| strike | (noun) a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions | Synonyms: work stoppage |
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| (noun) a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball | Synonyms: ten-strike |
| (noun) an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective | - |
| (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, hit, smash, smasher |
| (noun) (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders | - |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: rap, tap |
| (verb) cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp | - |
| (verb) arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing | - |
| (verb) indicate (a certain time) by striking | - |
| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, scratch |
| (verb) pierce with force | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strickle |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: seize |
| (verb) produce by ignition or a blow | - |
| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: coin, mint |
| (verb) disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, impress, move |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: assume, take, take up |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, hit |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon |
| (verb) stop work in order to press demands | Synonyms: walk out |
| (verb) attain | Synonyms: come to |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, shine |
| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| strikeout | (noun) an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
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| striker | (noun) the part of a mechanical device that strikes something | - |
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| (noun) an employee on strike against an employer | - |
| (noun) someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating | - |
| (noun) a forward on a soccer team | - |
| (noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: hitter |
| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, hitting |
| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, impinging |
| strikingly | (adverb) in a striking manner | - |
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| strikingness | (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: boldness |
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| (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, saliency |
| string | (noun) a lightweight cord | Synonyms: twine |
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| (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, drawstring |
| (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: chain, strand |
| (noun) a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket | - |
| (noun) a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand | - |
| (noun) stringed instruments that are played with a bow | Synonyms: bowed stringed instrument |
| (noun) a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.) | - |
| (noun) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding | Synonyms: train |
| (noun) (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop | Synonyms: cosmic string |
| (noun) a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) | - |
| (verb) add as if on a string | Synonyms: string up |
| (verb) provide with strings | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, thread |
| (verb) remove the stringy parts of | - |
| (verb) string together; tie or fasten with a string | - |
| (verb) stretch out or arrange like a string | - |
| (verb) move or come along | Synonyms: string along |
| stringency | (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: strictness |
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| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: tightness |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| stringently | (adverb) in a stringent manner | Synonyms: strictly |
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| stringer | (noun) a long horizontal timber to connect uprights | - |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull | - |
| (noun) a worker who strings | - |
| (noun) a member of a squad on a team | - |
| strings | (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: condition, term |
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| (noun) the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments | Synonyms: string section |
| stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| strip | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip show, striptease |
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| (noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: slip |
| (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip |
| (noun) thin piece of wood or metal | - |
| (noun) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies |
| (noun) a relatively long narrow piece of something | - |
| (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
| (verb) draw the last milk (of cows) | - |
| (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: dismantle |
| (verb) remove a constituent from a liquid | - |
| (verb) remove the thread (of screws) | - |
| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude |
| (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress |
| (verb) remove the surface from | - |
| (verb) strip the cured leaves from | - |
| (verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, divest |
| stripe | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, banding |
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| (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, streak |
| (noun) a kind or category | - |
| (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripes |
| (noun) a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service | - |
| (verb) mark with stripes | - |
| striped | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: stripy |
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| striper | (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass |
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| (noun) caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: striped bass |
| (noun) a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service | - |
| stripes | (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripe |
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| striping | (noun) the act of marking with stripes | - |
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| stripling | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenager |
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| stripped | (adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: bare |
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| (adjective) having only essential or minimal features | Synonyms: stripped-down |
| (adjective) with clothing stripped off | - |
| stripper | (noun) an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day | Synonyms: stripper well |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stemmer |
| (noun) a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish | - |
| stripping | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, uncovering |
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| striptease | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip, strip show |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
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| stripy | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: striped |
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| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| striver | (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, slave |
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| striving | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, pains, strain |
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| substring | (noun) a string that is part of a longer string | - |
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| sultrily | (adverb) in a sultry and sensual manner | Synonyms: sensually |
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| sultriness | (noun) the quality of expressing or arousing sexual desire | - |
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| (noun) oppressively hot and humid weather | - |
| superpatriotic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, ultranationalistic |
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| superpatriotism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, jingoism, ultranationalism |
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| superstring | (noun) a hypothetical particle that is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time | - |
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| symmetric | (adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts | Synonyms: symmetrical |
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| symmetrical | (adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts | Synonyms: symmetric |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, proportionate |
| symmetrically | (adverb) in a symmetrical manner | - |
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| symmetricalness | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, correspondence, symmetry |
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| symmetrise | (verb) make symmetric | Synonyms: symmetrize |
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| symmetrize | (verb) make symmetric | Synonyms: symmetrise |
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| sympatric | (adjective) (of biological species or speciation) occurring in the same or overlapping geographical areas | - |
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| tapestried | (adjective) hung or decorated with tapestry | - |
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| telocentric | (adjective) having the form of a straight rod because the centromere is in a terminal position | - |
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| terrestrial | (adjective) operating or living or growing on land | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, telluric, terrene |
| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants | Synonyms: planetary |
| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunar, sublunary |
| (adjective) concerned with the world or worldly matters | Synonyms: mundane |
| terrestrially | (adverb) to a land environment | - |
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| (adverb) in a worldly manner | Synonyms: mundanely |
| testatrix | (noun) a female testator | - |
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| tetrametric | (adjective) of or relating to verse lines written in tetrameter | - |
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| tetri | (noun) 100 tetri equal 1 lari in Georgia | - |
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| theatrical | (adjective) suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the theater | - |
| (noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: histrionics, representation, theatrical performance |
| theatricality | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: staginess |
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| theatrically | (adverb) in a stagy and theatrical manner | Synonyms: stagily |
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| (adverb) in a theatrical manner | - |
| theocentrism | (noun) the belief that God is the central aspect to our existence. | - |
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| thermoelectric | (adjective) involving or resulting from thermoelectricity | Synonyms: thermoelectrical |
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| thermoelectrical | (adjective) involving or resulting from thermoelectricity | Synonyms: thermoelectric |
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| thermoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by heat (as in a thermocouple) | - |
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| thermogravimetric | (adjective) of or relating to thermal hydrometry | Synonyms: thermohydrometric |
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| thermohydrometric | (adjective) of or relating to thermal hydrometry | Synonyms: thermogravimetric |
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| thermometric | (adjective) of or relating to thermometry | - |
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| tortricid | (noun) any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls | Synonyms: tortricid moth |
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| tortrix | (noun) small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants | Synonyms: Homona coffearia, tea tortrix |
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| (noun) California moth whose larvae live in especially oranges | Synonyms: Argyrotaenia citrana, orange tortrix |
| triacetate | (noun) cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film | Synonyms: cellulose triacetate |
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| triad | (noun) a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones | Synonyms: common chord |
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| (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: threesome, trinity, trio |
| (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: trio, triple, triplet |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| triage | (noun) sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food | - |
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| trial | (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: run, test |
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| (noun) (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law | - |
| (noun) the act of undergoing testing | Synonyms: test |
| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: test, trial run, tryout |
| (noun) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event | Synonyms: tribulation, visitation |
| (noun) (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications | - |
| triamcinolone | (noun) a synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent | Synonyms: Aristocort, Aristopak, Kenalog |
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| triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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| (noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
| triangular | (adjective) having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle | - |
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| (adjective) having three sides | Synonyms: three-sided, trilateral |
| triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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| triangulate | (adjective) composed of or marked with triangles | - |
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| (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| triangulation | (noun) a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated | - |
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| (noun) a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation | - |
| triazine | (noun) any of three isomeric compounds having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring | - |
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| triazolam | (noun) a form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill; usually given to people who have trouble falling asleep | Synonyms: Halcion |
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| tribade | (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, lesbian |
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| tribadism | (noun) a form of lesbianism that simulates heterosexual intercourse | - |
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| tribadistic | (adjective) of female homosexual behavior that attempts to simulate heterosexual behavior | - |
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| tribal | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of a tribe | - |
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| tribalisation | (noun) the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis | Synonyms: tribalization |
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| tribalism | (noun) the beliefs of a tribal society | - |
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| (noun) the state of living together in tribes | - |
| tribalization | (noun) the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis | Synonyms: tribalisation |
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| tribe | (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: folk |
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| (noun) a federation (as of American Indians) | Synonyms: federation of tribes |
| (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily | - |
| tribesman | (noun) someone who lives in a tribe | - |
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| tribologist | (noun) a specialist in tribology | - |
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| tribology | (noun) the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication | - |
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| tribromoethanol | (noun) an intravenous anesthetic | Synonyms: tribromoethyl alcohol |
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| tribromomethane | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: bromoform |
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| tribulate | (verb) oppress or trouble greatly | - |
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| tribulation | (noun) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event | Synonyms: trial, visitation |
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| tribunal | (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: court, judicature |
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| tribune | (noun) the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne | - |
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| (noun) (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests | - |
| tribuneship | (noun) the position of tribune | - |
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| tributary | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributive, contributory |
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| (adjective) paying tribute | - |
| (adjective) (of a stream) flowing into a larger stream | - |
| (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, confluent, feeder |
| tribute | (noun) payment by one nation for protection by another | - |
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| (noun) payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence | Synonyms: protection |
| (noun) something given or done as an expression of esteem | Synonyms: testimonial |
| tributyrin | (noun) a bitter oily triglyceride of butyric acid; a form of butyrin | - |
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| trice | (noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, twinkling, wink |
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| (verb) hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope | Synonyms: trice up |
| (verb) raise with a line | Synonyms: trice up |
| tricentenary | (adjective) of or relating to or completing a period of 300 years | Synonyms: tricentennial |
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