| firkin | (noun) a small wooden keg | - |
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| (noun) a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons | - |
| flatwork | (noun) ironing that can be done mechanically | Synonyms: flat wash |
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| footmark | (noun) a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface | Synonyms: footprint, step |
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| footwork | (noun) the manner of using the feet | - |
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| (noun) skillful maneuvering or dealing | - |
| fork | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, forking, ramification |
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| (noun) a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food | - |
| (noun) an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs | - |
| (noun) the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk | Synonyms: crotch |
| (noun) the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches | Synonyms: crotch |
| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate |
| (verb) shape like a fork | - |
| (verb) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces | - |
| (verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: pitchfork |
| forked | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, pronged, prongy |
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| (adjective) having two meanings with intent to deceive | Synonyms: double |
| forking | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, ramification |
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| (noun) the place where something divides into branches | Synonyms: furcation |
| forklift | (noun) a small industrial vehicle with a power operated forked platform in front that can be inserted under loads to lift and move them | - |
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| framework | (noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: frame |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: fabric |
| (noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process | Synonyms: model, theoretical account |
| fretwork | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: lattice, latticework |
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| furket | (noun) A forked pole, about four feet in length, used as a support for muskets. | Synonyms: musket rest |
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| gasworks | (noun) the workplace where coal gas is manufactured | - |
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| gherkin | (noun) small prickly cucumber | - |
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| (noun) any of various small cucumbers pickled whole | - |
| glasswork | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glassware |
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| glassworker | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glazer, glazier |
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| glassworks | (noun) a workplace where glass is made | - |
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| goldworker | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldsmith |
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| greenmarket | (noun) an open-air marketplace for farm products | Synonyms: farmer's market, green market |
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| grillwork | (noun) mesh netting made of wires | Synonyms: wirework |
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| (noun) a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate | Synonyms: grill, grille |
| groundwork | (noun) preliminary preparation as a basis or foundation | - |
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| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament |
| guesswork | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot |
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| guestworker | (noun) a person with temporary permission to work in another country | Synonyms: guest worker |
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| hackwork | (noun) professional work done according to formula | - |
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| (noun) (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) undistinguished literary work produced to order. | - |
| hallmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, stylemark, trademark |
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| (noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, authentication |
| handiwork | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handicraft, handwork |
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| handwork | (noun) a work produced by hand labor | Synonyms: handcraft, handicraft, handiwork |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| hark | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: harken, hearken |
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| harken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, hearken |
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| hashmark | (noun) an insignia worn to indicate years of service | Synonyms: hash mark, service stripe |
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| hauberk | (noun) a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor | Synonyms: byrnie |
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| hayfork | (noun) a long-handled fork for turning or lifting hay | - |
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| hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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| homework | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: school assignment, schoolwork |
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| hornwork | (noun) an element of the trace italienne system of fortification that consists of a pair of demi-bastions. | - |
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| housework | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housekeeping |
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| hyperkalemia | (noun) higher than normal levels of potassium in the circulating blood; associated with kidney failure or sometimes with the use of diuretic drugs | - |
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| hypermarket | (noun) a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town) | - |
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| irk | (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: gall |
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| irksome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| ironwork | (noun) work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc) | - |
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| ironworker | (noun) a person who makes articles of iron | - |
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| ironworks | (noun) the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made | - |
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| jerk | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerking, jolt, saccade |
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| (noun) a sudden abrupt pull | Synonyms: tug |
| (noun) raising a weight from shoulder height to above the head by straightening the arms | - |
| (noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerked meat, jerky |
| (noun) a dull stupid fatuous person | Synonyms: dork |
| (noun) (mechanics) the rate of change of acceleration | - |
| (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) pull, or move with a sudden movement | Synonyms: yank |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, hitch |
| jerker | (noun) someone who gives a strong sudden pull | Synonyms: yanker |
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| jerkily | (adverb) with jerking motions | - |
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| (adverb) with spasms | Synonyms: spasmodically |
| jerkin | (noun) a tight sleeveless and collarless jacket (often made of leather) worn by men in former times | - |
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| jerkiness | (noun) the quality of being spasmodic and irregular | Synonyms: fitfulness |
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| jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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| (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jolt, saccade |
| jerkwater | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: one-horse, pokey, poky |
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| jerky | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy |
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| (adjective) marked by abrupt transitions | Synonyms: choppy |
| (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerking |
| (noun) meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun | Synonyms: jerk, jerked meat |
| kilderkin | (noun) an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons | - |
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| kirk | (noun) a Scottish church | - |
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| knitwork | (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitting |
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| kwashiorkor | (noun) severe malnutrition in children resulting from a diet excessively high in carbohydrates and low in protein | - |
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| lacebark | (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, ribbonwood |
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| lacework | (noun) work consisting of (or resembling) lace fabric | - |
