| resale | (noun) the selling of something purchased | - |
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| 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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| rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
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| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
| (noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
| (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
| rescue | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, saving |
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| rescuer | (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, saver |
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| (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: deliverer, savior, saviour |
| research | (noun) systematic investigation to establish facts | - |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry |
| researcher | (noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: investigator, research worker |
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| reseau | (noun) a network of fine lines used by astronomers as a reference for measurements on star photographs | - |
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| (noun) a net or mesh foundation for lace | - |
| resection | (noun) surgical removal of part of a structure or organ | - |
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| reseda | (noun) any plant of the genus Reseda | - |
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| resemblance | (noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details | - |
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| resentment | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour |
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| reserpine | (noun) antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil) | Synonyms: Rau-Sed, Raudixin, Sandril, Serpasil |
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| reservation | (noun) the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion | - |
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| (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly | Synonyms: arriere pensee, mental reservation |
| (noun) something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.) | - |
| (noun) a statement that limits or restricts some claim | Synonyms: qualification |
| (noun) the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance | - |
| (noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose | Synonyms: reserve |
| reserve | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reticence, taciturnity |
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| (noun) formality and propriety of manner | Synonyms: modesty |
| (noun) armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency | Synonyms: military reserve |
| (noun) a district that is reserved for particular purpose | Synonyms: reservation |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: second-stringer, substitute |
| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: backlog, stockpile |
| (noun) (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions | - |
| reserves | (noun) civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | Synonyms: militia |
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| reservist | (noun) a member of a military reserve | - |
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| reservoir | (noun) tank used for collecting and storing a liquid (as water or oil) | - |
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| (noun) lake used to store water for community use; a lake (natural or artificial) used to store water and used as a source of water | Synonyms: artificial lake, man-made lake |
| (noun) anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies | Synonyms: source |
| (noun) a large or extra supply of something | - |
| reset | (noun) device for resetting instruments or controls | - |
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| resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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| resh | (noun) the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| reshipment | (noun) the act of shipping again (especially by transferring to another ship) | - |
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| reshuffle | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffling |
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| (noun) a redistribution of something | - |
| reshuffling | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffle |
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| resid | (noun) oil products that remain after petroleum has been distilled | Synonyms: residual oil |
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| residence | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residency |
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| (noun) the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president) | - |
| (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, manse, mansion, mansion house |
| (noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: abode |
| residency | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residence |
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| (noun) the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship) | - |
| resident | (noun) someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there | Synonyms: occupant, occupier |
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| (noun) a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital | Synonyms: house physician, resident physician |
| residual | (noun) (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing | - |
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| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residue, residuum, rest |
| residue | (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residuum, rest |
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| (noun) matter that remains after something has been removed | - |
| residuum | (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residue, rest |
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| resignation | (noun) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) | - |
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| (noun) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign | - |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: surrender |
| resilience | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resiliency |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resiliency |
| resiliency | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resilience |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resilience |
| resin | (noun) any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules | Synonyms: rosin |
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| resinoid | (noun) a plastic containing resins | - |
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| resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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| (noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
| (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
| (noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
| (noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
| (noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
| (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
| (noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
| resister | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, thwarter |
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| (noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer |
| resistivity | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistance |
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| resistor | (noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistance |
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| resoluteness | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resolution, resolve |
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| resolution | (noun) a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner | - |
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| (noun) finding a solution to a problem | Synonyms: solving |
| (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolve |
| (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolving |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, settlement |
| (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, result, solution, solvent |
| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolve |
| (noun) (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord | - |
| (noun) the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung) | - |
| (noun) the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together | Synonyms: resolving power |
| (noun) (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture | - |
| resolve | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resoluteness, resolution |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: declaration, resolution |
| resolvent | (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | Synonyms: dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, solvent |
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| resolving | (noun) analysis into clear-cut components | Synonyms: resolution |
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| resonance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| (noun) the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities | - |
| (noun) a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system | - |
| (noun) an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation | - |
| (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: rapport |
| resonator | (noun) any system that resonates | - |
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| (noun) an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude | Synonyms: resonant circuit |
| (noun) a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves | Synonyms: cavity resonator, resonating chamber |
| resorcinol | (noun) a crystalline phenol obtained from various resins; used in ointments for acne and in dandruff shampoos | - |
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| resorcinolphthalein | (noun) a yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed) | Synonyms: fluorescein, fluoresceine, fluorescent dye |
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| resorption | (noun) the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation | Synonyms: reabsorption |
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| resort | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: recourse, refuge |
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| (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: recourse, refuge |
| (noun) a hotel located in a resort area | Synonyms: holiday resort, resort hotel |
| (noun) a frequently visited place | Synonyms: hangout, haunt, repair, stamping ground |
