asker | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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basket | (noun) a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop | Synonyms: field goal |
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(noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: handbasket |
(noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basketball hoop, hoop |
(noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basketful |
basketball | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball game, hoops |
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(noun) an inflated ball used in playing basketball | - |
basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
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basketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basket |
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basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
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basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
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basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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(noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
(noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
brisket | (noun) a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef | - |
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busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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casket | (noun) small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables | Synonyms: jewel casket |
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(noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated | Synonyms: coffin |
cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
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cytoskeleton | (noun) a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence | - |
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diskette | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: floppy, floppy disk |
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endoskeleton | (noun) the internal skeleton; bony and cartilaginous structure (especially of vertebrates) | - |
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esker | (noun) (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets | - |
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exoskeleton | (noun) the exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs | - |
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gasket | (noun) seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint | - |
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greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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handbasket | (noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: basket |
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masker | (noun) a participant in a masquerade | Synonyms: masquer, masquerader |
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muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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(noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
musket | (noun) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen | - |
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musketeer | (noun) a foot soldier armed with a musket | - |
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musketry | (noun) the technique of using small arms (especially in battle) | - |
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(noun) musketeers and their muskets collectively | - |
omphaloskepsis | (noun) literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption | Synonyms: navel-gazing |
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passkey | (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master, master key, passe-partout |
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rathskeller | (noun) a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall | - |
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skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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skeet | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet shooting, trapshooting |
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skeg | (noun) a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost | - |
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skein | (noun) coils of worsted yarn | - |
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skeleton | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe |
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(noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale |
(noun) a scandal that is kept secret | Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard |
(noun) something reduced to its minimal form | - |
skep | (noun) a domed beehive made of twisted straw | - |
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(noun) a large round wicker basket (used on farms) | - |
skepful | (noun) the quantity a skep can hold | - |
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skeptic | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: doubter, sceptic |
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skepticism | (noun) doubt about the truth of something | Synonyms: disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, scepticism |
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(noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: agnosticism, scepticism |
sketch | (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, survey |
(noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cartoon |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: vignette |
sketchbook | (noun) a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn | Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad |
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sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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(noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
sketchiness | (noun) incompleteness of details | - |
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skewer | (noun) a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted | - |
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skewness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: lopsidedness |
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tetraskele | (noun) a figure consisting of four stylized human arms or legs (or bent lines) radiating from a center | Synonyms: tetraskelion |
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tetraskelion | (noun) a figure consisting of four stylized human arms or legs (or bent lines) radiating from a center | Synonyms: tetraskele |
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triskele | (noun) a figure consisting of three stylized human arms or legs (or three bent lines) radiating from a center | Synonyms: triskelion |
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triskelion | (noun) a figure consisting of three stylized human arms or legs (or three bent lines) radiating from a center | Synonyms: triskele |
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tsatske | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tshatshke |
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(noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: chachka, tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tshatshke |
tusker | (noun) any mammal with prominent tusks (especially an elephant or wild boar) | - |
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wastebasket | (noun) a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish | Synonyms: circular file, waste-paper basket, waste basket, wastepaper basket |
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whisker | (noun) a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat | Synonyms: sensory hair, vibrissa |
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(noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, hairsbreadth |
whiskers | (noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: beard, face fungus |
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whiskey | (noun) a liquor made from fermented mash of grain | Synonyms: whisky |
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workbasket | (noun) container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) | Synonyms: workbag, workbox |
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