baleen | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: whalebone |
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between | (adverb) in between | Synonyms: 'tween |
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(adverb) in the interval | Synonyms: betwixt |
betweenbrain | (noun) the posterior division of the forebrain; connects the cerebral hemispheres with the mesencephalon | Synonyms: diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon |
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canteen | (noun) a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers | - |
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(noun) restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat | - |
(noun) a recreation room in an institution | - |
(noun) a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen | Synonyms: mobile canteen |
(noun) sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc. | - |
carageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carrageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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careen | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: rock, sway, tilt |
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(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: shift, tilt, wobble |
(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
carefreeness | (noun) the trait of being without worry or responsibility | - |
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(noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
carrageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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carrageenan | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenin |
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carrageenin | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenan |
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carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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colleen | (noun) an Irish girl | - |
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dasheen | (noun) tropical starchy tuberous root | Synonyms: cocoyam, edda, taro, taro root |
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(noun) herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves | Synonyms: Colocasia esculenta, dalo, taro, taro plant |
(noun) edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants | Synonyms: cocoyam, eddo, taro |
dudeen | (noun) a clay pipe with a short stem | - |
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eighteen | (adjective) being one more than seventeen | Synonyms: 18, xviii |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
eighteenth | (adjective) coming next after the seventeenth in position | Synonyms: 18th |
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(noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
evergreen | (adjective) (of plants and shrubs) bearing foliage throughout the year | - |
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(noun) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year | Synonyms: evergreen plant |
fedayeen | (noun) (plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel | - |
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fifteen | (adjective) being one more than fourteen | Synonyms: 15, xv |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one | Synonyms: 15, XV |
fifteenth | (adjective) coming next after the fourteenth and just before the sixteenth in position | Synonyms: 15th |
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(noun) position 15 in a countable series of things | - |
fourteen | (adjective) being one more than thirteen | Synonyms: 14, xiv |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one | Synonyms: 14, XIV |
fourteenth | (adjective) coming next after the thirteenth in position | Synonyms: 14th |
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(noun) position 14 in a countable series of things | - |
green | (adjective) not fully developed or mature; not ripe | Synonyms: immature, unripe, unripened |
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(adjective) concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party | - |
(adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, greenish, light-green |
(adjective) looking pale and unhealthy | - |
(adjective) naive and easily deceived or tricked | Synonyms: fleeceable, gullible |
(noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, jet, K, special K, super acid, super C |
(noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: greenness, viridity |
(noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable |
(noun) an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course | Synonyms: putting green, putting surface |
(noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, park |
(verb) turn or become green | - |
greenback | (noun) a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank) | Synonyms: bank bill, bank note, banker's bill, banknote, bill, Federal Reserve note, government note, note |
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greenbelt | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenway |
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greenbottle | (noun) blowfly with brilliant coppery green body | Synonyms: greenbottle fly |
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greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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greeneye | (noun) bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | - |
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greenfly | (noun) greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants | - |
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greengage | (noun) sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum | Synonyms: greengage plum |
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greengrocer | (noun) a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables | - |
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greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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(noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
greenhood | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
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greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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greenhouse | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect | - |
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(noun) a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions | Synonyms: glasshouse |
greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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greenish | (adjective) of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass | Synonyms: dark-green, green, light-green |
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greenishness | (noun) the property of being somewhat green | - |
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greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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greenly | (adverb) with green color | - |
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greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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greenness | (noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: green, viridity |
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(noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: verdancy, verdure |
(noun) the state of not being ripe | - |
greenockite | (noun) ore of cadmium; a rare yellowish mineral consisting of cadmium sulphide in crystalline form | Synonyms: cadmium sulphide |
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greenroom | (noun) a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors | - |
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greens | (noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: green, leafy vegetable |
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greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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greenshank | (noun) large European sandpiper with greenish legs | Synonyms: Tringa nebularia |
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greensick | (adjective) of or pertaining to or suffering from chlorosis | Synonyms: chlorotic |
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greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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greenside | (adjective) adjacent to a putting green | - |
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greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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greenweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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greenwood | (noun) woodlands in full leaf | - |
