professionalisation | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalization |
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professionalise | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalize |
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(verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalize |
professionalism | (noun) the expertness characteristic of a professional person | - |
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professionalization | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalisation |
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professionalize | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalise |
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(verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalise |
professionally | (adverb) in a professional manner | - |
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professor | (noun) someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | Synonyms: prof |
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professorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of professors | - |
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professorially | (adverb) in a professorial manner | - |
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professorship | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: chair |
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proffer | (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proposition, suggestion |
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(verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
proficiency | (noun) the quality of having great facility and competence | - |
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(noun) skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity | Synonyms: technique |
proficient | (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: technical |
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(adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful |
proficiently | (adverb) in a proficient manner | - |
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profile | (noun) biographical sketch | - |
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(noun) an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics | - |
(noun) a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers | - |
(noun) an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side) | - |
(noun) degree of exposure to public notice | Synonyms: visibility |
(verb) represent in profile, by drawing or painting | - |
(verb) write about | - |
profiling | (noun) recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people | - |
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profit | (noun) the advantageous quality of being beneficial | Synonyms: gain |
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(noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profits |
(verb) make a profit; gain money or materially | Synonyms: turn a profit |
(verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, gain |
profitability | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, lucrativeness, profitableness |
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profitable | (adjective) yielding material gain or profit | - |
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profitableness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, lucrativeness, profitability |
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(noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity |
profitably | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: fruitfully, productively |
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profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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(verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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profitless | (adjective) without profit or reward | - |
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profitlessly | (adverb) without gain or profit | Synonyms: gainlessly, unprofitably |
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profits | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit |
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(noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: win, winnings |
profligacy | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness |
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(noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, prodigality |
profligate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous |
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(adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift |
(noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
(noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |
profligately | (adverb) in a dissolute way | Synonyms: dissolutely |
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profound | (adjective) showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth | - |
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(adjective) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed | Synonyms: unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded |
(adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, sound, wakeless |
(adjective) of the greatest intensity; complete | - |
(adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: fundamental |
(adjective) coming from deep within one | - |
profoundly | (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: deeply, intensely |
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profoundness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profundity |
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(noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profundity |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity |
(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness |
(noun) extremeness of degree | - |
profundity | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profoundness |
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(noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profoundness |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness |
(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness |
profuse | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, riotous |
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profusely | (adverb) in an abundant manner | Synonyms: abundantly, copiously, extravagantly |
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profuseness | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profusion, richness |
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profusion | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, richness |
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progenitor | (noun) an ancestor in the direct line | Synonyms: primogenitor |
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progeny | (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, offspring |
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progeria | (noun) a rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child | - |
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progestational | (adjective) preceding and favoring gestation; of or relating to physiological changes associated with ovulation and formation of the corpus luteum | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to progesterone (or to a drug with effects like those of progesterone) | - |
progesterone | (noun) a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy | Synonyms: Lipo-Lutin |
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progestin | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestogen |
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progestogen | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestin |
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prognathic | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathous |
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prognathism | (noun) the condition of being prognathous; the condition of having a projecting jaw | - |
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prognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathic |
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prognosis | (noun) a prediction of the course of a disease | Synonyms: medical prognosis, prospect |
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(noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: forecast |
prognostic | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognosticative |
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(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
prognostication | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prophecy, vaticination |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prediction |
(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic |
prognosticative | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognostic |
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prognosticator | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, soothsayer |
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program | (noun) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation | Synonyms: programme |
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(noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: plan, programme |
(noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need | Synonyms: programme |
(noun) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event | Synonyms: programme |
(noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: broadcast, programme |
(noun) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute | Synonyms: computer program, computer programme, programme |
(noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: platform, political platform, political program |
(noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, programme, syllabus |
(verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: programme |
(verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: programme |
programing | (noun) creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something | Synonyms: computer programing, computer programming, programming |
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(noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programming, scheduling |
programma | (noun) an edict that has been publicly posted | - |
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programmability | (noun) the abstract capability of being programmable. | - |
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programme | (noun) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation | Synonyms: program |
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(noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: plan, program |
(noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need | Synonyms: program |
(noun) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event | Synonyms: program |
(noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: broadcast, program |
(noun) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute | Synonyms: computer program, computer programme, program |
(noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, syllabus |
(verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: program |
(verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: program |
programmer | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: coder, computer programmer, software engineer |
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programming | (noun) creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something | Synonyms: computer programing, computer programming, programing |
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(noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, scheduling |
progress | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progression |
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(noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: advancement |
(noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progression |
(verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
(verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
(verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
progression | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress |
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(noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progress |
(noun) a series with a definite pattern of advance | Synonyms: patterned advance |
progressive | (adjective) favoring or promoting progress | - |
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(adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | - |
(adjective) advancing in severity | - |
(adjective) gradually advancing in extent | - |
(adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist |
(adjective) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position | - |
(noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, liberalist |
(noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense |
progressively | (adverb) advancing in amount or intensity | Synonyms: increasingly, more and more |
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progressiveness | (noun) advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | Synonyms: progressivity |
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progressivism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society | - |
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progressivity | (noun) advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | Synonyms: progressiveness |
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progymnosperm | (noun) an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived | - |
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prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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prohibited | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: banned |
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(adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
prohibition | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: forbiddance, inhibition |
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(noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, proscription |
(noun) refusal to approve or assent to | - |
(noun) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
(noun) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment | Synonyms: prohibition era |
prohibitionist | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: dry |
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prohibitive | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitory |
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prohibitively | (adverb) to a prohibitive degree | - |
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prohibitory | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitive |
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proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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project | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, task, undertaking |
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(noun) a planned undertaking | Synonyms: projection |
(verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: propose |
(verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, externalize |
(verb) communicate vividly | - |
(verb) throw, send, or cast forward | Synonyms: send off |
(verb) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another | - |
(verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize |
(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, plan |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw |
(verb) draw a projection of | - |
(verb) cause to be heard | - |
(verb) project on a screen | - |
(verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out |
projected | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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projectile | (adjective) impelling or impelled forward | - |
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(noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: missile |
(noun) any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine | Synonyms: rocket |
projecting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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projection | (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: ejection, expulsion, forcing out |
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(noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, jutting, protrusion |
(noun) any structure that branches out from a central support | - |
(noun) the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction | - |
(noun) a planned undertaking | Synonyms: project |
(noun) a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations | - |
(noun) the projection of an image from a film onto a screen | - |
(noun) the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality | Synonyms: acoustic projection, sound projection |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else | - |
(noun) any solid convex shape that juts out from something | - |
projectionist | (noun) the person who operates the projector in a movie house | - |
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projector | (noun) an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen | - |
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(noun) an optical device for projecting a beam of light | - |
prokaryote | (noun) a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | Synonyms: procaryote |
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prokaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: procaryotic |
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prolactin | (noun) gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition | Synonyms: lactogenic hormone, luteotropin |
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prolamine | (noun) a simple protein found in plants | - |
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prolapse | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapsus |
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(verb) slip or fall out of place, as of body parts | - |
prolapsus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapse |
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prolate | (adjective) having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter | Synonyms: watermelon-shaped |
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(adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid |
prole | (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: proletarian, worker |
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prolegomenon | (noun) a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise | - |
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prolepsis | (noun) anticipating and answering objections in advance | - |
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proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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(noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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proletariat | (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, labour, working class |
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proliferate | (verb) grow rapidly | - |
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(verb) cause to grow or increase rapidly | - |
proliferation | (noun) growth by the rapid multiplication of parts | - |
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(noun) a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons) | - |
prolific | (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: fertile |
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(adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, fertile |
prolificacy | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, rankness, richness |
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