| accomplice | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: confederate |
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| accomplishment | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: achievement |
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| (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill |
| amplification | (noun) (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current | - |
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| (noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: elaboration |
| (noun) the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input | Synonyms: gain |
| amplifier | (noun) electronic equipment that increases strength of signals passing through it | - |
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| amplitude | (noun) greatness of magnitude | - |
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| (noun) the property of copious abundance | Synonyms: bountifulness, bounty |
| (noun) (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave | - |
| aplite | (noun) light-colored and fine-grained granitic rock consisting chiefly of quartz and feldspars | - |
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| appliance | (noun) durable goods for home or office use | - |
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| (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
| applicability | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: pertinence, pertinency |
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| applicant | (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applier |
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| application | (noun) the action of putting something into operation | - |
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| (noun) a diligent effort | Synonyms: diligence |
| (noun) the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose | Synonyms: practical application |
| (noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: coating, covering |
| (noun) liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin | Synonyms: lotion |
| (noun) a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school | - |
| (noun) a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task | Synonyms: application program, applications programme |
| applicator | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applier |
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| applier | (noun) a device for applying a substance | Synonyms: applicator |
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| (noun) a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | Synonyms: applicant |
| applique | (noun) a decorative design made of one material sewn over another | - |
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| caplin | (noun) very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes | Synonyms: capelan, capelin |
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| compliance | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: submission |
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| (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: abidance, conformation, conformity |
| (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
| compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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| complicatedness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complication, knottiness, tortuousness |
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| complication | (noun) the act or process of complicating | - |
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| (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, knottiness, tortuousness |
| (noun) a development that complicates a situation | Synonyms: ramification |
| (noun) a situation or condition that is complex or confused | - |
| (noun) any disease or disorder that occurs during the course of (or because of) another disease | - |
| complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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| compliment | (noun) a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration | - |
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| complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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| compliments | (noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: regard, wish |
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| complin | (noun) last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring | Synonyms: compline |
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| compline | (noun) last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring | Synonyms: complin |
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| coupling | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupler |
| (noun) a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together | Synonyms: yoke |
| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| discipline | (noun) training to improve strength or self-control | - |
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| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: correction |
| (noun) the trait of being well behaved | - |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) a system of rules of conduct or method of practice | - |
| dropline | (noun) a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right | Synonyms: drop line, stagger head, staggered head, stephead, stepped line |
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| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dumplings | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumpling |
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| duplicability | (noun) the quality of being reproducible | Synonyms: reproducibility |
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| duplicate | (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplication |
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| (noun) something additional of the same kind | Synonyms: extra |
| duplication | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: gemination |
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| (noun) a copy that corresponds to an original exactly | Synonyms: duplicate |
| duplicator | (noun) apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material | Synonyms: copier |
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| duplicity | (noun) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: double-dealing |
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| (noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: fraudulence |
| exemplification | (noun) a representational or typifying form or model | Synonyms: typification |
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| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: illustration |
| explicandum | (noun) (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained | Synonyms: explanandum |
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| explication | (noun) a detailed explanation of the meaning of something | - |
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| (noun) the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc. | - |
| explicitness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being explicit | - |
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| grappling | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: rassling, wrestling |
| hairsplitter | (noun) a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions | - |
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| hairsplitting | (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
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| hipline | (noun) the line formed by the lower edge of hip-length garment | - |
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| (noun) the line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part | - |
| implication | (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: import, significance |
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| (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, entailment |
| (noun) an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection | - |
| (noun) a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement) | - |
| (noun) a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false | Synonyms: conditional relation, logical implication |
| implicitness | (noun) inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect | - |
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| inapplicability | (noun) irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand | - |
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| indiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: undiscipline |
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| inexplicitness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of not being explicit | - |
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| lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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| lamplighter | (noun) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights | - |
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| misapplication | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misappropriation, peculation |
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| (noun) wrong use or application | - |
