constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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(noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
(noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
(noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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district | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: dominion, territorial dominion, territory |
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friction | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: detrition, rubbing |
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(noun) the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another | Synonyms: rubbing |
(noun) a state of conflict between persons | Synonyms: clash |
restriction | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: limitation |
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(noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: confinement |
(noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: limitation |
restrictiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: unpermissiveness |
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(noun) a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat') | - |
rictus | (noun) a gaping grimace | - |
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sericterium | (noun) silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders | Synonyms: serictery, silk gland |
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serictery | (noun) silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders | Synonyms: sericterium, silk gland |
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strictness | (noun) uncompromising resolution | Synonyms: sternness |
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(noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: stringency |
stricture | (noun) severe criticism | - |
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(noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stenosis |
vasoconstriction | (noun) decrease in the diameter of blood vessels | - |
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vasoconstrictive | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictor |
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vasoconstrictor | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictive |
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