acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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adage | (noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: byword, proverb, saw |
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advantage | (noun) the quality of having a superior or more favorable position | Synonyms: vantage |
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(noun) benefit resulting from some event or action | Synonyms: reward |
(noun) (tennis) first point scored after deuce | - |
afterimage | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: aftersensation |
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age | (noun) how long something has existed | - |
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(noun) a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises | Synonyms: eld |
(noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: eld, geezerhood, old age, years |
(noun) an era of history having some distinctive feature | Synonyms: historic period |
(noun) a prolonged period of time | Synonyms: long time, years |
agiotage | (noun) a fee charged for exchanging currencies | Synonyms: agio, exchange premium, premium |
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(noun) speculative dealing in stock exchange securities or foreign exchange. | - |
alienage | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienism |
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ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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amperage | (noun) the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes | - |
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anagoge | (noun) a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture) | - |
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anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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(noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
(noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
(noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
(noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
anlage | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: primordium |
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apanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: appanage |
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(noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: appanage |
appanage | (noun) a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family | Synonyms: apanage |
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(noun) any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life | Synonyms: apanage |
appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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(noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
(noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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arbitrage | (noun) a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price | - |
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assemblage | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assembly, gathering |
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(noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: hookup |
(noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: gathering |
(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, collection |
auberge | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge |
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average | (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
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(noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
(noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
backstage | (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: offstage, wing |
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bacteriophage | (noun) a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria | Synonyms: phage |
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badge | (noun) any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank) | - |
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(noun) an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.) | - |
badinage | (noun) frivolous banter | - |
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baggage | (noun) cases used to carry belongings when traveling | Synonyms: luggage |
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(noun) the portable equipment and supplies of an army | - |
(noun) a worthless or immoral woman | - |
bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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barge | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: flatboat, hoy, lighter |
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baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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baronetage | (noun) the state of a baronet | - |
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(noun) the collective body of baronets | - |
barrage | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling |
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(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: bombardment, onslaught, outpouring |
beige | (noun) a very light brown | Synonyms: ecru |
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beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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bilge | (noun) where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom | - |
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(noun) water accumulated in the bilge of a ship | Synonyms: bilge water |
binge | (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: bout, bust, tear |
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(noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: orgy, splurge |
birdcage | (noun) a cage in which a bird can be kept | - |
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blancmange | (noun) sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded | - |
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blockage | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: closure, occlusion |
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(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
(noun) the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction | Synonyms: obstruction |
bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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(noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
(noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
borage | (noun) an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked | - |
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(noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort |
breakage | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breaking |
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(noun) reimbursement for goods damaged while in transit or in use | - |
(noun) the quantity broken | - |
brewage | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brew |
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bricolage | (noun) construction of something by whatever material are available | - |
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bridge | (noun) any of various card games based on whist for four players | - |
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(noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | Synonyms: span |
(noun) an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands | Synonyms: bridge deck |
(noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
(noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridgework |
(noun) a wooden support that holds the strings up | - |
(noun) a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected | Synonyms: bridge circuit |
(noun) the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose | - |
(noun) something resembling a bridge in form or function | - |
brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
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(noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
(noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
bulge | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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cabbage | (noun) any of various types of cabbage | Synonyms: chou |
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(noun) any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea, cultivated cabbage |
(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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(noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
cage | (noun) an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept | Synonyms: coop |
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(noun) the net that is the goal in ice hockey | - |
(noun) a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice | Synonyms: batting cage |
(noun) something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement | - |
camouflage | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: disguise |
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(noun) device or stratagem for concealment or deceit | - |
(noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camo |
(noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: disguise |
carnage | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
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carriage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: equipage, rig |
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(noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: coach, passenger car |
(noun) a machine part that carries something else | - |
(noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
(noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: bearing, posture |
cartage | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: carting |
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cartilage | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: gristle |
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cartridge | (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun | - |
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(noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: pickup |
(noun) a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment | - |
(noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: magazine |
cellarage | (noun) a storage area in a cellar | - |
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(noun) a charge for storing goods in a cellar | - |
