| spa | (noun) a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area | Synonyms: resort hotel |
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| (noun) a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness | Synonyms: health club, health spa |
| (noun) a health resort near a spring or at the seaside | Synonyms: watering hole, watering place |
| space | (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: infinite |
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| (noun) (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences | Synonyms: quad |
| (noun) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing | Synonyms: blank |
| (noun) a blank area | Synonyms: blank space, place |
| (noun) one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff | - |
| (noun) an area reserved for some particular purpose | - |
| (noun) any location outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: outer space |
| (noun) an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things) | - |
| (noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: distance |
| spacecraft | (noun) a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun | Synonyms: ballistic capsule, space vehicle |
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| spacefaring | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spaceflight |
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| spaceflight | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spacefaring |
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| spaceman | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, cosmonaut |
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| spaceship | (noun) a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) | Synonyms: starship |
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| spacesuit | (noun) a pressure suit worn by astronauts while in outer space | - |
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| spacewalker | (noun) an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space | - |
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| spacing | (noun) the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them | Synonyms: spatial arrangement |
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| (noun) the time between occurrences of a repeating event | - |
| spaciousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: capaciousness, commodiousness, roominess |
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| spackle | (noun) powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster | Synonyms: spackling compound |
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| spade | (noun) a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot | - |
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| (noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it | - |
| spadefish | (noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber |
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| spadefoot | (noun) a burrowing toad of the Northern Hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot | Synonyms: spadefoot toad |
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| spadeful | (noun) the quantity a shovel can hold | Synonyms: shovel, shovelful |
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| spadework | (noun) dull or routine preliminary work preparing for an undertaking | - |
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| spadix | (noun) the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe | - |
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| spaghetti | (noun) pasta in the form of long strings | - |
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| (noun) spaghetti served with a tomato sauce | - |
| spaghettini | (noun) thin spaghetti | - |
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| spall | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spawl |
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| spallation | (noun) (physics) a nuclear reaction in which a bombarded nucleus breaks up into many particles | - |
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| spam | (noun) unwanted e-mail (usually of a commercial nature sent out in bulk) | Synonyms: junk e-mail |
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| spammer | (noun) someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk) | - |
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| span | (noun) the act of sitting or standing astride | Synonyms: straddle |
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| (noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | Synonyms: bridge |
| (noun) the distance or interval between two points | - |
| (noun) a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches) | - |
| (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, twain, twosome, yoke |
| (noun) the complete duration of something | - |
| spandex | (noun) an elastic synthetic fabric | - |
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| spandrel | (noun) an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them | Synonyms: spandril |
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| spandril | (noun) an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them | Synonyms: spandrel |
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| spangle | (noun) adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing | Synonyms: diamante, sequin |
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| spaniel | (noun) any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears | - |
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| spank | (noun) a slap with the flat of the hand | - |
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| spanker | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel | - |
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| (noun) a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand | Synonyms: slapper |
| spanking | (noun) the act of slapping on the buttocks | - |
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| spanner | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: wrench |
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| spar | (noun) making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer | Synonyms: sparring |
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| (noun) a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging | - |
| (noun) any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable | - |
| spare | (noun) a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls | - |
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| (noun) an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle | Synonyms: fifth wheel |
| (noun) an extra component of a machine or other apparatus | Synonyms: spare part |
| spareness | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: sparseness, sparsity, thinness |
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| (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: leanness, thinness |
| sparer | (noun) someone who refrains from injuring or destroying | - |
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| sparerib | (noun) a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off | - |
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| spareribs | (noun) cut of pork from the rib section with most of the meat trimmed off | - |
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| (noun) baked or roasted with a spicy sauce | Synonyms: barbecued spareribs |
| sparge | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sprinkle, sprinkling |
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| sparid | (noun) spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth | Synonyms: sparid fish |
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| spark | (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, sparkle, twinkle |
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| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: flicker, glint |
| (noun) a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction | - |
| (noun) electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | Synonyms: arc, discharge, electric arc, electric discharge |
| (noun) a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger | - |
| sparker | (noun) a wire net to stop sparks from an open fireplace or smokestack | Synonyms: spark arrester |
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| sparkle | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, glitter, scintillation |
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| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: light, spark, twinkle |
| (noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, glitter |
| sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| sparkler | (noun) a firework that burns slowly and throws out a shower of sparks | - |
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| (noun) diamonds | Synonyms: ice |
| sparkling | (noun) a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash | Synonyms: scintillation, twinkle |
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| sparling | (noun) the common smelt of Europe | Synonyms: European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus |
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| (noun) common smelt of Europe | Synonyms: European smelt |
| sparring | (noun) making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer | Synonyms: spar |
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| (noun) an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage | - |
| sparrow | (noun) any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects | Synonyms: true sparrow |
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| (noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: dunnock, hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis |
| sparseness | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparsity, thinness |
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| sparsity | (noun) the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness | Synonyms: spareness, sparseness, thinness |
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| spasm | (noun) (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel) | - |
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| (noun) a painful and involuntary muscular contraction | Synonyms: cramp, muscle spasm |
| spasmolysis | (noun) the relaxation or relief of muscle spasms | - |
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| spasmolytic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic, antispasmodic agent |
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| spastic | (noun) a person suffering from spastic paralysis | - |
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| spasticity | (noun) the quality of moving or acting in spasms | - |
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| spat | (noun) a young oyster or other bivalve | - |
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| (noun) a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles | Synonyms: gaiter |
| (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, squabble, tiff |
| spatchcock | (noun) flesh of a chicken (or game bird) split down the back and grilled (usually immediately after being killed) | - |
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| spate | (noun) the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow | Synonyms: freshet |
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| (noun) a sudden forceful flow | Synonyms: rush, surge, upsurge |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| spathe | (noun) a conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescence | - |
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| spathiphyllum | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Spathiphyllum having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: peace lily, spathe flower |
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| spatialism | (noun) an art movement founded by Italian artist Lucio Fontana in Milan in 1947 in which he intended to synthesize colour, sound, space, movement, and time into a new type of art. | - |
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| spatiality | (noun) any property relating to or occupying space | Synonyms: spatial property |
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| spatter | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spattering, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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| spattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| spatula | (noun) a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances | - |
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| (noun) a turner with a narrow flexible blade | - |
| spavin | (noun) a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness | - |
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| spawl | (noun) a fragment broken off from the edge or face of stone or ore and having at least one thin edge | Synonyms: spall |
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| spawn | (noun) the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs | - |
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| spawner | (noun) a female fish at spawning time | - |
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| spaying | (noun) neutering a female by removing the ovaries | - |
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| speakeasy | (noun) (during prohibition) an illegal barroom | - |
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| speaker | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance | Synonyms: loudspeaker, loudspeaker system, speaker system, speaker unit |
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| (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: talker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer |
| speakerphone | (noun) a telephone with a microphone and loudspeaker; can be used without picking up a handset; several people can participate in a call at the same time | - |
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| speakership | (noun) the position of Speaker | - |
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| speaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
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| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| spear | (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: lance, shaft |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, lance |
| spearfish | (noun) any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare | - |
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| spearhead | (noun) the head and sharpened point of a spear | Synonyms: spear-point, spearpoint |
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| (noun) the leading military unit in an attack | - |
| (noun) someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.) | - |
| spearmint | (noun) common garden herb having clusters of small purplish flowers and yielding an oil used as a flavoring | Synonyms: Mentha spicata |
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| spearpoint | (noun) the head and sharpened point of a spear | Synonyms: spear-point, spearhead |
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| spec | (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: specification |
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| special | (noun) a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising | - |
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| (noun) a television production that features a particular person or work or topic | - |
| (noun) a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant | - |
| specialisation | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty |
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| (noun) the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose | Synonyms: specialization |
| (noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: differentiation, specialization |
| specialiser | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialist, specializer |
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| specialism | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, speciality, specialization, specialty |
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| (noun) the concentration of your efforts on a particular field of study or occupation | - |
| specialist | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specializer |
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| (noun) practices one branch of medicine | Synonyms: medical specialist |
| speciality | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, specialization, specialty |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, specialness, specialty |
| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| specialization | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialty |
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| (noun) the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose | Synonyms: specialisation |
| (noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: differentiation, specialisation |
| specializer | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | Synonyms: specialiser, specialist |
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| specialness | (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialty |
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| (noun) the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance | Synonyms: particularity |
| specialty | (noun) the special line of work you have adopted as your career | Synonyms: specialisation, specialism, speciality, specialization |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, peculiarity, speciality, specialness |
| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, strength, strong point, strong suit |
| speciation | (noun) the evolution of a biological species | - |
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| specie | (noun) coins collectively | Synonyms: coinage, metal money, mintage |
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| species | (noun) a specific kind of something | - |
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| (noun) (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed | - |
| specific | (noun) a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease | - |
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| (noun) a fact about some part (as opposed to general) | Synonyms: particular |
| specification | (noun) a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | Synonyms: stipulation |
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| (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | Synonyms: spec |
| (noun) naming explicitly | - |
| (noun) (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention | - |