| bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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| biochemistry | (noun) the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry | - |
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| biometry | (noun) a branch of biology that studies biological phenomena and observations by means of statistical analysis | Synonyms: biometrics, biostatistics |
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| biryani | (noun) an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables | Synonyms: biriani |
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| bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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| blackberry | (noun) large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus | - |
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| (noun) bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle | Synonyms: blackberry bush |
| blaeberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
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| blazonry | (noun) the official symbols of a family, state, etc. | Synonyms: arms, blazon, coat of arms |
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| bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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| blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
| bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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| boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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| (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
| boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
| boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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| (noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
| bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
| breviary | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily by certain priests and members of religious orders | - |
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| brewery | (noun) a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation | - |
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| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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| bryanthus | (noun) procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowers | - |
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| bryony | (noun) a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties | Synonyms: briony |
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| bryophyte | (noun) any of numerous plants of the division Bryophyta | Synonyms: nonvascular plant |
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| bryozoan | (noun) sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding | Synonyms: moss animal, polyzoan, sea mat, sea moss |
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| budgerygah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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| bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| burglary | (noun) entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property | - |
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| bursary | (noun) the treasury of a public institution or religious order | - |
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| burying | (noun) concealing something under the ground | Synonyms: burial |
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| butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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| (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
| buttery | (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
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| (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
| cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
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| cajolery | (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, palaver |
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| calamary | (noun) (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food | Synonyms: calamari, squid |
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| calorimetry | (noun) measurement of quantities of heat | - |
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| calvary | (noun) any experience that causes intense suffering | Synonyms: martyrdom |
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| canary | (noun) any of several small Old World finches | Synonyms: canary bird |
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| (noun) a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge | Synonyms: canary yellow |
| (noun) a female singer | - |
| (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
| candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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| cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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| capillary | (noun) a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action | Synonyms: capillary tube, capillary tubing |
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| (noun) any of the minute blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules | Synonyms: capillary vessel |
| caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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| carpentry | (noun) the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood | Synonyms: woodwork, woodworking |
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| carry | (noun) the act of carrying something | - |
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| carryall | (noun) a capacious bag or basket | Synonyms: holdall, tote, tote bag |
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| carrycot | (noun) box-shaped baby bed with handles (for a baby to sleep in while being carried) | - |
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| caryatid | (noun) a supporting column carved in the shape of a person | - |
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| caryopsis | (noun) dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn | Synonyms: grain |
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| cassowary | (noun) large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest | - |
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| casuistry | (noun) moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas | - |
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| (noun) argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading | - |
| category | (noun) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | - |
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| (noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: class, family |
| catenary | (noun) the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points | - |
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| cautery | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cauterization |
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| (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cauterant |
| cavalry | (noun) a highly mobile army unit | - |
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| (noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: horse, horse cavalry |
| cavalryman | (noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: trooper |
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| (noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: trooper |
| celery | (noun) stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning | - |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celery |
| cemetery | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis |
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| centaury | (noun) any plant of the genus Centaurea | - |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Centaurium | - |
| centenary | (noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: centennial |
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| century | (noun) ten 10s | Synonyms: 100, C, hundred, one C |
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| (noun) a period of 100 years | - |
| cephalometry | (noun) measurement of human heads | - |
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| chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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| chancery | (noun) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records | - |
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| (noun) a court with jurisdiction in equity | Synonyms: court of chancery |
| chandlery | (noun) a storeroom where candles are kept | - |
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| (noun) candles and other commodities sold by a chandler | - |
| chantry | (noun) a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor | - |
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| (noun) an endowment for the singing of Masses | - |
| checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
| chemistry | (noun) the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | Synonyms: chemical science |
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| (noun) the way two individuals relate to each other | Synonyms: alchemy, interpersonal chemistry |
| (noun) the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object | - |
| chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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| cherry | (noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cerise, cherry red |
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| (noun) a red fruit with a single hard stone | - |
| (noun) any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood | Synonyms: cherry tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry | - |
| cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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| (noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
| chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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| chicory | (noun) crisp spiky leaves with somewhat bitter taste | Synonyms: curly endive |
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| (noun) root of the chicory plant roasted and ground to substitute for or adulterate coffee | Synonyms: chicory root |
| (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory plant, Cichorium intybus, succory |
| (noun) the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute | Synonyms: chicory root |
| chinaberry | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, azederach, China tree, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria |
| chivalry | (noun) courtesy towards women | Synonyms: gallantry, politesse |
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| (noun) the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct | Synonyms: knightliness |
| chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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| (noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
| chrysalis | (noun) pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon | - |
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| chrysanthemum | (noun) any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated | - |
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| (noun) the flower of a chrysanthemum plant | - |
| chrysarobin | (noun) a bitter yellow powder used to treat skin diseases | Synonyms: araroba, Goa powder |
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| chrysoberyl | (noun) a rare hard yellow green mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in crystal form; used as a gemstone | - |
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| chrysolite | (noun) a brown or yellow-green olivine found in igneous and metamorphic rocks and used as a gemstone | - |
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| chrysomelid | (noun) brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves; larvae infest roots and stems | Synonyms: leaf beetle |
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| chrysopid | (noun) pale green unpleasant-smelling lacewing fly having carnivorous larvae | Synonyms: green lacewing, stink fly |
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| chrysoprase | (noun) a green variety of chalcedony valued as a gemstone | - |
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| chrysotherapy | (noun) the use of chemicals containing gold for treating diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis) | - |
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| chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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| circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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| citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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| clary | (noun) aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental | Synonyms: Salvia sclarea |
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| clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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| clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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| cloudberry | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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| colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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| colorimetry | (noun) quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter | Synonyms: colorimetric analysis |
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| columbary | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, dovecote |
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| commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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| commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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| commissary | (noun) a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) | - |
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| (noun) a snack bar in a film studio | - |
| complementary | (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
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| comradery | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradeship |
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