| subsidization | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: grant, subsidisation |
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| (noun) money (or other benefits) obtained as a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidisation |
| subsidizer | (noun) someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidiser |
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| subsidy | (noun) a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public | - |
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| subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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| (noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
| (noun) a means of surviving | - |
| subsister | (noun) one who lives through affliction | Synonyms: survivor |
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| subsoil | (noun) the layer of soil between the topsoil and bedrock | Synonyms: undersoil |
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| subspace | (noun) a space that is contained within another space | - |
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| subspecies | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species | Synonyms: race |
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| substance | (noun) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | - |
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| (noun) a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties | - |
| (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, consistency |
| (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: meaning |
| (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, sum |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, message, subject matter |
| (noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: means |
| (noun) material of a particular kind or constitution | - |
| substantiality | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantialness |
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| substantialness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantiality |
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| substantiation | (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: proof, validation |
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| (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, verification |
| substantive | (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
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| substation | (noun) a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network | - |
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| substitutability | (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: commutability, replaceability |
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| substitute | (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: replacement |
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| (noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, reliever, stand-in |
| (noun) an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced | Synonyms: reserve, second-stringer |
| substituting | (noun) working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | Synonyms: subbing |
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| substitution | (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: commutation, exchange |
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| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, switch, transposition |
| substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
| substratum | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substrate |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substrate |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substrate |
| substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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| substructure | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure |
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| (noun) the basic structure or features of a system or organization | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| subsumption | (noun) incorporating something under a more general category | - |
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| (noun) the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) | Synonyms: minor premise, minor premiss |
| subsystem | (noun) a system that is part of some larger system | - |
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| subterfuge | (noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: blind |
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| subthalamus | (noun) the ventral part of the thalamus | - |
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| subtilin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic (similar to bacitracin) obtained from a soil bacterium | - |
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| subtitle | (noun) secondary or explanatory title | - |
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| (noun) translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen | Synonyms: caption |
| subtlety | (noun) the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze | Synonyms: niceness |
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| (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, shade |
| subtonic | (noun) (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale | Synonyms: leading tone |
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| subtopia | (noun) monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings | - |
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| subtotal | (noun) the sum of part of a group of numbers | - |
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| subtracter | (noun) a machine that subtracts numbers | - |
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| (noun) a person who subtracts numbers | - |
| subtraction | (noun) the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole) | Synonyms: deduction |
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| (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: minus |
| subtractor | (noun) An electronic logic circuit for calculating the difference between two binary numbers. | - |
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| subtrahend | (noun) the number to be subtracted from the minuend | - |
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| subtreasury | (noun) a subordinate treasury or place of deposit | - |
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| subtropics | (noun) regions adjacent to the tropics | Synonyms: semitropics |
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| subtweeting | (noun) the act of tweeting without tagging a user so that they will not see the post | - |
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| subunit | (noun) a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit | Synonyms: fractional monetary unit |
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| suburb | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia |
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| suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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| suburbia | (noun) suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture | - |
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| (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburb, suburban area |
| subvention | (noun) the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort | - |
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| (noun) grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution | - |
| subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
| subversive | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter |
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| subversiveness | (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: traitorousness, treason |
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| subverter | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subversive |
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| subvocaliser | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocalizer |
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| subvocalizer | (noun) someone who articulates speech without uttering sounds | Synonyms: subvocaliser |
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| subway | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway system, tube, underground |
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| (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: underpass |
| subwoofer | (noun) a loudspeaker that is designed to reproduce very low bass frequencies | - |
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| succade | (noun) fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals | Synonyms: candied fruit, crystallized fruit |
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| succedaneum | (noun) (medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another) | - |
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| succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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| success | (noun) an attainment that is successful | - |
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| (noun) an event that accomplishes its intended purpose | - |
| (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, succeeder, winner |
| (noun) a state of prosperity or fame | - |
| successfulness | (noun) the condition of prospering; having good fortune | Synonyms: prosperity |
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| succession | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: sequence |
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| (noun) acquisition of property by descent or by will | Synonyms: taking over |
| (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, successiveness |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged or following in order | - |
| (noun) (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established | Synonyms: ecological succession |
| successiveness | (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, succession |
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| successor | (noun) a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone | - |
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| (noun) a person who inherits some title or office | Synonyms: heir |
| (noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: replacement |
| succinctness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: conciseness, concision, pithiness |
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| succinylcholine | (noun) a muscle relaxant for striated muscle that is used as an adjunct to anesthesia during certain surgical procedures | - |
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| succor | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succour |
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| succorer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succourer |
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| succory | (noun) perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads | Synonyms: chicory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus |
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| succotash | (noun) fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream | - |
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| succour | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: ministration, relief, succor |
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| succourer | (noun) someone who gives help in times of need or distress or difficulty | Synonyms: succorer |
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| succuba | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succubus |
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| succubus | (noun) a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men | Synonyms: succuba |
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| succulence | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulency |
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| succulency | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulence |
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| succulent | (noun) a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs | - |
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| succus | (noun) any of several liquids of the body | Synonyms: juice |
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| succussion | (noun) shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity | - |
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| suck | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: sucking, suction |
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| sucker | (noun) mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps | - |
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| (noun) an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction | - |
| (noun) hard candy on a stick | Synonyms: all-day sucker, lollipop |
| (noun) flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws | - |
| (noun) a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw) | - |
| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch |
| (noun) a shoot arising from a plant's roots | - |
| suckerfish | (noun) marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | Synonyms: remora, sucking fish |
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| sucking | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, suction |
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| suckling | (noun) feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | Synonyms: lactation |
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| (noun) a young mammal that has not been weaned | - |
| (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, nursling |
| sucralfate | (noun) medicine consisting of a tablet (trade name Carafate) used to treat peptic ulcers; said to bind to the ulcer site and coat it | Synonyms: Carafate |
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| sucrase | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose | Synonyms: invertase, saccharase |
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| sucre | (noun) the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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| sucrose | (noun) a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent | Synonyms: saccharose |
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| suction | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, sucking |
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| (noun) a force over an area produced by a pressure difference | - |
| sudation | (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, sweating |
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| sudatorium | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatory |
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| sudatory | (noun) a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths | Synonyms: sudatorium |
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| (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudorific |
| suddenness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness |
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| sudoku | (noun) a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number | - |
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| sudor | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: perspiration, sweat |
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| sudorific | (noun) a medicine that causes or increases sweating | Synonyms: sudatory |
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| sudra | (noun) the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status | Synonyms: shudra |
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| suds | (noun) a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces) | - |
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| (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, soapsuds |
| suede | (noun) a fabric made to resemble suede leather | Synonyms: suede cloth |
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| (noun) leather with a napped surface | Synonyms: suede leather |
| suer | (noun) someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right | Synonyms: petitioner |
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| (noun) a man who courts a woman | Synonyms: suitor, wooer |
| suet | (noun) hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep | - |
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| sufferance | (noun) patient endurance especially of pain or distress | - |
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| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, toleration |
| sufferer | (noun) a person suffering from an illness | Synonyms: diseased person, sick person |
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| (noun) one who suffers for the sake of principle | Synonyms: martyr |
| suffering | (noun) feelings of mental or physical pain | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: distress, hurt |
| (noun) a state of acute pain | Synonyms: agony, excruciation |
| (noun) misery resulting from affliction | Synonyms: woe |