affiant | (noun) a person who makes an affidavit | - |
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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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affiliate | (noun) a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization | - |
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(noun) a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization | - |
affiliation | (noun) the act of becoming formally connected or joined | - |
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(noun) a social or business relationship | Synonyms: association, tie-up, tie |
affine | (noun) (anthropology) kin by marriage | - |
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affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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(noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
(noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
(noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
(noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
(noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
(noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
affirmation | (noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand | - |
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(noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: avouchment, avowal |
(noun) (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds) | - |
(noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: assertion, statement |
affirmative | (noun) a reply of affirmation | - |
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affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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affirmer | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: asserter, asseverator, avower, declarer |
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affix | (noun) a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form | - |
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affixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of an affix | - |
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(noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: attachment |
(noun) the result of adding an affix to a root word | - |