| collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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| (noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
| (adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays | - |
| (verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
| (verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| (verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
| (verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
| collectable | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectible, payable |
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| (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectible |
| collected | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: gathered |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| collectedly | (adverb) in a self-collected or self-possessed manner | Synonyms: composedly |
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| collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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| collectible | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, payable |
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| (noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
| collecting | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collection |
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| collection | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collecting |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: compendium |
| (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, ingathering, solicitation |
| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage |
| collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
| (adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
| (noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
| collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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| collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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| collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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| collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
| collectivism | (noun) a political theory that the people should own the means of production | - |
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| (noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism |
| collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| (noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
| collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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| collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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| collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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| collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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| (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
| collector | (noun) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes | - |
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| (noun) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth | - |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer |
| (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: aggregator |
| colorectal | (adjective) relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum | - |
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| compact | (adjective) closely and firmly united or packed together | - |
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| (adjective) briefly giving the gist of something | Synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary |
| (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset |
| (noun) a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse | Synonyms: powder compact |
| (noun) a small and economical car | Synonyms: compact car |
| (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: concordat, covenant |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, pack, wad |
| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compress, pack together |
| (verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: pack |
| compaction | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: crunch, crush |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compression, concretion, densification |
| compactly | (adverb) taking up no more space than necessary | - |
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| (adverb) with concise and precise brevity; to the point | Synonyms: succinctly |
| (adverb) in a compact manner or state | - |
| compactness | (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: concentration, denseness, density, tightness |
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| (noun) the consistency of a compact solid | - |
| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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| compunction | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach |
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| concoct | (verb) make a concoction (of) by mixing | - |
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| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: dream up, hatch, think of, think up |
| (verb) prepare or cook by mixing ingredients | Synonyms: cook up |
| (verb) invent | Synonyms: trump up |
| concoction | (noun) the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components | Synonyms: confection |
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| (noun) the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose | - |
| (noun) an occurrence of an unusual mixture | - |
| (noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: intermixture, mixture |
| conduct | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, doings |
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| (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, deport, do |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: direct, lead |
| (verb) lead musicians in the performance of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, convey, impart, transmit |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: direct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) direct the course of; manage or control | Synonyms: carry on, deal |
| conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| conduction | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conductivity |
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| conductive | (adjective) having the quality or power of conducting heat or electricity or sound; exhibiting conductivity | - |
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| conductivity | (noun) the transmission of heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: conduction |
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| conductor | (noun) a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. | - |
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| (noun) the person who leads a musical group | Synonyms: director, music director |
| (noun) the person who collects fares on a public conveyance | - |
| (noun) a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat | - |
| conductress | (noun) a woman conductor | - |
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| confect | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: candy |
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| (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confection |
| (verb) make or construct | - |
| confection | (noun) the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components | Synonyms: concoction |
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| (noun) a food rich in sugar | Synonyms: sweet |
| (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confect |
| confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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| confectioner | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: candymaker |
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| confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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| (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
| (noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
| conflict | (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, struggle |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, engagement, fight |
| (noun) an incompatibility of dates or events | - |
| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, dispute |
| (noun) opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings | - |
| (noun) opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | - |
| (noun) a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | - |
| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: contravene, infringe, run afoul |
| (verb) be in conflict | - |
| conflicting | (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, contradictory, self-contradictory |
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| (adjective) on bad terms | - |
| conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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| conjecturally | (adverb) in a manner involving or inclined to conjecture and supposition | - |
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| conjecture | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | Synonyms: speculation |
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| (noun) reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence | - |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal, surmise |
| (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
| conjunct | (adjective) progressing melodically by intervals of a second | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunctive, cooperative, united |
| (adjective) bound in close association | - |
| conjunction | (noun) something that joins or connects | Synonyms: junction |
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| (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunctive, connective, continuative |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: alignment |
