| agribusiness | (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agriculture, factory farm |
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| arariba | (noun) Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood | Synonyms: Centrolobium robustum |
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| ascribable | (adjective) capable of being assigned or credited to | Synonyms: due, imputable, referable |
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| ascribe | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: assign, attribute, impute |
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| attributable | (adjective) capable of being attributed | - |
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| attribute | (noun) an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity | - |
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| (noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: dimension, property |
| (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, impute |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: assign |
| attribution | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: ascription |
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| (noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: ascription |
| attributive | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: prenominal |
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| attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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| beriberi | (noun) avitaminosis caused by lack of thiamine (vitamin B1) | - |
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| bribable | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: corruptible, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| bribe | (noun) payment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt his judgment | Synonyms: payoff |
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| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: buy, corrupt, grease one's palms |
| briber | (noun) someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act | Synonyms: suborner |
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| bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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| caribe | (noun) small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals | Synonyms: pirana, piranha |
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| caribou | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, reindeer |
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| circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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| (verb) draw a line around | - |
| (verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
| circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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| contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
| (verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| contribution | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: donation |
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| (noun) a writing for publication especially one of a collection of writings as an article or story | - |
| (noun) the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result | Synonyms: part, share |
| (noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: donation |
| (noun) an amount of money contributed | - |
| contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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| contributor | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: subscriber |
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| (noun) a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | - |
| contributory | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, tributary |
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| corncrib | (noun) a crib for storing and drying ears of corn | - |
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| crib | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: cribbage |
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| (noun) the cards discarded by players at cribbage | - |
| (noun) baby bed with high sides made of slats | Synonyms: cot |
| (noun) a bin or granary for storing grains | - |
| (noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: pony, trot |
| (verb) line with beams or planks | - |
| (verb) take unauthorized (intellectual material) | - |
| (verb) use a crib, as in an exam | - |
| cribbage | (noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two | Synonyms: crib |
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| deoxyribose | (noun) a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids | - |
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| describable | (adjective) capable of being described | - |
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| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| described | (adjective) represented in words especially with sharpness and detail | - |
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| detribalisation | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalization |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalization |
| detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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| detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
| detribalize | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalise |
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| diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: fulmination |
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| distributary | (noun) a branch of a river that flows away from the main stream and does not rejoin it | - |
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| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| distributed | (adjective) spread out or scattered about or divided up | - |
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| distributer | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributor, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributor |
| distribution | (noun) the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning | - |
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| (noun) the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer | - |
| (noun) the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume | Synonyms: dispersion |
| (noun) (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence | Synonyms: statistical distribution |
| distributional | (adjective) of or relating to spatial distribution | - |
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| distributive | (adjective) serving to distribute or allot or disperse | - |
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| distributively | (adverb) in a distributive manner | - |
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| (adverb) as individuals or as separate units (not collectively) | - |
| distributor | (noun) electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence | Synonyms: distributer, electrical distributor |
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| (noun) a company that markets merchandise | - |
| (noun) someone who markets merchandise | Synonyms: distributer |
| (noun) a person with authority to allot or deal out or apportion | Synonyms: allocator |
| drib | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: driblet, drop |
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| dribble | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribbling |
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| (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slobber |
| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: drip, trickle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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| (noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| driblet | (noun) a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid) | Synonyms: drib, drop |
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| equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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| garibaldi | (noun) a loose high-necked blouse with long sleeves; styled after the red flannel shirts worn by Garibaldi's soldiers | - |
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| horrible | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly |
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| horribly | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, dreadfully |
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| indescribability | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribableness |
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| indescribable | (adjective) defying expression or description | Synonyms: indefinable, ineffable, unspeakable, untellable, unutterable |
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| indescribableness | (noun) The quality or state of being impossible, or very difficult to describe. | Synonyms: indescribability |
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| indescribably | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: ineffably, inexpressibly, unspeakably, unutterably |
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| inscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: autograph |
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| (verb) address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication | - |
| (verb) write, engrave, or print as a lasting record | - |
| (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, encrypt, write in code |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, scratch |
| (verb) draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, raise, recruit |
| inscribed | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, graven, incised |
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| (adjective) written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface | - |
| intertribal | (adjective) between or among tribes | - |
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| midrib | (noun) the vein in the center of a leaf | Synonyms: midvein |
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| moribund | (adjective) being on the point of death; breathing your last | - |
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| (adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: stagnant |
| oversubscribed | (adjective) sold in excess of available supply especially season tickets | - |
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| prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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| (verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
| (verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
| prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
| proscribe | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, veto |
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| proscribed | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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| reattribute | (verb) attribute to another source | - |
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| redistribute | (verb) distribute anew | - |
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| redistributed | (adjective) having population and industries relocated from urban to outlying areas | - |
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| redistribution | (noun) distributing again | - |
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| retribution | (noun) the act of correcting for your wrongdoing | - |
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| (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, vengeance |
| (noun) a justly deserved penalty | Synonyms: requital |
| retributive | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributory, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributory, vindicatory |
| retributory | (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, vindicatory |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, vindicatory |
| rib | (noun) support resembling the rib of an animal | - |
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| (noun) a projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural | - |
| (noun) any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) | Synonyms: costa |
| (noun) a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant | - |
| (noun) a teasing remark | - |
| (noun) cut of meat including one or more ribs | - |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, ridicule, roast |
| (verb) form vertical ribs by knitting | - |
| ribald | (adjective) humorously vulgar | Synonyms: bawdy, off-color |
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| (noun) a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language | - |
| ribaldry | (noun) behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | Synonyms: gaminess, raciness, spiciness |
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| (noun) ribald humor | - |
| riband | (noun) a ribbon used as a decoration | Synonyms: ribband |
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| ribavirin | (noun) an inhaled antiviral agent (trade name Virazole) that may be used to treat serious virus infections | Synonyms: Virazole |
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| ribband | (noun) a ribbon used as a decoration | Synonyms: riband |
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| ribbed | (adjective) furnished or strengthened with ribs | - |
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| (adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: costate |
| ribbing | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: tantalization, tease, teasing |
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| (noun) a framework of ribs | - |
| ribbon | (noun) notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming | - |
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| (noun) a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter | Synonyms: typewriter ribbon |
| (noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm |
| (noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: thread |
| ribbonfish | (noun) marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body | - |
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| (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, oarfish, Regalecus glesne |
| ribbonlike | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbony |
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| ribbonwood | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark |
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| (noun) deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton | Synonyms: Plagianthus betulinus, Plagianthus regius, ribbon tree |
| ribbony | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbonlike |
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| ribgrass | (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribwort, ripple-grass |
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| ribier | (noun) dark reddish-purple table grape of California | - |
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| ribless | (adjective) having no ribs or no visible ribs | - |
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| riblike | (adjective) resembling a rib | - |
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| riboflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, lactoflavin, ovoflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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| ribonuclease | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonucleinase, RNase |
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| ribonucleinase | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonuclease, RNase |
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| ribose | (noun) a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid | - |
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| ribosome | (noun) an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell | - |
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| ribwort | (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ripple-grass |
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| scribble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scrabble |
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| (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scrawl |
| (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
| scribbler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scrawler |
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| (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribe |