| subsidy | (noun) a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public | - |
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| subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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| (noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
| (noun) a means of surviving | - |
| subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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| subsoil | (noun) the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | Synonyms: undersoil |
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| subspace | (noun) a space that is contained within another space | - |
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| subspecies | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species | Synonyms: race |
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| substance | (noun) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | - |
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| (noun) a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties | - |
| (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, consistency |
| (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: meaning |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, sum |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, message, subject matter |
| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: means |
| (noun) material of a particular kind or constitution | - |
| substantiality | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantialness |
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| substantialness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantiality |
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| substantiation | (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: proof, validation |
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| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, verification |
| substantive | (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
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| substation | (noun) a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network | - |
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| substitutability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, replaceability |
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| substitute | (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
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| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: reserve, second-stringer |
| substituting | (noun) working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | Synonyms: subbing |
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| substitution | (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, exchange |
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| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, switch, transposition |
| substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
| substratum | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substrate |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substrate |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substrate |
| substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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| (noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
| subsystem | (noun) a system that is part of some larger system | - |
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| subterfuge | (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: blind |
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| subthalamus | (noun) the ventral part of the thalamus | - |
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| subtilin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium | - |
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| subtitle | (noun) secondary or explanatory title | - |
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| (noun) translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen | Synonyms: caption |
| subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
| subtonic | (noun) (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | Synonyms: leading tone |
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| subtopia | (noun) monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings | - |
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| subtotal | (noun) the sum of part of a group of numbers | - |
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| subtracter | (noun) a machine that subtracts numbers | - |
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| (noun) a person who subtracts numbers | - |
| subtraction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: deduction |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: minus |
| subtractor | (noun) An electronic logic circuit for calculating the difference between two binary numbers. | - |
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| subtrahend | (noun) the number to be subtracted from the minuend | - |
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| subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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| subtropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: semitropics |
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| subtweeting | (noun) the act of tweeting without tagging a user so that they will not see the post | - |
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| subunit | (noun) a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional monetary unit |
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| suburb | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia |
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| suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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| suburbia | (noun) suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture | - |
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| (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburb, suburban area |
| subvention | (noun) the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort | - |
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| (noun) grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution | - |
| subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
| subversive | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter |
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| subversiveness | (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: traitorousness, treason |
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| subverter | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive |
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| subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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| subvocalizer | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocaliser |
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| subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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| (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
| subwoofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies | - |
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| succuba | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succubus |
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| succubus | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succuba |
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| syllabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: sillabub |
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| (noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: sillabub |
| transubstantiation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transmutation |
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| (noun) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist | - |
| troubadour | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer |
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| trouble | (noun) an effort that is inconvenient | Synonyms: difficulty |
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| (noun) a source of difficulty | Synonyms: problem |
| (noun) an event causing distress or pain | - |
| (noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: bother, fuss, hassle |
| (noun) a strong feeling of anxiety | Synonyms: worry |
| (noun) an unwanted pregnancy | - |
| troublemaker | (noun) someone who deliberately stirs up trouble | Synonyms: bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troubler |
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| troubler | (noun) someone who deliberately stirs up trouble | Synonyms: bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker |
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| troubleshooter | (noun) a worker whose job is to locate and fix sources of trouble (especially in mechanical devices) | Synonyms: trouble shooter |
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| troublesomeness | (noun) a difficulty that causes anxiety | Synonyms: inconvenience, worriment |
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| tub | (noun) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids | Synonyms: vat |
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| (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, bathtub |
| (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tubful |
| tuba | (noun) the lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: bass horn, sousaphone |
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| tubbiness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: chubbiness, pudginess, rolypoliness |
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| tube | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tubing |
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| (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, underground |
| (noun) electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope | Synonyms: electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube |
| (noun) (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure | Synonyms: tube-shaped structure |
| (noun) a hollow cylindrical shape | Synonyms: pipe |
| tubeless | (noun) pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight | Synonyms: tubeless tire |
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| tuber | (noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | - |
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| tubercle | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity |
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| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: nodule |
| (noun) a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis | - |
| tubercular | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
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| tuberculin | (noun) a sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculosis | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) | Synonyms: T.B., TB |
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| tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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| tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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| tubful | (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tub |
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| tubing | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tube |
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| tubocurarine | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: curare |
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| tubule | (noun) a small tube | - |
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| ubiety | (noun) the state of existing and being localized in space | - |
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| ubiquinone | (noun) any of several quinones found in living cells and that function as coenzymes that transfer electrons from one molecule to another in cell respiration | Synonyms: coenzyme Q |
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| ubiquitousness | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: omnipresence, ubiquity |
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| ubiquity | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: omnipresence, ubiquitousness |
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| undershrub | (noun) a low shrub | - |
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| untroublesomeness | (noun) The property of not giving trouble or anxiety. | - |
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| volubility | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: articulateness, fluency |
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| washtub | (noun) a tub in which clothes or linens can be washed | - |
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| watertube | (noun) a boiler tube through which the water flows. | Synonyms: water tube |
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