| askance | (adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askant, asquint, sidelong, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
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| (adverb) with a side or oblique glance | - |
| (adverb) with suspicion or disapproval | - |
| assistance | (noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: aid, assist, help |
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| (noun) a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do | Synonyms: aid, help |
| (noun) gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause | Synonyms: aid, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance |
| assonance | (noun) the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | Synonyms: vowel rhyme |
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| assurance | (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
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| (noun) a statement intended to inspire confidence | - |
| (noun) a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something | Synonyms: pledge |
| (noun) a British term for some kinds of insurance | - |
| astringence | (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringency |
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| astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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| (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
| asynchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynchronous | (adjective) not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase | - |
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| (adjective) (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself | - |
| asynchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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| asynclitism | (noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: obliquity |
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| attendance | (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attending |
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| (noun) the number of people that are present | - |
| (noun) the frequency with which a person is present | - |
| audience | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: consultation, interview |
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| (noun) a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance | - |
| (noun) the part of the general public interested in a source of information, entertainment, or a product/service | - |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: hearing |
| autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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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 |
| avoidance | (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: dodging, shunning, turning away |
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| avuncular | (adjective) being or relating to an uncle | - |
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| (adjective) resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence | - |
| backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
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| backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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| 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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| bechance | (verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: befall, happen |
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| (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: befall, betide |
| belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
| belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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| (noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
| bench | (noun) a long seat for more than one person | - |
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| (noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: work bench, workbench |
| (noun) (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom | - |
| (noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: judiciary |
| (noun) the reserve players on a team | - |
| (noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: terrace |
| (verb) To lift a weight using a bench press | - |
| (verb) To exercise using a bench press | - |
| (verb) exhibit on a bench | - |
| (verb) take out of a game; of players | - |
| benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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| (noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
| beneficence | (noun) the quality of being kind or helpful or generous | - |
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| (noun) doing good; feeling beneficent | - |
| benevolence | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benefaction |
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| (noun) an inclination to do kind or charitable acts | - |
| (noun) disposition to do good | - |
| benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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| biconcave | (adjective) concave on both sides | Synonyms: concavo-concave |
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| biodefence | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefense, biological defence, biological defense |
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| bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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| bioscience | (noun) any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms | Synonyms: life science |
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| birefringence | (noun) splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly | Synonyms: double refraction |
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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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| blatancy | (noun) the property of being both obvious and offensive | - |
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| blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
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| bonce | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, dome, noggin, noodle |
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| bounce | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring |
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| (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounciness |
| (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bouncing |
| (verb) eject from the premises | - |
| (verb) hit something so that it bounces | - |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) leap suddenly | - |
| (verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: jounce |
| (verb) come back after being refused | - |
| (verb) refuse to accept and send back | - |
| bouncer | (noun) a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting | Synonyms: chucker-out |
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| bounciness | (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounce |
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| bouncing | (adjective) vigorously healthy | - |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| (noun) rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) | Synonyms: bounce |
| bouncy | (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: live, lively, resilient, springy |
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| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, peppy, spirited, zippy |
| braincase | (noun) the part of the skull that encloses the brain | Synonyms: brainpan, cranium |
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| brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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| branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
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| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
| (noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
| (noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
| (noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
| branched | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branching, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
| branchia | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: gill |
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| branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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| branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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| branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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| (adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
| (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
| branchiopod | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopodan, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
| branchiopodan | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodous |
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| (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
| branchiopodous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopodan |
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| branchless | (adjective) having no branches | - |
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| branchlet | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: sprig, twig |
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| branchy | (adjective) having many branches | - |
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| brilliance | (noun) a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted | Synonyms: blaze, glare |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) unusual mental ability | Synonyms: genius |
| brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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| brisance | (noun) the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | - |
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| bromance | (noun) non-sexual but intense relationship between two men | - |
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| bronc | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: broncho, bronco |
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| bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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| bronchiolar | (adjective) of or relating to or involving bronchioles | - |
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| bronchiole | (noun) any of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoli | - |
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| bronchiolitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles | - |
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| bronchitic | (adjective) suffering from or prone to bronchitis | - |
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| bronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes | - |
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| broncho | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: bronc, bronco |
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| bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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| bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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| bronchoscope | (noun) a slender tubular instrument used to examine the bronchial tubes | - |
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| bronchoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi | - |
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| bronchospasm | (noun) a spasm of the bronchi that makes exhalation difficult and noisy; associated with asthma and bronchitis | - |
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| bronchus | (noun) either of the two main branches of the trachea | Synonyms: bronchial tube |
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| bronco | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: bronc, broncho |
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| broncobuster | (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, buster |
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| brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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| (verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
| bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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| bunce | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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| bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
| (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
| (verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
| (verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
| bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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| bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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| bunchy | (adjective) occurring close together in bunches or clusters | - |
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| bunco | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| buncombe | (noun) unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) | Synonyms: bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot |
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| buoyancy | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: airiness |
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| (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: irrepressibility |
| (noun) the tendency to float in water or other liquid | - |
| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: perkiness |
| buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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| cadence | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadency |
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| (noun) the close of a musical section | - |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, measure, meter, metre |
| cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
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| cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
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| cancan | (noun) a high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line | - |
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| cancel | (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: natural |
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| (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
| (verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
| cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
| cancellated | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellous |
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| (adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, clathrate |
| cancellation | (noun) the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement | - |
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| (noun) the speech act of revoking or annulling or making void | - |