centrifuge | (noun) an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension | Synonyms: extractor, separator |
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challenge | (noun) a call to engage in a contest or fight | - |
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(noun) questioning a statement and demanding an explanation | - |
(noun) a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror | - |
(noun) a demand by a sentry for a password or identification | - |
(noun) a demanding or stimulating situation | - |
change | (noun) the action of changing something | - |
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(noun) a different or fresh set of clothes | - |
(noun) a thing that is different | - |
(noun) a difference that is usually pleasant | Synonyms: variety |
(noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, modification |
(noun) the result of alteration or modification | - |
(noun) coins of small denomination regarded collectively | - |
(noun) the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due | - |
(noun) money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency | - |
(noun) a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event | - |
charge | (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, guardianship, tutelage |
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(noun) an impetuous rush toward someone or something | - |
(noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: commission, mission |
(noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: burster, bursting charge, explosive charge |
(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, bearing, heraldic bearing |
(noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: complaint |
(noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: commission, direction |
(noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: billing |
(noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: accusation |
(noun) the swift release of a store of affective force | Synonyms: bang, boot, flush, kick, rush, thrill |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: cathexis |
(noun) a person committed to your care | - |
(noun) the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons | Synonyms: electric charge |
(noun) financial liabilities (such as a tax) | - |
(noun) the price charged for some article or service | - |
citrange | (noun) more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade | - |
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(noun) more aromatic and acidic than oranges | Synonyms: citrange tree, Citroncirus webberi |
cleavage | (noun) the act of cleaving or splitting | - |
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(noun) the line formed by a groove between two parts (especially the separation between a woman's breasts) | - |
(noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: segmentation |
(noun) the breaking of a chemical bond in a molecule resulting in smaller molecules | - |
(noun) the state of being split or cleft | - |
clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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coinage | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
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(noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: neologism, neology |
(noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: metal money, mintage, specie |
coliphage | (noun) a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli | - |
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collage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: montage |
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(noun) any collection of diverse things | - |
college | (noun) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed | - |
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(noun) the body of faculty and students of a college | - |
(noun) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university | - |
commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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concierge | (noun) a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter | - |
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concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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conge | (noun) formal permission to depart | Synonyms: congee |
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(noun) an abrupt and unceremonious dismissal | Synonyms: congee |
(noun) (architecture) a concave molding | Synonyms: congee |
cordage | (noun) the ropes in the rigging of a ship | - |
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(noun) the amount of wood in an area as measured in cords | - |
corkage | (noun) a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises | - |
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corsage | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, nosegay, posy |
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cortege | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: entourage, retinue, suite |
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(noun) a funeral procession | - |
cottage | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: bungalow |
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countercharge | (noun) a retaliatory charge | - |
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(noun) a charge brought by an accused person against the accuser | - |
counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
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courage | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, bravery, courageousness |
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coverage | (noun) the extent to which something is covered | - |
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(noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: reportage, reporting |
(noun) the total amount and type of insurance carried | Synonyms: insurance coverage |
cowage | (noun) the annual woody vine of Asia having long clusters of purplish flowers and densely hairy pods; cultivated in southern United States for green manure and grazing | Synonyms: Bengal bean, Benghal bean, Florida bean, Mucuna aterrima, Mucuna deeringiana, Mucuna pruriens utilis, Stizolobium deeringiana, velvet bean |
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(noun) pods of the cowage plant or the stinging hairs covering them; used as a vermifuge when mixed with e.g. honey | - |
cozenage | (noun) a fraudulent business scheme | Synonyms: scam |
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cribbage | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: crib |
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cringe | (noun) A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling. | - |
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(noun) some event or object that causes embarrassment and shame | - |
curettage | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettement |
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curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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damage | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: harm, hurt, scathe |
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(noun) any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right | Synonyms: legal injury, wrong |
(noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: harm, impairment |
(noun) loss of military equipment | Synonyms: equipment casualty |
(noun) the amount of money needed to purchase something | Synonyms: price, terms |
decolletage | (noun) a low-cut neckline on a woman's dress | - |
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decoupage | (noun) the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer | - |
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(noun) art produced by decorating a surface with cutouts and then coating it with several layers of varnish or lacquer | - |
deluge | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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(noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, flood, inundation |
(noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: flood, inundation, torrent |
demiurge | (noun) a subordinate deity, in some philosophies the creator of the universe | - |
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demurrage | (noun) detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
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(noun) a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
dinge | (noun) discoloration due to dirtiness | Synonyms: dinginess |
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dirge | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, lament, requiem, threnody |
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disadvantage | (noun) the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position | - |
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discharge | (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: firing, firing off |
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(noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
(noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: release, waiver |
(noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: venting |
(noun) the sudden giving off of energy | - |
(noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: outpouring, run |
(noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, electric arc, electric discharge, spark |
(noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: emission, expelling |
(noun) a substance that is emitted or released | Synonyms: emission |
dockage | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: docking, moorage, tying up |
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(noun) landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out | Synonyms: dock, docking facility |
(noun) a fee charged for a vessel to use a dock | Synonyms: docking fee |
dodge | (noun) a quick evasive movement | - |
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(noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: contrivance, stratagem |
(noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodging, scheme |
doge | (noun) formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa | - |
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dosage | (noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
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(noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time | Synonyms: dose |
dotage | (noun) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations | Synonyms: second childhood, senility |
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