| porkfish | (noun) black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | Synonyms: Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish |
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| porkholt | (noun) made of lamb or pork | - |
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| porkpie | (noun) man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim | Synonyms: porkpie hat |
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| porn | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porno, pornography, smut |
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| porno | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, pornography, smut |
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| pornographer | (noun) someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores | Synonyms: porn merchant |
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| pornography | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, smut |
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| poroporo | (noun) Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit | Synonyms: kangaroo apple, Solanum aviculare |
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| porosity | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porousness |
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| porousness | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porosity |
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| porphyria | (noun) a genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion | - |
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| porphyrin | (noun) any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues | - |
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| porphyry | (noun) any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals | Synonyms: porphyritic rock |
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| porpoise | (noun) any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth | - |
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| porridge | (noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick | - |
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| porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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| port | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, porthole |
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| (noun) (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) | Synonyms: interface |
| (noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: larboard |
| (noun) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal | Synonyms: port wine |
| (noun) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country | - |
| porta | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, orifice |
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| portability | (noun) the quality of being light enough to be carried | - |
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| portable | (noun) a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried | - |
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| portage | (noun) carrying boats and supplies overland | - |
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| (noun) overland track between navigable waterways | - |
| (noun) the cost of carrying or transporting | - |
| portal | (noun) a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically) | - |
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| (noun) a short vein that carries blood into the liver | Synonyms: hepatic portal vein, portal vein, vena portae |
| (noun) a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet | Synonyms: portal site |
| portcullis | (noun) gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage | - |
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| portent | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| porter | (noun) a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley | Synonyms: porter's beer |
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| (noun) a person employed to carry luggage and supplies | - |
| (noun) a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars) | Synonyms: Pullman porter |
| (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary |
| porterage | (noun) the transportation of burdens by porters | - |
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| (noun) the charge for carrying burdens by porters | - |
| porterhouse | (noun) large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin | Synonyms: porterhouse steak |
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| portfolio | (noun) the role of the head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather | - |
| (noun) a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution | - |
| (noun) a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers | - |
| porthole | (noun) a window in a ship or airplane | - |
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| (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, port |
| portico | (noun) a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area | - |
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| portiere | (noun) a heavy curtain hung across a doorway | - |
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| portion | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, share |
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| (noun) something less than the whole of a human artifact | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: helping, serving |
| (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, share |
| (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, dowry |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, constituent, part |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck |
| portmanteau | (noun) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | Synonyms: Gladstone, Gladstone bag |
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| (noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: blend, portmanteau word |
| portrait | (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrayal |
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| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portraiture, portrayal |
| portraitist | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portrayer |
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| portraiture | (noun) the activity of making portraits | - |
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| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portrayal |
| portrayal | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, depiction |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation |
| (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrait |
| (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying |
| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portraiture |
| portrayer | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portraitist |
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| portraying | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal |
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| portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| proportion | (noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: dimension |
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| (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportionality |
| (noun) the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole | - |
| (noun) the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree | Synonyms: ratio |
| (noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: symmetry |
| proportional | (noun) one of the quantities in a mathematical proportion | - |
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| proportionality | (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportion |
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| (noun) a ratio of two quantities that is constant | - |
| proportionateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, correspondence |
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| purport | (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: drift |
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| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, spirit |
| rapport | (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: resonance |
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| rapporteur | (noun) a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings | - |
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| reapportionment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reallotment |
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| report | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: reputation |
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| (noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, story, write up |
| (noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: account |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, theme |
| (noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: study, written report |
| (noun) a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment | Synonyms: report card |
| (noun) a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing) | - |
| reportage | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reporting |
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| reporter | (noun) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | Synonyms: newsperson |
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| reporting | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reportage |
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| rhinosporidiosis | (noun) fungal infection of the nose; often acquired while swimming | - |
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| sarcosporidian | (noun) parasite of the muscles of vertebrates | Synonyms: sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian |
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| seaport | (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, haven |
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| sopor | (noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sleep |
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| soporific | (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: hypnotic |
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| spoilsport | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: killjoy, party pooper, wet blanket |
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| sporadicalness | (noun) The quality of being rare and scattered in occurrence. | - |
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| sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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| sporangium | (noun) organ containing or producing spores | Synonyms: spore case, spore sac |
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| spore | (noun) a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion | - |
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| sporocarp | (noun) specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia | Synonyms: spore case |
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| sporophore | (noun) a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte | - |
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| sporophyl | (noun) leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia | Synonyms: sporophyll |
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| sporophyll | (noun) leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia | Synonyms: sporophyl |
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| sporophyte | (noun) the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | - |
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| sporotrichosis | (noun) a chronic fungal infection of the skin and lymph nodes | - |
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| sporozoan | (noun) parasitic spore-forming protozoan | - |
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| sporozoite | (noun) one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle | - |
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| sporran | (noun) a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders | - |
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| sport | (noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition | Synonyms: athletics |
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| (noun) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay | - |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, play |
| (noun) someone who engages in sports | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, mutation, variation |
| (noun) a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances | - |
| (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: summercater |
| sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
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| sportiness | (noun) The characteristic appearance and behavior of people who partake in sports. | - |
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| sportiveness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, frolicsomeness |
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| sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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| sportsmanship | (noun) fairness in following the rules of the game | - |
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| sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| sporulation | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: monogenesis |
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| stupor | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupefaction |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, shock |
| sunporch | (noun) a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun | Synonyms: solarium, sun lounge, sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunroom |
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| support | (noun) aiding the cause or policy or interests of | - |
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| (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: supporting |
| (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: documentation |
| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, reinforcement |
| (noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | - |
| (noun) any device that bears the weight of another thing | - |
| (noun) supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | - |
| (noun) something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest | - |
| (noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment |
| (noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance |
| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, funding |
| supporter | (noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) | Synonyms: garter |
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| (noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, suspensor |
| (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist |
| (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assistant, help, helper |
| (noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, sponsor |
| supporting | (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: support |
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| teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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| teliospore | (noun) a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus | - |
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| temporal | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: temporal role |
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| temporalis | (noun) muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws | Synonyms: musculus temporalis, temporal muscle, temporalis muscle |
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| temporality | (noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporalty |
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| temporalization | (noun) The act or process of placing or defining in time relations. | - |
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| temporalty | (noun) in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy | Synonyms: laity |
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| (noun) the worldly possessions of a church | Synonyms: temporality |
| temporariness | (noun) the property of lasting only a short time | - |
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| temporary | (noun) a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis | Synonyms: temp, temporary worker |
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| temporiser | (noun) someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time | Synonyms: temporizer |
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