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keen | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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(adjective) intense or sharp | Synonyms: exquisite |
(adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
(adjective) having a sharp cutting edge or point | - |
(adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
(noun) a funeral lament sung with loud wailing | - |
(verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: lament |
keenly | (adverb) in a keen or penetrating way | Synonyms: acutely |
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keenness | (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: sharpness |
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(noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, sharpness |
(noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, eagerness |
lateen | (adjective) rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail | Synonyms: lateen-rigged |
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(noun) a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean | Synonyms: lateen sail |
mangosteen | (noun) two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples | - |
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(noun) East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit | Synonyms: Garcinia mangostana, mangosteen tree |
moreen | (noun) a heavy fabric of wool (or wool and cotton) used mostly in upholstery or for curtains | - |
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mujahadeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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mujahedeen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedin, mujahideen, mujahidin |
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mujahideen | (noun) a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad | Synonyms: mujahadeen, mujahadein, mujahadin, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin |
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nankeen | (noun) a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color | - |
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neencephalon | (noun) the part of the brain having the most recent phylogenetic origin; the cerebral cortex and related parts | Synonyms: neoencephalon |
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nineteen | (adjective) being one more than eighteen | Synonyms: 19, xix |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one | Synonyms: 19, XIX |
nineteenth | (adjective) coming next after the eighteenth in position | Synonyms: 19th |
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(noun) position 19 in a countable series of things | - |
overweening | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: uppity |
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(adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, exuberant |
palaeencephalon | (noun) the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: paleencephalon, paleoencephalon |
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palankeen | (noun) a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers | Synonyms: palanquin |
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paleencephalon | (noun) the more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; most structures other than the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: palaeencephalon, paleoencephalon |
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peen | (noun) the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes) | - |
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poteen | (noun) unlawfully distilled Irish whiskey | - |
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preen | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, primp |
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(verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: congratulate |
(verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: plume |
preteen | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preadolescent |
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(noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteenager |
preteenager | (noun) a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age) | Synonyms: preteen |
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queen | (noun) the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs | - |
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(noun) an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males | Synonyms: queen mole rat |
(noun) female cat | Synonyms: tabby |
(noun) (chess) the most powerful piece | - |
(noun) one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen | - |
(noun) a female sovereign ruler | Synonyms: female monarch, queen regnant |
(noun) the wife or widow of a king | - |
(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queer |
(noun) something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind | - |
(noun) a female competitor who holds a preeminent position | - |
(verb) become a queen | - |
(verb) promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess | - |
queenfish | (noun) silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters | Synonyms: Seriphus politus, white croaker |
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queenlike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenly |
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queenly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenlike |
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reenact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, enact |
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(verb) enact or perform again | - |
(verb) enact again | - |
reenactment | (noun) performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time | - |
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reenactor | (noun) a person who enacts a role in an event that occurred earlier | - |
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reenforce | (verb) make stronger | Synonyms: reinforce |
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reenforcement | (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reinforcement, support |
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(noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reinforcement |
reenlistment | (noun) a renewed enlistment | - |
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reentrant | (adjective) (of angles) pointing inward | Synonyms: re-entrant |
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reentry | (noun) the act of entering again | - |
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sateen | (noun) a cotton fabric with a satiny finish | - |
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screen | (noun) a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame | - |
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(noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, covert |
(noun) a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles | Synonyms: sieve |
(noun) partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space | - |
(noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight | Synonyms: blind |
(noun) the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube | Synonyms: CRT screen |
(noun) a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing | Synonyms: projection screen, silver screen |
(noun) the personnel of the film industry | Synonyms: filmdom, screenland |
(verb) examine methodically | - |
(verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: shield |
(verb) prevent from entering | Synonyms: block out |
(verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: riddle |
(verb) project onto a screen for viewing | - |
(verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen out, sieve, sort |
(verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: test |
screener | (noun) a guard at an airport who checks passengers or their luggage at a security checkpoint | - |
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screening | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, covering, masking |
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(noun) testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics | - |
(noun) fabric of metal or plastic mesh | - |
(noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: showing, viewing |
screenland | (noun) the personnel of the film industry | Synonyms: filmdom, screen |
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screenplay | (noun) a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets | - |
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screenshot | (verb) to capture an image from a computer's display | - |
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