abut | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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abutment | (noun) a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge | - |
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(noun) point of contact between two objects or parts | - |
abutter | (noun) the owner of contiguous property | - |
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acebutolol | (noun) an oral beta blocker (trade name Sectral) used in treating hypertension | Synonyms: Sectral |
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albuterol | (noun) a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects are tachycardia and shakiness | Synonyms: Proventil, Ventolin |
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arbutus | (noun) any of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Arbutus of temperate Europe and America | - |
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attributable | (adjective) capable of being attributed | - |
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attribute | (noun) an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity | - |
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(noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: dimension, property |
(verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, impute |
(verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: assign |
attribution | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: ascription |
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(noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: ascription |
attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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but | (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: just, merely, only, simply |
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butacaine | (noun) a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic | Synonyms: butacaine sulfate |
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butadiene | (noun) a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
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butane | (noun) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels | - |
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butanol | (noun) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | Synonyms: butyl alcohol |
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butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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butat | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butut |
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butch | (adjective) (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance | - |
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(adjective) used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner | Synonyms: macho |
(noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
(noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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(noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
(noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
(noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
(verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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(noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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(adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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(noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
(noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
butene | (noun) any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | Synonyms: butylene |
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buteonine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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(noun) any hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
butler | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: pantryman |
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butt | (noun) thick end of the handle | Synonyms: butt end |
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(noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: stub |
(noun) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) | - |
(noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: target |
(noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
(noun) a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping | Synonyms: butt joint |
(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: goat, laughingstock, stooge |
(noun) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots | - |
(verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: bunt |
(verb) place end to end without overlapping | - |
(verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
butte | (noun) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
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butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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(noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
(verb) spread butter on | - |
butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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(noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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(noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
(noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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(noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
(verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
(verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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(noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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(noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
(noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
(noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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buttocks | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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(noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
(noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
(noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
(noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
(noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
(noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
(noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
(verb) fasten with buttons | - |
(verb) provide with buttons | - |
buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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buttonhole | (noun) a hole through which buttons are pushed | Synonyms: button hole |
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(verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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buttonlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttony |
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buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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(adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
buttress | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttressing |
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(verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
(verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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butty | (noun) a sandwich | - |
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butut | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butat |
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butyl | (noun) a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9) | - |
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butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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butylene | (noun) any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers | Synonyms: butene |
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butyraceous | (adjective) having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter | - |
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butyric | (adjective) relating to or producing butyric acid | - |
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butyrin | (noun) any of three glycerides of butyric acid | - |
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contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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(verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
(verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
(verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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(noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
(noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
(noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
(noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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(noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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debut | (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: entry, first appearance, introduction, launching, unveiling |
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(noun) the presentation of a debutante in society | - |
(verb) appear for the first time in public | - |
(verb) make one's debut | - |
(verb) present for the first time to the public | - |
debutante | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: deb |
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distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
(verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
(verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
(verb) release | - |
(verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
(verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
(verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
distributed | (adjective) spread out or scattered about or divided up | - |
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distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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(noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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(noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
(noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
(noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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(adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
distributor | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributer, electrical distributor |
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(noun) a company that markets merchandise | - |
(noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributer |
(noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: allocator |
equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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hackbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hagbut, harquebus |
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hagbut | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: arquebus, hackbut, harquebus |
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halibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: holibut |
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(noun) lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific | - |
headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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holibut | (noun) marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes | Synonyms: halibut |
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isobutylene | (noun) used also in making gasoline components | - |
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kibbutz | (noun) a collective farm or settlement owned by its members in modern Israel; children are reared collectively | - |
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kibbutznik | (noun) a member of a kibbutz | - |
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oxyphenbutazone | (noun) an anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Tandearil) used to treat arthritis and bursitis | Synonyms: Tandearil |
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phenylbutazone | (noun) anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Butazolidin) | Synonyms: Butazolidin |
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polybutene | (noun) a polymer of butylene; used in lubricants and synthetic rubber | Synonyms: polybutylene |
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