| downstage | (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
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| drainage | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drain |
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| drawbridge | (noun) a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | Synonyms: lift bridge |
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| dredge | (noun) a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed | - |
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| dressage | (noun) maneuvers of a horse in response to body signals by the rider | - |
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| driftage | (noun) the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting | - |
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| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| drudge | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: galley slave, navvy, peon |
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| (noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: hack, hacker |
| eatage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: forage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
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| edge | (noun) a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object | - |
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| (noun) the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something | - |
| (noun) a slight competitive advantage | - |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: sharpness |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: border |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
| effleurage | (noun) a rhythmic stroking | - |
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| empennage | (noun) the rear part of an aircraft | Synonyms: tail, tail assembly |
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| enallage | (noun) a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I') | - |
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| ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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| entourage | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: cortege, retinue, suite |
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| equipage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: carriage, rig |
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| (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: materiel |
| espionage | (noun) the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets | - |
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| exchange | (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: interchange |
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| (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, substitution |
| (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: interchange |
| (noun) the act of giving something in return for something received | - |
| (noun) (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value | - |
| (noun) (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop | - |
| (noun) (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | Synonyms: rally |
| (noun) a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members | - |
| (noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: central, telephone exchange |
| (noun) a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one) | - |
| (noun) chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another | - |
| expressage | (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: express |
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| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| febrifuge | (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: antipyretic |
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| fibrocartilage | (noun) cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue | - |
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| flange | (noun) a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object | Synonyms: rim |
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| flowage | (noun) the act of flooding; filling to overflowing | Synonyms: flood |
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| (noun) a body of water that has been created by deliberately flooding an area | - |
| (noun) gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat) | - |
| flybridge | (noun) the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house | Synonyms: fly bridge, flying bridge, monkey bridge |
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| foliage | (noun) (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | Synonyms: foliation |
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| (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: leaf, leafage |
| footage | (noun) film that has been shot | - |
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| (noun) a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done | - |
| footbridge | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: overcrossing, pedestrian bridge |
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| forage | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: foraging |
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| (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
| forecarriage | (noun) a small wheeled carriage attached under the front end of a plow beam. | Synonyms: fore carriage, wheeled forecarriage |
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| foredge | (noun) the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine | Synonyms: fore edge |
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| foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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| forestage | (noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, proscenium |
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| forge | (noun) a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering | Synonyms: smithy |
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| (noun) furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping | - |
| fosterage | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fostering |
| freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |
| fridge | (noun) a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric refrigerator |
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| fringe | (noun) an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels | - |
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| (noun) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | Synonyms: bang |
| (noun) a social group holding marginal or extreme views | - |
| (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: outskirt |
| (noun) one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light | Synonyms: interference fringe |
| (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: outer boundary, periphery |
| frontage | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: facade, frontal |
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| (noun) the extent of land abutting on a street or water | - |
| (noun) the direction in which something (such as a building) faces | - |
| frottage | (noun) masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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| fruitage | (noun) the yield of fruit | - |
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| fudge | (noun) soft creamy candy | - |
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| fuselage | (noun) the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) | - |
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| gage | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gauge |
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| (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
| gamboge | (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: lemon, lemon yellow, maize |
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| (noun) a gum resin used as a yellow pigment and a purgative | - |
| garage | (noun) an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles | - |
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| (noun) a repair shop where cars and trucks are serviced and repaired | Synonyms: service department |
| garbage | (noun) a receptacle where waste can be discarded | - |
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| (noun) a worthless message | Synonyms: drivel |
| (noun) food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) | Synonyms: food waste, refuse, scraps |
| gastrogavage | (noun) feeding a nutrient solution into the stomach through a tube through a surgically created opening | - |
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| gauge | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gage |
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| (noun) the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train | - |
| (noun) the thickness of wire | - |
| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, caliber, calibre |
| (noun) accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared | Synonyms: standard of measurement |
| gavage | (noun) feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat | Synonyms: forced feeding |
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| gorge | (noun) the passage between the pharynx and the stomach | Synonyms: esophagus, gullet, oesophagus |
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| (noun) a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it) | - |
| (noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: defile |
| gouge | (noun) the act of gouging | - |
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| (noun) and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves | - |
| (noun) an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) | Synonyms: dent, ding, nick |
| grange | (noun) an outlying farm | - |
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| greengage | (noun) sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum | Synonyms: greengage plum |
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| grudge | (noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grievance, score |
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| grunge | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, soil, stain |
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| haemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, hemorrhage |
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| harborage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harbourage |
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| harbourage | (noun) (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) | Synonyms: harborage |
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| haulage | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: draw, haul |
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| hedge | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedgerow |
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| (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedging |
| (noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedging |
| hemorrhage | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: bleeding, haemorrhage |
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| herbage | (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: pasturage |
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| heritage | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: inheritance |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: inheritance |
| (noun) practices that are handed down from the past by tradition | - |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: inheritance |
| hermitage | (noun) the abode of a hermit | - |
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| hinge | (noun) a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other | Synonyms: flexible joint |
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| (noun) a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend | - |
| hodgepodge | (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas | Synonyms: jumble, patchwork |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag |
| homage | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: court |
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| homepage | (noun) the opening page of a web site; also, the first page opened when a web browser is launched (default or start-up page) | Synonyms: home page |
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| horologe | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: timekeeper, timepiece |
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| hostage | (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: surety |
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| hypallage | (noun) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face') | - |
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| image | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture |
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| (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum |
| (noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: persona |
| (noun) the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public | - |
| (noun) an iconic mental representation | Synonyms: mental image |
| (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: range, range of a function |
| (noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: double, look-alike |
| inmarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, intermarriage |
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| insectifuge | (noun) a chemical substance that repels insects | Synonyms: insect repellant, insect repellent |
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| interchange | (noun) the act of changing one thing for another thing | Synonyms: exchange |
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| (noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, reciprocation |
| (noun) reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries) | Synonyms: exchange |
| (noun) a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams | - |
| interlanguage | (noun) a common language used by speakers of different languages | Synonyms: koine, lingua franca |
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| intermarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, inmarriage |
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| (noun) marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law | Synonyms: exogamy |
| judge | (noun) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice | Synonyms: jurist, justice |
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| (noun) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality | Synonyms: evaluator |
| kilometrage | (noun) the number of kilometres travelled by a vehicle. | - |
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| kludge | (noun) a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose | - |
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| knowledge | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, noesis |
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| lactifuge | (noun) any agent that reduces milk secretion (as given to a woman who is not breast feeding) | - |
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| language | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: speech |
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| (noun) the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication | Synonyms: linguistic process |
| (noun) a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols | Synonyms: linguistic communication |
| (noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
| (noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: lyric, words |
| (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: nomenclature, terminology |
| large | (noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
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| lavage | (noun) washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water | - |
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| leafage | (noun) the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants | Synonyms: foliage, leaf |
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| leakage | (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leak, outflow |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| leverage | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leveraging |
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| (noun) strategic advantage; power to act effectively | - |
| (noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: purchase |
| liege | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudatory, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
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| (noun) a feudal lord entitled to allegiance and service | Synonyms: liege lord |
| lighterage | (noun) the transportation of goods on a lighter | - |
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| (noun) the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters | - |
| linage | (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: lineage |
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| (noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: lineage |
| lineage | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: ancestry, derivation, filiation |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted | Synonyms: linage |
| (noun) the number of lines in a piece of printed material | Synonyms: linage |
| (noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: descent, filiation, line of descent |
| linkage | (noun) the act of linking things together | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion | - |
| (noun) (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) | Synonyms: gene linkage |
| (noun) an associative relation | - |
| lockage | (noun) passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
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| (noun) a system of locks in a canal or waterway | - |
| (noun) a fee charged for passage through a lock in a canal or waterway | - |
| lodge | (noun) any of various Native American dwellings | Synonyms: indian lodge |
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| (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, inn |
| (noun) a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter | Synonyms: hunting lodge |
| (noun) small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener | - |
| (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, guild, order, social club, society |
| loge | (noun) balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine | - |
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| (noun) private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance | Synonyms: box |
| lounge | (noun) a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait | Synonyms: waiting area, waiting room |
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| (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: couch, sofa |
| lovage | (noun) stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers | - |
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| (noun) herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds | Synonyms: Levisticum officinale |