central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
(noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: exchange, telephone exchange |
centralisation | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralization |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralization |
centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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centralism | (noun) the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization | - |
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centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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centrality | (noun) the property of being central | - |
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centralization | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralisation |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralisation |
centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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centrally | (adverb) in or near or toward a center or according to a central role or function | - |
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centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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concentrate | (noun) a concentrated example of something | - |
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(noun) a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water | - |
(noun) the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore | Synonyms: dressed ore |
(verb) cook until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, reduce |
(verb) make denser, stronger, or purer | - |
(verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, centralize |
(verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, decoct, reduce |
(verb) make more concise | Synonyms: condense, digest |
(verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: condense, contract |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, focus, pore, rivet |
(verb) draw together or meet in one common center | - |
concentrated | (adjective) gathered together or made less diffuse | - |
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(adjective) (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source | Synonyms: hard |
(adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | Synonyms: saturated |
(adjective) intensely focused | - |
(adjective) of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced | - |
concentration | (noun) strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material | - |
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(noun) bringing together military forces | - |
(noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, assiduousness |
(noun) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume | - |
(noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, denseness, density, tightness |
(noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, immersion |
(noun) increase in density | - |
contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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(noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law | - |
contrabandist | (noun) someone who imports or exports without paying duties | Synonyms: moon-curser, moon curser, runner, smuggler |
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contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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(noun) largest and lowest member of the violin family | Synonyms: bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, string bass |
contrabassoon | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrafagotto, double bassoon |
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contraception | (noun) birth control by the use of devices (diaphragm or intrauterine device or condom) or drugs or surgery | Synonyms: contraceptive method |
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contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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(noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
contraclockwise | (adjective) in the direction opposite to the rotation of the hands of a clock | Synonyms: anticlockwise, counterclockwise |
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contract | (noun) a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid | Synonyms: contract bridge |
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(noun) a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law | - |
(noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: declaration |
(verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
(verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
(verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
(verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
(verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
(verb) make smaller | - |
(verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
(verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
contractable | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: catching, communicable, contagious, transmissible, transmittable |
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contracted | (adjective) reduced in size or pulled together | - |
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contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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contractility | (noun) the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter | - |
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contracting | (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: catching |
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contraction | (noun) the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | - |
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(noun) (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) | Synonyms: muscle contraction, muscular contraction |
(noun) a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds | - |
(noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, condensation |
contractor | (noun) a bodily organ that contracts | Synonyms: contractile organ |
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(noun) someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things | - |
(noun) (law) a party to a contract | - |
(noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: declarer |
contractual | (adjective) relating to or part of a binding legal agreement | - |
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contractually | (adverb) by virtue of a contract | - |
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contracture | (noun) an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle | - |
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contradance | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance, country dancing |
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(verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
(verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
contradiction | (noun) the speech act of contradicting someone | - |
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(noun) (logic) a statement that is necessarily false | Synonyms: contradiction in terms |
(noun) opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas | - |
contradictorily | (adverb) in a contradictory manner | - |
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contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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contradictory | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false | - |
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(adjective) unable for both to exist or be true at the same time | Synonyms: mutually exclusive |
(adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory |
(adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: confounding |
(noun) two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time | - |
contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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contrafagotto | (noun) the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family | Synonyms: contrabassoon, double bassoon |
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contrail | (noun) an artificial cloud created by an aircraft; caused either by condensation due to the reduction in air pressure above the wing surface or by water vapor in the engine exhaust | Synonyms: condensation trail |
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contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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contraindication | (noun) (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment | - |
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contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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contralto | (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: alto |
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(noun) the lowest female singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
(noun) a woman singer having a contralto voice | - |
contraption | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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contrapuntal | (adjective) having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together | Synonyms: polyphonic |
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of or according to the rules of counterpoint | - |
contrapuntist | (noun) a composer who specializes in counterpoint | - |
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contrarian | (noun) an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors | - |
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contrariety | (noun) the relation between contraries | - |
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contrarily | (adverb) contrary to expectations | Synonyms: contrariwise, on the contrary, to the contrary |
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(adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrariwise, perversely |
contrariness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: crankiness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
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(noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: perverseness, perversity |
contrarious | (adjective) characterized by self-willed opposition | Synonyms: cross-grained |
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contrariwise | (adverb) contrary to expectations | Synonyms: contrarily, on the contrary, to the contrary |
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(adverb) with the order reversed | Synonyms: the other way around, vice versa |
(adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrarily, perversely |
contrary | (adjective) of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false | - |
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(adjective) very opposed in nature or character or purpose | - |
(adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: obstinate, perverse, wayward |
(adjective) in an opposing direction | Synonyms: adverse |
(noun) exact opposition | - |
(noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: opposite, reverse |
(noun) a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false | - |
contrast | (noun) the act of distinguishing by comparing differences | - |
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(noun) the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness) | - |
(noun) the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors | - |
(noun) a conceptual separation or distinction | Synonyms: demarcation, dividing line, line |
(noun) the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared | Synonyms: direct contrast |
(verb) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences | - |
(verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: counterpoint |
contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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contrastingly | (adverb) in a contrasting manner | - |
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contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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(adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
(adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
contrasty | (adjective) having sharp differences between black and white | - |
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contravallation | (noun) a fortification build around a sieged target by the besiegers to prevent attacks by the defenders. | - |
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contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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(verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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decentralization | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralisation |
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(noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentalisation |
decentralize | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, deconcentrate |
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decentralized | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralised |
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decentralizing | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralising |
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decentration | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentering |
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deconcentrate | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralise, decentralize |
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dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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dorsoventrally | (adverb) in a dorsoventral direction | - |
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entrails | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: innards, insides, viscera |
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entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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entrance | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entry, incoming, ingress |
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(noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entranceway, entree, entry, entryway |
(noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entering |
(verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: spellbind |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, fascinate, trance |
entranced | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled |
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entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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entrancing | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, fascinating |
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entrant | (noun) a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise | - |
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(noun) one who enters a competition | - |
(noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: fledgeling, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
(noun) someone who enters | - |
entrap | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, snare, trammel, trap |
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(verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, frame, set up |
entrapment | (noun) a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials | - |
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eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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intracellular | (adjective) located or occurring within a cell or cells | - |
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intracerebral | (adjective) within the brain | - |
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intracranial | (adjective) within the skull | - |
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intractability | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractableness |
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intractable | (adjective) not tractable; difficult to manage or mold | - |
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intractableness | (noun) the trait of being hard to influence or control | Synonyms: intractability |
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intractably | (adverb) in an intractable manner | - |
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intracutaneous | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intradermal, intradermic |
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intradepartmental | (adjective) within a department | - |
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