| multiplicand | (noun) the number that is multiplied by the multiplier | - |
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| multiplication | (noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed | Synonyms: times |
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| (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: generation, propagation |
| (noun) a multiplicative increase | - |
| multiplicity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: numerosity, numerousness |
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| (noun) the property of being multiple | - |
| multiplier | (noun) the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied | Synonyms: multiplier factor |
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| nonaccomplishment | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonachievement |
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| noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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| noncompliant | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, baulker |
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| oversimplification | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: simplism |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: simplism |
| pliability | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliancy, pliantness, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: bendability |
| pliancy | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliantness, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliantness, suppleness |
| pliantness | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliancy, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliancy, suppleness |
| plica | (noun) a folded part (as in skin or muscle) | Synonyms: fold |
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| plication | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: pleating |
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| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, crimp, flexure, fold |
| plier | (noun) someone who plies a trade | Synonyms: plyer |
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| pliers | (noun) a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws | Synonyms: pair of pliers, plyers |
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| plight | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: troth |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: predicament, quandary |
| plimsoll | (noun) a light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top | - |
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| plinth | (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, pedestal |
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| poplin | (noun) a ribbed fabric used in clothing and upholstery | - |
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| quadruplicate | (noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
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| quadrupling | (noun) increase by a factor of four | - |
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| quintupling | (noun) increasing by a factor of five | - |
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| reduplication | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reiteration |
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| (noun) a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) | - |
| (noun) the syllable added in a reduplicated word form | - |
| (noun) repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next | Synonyms: anadiplosis |
| replica | (noun) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied | Synonyms: replication, reproduction |
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| replication | (noun) the act of making copies | Synonyms: reproduction |
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| (noun) the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion | - |
| (noun) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied | Synonyms: replica, reproduction |
| (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: echo, reverberation, sound reflection |
| (noun) (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer | - |
| (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, rejoinder, retort, return, riposte |
| (noun) (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division | - |
| rippling | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, wavelet |
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| sampling | (noun) (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study | - |
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| (noun) measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form) | - |
| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample, sample distribution |
| sapling | (noun) young tree | - |
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| shoplifter | (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, lifter |
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| shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
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| sidesplitter | (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, thigh-slapper, wow |
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| simplicity | (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simpleness |
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| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simpleness |
| (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simpleness |
| (noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simmpleness |
| (noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simpleness |
| simplification | (noun) elimination of superfluous details | - |
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| (noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: reduction |
| (noun) an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | - |
| simplism | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: oversimplification |
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| (noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: oversimplification |
| snapline | (noun) a chalked string used in the building trades to make a straight line on a vertical surface | Synonyms: chalk line, snap line |
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| splice | (noun) joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together | Synonyms: lap joint |
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| (noun) a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | Synonyms: splicing |
| splicer | (noun) a mechanical device for joining two pieces of paper or film or magnetic tape | - |
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| (noun) a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands | - |
| (noun) a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice | - |
| splicing | (noun) a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | Synonyms: splice |
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| spliff | (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick |
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| spline | (noun) a thin strip (wood or metal) | Synonyms: slat |
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| (noun) a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines | - |
| splint | (noun) an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg) | - |
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| (noun) a thin sliver of wood | - |
| splinter | (noun) a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal | Synonyms: sliver |
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| splintering | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chip, chipping |
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| splinters | (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: matchwood |
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| split | (noun) division of a group into opposing factions | Synonyms: schism |
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| (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rent, rip |
| (noun) extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back) | - |
| (noun) an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity | Synonyms: split up, stock split |
| (noun) (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl | - |
| (noun) a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts | - |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, tear |
| (noun) a lengthwise crack in wood | - |
| (noun) a promised or claimed share of loot or money | - |
| (noun) a bottle containing half the usual amount | - |
| splitsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: ripsaw |
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| splitsville | (noun) separation or breakup or divorce | - |
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| splitter | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: divider |
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| (noun) a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone | - |
| (noun) a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences | Synonyms: rail-splitter |
| splitworm | (noun) greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm | Synonyms: Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth |
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