| diplomatic | (adjective) using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people | Synonyms: diplomatical |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of diplomacy | - |
| diplomatical | (adjective) using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people | Synonyms: diplomatic |
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| diplomatically | (adverb) with diplomacy; in a diplomatic manner | - |
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| diplomatist | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomat |
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| diplopia | (noun) visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects | Synonyms: double vision |
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| diplotene | (noun) the fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| dipolar | (adjective) having equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles having opposite signs and separated by a small distance | - |
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| dipole | (noun) an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center | Synonyms: dipole antenna |
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| (noun) a pair of equal and opposite electric charges or magnetic poles separated by a small distance | - |
| dipped | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: lordotic, swayback, swaybacked |
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| dipper | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, butterball |
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| (noun) small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom | Synonyms: water ouzel |
| (noun) a ladle that has a cup with a long handle | - |
| dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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| dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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| dipstick | (noun) a graduated rod dipped into a container to indicate the fluid level | - |
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| dipteran | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
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| dipterocarp | (noun) tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae | - |
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| dipteron | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteran, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
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| dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
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| diptych | (noun) a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book) | - |
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| directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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| disciple | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: adherent |
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| discipleship | (noun) the position of disciple | - |
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| disciplinal | (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinary |
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| disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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| disciplinary | (adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study | - |
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| (adjective) relating to discipline in behavior | - |
| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal |
| discipline | (noun) training to improve strength or self-control | - |
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| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: correction |
| (noun) the trait of being well behaved | - |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) a system of rules of conduct or method of practice | - |
| (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: correct, sort out |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, train |
| disciplined | (adjective) obeying the rules | - |
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| (adjective) trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise | - |
| dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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| (verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
| (verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
| dissipated | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, gambling, sporting |
| dissipation | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
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| (noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
| (noun) breaking up and scattering by dispersion | - |
| draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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| drainpipe | (noun) a pipe through which liquid is carried away | Synonyms: drain, waste pipe |
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| drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
| (verb) fall in drops | - |
| dripless | (adjective) designed to prevent dripping | - |
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| drippage | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: dripping |
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| drippily | (adverb) in a mawkish and emotional manner | Synonyms: mawkishly |
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| drippiness | (noun) the physical property of being soft and drippy | - |
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| (noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
| dripping | (noun) a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house) | Synonyms: drippage |
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| (noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: drip |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: soaking, sopping |
| drippings | (noun) fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
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| drippy | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| (adjective) leaking in drops | - |
| (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drizzly |
| dripstone | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: hoodmold, hoodmould |
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| (noun) the form of calcium carbonate found in stalactites and stalagmites | - |
| eclipse | (noun) one celestial body obscures another | Synonyms: occultation |
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| (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| eclipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: ellipsis |
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| ecliptic | (noun) the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator | - |
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| editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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| egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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| eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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| ellipse | (noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: oval |
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| ellipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: eclipsis |
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| ellipsoid | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoidal, spheroidal |
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| (noun) a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles | - |
| ellipsoidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, spheroidal |
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| elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| (adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
| elliptical | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptic |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
| ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| emancipated | (adjective) free from traditional social restraints | Synonyms: liberated |
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| emancipation | (noun) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| emancipative | (adjective) tending to set free | - |
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| emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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| encipher | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code |
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| eohippus | (noun) earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal | Synonyms: dawn horse |
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| epipelon | (noun) cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae that live on or in association with fine-grained substrata. | - |
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| epiphany | (noun) a divine manifestation | - |
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| epiphenomenon | (noun) a secondary phenomenon that is a by-product of another phenomenon | - |
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| epiphonema | (noun) a sentence that is an exclamation, a general or striking comment, or a succinct summary of what has previously been said. | - |
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| epiphora | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epistrophe |
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| epiphyllum | (noun) any cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers | Synonyms: orchid cactus |
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| epiphyseal | (adjective) relating to the epiphysis of a bone | Synonyms: epiphysial |
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| epiphysial | (adjective) relating to the epiphysis of a bone | Synonyms: epiphyseal |
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| epiphysis | (noun) the end of a long bone; initially separated from the main bone by a layer of cartilage that eventually ossifies so the parts become fused | - |
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| (noun) a small endocrine gland in the brain; situated beneath the back part of the corpus callosum; secretes melatonin | Synonyms: epiphysis cerebri, pineal body, pineal gland |
| epiphyte | (noun) plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it | Synonyms: aerophyte, air plant, epiphytic plant |
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| epiphytic | (adjective) of or relating to epiphytes | - |
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| epiphytotic | (adjective) (of plants) epidemic among plants of a single kind especially over a wide area | - |
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| epiplexis | (noun) a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them | - |
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| epipsammon | (noun) Microscopic flora and fauna found on the surface of and/or attached to sand grains. | - |
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| equip | (verb) provide with abilities or understanding | - |
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| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: fit, fit out, outfit |
| equipage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: carriage, rig |
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| (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: materiel |
| equipment | (noun) an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service | - |
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| equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
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| equipoised | (adjective) lacking lateral dominance; being neither right-handed nor left-handed | - |
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| equipotent | (adjective) having equal strength or efficacy | - |
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| equipped | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipt |
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| (adjective) provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority) | Synonyms: furnished |
| (adjective) carrying weapons | Synonyms: weaponed |
| (adjective) prepared with proper equipment | Synonyms: fitted out |
| equipping | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: armament, arming |
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| equiprobable | (adjective) equally probable | - |
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| equipt | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipped |
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| erysipelas | (noun) an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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| fellowship | (noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: family |
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| (noun) money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research | - |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, society |
| fillip | (noun) anything that tends to arouse | Synonyms: bonus |
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| fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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| fipple | (noun) a wooden plug forming a flue pipe (as the mouthpiece of a recorder) | - |
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| fissiparity | (noun) the tendency to break into parts | - |
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| (noun) reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish | - |
| fissiparous | (adjective) reproducing by fission | - |
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| (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, separatist |
| fissiped | (noun) terrestrial carnivores having toes separated to the base: dogs, cats, bears, badgers, raccoons | Synonyms: fissiped mammal |
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| flagship | (noun) the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag | - |
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| (noun) the chief one of a related group | - |
| flip | (adjective) marked by casual disrespect | Synonyms: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed |
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| (noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: pass, toss |
| (noun) the act of flipping a coin | Synonyms: toss |
| (noun) a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water | - |
| (noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
| (noun) a sudden, quick movement | - |
| (noun) hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg | - |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) go mad, go crazy | Synonyms: flip out |
| (verb) react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way | Synonyms: flip out |
| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: pitch, sky, toss |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: switch, throw |
| (verb) turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse | Synonyms: flip over, turn over |
| (verb) move with a flick or light motion | - |
| (verb) lightly throw to see which side comes up | Synonyms: toss |
| (verb) cause to move with a flick | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb |
| flipagram | (noun) a sequence of photos composed into a video | - |
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| flippancy | (noun) inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-mindedness |
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| flippant | (adjective) showing inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-minded |
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| flippantly | (adverb) in a flippant manner | Synonyms: airily |
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| flipper | (noun) the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming | - |
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| (noun) a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) | Synonyms: fin |