| aberrance | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrancy, aberration, deviance |
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| aberrancy | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberration, deviance |
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| aberrant | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: deviant, deviate |
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| (noun) one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group | - |
| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| aberration | (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: distortion, optical aberration |
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| (noun) a disorder in one's mental state | - |
| (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, deviance |
| antiferromagnet | (noun) any material that has antiferromagnetic properties. | - |
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| antiferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to antiferromagnetism | - |
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| antiferromagnetism | (noun) magnetic field creates parallel but opposing spins; varies with temperature | - |
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| baneberry | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher |
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| (noun) a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea | - |
| barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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| bayberry | (noun) West Indian tree; source of bay rum | Synonyms: bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, Pimenta acris, wild cinnamon |
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| (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
| bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| berretta | (noun) a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy | Synonyms: biretta, birretta |
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| berried | (adjective) producing or bearing berries | Synonyms: baccate, bacciferous |
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| berry | (noun) any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves | - |
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| (noun) a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) | - |
| (verb) pick or gather berries | - |
| berrylike | (adjective) resembling a berry | Synonyms: baccate |
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| bilberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: European blueberry, whortleberry |
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| (noun) erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries | Synonyms: mountain blue berry, thin-leaved bilberry, Viccinium membranaceum |
| (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
| bioterrorism | (noun) terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare | Synonyms: biological terrorism |
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| biserrate | (adjective) having saw-like notches with the notches themselves similarly notched | - |
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| bitterroot | (noun) showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower | Synonyms: Lewisia rediviva |
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| blackberry | (noun) large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus | - |
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| (noun) bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle | Synonyms: blackberry bush |
| (verb) pick or gather blackberries | - |
| blaeberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry, whortleberry |
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| bloodberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant, rougeberry |
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| blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
| boxberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
| boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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| (noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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| checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
| cherry | (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, crimson, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
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| (noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cerise, cherry red |
| (noun) a red fruit with a single hard stone | - |
| (noun) any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood | Synonyms: cherry tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry | - |
| cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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| (noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
| chinaberry | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, azederach, China tree, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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| (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria |
| chokecherry | (noun) a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds | Synonyms: chokecherry tree, Prunus virginiana |
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| (noun) the fruit of the chokecherry tree | - |
| cloudberry | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
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| coffeeberry | (noun) evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits | Synonyms: California buckthorn, California coffee, Rhamnus californicus |
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| conferral | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferment |
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| conferrer | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, donor, giver, presenter |
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| (noun) someone who converses or confers (as in a conference) | - |
| coralberry | (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, spiceberry |
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| (noun) North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus |
| counterreformation | (noun) a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation | - |
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| counterrevolution | (noun) a revolution whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by a previous revolution | - |
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| counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
| (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| counterterror | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterrorist |
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| counterterrorism | (noun) a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism | - |
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| counterterrorist | (adjective) intended to prevent terrorism | Synonyms: counterterror |
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| (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
| cowberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: lingonberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| crackerberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| cranberry | (noun) very tart red berry used for sauce or juice | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries | - |
| crowberry | (noun) a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit | - |
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| daguerreotype | (noun) a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor | - |
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| dangleberry | (noun) huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit | Synonyms: dangle-berry, Gaylussacia frondosa |
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| deerberry | (noun) small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer | Synonyms: squaw huckleberry, Vaccinium stamineum |
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| deferral | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, postponement |
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| (noun) a state of abeyance or suspended business | Synonyms: recess |
| derrick | (noun) a simple crane having lifting tackle slung from a boom | - |
