bulimia | (noun) pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions) | - |
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(noun) a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation | Synonyms: binge-eating syndrome |
bulimic | (adjective) suffering from bulimia | - |
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(noun) a person suffering from bulimia | - |
delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
(verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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delimited | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: bounded |
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eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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(verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
(verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
(verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
(verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
(verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
(verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
elimination | (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: liquidation |
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(noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: riddance |
(noun) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations | - |
(noun) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives | Synonyms: reasoning by elimination |
(noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding |
eliminator | (noun) an agent that eliminates something | - |
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illimitable | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: limitless, measureless, unmeasured |
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limit | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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(noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line |
(noun) as far as something can go | - |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limitation |
(noun) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity | Synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation |
(noun) final or latest limiting point | Synonyms: terminal point, terminus ad quem |
(verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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(noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
(noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
(noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
limited | (adjective) small in range or scope | - |
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(adjective) not unlimited | - |
(adjective) not excessive | - |
(adjective) including only a part | - |
(adjective) mediocre | Synonyms: modified |
(adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: circumscribed |
(adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: special |
(noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: express |
limitedly | (adverb) in a limited manner | - |
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limitedness | (noun) The state or characteristic of having certain (often specified) limits placed upon it. | - |
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limiter | (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: clipper |
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limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
(noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
limitless | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: unlimited |
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(adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: illimitable, measureless, unmeasured |
(adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: boundless, unbounded |
limitlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, unboundedness |
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millimicron | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, nanometer, nanometre, nm |
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oxyphencyclimine | (noun) an anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers | Synonyms: Daricon |
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preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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(noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: prelim |
(noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, prelude |
sliminess | (noun) a property resembling or being covered with slime | - |
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(noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, vileness, wickedness |
subliminal | (adjective) below the threshold of conscious perception | - |
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sublimit | (noun) (insurance) a limitation in an amount of loss coverage. | - |
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sublimity | (noun) nobility in thought or feeling or style | - |
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unlimited | (adjective) having no limits in range or scope | Synonyms: limitless |
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(adjective) that cannot be entirely consumed or used up | Synonyms: inexhaustible |
(adjective) without reservation or exception | Synonyms: outright, straight-out |