veal | (noun) meat from a calf | Synonyms: veau |
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veau | (noun) meat from a calf | Synonyms: veal |
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vector | (noun) (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell | - |
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(noun) a variable quantity that can be resolved into components | - |
(noun) any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease | Synonyms: transmitter |
(noun) a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction | - |
vedalia | (noun) native to Australia; introduced elsewhere to control scale insects | Synonyms: Rodolia cardinalis |
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veering | (noun) the act of turning aside suddenly | Synonyms: swerve, swerving |
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veery | (noun) tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song | Synonyms: Hylocichla fuscescens, Wilson's thrush |
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veg | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: vegetable, veggie |
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vegan | (noun) a strict vegetarian; someone who eats no animal or dairy products; may also avoid using animal products (e.g. leather) | - |
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vegetable | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, veggie |
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(noun) any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower | - |
vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products | - |
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vegetarianism | (noun) a diet excluding all meat and fish | - |
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vegetation | (noun) inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life | - |
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(noun) an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) | - |
(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: botany, flora |
(noun) the process of growth in plants | - |
veggie | (noun) edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant | Synonyms: veg, vegetable |
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vehemence | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, violence, wildness |
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(noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: emphasis |
vehicle | (noun) a conveyance that transports people or objects | - |
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(noun) a medium for the expression or achievement of something | - |
(noun) any inanimate object (as a towel or money or clothing or dishes or books or toys etc.) that can transmit infectious agents from one person to another | Synonyms: fomite |
(noun) any substance that facilitates the use of a drug or pigment or other material that is mixed with it | - |
veil | (noun) a garment that covers the head and face | Synonyms: head covering |
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(noun) a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl | Synonyms: humeral veil |
(noun) the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) | Synonyms: caul, embryonic membrane |
(noun) a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms | Synonyms: velum |
veiling | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, netting |
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vein | (noun) one of the horny ribs that stiffen and support the wing of an insect | Synonyms: nervure |
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(noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart | Synonyms: vena, venous blood vessel |
(noun) a distinctive style or manner | - |
(noun) a layer of ore between layers of rock | Synonyms: mineral vein |
(noun) any of the vascular bundles or ribs that form the branching framework of conducting and supporting tissues in a leaf or other plant organ | Synonyms: nervure |
velar | (noun) a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate | Synonyms: velar consonant |
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veld | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veldt |
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veldt | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veld |
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velleity | (noun) volition in its weakest form | - |
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(noun) a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain | - |
vellication | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, twitching |
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vellum | (noun) fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb | - |
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(noun) a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment | - |
velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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(noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |
velociraptor | (noun) small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs | - |
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velocity | (noun) distance travelled per unit time | Synonyms: speed |
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velodrome | (noun) a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing | - |
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velour | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velours |
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velours | (noun) heavy fabric that resembles velvet | Synonyms: velour |
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veloute | (noun) white sauce made with stock instead of milk | - |
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velum | (noun) a muscular flap that closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing or speaking | Synonyms: soft palate |
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(noun) a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms | Synonyms: veil |
velvet | (noun) a silky densely piled fabric with a plain back | - |
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velveteen | (noun) a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet | - |
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velvetiness | (noun) Quality of velvet: velvety appearance, feeling, or taste. | - |
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velvetleaf | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetweed |
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(noun) arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Lavatera arborea, tree mallow, velvet-leaf |
velvetweed | (noun) tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States | Synonyms: Abutilon theophrasti, butter-print, China jute, Indian mallow, velvet-leaf, velvetleaf |
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vena | (noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart | Synonyms: vein, venous blood vessel |
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venality | (noun) prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward | - |
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venation | (noun) (zoology) the system of venous blood vessels in an animal | Synonyms: venous blood system |
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(noun) (botany) the arrangement of veins in a leaf | - |
vendee | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, purchaser |
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vender | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vendor |
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vendetta | (noun) a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other | Synonyms: blood feud |
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vending | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vendition |
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vendition | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vending |
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vendor | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vender |
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vendue | (noun) the public sale of something to the highest bidder | Synonyms: auction, auction sale |
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veneer | (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: facing |
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(noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneering |
veneering | (noun) the act of applying veneer | - |
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(noun) coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood | Synonyms: veneer |
venerability | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerableness |
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venerableness | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerability |
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veneration | (noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, devotion |
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(noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, reverence |
venerator | (noun) someone who regards with deep respect or reverence | - |
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venesection | (noun) surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis | Synonyms: phlebotomy |
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vengeance | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, retribution |
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vengefulness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vindictiveness |
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venipuncture | (noun) (medicine) puncture of a vein through the skin in order to withdraw blood for analysis or to start an intravenous drip or to inject medication or a radiopaque dye | - |
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venire | (noun) (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen) | Synonyms: panel |
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venison | (noun) meat from a deer used as food | - |
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venogram | (noun) an X ray of a vein injected with a radiopaque contrast medium | Synonyms: phlebogram |
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venography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of veins | - |
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venom | (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness |
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(noun) toxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions) | - |
venomousness | (noun) The property of being poisonous or envenomed; or of having a venom-producing gland. | - |
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vent | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, release |
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(noun) external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate | - |
(noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, venthole |
(noun) a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) | - |
(noun) a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt | Synonyms: volcano |
ventail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, camail |
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venter | (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, stomach |
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(noun) a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle) | - |
(noun) the womb | - |
(noun) a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance | - |
venthole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: blowhole, vent-hole, vent |
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ventilation | (noun) the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air | Synonyms: airing |
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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, respiration |
(noun) a mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air | Synonyms: ventilating system, ventilation system |
(noun) free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest | Synonyms: public discussion |
ventilator | (noun) a device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air | - |
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(noun) a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure | Synonyms: breathing apparatus, breathing device, breathing machine |
venting | (noun) the act of venting | Synonyms: discharge |
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ventricle | (noun) a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries | Synonyms: heart ventricle |
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(noun) one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid | - |
ventriculus | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, gizzard |
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ventriloquism | (noun) the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) | Synonyms: ventriloquy |
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ventriloquist | (noun) a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy | - |
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ventriloquy | (noun) the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) | Synonyms: ventriloquism |
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venture | (noun) any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome | - |
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(noun) a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit | - |
(noun) an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | Synonyms: speculation |
venturer | (noun) a person who enjoys taking risks | Synonyms: adventurer |
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(noun) a merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas) | Synonyms: merchant-venturer |
venturesomeness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: adventurousness |
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venturi | (noun) a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor) | - |
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venue | (noun) in law: the jurisdiction where a trial will be held | - |
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(noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locale, locus |
venula | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venule |
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venule | (noun) a minute vein continuous with a capillary | Synonyms: capillary vein, venula |
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veracity | (noun) unwillingness to tell lies | - |
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veranda | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, verandah |
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verandah | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, veranda |
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verapamil | (noun) a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine | Synonyms: Calan, Isoptin |
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verb | (noun) a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence | - |
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(noun) the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence | - |
verbalisation | (noun) the activity of expressing something in words | Synonyms: verbalization |
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(noun) the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization | Synonyms: verbalization |
verbaliser | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer |
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verbalism | (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: expression, verbal expression |
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(noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbiage |
verbalization | (noun) the activity of expressing something in words | Synonyms: verbalisation |
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(noun) the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization | Synonyms: verbalisation |
verbalizer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser |
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verbena | (noun) any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers | Synonyms: vervain |
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verbiage | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording |
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(noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbalism |
verbolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: grammatolatry, word-worship |
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verboseness | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verbosity |
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verbosity | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verboseness |
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verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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(noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |