boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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chortle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chuckle |
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(verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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(noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
(noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
exhortation | (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: incitement |
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(noun) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action | - |
exhortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortatory, hortative, hortatory |
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exhortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, hortative, hortatory |
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foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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(verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
hortative | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortatory |
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hortatory | (adjective) giving strong encouragement | Synonyms: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative |
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hortensia | (noun) deciduous shrub bearing roundheaded flower clusters opening green and aging to pink or blue | Synonyms: Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis |
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(noun) very tall branching herb with showy much-doubled yellow flower heads | Synonyms: double gold, golden glow, Rudbeckia laciniata hortensia |
horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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horticulturally | (adverb) by means of horticulture | - |
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horticulture | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: gardening |
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horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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short | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, unretentive |
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(adjective) (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length | - |
(adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | - |
(adjective) low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal | Synonyms: little |
(adjective) of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration | - |
(adjective) not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices | - |
(adjective) tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening | - |
(adjective) marked by rude or peremptory shortness | Synonyms: brusk, brusque, curt |
(adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted, unforesightful |
(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, poor |
(adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: light, scant |
(noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: shortstop |
(noun) the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed | - |
(noun) accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference | Synonyms: short circuit |
(adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, shortly |
(adverb) at a disadvantage | Synonyms: unawares |
(adverb) so as to interrupt | - |
(adverb) at some point or distance before a goal is reached | - |
(adverb) clean across | - |
(adverb) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold | - |
(adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, suddenly |
(verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
(verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
shortage | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortfall |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, famine |
shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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shortcake | (noun) very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream | - |
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shortcoming | (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: defect |
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shortcut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: crosscut, cutoff |
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shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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(verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
(verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
(verb) make short or shorter | - |
shortened | (adjective) with parts removed | Synonyms: cut |
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(adjective) cut short in duration | Synonyms: abbreviated, truncated |
(adjective) shortened | Synonyms: sawed-off, sawn-off |
(adjective) shortened by or as if by means of parts that slide one within another or are crushed one into another | Synonyms: telescoped |
shortener | (noun) any agent that shortens | - |
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shortening | (noun) act of decreasing in length | - |
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(noun) fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods | - |
shortfall | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: deficit, shortage |
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shortgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: short-grass |
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shorthand | (adjective) written in abbreviated or symbolic form | - |
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(noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: stenography, tachygraphy |
shorthorn | (noun) English breed of short-horned cattle | Synonyms: Durham |
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shortia | (noun) any plant of the genus Shortia; evergreen perennial herbs with smooth leathery basal leaves and showy white solitary flowers | - |
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shortish | (adjective) somewhat short | - |
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shortlist | (noun) a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | Synonyms: short list |
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(verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
shortly | (adverb) in the near future | Synonyms: before long, presently, soon |
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(adverb) for a short time | - |
(adverb) in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner | Synonyms: curtly, short |
(adverb) at a short distance | - |
(adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: briefly, concisely, in brief, in short |
shortness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness |
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(noun) the property of being shorter than average stature | - |
(noun) the property of being of short temporal extent | - |
(noun) the property of being of short spatial extent | - |
(noun) the property of being truncated or short | Synonyms: truncation |
(noun) the condition of being short of something | - |
shorts | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee | Synonyms: short pants, trunks |
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(noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, underdrawers |
shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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(adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
(adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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(noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
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(noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
thortveitite | (noun) a mineral consisting of scandium yttrium silicate; a source of scandium | - |
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whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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(noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |