| airmail | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airpost |
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| (noun) letters and packages that are transported by aircraft | - |
| (verb) send or transport by airmail | - |
| airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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| amain | (adverb) with all your strength | - |
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| (adverb) at full speed; with great haste | - |
| barmaid | (noun) a female bartender | - |
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| blackmail | (noun) extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information | - |
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| (verb) obtain through threats | - |
| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, pressure |
| blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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| bondmaid | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
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| (noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondswoman, bondwoman |
| bridesmaid | (noun) an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding | Synonyms: maid of honor |
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| camail | (noun) a medieval hood of mail suspended from a basinet to protect the head and neck | Synonyms: aventail, ventail |
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| chambermaid | (noun) a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) | Synonyms: fille de chambre |
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| cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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| dairymaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: milkmaid |
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| domain | (noun) the content of a particular field of knowledge | Synonyms: knowledge base, knowledge domain |
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| (noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | Synonyms: world |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: domain of a function |
| (noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: demesne, land |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, field, orbit, sphere |
| email | (noun) (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in | Synonyms: e-mail, electronic mail |
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| (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, netmail |
| freemail | (noun) a service providing free email delivery in exchange for exposure to advertising | - |
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| greenmail | (noun) (corporation) the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a takeover and thereby forcing the owners to buy those shares back at a premium in order to stay in business | - |
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| handmaid | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaiden |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaiden, servant |
| handmaiden | (noun) a personal maid or female attendant | Synonyms: handmaid |
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| (noun) in a subordinate position | Synonyms: handmaid, servant |
| housemaid | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, maid, maidservant |
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| legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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| maid | (noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) | Synonyms: maiden |
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| (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maidservant |
| maiden | (adjective) serving to set in motion | Synonyms: first, inaugural, initiative, initiatory |
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| (noun) an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) | Synonyms: maid |
| (noun) (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored | Synonyms: maiden over |
| maidenhair | (noun) any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds | Synonyms: maidenhair fern |
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| maidenhead | (noun) a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin | Synonyms: hymen, virginal membrane |
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| maidenhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidhood |
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| maidenlike | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a maiden | Synonyms: maidenly |
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| maidenliness | (noun) behavior befitting a young maiden | - |
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| maidenly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a maiden | Synonyms: maidenlike |
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| maidhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: girlhood, maidenhood |
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| maidism | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, pellagra, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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| maidservant | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: amah, housemaid, maid |
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| maiger | (noun) large European marine food fish | Synonyms: maigre, Sciaena aquila |
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| maigre | (noun) large European marine food fish | Synonyms: maiger, Sciaena aquila |
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| maikoa | (noun) a South American plant that is cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers | Synonyms: angel's trumpet, Brugmansia arborea, Datura arborea |
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| mail | (noun) (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings | Synonyms: chain armor, chain armour, chain mail, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail |
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| (noun) a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system | - |
| (noun) the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office | Synonyms: mail service, post, postal service |
| (noun) the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service | - |
| (noun) any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: post, send |
| (verb) send via the postal service | Synonyms: get off |
| mailbag | (noun) letter carrier's shoulder bag | Synonyms: postbag |
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| (noun) pouch used in the shipment of mail | Synonyms: mail pouch |
| mailboat | (noun) a boat for carrying mail | Synonyms: mail boat, packet, packet boat |
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| mailbox | (noun) a private box for delivery of mail | Synonyms: letter box |
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| (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, postbox |
| maildrop | (noun) a drop where mail can be deposited | - |
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| mailed | (adjective) wearing protective mail | Synonyms: mail-clad |
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| mailer | (noun) a container for something to be mailed | - |
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| (noun) an advertisement that is sent by mail | - |
| (noun) a person who mails something | - |
| mailing | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: posting |
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| (noun) mail sent by a sender at one time | - |
| maillot | (noun) tights for dancers or gymnasts | - |
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| (noun) a woman's one-piece bathing suit | Synonyms: tank suit |
| mailman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, postman |
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| mailsorter | (noun) a sorter for sorting mail according to the address | - |
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| maim | (verb) injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation | - |
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| maimed | (adjective) having a part of the body crippled or disabled | Synonyms: mutilated |
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| (noun) people who are wounded | Synonyms: wounded |
| maimer | (noun) a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples | Synonyms: mangler, mutilator |
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| main | (adjective) (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence | Synonyms: independent |
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| (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, master, primary, principal |
| (adjective) of force; of the greatest possible intensity | - |
| (noun) a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage | - |
| (noun) any very large body of (salt) water | Synonyms: briny |
| mainframe | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, processor |
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| (noun) a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room | Synonyms: mainframe computer |
| mainland | (noun) the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula | - |
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| mainline | (verb) inject into the vein | - |
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| mainly | (adverb) for the most part | Synonyms: chiefly, in the main, primarily, principally |
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| mainmast | (noun) the chief mast of a sailing vessel with two or more masts | - |
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| mainsail | (noun) the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
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| mainsheet | (noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: sheet, shroud, tack, weather sheet |
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| mainspring | (noun) the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism | - |
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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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| maintain | (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: keep, observe |
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| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, asseverate |
| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: uphold |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, sustain |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, preserve |
| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, wield |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, keep |
| maintainable | (adjective) capable of being maintained | - |
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| maintained | (adjective) kept in good condition | Synonyms: kept up, well-kept |
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| (adjective) continued in your keeping or use or memory | Synonyms: retained |
| maintainer | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: sustainer, upholder |
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| maintenance | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, upkeep |
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| (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
| (noun) the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community | Synonyms: criminal maintenance |
| (noun) means of maintenance of a family or group | - |
| (noun) court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated | Synonyms: alimony |
| maiolica | (noun) highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide | Synonyms: majolica |
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| maisonette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonnette |
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| (noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonnette |
| maisonnette | (noun) a small house | Synonyms: maisonette |
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| (noun) a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside | Synonyms: maisonette |
| maize | (noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow |
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| (noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: corn, Indian corn, Zea mays |
| mermaid | (noun) half woman and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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| milkmaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: dairymaid |
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| mortmain | (noun) the oppressive influence of past events or decisions | Synonyms: dead hand, dead hand of the past |
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| (noun) real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) | Synonyms: dead hand |
| netmail | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, email |
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| nursemaid | (noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nurse |
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| parlormaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlourmaid |
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| parlourmaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlormaid |
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| ptomain | (noun) any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria | Synonyms: ptomaine |
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| ptomaine | (noun) a term for food poisoning that is no longer in scientific use; food poisoning was once thought to be caused by ingesting ptomaines | Synonyms: ptomaine poisoning |
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| (noun) any of various amines (such as putrescine or cadaverine) formed by the action of putrefactive bacteria | Synonyms: ptomain |
| redmaids | (noun) succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Calandrinia ciliata, red maids |
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| remain | (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: rest, stay |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: continue, stay, stay on |
| (verb) be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc. | - |
| remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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| (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
| (noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
| (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
| (verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
| remaining | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, leftover, odd, unexpended |
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| remains | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, stiff |
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| (noun) any object that is left unused or still extant | - |
| (noun) a relic that has been excavated from the soil | Synonyms: archeological remains |
| romaic | (adjective) relating to modern Greece or its inhabitants or its language | - |
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| romaine | (noun) lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head | Synonyms: cos, cos lettuce, romaine lettuce |
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| voicemail | (noun) a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | Synonyms: voice mail |
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