| paypig | (noun) A sexually submissive male | - |
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| payroll | (noun) the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee | Synonyms: payroll department |
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| (noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: paysheet |
| (noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: paysheet |
| paysheet | (noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: payroll |
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| (noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: payroll |
| payslip | (noun) a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out | - |
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| paywall | (noun) A mechanism used to limit access to only paying users | - |
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| picayune | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| pipeclay | (noun) fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather | Synonyms: terra alba |
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| pitahaya | (noun) highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach | - |
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| (noun) cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit | Synonyms: Acanthocereus pentagonus, Acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya cactus |
| platelayer | (noun) a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks | Synonyms: tracklayer |
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| play | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: caper, frolic, gambol, romp |
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| (noun) (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession | Synonyms: turn |
| (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gambling, gaming |
| (noun) an attempt to get something | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
| (noun) a preset plan of action in team sports | - |
| (noun) activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules | Synonyms: child's play |
| (noun) the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully | Synonyms: swordplay |
| (noun) utilization or exercise | - |
| (noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: looseness |
| (noun) a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage | Synonyms: drama, dramatic play |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, sport |
| (noun) a theatrical performance of a drama | - |
| (noun) a weak and tremulous light | Synonyms: shimmer |
| (noun) a state in which action is feasible | - |
| (noun) the removal of constraints | Synonyms: free rein |
| (noun) (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds | Synonyms: period of play, playing period |
| (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: toy |
| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act, act as |
| (verb) exhaust by allowing to pull on the line | - |
| (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, trifle |
| (verb) participate in games or sport | - |
| (verb) bet or wager (money) | - |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, meet, take on |
| (verb) put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game | - |
| (verb) make bets | - |
| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, wager |
| (verb) shoot or hit in a particular manner | - |
| (verb) employ in a game or in a specific position | - |
| (verb) use or move | - |
| (verb) use to one's advantage | - |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, toy |
| (verb) discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream | - |
| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: spiel |
| (verb) perform music on (a musical instrument) | - |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, represent |
| (verb) perform on a certain location | - |
| (verb) be performed or presented for public viewing | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity | - |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, playact, roleplay |
| (verb) emit recorded sound | - |
| (verb) play on an instrument | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, work, wreak |
| (verb) move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly | - |
| (verb) cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space | - |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: recreate |
| (verb) behave in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children | - |
| (verb) act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome | - |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, toy |
| (verb) be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way | - |
| playable | (adjective) capable of or suitable for being played or played on | - |
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| playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
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| playacting | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, performing, playing |
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| playactor | (noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: barnstormer, play-actor, trouper |
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| playback | (noun) the act of reproducing recorded sound | - |
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| (noun) electronic equipment comprising the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material | - |
| playbill | (noun) a theatrical program | - |
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| playbook | (noun) a scheme or set of strategies for conducting a business campaign or a political campaign | - |
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| (noun) a book containing the scripts of one or more dramatic plays | - |
| (noun) a notebook containing descriptions and diagrams of the plays that a team has practiced (especially an American football team) | - |
| playbox | (noun) a box for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school) | Synonyms: play-box |
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| playboy | (noun) a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure | Synonyms: Corinthian, man-about-town |
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| playday | (noun) time for play or diversion | Synonyms: playtime |
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| played | (adjective) (of games) engaged in | - |
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| player | (noun) a theatrical performer | Synonyms: actor, histrion, role player, thespian |
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| (noun) a person who participates in or is skilled at some game | Synonyms: participant |
| (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: instrumentalist, musician |
| (noun) a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously | - |
| (noun) someone who takes part in an activity | Synonyms: participant |
| playfellow | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playmate |
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| playful | (adjective) full of fun and high spirits | - |
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| playfully | (adverb) in a playful manner | - |
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| playfulness | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, merriment |
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| (noun) a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement | Synonyms: fun |
| (noun) a festive merry feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
| playgoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: theatergoer, theatregoer |
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| playground | (noun) yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play | - |
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| (noun) an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes | Synonyms: resort area, vacation spot |
| playhouse | (noun) plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of | Synonyms: wendy house |
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| playing | (noun) the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation | - |
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| (noun) the act of playing a musical instrument | - |
| (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, performing, playacting |
| playlet | (noun) a short play | - |
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| playlist | (noun) a list of musical selections for performance or for broadcast by radio | Synonyms: play list |
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| playmaker | (noun) a player in a team sport who leads attacks or maneuvers in such a way that a teammate can score | - |
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| playmate | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playfellow |
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| playoff | (noun) any final competition to determine a championship | - |
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| playpen | (noun) a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play | Synonyms: pen |
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| playroom | (noun) a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc) | Synonyms: game room, rumpus room |
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| playschool | (noun) a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions | Synonyms: play group |
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| playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
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| playsuit | (noun) a sports outfit for women or children; usually consists of shorts and a blouse | - |
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| plaything | (noun) an artifact designed to be played with | Synonyms: toy |
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| playtime | (noun) time for play or diversion | Synonyms: playday |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| popinjay | (noun) an archaic term for a parrot | - |
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| (noun) a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) | - |
| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
| portrayal | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, depiction |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation |
| (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrait |
| (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying |
| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portraiture |
| portrayed | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: depicted, pictured |
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| portrayer | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portraitist |
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| portraying | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal |
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| pray | (verb) address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer | - |
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| (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, implore |
| praya | (noun) colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long | - |
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| prayer | (noun) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) | Synonyms: supplication |
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| (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, entreaty |
| (noun) a fixed text used in praying | - |
| (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, petition |
| (noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: supplicant |
| prayerbook | (noun) a book containing prayers | Synonyms: prayer book |
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| prayerful | (adjective) disposed to pray or appearing to pray | - |
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| prepay | (verb) pay for something before receiving it | - |
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| prepayment | (noun) payment in advance | - |
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| punchayet | (noun) a village council in India or southern Pakistan | Synonyms: panchayat, panchayet |
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| quay | (noun) wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline | - |
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| quayage | (noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: wharfage |
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| raceway | (noun) a canal for a current of water | Synonyms: race |
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| (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racecourse, racetrack, track |
| radioimmunoassay | (noun) immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled | - |
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| railway | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad, railroad line, railway line, railway system |
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| (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad, railroad track |
| railwayman | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railroader, railway man, trainman |
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| ratepayer | (noun) a person who pays local rates (especially a householder) | - |
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| ray | (noun) cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins | - |
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| (noun) any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish | - |
| (noun) the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: re |
| (noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
| (noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: beam, electron beam |
| (noun) a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point | - |
| (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: irradiate |
| (verb) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | Synonyms: radiate |
| (verb) emit as rays | - |
| rayless | (adjective) having no parts resembling rays; not having ray flowers | - |
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| rayon | (noun) a synthetic silklike fabric | - |
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| rayons | (noun) women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) | Synonyms: nylon stocking, nylons, rayon stocking, silk stocking |
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| relay | (noun) the act of passing something along from one person or group to another | - |
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| (noun) electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit | Synonyms: electrical relay |
| (noun) a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance | Synonyms: relay race |
| (noun) a crew of workers who relieve another crew | - |
| (noun) a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals | - |
| (verb) pass along | - |
| (verb) control or operate by relay | - |
| repay | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, retort, return, riposte |
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| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, return |
| (verb) make repayment for or return something | Synonyms: requite |
| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, reward |
| repayable | (adjective) subject to repayment | - |
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| repayment | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: refund |
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| (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: quittance |
| replay | (noun) the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape | Synonyms: action replay, instant replay |
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| (noun) something (especially a game) that is played again | Synonyms: rematch |
| (verb) play again | - |
| (verb) repeat a game against the same opponent | - |
| (verb) play (a melody) again | - |
| (verb) reproduce (a recording) on a recorder | Synonyms: play back |
| ringway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, bypass, ring road |
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| roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| roleplaying | (noun) acting a particular role (as in psychotherapy) | - |
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| ropeway | (noun) a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers | Synonyms: aerial tramway, cable tramway, tram, tramway |
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| rosebay | (noun) late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers | Synonyms: Rhododendron maxima |
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| roundelay | (noun) a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain | - |
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| runaway | (adjective) completely out of control | - |
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| (noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: blowout, laugher, romp, shoo-in, walkaway |
| (noun) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation | Synonyms: fleer, fugitive |
| runway | (noun) a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land | - |
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| (noun) a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc. | - |
| (noun) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | Synonyms: rail, rails, track |
| (noun) a chute down which logs can slide | - |
| sabayon | (noun) light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled | Synonyms: zabaglione |
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| sashay | (noun) (ballet) quick gliding steps with one foot always leading | Synonyms: chasse |
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| (noun) a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps | - |
| (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sidle |
| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: chasse |
| say | (noun) the chance to speak | - |
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| (verb) express in words | Synonyms: state, tell |
| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, aver |
| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out |
| (verb) express a supposition | Synonyms: suppose |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, tell |
| (verb) communicate or express nonverbally | - |
| (verb) recite or repeat a fixed text | - |
| (verb) indicate | - |
| (verb) state as one's opinion or judgement; declare | - |
| (verb) utter aloud | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: read |
| sayeret | (noun) Israel's elite secret commando unit responsible for counterterrorist and top secret intelligence gathering and hostage rescue missions | Synonyms: Sayeret Mat'kal, Sayeret Matkal |
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| saying | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: expression, locution |
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| sayonara | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, so long |
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| schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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| screenplay | (noun) a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets | - |
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| seaway | (noun) a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels | Synonyms: sea lane, ship route, trade route |
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| shay | (noun) a carriage consisting of two wheels and a calash top; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: chaise |
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| shaytan | (noun) (Islam) a rebellious jinni who leads men astray | Synonyms: shaitan |
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| shipway | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: slipway, ways |
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| (noun) a canal large enough for seagoing vessels | Synonyms: ship canal |
| sickbay | (noun) (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship) | Synonyms: sick berth |
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| sideway | (adverb) from the side; obliquely | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
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| (adverb) with one side forward or to the front | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
| (adverb) in a lateral direction | Synonyms: sideways, sidewise |
| sideways | (adjective) (of movement) at an angle | Synonyms: crabwise |
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| (adverb) to, toward or at one side | Synonyms: obliquely, sidelong |
| (adverb) from the side; obliquely | Synonyms: sideway, sidewise |
| (adverb) with one side forward or to the front | Synonyms: sideway, sidewise |
| (adverb) in a lateral direction | Synonyms: sideway, sidewise |
| skyway | (noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, airway, flight path |
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| slantways | (adverb) at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction | Synonyms: slantwise |
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| slay | (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove |
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| (verb) to succeed greatly | - |