brainstem | (noun) the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus | Synonyms: brain-stem, brain stem |
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brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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(verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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einsteinium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons | Synonyms: atomic number 99, E, Es |
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inst | (adjective) in or of the present month | Synonyms: instant |
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instability | (noun) the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute | Synonyms: unstableness |
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(noun) unreliability attributable to being unstable | - |
(noun) an unstable order | - |
(noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, unbalance |
instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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instagood | (adjective) likely to get many upvotes on Instagram | - |
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instal | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: install, put in, set up |
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(verb) place | Synonyms: establish, install, set up |
(verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: install |
instalike | (noun) something that is so good that it deserves to be instantly voted for on social media | - |
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(verb) to instantly vote for something on social media | - |
install | (verb) set up for use | Synonyms: instal, put in, set up |
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(verb) place | Synonyms: establish, instal, set up |
(verb) put into an office or a position | Synonyms: instal |
installation | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installing, installment, instalment |
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(noun) a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry | Synonyms: facility |
(noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: induction, initiation |
installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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installment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, instalment |
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(noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, instalment |
(noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: instalment |
(noun) a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals | - |
instalment | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installing, installment |
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(noun) a part of a broadcast serial | Synonyms: episode, installment |
(noun) a part of a published serial | Synonyms: installment |
instance | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, representative |
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(noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, example |
(verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, illustrate |
instancy | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: imperativeness |
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(noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness |
instant | (adjective) occurring with no delay | Synonyms: instantaneous |
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(adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent |
(adjective) in or of the present month | Synonyms: inst |
(noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: minute, moment, second |
(noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
instantaneous | (adjective) occurring with no delay | Synonyms: instant |
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instantaneously | (adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantly, outright |
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instantaneousness | (noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instancy |
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instantiate | (verb) find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) | - |
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(verb) represent by an instance | - |
instantiation | (noun) a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it | - |
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instantly | (adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, like a shot, now, right away, straight off, straightaway |
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(adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantaneously, outright |
instar | (noun) an insect or other arthropod between molts | - |
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instauration | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, institution, introduction, origination |
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instead | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: alternatively, or else |
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(adverb) on the contrary | Synonyms: rather |
instep | (noun) the part of a shoe or stocking that covers the arch of the foot | - |
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(noun) the arch of the foot | - |
instigant | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigator, provoker |
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instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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(verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
instigation | (noun) deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord) | Synonyms: fomentation |
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(noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abetment, abettal |
instigative | (adjective) arousing to action or rebellion | Synonyms: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, rabble-rousing, seditious |
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instigator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: initiator |
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(noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, inciter, instigant, provoker |
instil | (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instill |
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instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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(verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
(verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
(verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
(verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
instillation | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillment, instilment |
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(noun) a liquid that is instilled drop by drop | - |
instillator | (noun) medical apparatus that puts a liquid into a cavity drop by drop | - |
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instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
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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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instinct | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: imbued, replete |
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(noun) inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli | Synonyms: inherent aptitude |
instinctive | (adjective) unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct | Synonyms: natural |
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instinctively | (adverb) as a matter of instinct | - |
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institute | (noun) an association organized to promote art or science or education | - |
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(verb) advance or set forth in court | Synonyms: bring |
(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, plant |
institution | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, introduction, origination |
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(noun) an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | - |
(noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: asylum, insane asylum, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
(noun) a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | - |
(noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: establishment |
institutional | (adjective) organized as or forming an institution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or constituting or involving an institution | - |
(adjective) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative | Synonyms: uninteresting |
institutionalise | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalize, send |
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institutionalised | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalized |
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(adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalized |
institutionalize | (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, send |
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institutionalized | (adjective) officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution | Synonyms: institutionalised |
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(adjective) given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system | Synonyms: institutionalised |
institutionally | (adverb) by an institution | - |
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instroke | (noun) the stroke of an engine piston moving away from the crankshaft | - |
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instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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(verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
(verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
instruction | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: pedagogy, teaching |
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(noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, program line, statement |
(noun) a message describing how something is to be done | Synonyms: direction |
instructional | (adjective) of or relating to or used in instruction | - |
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instructions | (noun) a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it | Synonyms: book of instructions, instruction manual, operating instructions |
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instructive | (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: informative |
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instructively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: informatively |
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instructor | (noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: teacher |
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instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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instructress | (noun) a woman instructor | - |
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instrument | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: tool |
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(noun) a device that requires skill for proper use | - |
(noun) any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | Synonyms: musical instrument |
(noun) (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | Synonyms: legal document, legal instrument, official document |
(noun) the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | Synonyms: instrumental role |
(noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, pawn |
(verb) address a legal document to | - |
(verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
(verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
instrumental | (adjective) relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments | - |
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(adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, subservient |
instrumentalism | (noun) a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success | - |
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instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
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instrumentality | (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentation, means |
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(noun) the quality of being instrumental for some purpose | - |
(noun) a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose | - |
instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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instrumentation | (noun) the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation | - |
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(noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: orchestration |
(noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, means |
(noun) the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra | - |
linstock | (noun) a stick about a meter long with a point on one end (to stick in the ground) and a forked head on the other end (to hold a lighted match); formerly used to fire cannons | - |
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mainstay | (noun) the forestay that braces the mainmast | - |
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(noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, backbone, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin |
(noun) a prominent supporter | Synonyms: pillar |
mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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mainstreamed | (adjective) (of the handicapped) placed in regular school classes | - |
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minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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minstrel | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour |
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(noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
(verb) celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels | - |
minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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(noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
(noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
noninstitutional | (adjective) not institutional | - |
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noninstitutionalised | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalized |
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noninstitutionalized | (adjective) not committed to an institution | Synonyms: noninstitutionalised |
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painstaking | (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, scrupulous |
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painstakingly | (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: fastidiously |
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painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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pinstripe | (noun) a very thin stripe (especially a white stripe on a dark fabric) | - |
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(noun) a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
(noun) a suit made from a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
pinstriped | (adjective) having very thin stripes | - |
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rainstorm | (noun) a storm with rain | - |
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reinstall | (verb) install again | - |
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reinstate | (verb) restore to the previous state or rank | - |
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(verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, restore |
reinstatement | (noun) the act of restoring someone to a previous position | - |
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(noun) the condition of being reinstated | - |
spinster | (noun) an elderly unmarried woman | Synonyms: old maid |
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(noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinner, thread maker |
spinsterhood | (noun) the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
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uninstructed | (adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: naive, unenlightened |
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uninstructive | (adjective) failing to instruct | - |
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uninstructively | (adverb) in an uninformative manner | Synonyms: uninformatively |
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whinstone | (noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | Synonyms: whin |
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