ambulance | (noun) a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals | - |
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avalanche | (noun) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain | - |
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(noun) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things | - |
(verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
balance | (noun) a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity | - |
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(noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
(noun) a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat | Synonyms: balance wheel |
(noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: proportion, proportionality |
(noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry |
(noun) equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
(noun) the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
(noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise |
(noun) a state of equilibrium | - |
(verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: poise |
(verb) compute credits and debits of an account | - |
(verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: equilibrate, equilibrise, equilibrize |
(verb) be in equilibrium | - |
balanced | (adjective) being in a state of proper equilibrium | - |
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balancer | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: halter, haltere |
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(noun) an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions | - |
balancing | (noun) getting two things to correspond | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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blanc | (noun) a white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables (used especially with braised meat) | - |
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blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
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(verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
blanched | (adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, bloodless, livid, white |
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(adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: etiolate, etiolated |
blancmange | (noun) sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded | - |
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counterbalance | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterpoise, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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(noun) a compensating equivalent | Synonyms: offset |
(noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, equilibrium, equipoise |
(verb) oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions | Synonyms: counteract, countervail, neutralize |
(verb) contrast with equal weight or force | Synonyms: oppose |
(verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, even off, even out, even up, make up |
counterbalanced | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterpoised |
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freelance | (adjective) working for yourself | Synonyms: free-lance, self-employed |
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(adjective) serving for wages in a foreign army | Synonyms: free-lance, mercenary |
(noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person |
(verb) work independently and on temporary contracts rather than for a long-term employer | - |
freelancer | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, independent, self-employed person |
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glance | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glimpse |
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(verb) hit at an angle | - |
(verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glint, peek |
imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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(noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
imbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: unbalanced |
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jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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lance | (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: shaft, spear |
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(noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear |
(noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lancet |
(verb) open by piercing with a lancet | - |
(verb) pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight | - |
(verb) move quickly, as if by cutting one's way | - |
lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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lancelike | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lanceolate |
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lanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) shaped like a lance head; narrow and tapering to a pointed apex | Synonyms: lancelike |
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lancer | (noun) (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance | - |
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lancers | (noun) a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples | - |
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lancet | (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lance |
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(noun) an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance | Synonyms: lancet arch |
lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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lancewood | (noun) source of most of the lancewood of commerce | Synonyms: lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata |
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(noun) durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools | - |
lancinate | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
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lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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melancholia | (noun) extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears | - |
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melancholiac | (noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholic |
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melancholic | (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholy |
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(noun) someone subject to melancholia | Synonyms: melancholiac |
melancholy | (adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: somber, sombre |
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(adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholic |
(noun) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy | Synonyms: black bile |
(noun) a feeling of thoughtful sadness | - |
(noun) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed | - |
microbalance | (noun) balance for weighing very small objects | - |
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nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, unconcern |
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oblanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base | - |
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outbalance | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outweigh, overbalance, preponderate |
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overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
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(verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
parlance | (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: idiom |
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petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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planchet | (noun) a flat metal disk ready for stamping as a coin | Synonyms: coin blank |
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planchette | (noun) a triangular board supported on casters; when lightly touched with the fingertips it is supposed to spell out supernatural (or unconscious) messages | - |
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resemblance | (noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details | - |
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semblance | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: likeness |
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(noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, gloss |
(noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: illusion |
splanchnic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: visceral |
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surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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unbalance | (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, instability |
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(noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: derangement, mental unsoundness |
(verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
(verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
unbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: imbalanced |
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(adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unhinged |
(adjective) debits and credits are not equal | - |
valance | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, pelmet, valance board |
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vigilance | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: watchfulness, weather eye |
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(noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, wakefulness, watchfulness |