| (noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction | - |
| (noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: colligation, conjugation, junction |
| conjunctiva | (noun) a transparent lubricating mucous membrane that covers the eyeball and the under surface of the eyelid | - |
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| conjunctival | (adjective) of or relating to the conjunctiva | - |
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| conjunctive | (adjective) serving or tending to connect | - |
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| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, cooperative, united |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, connective, continuative |
| conjunctivitis | (noun) inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye | Synonyms: pinkeye |
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| conjuncture | (noun) a critical combination of events or circumstances | - |
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| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| connected | (adjective) joined or linked together | - |
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| (adjective) plugged in | - |
| (adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, attached |
| (adjective) wired together to an alarm system | - |
| (adjective) stored in, controlled by, or in direct communication with a central computer | Synonyms: machine-accessible |
| connectedness | (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connection, link |
| connecter | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connection, connective, connector, connexion |
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| connection | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connexion, joining |
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| (noun) shifting from one form of transportation to another | Synonyms: connexion |
| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connective, connector, connexion |
| (noun) the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | Synonyms: association, connexion |
| (noun) a supplier (especially of narcotics) | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship) | - |
| (noun) a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) | Synonyms: connectedness, connexion |
| (noun) a connecting shape | Synonyms: connexion, link |
| (noun) the state of being connected | Synonyms: connectedness, link |
| connective | (adjective) connecting or tending to connect | - |
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| (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connector, connexion |
| (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, continuative |
| connectivity | (noun) the property of being connected or the degree to which something has connections | - |
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| connector | (noun) an instrumentality that connects | Synonyms: connecter, connection, connective, connexion |
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| conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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| constrict | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constringe, narrow |
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| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, contract, press, squeeze |
| constricted | (adjective) drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically | - |
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| (adjective) especially tense; especially in some dialects | - |
| constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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| constriction | (noun) the action or process of compressing | - |
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| (noun) a tight feeling in some part of the body | Synonyms: tightness |
| (noun) tight or narrow compression | Synonyms: coarctation |
| (noun) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel | Synonyms: bottleneck, chokepoint |
| constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
| constrictor | (noun) any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils | - |
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| construct | (noun) an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances | Synonyms: concept, conception |
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| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| construction | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: building |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: building |
| (noun) drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem | - |
| (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: structure |
| (noun) the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought | Synonyms: mental synthesis |
| (noun) an interpretation of a text or action | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: expression, grammatical construction |
| constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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| (adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
| constructively | (adverb) in a constructive manner | - |
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| constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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| constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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| constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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| constructor | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: builder |
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| contact | (noun) the act of touching physically | Synonyms: physical contact |
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| (noun) close interaction | - |
| (noun) (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact | Synonyms: tangency |
| (noun) a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication | Synonyms: contact lens |
| (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: inter-group communication, liaison, link |
| (noun) a communicative interaction | Synonyms: touch |
| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: impinging, striking |
| (noun) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance | Synonyms: middleman |
| (noun) the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity | - |
| (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: get hold of, get through, reach |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch |
| contract | (noun) a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid | Synonyms: contract bridge |
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| (noun) a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law | - |
| (noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: declaration |
| (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
| (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) make smaller | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
| (verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
| contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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| contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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| contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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| contractility | (noun) the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter | - |
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| contracting | (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: catching |
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| contraction | (noun) the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | - |
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| (noun) (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) | Synonyms: muscle contraction, muscular contraction |
| (noun) a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds | - |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, condensation |
| contractor | (noun) a bodily organ that contracts | Synonyms: contractile organ |
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| (noun) someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things | - |
| (noun) (law) a party to a contract | - |
| (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: declarer |
| contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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| contractually | (adverb) by virtue of a contract | - |
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| contracture | (noun) an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle | - |
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| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
| (noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
| contradictorily | (adverb) in a contradictory manner | - |
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| contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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| contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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| (adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
| (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
| (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
| (noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
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| convection | (noun) the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | - |
| convector | (noun) a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection | - |
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| convict | (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird |
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| (noun) a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense | - |
| (verb) find or declare guilty | - |
| convictfish | (noun) greenling with whitish body marked with black bands | Synonyms: convict fish, Oxylebius pictus, painted greenling |
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