| asphalt | (noun) a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: mineral pitch |
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| (noun) mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing | - |
| basalt | (noun) the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene | - |
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| cobalt | (noun) a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition | Synonyms: atomic number 27, Co |
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| gestalt | (noun) a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts | - |
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| halt | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: freeze |
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| (noun) the event of something ending | Synonyms: stop |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
| malt | (noun) a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling | - |
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| (noun) a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer | Synonyms: malt liquor |
| (noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malted, malted milk |
| salt | (noun) the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: salinity, saltiness |
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| (noun) white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food | Synonyms: common salt, table salt |
| (noun) a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) | - |