| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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| (noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
| aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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| baht | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: tical |
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| bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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| (noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
| (noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
| (noun) a loop in a rope | - |
| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| borscht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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| borsht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, bortsch |
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| bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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| bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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| candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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| copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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| counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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| cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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| (noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
| (noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
| (noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
| draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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| (noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
| (noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
| (noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
| (noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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| (noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
| eight | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
| eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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| fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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| (noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
| (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
| fastnacht | (noun) doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday | - |
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| featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
| fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
| (noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
| (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
| (noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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| fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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| flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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| flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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| (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
| (noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
| (noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
| (noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
| (noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
| (noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
| (noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
| (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
| (noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
| foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| forethought | (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, precaution |
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| (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: premeditation |
| fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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| freight | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freightage |
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| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| (noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight rate, freightage |
| fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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| gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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| gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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| (noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
| (noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
| height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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| (noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
| (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
| highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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| (noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
| hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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| hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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| (noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
| insight | (noun) grasping the inner nature of things intuitively | Synonyms: sixth sense |
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| (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, brainwave |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: penetration |
| (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: perceptiveness, perceptivity |
| jacklight | (noun) a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night | - |
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| knight | (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: horse |
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| (noun) originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit | - |
| lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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| light | (noun) any device serving as a source of illumination | Synonyms: light source |
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| (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, lighter |
| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: lightness |
| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: spark, sparkle, twinkle |
| (noun) mental understanding as an enlightening experience | - |
| (noun) a particular perspective or aspect of a situation | - |
| (noun) public awareness | - |
| (noun) a visual warning signal | - |
| (noun) an illuminated area | - |
| (noun) a person regarded very fondly | - |
| (noun) (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation | Synonyms: visible light, visible radiation |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: lighting |
| (noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: illumination |
| lightweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
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| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
| (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
| limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
| makeweight | (noun) a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight | - |
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| (noun) anything added to fill out a whole | Synonyms: filler |
| middleweight | (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 155 and 160 pounds | - |
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| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds | - |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds | - |
| midnight | (noun) 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night | - |
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| might | (noun) physical strength | Synonyms: mightiness, power |
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| millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| mornight | (noun) both morning and night, used when greeting someone | - |
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| naught | (noun) complete failure | - |
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| (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
| night | (noun) darkness | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, nighttime |
| (noun) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom | - |
| (noun) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit | - |
| (noun) the time between sunset and midnight | - |
| (noun) the period spent sleeping | - |
| (noun) a shortening of nightfall | - |
| nought | (noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, zero |
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| onslaught | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onset |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, outpouring |
| (noun) a sudden and severe onset of trouble | - |
| overflight | (noun) a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory) | - |
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| oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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| (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
| overweight | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, corpulence, stoutness |
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| paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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| penlight | (noun) a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen | - |
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| pennyweight | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains | - |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| plight | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: troth |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: predicament, quandary |
| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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| prizefight | (noun) a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize | Synonyms: prize fight |
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| quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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| right | (noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east | - |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right field, rightfield |
| (noun) an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature | - |
| (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: rightfulness |
| (noun) the hand that is on the right side of the body | Synonyms: right hand |
| (noun) those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged | Synonyms: right wing |
| (noun) location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east | - |
| (noun) (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing | - |
| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| searchlight | (noun) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction | - |
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| shipwright | (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipbuilder |
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| sidelight | (noun) light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow | Synonyms: running light |
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| sight | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: survey, view |
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| (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense |
| (noun) an instance of visual perception | - |
| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) a range of mental vision | - |
| (noun) a place of interest, especially to visitors | - |
| (noun) anything that is seen | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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| sleight | (noun) adroitness in using the hands | Synonyms: dexterity, manual dexterity |
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| slight | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: rebuff |
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| spaceflight | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spacefaring |
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| spotlight | (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye |
| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| sticktight | (noun) parasitic on especially the heads of chickens | Synonyms: Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing | Synonyms: beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold |
| stoplight | (noun) a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections | Synonyms: traffic light, traffic signal |
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| (noun) a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop | Synonyms: brake light |
| straight | (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straightaway |
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| (noun) a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) | - |
| (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person |
| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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