| containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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| containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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| containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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| containment | (noun) the act of containing; keeping something from spreading | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor | - |
| (noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully | - |
| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contraindication | (noun) (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment | - |
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| counterstain | (noun) a stain of contrasting color that is used when the principal stain does not show the structure clearly | - |
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| coxswain | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: cox |
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| crackbrained | (adjective) insanely irresponsible | Synonyms: idiotic |
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| cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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| curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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| (noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
| (verb) provide with drapery | - |
| curtained | (adjective) furnished or concealed with curtains or draperies | - |
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| curtainless | (adjective) not provided with curtains | Synonyms: uncurtained |
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| daintily | (adverb) in a dainty and fastidious manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a manner suggestive of delicate beauty or grace | - |
| daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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| dainty | (adjective) delicately beautiful | Synonyms: exquisite |
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| (adjective) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted | Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish |
| (adjective) especially pleasing to the taste | - |
| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat |
| demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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| destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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| detain | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: delay, hold up |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, stay |
| (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: confine |
| detainee | (noun) some held in custody | Synonyms: political detainee |
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| detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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| detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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| dibucaine | (noun) a local anesthetic that is administered by injection | - |
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| disdain | (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: condescension, patronage |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, despite, scorn |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, scorn |
| disdainful | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, insulting, scornful |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| disdainfully | (adverb) without respect; in a disdainful manner | Synonyms: contemptuously, contumeliously, scornfully |
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| (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: cavalierly |
| disdainfulness | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: condescension, superciliousness |
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| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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| domain | (noun) the content of a particular field of knowledge | Synonyms: knowledge base, knowledge domain |
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| (noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | Synonyms: world |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: domain of a function |
| (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: demesne, land |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, field, orbit, sphere |
| drain | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drainage |
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| (noun) a gradual depletion of energy or resources | - |
| (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drainpipe, waste pipe |
| (noun) tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material | - |
| (verb) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from | - |
| (verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, enfeeble |
| (verb) deplete of resources | - |
| (verb) flow off gradually | Synonyms: run out |
| drainage | (noun) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it | Synonyms: drain |
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| drainboard | (noun) a board beside a kitchen sink and inclined to drain into the sink | Synonyms: draining board |
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| drained | (adjective) emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid) | - |
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| (adjective) extremely exhausted | Synonyms: knackered |
| (adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: dead |
| draining | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: exhausting |
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| drainpipe | (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drain, waste pipe |
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| drainplug | (noun) a removable plug for holding water in a tub or basin | - |
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| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| encainide | (noun) antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Enkaid) used to treat life-threatening arrhythmias but increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients | Synonyms: Enkaid |
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| enchain | (verb) restrain or bind with chains | - |
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| enchained | (adjective) bound with chains | Synonyms: chained, in chains |
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| entertain | (verb) take into consideration, have in view | Synonyms: flirt with, think about, think of, toy with |
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| (verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
| (verb) provide entertainment for | - |
| entertained | (adjective) pleasantly occupied | Synonyms: amused, diverted |
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| entertainer | (noun) a person who tries to please or amuse | - |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| entertainingly | (adverb) in an entertaining manner | - |
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| entertainment | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: amusement |
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| entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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| explain | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explicate |
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| (verb) define | - |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: excuse |
| explainable | (adjective) capable of being understood | Synonyms: interpretable |
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| eyestrain | (noun) a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem | Synonyms: asthenopia |
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| fain | (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, inclined, prepared |
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| (adverb) with pleasure | Synonyms: gladly, lief |
| faineance | (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: idleness |
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| faineant | (adjective) disinclined to work or exertion | Synonyms: indolent, lazy, otiose, slothful, work-shy |
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| faint | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, fainthearted, timid |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: light-headed, light, lightheaded, swooning |
| (adjective) lacking clarity or distinctness | Synonyms: dim, shadowy, vague, wispy |
| (adjective) deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc | Synonyms: weak |
| (adjective) lacking strength or vigor | Synonyms: feeble |
| (adjective) indistinctly understood or felt or perceived | - |
