formalwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear |
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format | (noun) the general appearance of a publication | - |
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(noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, formatting |
(verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: initialise, initialize |
(verb) determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) | - |
(verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: arrange |
formation | (noun) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape | Synonyms: shaping |
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(noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, establishment, organisation, organization |
(noun) creation by mental activity | - |
(noun) a particular spatial arrangement | - |
(noun) an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit | - |
(noun) (geology) the geological features of the earth | Synonyms: geological formation |
(noun) natural process that causes something to form | - |
formative | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: plastic, shaping |
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(adjective) capable of forming new cells and tissues | - |
(noun) minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function | - |
formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
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geothermal | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermic |
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geothermally | (adverb) by means of heat from the interior of the earth | - |
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germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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germane | (adjective) relevant and appropriate | - |
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germaneness | (noun) pertinence by virtue of a close relation to the matter at hand | - |
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germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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germanium | (noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite | Synonyms: atomic number 32, Ge |
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gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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harmattan | (noun) a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter | - |
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hermaphrodism | (noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphroditism |
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hermaphrodite | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphroditic |
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(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene, epicene person, gynandromorph, intersex |
hermaphroditic | (adjective) of animal or plant; having both male female reproductive organs | Synonyms: hermaphrodite |
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(adjective) of or relating to monoclinous plants | - |
hermaphroditism | (noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, bisexuality |
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(noun) congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | Synonyms: hermaphrodism |
hypermarket | (noun) a huge supermarket (usually built on the outskirts of a town) | - |
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hypermastigote | (noun) flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites | - |
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hyperthermal | (adjective) of or relating to or affected by hyperthermia | - |
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hypodermal | (adjective) of or relating to the hypodermis | - |
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impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
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impermanency | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanence |
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impermanent | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: temporary |
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(adjective) existing or enduring for a limited time only | - |
infirmary | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: hospital |
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informal | (adjective) not formal | - |
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(adjective) used of spoken and written language | - |
(adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cosy, cozy, intimate |
(adjective) not officially recognized or controlled | Synonyms: loose |
informality | (noun) a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | - |
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(noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: ease |
informally | (adverb) without formality | - |
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(adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: colloquially, conversationally |
informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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(noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
informatics | (noun) the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information | Synonyms: information processing, information science, IP |
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information | (noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome | Synonyms: entropy, selective information |
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(noun) knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction | - |
(noun) a message received and understood | Synonyms: info |
(noun) formal accusation of a crime | - |
(noun) a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn | Synonyms: data |
informational | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of information | - |
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informative | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informatory |
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(adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, illuminating |
(adjective) serving to instruct or enlighten or inform | Synonyms: instructive |
informatively | (adverb) in an informative manner | Synonyms: instructively |
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informatory | (adjective) providing or conveying information | Synonyms: informative |
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intermarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, inmarriage |
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(noun) marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law | Synonyms: exogamy |
intermarry | (verb) marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group | - |
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intradermal | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermic |
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intradermally | (adverb) into the skin | - |
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isothermal | (adjective) of a process or change taking place at constant temperature | - |
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jiggermast | (noun) any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl | Synonyms: jigger |
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karma | (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation | - |
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keratoderma | (noun) any skin disorder consisting of a growth that appears horny | Synonyms: keratodermia |
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letterman | (noun) an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport | - |
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leukoderma | (noun) a congenital skin condition characterized by spots or bands of unpigmented skin | - |
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lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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lobsterman | (noun) a person whose occupation is catching lobsters | - |
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lumberman | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberjack |
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malformation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: miscreation |
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(noun) an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed | Synonyms: deformity, misshapenness |
marmalade | (noun) a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits | - |
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melanoderma | (noun) abnormally dark skin caused by increased deposits of melatonin | - |
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mermaid | (noun) half woman and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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merman | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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mesodermal | (adjective) relating to or derived from the mesoderm | Synonyms: mesoblastic |
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misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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motorman | (noun) the operator of streetcar | - |
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neurodermatitis | (noun) dermatitis in which localized areas (especially the forearms or back of the neck or outer part of the ankle) itch persistently; cause is unknown | - |
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newspaperman | (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: pressman |
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nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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(noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
nonnormative | (adjective) not based on a norm | - |
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nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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nonthermal | (adjective) not involving heat | - |
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normal | (adjective) conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal | - |
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(adjective) in accordance with scientific laws | - |
(adjective) being approximately average or within certain limits in e.g. intelligence and development | - |
(adjective) forming a right angle | - |
(noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, pattern, rule |
normalcy | (noun) expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common | Synonyms: normality |
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(noun) being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning | Synonyms: normality |
normalisation | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalization, standardisation, standardization |
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normalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalize, renormalise, renormalize |
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(verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalize |
normaliser | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normalizer |
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normality | (noun) expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common | Synonyms: normalcy |
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(noun) conformity with the norm | - |
(noun) (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter | Synonyms: N |
(noun) being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning | Synonyms: normalcy |
normalization | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, standardisation, standardization |
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normalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, renormalise, renormalize |
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(verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: anneal, temper |
(verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalise |
normalizer | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normaliser |
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normally | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: commonly, ordinarily, unremarkably, usually |
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normative | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: prescriptive |
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(adjective) relating to or dealing with norms | - |
overmantel | (noun) a shelf over a mantelpiece | - |
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overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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pachyderma | (noun) thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction | Synonyms: nevoid elephantiasis |
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pachydermal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermatous, pachydermic, pachydermous |
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pachydermatous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermic, pachydermous |
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(adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, indurate |
papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
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paranormal | (adjective) not in accordance with scientific laws | - |
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(adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: extrasensory |
parlormaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlourmaid |
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parlourmaid | (noun) a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door | Synonyms: parlormaid |
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performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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(noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
(noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
(noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
(noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
permafrost | (noun) ground that is permanently frozen | - |
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permanence | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanency |
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permanency | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanence |
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permanent | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: lasting |
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(adjective) not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition | - |
(noun) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | Synonyms: perm, permanent wave |
permanently | (adverb) for a long time without essential change | Synonyms: for good |
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permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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pharma | (noun) a company that makes and sells pharmaceuticals | Synonyms: drug company, pharmaceutical company |
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pharmaceutic | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutical |
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(noun) drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment | Synonyms: pharmaceutical |
pharmaceutical | (adjective) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists | Synonyms: pharmaceutic |
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(adjective) of or relating to drugs used in medical treatment | - |
(noun) drug or medicine that is prepared or dispensed in pharmacies and used in medical treatment | Synonyms: pharmaceutic |
pharmaceutics | (noun) the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines | Synonyms: pharmacy |
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pharmacist | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, chemist, druggist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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