| bittie | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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| (verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
| boccie | (noun) Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court | Synonyms: bocce, bocci |
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| bodied | (adjective) having a body or a body of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
| bogie | (noun) an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
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| (noun) a bogle or goblin; where used as a proper name, the Devil | Synonyms: bogey, bogy |
| bolshie | (noun) emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries | Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshy, Marxist, red |
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| bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
| bombie | (noun) an unexploded bomblet | - |
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| bonhomie | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, geniality |
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| bonnie | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonny, comely, fair, sightly |
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| bonxie | (noun) gull-like jaeger of northern seas | Synonyms: skua |
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| booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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| boogie | (noun) an instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano) | Synonyms: boogie-woogie |
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| (verb) dance to boogie music | - |
| bookie | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookmaker |
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| bootie | (noun) a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) | Synonyms: bootee |
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| bosie | (noun) a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way | Synonyms: bosie ball, googly, wrong 'un |
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| boulevardier | (noun) a visitor of a city boulevard (especially in Paris) | - |
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| bountied | (adjective) rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty | - |
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| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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| boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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| bowtie | (noun) a man's tie that ties in a bow | Synonyms: bow-tie, bow tie |
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| boyfriend | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, fellow, swain |
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| brasier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brazier |
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| brasserie | (noun) a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food; usually cheap | - |
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| brassie | (noun) (formerly) a golfing wood with a face more elevated than a driver but less than a spoon | - |
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| brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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| brazier | (noun) large metal container in which coal or charcoal is burned; warms people who must stay outside for long times | Synonyms: brasier |
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| brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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| brief | (adjective) concise and succinct | - |
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| (adjective) (of clothing) very short | Synonyms: abbreviated |
| (adjective) of short duration or distance | - |
| (noun) a condensed written summary or abstract | - |
| (noun) a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case | Synonyms: legal brief |
| (verb) give essential information to someone | - |
| briefcase | (noun) a case with a handle; for carrying papers or files or books | - |
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| briefing | (noun) detailed instructions, as for a military operation | - |
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| briefless | (adjective) (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients | - |
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| briefly | (adverb) for a short time | - |
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| (adverb) in a concise manner; in a few words | Synonyms: concisely, in brief, in short, shortly |
| briefness | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, transience |
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| (noun) the temporal property of being very short | - |
| briefs | (noun) (used in the plural) short tight-fitting underpants (trade name Jockey shorts) | Synonyms: Jockey shorts |
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| brier | (noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briar, Erica arborea, tree heath |
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| (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
| (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
| (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
| (noun) a thorny stem or twig | - |
| brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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| brierwood | (noun) wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes | Synonyms: briarwood, brier-wood |
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| briery | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| brownie | (noun) square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts | - |
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| (noun) (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous | Synonyms: elf, gremlin, hob, imp, pixie, pixy |
| budgie | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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| buried | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: inhumed, interred |
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| bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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| busybodied | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| butadiene | (noun) a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers | - |
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| byrnie | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: hauberk |
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| caddie | (noun) an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | Synonyms: golf caddie |
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| (verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
| calefacient | (adjective) producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body | Synonyms: warming |
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| calorie | (noun) unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure | Synonyms: gram calorie, small calorie |
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| calorifacient | (adjective) producing heat; usually used of foods | - |
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| camaraderie | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: chumminess, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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| candied | (adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: crystalised, crystalized, glace |
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| (adjective) encrusted with sugar or syrup | Synonyms: sugar-coated |
| canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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| canopied | (adjective) covered with or as with a canopy | - |
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| capercaillie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercailzie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| capercailzie | (noun) large black Old World grouse | Synonyms: capercaillie, horse of the wood, Tetrao urogallus |
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| carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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| caries | (noun) soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth | Synonyms: cavity, dental caries, tooth decay |
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| carrier | (noun) (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring | - |
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| (noun) a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings | Synonyms: aircraft carrier, attack aircraft carrier, flattop |
| (noun) a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like | - |
| (noun) a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something | - |
| (noun) a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages | Synonyms: common carrier |
| (noun) (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others | Synonyms: immune carrier |
| (noun) a boy who delivers newspapers | Synonyms: newsboy |
| (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman, postman |
| (noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: bearer, toter |
| (noun) a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal | Synonyms: carrier wave |
| (noun) an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction | - |
| cashier | (noun) an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money | Synonyms: bank clerk, teller |
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| (noun) a person responsible for receiving payments for goods and services (as in a shop or restaurant) | - |
| (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
| (verb) discard or do away with | - |
| cassie | (noun) tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery | Synonyms: Acacia farnesiana, flame tree, huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet acacia, sweet wattle |
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| catbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| cattie | (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: catty |
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| causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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| (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: chevalier |
| cavalierly | (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: disdainfully |
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| cavitied | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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| centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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| (noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
| centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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| centerpiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centrepiece |
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| (noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centrepiece |
| centrepiece | (noun) something placed at the center of something else (as on a table) | Synonyms: centerpiece |
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| (noun) the central or most important feature | Synonyms: centerpiece |
| certified | (adjective) endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements | - |
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| (adjective) fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly) | Synonyms: certifiable |
| (adjective) holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill | Synonyms: qualified |
| chandelier | (noun) branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
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| charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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| cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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| chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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| (noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
| chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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| chief | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: main, master, primary, principal |
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| (noun) a person who is in charge | Synonyms: head, top dog |
| (noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: boss, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
| (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chieftain, headman, tribal chief |
| chiefly | (adverb) for the most part | Synonyms: in the main, mainly, primarily, principally |
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| chieftain | (noun) the head of a tribe or clan | Synonyms: chief, headman, tribal chief |
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| (noun) the leader of a group of people | Synonyms: captain |
| chieftaincy | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftainship |
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| chieftainship | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftaincy |
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| chiffonier | (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: commode |
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| chimneypiece | (noun) shelf that projects from wall above fireplace | Synonyms: mantel, mantelpiece, mantle, mantlepiece |
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| chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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| citified | (adjective) being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person | Synonyms: city-born, city-bred, cityfied |
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| cityfied | (adjective) being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person | Synonyms: citified, city-born, city-bred |
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| civies | (noun) civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform | Synonyms: civvies |
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| civvies | (noun) civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform | Synonyms: civies |
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| classified | (adjective) arranged into classes | - |
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| (adjective) official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation | - |
| (noun) a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type | Synonyms: classified ad, classified advertisement |
| classifier | (noun) an algorithm that implements classification. | - |
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| (noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs | - |
| (noun) a person who creates classifications | - |
| clavier | (noun) a bank of keys on a musical instrument | Synonyms: fingerboard, piano keyboard |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument that has a keyboard | Synonyms: Klavier |
| client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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| (noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
| (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
| clientage | (noun) relation of a client to a patron | - |
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| clientele | (noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: business, patronage |
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| clothier | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: haberdasher |
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| coalfield | (noun) a region where there is coal underground | - |
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