adit | (noun) a nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine | - |
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affidavit | (noun) written declaration made under oath; a written statement sworn to be true before someone legally authorized to administer an oath | - |
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akvavit | (noun) Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds | Synonyms: aquavit |
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ambit | (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: compass, orbit, range, reach, scope |
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aquavit | (noun) Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds | Synonyms: akvavit |
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armpit | (noun) the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder | Synonyms: axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa |
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audit | (noun) a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation | - |
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(noun) an inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or CPA | Synonyms: audited account |
bait | (noun) something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed | Synonyms: decoy, lure |
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(noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: come-on, hook, lure, sweetener |
bandit | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: brigand |
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bedsit | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsitter, bedsitting room |
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benefit | (noun) something that aids or promotes well-being | Synonyms: welfare |
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(noun) a performance to raise money for a charitable cause | - |
(noun) financial assistance in time of need | - |
biscuit | (noun) small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda | - |
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(noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: cookie, cooky |
bit | (noun) the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press | - |
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(noun) piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding | - |
(noun) the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers | - |
(noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, number, routine, turn |
(noun) a small fragment | Synonyms: snatch |
(noun) an instance of some kind | Synonyms: piece |
(noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bite, morsel |
(noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: chip, flake, fleck, scrap |
(noun) a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states | - |
(noun) a small piece or quantity of something | Synonyms: spot |
(noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: minute, mo, moment, second |
boilersuit | (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, overall |
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bowsprit | (noun) a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel | - |
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breadfruit | (noun) a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts | - |
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(noun) native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread | Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree |
brit | (noun) the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish | Synonyms: britt |
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(noun) minute crustaceans forming food for right whales | Synonyms: britt |
bullshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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bushtit | (noun) active grey titmice of western North America | Synonyms: bush tit |
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cesspit | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspool, sink, sump |
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chalkpit | (noun) a quarry for chalk | Synonyms: chalk pit |
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chickenshit | (noun) a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear | - |
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chit | (noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: check, tab |
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(noun) a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect | - |
circuit | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: tour |
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(noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circle, lap |
(noun) an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | Synonyms: electric circuit, electrical circuit |
(noun) a racetrack for automobile races | Synonyms: racing circuit |
(noun) (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals | - |
(noun) an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circumference |
clit | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clitoris |
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coalpit | (noun) a mine where coal is dug from the ground | Synonyms: coal mine |
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cockpit | (noun) compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft | - |
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(noun) seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car | - |
(noun) a pit for cockfights | - |
comfit | (noun) candy containing a fruit or nut | - |
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conceit | (noun) the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity |
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(noun) a witty or ingenious turn of phrase | - |
(noun) an artistic device or effect | - |
(noun) an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things | - |
(noun) feelings of excessive pride | Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity |
conduit | (noun) a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | - |
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confit | (noun) a piece of meat (especially a duck) cooked slowly in its own fat | - |
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counterfeit | (noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: forgery |
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countersuit | (noun) a suit brought against someone who has sued you | - |
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credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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(noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
(noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
(noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
(noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
(noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
(noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
crit | (noun) a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles) | Synonyms: criterium |
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crowbait | (noun) an emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows | Synonyms: crow-bait |
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cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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culprit | (noun) someone who perpetrates wrongdoing | Synonyms: perpetrator |
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dacoit | (noun) a member of an armed gang of robbers | Synonyms: dakoit |
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dakoit | (noun) a member of an armed gang of robbers | Synonyms: dacoit |
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davit | (noun) a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) | - |
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debit | (noun) an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing | Synonyms: debit entry |
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deceit | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deception, dissembling, dissimulation |
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(noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: fraudulence |
(noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deception, misrepresentation |
deficit | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: shortage, shortfall |
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(noun) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period) | - |
(noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing | - |
(noun) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning | - |
demerit | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection | Synonyms: fault |
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(noun) a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces | - |
deposit | (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposition |
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(noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: depositary, depository, repository |
(noun) a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met | - |
(noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: sediment |
(noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, sedimentation |
(noun) a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later | Synonyms: down payment |
(noun) money deposited in a bank or some similar institution | Synonyms: bank deposit |
(noun) money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use | - |
(noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposition |
diddlyshit | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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digit | (noun) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: dactyl |
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(noun) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration | Synonyms: figure |
(noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: finger's breadth, finger, fingerbreadth |
dimwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: doofus, half-wit, nitwit |
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discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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dit | (noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code | Synonyms: dot |
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(noun) a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. | Synonyms: ban, Hart, hartley |
dogshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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eggfruit | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: canistel |
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esprit | (noun) liveliness of mind or spirit | - |
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exabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 petabits or 10^18 bits | Synonyms: Eb, Ebit |
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exbibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibits or 2^60 bits | Synonyms: Eibit |
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exhibit | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, showing |
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(noun) an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence | - |
exit | (noun) the act of going out | - |
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(noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: issue, outlet, way out |
(noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, expiration, going, loss, passing, release |
exploit | (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: effort, feat |
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fit | (noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | Synonyms: burst |
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(noun) the manner in which something fits | - |
(noun) a sudden uncontrollable attack | Synonyms: convulsion, paroxysm |
(noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: conniption, scene, tantrum |
fleapit | (noun) an old shabby movie theater | - |
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flit | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: dart |
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(noun) a secret move (to avoid paying debts) | - |
forfeit | (noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeiture, sacrifice |
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(noun) a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something | Synonyms: forfeiture |
(noun) something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty | Synonyms: forfeiture |
frogbit | (noun) European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers | Synonyms: frog's-bit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae |
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fruit | (noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: yield |
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(noun) the consequence of some effort or action | - |
(noun) the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant | - |
fursuit | (noun) A full body animal suit | - |
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gait | (noun) a person's manner of walking | - |
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(noun) a horse's manner of moving | - |
(noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running) | Synonyms: pace |
gambit | (noun) a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position | - |
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(noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation | Synonyms: ploy, stratagem |
(noun) an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker | Synonyms: ploy |
gibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibits or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bits | Synonyms: Gibit |
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gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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git | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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godwit | (noun) large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill | - |
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grapefruit | (noun) large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half | - |
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(noun) citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp | Synonyms: Citrus paradisi |
grit | (noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: backbone, gumption, guts, moxie, sand |
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(noun) a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone | Synonyms: gritrock, gritstone |
habit | (noun) excessive use of drugs | Synonyms: drug abuse, substance abuse |
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(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition | Synonyms: use |
(noun) a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order | - |
(noun) attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire) | Synonyms: riding habit |
(noun) an established custom | Synonyms: wont |
(noun) the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal) | - |
haematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: hematocrit |
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(noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: hematocrit, packed cell volume |
hawkbit | (noun) any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions | - |
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hematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: haematocrit |
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(noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: haematocrit, packed cell volume |
henbit | (noun) Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers | Synonyms: Lamium amplexicaule |
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hermit | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
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(noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: anchorite |
hit | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hitting, striking |
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(noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, smash, smasher, strike |
(noun) (baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense) | - |
(noun) a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate | - |
(noun) a connection made via the internet to another website | - |
(noun) a dose of a narcotic drug | - |
(noun) (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | Synonyms: collision |
hobbit | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien | - |
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horseshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, Irish bull, shit |
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introit | (noun) a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services | - |
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jackfruit | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jak |
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(noun) East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds | Synonyms: Artocarpus heterophyllus, jackfruit tree |
jackrabbit | (noun) large hare of western North America | - |
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jumpsuit | (noun) one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform | Synonyms: jump suit |
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kbit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kb, kilobit |
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kibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bits | Synonyms: kibit |
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kibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bits | Synonyms: kibibit |
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kilobit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kb, kbit |
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kit | (noun) young of any of various fur-bearing animals | - |
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(noun) gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose | Synonyms: outfit |
(noun) a case for containing a set of articles | - |
knit | (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knitting, knitwork |
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(noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side | Synonyms: knit stitch, plain, plain stitch |
(noun) a fabric made by knitting | - |
krait | (noun) brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula | - |
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lawsuit | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, cause, suit |
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limit | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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(noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line |
(noun) as far as something can go | - |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limitation |
(noun) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity | Synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation |
(noun) final or latest limiting point | Synonyms: terminal point, terminus ad quem |
lit | (noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: literature |
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mebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibits or 2^20 (1,048,576) bits | Synonyms: Mibit |
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megabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Mb, Mbit |
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