sima | (noun) rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium | - |
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simal | (noun) East Indian silk cotton tree yielding fibers inferior to kapok | Synonyms: Bombax ceiba, Bombax malabarica, red silk-cotton tree |
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simarre | (noun) a fur-lined coat decorated with braid, worn in the sixteenth century. | Synonyms: chamarre, chimer |
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simazine | (noun) a herbicide used to control weeds (especially among crops) | - |
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simian | (noun) an ape or monkey | - |
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similarity | (noun) the quality of being similar | - |
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(noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit | Synonyms: law of similarity |
simile | (noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | - |
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similitude | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, twin |
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(noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, likeness |
simmer | (noun) temperature just below the boiling point | - |
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simmering | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, stewing |
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simmpleness | (noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simplicity |
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simnel | (noun) a crisp bread of fine white flour | - |
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(noun) a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas | - |
simoleons | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, sugar, wampum |
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simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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simoom | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: samiel, simoon |
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simoon | (noun) a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa | Synonyms: samiel, simoom |
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simper | (noun) a silly self-conscious smile | - |
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simperer | (noun) a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy | - |
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simple | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simpleton |
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(noun) any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties | - |
simpleness | (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simplicity |
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(noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simplicity |
(noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simplicity |
(noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simplicity |
simpleton | (noun) a person lacking intelligence or common sense | Synonyms: simple |
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simplicity | (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simpleness |
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(noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simpleness |
(noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simpleness |
(noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simmpleness |
(noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simpleness |
simplification | (noun) elimination of superfluous details | - |
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(noun) the act of reducing complexity | Synonyms: reduction |
(noun) an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity | - |
simplism | (noun) an act of excessive simplification; the act of making something seem simpler than it really is | Synonyms: oversimplification |
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(noun) an explanation that simplifies too far to the point of misrepresentation | Synonyms: oversimplification |
simulacrum | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, image |
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(noun) an insubstantial or vague semblance | - |
simulation | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, pretense |
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(noun) the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) | - |
(noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model |
(noun) (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | Synonyms: computer simulation |
simulator | (noun) a machine that simulates an environment for the purpose of training or research | - |
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simulcast | (noun) a broadcast that is carried simultaneously by radio and television (or by FM and AM radio) | - |
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simultaneity | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneousness |
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simultaneousness | (noun) happening or existing or done at the same time | Synonyms: simultaneity |
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simvastatin | (noun) an oral lipid-lowering medicine (trade name Zocor) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after heart attacks | Synonyms: Zocor |
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