accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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(verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
(verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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(noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
(noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
(noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
(noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
(noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
(noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
(verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
(verb) give someone credit for something | - |
(verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
(verb) enter as credit | - |
creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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creditably | (adverb) to a tolerably worthy extent | Synonyms: respectably |
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credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem | Synonyms: disrepute |
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(verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
(verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
(verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
discreditable | (adjective) tending to bring discredit or disrepute; blameworthy | - |
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discreditably | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ignominiously, ingloriously, shamefully |
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discredited | (adjective) suffering shame | Synonyms: disgraced, dishonored, shamed |
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(adjective) being unjustly brought into disrepute | Synonyms: damaged |
edit | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: redact |
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(verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: cut, edit out |
(verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete |
(verb) supervise the publication of | - |
edited | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: emended |
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editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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edition | (noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: variant, variation, version |
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(noun) an issue of a newspaper | - |
(noun) the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published | - |
(noun) all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time | - |
editor | (noun) (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data | Synonyms: editor program |
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(noun) a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine) | Synonyms: editor in chief |
editorial | (adjective) of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of an editor | - |
(noun) an article giving opinions or perspectives | Synonyms: column, newspaper column |
editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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editorially | (adverb) by means of an editorial | - |
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editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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expedite | (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: hasten |
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(verb) process fast and efficiently | - |
expedition | (noun) a journey organized for a particular purpose | - |
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(noun) a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country | Synonyms: hostile expedition, military expedition |
(noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
(noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expeditiousness |
(noun) an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose | - |
expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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expeditious | (adjective) marked by speed and efficiency | - |
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expeditiously | (adverb) with efficiency; in an efficient manner | Synonyms: efficiently |
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expeditiousness | (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch, expedition |
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hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
heredity | (noun) the total of inherited attributes | Synonyms: genetic endowment |
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(noun) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next | - |
meditate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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(verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, study |
meditation | (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: speculation |
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(noun) (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects) | - |
meditative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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meditatively | (adverb) in a meditative manner | - |
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meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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(verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
premeditated | (adjective) characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning | - |
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premeditation | (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: forethought |
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(noun) (law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent | - |
sedition | (noun) an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government | - |
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seditious | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, subversive |
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(adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble-rousing |
subedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, copyread |
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subeditor | (noun) an assistant editor | - |
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unaccredited | (adjective) lacking official approval | Synonyms: unlicenced, unlicensed |
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unedited | (adjective) not changed by editing | - |
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unpremeditated | (adjective) not premeditated | - |
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(adjective) not prepared or planned in advance | - |