| intension | (noun) what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression | Synonyms: connotation |
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| intercession | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) a prayer to God on behalf of another person | - |
| intermission | (noun) the act of suspending activity temporarily | - |
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| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, interruption, pause, suspension |
| interspersion | (noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things | Synonyms: interspersal |
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| intromission | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: insertion, introduction |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| intrusion | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) entrance by force or without permission or welcome | - |
| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: encroachment, invasion |
| (noun) rock produced by an intrusive process | - |
| (noun) the forcing of molten rock into fissures or between strata of an earlier rock formation | - |
| invasion | (noun) the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder | - |
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| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion |
| (noun) (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body | - |
| inversion | (noun) turning upside down; setting on end | Synonyms: upending |
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| (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, everting |
| (noun) a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: sexual inversion |
| (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: anastrophe |
| (noun) (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa | - |
| (noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed | - |
| (noun) the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer | - |
| (noun) a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa | - |
| (noun) abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth) | - |
| lesion | (noun) any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part | - |
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| (noun) an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) | Synonyms: wound |
| malocclusion | (noun) (dentistry) a condition in which the opposing teeth do not mesh normally | - |
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| mansion | (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, manse, mansion house, residence |
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| (noun) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided | Synonyms: house, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign |
| manumission | (noun) the formal act of freeing from slavery | - |
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| mcmansion | (noun) a generic, mass-produced luxury home | - |
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| misapprehension | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake, misunderstanding |
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| mission | (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: charge, commission |
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| (noun) an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters | Synonyms: military mission |
| (noun) the organized work of a religious missionary | Synonyms: missionary work |
| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation |
| (noun) an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work | Synonyms: foreign mission, missionary post, missionary station |
| nasion | (noun) the craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet | - |
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| nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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| obsession | (noun) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone | Synonyms: fixation |
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| (noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will | Synonyms: compulsion |
| occasion | (noun) an event that occurs at a critical time | Synonyms: juncture |
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| (noun) a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people | Synonyms: affair, function, social affair, social function, social gathering, social occasion |
| (noun) a rational motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: ground, reason |
| (noun) an opportunity to do something | - |
| (noun) the time of a particular event | - |
| occlusion | (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: blockage, closure |
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| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed | - |
| (noun) (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft | Synonyms: occluded front |
| (noun) closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel) | - |
| omission | (noun) a mistake resulting from neglect | Synonyms: skip |
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| (noun) neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something | - |
| (noun) any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases | Synonyms: deletion |
| (noun) something that has been omitted | - |
| oppression | (noun) the act of subjugating by cruelty | Synonyms: subjugation |
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| (noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppressiveness |
| (noun) the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority: | - |
| passion | (noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: heat, warmth |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: love |
| (noun) a strong feeling or emotion | Synonyms: passionateness |
| (noun) a feeling of strong sexual desire | - |
| (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, mania |
| (noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: rage |
| pension | (noun) a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working | - |
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| percussion | (noun) the act of exploding a percussion cap | - |
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| (noun) the act of playing a percussion instrument | - |
| (noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: pleximetry |
| (noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments | Synonyms: percussion section, rhythm section |
| perfusion | (noun) pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels) | - |
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| permission | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: license, permit |
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| (noun) approval to do something | - |
| persuasion | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, sentiment, thought, view |
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| (noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: suasion |
| pervasion | (noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: permeation, suffusion |
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| perversion | (noun) the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) | - |
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| (noun) an aberrant sexual practice | Synonyms: sexual perversion |
| (noun) a curve that reverses the direction of something | - |
| photoemission | (noun) an emission of photoelectrons (especially from a metallic surface) | - |
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| plosion | (noun) the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant | Synonyms: explosion |
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| possession | (noun) anything owned or possessed | - |
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| (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: ownership |
| (noun) (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck) | - |
| (noun) the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior | Synonyms: self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power, willpower |
| (noun) a territory that is controlled by a ruling state | - |
| (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: monomania |
| (noun) being controlled by passion or the supernatural | - |
| precession | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
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| (noun) the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone | - |
| precision | (noun) the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | Synonyms: preciseness |
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| preclusion | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: forestalling, obviation |
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| prehension | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: grasping, seizing, taking hold |
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| prepossession | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception |
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| (noun) the condition of being prepossessed | - |
| pretension | (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the advancing of a claim | - |
| pretermission | (noun) letting pass without notice | - |
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| prevision | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prescience |
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| (noun) a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | - |
| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience |
| (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prediction |
| procession | (noun) the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation | - |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, progress, progression |
| (noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: emanation, rise |
| profession | (noun) an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) | - |
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| (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: professing |
| (noun) affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith | - |
| (noun) the body of people in a learned occupation | - |
| profusion | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, richness |
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| progression | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress |
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| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progress |
| (noun) a series with a definite pattern of advance | Synonyms: patterned advance |
| prolusion | (noun) exercising in preparation for strenuous activity | Synonyms: tune-up, warm-up |
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| (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: foreword, preface |
| propulsion | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: actuation |
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| (noun) a propelling force | - |
| protrusion | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, jutting, projection |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protuberance, swelling |
| provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
| (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
