accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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anticipant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipative, expectant |
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(noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipator |
anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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(verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
(verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
(verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
(verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
anticipated | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: awaited, hoped-for |
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anticipation | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: prediction, prevision |
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(noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: expectancy |
(noun) an expectation | Synonyms: expectancy |
(noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: expectation |
anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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anticipator | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipant |
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anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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bicipital | (adjective) having two heads or points of origin as a biceps | - |
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cipher | (noun) a secret method of writing | Synonyms: cryptograph, cypher, secret code |
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(noun) a message written in a secret code | Synonyms: cypher |
(noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cypher, nobody, nonentity |
(noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: aught, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
(noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number | Synonyms: 0, cypher, nought, zero |
(verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
(verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
ciprofloxacin | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Cipro) used against serious bacterial infections of the skin or respiratory tract or urinary tract or bones or joints | Synonyms: Cipro |
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corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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decipher | (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: trace |
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(verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decode, decrypt |
decipherable | (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: clear, readable |
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decipherably | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: legibly, readably |
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deciphered | (adjective) converted from cryptic to intelligible language | - |
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decipherer | (noun) a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text | - |
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(noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decoder |
decipherment | (noun) the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text | Synonyms: decoding, decryption |
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disciple | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: adherent |
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discipleship | (noun) the position of disciple | - |
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disciplinal | (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinary |
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disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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(adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
(adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
discipline | (noun) training to improve strength or self-control | - |
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(noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: correction |
(noun) the trait of being well behaved | - |
(noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
(noun) a system of rules of conduct or method of practice | - |
(verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
(verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
disciplined | (adjective) obeying the rules | - |
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(adjective) trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise | - |
emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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(verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
emancipated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: liberated |
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emancipation | (noun) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child | - |
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emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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forcipate | (adjective) shaped like a forceps; deeply forked | - |
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incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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incipient | (adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed | Synonyms: inchoate |
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indecipherable | (adjective) not easily deciphered | Synonyms: unclear, undecipherable, unreadable |
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(adjective) impossible to determine the meaning of | - |
indiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: undiscipline |
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interdisciplinary | (adjective) drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study | - |
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municipal | (adjective) relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the government of a municipality | - |
municipality | (noun) people living in a town or city having local self-government | - |
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(noun) an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government | - |
municipally | (adverb) by municipality | - |
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nonparticipant | (noun) a person who does not participate | - |
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nonparticipation | (noun) withdrawing from the activities of a group | Synonyms: non-engagement, non-involvement |
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nonreciprocal | (adjective) not reciprocal | - |
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nonreciprocating | (adjective) not moving alternately forward and backward | - |
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occipital | (adjective) of or relating to the occiput | - |
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occiput | (noun) back part of the head or skull | - |
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participant | (noun) someone who takes part in an activity | Synonyms: player |
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(noun) a person who participates in or is skilled at some game | Synonyms: player |
participate | (verb) become a participant; be involved in | Synonyms: enter |
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(verb) share in something | Synonyms: take part |
participating | (adjective) taking part in an activity | Synonyms: active |
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participation | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, involvement |
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(noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: involvement |
participatory | (adjective) affording the opportunity for individual participation | - |
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participial | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of participles | - |
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(noun) a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | Synonyms: participle |
participle | (noun) a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses | Synonyms: participial |
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percipient | (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: clear |
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(noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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precipitant | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitate, precipitous |
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(noun) an agent that causes a precipitate to form | - |
precipitate | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitous |
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(noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
(verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles | - |
(verb) hurl or throw violently | - |
(verb) bring about abruptly | - |
(verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong | - |
(verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, fall |
precipitately | (adverb) at breakneck speed | Synonyms: headlong |
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precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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precipitating | (adjective) bringing on suddenly or abruptly | - |
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precipitation | (noun) an unexpected acceleration or hastening | - |
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(noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry |
(noun) the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height | - |
(noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: downfall |
(noun) the process of forming a chemical precipitate | - |
(noun) the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time | - |
precipitator | (noun) removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation | Synonyms: Cottrell precipitator, electrostatic precipitator |
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precipitin | (noun) an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen | - |
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precipitous | (adjective) done with very great haste and without due deliberation | Synonyms: hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate |
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(adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: abrupt, sharp |
precipitously | (adverb) abruptly; in a precipitous manner | - |
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(adverb) very suddenly and to a great degree | Synonyms: sharply |
precipitousness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, steepness |
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(noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness |
principal | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, master, primary |
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(noun) the educator who has executive authority for a school | Synonyms: head, head teacher, school principal |
(noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, star |
(noun) the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account | Synonyms: dealer |
(noun) (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement | - |
(noun) the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated | - |
(noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: corpus, principal sum |
principality | (noun) territory ruled by a prince | Synonyms: princedom |
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principally | (adverb) for the most part | Synonyms: chiefly, in the main, mainly, primarily |
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principalship | (noun) the post of principal | - |
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principle | (noun) a basic truth or law or assumption | - |
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(noun) a rule or standard especially of good behavior | - |
(noun) (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | Synonyms: rationale |
(noun) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct | Synonyms: rule |
(noun) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system | Synonyms: rule |
(noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: precept |
principled | (adjective) based on or manifesting objectively defined standards of rightness or morality | - |
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recipe | (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: formula |
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recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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(noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
reciprocal | (adjective) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return | Synonyms: mutual |
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(adjective) of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function | - |
(noun) hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype | Synonyms: reciprocal cross |
(noun) (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 | Synonyms: multiplicative inverse |
(noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else | - |
reciprocality | (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocity |
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reciprocally | (adverb) in an inverse or contrary manner | Synonyms: inversely |
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(adverb) in a mutual or shared manner | Synonyms: mutually |
(adverb) (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation | Synonyms: in return |
reciprocate | (verb) alternate the direction of motion of | - |
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(verb) act, feel, or give mutually or in return | - |
reciprocation | (noun) the act of making or doing something in return | - |
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(noun) alternating back-and-forth movement | - |
(noun) mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) | Synonyms: give-and-take, interchange |
reciprocative | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocatory |
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(adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocatory |
reciprocatory | (adjective) moving alternately backward and forward | Synonyms: reciprocative |
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(adjective) given or done or owed to each other | Synonyms: reciprocative |
reciprocity | (noun) mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges | - |
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(noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocality |
sinciput | (noun) the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead) | - |
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unanticipated | (adjective) not anticipated | Synonyms: out of the blue, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unseen |
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undecipherable | (adjective) not easily deciphered | Synonyms: indecipherable, unclear, unreadable |
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undecipherably | (adverb) in an illegible manner | Synonyms: illegibly, unreadably |
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undeciphered | (adjective) not deciphered | - |
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undiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: indiscipline |
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undisciplined | (adjective) lacking in discipline or control | Synonyms: ungoverned |
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(adjective) not subjected to correction or discipline | Synonyms: uncorrected |
(adjective) not subjected to discipline | - |
unprincipled | (adjective) lacking principles or moral scruples | - |
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(adjective) having little or no integrity | - |
unreciprocated | (adjective) not returned in kind | Synonyms: unanswered, unrequited |
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velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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(noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |