applause | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: clapping, hand clapping |
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cause | (noun) any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | Synonyms: causal agency, causal agent |
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(noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, lawsuit, suit |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
(noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: grounds, reason |
(noun) events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | - |
(verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
(verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
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(adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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(verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
(verb) provide with a causeway | - |
clause | (noun) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence | - |
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(noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) | Synonyms: article |
hausen | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, beluga, white sturgeon |
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heliopause | (noun) the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet | - |
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menopause | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, climacteric |
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nausea | (noun) disgust so strong it makes you feel sick | - |
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(noun) the state that precedes vomiting | Synonyms: sickness |
nauseant | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, vomit, vomitive |
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nauseate | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, revolt, sicken |
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(verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: sicken, turn one's stomach |
nauseated | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish |
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nauseating | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
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nauseatingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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nauseous | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, queasy, sick, sickish |
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(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
pause | (noun) temporary inactivity | - |
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(noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, suspension |
(verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, intermit |
(verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: hesitate |
tropopause | (noun) the region of discontinuity between the troposphere and the stratosphere | - |
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uncaused | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, fortuitous |
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