| mostaccioli | (noun) pasta somewhat resembling little moustaches | - |
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| moustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: mustache |
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| moustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, mustachio |
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| multistage | (noun) occurring in more than one stage | - |
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| mustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: moustache |
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| mustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, moustachio |
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| mustang | (noun) small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish | - |
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| mustard | (noun) pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds | Synonyms: table mustard |
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| (noun) leaves eaten as cooked greens | Synonyms: Indian mustard, leaf mustard, mustard greens |
| (noun) any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica | - |
| newsstand | (noun) a stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold | - |
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| nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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| nonstandardness | (noun) The state or condition of not being standard. | - |
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| nonstarter | (noun) a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered | - |
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| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, loser, unsuccessful person |
| nostalgia | (noun) longing for something past | - |
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| nystagmus | (noun) involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders | - |
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| nystatin | (noun) an antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State; derived from soil fungi actinomycetes | Synonyms: Mycostatin, Nystan |
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| obstacle | (noun) an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented) | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted | Synonyms: obstruction |
| offstage | (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
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| outstation | (noun) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location | Synonyms: outpost |
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| overstatement | (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, magnification |
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| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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| pasta | (noun) shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg | Synonyms: alimentary paste |
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| (noun) a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient | - |
| pedestal | (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: base, stand |
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| (noun) an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue) | Synonyms: footstall, plinth |
| (noun) a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority) | - |
| pentecostalism | (noun) the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues | - |
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| peristalsis | (noun) the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | Synonyms: vermiculation |
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| photostat | (noun) a photocopy made on a Photostat machine | - |
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| pikestaff | (noun) the staff of a pike | - |
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| pistachio | (noun) nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel | Synonyms: pistachio nut |
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| (noun) small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts | Synonyms: pistachio tree, Pistacia vera |
| polestar | (noun) the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it | Synonyms: North Star, polar star, Polaris, pole star |
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| postage | (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage stamp, stamp |
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| (noun) the charge for mailing something | - |
| postalveolar | (noun) (phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. | Synonyms: post-alveolar, post-alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant |
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| pravastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks | Synonyms: Pravachol |
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| prostaglandin | (noun) a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity | - |
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| prostate | (noun) a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen | Synonyms: prostate gland |
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| prostatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the prostate gland | - |
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| prostatitis | (noun) inflammation of the prostate gland characterized by perineal pain and irregular urination and (if severe) chills and fever | - |
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| protestation | (noun) a strong declaration of protest | - |
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| (noun) a formal and solemn declaration of objection | Synonyms: protest |
| protistan | (noun) free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes | Synonyms: protist |
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| pyrostat | (noun) a thermostat that operates at very high temperatures | - |
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| quarterstaff | (noun) a long stout staff used as a weapon | - |
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| redstart | (noun) European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins | Synonyms: redtail |
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| (noun) flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail | Synonyms: American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla |
| reforestation | (noun) the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting | Synonyms: re-afforestation |
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| reinstatement | (noun) the act of restoring someone to a previous position | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being reinstated | - |
| resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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| (noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
| (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
| (noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
| (noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
| (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
| (noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
| restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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| restaurant | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eatery, eating house, eating place |
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| restauranter | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restaurateur |
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| restaurateur | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restauranter |
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| rheostat | (noun) resistor for regulating current | Synonyms: variable resistor |
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| rijstafel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstaffel, rijsttaffel |
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| rijstaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijsttaffel |
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| rootstalk | (noun) a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure | Synonyms: rhizome, rootstock |
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| roustabout | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: deckhand |
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| sacristan | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sexton |
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| siesta | (noun) a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries) | - |
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| simvastatin | (noun) an oral lipid-lowering medicine (trade name Zocor) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after heart attacks | Synonyms: Zocor |
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| smokestack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: stack |
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| stab | (noun) a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument | Synonyms: knife thrust, thrust |
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| (noun) informal words for any attempt or effort | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, twinge |
| stabber | (noun) someone who stabs another person | - |
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| stabile | (noun) a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support | - |
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| stabilisation | (noun) the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable | Synonyms: stabilization |
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| (noun) the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn | Synonyms: stabilization |
| stabiliser | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabilizer |
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| stabilitron | (noun) a semiconductor diode that exhibits a sharp increase in reverse current at a well-defined reverse voltage: used as a voltage regulator | Synonyms: zenerdiode |
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| stability | (noun) the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast | Synonyms: stableness |
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| (noun) the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | Synonyms: constancy |
| (noun) a stable order (especially of society) | - |
| stabilization | (noun) the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable | Synonyms: stabilisation |
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| (noun) the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn | Synonyms: stabilisation |
| stabilizer | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabiliser |
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| (noun) airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft | - |
| (noun) a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state | - |
| stable | (noun) a farm building for housing horses or other livestock | Synonyms: horse barn, stalls |
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| stableboy | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableman |
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| stableman | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy |
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| stablemate | (noun) a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person | Synonyms: stable companion |
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| stableness | (noun) the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast | Synonyms: stability |
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| stabling | (noun) accommodation for animals (especially for horses) | - |
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| stachyose | (noun) a tetrasaccharide found in the tubers of the Chinese artichoke | - |
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| stack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: smokestack |
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| (noun) a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store |
| (noun) a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack |
| (noun) an orderly pile | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad |
| stacker | (noun) a laborer who builds up a stack or pile | - |
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| stacks | (noun) storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored | - |
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| (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads |
| stacte | (noun) (Old Testament) one of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense | - |
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| stactometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stalagmometer, stalogometer |
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| staddle | (noun) a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked | - |
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| stadium | (noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: arena, bowl, sports stadium |
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| staff | (noun) a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose | - |
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| (noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: stave |
| (noun) a rod carried as a symbol | - |
| (noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: faculty |
| (noun) personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task | - |
| (noun) building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration | - |
| staffer | (noun) an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) | Synonyms: staff member |
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| stag | (noun) adult male deer | - |
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| (noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer | Synonyms: hart |
| stage | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: leg |
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| (noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | - |
| (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stagecoach |
| (noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination | Synonyms: microscope stage |
| (noun) the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') | - |
| (noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something | - |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, point |
| (noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events | Synonyms: phase |
| stagecoach | (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stage |
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| stagecraft | (noun) skill in writing or staging plays | - |
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| stagehand | (noun) an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production | Synonyms: stage technician |
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| stager | (noun) someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed | Synonyms: stage manager |
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| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, veteran, warhorse |
| stagflation | (noun) a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation) | - |
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| stagger | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: lurch, stumble |
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| staggerbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock | Synonyms: Lyonia mariana, stagger bush |
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| staggerer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, totterer |
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| staggers | (noun) a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling | Synonyms: blind staggers |
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| staghead | (noun) an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance | Synonyms: hexenbesen, witch broom, witches' broom |
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| staghound | (noun) a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound | - |
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| staginess | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: theatricality |
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| staging | (noun) travel by stagecoach | - |
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| (noun) getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket | - |
| (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: scaffolding |
| (noun) the production of a drama on the stage | Synonyms: theatrical production |
| stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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| (noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
| stagnation | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnancy |
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| (noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnancy |
| staidness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, solemnity |
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| stain | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, discolouration |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigma |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil |
| (noun) (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible | - |