| conferral | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferment |
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| confessional | (noun) a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions | - |
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| constitutional | (noun) a regular walk taken as a form of exercise | - |
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| construal | (noun) an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing | - |
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| consuetudinal | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinary |
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| consul | (noun) a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country | - |
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| containerful | (noun) the quantity that a container will hold | - |
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| contrail | (noun) an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust | Synonyms: condensation trail |
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| control | (noun) the activity of managing or exerting control over something | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc | - |
| (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: controller |
| (noun) power to direct or determine | - |
| (noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: restraint |
| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, mastery |
| (noun) a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment | Synonyms: control condition |
| (noun) the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc. | - |
| (noun) a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance | - |
| (noun) a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another | - |
| (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance |
| cool | (noun) the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature | - |
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| (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, poise, sang-froid |
| copal | (noun) a brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes | - |
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| coral | (noun) marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs | - |
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| (noun) a variable color averaging a deep pink | - |
| (noun) unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces | - |
| (noun) the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry | Synonyms: precious coral, red coral |
| corbel | (noun) (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) | Synonyms: truss |
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| cordial | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: liqueur |
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| cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
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| cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
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| coronal | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, garland, lei, wreath |
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| corporal | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines | - |
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| corral | (noun) a pen for cattle | Synonyms: cattle pen, cow pen |
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| cortisol | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, hydrocortisone, Hydrocortone |
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| cottontail | (noun) common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | Synonyms: cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit |
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| coucal | (noun) Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw | - |
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| council | (noun) a meeting of people for consultation | - |
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| (noun) a body serving in an administrative capacity | - |
| (noun) (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine | - |
| counsel | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counseling, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
| counterfoil | (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, stub |
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| counterproposal | (noun) a proposal offered as an alternative to an earlier proposal | - |
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| courbaril | (noun) West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | Synonyms: Hymenaea courbaril |
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| coverall | (noun) a loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing | - |
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| cowbell | (noun) a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located | - |
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| cowgirl | (noun) a woman cowboy | - |
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| cowl | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowling, hood |
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| (noun) a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk) | - |
| coyol | (noun) tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber | Synonyms: Acrocomia vinifera, coyol palm |
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| cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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| crateful | (noun) the quantity contained in a crate | Synonyms: crate |
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| crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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| (noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
| (noun) a very slow movement | - |
| credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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| creel | (noun) a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish | - |
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| crenel | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenelle |
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| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenelle, scallop |
| creosol | (noun) a colorless to yellow aromatic liquid that is a constituent of creosote | - |
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| cresol | (noun) any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant | Synonyms: methyl phenol |
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| criminal | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
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| cristal | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| crossbill | (noun) finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | Synonyms: Loxia curvirostra |
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| crotal | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crottal, crottle |
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| crottal | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crotal, crottle |
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| crystal | (noun) a protective cover that protects the face of a watch | Synonyms: watch crystal, watch glass |
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| (noun) glassware made of quartz | - |
| (noun) a crystalline element used as a component in various electronic devices | - |
| (noun) a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces | Synonyms: crystallization |
| (noun) a solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure | - |
| (noun) colorless glass made of almost pure silica | Synonyms: lechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica |
| cudgel | (noun) a club that is used as a weapon | - |
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| cul | (noun) a passage with access only at one end | Synonyms: cul de sac, dead end |
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| cull | (noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality | Synonyms: reject |
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| cupel | (noun) a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead | Synonyms: bone-ash cup, refractory pot |
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| cupful | (noun) the quantity a cup will hold | Synonyms: cup |
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| cupronickel | (noun) a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel | - |
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| curl | (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: ringlet, whorl |
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| (noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
| cyclohexanol | (noun) a colorless oily alcohol that smells like camphor | - |
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| cymbal | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together | - |
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| cytol | (noun) the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism | Synonyms: cytoplasm |
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| cytosol | (noun) the aqueous part of the cytoplasm within which various particles and organelles are suspended | - |
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| dactyl | (noun) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: digit |
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| (noun) a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables | - |
| daffodil | (noun) any of numerous varieties of Narcissus plants having showy often yellow flowers with a trumpet-shaped central crown | Synonyms: Narcissus pseudonarcissus |
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| dahl | (noun) small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant | Synonyms: cajan pea, pigeon pea |
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| (noun) tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: cajan pea, Cajanus cajan, catjang pea, dhal, pigeon-pea plant, pigeon pea, red gram |
| dal | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: decaliter, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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| damosel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damozel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damsel, demoiselle |
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| damsel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, demoiselle |
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| daredevil | (noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, madcap, swashbuckler |
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| darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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| daygirl | (noun) a day boarder who is a girl | - |
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| deal | (noun) the act of distributing playing cards | - |
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| (noun) the act of apportioning or distributing something | - |
| (noun) a particular instance of buying or selling | Synonyms: business deal, trade |
| (noun) an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each | Synonyms: bargain |
| (noun) the type of treatment received (especially as the result of an agreement) | - |
| (noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: hand |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (noun) a plank of softwood (fir or pine board) | - |
| (noun) wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) | Synonyms: softwood |
| decal | (noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decalcomania |
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| decibel | (noun) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity | Synonyms: dB |
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| decimal | (noun) a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 | Synonyms: decimal fraction |
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| (noun) a number in the decimal system | - |
| deferral | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, postponement |
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| (noun) a state of abeyance or suspended business | Synonyms: recess |
| defrayal | (noun) the act of paying money | Synonyms: defrayment, payment |
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| dehydroretinol | (noun) a viscous alcohol that is less active in mammals than is vitamin A1 | Synonyms: vitamin A2 |
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| dell | (noun) a small wooded hollow | Synonyms: dingle |
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| demurral | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurrer |
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| denial | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, demurrer |
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| (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: abnegation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
| (noun) the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) | - |
| (noun) the act of asserting that something alleged is not true | Synonyms: disaffirmation |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts | - |
| dental | (noun) a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge | Synonyms: alveolar, alveolar consonant, dental consonant |
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| despisal | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despising |
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| dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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| detail | (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, point |
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| (noun) extended treatment of particulars | - |
| (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: contingent |
| (noun) a crew of workers selected for a particular task | - |
| (noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, particular |
| devil | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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| (noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
| (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: heller, hellion |
| devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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| devotional | (noun) a short religious service | - |
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| dhal | (noun) tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics | Synonyms: cajan pea, Cajanus cajan, catjang pea, dahl, pigeon-pea plant, pigeon pea, red gram |
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| diagonal | (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule |
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| (noun) an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry | - |
| (noun) a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric | Synonyms: bias |
| (noun) (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent | - |
| dial | (noun) the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours | - |
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| (noun) a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called | Synonyms: telephone dial |
| (noun) the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments | - |
| (noun) the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning | - |
| dicoumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicumarol |
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| dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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| diesel | (noun) an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil | Synonyms: diesel engine, diesel motor |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| differential | (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
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| (noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
| (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
| diflunisal | (noun) nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (trade name Dolobid) used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Dolobid |
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| dill | (noun) aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning | Synonyms: dill weed |
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| (noun) aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning | Synonyms: Anethum graveolens |
| diol | (noun) any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule | Synonyms: dihydric alcohol, glycol |
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| dirndl | (noun) a dress with a tight bodice and full skirt | - |
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| (noun) a full skirt with a gathered waistband | - |
| disapproval | (noun) the act of disapproving or condemning | - |
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| (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disfavor, disfavour, dislike |
| (noun) the expression of disapproval | - |
| (noun) a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing | - |
| disavowal | (noun) denial of any connection with or knowledge of | Synonyms: disclaimer |
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