| administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
| (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
| (verb) direct the taking of | - |
| administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| administration | (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) the act of administering medication | Synonyms: giving medication |
| (noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: judicature |
| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity |
| (noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
| (noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: presidency, presidential term |
| administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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| administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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| administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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| (noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
| (noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
| administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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| aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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| aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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| aluminium | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminum, atomic number 13 |
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| aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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| aminic | (adjective) pertaining to or containing any of a group of organic compounds of nitrogen derived from ammonia | Synonyms: amino |
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| antifeminism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: chauvinism, male chauvinism |
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| antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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| bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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| bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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| brahminic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminical |
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| brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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| condominium | (noun) housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned | - |
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| (noun) one of the dwelling units in a condominium | Synonyms: condo |
| deaminization | (noun) removal of the amino radical from an amino acid or other amino compound | Synonyms: deamination |
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| deaminize | (verb) remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | Synonyms: deaminate |
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| defeminise | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminize |
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| defeminize | (verb) remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | Synonyms: defeminise |
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| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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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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| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| diminished | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, wasted |
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| (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: lessened, vitiated, weakened |
| (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, small |
| (adjective) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval | - |
| diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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| dominical | (adjective) of or relating to Sunday as the Lord's Day | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or coming from Jesus Christ | - |
| dominie | (noun) a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson | Synonyms: domine, dominee, dominus |
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| dominion | (noun) a region marked off for administrative or other purposes | Synonyms: district, territorial dominion, territory |
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| (noun) dominance or power through legal authority | Synonyms: rule |
| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| feminine | (adjective) associated with women and not with men | - |
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| (adjective) female (of grammatical gender) | - |
| (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | Synonyms: womanly |
| (adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable | - |
| (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female | - |
| feminineness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: femaleness |
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| femininity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: muliebrity |
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| feminisation | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminization |
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| feminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminize, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminize |
| feminism | (noun) the movement aimed at equal rights for women | Synonyms: feminist movement, women's lib, women's liberation movement |
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| (noun) a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women | - |
| feminist | (adjective) of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of feminism | Synonyms: libber, women's liberationist, women's rightist |
| feminization | (noun) the process of becoming feminized; the development of female characteristics (loss of facial hair or breast enlargement) in a male because of hormonal disorders or castration | Synonyms: feminisation |
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| feminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, effeminize, feminise, womanize |
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| (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics | Synonyms: feminise |
| foraminifer | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foram |
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| hominian | (adjective) characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | Synonyms: hominid |
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| hominid | (adjective) characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures | Synonyms: hominian |
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| (noun) a primate of the family Hominidae | - |
| hominine | (adjective) characteristic of humankind | - |
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| ignominious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
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| ignominiously | (adverb) in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree | Synonyms: discreditably, disgracefully, dishonorably, dishonourably, ingloriously, shamefully |
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| ignominiousness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, shamefulness |
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| laminitis | (noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: founder |
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| luminism | (noun) an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective | - |
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| mini | (adjective) used of women's clothing; very short with hemline above the knee | - |
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| (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: miniskirt |
| miniate | (verb) paint with red lead or vermilion | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: rubricate |
| miniature | (adjective) being on a very small scale | - |
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| (noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: toy |
| (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: illumination |
| miniaturisation | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturization |
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| miniaturise | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturize |
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| miniaturist | (noun) someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail | - |
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| miniaturization | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturisation |
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| miniaturize | (verb) design or construct on a smaller scale | Synonyms: miniaturise |
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| minibar | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: cellaret |
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| minibike | (noun) small motorcycle with a low frame and small wheels and elevated handlebars | Synonyms: motorbike |
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| minibus | (noun) a light bus (4 to 10 passengers) | - |
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| minicab | (noun) a minicar used as a taxicab | - |
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| minicalculator | (noun) (old-fashioned) a very small handheld calculator. | - |
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| minicar | (noun) a car that is even smaller than a subcompact car | - |
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| minicomputer | (noun) a digital computer of medium size | - |
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| minify | (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, lessen |
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| minim | (noun) a musical note having the time value of half a whole note | Synonyms: half note |
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| (noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram | - |
| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters | - |
| minimal | (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimum |
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| minimalism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, reductivism |
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| minimalist | (adjective) of or relating to artistic minimalism | - |
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| (adjective) advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics) | - |
| (noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
| (noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
| minimality | (noun) The state of being the smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. | - |
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| minimally | (adverb) to a minimal degree | - |
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| minimisation | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimization |
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| minimise | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimize |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimize, understate |
| minimization | (noun) the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position | Synonyms: minimisation |
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| minimize | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimise |
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| (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, derogate |
| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimise, understate |
| minimized | (adjective) reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree | - |
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| minimum | (adjective) the least possible | Synonyms: minimal |
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| (noun) the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right | - |
| (noun) the smallest possible quantity | Synonyms: lower limit |
| minimus | (noun) the fifth digit; the little finger or little toe | - |
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| mining | (noun) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | Synonyms: excavation |
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| (noun) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment | Synonyms: minelaying |
| minion | (noun) a servile or fawning dependant | - |
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| miniscule | (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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| minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| (verb) work as a minister | - |
| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| ministerial | (adjective) of or relating to a government minister or ministry | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office | - |
| ministerially | (adverb) in the manner of a minister or clergyman | - |
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| ministrant | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: attending |
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| (noun) someone who serves as a minister | - |
| ministration | (noun) assistance in time of difficulty | Synonyms: relief, succor, succour |
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| ministry | (noun) the work of a minister of religion | - |
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| (noun) building where the business of a government ministry is transacted | - |
| (noun) a government department under the direction of a minister of state | - |
| (noun) religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) | - |
| minisub | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisubmarine |
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| minisubmarine | (noun) submersible vessel for one or two persons; for naval operations or underwater exploration | Synonyms: minisub |
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| minium | (noun) a reddish oxide of lead (Pb3O4) used as a pigment in paints and in glass and ceramics | Synonyms: red lead |
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| minivan | (noun) a small box-shaped passenger van; usually has removable seats; used as a family car | - |
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| miniver | (noun) trimming on ceremonial robes consisting of white or light grey fur | - |
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| reminisce | (verb) recall the past | - |
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| reminiscence | (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, recollection |
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| (noun) a mental impression retained and recalled from the past | - |