agency | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: means, way |
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(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
(noun) a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties | - |
(noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: delegacy, representation |
(noun) the state of being in action or exerting power | - |
agenda | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: docket, schedule |
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(noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agendum, order of business |
agendum | (noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agenda, order of business |
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agenesia | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesis |
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agenesis | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesia |
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agent | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: agentive role |
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(noun) an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect | - |
(noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: broker, factor |
(noun) a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations | - |
(noun) any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau | Synonyms: federal agent |
(noun) a substance that exerts some force or effect | - |
agential | (adjective) of or relating to an agent or agency | - |
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averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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(noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
collagen | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling | - |
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collagenase | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin | - |
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collagenic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenous |
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collagenous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenic |
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lagend | (noun) goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered | Synonyms: lagan, ligan |
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magenta | (adjective) of deep purplish red | - |
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(noun) a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta | - |
metagenesis | (noun) alternation of sexual and asexual generations | Synonyms: digenesis |
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mutagen | (noun) any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation | - |
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mutagenesis | (noun) an event capable of causing a mutation | - |
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mutagenic | (adjective) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution) | - |
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newsagent | (noun) someone who sells newspapers | Synonyms: newsdealer, newsstand operator, newsvendor |
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nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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(noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
reagent | (noun) a chemical agent for use in chemical reactions | - |
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savageness | (noun) the property of being untamed and ferocious | Synonyms: savagery |
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septuagenarian | (noun) someone whose age is in the seventies | - |
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sexagenarian | (adjective) being from 60 to 69 years old | - |
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(noun) someone whose age is in the sixties | - |
tetragen | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, crystallogen, Group 14 element, tetrel |
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