| strabismus | (noun) abnormal alignment of one or both eyes | Synonyms: squint |
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| strabotomy | (noun) the surgical operation of cutting a muscle or tendon of the eye in order to correct strabismus | - |
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| straddle | (noun) the act of sitting or standing astride | Synonyms: span |
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| (noun) the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options | - |
| (noun) a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars | - |
| (noun) a noncommittal or equivocal position | - |
| strafe | (noun) an attack of machine-gun fire or cannon fire from a low flying airplane | - |
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| strafer | (noun) a combat pilot who strafes the enemy | - |
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| straggle | (noun) a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) | - |
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| straggler | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: strayer |
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| straight | (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straightaway |
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| (noun) a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit) | - |
| (noun) a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight person |
| straightaway | (noun) a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse | Synonyms: straight |
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| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| straightener | (noun) a device for straightening | - |
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| straightforwardness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: downrightness |
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| (noun) without hypocrisy | Synonyms: singleness |
| straightjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straitjacket |
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| straightness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex | Synonyms: heterosexualism, heterosexuality |
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| (noun) freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
| (noun) (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl | - |
| (noun) having honest intentions | Synonyms: good faith |
| (noun) trueness of course toward a goal | Synonyms: directness |
| strain | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, pains, striving |
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| (noun) the act of singing | Synonyms: song |
| (noun) an intense or violent exertion | Synonyms: straining |
| (noun) the general meaning or substance of an utterance | Synonyms: tenor |
| (noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, tune |
| (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: breed, stock |
| (noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: form, var., variant |
| (noun) (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces | - |
| (noun) injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain | - |
| (noun) (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress | Synonyms: mental strain, nervous strain |
| (noun) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension | Synonyms: stress |
| strainer | (noun) a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through | - |
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| straining | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, torture, twisting |
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| (noun) an intense or violent exertion | Synonyms: strain |
| strait | (noun) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | Synonyms: sound |
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| (noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: pass, straits |
| straitjacket | (noun) a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person | Synonyms: straightjacket |
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| (noun) anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines | - |
| straits | (noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, pass |
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| (noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: pass, strait |
| strake | (noun) thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship | Synonyms: wale |
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| strand | (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: chain, string |
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| (noun) line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable | - |
| (noun) a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole | - |
| (noun) a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) | - |
| (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, filament |
| strangeness | (noun) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known | Synonyms: unfamiliarity |
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| (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, foreignness |
| (noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third lightest of all quarks | - |
| stranger | (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | Synonyms: alien, unknown |
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| (noun) an individual that one is not acquainted with | - |
| stranglehold | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe | - |
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| (noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: chokehold, throttlehold |
| strangler | (noun) someone who kills by strangling | Synonyms: choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler |
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| (noun) an epiphytic vine or tree whose aerial roots extend down the trunk of a supporting tree and coalesce around it eventually strangling the tree | Synonyms: strangler tree |
| strangles | (noun) an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes | Synonyms: equine distemper |
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| strangling | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangulation, throttling |
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| strangulation | (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: choking, strangling, throttling |
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| (noun) (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid | - |
| (noun) the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage | - |
| strap | (noun) whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging | - |
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| (noun) an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position | - |
| (noun) a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag | Synonyms: shoulder strap |
| (noun) hanger consisting of a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of a bus or train; passengers hold onto it | - |
| strapado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strappado |
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| straphanger | (noun) a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support | - |
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| (noun) a commuter who uses public transportation | - |
| strapless | (noun) a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no shoulder straps | - |
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| strapline | (noun) a secondary heading, especially one printed above another. | - |
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| strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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| strapper | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, bull, Samson |
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| stratagem | (noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation | Synonyms: gambit, ploy |
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| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: contrivance, dodge |
| strategian | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategist |
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| strategics | (noun) the science or art of strategy | - |
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| strategist | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategian |
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| strategy | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: scheme |
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| (noun) the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war | - |
| stratification | (noun) the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | - |
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| (noun) the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination | - |
| (noun) a layered configuration | - |
| (noun) forming or depositing in layers | - |
| (noun) the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group | Synonyms: social stratification |
| stratigraphy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata | - |
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| stratocracy | (noun) government by the military and an army | Synonyms: military government |
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| stratosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere | - |
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| stratum | (noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: layer, level |
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| (noun) a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling | - |
| (noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status | Synonyms: class, social class, socio-economic class |
| (noun) one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) | - |
| stratus | (noun) a large dark low cloud | Synonyms: stratus cloud |
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| straw | (noun) a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth | Synonyms: drinking straw |
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| (noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, wheat |
| (noun) plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder | - |
| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble |
| strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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| (noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
| (noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
| strawboard | (noun) a coarse yellow cardboard made of straw pulp | - |
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| strawflower | (noun) Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers | Synonyms: golden everlasting, Helichrysum bracteatum, yellow paper daisy |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helipterum | - |
| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| strawman | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man |
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| (noun) a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted | Synonyms: straw man |
| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man |
| strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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| (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
| stray | (noun) an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) | - |
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| strayer | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: straggler |
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