| (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: deliquium, swoon, syncope |
| (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, pass out, swoon |
| fainthearted | (adjective) lacking conviction or boldness or courage | Synonyms: faint-hearted, faint, timid |
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| faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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| faintly | (adverb) to a faint degree or weakly perceived | - |
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| faintness | (noun) the quality of being dim or lacking contrast | Synonyms: dimness |
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| (noun) barely audible | - |
| (noun) the property of being without strength | - |
| (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintheartedness |
| (noun) a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon | - |
| featherbrained | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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| fingerpaint | (noun) paint that has the consistency of jelly | Synonyms: finger paint |
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| flecainide | (noun) oral antiarrhythmic medication (trade name Tambocor) used as a last resort in treating arrhythmias; increases the risk of sudden death in heart attack patients | Synonyms: Tambocor |
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| floodplain | (noun) a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding | Synonyms: flood plain |
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| forebrain | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: prosencephalon |
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| foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
| foreordained | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: predestinate, predestined |
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| fountain | (noun) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water | Synonyms: fount |
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| (noun) an artificially produced flow of water | Synonyms: jet |
| (noun) a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: natural spring, outflow, outpouring, spring |
| fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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| (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |
| fusain | (noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing | Synonyms: charcoal |
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| gain | (noun) the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input | Synonyms: amplification |
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| (noun) the advantageous quality of being beneficial | Synonyms: profit |
| (noun) the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: addition, increase |
| (verb) increase (one's body weight) | Synonyms: put on |
| (verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: advance |
| (verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gather |
| (verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: advance, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, hit, make, reach |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: acquire, win |
| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, profit |
| (verb) obtain | Synonyms: derive |
| gainer | (noun) a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward to complete a full backward somersault and enters the water feet first and facing away from the diving board | Synonyms: full gainer |
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| (noun) a person who gains (gains an advantage or gains profits) | - |
| (noun) a person who gains weight | Synonyms: weight gainer |
| gainful | (adjective) yielding a fair profit | Synonyms: paid, paying |
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| gainfully | (adverb) in a gainful way | - |
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| gainfulness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: lucrativeness, profitability, profitableness |
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| gainlessly | (adverb) without gain or profit | Synonyms: profitlessly, unprofitably |
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| gainly | (adjective) graceful and pleasing | - |
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| gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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| geartrain | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, gearing, power train, train |
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| grain | (noun) the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric | - |
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| (noun) the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance) | Synonyms: texture |
| (noun) the smallest possible unit of anything | - |
| (noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses | Synonyms: cereal, food grain |
| (noun) a relatively small granular particle of a substance | - |
| (noun) dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn | Synonyms: caryopsis |
| (noun) a cereal grass | - |
| (noun) 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams | - |
| (noun) 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams | - |
| (noun) a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat | Synonyms: metric grain |
| (noun) the side of leather from which the hair has been removed | - |
| (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) become granular | Synonyms: granulate |
| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: ingrain |
| (verb) paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood | - |
| grainfield | (noun) a field where grain is grown | Synonyms: grain field |
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| graininess | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, granularity |
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| graining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: woodgraining |
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| grainy | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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| greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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| grosgrain | (noun) a silk or silklike fabric with crosswise ribs | - |
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| harebrained | (adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: insane, mad |
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| hindbrain | (noun) the posterior portion of the brain including cerebellum and brainstem | Synonyms: rhombencephalon |
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| housepaint | (noun) paint used to cover the exterior woodwork of a house | Synonyms: house paint |
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| incertain | (adjective) lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance | Synonyms: uncertain, unsure |
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| infotainment | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary, documentary film |
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| ingrain | (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, instill |
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| (verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: grain |
| ingrained | (adjective) (used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held | Synonyms: deep-rooted, deep-seated, implanted, planted |
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| ingraining | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, instilling |
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| interbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: betweenbrain, diencephalon, thalmencephalon |
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| kainite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride; a source of potassium salts; used as a fertilizer | - |
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| kainogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| main | (adjective) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence | Synonyms: independent |
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| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, master, primary, principal |
| (adjective) of force; of the greatest possible intensity | - |
| (noun) a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage | - |
| (noun) any very large body of (salt) water | Synonyms: briny |
| mainframe | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, processor |
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| (noun) a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room | Synonyms: mainframe computer |
| mainland | (noun) the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula | - |
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