| analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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| analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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| (noun) a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system | - |
| analgesia | (noun) absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness | - |
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| analgesic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgetic, anodyne |
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| (noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: anodyne, pain pill, painkiller |
| analgetic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne |
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| analog | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analogue, linear |
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| (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analogue, parallel |
| analogical | (adjective) expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy | - |
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| analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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| analogist | (noun) someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy | - |
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| analogize | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogise |
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| analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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| (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
| analogously | (adverb) in an analogous manner | - |
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| analogue | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, linear |
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| (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, parallel |
| analogy | (noun) drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect | - |
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| (noun) an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others | - |
| (noun) the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate | Synonyms: doctrine of analogy |
| analphabet | (noun) an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet | Synonyms: analphabetic |
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| analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
| (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |
| (noun) an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet | Synonyms: analphabet |
| analphabetism | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: illiteracy |
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| analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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| analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
| analyser | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyzer |
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| analysis | (noun) an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole | - |
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| (noun) a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: depth psychology, psychoanalysis |
| (noun) the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations | Synonyms: analytic thinking |
| (noun) a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation | - |
| (noun) a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed | - |
| (noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father' | - |
| analyst | (noun) someone who is skilled at analyzing data | - |
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| (noun) a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis | Synonyms: psychoanalyst |
| (noun) an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions | - |
| analytic | (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytical |
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| (adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection | Synonyms: uninflected |
| (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytical |
| (adjective) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus | - |
| analytical | (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytic |
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| (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytic |
| analytically | (adverb) by virtue of analysis | - |
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| analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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| analyzable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: decomposable |
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| analyze | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, canvass, examine, study |
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| (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart |
| (verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
| (verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse |
| analyzed | (adjective) examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts | - |
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| analyzer | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyser |
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| anamnesis | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: recollection, remembrance |
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| (noun) the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient | Synonyms: medical history, medical record |
| anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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| anamorphic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another | - |
| anamorphism | (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
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| (noun) metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals | - |
| (noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
| anamorphosis | (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner | Synonyms: anamorphism |
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| (noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes | Synonyms: anamorphism |
| ananas | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: pineapple |
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| anancasm | (noun) An obsolete term for ritualistic act or sequence of acts performed by a person with obsessive-compulsive neurosis. | - |
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| anapaest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapest |
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| anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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| anapest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapaest |
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| anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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| anaphase | (noun) the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
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| anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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| anaphor | (noun) a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent | - |
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| anaphora | (noun) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | - |
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| (noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: epanaphora |
| anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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| anaphrodisia | (noun) decline or absence of sexual desire | - |
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| anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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| anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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| anaphylaxis | (noun) hypersensitivity reaction to the ingestion or injection of a substance (a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance | - |
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| anaplasia | (noun) loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor | - |
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| anaplasmosis | (noun) a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas fever | - |
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| anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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| anaplasty | (noun) surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue | Synonyms: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery |
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| anapsid | (noun) primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles | Synonyms: anapsid reptile |
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| anarchic | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchical, lawless |
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| anarchical | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, lawless |
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| anarchically | (adverb) in a lawless rebellious manner | - |
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| anarchism | (noun) a political theory favoring the abolition of governments | - |
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| anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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| anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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| anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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| anarthria | (noun) partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system | - |
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| anasarca | (noun) generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue | - |
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| anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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| anaspid | (noun) extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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| anastalsis | (noun) muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis | - |
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| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
| anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
| anastomosis | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: inosculation |
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| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anastrophe | (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: inversion |
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| anastylosis | (noun) the archeological reassembly of ruined monuments from fallen or decayed fragments (incorporating new materials when necessary) | - |
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| anathema | (noun) a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication | - |
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| (noun) a detested person | Synonyms: bete noire |
| anathematisation | (noun) the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed | Synonyms: anathematization |
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| anathematise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathematization | (noun) the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed | Synonyms: anathematisation |
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| anathematize | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathemise, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| anathemize | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
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| (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, comminate, execrate |
| anatomic | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomical |
| anatomical | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomic |
| (noun) an expression that relates to anatomy | Synonyms: anatomical reference |
| anatomically | (adverb) with respect to anatomy | - |
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| anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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| anatomist | (noun) an expert in anatomy | - |
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| anatomize | (verb) analyze down to the smallest detail | - |
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| (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomise |
| anatomy | (noun) a detailed analysis | - |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals | Synonyms: general anatomy |
| anatotitan | (noun) one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs | - |
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| anatoxin | (noun) a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin | Synonyms: toxoid |
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| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| ancestor | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root |
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| ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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| (adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
| ancestress | (noun) a woman ancestor | - |
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| ancestry | (noun) inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | Synonyms: derivation, filiation, lineage |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| anchor | (noun) a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving | Synonyms: ground tackle |
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| (noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: backbone, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay |
| (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchorman, anchorperson |
| (verb) secure a vessel with an anchor | Synonyms: cast anchor, drop anchor |
| (verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: ground |
| anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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| (noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
| (noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
| (noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
| (noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
| anchorite | (noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: hermit |
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| anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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| anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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