| shallot | (noun) small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning | - |
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| (noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning | Synonyms: Allium ascalonicum, Allium cepa aggregatum, eschalot, multiplier onion |
| (noun) aggregate bulb of the multiplier onion | - |
| shallow | (noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shoal |
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| shallowness | (noun) the quality of lacking physical depth | - |
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| (noun) lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling | Synonyms: superficiality |
| shallu | (noun) sorghum having slender dry stalks and small hard grains; introduced into United States from India | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare rosburghii |
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| shalwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: salwar |
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| sham | (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: fake, postiche |
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| (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, shammer |
| shaman | (noun) in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination | Synonyms: priest-doctor |
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| shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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| (noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
| shamble | (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shambling, shuffle, shuffling |
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| shambles | (noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, butchery, slaughterhouse |
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| (noun) a condition of great disorder | - |
| shambling | (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle, shuffling |
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| shame | (noun) an unfortunate development | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt | - |
| (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, ignominy |
| shamefacedness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: sheepishness |
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| shamefulness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, ignominiousness |
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| shamelessness | (noun) behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame | Synonyms: brazenness |
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| shamisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: samisen |
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| shammer | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham |
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| (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, skulker |
| shammy | (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois, chamois leather, shammy leather |
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| shampoo | (noun) the act of washing your hair with shampoo | - |
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| (noun) cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair | - |
| shamrock | (noun) clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock | Synonyms: hop clover, lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium dubium |
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| (noun) creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage | Synonyms: dutch clover, Trifolium repens, white clover |
| (noun) Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers | Synonyms: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella |
| shamus | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, sherlock |
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| shandy | (noun) a drink made of beer and lemonade | Synonyms: shandygaff |
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| shandygaff | (noun) a drink made of beer and lemonade | Synonyms: shandy |
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| shanghaier | (noun) a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship | Synonyms: seizer |
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| shank | (noun) a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball | - |
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| (noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: cannon |
| (noun) the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole | Synonyms: waist |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: stem |
| (noun) the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
| (noun) a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg | - |
| shanny | (noun) European scaleless blenny | Synonyms: Blennius pholis |
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| shantung | (noun) a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton imitation) | - |
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| shanty | (noun) small crude shelter used as a dwelling | Synonyms: hovel, hut, hutch, shack |
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| (noun) a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors | Synonyms: chantey, chanty, sea chantey |
| shantytown | (noun) a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties | - |
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| shape | (noun) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance | Synonyms: form |
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| (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, contour, form |
| (noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: cast, form |
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, soma |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, pattern |
| (noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: embodiment |
| (noun) the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') | Synonyms: condition |
| shapelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape | - |
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| (noun) an amorphous or indefinite shape | - |
| shapeliness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: curvaceousness, voluptuousness |
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| shaper | (noun) a machine tool for shaping metal or wood | Synonyms: shaping machine |
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| (noun) a person who makes things | Synonyms: maker |
| shaping | (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: formation |
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| (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: defining |
| shard | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: fragment, sherd |
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| share | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, portion |
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| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: contribution, part |
| (noun) a sharp steel wedge that cuts loose the top layer of soil | Synonyms: ploughshare, plowshare |
| (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, portion |
| (noun) any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate | - |
| sharecropper | (noun) small farmers and tenants | Synonyms: cropper, sharecrop farmer |
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| shareholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareowner, stockholder |
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| shareholding | (noun) a holding in the form of shares of corporations | - |
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| shareowner | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, stockholder |
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| sharer | (noun) someone who has or gives or receives a part or a share | Synonyms: partaker |
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| shareware | (noun) software that is available free of charge; may be distributed for evaluation with a fee requested for additional features or a manual etc. | - |
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| sharia | (noun) the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | Synonyms: Islamic law, sharia law, shariah, shariah law |
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| shariah | (noun) the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | Synonyms: Islamic law, sharia, sharia law, shariah law |
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| sharing | (noun) a distribution in shares | Synonyms: share-out |
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| (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: communion |
| (noun) having in common | - |
| (noun) using or enjoying something jointly with others | - |
| shark | (noun) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales | - |
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| (noun) a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways | - |
| (noun) a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest | - |
| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| sharksucker | (noun) remoras found attached to sharks | Synonyms: Echeneis naucrates |
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| sharp | (noun) a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point | - |
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| (noun) a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named | - |
| sharpener | (noun) any implement that is used to make something (an edge or a point) sharper | - |
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| sharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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| sharpie | (noun) a shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
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| (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpy |
| (noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpy |
| sharpness | (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: asperity |
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| (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: keenness |
| (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, pungency, raciness |
| (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: distinctness |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: edge |
| (noun) the quality of being keenly and painfully felt | - |
| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, keenness |
| sharpshooter | (noun) a fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters | - |
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| (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, marksman |
| (noun) an athlete noted for accurate aim | - |
| sharpy | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, cardsharper, sharper, sharpie |
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| (noun) an alert and energetic person | Synonyms: busy bee, eager beaver, live wire, sharpie |
| shattering | (noun) the act of breaking something into small pieces | Synonyms: smashing |
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| shave | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shaving |
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| shaver | (noun) a razor powered by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| (noun) an adult male who shaves | - |
| shaving | (noun) the act of removing hair with a razor | Synonyms: shave |
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| (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: grazing, skimming |
| (noun) a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something | Synonyms: paring, sliver |
| shawl | (noun) cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders | - |
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| shawm | (noun) a medieval oboe | - |
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| shawny | (noun) showy perennial herb with white flowers; leaves sometimes used as edible greens in southeastern United States | Synonyms: Hydrophyllum virginianum, Indian salad, John's cabbage, Shawnee salad, Virginia waterleaf |
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| shay | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: chaise |
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| shaytan | (noun) (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray | Synonyms: shaitan |
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| sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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| sheesha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, shisha, water pipe |
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| shillyshally | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, procrastination |
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| shisha | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hookah, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, water pipe |
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| sisham | (noun) East Indian tree whose leaves are used for fodder; yields a compact dark brown durable timber used in shipbuilding and making railroad ties | Synonyms: Dalbergia sissoo, sissoo, sissu |
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| spindleshanks | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
| spokeshave | (noun) a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | - |
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| sunshade | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: awning, sunblind |
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| (noun) a handheld collapsible source of shade | Synonyms: parasol |
| toadshade | (noun) trillium of northeastern United States with sessile leaves and red or purple flowers having a pungent odor | Synonyms: red trillium, sessile trillium, Trillium sessile |
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| tshatshke | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tsatske |
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| (noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske |
| washables | (noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: laundry, wash, washing |
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