consecutively | (adverb) in a consecutive manner | - |
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conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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(noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
conservation | (noun) the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources | - |
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(noun) (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations | - |
(noun) an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change | Synonyms: preservation |
conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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conservatism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservativism |
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conservative | (adjective) resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion | - |
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(adjective) unimaginatively conventional | Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down |
(adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic |
(adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: cautious |
(adjective) having social or political views favoring conservatism | - |
(noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
conservatively | (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: cautiously, guardedly |
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conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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conservator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: curator |
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(noun) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person | - |
conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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(noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
(noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
conserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves |
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(verb) preserve with sugar | - |
(verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
(verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
(verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
conserved | (adjective) protected from harm or loss | - |
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conserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves |
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consolidative | (adjective) tending to consolidate | Synonyms: integrative |
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(adjective) combining into a single unit | Synonyms: unifying |
conspirative | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators | Synonyms: conspiratorial |
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constitutive | (adjective) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) | Synonyms: constituent, constitutional, organic |
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constrictive | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constricting, narrowing |
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(adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting |
constructive | (adjective) constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development | - |
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(adjective) emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good | - |
constructively | (adverb) in a constructive manner | - |
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constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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constructivism | (noun) an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects | - |
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constructivist | (noun) an artist of the school of constructivism | - |
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consultative | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultatory, consultive |
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consultive | (adjective) giving advice | Synonyms: advisory, consultative, consultatory |
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consumptive | (adjective) tending to consume or use often wastefully | - |
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(adjective) afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis | - |
(noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: lunger, tubercular |
contaminative | (adjective) making impure by contact or mixing | - |
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contemplative | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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(noun) a person devoted to the contemplative life | - |
contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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contraceptive | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: antifertility, prophylactic |
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(noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device |
contrastive | (adjective) of words so related that one contrasts with the other | Synonyms: incompatible |
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(adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrasting |
(adjective) syntactically establishing a relation of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | - |
contravallation | (noun) a fortification build around a sieged target by the besiegers to prevent attacks by the defenders. | - |
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contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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(verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
contravention | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: dispute |
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contributive | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributing, contributory, tributary |
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contrivance | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: devisal |
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(noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, convenience, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
(noun) any improvised arrangement for temporary use | Synonyms: lash-up |
(noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: dodge, stratagem |
(noun) the faculty of contriving; inventive skill | - |
(noun) an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. | - |
contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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(adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
contriver | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: deviser, planner |
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controversial | (adjective) marked by or capable of arousing controversy | - |
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controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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controversially | (adverb) involving controversy | Synonyms: polemically |
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controversy | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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(verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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(noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
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convection | (noun) the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion | - |
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(noun) (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere | - |
convector | (noun) a space heater that transfers heat to the surrounding air by convection | - |
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convene | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convoke |
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(verb) meet formally | - |
convener | (noun) the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings | - |
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convenience | (noun) a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | Synonyms: appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gismo, gizmo, widget |
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(noun) a toilet that is available to the public | Synonyms: comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room |
(noun) the quality of being useful and convenient | - |
(noun) the state of being suitable or opportune | - |
conveniences | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, comforts, creature comforts |
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convenient | (adjective) suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | - |
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(adjective) large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: commodious |
conveniently | (adverb) in a convenient manner | Synonyms: handily |
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convening | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convention |
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convent | (noun) a religious residence especially for nuns | - |
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(noun) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together | - |
conventicle | (noun) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | Synonyms: meetinghouse |
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(noun) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | - |
convention | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convening |
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(noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: conventionalism, conventionality |
(noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: formula, normal, pattern, rule |
(noun) (diplomacy) an international agreement | - |
(noun) a large formal assembly | - |
conventional | (adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties | - |
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(adjective) unimaginative and conformist | - |
(adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | - |
(adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention | Synonyms: ceremonious |
(adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: formal, schematic |
(adjective) conforming with accepted standards | Synonyms: established |
(adjective) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | - |
conventionalisation | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalization |
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conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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conventionalism | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionality |
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conventionality | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionalism |
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(noun) unoriginality as a result of being too conventional | - |
(noun) conformity with conventional thought and behavior | - |
conventionalization | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalisation |
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conventionalize | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalise |
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(verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: stylise, stylize |
conventionalized | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalised, stylised, stylized |
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conventionally | (adverb) in a conventional manner | - |
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conventioneer | (noun) someone who attends a convention | - |
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conventual | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical |
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converge | (verb) come together so as to form a single product | - |
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(verb) move or draw together at a certain location | - |
(verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: meet |
(verb) approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit | - |
convergence | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergency, converging |
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(noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergency |
(noun) a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena | Synonyms: intersection, overlap |
(noun) the occurrence of two or more things coming together | - |
convergency | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, converging |
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(noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergence |
convergent | (adjective) tending to come together from different directions | - |
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converging | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, convergency |
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conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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conversant | (adjective) (usually followed by `with') well informed about or knowing thoroughly | Synonyms: familiar |
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conversation | (noun) the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. | - |
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conversational | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: colloquial |
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conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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conversationally | (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: colloquially, informally |
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conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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converse | (adjective) of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other | - |
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(adjective) turned about in order or relation | Synonyms: reversed, transposed |
(noun) a proposition obtained by conversion | - |
(verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
conversely | (adverb) with the terms of the relation reversed | - |
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conversion | (noun) the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another | - |
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(noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: rebirth, spiritual rebirth |
(noun) a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown | - |
(noun) act of exchanging one type of money or security for another | - |
(noun) a change in the units or form of an expression: | - |
(noun) interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition | - |
(noun) an event that results in a transformation | Synonyms: changeover, transition |
(noun) a change of religion | - |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis | - |
convert | (noun) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief | - |
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(verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
(verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
(verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
(verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
(verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
(verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
(verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
(verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
(verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
convertase | (noun) any of several enzymes that convert a compound into smaller, biologically-active compounds. | - |
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converter | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: convertor |
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convertibility | (noun) the quality of being exchangeable (especially the ability to convert a currency into gold or other currencies without restriction) | - |
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convertible | (adjective) capable of being exchanged for or replaced by something of equal value | Synonyms: exchangeable |
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(adjective) designed to be changed from one use or form to another | - |
(adjective) capable of being changed in substance as if by alchemy | Synonyms: transformable, translatable, transmutable |
(noun) a car that has top that can be folded or removed | - |
(noun) a sofa that can be converted into a bed | Synonyms: sofa bed |
(noun) a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) | Synonyms: convertible security |
convertor | (noun) a device for changing one substance or form or state into another | Synonyms: converter |
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convex | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: bulging |
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convexity | (noun) the property possessed by a convex shape | Synonyms: convexness |
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(noun) a shape that curves or bulges outward | Synonyms: convex shape |
convexly | (adverb) in a convex way | - |
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convexness | (noun) the property possessed by a convex shape | Synonyms: convexity |
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