| aboriginal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning | Synonyms: native |
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| (adjective) having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state | Synonyms: primaeval, primal, primeval, primordial |
| (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
| aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, indigen, indigene, native |
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| affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
| alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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| (adverb) an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence | Synonyms: all right, fine, OK, very well |
| (adverb) without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion) | Synonyms: all right |
| (adverb) in a satisfactory or adequate manner | Synonyms: all right, O.K., okay |
| aright | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: correctly, right |
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| balbriggan | (noun) a cotton knit fabric used for underwear | - |
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| birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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| (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
| brig | (noun) a penal institution (especially on board a ship) | - |
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| (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts | - |
| brigade | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, typically consisting of a small number of battalions | - |
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| (verb) form or unite into a brigade | - |
| brigadier | (noun) a general officer ranking below a major general | Synonyms: brigadier general |
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| brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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| brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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| brigantine | (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast | Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig |
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| bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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| (adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
| (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
| (adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
| (adjective) splendid | - |
| (adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
| (adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
| (adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
| (adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
| (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: brightly, brilliantly |
| brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
| brightly | (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brilliantly |
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| brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
| budgerigar | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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| cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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| churrigueresco | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresque |
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| churrigueresque | (adjective) having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation | Synonyms: baroque, churrigueresco |
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| copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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| (verb) secure a copyright on a written work | - |
| copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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| corrigible | (adjective) capable of being corrected or set right | - |
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| dirigible | (adjective) capable of being steered or directed | Synonyms: steerable |
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| (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: airship |
| downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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| (adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
| (adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: outright |
| downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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| forthright | (adjective) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion | Synonyms: blunt, candid, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight-from-the-shoulder |
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| (adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthrightly, squarely |
| forthrightly | (adverb) directly and without evasion; not roundabout | Synonyms: forthright, squarely |
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| forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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| frigate | (noun) a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser | - |
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| (noun) a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries | - |
| fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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| (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, frighten, scare |
| frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
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| frightened | (adjective) made afraid | Synonyms: scared |
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| (adjective) thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation | Synonyms: panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, panicky, terrified |
| frightening | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
| frighteningly | (adverb) in a terrifying manner | Synonyms: scarily |
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| frightful | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, horrible, horrifying, ugly |
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| (adjective) extremely distressing | Synonyms: fearful |
| (adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, terrible, tremendous |
| frightfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, awfully, terribly |
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| frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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| frigid | (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, gelid, glacial, icy, polar |
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| (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry |
| (adjective) sexually unresponsive | Synonyms: cold |
| frigidity | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidness, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidness |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidness, low temperature |
| frigidly | (adverb) without warmth or enthusiasm | Synonyms: frostily |
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| frigidness | (noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, iciness |
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| (noun) sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse | Synonyms: frigidity |
| (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, coldness, frigidity, low temperature |
| frigorific | (adjective) causing cold; cooling or chilling | - |
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| grigri | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: greegree, gres-gris |
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| hayrig | (noun) a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry | Synonyms: hayrack |
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| incorrigible | (adjective) impervious to correction by punishment | - |
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| (adjective) difficult or impossible to manage or control | - |
| incorrigibly | (adverb) in an incorrigible manner | - |
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| infrigidation | (noun) the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes | Synonyms: refrigeration |
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| intertrigo | (noun) chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs) | - |
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| intrigue | (noun) a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends | Synonyms: machination |
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| (noun) a clandestine love affair | - |
| (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, scheme |
| (verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: fascinate |
| intriguer | (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: designer |
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| intriguing | (adjective) capable of arousing interest or curiosity | - |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: challenging |
| irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
| irrigation | (noun) supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc | - |
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| (noun) (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution | - |
| krigia | (noun) any small branched yellow-flowered North American herb of the genus Krigia | - |
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| madrigal | (noun) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form | - |
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| (verb) sing madrigals | - |
| madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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| marigold | (noun) any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers | - |
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| millwright | (noun) a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery | - |
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| nonrigid | (adjective) designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure | - |
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| oilrig | (noun) rig used in drilling for oil or gas | Synonyms: drill rig, drilling rig, oil rig |
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| origami | (noun) the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds) | - |
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| origanum | (noun) any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings | - |
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| origin | (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: descent, extraction |
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| (noun) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero | - |
| (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origination |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, root, rootage, source |
| (noun) the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived | - |
| original | (adjective) being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of | - |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary | - |
| (adjective) not derived or copied or translated from something else | - |
| (adjective) preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed | - |
| (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master, master copy |
| (noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, pilot |
| originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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| originality | (noun) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | - |
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| (noun) the ability to think and act independently | - |
| originally | (adverb) in an manner suggesting originality | - |
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| (adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, primitively |
| (adverb) before now | Synonyms: earlier, in the beginning, in the first place, to begin with |
| originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
| (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
| origination | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction |
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| (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origin |
| originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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| (adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
| originator | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, mastermind |
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| outrigged | (adjective) rigged with a structure projecting from or over the side of a boat for various purposes; to prevent capsizing or to support an oarlock or to help secure a mast etc | - |
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| outrigger | (noun) a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull | - |
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| outright | (adjective) without reservation or exception | Synonyms: straight-out, unlimited |
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| (adverb) without reservation or concealment | - |
| (adverb) without restrictions or stipulations or further payments | - |
| (adverb) without any delay | Synonyms: in a flash, instantaneously, instantly |
| (adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: downright |
| perigee | (noun) periapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is nearest to the Earth | - |
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| perigon | (noun) an angle of 360 degrees | Synonyms: round angle |
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| perigonal | (adjective) of or relating to a perigone | - |
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| perigone | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perianth, perigonium |
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| perigonium | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perianth, perigone |
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| playwright | (noun) someone who writes plays | Synonyms: dramatist |
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| ploughwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: plowwright |
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| plowwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs plows | Synonyms: ploughwright |
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| prig | (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: snob, snoot, snot |
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| priggish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| priggishly | (adverb) in a priggish manner | - |
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| priggishness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: primness |
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| prurigo | (noun) chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching | - |
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| refrigerant | (adjective) causing cooling or freezing | Synonyms: refrigerating |
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| (noun) any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator) | - |
| refrigerate | (verb) cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator | - |
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| (verb) preserve by chilling | - |
| refrigerated | (adjective) made or kept cold by refrigeration | - |
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| refrigerating | (adjective) causing cooling or freezing | Synonyms: refrigerant |
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| refrigeration | (noun) deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes | - |
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| (noun) the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes | Synonyms: infrigidation |
| refrigerator | (noun) white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures | Synonyms: icebox |
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| rig | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, swindle |
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| (noun) gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise | - |
| (noun) formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel | Synonyms: rigging |
| (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: getup, outfit, turnout |
| (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: carriage, equipage |
| (noun) a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together | Synonyms: articulated lorry, semi, tractor trailer, trailer truck, trucking rig |
| (noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, tackle |
| (verb) equip with sails or masts | Synonyms: set, set up |
| (verb) connect or secure to | - |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: manipulate |
| (verb) arrange the outcome of by means of deceit | Synonyms: set up |
| rigamarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigmarole |
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| (noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigmarole |
| rigatoni | (noun) tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces | - |
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