agnate | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnatic, paternal |
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(noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib |
agnathan | (noun) eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms | Synonyms: jawless fish, jawless vertebrate |
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agnatic | (adjective) related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, paternal |
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agnation | (noun) line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family | Synonyms: patrilineage |
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assignation | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: tryst |
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(noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling |
chaetognath | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: arrowworm |
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chaetognathan | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathous |
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chaetognathous | (adjective) of or relating to arrowworms | Synonyms: chaetognathan |
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cognate | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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(adjective) having the same ancestral language | - |
(adjective) related in nature | Synonyms: connate |
(noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language | Synonyms: cognate word |
(noun) one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another | Synonyms: blood relation, blood relative, sib |
cognation | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, consanguinity |
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(noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: enation, matrilineage |
compsognathus | (noun) very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria | - |
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cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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(noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
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designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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(verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
(verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
(verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
(verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
(verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
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(noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
(noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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gnat | (noun) any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies | - |
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(noun) (British usage) mosquito | - |
gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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gnathion | (noun) the most inferior point of the mandible in the midline | - |
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gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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hypognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: prognathic, prognathous |
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impregnate | (verb) make pregnant | Synonyms: bang up, knock up, prang up |
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(verb) fertilize and cause to grow | - |
(verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: saturate |
(verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: infuse, instill, tincture |
impregnation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
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(noun) the process of totally saturating something with a substance | Synonyms: saturation |
(noun) material with which something is impregnated | - |
indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
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magnate | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
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opisthognathous | (adjective) having receding jaws | - |
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plectognath | (noun) tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | Synonyms: plectognath fish |
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prognathic | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathous |
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prognathism | (noun) the condition of being prognathous; the condition of having a projecting jaw | - |
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prognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathic |
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resignation | (noun) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) | - |
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(noun) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign | - |
(noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: surrender |
signatory | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signer |
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signature | (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: touch |
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(noun) your name written in your own handwriting | - |
(noun) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book | - |
(noun) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key | Synonyms: key signature |
(noun) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program | Synonyms: signature tune, theme song |
stagnate | (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: idle, laze, slug |
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(verb) cease to flow; stand without moving | - |
(verb) stand still | - |
(verb) cause to stagnate | - |
stagnation | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnancy |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnancy |
toxicognath | (noun) either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede | - |
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unimpregnated | (adjective) not having been fertilized | Synonyms: unfertilised, unfertilized |
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