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| (noun) a framework erected over an oil well to allow drill tubes to be raised and lowered | - |
| derriere | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| derringer | (noun) a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel | - |
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| derris | (noun) any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons | - |
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| deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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| (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
| (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
| deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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| (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
| dewberry | (noun) blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes | - |
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| (noun) any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America | Synonyms: dewberry bush, running blackberry |
| ecoterrorism | (noun) violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists | Synonyms: eco-warfare, ecological terrorism, ecological warfare |
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| elderberry | (noun) berrylike fruit of an elder used for e.g. wines and jellies | - |
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| (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, bourtree, common elder, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
| equerry | (noun) an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles | - |
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| (noun) a personal attendant of the British royal family | - |
| err | (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: mistake, slip |
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| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, stray |
| errancy | (noun) fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err | - |
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| (noun) (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility | - |
| errand | (noun) a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission | - |
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| errant | (adjective) straying from the right course or from accepted standards | - |
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| (adjective) uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable | - |
| erratic | (adjective) liable to sudden unpredictable change | Synonyms: fickle, mercurial, quicksilver |
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| (adjective) likely to perform unpredictably | Synonyms: temperamental |
| (adjective) having no fixed course | Synonyms: planetary, wandering |
| erratically | (adverb) in an erratic unpredictable manner | Synonyms: unpredictably |
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| erratum | (noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: literal, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error |
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| errhine | (adjective) causing nasal discharge | - |
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| erring | (adjective) capable of making an error | Synonyms: error-prone |
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| erroneous | (adjective) containing or characterized by error | - |
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| erroneously | (adverb) in a mistaken or erroneous manner | Synonyms: mistakenly |
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| erroneousness | (noun) inadvertent incorrectness | Synonyms: error |
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| error | (noun) a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention | Synonyms: fault, mistake |
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| (noun) (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed | Synonyms: misplay |
| (noun) inadvertent incorrectness | Synonyms: erroneousness |
| (noun) departure from what is ethically acceptable | Synonyms: wrongdoing |
| (noun) a misconception resulting from incorrect information | Synonyms: erroneous belief |
| (noun) part of a statement that is not correct | Synonyms: mistake |
| (noun) (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer | Synonyms: computer error |
| errorless | (adjective) free from error | - |
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| exterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: extraterritorial |
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| extraterrestrial | (adjective) originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere | - |
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| (noun) a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere | Synonyms: alien, extraterrestrial being |
| extraterritorial | (adjective) outside territorial limits or jurisdiction | Synonyms: exterritorial |
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| farkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: sparkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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| ferret | (noun) domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits | - |
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| (noun) musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct | Synonyms: black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes |
| (verb) search and discover through persistent investigation | Synonyms: ferret out |
| (verb) hunt with ferrets | - |
| (verb) hound or harry relentlessly | - |
| ferric | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferrous |
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| ferricyanide | (noun) salt of ferricyanic acid obtained by oxidation of a ferrocyanide | - |
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| ferrimagnetism | (noun) a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment | - |
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| ferrite | (noun) a solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent | - |
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| (noun) a magnetic allotrope of iron; stable below 906 degrees centigrade | Synonyms: alpha-Fe, alpha-ferrite |
| ferritin | (noun) a protein containing 20% iron that is found in the intestines and liver and spleen; it is one of the chief forms in which iron is stored in the body | - |
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| ferrocerium | (noun) a pyrophoric alloy of iron with cerium; used for lighter flints | - |
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| ferroconcrete | (noun) concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses | Synonyms: reinforced concrete |
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| ferrocyanide | (noun) salt of ferrocyanic acid usually obtained by a reaction of a cyanide with iron sulphate | - |
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| ferromagnet | (noun) any material that has ferromagnetic properties. | - |
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| ferromagnetic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating ferromagnetism | - |
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| ferromagnetism | (noun) phenomenon exhibited by materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) that become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed | - |
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| ferrous | (adjective) of or relating to or containing iron | Synonyms: ferric |
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| ferrule | (noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: collet |
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| ferry | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferrying |
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| (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferryboat |
| (verb) travel by ferry | - |
| (verb) transport by ferry | - |
| (verb) transport from one place to another | - |
| ferryboat | (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferry |
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| ferrying | (noun) transport by boat or aircraft | Synonyms: ferry |
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| ferryman | (noun) a man who operates a ferry | - |
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