accommodation | (noun) the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need | - |
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(noun) (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye | - |
(noun) living quarters provided for public convenience | - |
(noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality | - |
(noun) a settlement of differences | - |
(noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: adjustment, fitting |
accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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(adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
(adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
accompanied | (adjective) having companions or an escort | - |
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(adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: attended |
accompaniment | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: escort |
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(noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: complement |
(noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: backup, musical accompaniment, support |
(noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: attendant, co-occurrence, concomitant |
accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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accompanying | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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accompanyist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanist |
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accomplice | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: confederate |
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accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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(verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: achievable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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accomplished | (adjective) successfully completed or brought to an end | Synonyms: completed, realised, realized |
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(adjective) settled securely and unconditionally | Synonyms: effected, established |
(adjective) highly skilled | Synonyms: complete |
accomplishment | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: achievement |
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(noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: acquirement, acquisition, attainment, skill |
according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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(adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
accordingly | (adverb) (sentence connectors) because of the reason given | Synonyms: consequently |
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(adverb) in accordance with | - |
accordion | (noun) a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player | Synonyms: squeeze box |
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accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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accounting | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accountancy |
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(noun) a system that provides quantitative information about finances | - |
(noun) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | - |
(noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account, account statement |
(noun) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting |
accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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(verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
(verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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accretion | (noun) (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) | - |
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(noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accumulation |
(noun) (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment | - |
(noun) (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles | - |
(noun) (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases | - |
(noun) something contributing to growth or increase | - |
accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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accroides | (noun) an alcohol-soluble resin from Australian trees; used in varnishes and in manufacturing paper | Synonyms: acaroid resin, accaroid resin, accroides gum, accroides resin, gum accroides |
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acculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: enculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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(noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: culture |
(noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: assimilation |
acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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accumulation | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accruement |
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(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, collection |
(noun) (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation | - |
(noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accretion |
accumulative | (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
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(adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
accusation | (noun) a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt | Synonyms: accusal |
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(noun) an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence | Synonyms: charge |
accusative | (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
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(adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
(noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: accusative case, objective case |
accusatorial | (adjective) specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor | - |
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accusing | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusive |
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accusingly | (adverb) in an accusing manner | - |
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accusive | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusing |
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acedia | (noun) apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: laziness, sloth |
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acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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(adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
acephalia | (noun) absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) | Synonyms: acephalism, acephaly |
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acephalism | (noun) absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) | Synonyms: acephalia, acephaly |
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acerbic | (adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, astringent |
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(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
acerbity | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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(noun) a sharp sour taste | Synonyms: tartness |
(noun) a sharp bitterness | - |
acetamide | (noun) a colorless solid amide of acetic acid used as a solvent and in the synthesis of organic compounds | Synonyms: ethanamide |
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acetaminophen | (noun) an analgesic for mild pain but not for inflammation; also used as an antipyretic; (Datril, Tylenol, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, and Anacin III are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets) | Synonyms: Anacin III, Datril, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, Tylenol |
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acetanilid | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilide, phenylacetamide |
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acetanilide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilid, phenylacetamide |
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acetic | (adjective) relating to or containing acetic acid | - |
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acetify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acidify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acidify, acidulate, sour |
acetin | (noun) any of three liquid acetates that are formed when acetic acid and glycerin are heated together | - |
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acetonemia | (noun) an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus | Synonyms: ketonemia, ketosis |
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acetonic | (adjective) of or relating to acetone | - |
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acetonuria | (noun) excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation | Synonyms: ketoaciduria, ketonuria |
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acetophenetidin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetphenetidin, phenacetin |
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acetphenetidin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetophenetidin, phenacetin |
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acetylation | (noun) the process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound | - |
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acetylcholine | (noun) a neurotransmitter that is a derivative of choline; released at the ends of nerve fibers in the somatic and parasympathetic nervous systems | - |
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acetylenic | (adjective) of or related to acetylene | - |
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acetylic | (adjective) of or related to acetic acid | - |
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acetylise | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
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(verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylize |
acetylize | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylise |
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(verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylate, acetylise |
achenial | (adjective) pertaining to dry one-seeded indehiscent fruit | - |
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achievability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: attainability, attainableness |
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achievable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: accomplishable, doable, manageable, realizable |
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achieve | (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, attain, reach |
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achievement | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: accomplishment |
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achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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achillea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads | - |
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achimenes | (noun) any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias | Synonyms: hot water plant |
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aching | (adjective) causing a dull and steady pain | Synonyms: achy |
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(noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: ache |
achira | (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: arrowroot, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
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achlorhydria | (noun) an abnormal deficiency or absence of free hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice; often associated with severe anemias and cancer of the stomach | - |
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achlorhydric | (adjective) lacking hydrochloric acid | - |
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acholia | (noun) a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed | Synonyms: cholestasis |
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achondrite | (noun) a stony meteor lacking chondrules | - |
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achondritic | (adjective) not having a granular structure | - |
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(adjective) of or related to an achondrite | - |
achondroplasia | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasty, chondrodystrophy, osteosclerosis congenita |
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achondroplastic | (adjective) of or relating to achondroplasia | - |
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achromasia | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
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achromatic | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: neutral |
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achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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achromatin | (noun) the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes | - |
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achromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) not readily colored by stains | - |
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achromatise | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatize |
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achromatism | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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achromatize | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatise |
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achromia | (noun) an absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells | - |
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achromic | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromous |
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achylia | (noun) absence of gastric juices (partial or complete) | Synonyms: achylia gastrica |
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acicula | (noun) a needlelike part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal; as a spine or bristle or crystal | - |
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acicular | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acerose, needle-shaped |
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aciculate | (adjective) related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts | - |
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acid | (adjective) having the characteristics of an acid | - |
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(adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acidic, acidulent, acidulous |
(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
(noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
(noun) any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt | - |
acidemia | (noun) a blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale) | - |
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acidic | (adjective) being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7) | - |
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(adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidulent, acidulous |
acidification | (noun) the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid | - |
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acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
acidimetric | (adjective) involving or related to acidimetry | - |
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acidimetry | (noun) volumetric analysis using standard solutions of acids to measure the amount of a base present | - |
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