| already | (adverb) prior to a specified or implied time | - |
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| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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| bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
| (verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
| breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
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| (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
| (noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
| breadboard | (noun) a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced | Synonyms: bread board |
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| breadbox | (noun) a container used to keep bread or cake in | Synonyms: bread-bin |
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| breadcrumb | (noun) crumb of bread; used especially for coating or thickening | - |
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| breadfruit | (noun) a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts | - |
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| (noun) native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread | Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree |
| breadline | (noun) a queue of people waiting for free food | Synonyms: bread line |
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| breadroot | (noun) densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots | Synonyms: Indian breadroot, pomme blanche, pomme de prairie, Psoralea esculenta |
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| breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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| breadstuff | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: bread, staff of life |
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| (noun) flour or meal or grain used in baking bread | - |
| breadth | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: width |
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| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: comprehensiveness, largeness |
| breadthways | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthwise, broadwise |
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| breadthwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, broadwise |
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| breadwinner | (noun) one whose earnings are the primary source of support for their dependents | - |
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| copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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| copyreader | (noun) an editor who prepares text for publication | Synonyms: copy editor, text editor |
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| cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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| dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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| dread | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
| (verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: fear |
| dreaded | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| dreadful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extremely disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| dreadfully | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, horribly |
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| (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dismally |
| dreadfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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| flatbread | (noun) any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough | - |
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| gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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| goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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| hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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| handbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handsbreadth |
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| handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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| makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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| midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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| misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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| (verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
| misreading | (noun) misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading | - |
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| newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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| nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
| outspread | (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: spread |
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| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| read | (noun) something that is read | - |
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| (verb) interpret something that is written or printed | - |
| (verb) look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed | - |
| (verb) interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior | - |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, translate, understand |
| (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, study, take |
| (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: scan |
| (verb) to hear and understand | - |
| (verb) interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: record, register, show |
| (verb) audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role | - |
| (verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: say |
| readability | (noun) the quality of written language that makes it easy to read and understand | - |
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| (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: legibility |
| readable | (adjective) easily deciphered | Synonyms: clear, decipherable |
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| readably | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: decipherably, legibly |
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| readapt | (verb) adapt anew | - |
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| (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readjust |
| reader | (noun) one of a series of texts for students learning to read | - |
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| (noun) a person who enjoys reading | - |
| (noun) a public lecturer at certain universities | Synonyms: lector, lecturer |
| (noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: subscriber |
| (noun) a person who can read; a literate person | - |
| (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: proofreader |
| (noun) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication | Synonyms: referee, reviewer |
| (noun) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: lector |
| readership | (noun) the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) | - |
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| readily | (adverb) without much difficulty | - |
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| (adverb) in a punctual manner | Synonyms: promptly, pronto |
| readiness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: eagerness, forwardness, zeal |
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| (noun) a natural effortlessness | Synonyms: facility |
| (noun) (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way | Synonyms: set |
| (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparation, preparedness |
| reading | (noun) the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments | Synonyms: meter reading |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message | - |
| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: interpretation, version |
| (noun) a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument | Synonyms: indication, meter reading |
| (noun) written material intended to be read | Synonyms: reading material |
| (noun) a particular interpretation or performance | - |
| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: recital, recitation |
| readjust | (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readapt |
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| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: reset |
| readjustment | (noun) the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances) | - |
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| (noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, registration |
| readmission | (noun) the act of admitting someone again | - |
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| readmit | (verb) admit anew | - |
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| (verb) admit again or anew | - |
| readout | (noun) an electronic device that displays information | Synonyms: read-out |
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| (noun) the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device | Synonyms: read-out |
| (noun) the output of a computer in readable form | Synonyms: read-out |
| ready | (adjective) completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress | - |
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| (adjective) apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity | Synonyms: quick |
| (adjective) made suitable and available for immediate use | - |
| (adjective) mentally disposed | - |
| (adjective) (of especially money) immediately available | - |
| (noun) poised for action | - |
| (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, set, set up |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, prepare |
| readying | (noun) the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose | Synonyms: preparation |
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| reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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| retread | (noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: recap |
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| (verb) give new treads to (a tire) | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, rework |
| shortbread | (noun) very rich thick butter cookie | Synonyms: shortbread cookie |
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| sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| sowbread | (noun) common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers | Synonyms: Cyclamen hederifolium, Cyclamen neopolitanum |
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| spread | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: dispersed |
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| (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: outspread |
| (adjective) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out | - |
| (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane |
| (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, ranch |
| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: scatter |
| (noun) the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age) | - |
| (noun) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread head, spreadhead |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: paste |
| (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| spreader | (noun) a hand tool for spreading something | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: broadcaster |
| spreadhead | (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread, spread head |
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| spreading | (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, dissemination, public exposure |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spread |
| spreadsheet | (noun) a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen | - |
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| sweetbread | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbreads |
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| sweetbreads | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbread |
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| thickspread | (adjective) covered thickly | - |
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| thread | (noun) a fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving | Synonyms: yarn |
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| (noun) the raised helical rib going around a screw | Synonyms: screw thread |
| (noun) the connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together | Synonyms: train of thought |
| (noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: ribbon |
| (verb) pass a thread through | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, string |
| (verb) remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string | - |
| (verb) pass through or into | - |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, wander, weave, wind |
| threadbare | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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| (adjective) having the nap worn away so that the threads show through | - |
| threaded | (adjective) (of bolts or screws) having screw threads | - |
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| threader | (noun) a blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops | Synonyms: bodkin |
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| threadfin | (noun) mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays | - |
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| threadfish | (noun) fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins | Synonyms: Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish |
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| threadiness | (noun) The state or quality of consisting of or bearing fibers or filaments. | - |
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| threadlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, thready |
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| threads | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: duds, togs |
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| threadworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, pinworm |
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| thready | (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, stringy |
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| (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filamentous, filiform, threadlike |
| toreador | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: bullfighter |
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| tread | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, stride |
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| (noun) structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step | - |
| (noun) the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground | - |
| (noun) the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire | - |
| (verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
| (verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
| (verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |
| treadle | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, pedal |
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| (verb) operate (machinery) by a treadle | - |
| (verb) tread over | - |
| treadmill | (noun) a job involving drudgery and confinement | Synonyms: salt mine |
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| (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadwheel |
| (noun) an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place | - |
| treadwheel | (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadmill |
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| unread | (adjective) not informed through reading | - |
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| unreadable | (adjective) not easily deciphered | Synonyms: indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable |
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