agitprop | (noun) political propaganda (especially communist propaganda) communicated via art and literature and cinema | - |
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airdrop | (noun) delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft | - |
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backdrop | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, background |
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caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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(noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
(noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
crop | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: craw |
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(noun) the stock or handle of a whip | - |
(noun) the output of something in a season | - |
(noun) a collection of people or things appearing together | - |
(noun) the yield from plants in a single growing season | Synonyms: harvest |
(noun) a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale | - |
dewdrop | (noun) a drop of dew | - |
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drop | (noun) the act of dropping something | - |
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(noun) a central depository where things can be left or picked up | - |
(noun) a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery | Synonyms: drop cloth, drop curtain |
(noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: dip, fall, free fall |
(noun) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity | Synonyms: fall |
(noun) a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) | - |
(noun) a steep high face of rock | Synonyms: cliff, drop-off |
(noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, driblet |
(noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: bead, pearl |
eardrop | (noun) an earring with a pendant ornament | Synonyms: drop earring, pendant earring |
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eyedrop | (noun) a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists | Synonyms: eye-drop |
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(noun) a drop from an eye dropper | Synonyms: eye-drop |
gumdrop | (noun) a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals | - |
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maildrop | (noun) a drop where mail can be deposited | - |
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malaprop | (noun) the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar | Synonyms: malapropism |
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outcrop | (noun) the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land | Synonyms: outcropping, rock outcrop |
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pitprop | (noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: sprag |
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prop | (noun) a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling | - |
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(noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, airscrew |
(noun) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | Synonyms: property |
raindrop | (noun) a drop of rain | - |
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snowdrop | (noun) common anemone of eastern North America with solitary pink-tinged white flowers | Synonyms: Anemone quinquefolia, wood anemone |
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stonecrop | (noun) any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers | - |
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strop | (noun) a leather strap used to sharpen razors | - |
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teardrop | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: tear |
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(noun) anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring) | - |
turboprop | (noun) an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine | Synonyms: propjet, turbo-propeller plane |
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