| acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
| (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
| (verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
| acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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| acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) generally accepted | - |
| acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
| dredge | (noun) a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed | - |
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| (verb) remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water | - |
| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: drag |
| (verb) cover before cooking | - |
| dredger | (noun) a barge (or a vessel resembling a barge) that is used for dredging | - |
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| edge | (noun) a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object | - |
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| (noun) the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something | - |
| (noun) a slight competitive advantage | - |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: sharpness |
| (noun) the boundary of a surface | Synonyms: border |
| (noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
| (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march |
| (verb) provide with an edge | - |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: inch |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: border |
| edged | (adjective) having a specified kind of border or edge | - |
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| (adjective) having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination | - |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, stinging |
| edgeless | (adjective) lacking a cutting edge | - |
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| edger | (noun) garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard | - |
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| (noun) a person who puts finishing edges on a garment | - |
| edgeways | (adverb) with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | Synonyms: edgewise |
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| (adverb) as if by an edge; barely | Synonyms: edgewise |
| edgewise | (adverb) with the edge forward or on, by, or toward the edge | Synonyms: edgeways |
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| (adverb) as if by an edge; barely | Synonyms: edgeways |
| featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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| featheredged | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, deckled |
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| fledge | (verb) grow feathers | Synonyms: feather |
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| (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: flight |
| (verb) feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight | - |
| fledged | (adjective) (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination | Synonyms: mature |
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| (adjective) (of an arrow) equipped with feathers | Synonyms: vaned |
| fledgeless | (adjective) (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers | Synonyms: unfledged, unvaned |
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| fledgeling | (adjective) (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers | Synonyms: fledgling |
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| (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgling |
| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| foredge | (noun) the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved; the part opposite the spine | Synonyms: fore edge |
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| foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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| hedge | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedgerow |
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| (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedging |
| (noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedging |
| (verb) minimize loss or risk | - |
| (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
| (verb) enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges | Synonyms: hedge in |
| (verb) hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge | - |
| hedged | (adjective) evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement | Synonyms: weasel-worded |
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| hedgefund | (noun) a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging | Synonyms: hedge fund |
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| hedgehog | (noun) small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines | Synonyms: Erinaceus europaeus, Erinaceus europeaeus |
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| (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: porcupine |
| hedgehop | (verb) fly very close to the ground | Synonyms: flat-hat |
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| hedger | (noun) a gardener who takes care of and trims hedges | - |
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| (noun) someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss | - |
| (noun) a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer | Synonyms: equivocator, tergiversator |
| hedgerow | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedge |
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| kedgeree | (noun) a dish of rice and hard-boiled eggs and cooked flaked fish | - |
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| knowledge | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, noesis |
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| knowledgeability | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeableness |
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| knowledgeable | (adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
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| (adjective) thoroughly acquainted through study or experience | Synonyms: intimate, versed |
| (adjective) alert and fully informed | Synonyms: knowing |
| knowledgeableness | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeability |
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| ledge | (noun) a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water | Synonyms: shelf |
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| ledgeman | (noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: breaker |
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| ledger | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: daybook |
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| (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, leger |
| metaknowledge | (noun) knowledge about knowledge | - |
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| nutsedge | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutgrass |
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| pledge | (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: assurance |
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| (noun) a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | Synonyms: toast |
| (noun) someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group | - |
| (noun) a deposit of personal property as security for a debt | - |
| (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: plight |
| (verb) bind or secure by a pledge | - |
| (verb) give as a guarantee | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, salute, toast, wassail |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: subscribe |
| pledged | (adjective) bound by or as if by an oath | Synonyms: sworn |
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| pledgee | (noun) someone to whom a pledge is made or someone with whom something is deposited as a pledge | - |
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| pledger | (noun) someone who makes or gives a pledge | - |
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| sedge | (noun) grasslike or rushlike plant growing in wet places having solid stems, narrow grasslike leaves and spikelets of inconspicuous flowers | - |
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| sedgelike | (adjective) resembling rush or sedge | Synonyms: rushlike |
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| selvedge | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvage |
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| (noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvage |
| sledge | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledgehammer |
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| (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sleigh |
| (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledgehammer |
| (verb) transport in a sleigh | - |
| (verb) ride in or travel with a sledge | - |
| sledgehammer | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledge |
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| (verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledge |
| straightedge | (noun) hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness) | - |
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| unacknowledged | (adjective) not recognized or admitted | - |
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| (adjective) not openly acknowledged | - |
| unfledged | (adjective) (of birds) not yet having developed feathers | Synonyms: immature |
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| (adjective) young and inexperienced | Synonyms: callow, fledgling |
| (adjective) (of an arrow) not equipped with feathers | Synonyms: fledgeless, unvaned |
| unknowledgeable | (adjective) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge | Synonyms: ignorant, unknowing, unwitting |
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| unpledged | (adjective) not promised in marriage | Synonyms: unengaged, unpromised |
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| wedge | (noun) something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them | - |
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| (noun) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object | Synonyms: chock |
| (noun) a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe | Synonyms: wedge heel |
| (noun) (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole | - |
| (noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: hacek |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, zep |
| (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section | Synonyms: cuneus, wedge shape |
| (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, squeeze |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick |
| wedged | (adjective) wedged or packed in together | Synonyms: impacted |
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