papaia | (noun) tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit | Synonyms: Carica papaya, melon tree, papaya, papaya tree, pawpaw |
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papain | (noun) a proteolytic enzyme obtained from the unripe papaya; used as a meat tenderizer | - |
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paparazzo | (noun) a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines | - |
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papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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papaw | (noun) fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples | Synonyms: pawpaw |
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(noun) small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit | Synonyms: Asimina triloba, papaw tree, pawpaw |
papaya | (noun) large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh | - |
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(noun) tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit | Synonyms: Carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya tree, pawpaw |
paper | (noun) the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher | Synonyms: newspaper |
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(noun) a medium for written communication | - |
(noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, report, theme |
(noun) a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses | - |
(noun) a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements | Synonyms: newspaper |
(noun) a business firm that publishes newspapers | Synonyms: newspaper, newspaper publisher |
(noun) a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses | - |
paperback | (noun) a book with paper covers | Synonyms: paper-back book, paperback book, soft-cover, soft-cover book, softback, softback book |
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paperboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: poster board, posterboard |
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paperboy | (noun) a boy who sells or delivers newspapers | - |
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paperclip | (noun) a wire or plastic clip for holding sheets of paper together | Synonyms: gem clip, paper clip |
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paperer | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperhanger |
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paperhanger | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperer |
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(noun) someone who passes bad checks or counterfeit paper money | - |
paperhanging | (noun) the application of wallpaper | Synonyms: papering |
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papering | (noun) the application of wallpaper | Synonyms: paperhanging |
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paperknife | (noun) dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books | Synonyms: letter opener, paper knife |
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papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
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papers | (noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: document, written document |
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paperweight | (noun) a weight used to hold down a stack of papers | - |
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paperwork | (noun) work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc. | - |
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papilla | (noun) a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather | - |
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(noun) a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell | - |
(noun) (botany) a tiny outgrowth on the surface of a petal or leaf | - |
papilledema | (noun) swelling of the optic disc (where the optic nerve enters the eyeball); usually associated with an increase in intraocular pressure | - |
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papilloma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, villoma |
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papillon | (noun) small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat | - |
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papism | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: popery |
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(noun) the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome | Synonyms: Roman Catholicism, Romanism |
papist | (noun) an offensive term for Roman Catholics; originally, a Roman Catholic who was a strong advocate of the papacy | - |
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papoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: pappoose |
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papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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papovavirus | (noun) any of a group of animal viruses associated with or causing papillomas or polyomas | - |
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pappa | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pop |
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pappoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: papoose |
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pappus | (noun) calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions | - |
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paprika | (noun) a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos | - |
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(noun) plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers | Synonyms: bell pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, pimento, pimiento, sweet pepper, sweet pepper plant |
papule | (noun) a small inflamed elevation of skin that is nonsuppurative (as in chicken pox) | - |
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papulovesicle | (noun) a papule that changes into a blister | Synonyms: vesicopapule |
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papyrus | (noun) a document written on papyrus | - |
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(noun) tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times | Synonyms: Cyperus papyrus, Egyptian paper reed, Egyptian paper rush, paper plant, paper rush |
(noun) paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans | - |
par | (noun) (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course | - |
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(noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, equivalence |
para | (noun) a soldier in the paratroops | Synonyms: paratrooper |
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(noun) 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia | - |
(noun) (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered | Synonyms: parity |
parable | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, apologue, fable |
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(noun) (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message | - |
parabola | (noun) a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the curve | - |
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parabolograph | (noun) An outdated instrument for drawing parabolas. | - |
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paraboloid | (noun) a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis | - |
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paracentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: abdominocentesis |
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parachute | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: chute |
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parachuter | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachutist |
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parachuting | (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: jump |
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parachutist | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachuter |
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paracosm | (noun) a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history | - |
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parade | (noun) a visible display | - |
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(noun) a ceremonial procession including people marching | - |
(noun) an extended (often showy) succession of persons or things | - |
parader | (noun) walks with regular or stately step | Synonyms: marcher |
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paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, prototype |
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(noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time | - |
(noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) | Synonyms: substitution class |
(noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word | - |
paradise | (noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace | Synonyms: Eden, heaven, nirvana, promised land, Shangri-la |
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paradox | (noun) (logic) a statement that contradicts itself | - |
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paraesthesia | (noun) abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage | Synonyms: paresthesia |
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paraffin | (noun) from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings | Synonyms: paraffin wax |
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(noun) (British usage) kerosine | Synonyms: paraffin oil |
(noun) a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) | Synonyms: alkane, alkane series, methane series, paraffin series |
parafovea | (noun) area of the retina immediately surrounding the fovea | - |
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paragliding | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: parasailing |
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paragneiss | (noun) a gneiss derived from a sedimentary rock. | - |
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paragon | (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, idol, perfection |
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(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: apotheosis, ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, saint |
paragonite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with sodium | - |
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paragram | (noun) a pun made by changing the letters of a word, especially the initial letter. | - |
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paragraph | (noun) one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line | - |
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paragrapher | (noun) a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) | - |
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parahoma | (noun) ritual drink prepared from Haoma plant. | - |
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parakeet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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paralanguage | (noun) the use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings | Synonyms: paralinguistic communication |
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paraldehyde | (noun) a colorless liquid (a cyclic trimer of acetaldehyde) that is used as a sedative and a solvent | Synonyms: ethanal trimer |
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paralegal | (noun) a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | Synonyms: legal assistant |
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paraleipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paralepsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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paralepsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition |
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paralipsis | (noun) suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted | Synonyms: paraleipsis, paralepsis, preterition |
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parallax | (noun) the apparent displacement of an object as seen from two different points that are not on a line with the object | - |
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parallel | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, analogue |
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(noun) an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator | Synonyms: latitude, line of latitude, parallel of latitude |
(noun) (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes) | - |
parallelepiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepipedon, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelepipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelopiped, parallelopipedon |
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parallelism | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: correspondence |
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parallelogram | (noun) a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length | - |
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parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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paralogism | (noun) an unintentionally invalid argument | - |
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paralysis | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part | Synonyms: palsy |
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paralytic | (noun) a person suffering from paralysis | - |
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paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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paramecia | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecium |
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paramecium | (noun) any member of the genus Paramecium | Synonyms: paramecia |
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paramedic | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedical |
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paramedical | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedic |
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parameter | (noun) a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves | Synonyms: parametric quantity |
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(noun) a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data | - |
(noun) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program | Synonyms: argument |
(noun) any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance | - |
parametritis | (noun) inflammation of connective tissue adjacent to the uterus | - |
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paramilitary | (noun) a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) | Synonyms: paramilitary force, paramilitary organisation, paramilitary organization, paramilitary unit |
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paramnesia | (noun) (psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality | - |
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paramountcy | (noun) the state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority | - |
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paramour | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, courtesan, doxy |
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(noun) a woman's lover | Synonyms: fancy man |
paramyxovirus | (noun) a group of viruses including those causing mumps and measles | - |
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parang | (noun) a stout straight knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia | - |
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paranoia | (noun) a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur | - |
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paranoiac | (noun) a person afflicted with paranoia | Synonyms: paranoid |
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paranoid | (noun) a person afflicted with paranoia | Synonyms: paranoiac |
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