supinator | (noun) a muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination | - |
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supper | (noun) a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime | - |
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(noun) a social gathering where a light evening meal is served | - |
suppertime | (noun) the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | Synonyms: dinnertime |
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supping | (noun) ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking | - |
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supplanter | (noun) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another | Synonyms: usurper |
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supplanting | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: displacement |
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supplejack | (noun) walking stick made from the wood of an American tropical vine | - |
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supplement | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, appurtenance |
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(noun) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) | Synonyms: supplementation |
(noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, postscript |
supplementation | (noun) the act of supplementing | Synonyms: subjoining, subjunction |
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(noun) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) | Synonyms: supplement |
suppleness | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple | Synonyms: lissomeness, litheness |
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(noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliancy, pliantness |
(noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliancy, pliantness |
suppliant | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, supplicant |
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supplicant | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, requester, suppliant |
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(noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: prayer |
supplication | (noun) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) | Synonyms: prayer |
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(noun) a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service | Synonyms: invocation |
(noun) a humble request for help from someone in authority | Synonyms: plea |
supplier | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | Synonyms: provider |
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supply | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: provision, supplying |
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(noun) offering goods and services for sale | - |
(noun) an amount of something available for use | - |
supplying | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: provision, supply |
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support | (noun) aiding the cause or policy or interests of | - |
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(noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: supporting |
(noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: documentation |
(noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, reinforcement |
(noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | - |
(noun) any device that bears the weight of another thing | - |
(noun) supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | - |
(noun) something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest | - |
(noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance |
(noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, funding |
supporter | (noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) | Synonyms: garter |
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(noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, suspensor |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist |
(noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assistant, help, helper |
(noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, sponsor |
supporting | (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: support |
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supposal | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposition |
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(noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposition |
supposition | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposal |
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(noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposal |
(noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, surmisal, surmise |
suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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suppressant | (noun) a drug that suppresses appetite | Synonyms: appetite suppressant |
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suppresser | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppressor |
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(noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser gene, suppressor, suppressor gene |
(noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppressor |
suppression | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: curtailment |
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(noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, stifling |
(noun) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires | Synonyms: inhibition |
(noun) the failure to develop some part or organ | - |
suppressor | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppresser |
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(noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser, suppresser gene, suppressor gene |
(noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppresser |
suppuration | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, ichor, purulence, pus, sanies |
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(noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, maturation |
suprainfection | (noun) secondary infection caused by an opportunistic infection | - |
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suprarenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: adrenalectomy |
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supremacism | (noun) the belief that some particular group or race is superior to all others | - |
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supremacist | (noun) a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others | - |
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supremacy | (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, mastery |
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suprematism | (noun) a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism | - |
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suprematist | (noun) an artist of the school of suprematism | - |
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supremo | (noun) the most important person in an organization | - |
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syrup | (noun) a thick sweet sticky liquid | Synonyms: sirup |
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taupe | (noun) a greyish brown | - |
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teacup | (noun) a cup from which tea is drunk | - |
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(noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacupful |
teacupful | (noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacup |
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thermocouple | (noun) a kind of thermometer consisting of two wires of different metals that are joined at both ends; one junction is at the temperature to be measured and the other is held at a fixed lower temperature; the current generated in the circuit is proportional to the temperature difference | Synonyms: thermocouple junction |
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tossup | (noun) an unpredictable phenomenon | Synonyms: even chance, toss-up |
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toupe | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupee |
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toupee | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupe |
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troupe | (noun) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical) | Synonyms: company |
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trouper | (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: barnstormer, play-actor, playactor |
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(noun) a person who is reliable and uncomplaining and hard working | - |
tup | (noun) uncastrated adult male sheep | Synonyms: ram |
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tupek | (noun) tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | Synonyms: sealskin tent, tupik |
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tupelo | (noun) any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America | Synonyms: tupelo tree |
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(noun) pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum | - |
tupik | (noun) tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | Synonyms: sealskin tent, tupek |
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tuppence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: twopence |
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turnup | (noun) the lap consisting of a turned-back hem encircling the end of the sleeve or leg | Synonyms: cuff |
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unscrupulousness | (noun) the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty | - |
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upbeat | (noun) an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) | Synonyms: offbeat |
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(noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, eudaimonia, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
upbraider | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, reprover |
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upbraiding | (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over |
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upbringing | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing |
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(noun) properties acquired during a person's formative years | - |
upcast | (noun) air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine | - |
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update | (noun) the act of bringing someone or something up to date | - |
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(noun) information or data that updates | - |
updating | (noun) the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something) | - |
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updraft | (noun) a strong upward air current | - |
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upending | (noun) turning upside down; setting on end | Synonyms: inversion |
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upgrade | (noun) the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components) | - |
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(noun) hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did | - |
(noun) the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises | Synonyms: rise, rising slope |
(noun) a reservation that is improved | - |
(noun) software that provides better performance than an earlier version did | - |
(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise |
upheaval | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil |
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(noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: uplift, upthrow, upthrust |
(noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, turbulence |
(noun) a violent disturbance | Synonyms: convulsion, turmoil |
uphill | (noun) the upward slope of a hill | - |
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upholder | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, sustainer |
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upholsterer | (noun) a craftsman who upholsters furniture | - |
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upholstery | (noun) the craft of upholstering | - |
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(noun) covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture | - |
upkeep | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, maintenance |
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(noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation |
upland | (noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: highland |
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uplift | (noun) a brassiere that lifts and supports the breasts | - |
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(noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, upthrow, upthrust |
uplifting | (noun) the rise of something | - |
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uplink | (noun) a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission | - |
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upper | (noun) piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot | - |
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(noun) a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression | Synonyms: amphetamine, pep pill, speed |
(noun) the higher of two berths | Synonyms: upper berth |
uppercase | (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter |
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uppercut | (noun) a swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin) | - |
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uppishness | (noun) assumption of airs beyond one's station | Synonyms: uppityness |
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uppityness | (noun) assumption of airs beyond one's station | Synonyms: uppishness |
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upright | (noun) a piano with a vertical sounding board | Synonyms: upright piano |
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(noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: vertical |
uprightness | (noun) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest | Synonyms: rectitude |
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(noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, verticality, verticalness |
(noun) the property of being upright in posture | Synonyms: erectness |
uprising | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising |
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uproar | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, katzenjammer |
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(noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumult, tumultuousness |
uprooter | (noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster |
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upset | (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: overturn |
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(noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, overthrow |
(noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: overturn, turnover |
(noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: swage |
(noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, perturbation |
(noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning | Synonyms: disorder |
upsetter | (noun) an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor | - |
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upshot | (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result |
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upside | (noun) the highest or uppermost side of anything | Synonyms: top, top side, upper side |
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upsilon | (noun) the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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upstage | (noun) the rear part of the stage | - |
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upstager | (noun) a selfish actor who upstages the other actors | - |
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upstairs | (noun) the part of a building above the ground floor | - |
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upstart | (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright | Synonyms: kip |
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(noun) a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class | Synonyms: arriviste, nouveau-riche, parvenu |
(noun) an arrogant or presumptuous person | - |
upstroke | (noun) a stroke normally made in an upward direction | - |
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upsurge | (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | Synonyms: surge |
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(noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, spate, surge |
uptake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, intake |
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(noun) a process of taking up or using up or consuming | - |
upthrow | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrust |
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upthrust | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrow |
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uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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uptime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use | - |
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uptown | (noun) a residential part of town away from the central commercial district | - |
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upturn | (noun) an upward movement or trend as in business activity | - |
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