) an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement | Synonyms: rover |
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| scouting | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring |
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| scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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| sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
| (noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
| (noun) someone who has sold out | - |
| shakeout | (noun) an economic condition that results in the elimination of marginally financed participants in an industry | - |
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| shootout | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, gunplay |
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| shout | (noun) a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition | Synonyms: call, cry, outcry, vociferation, yell |
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| shouter | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, screecher, yeller |
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| shouting | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: cheering |
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| (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: yelling |
| shutout | (noun) a defeat in a game where one side fails to score | Synonyms: skunk |
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| smallmouth | (noun) a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye | Synonyms: Micropterus dolomieu, smallmouth bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouthed black bass |
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| snout | (noun) a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose | Synonyms: neb |
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| (noun) beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils | Synonyms: rostrum |
| (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot |
| soutache | (noun) a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
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| soutane | (noun) a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests | - |
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| south | (noun) a location in the southern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, southward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southward cardinal compass point | - |
| southeast | (noun) a location in the southeastern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeastward |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southeastward compass point | - |
| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| southeastward | (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | Synonyms: SE, sou'-east, southeast |
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| souther | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, southerly |
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| southerly | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, souther |
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| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| southernness | (noun) the property of being to the south | - |
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| southernwood | (noun) shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer | Synonyms: Artemisia abrotanum |
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| southland | (noun) any region lying in or toward the south | - |
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| southpaw | (noun) a person who uses the left hand with greater skill than the right | Synonyms: left-hander, lefty |
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| (noun) a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand | Synonyms: left-handed pitcher, left-hander, left hander, lefthander, lefty |
| southward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees | Synonyms: due south, S, south |
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| southwest | (noun) a location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city | - |
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| (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwestward, SW |
| (noun) the direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point | - |
| southwester | (noun) a strong wind from the southwest | Synonyms: sou'wester |
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| southwestward | (noun) the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees | Synonyms: sou'-west, southwest, SW |
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| spout | (noun) an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain | - |
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| spouter | (noun) a spouting whale | - |
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| (noun) an oil well that is spouting | - |
| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater |
| sprout | (noun) a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) | - |
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| (noun) any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud | - |
| sprouter | (noun) A device for sprouting seeds. | Synonyms: seed sprouter |
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| sprouting | (noun) the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow | Synonyms: germination |
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| stakeout | (noun) surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) | - |
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| stout | (noun) a garment size for a large or heavy person | - |
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| (noun) a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops | - |
| stoutheartedness | (noun) the trait of having a courageous spirit | - |
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| stoutness | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, overweight |
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| (noun) the property of being strong and resolute | Synonyms: stalwartness |
| strikeout | (noun) an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
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| subroutine | (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, procedure, routine, subprogram |
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| surtout | (noun) a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat | - |
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| takeout | (noun) (bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suit | - |
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| (noun) prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises | Synonyms: takeaway, takeout food |
| tout | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: touter |
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| (noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tipster |
| (noun) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit | Synonyms: ticket tout |
| touter | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: tout |
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| trout | (noun) any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons | - |
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| (noun) flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes | - |
| tryout | (noun) a test of the suitability of a performer | Synonyms: audition |
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| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: test, trial, trial run |
| turnabout | (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, reversion, turnaround |
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| (noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, reversal, turnaround |