allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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andante | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately slow | - |
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(noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow | - |
(noun) a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace) | - |
(adverb) at a moderately slow tempo | - |
andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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(verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
(verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
bandaged | (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bound |
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bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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bandana | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandanna |
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bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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caranda | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda palm, caranday, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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caranday | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda, caranda palm, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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expandability | (noun) A physical property of gases, denoting that they expand to fill their containers. | - |
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expandable | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandible, expansible, expansile |
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(adjective) able to expand or be expanded | Synonyms: expandible, expansible |
fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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grandad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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grandaunt | (noun) an aunt of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-aunt |
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hollandaise | (noun) eggs and butter with lemon juice | - |
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jacaranda | (noun) an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black | Synonyms: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra |
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landau | (noun) a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately | - |
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mandala | (noun) any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation | - |
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mandamus | (noun) an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail | Synonyms: writ of mandamus |
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mandarin | (noun) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China | Synonyms: mandarin orange |
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(noun) a high public official of imperial China | - |
(noun) any high government official or bureaucrat | - |
(noun) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group | - |
(noun) shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia | Synonyms: Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree |
mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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mandate | (noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory | - |
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(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
(noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandatory |
(verb) assign authority to | - |
(verb) make mandatory | - |
(verb) assign under a mandate | - |
mandator | (noun) an authority who issues a mandate | - |
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mandatorily | (adverb) in a manner that cannot be evaded | Synonyms: compulsorily, obligatorily |
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mandatory | (adjective) required by rule | Synonyms: compulsory, required |
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(noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
(noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
memoranda | (noun) a written proposal or reminder | Synonyms: memo, memorandum |
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nonmandatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonobligatory |
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nonstandard | (adjective) not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence | - |
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(adjective) varying from or not adhering to a standard | - |
(adjective) not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community | - |
nonstandardness | (noun) The state or condition of not being standard. | - |
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panda | (noun) large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae | Synonyms: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, coon bear, giant panda, panda bear |
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(noun) reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas | Synonyms: Ailurus fulgens, bear cat, cat bear, lesser panda, red panda |
pandanus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | Synonyms: screw pine |
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(noun) fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) | - |
pandar | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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propaganda | (noun) information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | - |
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quandang | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandong, quantong |
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(noun) Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed | Synonyms: Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus, quandong, quandong tree |
quandary | (noun) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options | Synonyms: dilemma |
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(noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, predicament |
sandal | (noun) a shoe consisting of a sole fastened by straps to the foot | - |
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sandaled | (adjective) shod with sandals | Synonyms: sandalled |
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sandalled | (adjective) shod with sandals | Synonyms: sandaled |
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sandalwood | (noun) close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork | - |
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sandarac | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarach |
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(noun) large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: Callitris quadrivalvis, sandarac tree, Tetraclinis articulata |
(noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: citronwood |
sandarach | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarac |
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scandal | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: dirt, malicious gossip |
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(noun) a disgraceful event | Synonyms: outrage |
scandalisation | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalization |
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(noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalization |
scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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scandalization | (noun) the act of scandalizing | Synonyms: outrage, scandalisation |
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(noun) the condition of being shocked (as by improper behavior) | Synonyms: scandalisation |
scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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scandalmongering | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow |
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(noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
scandalous | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, shameful, shocking |
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scandalously | (adverb) in a scandalous manner | - |
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scandalousness | (noun) disgracefulness that offends public morality | - |
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standard | (adjective) established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence | - |
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(adjective) conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind | - |
(adjective) conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers | Synonyms: received |
(adjective) commonly used or supplied | - |
(adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: stock |
(noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: banner |
(noun) an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support) | - |
(noun) the ideal in terms of which something can be judged | Synonyms: criterion |
(noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, measure, touchstone |
(noun) the value behind the money in a monetary system | Synonyms: monetary standard |
(noun) a board measure = 1980 board feet | - |
standardisation | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: calibration, standardization |
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(noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, normalization, standardization |
(noun) the condition in which a standard has been successfully established | Synonyms: standardization |
standardise | (verb) cause to conform to standard or norm | Synonyms: standardize |
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(verb) evaluate by comparing with a standard | Synonyms: standardize |
standardised | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, similar, standardized |
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(adjective) brought into conformity with a standard | Synonyms: standardized |
standardiser | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardizer |
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standardization | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: calibration, standardisation |
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(noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, normalization, standardisation |
(noun) the condition in which a standard has been successfully established | Synonyms: standardisation |
standardize | (verb) cause to conform to standard or norm | Synonyms: standardise |
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(verb) evaluate by comparing with a standard | Synonyms: standardise |
standardized | (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, similar, standardised |
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(adjective) brought into conformity with a standard | Synonyms: standardised |
standardizer | (noun) a person who sets a standard for things to conform to | Synonyms: standardiser |
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substandard | (adjective) falling short of some prescribed norm | Synonyms: deficient, inferior |
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understandability | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: comprehensibility |
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understandable | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, graspable, intelligible, perceivable |
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understandably | (adverb) in an intelligible manner | Synonyms: clearly, intelligibly |
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ununderstandably | (adverb) in an unintelligible manner | Synonyms: unintelligibly |
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vanda | (noun) any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes | - |
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vandal | (noun) someone who willfully destroys or defaces property | - |
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vandalise | (verb) destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | Synonyms: vandalize |
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vandalism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: hooliganism, malicious mischief |
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vandalize | (verb) destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism | Synonyms: vandalise |
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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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