aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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ammonification | (noun) impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia | - |
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ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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boniface | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: host, innkeeper |
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carboniferous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonaceous, carbonic, carbonous |
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(adjective) of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era | - |
carnify | (verb) become muscular or fleshy | - |
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cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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columniform | (adjective) having the form of a column | Synonyms: columnar, columnlike |
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conifer | (noun) any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones | Synonyms: coniferous tree |
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coniferous | (adjective) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves | Synonyms: cone-bearing |
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dignified | (adjective) having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance | - |
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(adjective) having or showing self-esteem | Synonyms: self-respectful, self-respecting |
dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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(verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
dignifying | (adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: ennobling |
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disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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drawknife | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawshave |
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foraminifer | (noun) marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude | Synonyms: foram |
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gonif | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, goniff |
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goniff | (noun) (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse) | Synonyms: ganef, ganof, gonif |
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indemnification | (noun) an act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance | - |
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(noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnity, redress, restitution |
indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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(verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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insignificant | (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: unimportant |
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(adjective) signifying nothing | - |
(adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: peanut |
(adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: dinky |
insignificantly | (adverb) not to a significant degree or amount | - |
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(adverb) in an insignificant manner | - |
jackknife | (noun) a dive in which the diver bends to touch the ankles before straightening out | - |
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(noun) a large knife with one or more folding blades | Synonyms: clasp knife |
(verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife | - |
knife | (noun) edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle | - |
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(noun) a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point | - |
(noun) any long thin projection that is transient | Synonyms: tongue |
(verb) use a knife on | Synonyms: stab |
knifelike | (adjective) having a sharp or distinct edge | - |
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(adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
(adjective) cutting or able to cut as if with a knife | - |
(adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
lenify | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, mollify, pacify, placate |
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lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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magnification | (noun) the act of expanding something in apparent size | - |
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(noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, enlargement |
(noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, overstatement |
(noun) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object | - |
magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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(noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
magnificent | (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, splendid |
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magnificently | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, splendidly |
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(adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, resplendently, splendidly |
magnifico | (noun) a person of distinguished rank or appearance | - |
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magnified | (adjective) enlarged to an abnormal degree | Synonyms: enlarged, exaggerated |
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magnifier | (noun) a scientific instrument that magnifies an image | - |
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magnify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: amplify |
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(verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
manifest | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: apparent, evident, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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(noun) a customs document listing the contents put on a ship or plane | - |
(verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance | - |
(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, evidence |
(verb) record in a ship's manifest | - |
manifestation | (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: demonstration |
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(noun) a manifest indication of the existence or presence or nature of some person or thing | - |
(noun) expression without words | Synonyms: expression, reflection, reflexion |
(noun) a clear appearance | - |
(noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
manifestly | (adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: apparently, evidently, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
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manifesto | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: pronunciamento |
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manifold | (adjective) many and varied; having many features or forms | Synonyms: multiplex |
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(noun) a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes | - |
(noun) a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions | - |
(noun) a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies | Synonyms: manifold paper |
(verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: multiply |
(verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: multiply |
minify | (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, lessen |
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munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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munificent | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting |
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munificently | (adverb) in a generous manner | Synonyms: generously, liberally |
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nifedipine | (noun) calcium blocker (trade name Procardia); appears to increase the risk of recurrent heart attacks | Synonyms: Procardia |
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niff | (noun) an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: pong |
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niffy | (adjective) (British informal) malodorous | - |
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nifty | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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nonsignificant | (adjective) attributable to chance | - |
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nonuniform | (adjective) not homogeneous | Synonyms: inhomogeneous |
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nonuniformity | (noun) the quality of being diverse and interesting | - |
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omnifarious | (adjective) of all varieties or forms or kinds | - |
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organification | (noun) the process of organ formation | - |
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paperknife | (noun) dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books | Synonyms: letter opener, paper knife |
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penknife | (noun) a small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens | - |
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personification | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: incarnation |
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(noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: prosopopoeia |
(noun) a person who represents an abstract quality | - |
personify | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personate |
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(verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, embody |
(verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: body |
pocketknife | (noun) a knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket | Synonyms: pocket knife |
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reniform | (adjective) (of a leaf or bean shape) resembling the shape of kidney | Synonyms: kidney-shaped |
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reunification | (noun) the act of coming together again | Synonyms: reunion |
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reunify | (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunite |
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saponification | (noun) a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap) | - |
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saponified | (adjective) converted into soap | - |
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saponify | (verb) convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali | - |
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(verb) become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali | - |
seminiferous | (adjective) bearing or producing seed or semen | - |
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significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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(noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
significant | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | Synonyms: important |
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(adjective) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation | - |
(adjective) of considerable importance, size, or worth | Synonyms: substantial |
(adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, pregnant |
significantly | (adverb) in an important way or to an important degree | Synonyms: importantly |
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(adverb) in a significant manner | - |
(adverb) in a statistically significant way | - |
signification | (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, significance |
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significative | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, indicatory, revelatory, suggestive |
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signified | (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: sense |
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signifier | (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, form, word form |
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signify | (verb) convey or express a meaning | - |
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(verb) make known with a word or signal | - |
(verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, mean, stand for |
sniff | (noun) sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: snuff |
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(verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniffle |
(verb) perceive by inhaling through the nose | Synonyms: whiff |
sniffer | (noun) a person who sniffs | - |
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sniffle | (noun) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) | Synonyms: snivel, snuffle |
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(verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
(verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle |
sniffler | (noun) a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose | Synonyms: sniveler |
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sniffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: snuffling, snuffly |
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sniffy | (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, supercilious, swaggering |
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snifter | (noun) a globular glass with a small top; used for serving brandy | Synonyms: brandy glass, brandy snifter |
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somniferous | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somnific, soporiferous, soporific |
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somnific | (adjective) sleep inducing | Synonyms: hypnagogic, hypnogogic, somniferous, soporiferous, soporific |
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stoloniferous | (adjective) producing stolons | - |
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undignified | (adjective) lacking dignity | - |
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unifacial | (adjective) having but one principal or specialized surface | - |
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unification | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, union, uniting |
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(noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, merger |
(noun) the state of being joined or united or linked | Synonyms: union |
unified | (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, coordinated, interconnected |
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(adjective) formed or united into a whole | Synonyms: incorporate, incorporated, integrated, merged |
unifilar | (adjective) having or using only one filament | - |
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unifoliate | (adjective) having a single leaf | - |
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uniform | (adjective) always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences | Synonyms: unvarying |
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(adjective) not differentiated | Synonyms: undifferentiated |
(adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: consistent |
(adjective) evenly spaced | - |
(noun) clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification | - |
(verb) provide with uniforms | - |
uniformed | (adjective) dressed in a uniform | - |
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uniformise | (verb) make uniform | Synonyms: uniformize |
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uniformity | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformness |
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(noun) a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying | - |
uniformize | (verb) make uniform | Synonyms: uniformise |
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uniformly | (adverb) in a uniform manner | - |
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uniformness | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformity |
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unify | (verb) become one | Synonyms: merge, unite |
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(verb) join or combine | Synonyms: merge, unite |
(verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix |
(verb) act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief | Synonyms: unite |
(verb) bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation | Synonyms: unite |
unifying | (adjective) tending to unify | Synonyms: centripetal |
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(adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: consolidative |
unsaponified | (adjective) not converted into soap | - |
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