slumber | (noun) a dormant or quiescent state | - |
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(noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: sleep |
(verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep |
slumberer | (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: sleeper |
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slumberous | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumbery, slumbrous, somnolent |
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(adjective) quiet and tranquil | Synonyms: slumbrous |
slumbery | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbrous, somnolent |
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snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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snobbery | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbishness, snobbism |
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snowberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba, waxberry |
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soapberry | (noun) a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin | Synonyms: soapberry tree |
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sober | (adjective) not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | - |
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(adjective) completely lacking in playfulness | Synonyms: serious, unplayful |
(adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull | Synonyms: drab, somber, sombre |
(adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: grave, sedate, solemn |
(verb) become sober after excessive alcohol consumption | Synonyms: sober up |
(verb) become more realistic | Synonyms: sober up |
(verb) cause to become sober | - |
sobering | (adjective) tending to make sober or more serious | - |
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soberly | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: gravely, staidly |
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soberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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(noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: sobriety |
sobersided | (adjective) completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch | - |
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sobersides | (noun) a serious and sedate individual | - |
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somber | (adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull | Synonyms: drab, sober, sombre |
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(adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: melancholy, sombre |
somberly | (adverb) in a somber manner | Synonyms: sombrely |
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somberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, sombreness |
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(noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, sombreness |
(noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: gloom, sombreness |
sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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stabber | (noun) someone who stabs another person | - |
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stockjobber | (noun) one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers | - |
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strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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(noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
(noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
subscriber | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: contributor |
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(noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: reader |
(noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, ratifier |
sugarberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: hackberry |
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(noun) deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood | Synonyms: Celtis laevigata |
sunberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, wonderberry |
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tabernacle | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, temple |
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teaberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen |
thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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(noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
(noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
timber | (noun) a beam made of wood | - |
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(noun) a post made of wood | - |
(noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
(noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
(noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: lumber |
timbered | (adjective) furnished with or made of wood or timbers | - |
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(adjective) covered with growing timber | - |
timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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timberline | (noun) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes | Synonyms: timber line, tree line |
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timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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(noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
(noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
(noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
tuber | (noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | - |
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tubercle | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity |
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(noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: nodule |
(noun) a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis | - |
tubercular | (adjective) relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle | - |
(adjective) characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles | - |
(adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tuberculous |
(noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
tuberculate | (adjective) covered with tubercles | - |
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tuberculin | (noun) a sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis | - |
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tuberculoid | (adjective) resembling tuberculosis | - |
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tuberculosis | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) | Synonyms: T.B., TB |
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tuberculous | (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tubercular |
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tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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tuberous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a tuber | - |
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twinberry | (noun) shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America | Synonyms: Lonicera involucrata |
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(noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, partridgeberry |
umber | (adjective) of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments | - |
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(noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, coffee, deep brown |
(noun) an earth pigment | - |
unencumbered | (adjective) free of encumbrance | - |
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(adjective) not burdened with cares or responsibilities | - |
unnumberable | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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unnumbered | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumerable |
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unreverberant | (adjective) not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate | Synonyms: nonresonant |
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untimbered | (adjective) lacking timbers | - |
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(adjective) without trees | - |
waxberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry |
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(noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba |
weber | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells | Synonyms: Wb |
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whinberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whortleberry |
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whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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(noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |
wineberry | (noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits | Synonyms: Rubus phoenicolasius |
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(noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, makomako, New Zealand wine berry |
winterberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: bearberry, Ilex decidua, possum haw |
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wonderberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, sunberry |
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