| clinched | (adjective) closed or squeezed together tightly | Synonyms: clenched |
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| clincher | (noun) a tool used to clinch nails or bolts or rivets | - |
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| (noun) a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively | Synonyms: decisive factor |
| (noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: determiner, determining factor |
| cling | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: clingstone |
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| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cohere, stick |
| (verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: hang |
| (verb) to remain emotionally or intellectually attached | - |
| clingfilm | (noun) a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food | Synonyms: cling film, Saran Wrap |
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| clingfish | (noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | - |
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| clingstone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: cling |
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| clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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| clinic | (noun) a healthcare facility for outpatient care | - |
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| (noun) meeting for diagnosis of problems and instruction or remedial work in a particular activity | - |
| (noun) a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists | - |
| clinical | (adjective) relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients | - |
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| (adjective) scientifically detached; unemotional | - |
| clinically | (adverb) in a clinical manner | - |
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| clinician | (noun) a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments | - |
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| clinid | (noun) mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds | Synonyms: clinid fish |
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| clink | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer |
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| (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: chink, click |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
| (verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
| clinker | (noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone | Synonyms: clinker brick |
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| (noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire | Synonyms: cinder |
| (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning | - |
| (verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from | - |
| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| clinocephalism | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephaly |
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| clinocephaly | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephalism |
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| clinodactyly | (noun) a congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned | - |
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| clinometer | (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: inclinometer |
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| clinquant | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: tinseled, tinselly |
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| clintonia | (noun) any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries | Synonyms: Clinton's lily |
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| clip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clipping, snip |
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| (noun) a sharp slanting blow | - |
| (noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, magazine |
| (noun) any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together | - |
| (noun) an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress | - |
| (noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: time |
| (verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: curtail, cut short |
| (verb) attach with a clip | - |
| (verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: nip, nip off, snip, snip off |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: jog, trot |
| clipboard | (noun) a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers | - |
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| clipped | (adjective) (of speech) having quick short sounds | - |
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| (adjective) cut or trimmed by clipping | - |
| clipper | (noun) scissors for cutting hair or finger nails | - |
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| (noun) shears for cutting grass or shrubbery | - |
| (noun) a fast sailing ship used in former times | Synonyms: clipper ship |
| (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: limiter |
| clipping | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clip, snip |
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| (noun) cutting down to the desired size or shape | Synonyms: trim, trimming |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cutting, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| clique | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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| cliquish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, clubby, snobbish, snobby |
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| cliquishly | (adverb) in a clannish manner | Synonyms: clannishly |
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| cliquishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, exclusiveness |
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| clit | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clitoris |
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| clitic | (noun) a word that is treated in pronunciation as forming a part of a neighboring word and that is often unaccented or contracted. | - |
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| clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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| clitoric | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoral |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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| clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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| clivers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| cloaca | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | Synonyms: sewer, sewerage |
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| (noun) (zoology) the cavity (in birds, reptiles, amphibians, most fish, and monotremes but not other mammals) at the end of the digestive tract into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open | - |
| cloak | (noun) a loose outer garment | - |
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| (noun) anything that covers or conceals | - |
| (verb) cover with or as if with a cloak | - |
| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: clothe, drape, robe |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: dissemble, mask |
| cloaked | (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: clothed, draped, mantled, wrapped |
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| (adjective) having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading | Synonyms: disguised, masked |
| cloakmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing fur garments | Synonyms: furrier |
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| cloakroom | (noun) a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily | Synonyms: coatroom |
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| (noun) a private lounge off of a legislative chamber | - |
| clobber | (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: stuff |
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| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: baste, batter |
| clochard | (noun) a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support | Synonyms: drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant |
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| cloche | (noun) a woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet | - |
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| (noun) a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold | - |
| clock | (noun) a timepiece that shows the time of day | - |
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| (verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: time |
| clocking | (noun) the time taken to traverse a measured course | - |
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| clockmaker | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clocksmith |
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| clocks | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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| clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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| clockwise | (adjective) in the same direction as the rotating hands of a clock | - |
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| (adverb) in the direction that the hands of a clock move | - |
| clockwork | (noun) any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock | - |
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| clod | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clump, glob, lump |
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| (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum |
| cloddish | (adjective) heavy and dull and stupid | Synonyms: doltish |
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| clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
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| clofibrate | (noun) a drug (trade name Atromid-S) that reduces lipids in the blood serum; used to treat some cardiovascular diseases | Synonyms: Atromid-S |
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| clog | (noun) a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps | Synonyms: clog dance, clog dancing |
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| (noun) any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction | - |
| (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: geta, patten, sabot |
| (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: constipate |
| (verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired | Synonyms: overload |
| (verb) coalesce or unite in a mass | Synonyms: clot |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden | - |
| (verb) dance a clog dance | - |
| clogged | (adjective) loaded with something that hinders motion | - |
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| (adjective) stopped up; clogged up | Synonyms: choked |
| (adjective) thickened or coalesced in soft thick lumps (such as clogs or clots) | Synonyms: clotted |
| clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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| cloggy | (adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: clayey, heavy |
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| cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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| (noun) enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips | - |
| cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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| (noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
| (verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister | - |
| (verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
| cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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| (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
| cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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| clomiphene | (noun) a fertility drug (trade name Clomid) that is used to stimulate ovulation and that has been associated with multiple births | Synonyms: Clomid, clomiphene citrate |
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| clomipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug | - |
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| clomp | (verb) walk clumsily | Synonyms: clump |
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| clon | (noun) a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | Synonyms: clone |
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| clonal | (adjective) of or relating to a clone | - |
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| clone | (noun) an unauthorized copy or imitation | Synonyms: knockoff |
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| (noun) a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction | Synonyms: clon |
| (noun) a person who is almost identical to another | Synonyms: dead ringer, ringer |
| (verb) make multiple identical copies of | - |
| clonic | (adjective) of or relating to abnormal neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscle contraction and relaxation | - |
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| clonidine | (noun) an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches | Synonyms: Catapres |
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| cloning | (noun) a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) | - |
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| clonus | (noun) convulsion characterized by alternating contractions and relaxations | - |
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| clop | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clopping, clumping, clunking |
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| (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clump, clunk, plunk |
| clopping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clumping, clunking |
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| close | (adjective) at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other | - |
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| (adjective) close in relevance or relationship | - |
| (adjective) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances | Synonyms: near, nigh |
| (adjective) marked by fidelity to an original | Synonyms: faithful |
| (adjective) rigorously attentive; strict and thorough | - |
| (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: confining |
| (adjective) (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) of textiles | Synonyms: tight |
| (adjective) confined to specific persons | - |
| (adjective) strictly confined or guarded | - |
| (adjective) used of hair or haircuts | - |
| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
| (adjective) fitting closely but comfortably | Synonyms: close-fitting, snug |
| (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
| (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: airless, stuffy, unaired |
| (noun) the concluding part of any performance | Synonyms: closing curtain, finale, finis |
| (noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: closing, conclusion, end, ending |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: conclusion, finale, finis, finish, last, stopping point |
| (adverb) near in time or place or relationship | Synonyms: near, nigh |
| (adverb) in an attentive manner | Synonyms: closely, tight |
| (verb) finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead | - |
| (verb) complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement | - |
| (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: shut |
| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: shut |
| (verb) bar access to | - |
| (verb) fill or stop up | Synonyms: fill up |
| (verb) bring together all the elements or parts of | - |
| (verb) unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of | Synonyms: close up |
| (verb) change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact | - |
| (verb) come together, as if in an embrace | Synonyms: come together |
| (verb) draw near | - |
| (verb) cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop | - |
| (verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close down, close up, fold, shut down |
| (verb) finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.) | - |
| (verb) engage at close quarters | - |
| (verb) come to a close | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) be priced or listed when trading stops | - |
| closed | (adjective) not open or affording passage or access | - |
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| (adjective) (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints | - |
| (adjective) used especially of mouth or eyes | Synonyms: shut |
| (adjective) not open | Synonyms: shut, unopen |
| (adjective) blocked against entry | Synonyms: closed in |
| (adjective) not open to the general public | - |
| (adjective) with shutters closed | - |
| (adjective) requiring union membership | - |
| (adjective) not having an open mind | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
| closedown | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closing, closure, shutdown |
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| closefisted | (adjective) unwilling to part with money | Synonyms: hardfisted, tightfisted |
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| closelipped | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped |
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| closely | (adverb) in a close relation or position in time or space | - |
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| (adverb) in a close manner | Synonyms: intimately, nearly |
| (adverb) in an attentive manner | Synonyms: close, tight |
| closemouthed | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped |
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| closeness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: nearness |
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| (noun) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) | Synonyms: secretiveness |
| (noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | Synonyms: stuffiness |
| (noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: familiarity, intimacy |
| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| (noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: intimacy |
| closeout | (noun) a sale intended to dispose of all remaining stock | - |
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| closer | (noun) (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game | Synonyms: finisher |
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| (noun) a person who closes something | - |
| (adverb) (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance | Synonyms: nearer, nigher |
| closest | (adverb) (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | Synonyms: nearest, nighest |
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| closet | (noun) a small private room for study or prayer | - |
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| (noun) a toilet in Britain | Synonyms: loo, W.C., water closet |
| (noun) a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes | Synonyms: press, wardrobe |
| (noun) a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space | Synonyms: cupboard |
| (verb) confine to a small space, as for intensive work | - |
| closeup | (noun) a photograph taken at close range | - |
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| closing | (adjective) final or ending | - |
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| (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closure, shutdown |
| (noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: shutting |
| (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: completion, culmination, mop up, windup |
| (noun) approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap | Synonyms: closure |
| (noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, conclusion, end, ending |
| clostridia | (noun) spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore | Synonyms: clostridium |
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| clostridium | (noun) spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore | Synonyms: clostridia |
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| closure | (noun) termination of operations | Synonyms: closedown, closing, shutdown |
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| (noun) the act of blocking | Synonyms: blockage, occlusion |
| (noun) approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap | Synonyms: closing |
| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric | Synonyms: law of closure |
| (noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: resolution, settlement |
| (noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body | Synonyms: cloture, gag law, gag rule |
| (verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote | Synonyms: cloture |
| clot | (noun) a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid | Synonyms: coagulum |
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| (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, curdle |
| (verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: coagulate |
| (verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: coagulate |
| (verb) coalesce or unite in a mass | Synonyms: clog |
| clotbur | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: burdock |
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| cloth | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: fabric, material, textile |
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| clothe | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, drape, robe |
| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: adorn, invest |
| clothed | (adjective) wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: clad |
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| (adjective) covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak | Synonyms: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped |
| clothes | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: apparel, dress, wearing apparel |
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