| (noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
| readmission | (noun) the act of admitting someone again | - |
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| recession | (noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: receding |
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| (noun) the act of ceding back | Synonyms: ceding back |
| (noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recessional |
| (noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recess |
| (noun) the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year | - |
| recission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: rescission |
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| recursion | (noun) (mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operation; also, the repeated application or execution of a pattern, function or definition; an expression that is recursive | - |
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| regression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) | Synonyms: regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state | - |
| (noun) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely | Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation |
| remission | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: absolution, remission of sin, remittal |
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| (noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | Synonyms: remit, remitment |
| (noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remittal, subsidence |
| (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remitment, remittal, remittance |
| repercussion | (noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, rebound, recoil |
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| (noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: reverberation |
| repossession | (noun) the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default) | - |
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| reprehension | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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| repression | (noun) the act of repressing; control by holding down | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious | - |
| (noun) a state of forcible subjugation | - |
| repulsion | (noun) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand | Synonyms: standoff |
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| (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, revulsion |
| (noun) the force by which bodies repel one another | Synonyms: repulsive force |
| rescission | (noun) (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made | Synonyms: recission |
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| resuspension | (noun) a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated | - |
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| retrogression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retroversion, reversion |
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| (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: degeneration |
| retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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| (noun) translation back into the original language | - |
| (noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| reversion | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting |
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| (noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround |
| (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion |
| (noun) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | - |
| (noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, throwback |
| (noun) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | - |
| revision | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: alteration |
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| (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, rewrite |
| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revise |
| revulsion | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, repulsion |
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| scansion | (noun) analysis of verse into metrical patterns | - |
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| scission | (noun) the act of dividing by cutting or splitting | - |
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| secession | (noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: withdrawal |
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| (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: sezession |
| seclusion | (noun) the act of secluding yourself from others | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privacy, privateness |
| session | (noun) a meeting devoted to a particular activity | - |
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| (noun) a meeting for execution of a group's functions | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, sitting |
| (noun) the time during which a school holds classes | Synonyms: academic session, academic term, school term |
| sezession | (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: secession |
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| suasion | (noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: persuasion |
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| subdimension | (noun) a partial dimension that constitutes the entire dimension of a given object. | - |
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| subdivision | (noun) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | - |
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| (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subsection |
| (noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, branch |
| (noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | - |
| submersion | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, immersion |
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| (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submergence, submerging |
| submission | (noun) the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another | Synonyms: compliance |
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| (noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | Synonyms: entry |
| (noun) an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
| (noun) a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter | - |
| (noun) (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing | - |
| (noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: meekness |
| (noun) the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else | - |
| subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
| succession | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: sequence |
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| (noun) acquisition of property by descent or by will | Synonyms: taking over |
| (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, successiveness |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged or following in order | - |
| (noun) (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established | Synonyms: ecological succession |
| succussion | (noun) shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity | - |
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| suffusion | (noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: permeation, pervasion |
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| supersession | (noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior | Synonyms: supersedure |
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| supervision | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervising |
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| suppression | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: curtailment |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, stifling |
| (noun) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires | Synonyms: inhibition |
| (noun) the failure to develop some part or organ | - |
| suspension | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, hanging |
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| (noun) a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) | Synonyms: temporary removal |
| (noun) a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: suspension system |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, respite |
| (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: abeyance |
| (noun) a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy | - |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, pause |
| symphysion | (noun) the most forward point of the alveolar process of the mandible | - |
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| television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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| (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
| tension | (noun) the action of stretching something tight | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body | - |
| (noun) feelings of hostility that are not manifest | Synonyms: latent hostility |
| (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tensity |
| (noun) a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tenseness |
| torsion | (noun) a twisting force | Synonyms: torque |
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| (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, tortuosity, tortuousness |
| transfusion | (noun) the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery | Synonyms: blood transfusion |
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| (noun) the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another | - |
| transgression | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: evildoing |
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| (noun) the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit | - |
| (noun) the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata | - |
| transmission | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmittal, transmitting |
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| (noun) the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle | Synonyms: transmission system |
| (noun) communication by means of transmitted signals | - |
| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: contagion, infection |
| (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmittance |
| version | (noun) manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery) | - |
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| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: interpretation, reading |
| (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variant, variation |
| (noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, rendering, translation |
| (noun) an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint | - |
| (noun) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form | Synonyms: adaptation |
| vision | (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: sight, visual modality, visual sense |
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| (noun) the perceptual experience of seeing | Synonyms: visual sensation |
| (noun) a vivid mental image | - |
| (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, imaginativeness |
| (noun) a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance | - |