| criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
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| cristal | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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| cristobalite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks | - |
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| cryptologist | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalyst, cryptographer |
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| cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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| (noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
| cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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| cultist | (noun) a member of a religious cult | - |
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| (noun) a member of an unorthodox cult who generally lives outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader | - |
| cyclist | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, biker, wheeler |
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| cymbalist | (noun) a performer on the cymbals | - |
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| cytogeneticist | (noun) a geneticist who specializes in the cellular components associated with heredity | - |
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| cytologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the structure and function of cells | - |
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| czarist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czaristic, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| czaristic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a czar | Synonyms: czarist, tsarist, tsaristic, tzarist |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| defeatist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: negativist |
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| deipnosophist | (noun) someone skilled at informal chitchat | - |
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| deist | (adjective) of or relating to deism | Synonyms: deistic |
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| (noun) a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it | - |
| deistic | (adjective) of or relating to deism | Synonyms: deist |
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| delist | (verb) remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange | - |
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| demist | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: defog |
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| demister | (noun) heater that removes mist from the windshield of a car | - |
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| demographist | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographer, population scientist |
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| dentist | (noun) a person qualified to practice dentistry | Synonyms: dental practitioner, tooth doctor |
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| dentistry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth | Synonyms: dental medicine, odontology |
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| denturist | (noun) someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures) | Synonyms: dental technician |
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| dermatologist | (noun) a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin | Synonyms: skin doctor |
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| desist | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, refrain |
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| determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| diabolist | (noun) an adherent of Satan or Satanism | Synonyms: Satanist |
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| diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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| diplomatist | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomat |
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| dislogistic | (adjective) expressing disapproval | Synonyms: dyslogistic, pejorative |
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| distaff | (adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: female |
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| (noun) the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning | - |
| (noun) the sphere of work by women | - |
| distal | (adjective) situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone | - |
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| (adjective) directed away from the midline or mesial plane of the body | - |
| distally | (adverb) far from the center | - |
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| distance | (noun) the property created by the space between two objects or points | - |
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| (noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: length |
| (noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: aloofness |
| (noun) a distant region | - |
| (noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: space |
| (noun) a remote point in time | - |
| (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| distant | (adjective) separated in space or coming from or going to a distance | - |
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| (adjective) far apart in relevance or relationship or kinship | Synonyms: remote |
| (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, upstage |
| (adjective) located far away spatially | Synonyms: remote |
| (adjective) separate or apart in time | Synonyms: remote, removed |
| distantly | (adverb) from or at a distance | - |
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| distaste | (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, aversion |
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| distasteful | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| distastefully | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, revoltingly, sickeningly |
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| (adverb) in an offensively distasteful manner | - |
| distastefulness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: odiousness, offensiveness |
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| (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
| distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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| (noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
| (noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
| (verb) paint with distemper | - |
| distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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| (verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
| (verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
| distended | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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| distensible | (adjective) capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand | - |
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| distension | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distention |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distention |
| distention | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distension |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distension |
| distich | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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| distil | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distill |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, extract |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distill |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
| distillate | (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillation |
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| distillation | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillment |
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| (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillate |
| distiller | (noun) someone who distills alcoholic liquors | - |
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| distillery | (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: still |
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| distillment | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillation |
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| distinct | (adjective) easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined | - |
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| (adjective) clearly or sharply defined to the mind | Synonyms: clear-cut, trenchant |
| (adjective) recognizable; marked | Synonyms: decided |
| (adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinguishable |
| (adjective) constituting a separate entity or part | Synonyms: discrete |
| distinction | (noun) a distinguishing difference between similar things or people | - |
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| (noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: differentiation |
| (noun) an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority | - |
| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: eminence, note, preeminence |
| distinctive | (adjective) of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing | Synonyms: typical |
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| (adjective) capable of being classified | Synonyms: classifiable |
| distinctively | (adverb) in an identifiably distinctive manner | - |
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| distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| distinctly | (adverb) clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment | Synonyms: clearly |
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| (adverb) in a distinct and distinguishable manner | - |
| (adverb) to a distinct degree | - |
| distinctness | (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: sharpness |
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| (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: otherness, separateness |
| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, separateness, severalty |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| distinguishability | (noun) Capability of being perceived as different or distinct. | - |
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| distinguishable | (adjective) capable of being perceived as different or distinct | - |
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| (adjective) (often followed by `from') not alike; different in nature or quality | Synonyms: distinct |
| distinguished | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: grand, imposing, magisterial |
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| (adjective) (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation | - |
| distomatosis | (noun) a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products | Synonyms: black disease, liver rot, sheep rot |
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| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| distortable | (adjective) capable of having the meaning altered or twisted | - |
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| distorted | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: misrepresented, perverted, twisted |
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| (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen |
| distortion | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting |
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| (noun) the mistake of misrepresenting the facts | - |
| (noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: deformation |
| (noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: aberration, optical aberration |
| (noun) a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) | - |
| (noun) a shape resulting from distortion | Synonyms: distorted shape |
| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| distracted | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distrait |
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| distractedly | (adverb) in a distracted manner | - |
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| distraction | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: beguilement |
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| (noun) the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: misdirection |
| (noun) mental turmoil | - |
| (noun) an obstacle to attention | - |
| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| distraint | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distress |
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| distrait | (adjective) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety | Synonyms: distracted |
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| distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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| distress | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distraint |
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| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: hurt, suffering |
| (noun) extreme physical pain | - |
| (noun) a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) | - |
| (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
| distressed | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: dysphoric, unhappy |
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| (adjective) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty | Synonyms: hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried |
| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: stressed |
| distressful | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| distressfully | (adverb) with distress | - |
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| distressfulness | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: seriousness |
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| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| distressingly | (adverb) unpleasantly | Synonyms: painfully |
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| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| distributed | (adjective) spread out or scattered about or divided up | - |
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| distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
| distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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| (noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
| distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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| (adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
| distributor | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributer, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) a company that markets merchandise | - |
| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributer |
| (noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: allocator |