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| landmark | (noun) an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken | - |
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| (noun) a mark showing the boundary of a piece of land | - |
| (noun) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | Synonyms: turning point, watershed |
| (noun) the position of a prominent or well-known object in a particular landscape | - |
| lark | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: escapade |
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| (noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | - |
| (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: pipit, titlark |
| (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: meadowlark |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
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| leatherwork | (noun) work made of leather | - |
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| lifework | (noun) the principal work of your career | - |
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| lurk | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence pubilc | - |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: skulk |
| lurker | (noun) someone waiting in concealment | Synonyms: lurcher, skulker |
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| malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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| malarky | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, nothingness, wind |
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| mark | (noun) something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal | Synonyms: bell ringer, bull's eye, home run |
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| (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: scar, scrape, scratch |
| (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: crisscross, cross |
| (noun) the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember | - |
| (noun) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance) | Synonyms: grade, score |
| (noun) a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation) | - |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, stain, stigma |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: marker, marking |
| (noun) a visible indication made on a surface | Synonyms: print |
| (noun) a reference point to shoot at | Synonyms: target |
| (noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | Synonyms: sign |
| (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
| (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Germany | Synonyms: Deutsche Mark, Deutschmark, German mark |
| (verb) make or leave a mark on | - |
| (verb) insert punctuation marks into | Synonyms: punctuate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, score |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: commemorate |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check, check off, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish |
| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: score |
| (verb) remove from a list | Synonyms: cross off, cross out, strike off, strike out |
| (verb) designate as if by a mark | - |
| (verb) establish as the highest level or best performance | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: nock, score |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: pit, pock, scar |
| (verb) attach a tag or label to | Synonyms: label, tag |
| (verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: note, notice |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, denounce, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| marked | (adjective) having or as if having an identifying mark or a mark as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) singled out for notice or especially for a dire fate | - |
| (adjective) strongly marked; easily noticeable | Synonyms: pronounced |
| markedly | (adverb) in a clearly noticeable manner | - |
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| marker | (noun) some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something | - |
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| (noun) a writing implement for making a mark | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marking |
| market | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market place, marketplace |
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| (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery, grocery store |
| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market place, marketplace, mart |
| (noun) the customers for a particular product or service | - |
| (noun) the securities markets in the aggregate | Synonyms: securities industry |
| (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, commercialize |
| (verb) engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of | - |
| (verb) deal in a market | - |
| (verb) buy household supplies | - |
| marketable | (adjective) capable of being marketed | - |
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| (adjective) being in demand by especially employers | - |
| (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: merchantable, sellable, vendable, vendible |
| marketer | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: seller, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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| marketing | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: merchandising, selling |
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| (noun) shopping at a market | - |
| (noun) the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service | - |
| marketplace | (noun) the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold | Synonyms: market, market place |
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| (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market, market place, mart |
| markhoor | (noun) large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns | Synonyms: Capra falconeri, markhor |
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| markhor | (noun) large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns | Synonyms: Capra falconeri, markhoor |
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| marking | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: grading, scoring |
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| (noun) the act of making a visible mark on a surface | - |
| (noun) a pattern of marks | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marker |
| markka | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Finland | Synonyms: Finnish mark |
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| marksman | (noun) someone skilled in shooting | Synonyms: crack shot, sharpshooter |
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| marksmanship | (noun) skill in shooting | - |
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| markup | (noun) detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics) | - |
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| (noun) the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price | - |
| markweed | (noun) climbing plant common in eastern and central United States with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries; yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact | Synonyms: poison ivy, poison mercury, poison oak, Rhus radicans, Toxicodendron radicans |
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| mazurka | (noun) a Polish national dance in triple time | - |
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| (noun) music composed for dancing the mazurka | - |
| meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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| meerkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: mierkat |
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| meshwork | (noun) an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | Synonyms: mesh, meshing, net, network |
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| metalwork | (noun) the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | Synonyms: metalworking |
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| (noun) the metal parts of something | - |
| metalworker | (noun) someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) | Synonyms: smith |
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| metalworking | (noun) the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | Synonyms: metalwork |
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| metalworks | (noun) factory where metal castings are produced | Synonyms: foundry |
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| mierkat | (noun) a mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes | Synonyms: meerkat |
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| millwork | (noun) woodwork that has been machined at a mill | - |
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| mineworker | (noun) laborer who works in a mine | Synonyms: miner |
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| mintmark | (noun) a mark on a coin that identifies the mint where it was produced | - |
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| mirky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, muddy, murky, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: murky |
| murk | (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murkiness |
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| (verb) make dark, dim, or gloomy | - |
| murkily | (adverb) with a dim light | Synonyms: dimly |
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| (adverb) unclearly; opaquely | - |
| murkiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, muddiness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murk |