personalised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalized |
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personality | (noun) the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual | - |
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(noun) a person of considerable prominence | - |
personalize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalise |
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personalized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalised |
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(adjective) pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively | - |
personally | (adverb) as a person | - |
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(adverb) as yourself | - |
(adverb) concerning the speaker | - |
(adverb) in a personal way | - |
(adverb) in the flesh; without involving anyone else | Synonyms: in person |
personalty | (noun) movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | Synonyms: personal estate, personal property, private property |
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personate | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personify |
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(verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, pose |
personation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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(noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, portrayal |
personhood | (noun) being a person | - |
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personification | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: incarnation |
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(noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: prosopopoeia |
(noun) a person who represents an abstract quality | - |
personify | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personate |
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(verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, embody |
(verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: body |
personnel | (noun) group of people willing to obey orders | Synonyms: force |
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(noun) the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management | Synonyms: personnel department, personnel office, staff office |
perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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(adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
perspicaciousness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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perspicacity | (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sound judgement, sound judgment |
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(noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, shrewdness |
perspicuity | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuousness, plainness |
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perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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perspicuously | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, lucidly, pellucidly |
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perspicuousness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, plainness |
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perspiration | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: sudor, sweat |
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(noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sweating |
perspire | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: sudate, sweat |
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perspirer | (noun) a person who perspires | Synonyms: sweater |
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persuadable | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuasible, suasible |
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persuade | (verb) cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm | - |
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(verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, sway |
persuader | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: inducer |
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persuasible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuadable, suasible |
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persuasion | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, sentiment, thought, view |
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(noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: suasion |
persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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persuasively | (adverb) in a persuasive manner | - |
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persuasiveness | (noun) the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty | Synonyms: strength |
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perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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(adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
(adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
perversely | (adverb) deliberately deviant | - |
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(adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrarily, contrariwise |
perverseness | (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perversity |
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(noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perversity |
perversion | (noun) the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) | - |
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(noun) an aberrant sexual practice | Synonyms: sexual perversion |
(noun) a curve that reverses the direction of something | - |
perversity | (noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perverseness |
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(noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perverseness |
perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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pliers | (noun) a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws | Synonyms: pair of pliers, plyers |
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plyers | (noun) a gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws | Synonyms: pair of pliers, pliers |
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premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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privateersman | (noun) an officer or crew member of a privateer | Synonyms: privateer |
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quarters | (noun) housing available for people to live in | Synonyms: living quarters |
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quarterstaff | (noun) a long stout staff used as a weapon | - |
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readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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receivership | (noun) the office of a receiver | - |
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(noun) a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all | - |
(noun) the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver | - |
retroversion | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, reversion |
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(noun) translation back into the original language | - |
(noun) a turning or tilting backward of an organ or body part | Synonyms: retroflection, retroflexion |
revers | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revere |
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reversal | (noun) a change from one state to the opposite state | - |
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(noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: transposition |
(noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reverse, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) a major change in attitude or principle or point of view | Synonyms: about-face, policy change, volte-face |
(noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside | - |
(noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) turning in an opposite direction or position | Synonyms: turn around |
(noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reverse, setback |
reverse | (adjective) of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle | - |
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(adjective) directed or moving toward the rear | Synonyms: rearward |
(adjective) reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
(noun) (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction | - |
(noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed | Synonyms: reverse gear |
(noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: verso |
(noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback |
(noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, opposite |
(verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, turn |
(verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: invert, turn back |
(verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: invert |
(verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn |
(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate |
reversed | (adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: converse, transposed |
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(adjective) turned inside out and resewn | - |
reversely | (adverb) in an opposite way; so as to be reversed | - |
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reversibility | (noun) the quality of being reversible in either direction | - |
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reversible | (adjective) capable of reversing or being reversed | - |
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(adjective) capable of being reversed or used with either side out | Synonyms: two-sided |
(adjective) capable of assuming or producing either of two states | - |
(adjective) capable of being reversed | - |
(noun) a garment (especially a coat) that can be worn inside out (with either side of the cloth showing) | - |
reversibly | (adverb) in a reversible manner | - |
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reversion | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting |
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(noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion |
(noun) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | - |
(noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, throwback |
(noun) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | - |
reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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reversive | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: returning |
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riverside | (noun) the bank of a river | Synonyms: riverbank |
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rockers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: bikers |
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rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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rubberstamp | (verb) approve automatically | - |
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(verb) stamp with a rubber stamp, usually an indication of official approval on a document | Synonyms: handstamp |
rudderstock | (noun) a vertical post at the forward edge of a rudder that enables the rudder to pivot | Synonyms: rudderpost |
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rulership | (noun) the position of ruler | - |
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salesperson | (noun) a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) | Synonyms: sales rep, sales representative |
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scattershot | (adjective) covering a wide range in a haphazard way | - |
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seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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silverside | (noun) small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: silversides |
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silversides | (noun) small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: silverside |
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(noun) the common North American shiner | Synonyms: common shiner, Notropis cornutus |
silversmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs articles of silver | Synonyms: silver-worker, silverworker |
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silverspot | (noun) butterfly with silver spots on the underside of the hind wings | - |
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silversword | (noun) low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem | Synonyms: Argyroxiphium sandwicense |
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sistership | (noun) an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest | Synonyms: sisterhood |
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(noun) the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings | Synonyms: sisterhood |
snickersnee | (noun) fighting with knives | Synonyms: cut-and-thrust, knife fight |
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snuffers | (noun) scissors for cropping and holding the snuff of a candlewick | - |
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sobersided | (adjective) completely lacking in humor or lightness of touch | - |
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sobersides | (noun) a serious and sedate individual | - |
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soldiership | (noun) skills that are required for the life of soldier | Synonyms: soldiering |
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somersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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(verb) do a somersault | - |
somersaulting | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset |
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somerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, summersault, summerset |
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speakership | (noun) the position of Speaker | - |
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splinters | (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: matchwood |
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spokesperson | (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, voice |
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staggers | (noun) a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling | Synonyms: blind staggers |
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starkers | (adjective) (British informal) stark naked | - |
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steersman | (noun) the person who steers a ship | Synonyms: helmsman, steerer |
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submerse | (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerge |
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(verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerge |
submersed | (adjective) beneath the surface of the water | Synonyms: submerged, underwater |
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(adjective) growing or remaining under water | Synonyms: subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged, underwater |
submersible | (adjective) capable of being immersed in water or functioning while submerged | Synonyms: submergible |
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(noun) a warship designed to operate under water | Synonyms: submersible warship |
(noun) an apparatus intended for use under water | - |
submersion | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, ducking, immersion |
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(noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submergence, submerging |
subversion | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: corruption |
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(noun) the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government | Synonyms: subversive activity |
subversive | (adjective) in opposition to a civil authority or government | Synonyms: insurgent, seditious |
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(noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, revolutionist, subverter |
subversiveness | (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: traitorousness, treason |
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summercaters | (noun) (Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine | - |
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summersault | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summerset |
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summerset | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: flip, somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault |
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supersaturated | (adjective) being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium | - |
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superscribe | (verb) write on the outside or upper part of | - |
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(verb) write on the top or outside | - |