anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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anaemia | (noun) a deficiency of red blood cells | Synonyms: anemia |
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(noun) a lack of vitality | Synonyms: anemia |
anaemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anemic |
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(adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anemic |
anaerobe | (noun) an organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live | - |
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anaerobic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobiotic |
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(adjective) not aerobic | - |
anaerobiotic | (adjective) living or active in the absence of free oxygen | Synonyms: anaerobic |
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anaesthesia | (noun) loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness | Synonyms: anesthesia |
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anaesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
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(adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anesthetic |
(noun) a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations | Synonyms: anaesthetic agent, anesthetic, anesthetic agent |
anaesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetize, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anaesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anesthesiologist, anesthetist |
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anaesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anesthetise, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anaglyph | (noun) anything carved in low relief | - |
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(noun) moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed | - |
anaglyphic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphical, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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anaglyphical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anaglyptical |
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anaglyphy | (noun) the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens | - |
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anaglyptic | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical |
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anaglyptical | (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy | Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic |
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anagnost | (noun) a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | - |
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anagoge | (noun) a mystical or allegorical interpretation (especially of Scripture) | - |
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anagogic | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogical |
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anagogical | (adjective) based on or exemplifying anagoge | Synonyms: anagogic |
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anagram | (noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase | - |
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(verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize |
anagrammatic | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatical |
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anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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anagrams | (noun) a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters | - |
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anal | (adjective) a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated on the anal region; fixation at this stage is said to result in orderliness, meanness, stubbornness, compulsiveness, etc. | Synonyms: anal retentive |
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(adjective) of or related to the anus | - |
analbuminemia | (noun) an abnormally low level of albumin in the blood serum | - |
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analecta | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analects |
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analects | (noun) a collection of excerpts from a literary work | Synonyms: analecta |
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analeptic | (adjective) stimulating the central nervous system | - |
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(noun) a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system | - |
analgesia | (noun) absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness | - |
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analgesic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgetic, anodyne |
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(noun) a medicine used to relieve pain | Synonyms: anodyne, pain pill, painkiller |
analgetic | (adjective) capable of relieving pain | Synonyms: analgesic, anodyne |
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analog | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analogue, linear |
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(noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analogue, parallel |
analogical | (adjective) expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy | - |
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analogise | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogize |
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analogist | (noun) someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy | - |
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analogize | (verb) make an analogy | Synonyms: analogise |
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analogous | (adjective) corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin | - |
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(adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: correspondent |
analogously | (adverb) in an analogous manner | - |
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analogue | (adjective) of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input | Synonyms: analog, linear |
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(noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, parallel |
analogy | (noun) drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect | - |
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(noun) an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others | - |
(noun) the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate | Synonyms: doctrine of analogy |
analphabet | (noun) an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet | Synonyms: analphabetic |
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analphabetic | (adjective) not alphabetic | - |
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(adjective) relating to or expressed by a writing system that is not alphabetic | - |
(adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: unlettered |
(noun) an illiterate person who does not know the alphabet | Synonyms: analphabet |
analphabetism | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: illiteracy |
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analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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analyse | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyze, canvass, examine, study |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze, break down, dissect, take apart |
(verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyze, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
(verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyze |
analyser | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyzer |
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analysis | (noun) an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole | - |
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(noun) a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud | Synonyms: depth psychology, psychoanalysis |
(noun) the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations | Synonyms: analytic thinking |
(noun) a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation | - |
(noun) a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed | - |
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father' | - |
analyst | (noun) someone who is skilled at analyzing data | - |
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(noun) a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis | Synonyms: psychoanalyst |
(noun) an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions | - |
analytic | (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytical |
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(adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection | Synonyms: uninflected |
(adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytical |
(adjective) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus | - |
analytical | (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) | Synonyms: analytic |
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(adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience | Synonyms: analytic |
analytically | (adverb) by virtue of analysis | - |
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analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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analyzable | (adjective) capable of being partitioned | Synonyms: decomposable |
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analyze | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, canvass, examine, study |
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(verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, break down, dissect, take apart |
(verb) subject to psychoanalytic treatment | Synonyms: analyse, psychoanalyse, psychoanalyze |
(verb) break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse |
analyzed | (adjective) examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts | - |
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analyzer | (noun) an instrument that performs analyses | Synonyms: analyser |
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anamnesis | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: recollection, remembrance |
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(noun) the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient | Synonyms: medical history, medical record |
anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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anamorphic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of distorting optical system | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to gradual evolution from one type of organism to another | - |
anamorphism | (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
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(noun) metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals | - |
(noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
anamorphosis | (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner | Synonyms: anamorphism |
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(noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes | Synonyms: anamorphism |
ananas | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: pineapple |
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anancasm | (noun) An obsolete term for ritualistic act or sequence of acts performed by a person with obsessive-compulsive neurosis. | - |
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anapaest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapest |
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anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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anapest | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables | Synonyms: anapaest |
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anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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anaphase | (noun) the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
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anaphasic | (adjective) of or related to the stage of mitosis known as anaphase | - |
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anaphor | (noun) a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent | - |
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anaphora | (noun) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | - |
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(noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: epanaphora |
anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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anaphrodisia | (noun) decline or absence of sexual desire | - |
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anaphrodisiac | (adjective) tending to diminish sexual desire | - |
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anaphylactic | (adjective) related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis | - |
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anaphylaxis | (noun) hypersensitivity reaction to the ingestion or injection of a substance (a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance | - |
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anaplasia | (noun) loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor | - |
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anaplasmosis | (noun) a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas fever | - |
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anaplastic | (adjective) of or relating to anaplasia | - |
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anaplasty | (noun) surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue | Synonyms: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery |
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anapsid | (noun) primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles | Synonyms: anapsid reptile |
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anarchic | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchical, lawless |
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anarchical | (adjective) without law or control | Synonyms: anarchic, lawless |
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anarchically | (adverb) in a lawless rebellious manner | - |
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anarchism | (noun) a political theory favoring the abolition of governments | - |
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anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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anarchy | (noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) | Synonyms: lawlessness |
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anarthria | (noun) partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system | - |
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anasarca | (noun) generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue | - |
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anasarcous | (adjective) characterized by or affected by dropsy | - |
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anaspid | (noun) extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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anastalsis | (noun) muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis | - |
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anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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(adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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(verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |