accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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(adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
(noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: add-on, appurtenance, supplement |
(noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accouterment, accoutrement |
(noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
aggressor | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker |
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(noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator | - |
assessor | (noun) an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it | Synonyms: tax assessor |
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assort | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: class, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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(verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, consort |
assorted | (adjective) of many different kinds purposefully arranged but lacking any uniformity | Synonyms: various |
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(adjective) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds | Synonyms: miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry |
assortment | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
compressor | (noun) a mechanical device that compresses gasses | - |
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(noun) an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. | - |
confessor | (noun) a priest who hears confession and gives absolution | - |
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(noun) someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves) | - |
depressor | (noun) a device used by physician to press a part down or aside | - |
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(noun) any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down | Synonyms: depressor muscle |
(noun) any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves | Synonyms: depressor nerve |
fossorial | (adjective) (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging | - |
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immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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intercessor | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intermediary, intermediator, mediator |
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lessor | (noun) someone who grants a lease | Synonyms: lease giver |
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microprocessor | (noun) integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system | - |
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multiprocessor | (noun) a computer that uses two or more processing units under integrated control | - |
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oppressor | (noun) a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures | - |
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percussor | (noun) (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | Synonyms: plessor, plexor |
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plessor | (noun) (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | Synonyms: percussor, plexor |
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possessor | (noun) a person who owns something | Synonyms: owner |
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predecessor | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, herald, precursor |
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(noun) one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office) | - |
pressor | (adjective) increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure | - |
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(noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor |
processor | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, mainframe |
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(noun) a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market | - |
(noun) someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.) | - |
professor | (noun) someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | Synonyms: prof |
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professorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of professors | - |
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professorially | (adverb) in a professorial manner | - |
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professorship | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: chair |
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promissory | (adjective) relating to or having the character of a promise | - |
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repressor | (noun) an agent that represses | Synonyms: represser |
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scissor | (verb) cut with or as if with scissors | - |
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scissors | (noun) a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze | Synonyms: scissor grip, scissor hold, scissors grip, scissors hold |
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(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed on the pommel horse when the gymnast moves his legs as the blades of scissors move | - |
(noun) an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades | Synonyms: pair of scissors |
scissortail | (noun) grey flycatcher of the southwestern United States and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings | Synonyms: Muscivora-forficata, scissortailed flycatcher |
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stressor | (noun) any agent that causes stress to an organism | - |
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successor | (noun) a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone | - |
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(noun) a person who inherits some title or office | Synonyms: heir |
(noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: replacement |
suppressor | (noun) an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents | Synonyms: suppresser |
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(noun) a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) | Synonyms: suppresser, suppresser gene, suppressor gene |
(noun) someone who suppresses | Synonyms: suppresser |
thermocompressor | (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, ejector, injector, steam ejector, steam injector |
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transgressor | (noun) someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command | - |
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tussore | (noun) oriental moth that produces brownish silk | Synonyms: Antheraea mylitta, tussah, tusseh, tusser, tussur |
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vasopressor | (noun) any agent that produces vasoconstriction and a rise in blood pressure (usually understood as increased arterial pressure) | - |
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