ailment | (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: complaint, ill |
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bailment | (noun) the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee | - |
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bedevilment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, torment, worrying |
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clingfilm | (noun) a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food | Synonyms: cling film, Saran Wrap |
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councilman | (noun) a man who is a council member | - |
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curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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(noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
(noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
derailment | (noun) an accident in which a train runs off its track | - |
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despoilment | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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embroilment | (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: imbroglio |
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entailment | (noun) something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied) | Synonyms: deduction, implication |
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film | (noun) a thin coating or layer | - |
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(noun) photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies | Synonyms: photographic film |
(noun) a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things | Synonyms: plastic film |
(noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures | Synonyms: celluloid, cinema |
(noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
(verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: shoot, take |
(verb) record in film | - |
filmable | (adjective) (used of a story or literary work) capable of being adapted to motion picture form | - |
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filmdom | (noun) the personnel of the film industry | Synonyms: screen, screenland |
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filmed | (adjective) recorded on film; made into a movie | - |
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filming | (noun) the act of making a film | Synonyms: cinematography, motion-picture photography |
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filmmaker | (noun) a producer of motion pictures | Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker |
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filmy | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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fulfilment | (noun) the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) | Synonyms: fulfillment |
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(noun) a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires | Synonyms: fulfillment |
ilmenite | (noun) a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium | - |
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instilment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instillment |
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mailman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, postman |
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microfilm | (noun) film on which materials are photographed at greatly reduced size; useful for storage; a magnification system is used to read the material | - |
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(verb) record on microfilm | - |
oilman | (noun) a worker who produces or sells petroleum | - |
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(noun) a person who owns or operates oil wells | - |
sailmaker | (noun) a maker of sails | - |
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telefilm | (noun) a movie that is made to be shown on television | - |
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unfilmed | (adjective) not recorded on film or tape | Synonyms: untaped |
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