| resource | (noun) a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed | - |
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| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: imagination, resourcefulness |
| (noun) available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed | - |
| resourcefulness | (noun) the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation | - |
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| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: imagination, resource |
| respect | (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: obedience |
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| (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: deference |
| (noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: deference, respectfulness |
| (noun) (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point | Synonyms: regard |
| (noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: esteem, regard |
| (noun) a feeling of friendship and esteem | Synonyms: regard |
| (noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: esteem, regard |
| respectability | (noun) honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation | Synonyms: reputability |
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| respecter | (noun) a person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative | - |
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| respectfulness | (noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: deference, respect |
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| respects | (noun) (often used with `pay') a formal expression of esteem | - |
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| respiration | (noun) the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs | Synonyms: cellular respiration, internal respiration |
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| (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: breathing, external respiration, ventilation |
| (noun) a single complete act of breathing in and out | - |
| respirator | (noun) a breathing device for administering long-term artificial respiration | Synonyms: inhalator |
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| (noun) a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases | Synonyms: gas helmet, gasmask |
| respite | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: break, recess, time out |
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| (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: reprieve |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, reprieve, suspension |
| (noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: reprieve |
| (noun) a pause for relaxation | Synonyms: relief, rest, rest period |
| resplendence | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: glory, resplendency |
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| resplendency | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: glory, resplendence |
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| respondent | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, responder |
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| (noun) the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent | - |
| responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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| response | (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent | Synonyms: reaction |
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| (noun) the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals | - |
| (noun) the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Synonyms: reply |
| (noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: answer, reply |
| (noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: reception |
| (noun) a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister | - |
| (noun) a result | - |
| responsibility | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, obligation |
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| (noun) a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct | Synonyms: responsibleness |
| (noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: province |
| responsibleness | (noun) a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct | Synonyms: responsibility |
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| responsiveness | (noun) the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events | - |
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| (noun) responsive to stimulation | Synonyms: reactivity |
| rest | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, relaxation, repose |
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| (noun) a support on which things can be put | - |
| (noun) a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, remainder, residual, residue, residuum |
| (noun) a state of inaction | - |
| (noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, sleep |
| (noun) a pause for relaxation | Synonyms: relief, respite, rest period |
| restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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| restaurant | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eatery, eating house, eating place |
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| restauranter | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restaurateur |
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| restaurateur | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restauranter |
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| rester | (noun) a person who rests | - |
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| restfulness | (noun) the attribute of being restful | - |
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| restharrow | (noun) European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners | Synonyms: Ononis repens, rest-harrow |
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| (noun) Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots | Synonyms: Ononis spinosa, rest-harrow |
| restitution | (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restoration, return |
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| (noun) the act of restoring something to its original state | - |
| (noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress |
| restiveness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: skittishness |
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| (noun) The characteristic of being resistant of control, stubborn. | - |
| (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness |
| restlessness | (noun) inability to rest or relax or be still | Synonyms: queasiness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active | - |
| (noun) a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion | Synonyms: fidget, fidgetiness |
| (noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: impatience |
| restoration | (noun) the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state | - |
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| (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: regaining, restitution, return |
| (noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed | - |
| (noun) a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: refurbishment, renovation |
| restorative | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: corrective |
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| (noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: tonic |
| restorer | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, refinisher, renovator |
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| restrainer | (noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: controller |
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| (noun) a chemical that is added to a photographic developer in order to retard development and reduce the amount of fog on a film | - |
| restraint | (noun) the act of controlling by restraining someone or something | - |
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| (noun) a device that retards something's motion | Synonyms: constraint |
| (noun) discipline in personal and social activities | Synonyms: control |
| (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, simpleness, simplicity |
| (noun) a rule or condition that limits freedom | - |
| (noun) the state of being physically constrained | Synonyms: constraint |
| restriction | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: limitation |
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| (noun) the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary) | Synonyms: confinement |
| (noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: limitation |
| restrictiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: unpermissiveness |
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| (noun) a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat') | - |
| restroom | (noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, convenience, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, toilet facility, wash room |
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| result | (noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: answer, resolution, solution, solvent |
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| (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: resultant role |
| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, resultant, termination |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, upshot |
| resultant | (noun) a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors | Synonyms: vector sum |
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| (noun) something that results | Synonyms: final result, outcome, result, termination |
| (noun) the final point in a process | Synonyms: end point |
| resume | (noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: sketch, survey |
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| (noun) a summary of your academic and work history | Synonyms: curriculum vitae, CV |
| resumption | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: recommencement |
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| resurgence | (noun) bringing again into activity and prominence | Synonyms: revitalisation, revitalization, revival, revivification |
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| resurrection | (noun) a revival from inactivity and disuse | - |
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| resurvey | (noun) a new survey or study | - |
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| resuscitation | (noun) the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness | - |
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| resuscitator | (noun) a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration | - |
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| resuspension | (noun) a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated | - |
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