brainwave | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, insight |
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(noun) (neurophysiology) rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: brain wave, cortical potential |
brave | (noun) people who are brave | - |
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(noun) a North American Indian warrior | - |
braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
breve | (noun) a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | - |
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brevet | (noun) a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay) | - |
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burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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(noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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captive | (noun) an animal that is confined | - |
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(noun) a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | Synonyms: prisoner |
(noun) a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion | - |
caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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(noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
carminative | (noun) medication that prevents the formation of gas in the alimentary tract or eases its passing | - |
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carvedilol | (noun) beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced | - |
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carver | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: sculptor, sculpturer, statue maker |
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(noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: cutter |
(noun) makes decorative wooden panels | Synonyms: woodcarver |
cave | (noun) a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea | - |
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caveat | (noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caution |
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(noun) (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing | - |
caveman | (noun) someone who lives in a cave | Synonyms: cave dweller, cave man, troglodyte |
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cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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(noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
cavetto | (noun) a concave molding shaped like a quarter circle in cross section | - |
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changeover | (noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: conversion, transition |
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chive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chives, cive, schnittlaugh |
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chives | (noun) cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning | - |
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(noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, cive, schnittlaugh |
circumvention | (noun) the act of evading by going around | - |
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cive | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, schnittlaugh |
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civet | (noun) cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes | Synonyms: civet cat |
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cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
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cleavers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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(noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
(noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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clove | (noun) spice from dried unopened flower bud of the clove tree; used whole or ground | - |
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(noun) one of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb | Synonyms: garlic clove |
(noun) moderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves | Synonyms: clove tree, Eugenia aromaticum, Eugenia caryophyllatum, Syzygium aromaticum |
(noun) aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice | - |
clover | (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: trefoil |
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cloverleaf | (noun) an interchange that does not require left-hand turns | - |
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cloveroot | (noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: clover-root, Geum urbanum, herb bennet, wood avens |
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cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
collective | (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
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combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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commemorative | (noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
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communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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comprehensive | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
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comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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(noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
compulsive | (noun) a person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things | - |
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compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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concaveness | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concavity |
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conceiver | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: mastermind, originator |
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conclave | (noun) a confidential or secret meeting | - |
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conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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conjunctive | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
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connective | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
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(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
conservative | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
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conserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves |
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conserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves |
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constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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consumptive | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
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contemplative | (noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
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contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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contraceptive | (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
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contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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convection | (noun) the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion | - |
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(noun) (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | - |
convector | (noun) a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection | - |
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convener | (noun) the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings | - |
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convenience | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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(noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room |
(noun) the quality of being useful and convenient | - |
(noun) the state of being suitable or opportune | - |
conveniences | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, comforts, creature comforts |
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convening | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convention |
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convent | (noun) a religious residence especially for nuns | - |
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(noun) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together | - |
conventicle | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: meetinghouse |
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(noun) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | - |
convention | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convening |
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(noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: conventionalism, conventionality |
(noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: formula, normal, pattern, rule |
(noun) (diplomacy) an international agreement | - |
(noun) a large formal assembly | - |
conventionalisation | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalization |
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conventionalism | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionality |
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conventionality | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionalism |
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(noun) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional | - |
(noun) conformity with conventional thought and behavior | - |
conventionalization | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalisation |
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conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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convergence | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergency, converging |
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(noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergency |
(noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: intersection, overlap |
(noun) the occurrence of two or more things coming together | - |
convergency | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, converging |
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(noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergence |
converging | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, convergency |
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conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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conversation | (noun) the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. | - |
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conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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converse | (noun) a proposition obtained by conversion | - |
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conversion | (noun) the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another | - |
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(noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: rebirth, spiritual rebirth |
(noun) a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown | - |
(noun) act of exchanging one type of money or security for another | - |
(noun) a change in the units or form of an expression: | - |
(noun) interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition | - |
(noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: changeover, transition |
(noun) a change of religion | - |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis | - |
convert | (noun) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief | - |
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convertase | (noun) any of several enzymes that convert a compound into smaller, biologically-active compounds. | - |
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converter | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: convertor |
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convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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convertible | (noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
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(noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
(noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |
convertor | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: converter |
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convexity | (noun) the property possessed by a convex shape | Synonyms: convexness |
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(noun) a shape that curves or bulges outward | Synonyms: convex shape |
convexness | (noun) the property possessed by a convex shape | Synonyms: convexity |
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conveyance | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying |
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(noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: transfer, transferral, transport, transportation |
(noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: transport |
(noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: impartation, imparting |
(noun) document effecting a property transfer | - |
conveyancer | (noun) a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveying properties | - |
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conveyancing | (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another | Synonyms: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveying |
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