| formality | (noun) compliance with formal rules | - |
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| (noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formalness |
| (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formalities |
| formalization | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalisation |
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| formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
| formalized | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalistic |
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| (adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalised |
| formally | (adverb) in a formal manner | - |
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| (adverb) with official authorization | Synonyms: officially |
| formalness | (noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formality |
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| formalwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear |
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| format | (noun) the general appearance of a publication | - |
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| (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, formatting |
| (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: initialise, initialize |
| (verb) determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) | - |
| (verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: arrange |
| formation | (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: shaping |
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| (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, establishment, organisation, organization |
| (noun) creation by mental activity | - |
| (noun) a particular spatial arrangement | - |
| (noun) an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit | - |
| (noun) (geology) the geological features of the earth | Synonyms: geological formation |
| (noun) natural process that causes something to form | - |
| formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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| (adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
| (noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
| formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
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| formed | (adjective) having or given a form or shape | - |
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| former | (adjective) referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to the distant past | Synonyms: early, other |
| (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: erstwhile, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: late, previous |
| (noun) the first of two or the first mentioned of two | - |
| formerly | (adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, erstwhile, once |
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| formic | (adjective) of or containing or derived from formic acid | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or derived from ants | - |
| formicary | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: anthill |
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| formicate | (verb) crawl about like ants | - |
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| formication | (noun) hallucinated sensation that insects or snakes are crawling over the skin; a common side-effect of extensive use of cocaine or amphetamines | - |
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| formidability | (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: toughness |
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| formidable | (adjective) inspiring fear | Synonyms: redoubtable, unnerving |
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| (adjective) extremely impressive in strength or excellence | - |
| formidably | (adverb) in a formidable manner | - |
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| formless | (adjective) having no physical form | - |
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| (adjective) having no definite form or distinct shape | Synonyms: amorphous, shapeless |
| formlessly | (adverb) in a formless manner | - |
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| formol | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formalin |
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| formula | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle | - |
| (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: recipe |
| (noun) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements | Synonyms: chemical formula |
| (noun) a liquid food for infants | - |
| formulaic | (adjective) characterized by or in accordance with some formula | - |
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| formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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| formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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| formulary | (adjective) of or relating to or of the nature of a formula | - |
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| (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
| formulate | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, explicate |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent |
| (verb) prepare according to a formula | - |
| formulated | (adjective) devised; developed according to an orderly plan | - |
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| formulation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: preparation |
| fusiform | (adjective) tapering at each end | Synonyms: cigar-shaped, spindle-shaped |
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| glowworm | (noun) the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly | - |
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| gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| gormless | (adjective) (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality | Synonyms: gaumless |
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| hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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| haloform | (noun) compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom | - |
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| hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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| (noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
| hormism | (noun) psychology concerned with the purposive factor or force in behavior. | Synonyms: hormic psychology |
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| hormonal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by hormones | - |
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| hormone | (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: endocrine, internal secretion |
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| inchworm | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: looper, measuring worm |
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| inform | (verb) give character or essence to | - |
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| (verb) impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to | - |
| (verb) act as an informer | - |
| informal | (adjective) not formal | - |
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| (adjective) used of spoken and written language | - |
| (adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cosy, cozy, intimate |
| (adjective) not officially recognized or controlled | Synonyms: loose |
| informality | (noun) a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | - |
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| (noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: ease |
| informally | (adverb) without formality | - |
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| (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: colloquially, conversationally |
| informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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| (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
| informatics | (noun) the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information | Synonyms: information processing, information science, IP |
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| information | (noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome | Synonyms: entropy, selective information |
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| (noun) knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction | - |
| (noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: info |
| (noun) formal accusation of a crime | - |
| (noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: data |
| informational | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of information | - |
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| informative | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informatory |
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| (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, illuminating |
| (adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: instructive |
| informatively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: instructively |
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| informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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| informed | (adjective) having much knowledge or education | - |
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| informer | (noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, rat, squealer |
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| informercial | (noun) a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary | Synonyms: infomercial |
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| informing | (noun) a speech act that conveys information | Synonyms: making known |
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| (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: ratting |
| iodoform | (noun) a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing | Synonyms: triiodomethane |
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| (noun) sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3 | Synonyms: tri-iodomethane |
| jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| lentiform | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular |
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| lobworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lug, lugworm |
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| lugworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lobworm, lug |
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| malformation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: miscreation |
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| (noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, misshapenness |
| malformed | (adjective) so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly | Synonyms: deformed, distorted, ill-shapen, misshapen |
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| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| metformin | (noun) an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes | Synonyms: Glucophage |
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| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| morbilliform | (adjective) of a rash that resembles that of measles | - |
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| motorman | (noun) the operator of streetcar | - |
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| motormouth | (noun) someone who talks incessantly | - |
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| multiform | (adjective) occurring in or having many forms or shapes or appearances | - |
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| neurohormone | (noun) a hormone that is released by nerve impulses (e.g., norepinephrine or vasopressin) | - |
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| nitrochloroform | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: chloropicrin |
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| nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
| nonconforming | (adjective) not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion | Synonyms: nonconformist |
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| nonconformism | (noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
| nonconformist | (adjective) not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought | Synonyms: unconformist |
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| (adjective) not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion | Synonyms: nonconforming |
| (noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct | Synonyms: recusant |
| nonconformity | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformance |
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| (noun) unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values | - |
| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformism |
| (noun) lack of harmony or correspondence | - |
| nonnormative | (adjective) not based on a norm | - |
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| nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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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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| norm | (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: average |
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| (noun) a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical | - |
| normal | (adjective) conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal | - |
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| (adjective) in accordance with scientific laws | - |
| (adjective) being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development | - |
| (adjective) forming a right angle | - |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, pattern, rule |
| normalcy | (noun) expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common | Synonyms: normality |
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| (noun) being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning | Synonyms: normality |
| normalisation | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalization, standardisation, standardization |
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| normalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalize, renormalise, renormalize |
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| (verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalize |
| normaliser | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normalizer |
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| normality | (noun) expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common | Synonyms: normalcy |
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| (noun) conformity with the norm | - |
| (noun) (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter | Synonyms: N |
| (noun) being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning | Synonyms: normalcy |
| normalization | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, standardisation, standardization |
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| normalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, renormalise, renormalize |
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| (verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: anneal, temper |
| (verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalise |
| normalizer | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normaliser |
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| normally | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: commonly, ordinarily, unremarkably, usually |
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| normative | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: prescriptive |
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| (adjective) relating to or dealing with norms | - |
| normotensive | (adjective) having normal blood pressure | - |
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| normothermia | (noun) normal body temperature | - |
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| ormer | (noun) an abalone found near the Channel Islands | Synonyms: Haliotis tuberculata, sea-ear |
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