digram | (noun) two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') | Synonyms: digraph |
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digraph | (noun) two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') | Synonyms: digram |
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digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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(verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
digression | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion |
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(noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: excursion |
(noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, divagation, excursus, parenthesis |
digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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(adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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pedigree | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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(noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: bloodline |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
(noun) line of descent of a purebred animal | - |
pedigreed | (adjective) having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred |
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secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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tardigrade | (noun) an arthropod of the division Tardigrada | - |
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verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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(noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |
(verb) color verdigris | - |