| patellar | (adjective) near or relating to the patella or kneecap | - |
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| patrilinear | (adjective) based on or tracing descent through the male line | Synonyms: patrilineal |
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| pear | (noun) sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties | - |
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| (noun) Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: pear tree, Pyrus communis |
| peculiar | (adjective) characteristic of one only; distinctive or special | - |
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| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, special |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
| (adjective) markedly different from the usual; special | - |
| pedlar | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pitchman |
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| peninsular | (adjective) of or forming or resembling a peninsula | - |
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| pentangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon | Synonyms: pentagonal |
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| peristylar | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: pseudoperipteral |
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| perpendicular | (adjective) intersecting at or forming right angles | - |
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| (adjective) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line | Synonyms: vertical |
| (adjective) so steep as to be nearly vertical | - |
| (noun) an extremely steep face | - |
| (noun) a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point | Synonyms: plumb line |
| (noun) a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting | Synonyms: English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, perpendicular style |
| (noun) a straight line at right angles to another line | - |
| pilar | (adjective) of or relating to a hair | - |
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| pillar | (noun) (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure | Synonyms: column |
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| (noun) a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) | Synonyms: column |
| (noun) a fundamental principle or practice | - |
| (noun) a prominent supporter | Synonyms: mainstay |
| (noun) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower | Synonyms: column, tower |
| planar | (adjective) involving or having two dimensions | Synonyms: two-dimensional |
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| plantar | (adjective) relating to or occurring on the undersurface of the foot | - |
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| polar | (adjective) of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles | - |
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| (adjective) located at or near or coming from the earth's poles | - |
| (adjective) having a pair of equal and opposite charges | - |
| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy |
| (adjective) being of crucial importance | Synonyms: pivotal |
| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, opposite |
| polestar | (noun) the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it | Synonyms: North Star, polar star, Polaris, pole star |
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| poplar | (noun) any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins | Synonyms: poplar tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar | - |
| popular | (adjective) regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public | - |
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| (adjective) carried on by or for the people (or citizens) at large | - |
| (adjective) (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) | Synonyms: pop |
| (adjective) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large | Synonyms: democratic |
| postalveolar | (noun) (phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. | Synonyms: post-alveolar, post-alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant |
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| postwar | (adjective) belonging to the period after a war | - |
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| premolar | (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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| prewar | (adjective) existing or belonging to a time before a war | - |
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| proconsular | (adjective) of or relating to or typical of a proconsul | - |
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| proseminar | (noun) a course of study like a graduate seminar but often open to advanced undergraduates. | - |
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| pulsar | (noun) a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation | - |
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| qintar | (noun) 100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania | Synonyms: qindarka |
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| quadrangular | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle | - |
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| quasar | (noun) a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts | Synonyms: quasi-stellar radio source |
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| radar | (noun) measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects | Synonyms: microwave radar, radio detection and ranging, radiolocation |
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| railcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad | Synonyms: car, railroad car, railway car |
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| realgar | (noun) a rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide; an important ore of arsenic | - |
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| reappear | (verb) appear again | Synonyms: re-emerge |
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| rear | (adjective) located in or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: rearward |
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| (noun) the side that goes last or is not normally seen | Synonyms: back |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the back of a military formation or procession | - |
| (noun) the side of an object that is opposite its front | Synonyms: back end, backside |
| (noun) the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer | Synonyms: back |
| (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: erect, put up, raise, set up |
| (verb) stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds | Synonyms: rise up |
| (verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: erect |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, parent, raise |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: lift, rise |
| rectangular | (adjective) having four right angles | - |
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| (adjective) having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal |
| rectilinear | (adjective) characterized by a straight line or lines | Synonyms: rectilineal |
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| registrar | (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, recorder |
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| (noun) the administrator responsible for student records | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company | - |
| regular | (adjective) in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle | - |
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| (adjective) (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula | - |
| (adjective) (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces | - |
| (adjective) not constipated | Synonyms: unconstipated |
| (adjective) relating to a person who does something regularly | Synonyms: steady |
| (adjective) officially full-time | - |
| (adjective) not deviating from what is normal | - |
| (adjective) regularly scheduled for fixed times | - |
| (adjective) conforming to a standard or pattern | - |
| (adjective) occurring at fixed intervals | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) symmetrically arranged | Synonyms: even |
| (adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: veritable |
| (adjective) in accord with regular practice or procedure | - |
| (noun) a garment size for persons of average height and weight | - |
| (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, habitue |
| (noun) a dependable follower (especially in party politics) | - |
| (noun) a soldier in the regular army | - |
| rehear | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: retry |
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| reticular | (adjective) resembling or forming a network | Synonyms: reticulate |
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| roar | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roaring, yowl |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roaring, thunder |
| (noun) the sound made by a lion | - |
| (verb) laugh unrestrainedly and heartily | Synonyms: howl |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles | Synonyms: howl |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: thunder |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way | - |
| saltcellar | (noun) a small container for holding salt at the dining table | - |
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| salwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: shalwar |
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| sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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| samovar | (noun) a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea | - |
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| sandbar | (noun) a bar of sand | Synonyms: sand bar |
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| scalar | (adjective) of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a musical scale | - |
| (noun) a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components | - |
| scapular | (adjective) relating to or near the shoulder blade | - |
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| (noun) a feather covering the shoulder of a bird | - |
| (noun) garment consisting of a long wide piece of woolen cloth worn over the shoulders with an opening for the head; part of a monastic habit | Synonyms: scapulary |
| scar | (noun) an indication of damage | Synonyms: mark, scrape, scratch |
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| (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | Synonyms: cicatrice, cicatrix |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, pock |
| schmear | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmeer, shmear |
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| scholar | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: bookman, scholarly person |
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| (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, student |
| (noun) a student who holds a scholarship | - |
| scimitar | (noun) a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade | - |
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| sear | (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sere, shriveled, shrivelled, withered |
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| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: scorch |
| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, scorch |
| (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: parch |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: scorch, singe |
| secpar | (noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years | Synonyms: parsec |
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| secular | (adjective) of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows | - |
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| (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: profane |
| (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: temporal, worldly |
| (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy | Synonyms: laic, lay |
| (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layman, layperson |
| semicircular | (adjective) curved into a half circle | - |
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| semilunar | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, crescent, lunate |
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| seminar | (noun) a course offered for a small group of advanced students | - |
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| (noun) any meeting for an exchange of ideas | - |
| shalwar | (noun) a pair of light loose trousers with a tight fit around the ankles; worn by women from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a kameez) | Synonyms: salwar |
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| shear | (noun) a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it | - |
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| (noun) (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves | - |
| (verb) become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain | - |
| (verb) cut with shears | - |
| (verb) cut or cut through with shears | - |
| (verb) shear the wool from | Synonyms: fleece |
| shmear | (noun) (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together | Synonyms: schmear, schmeer |
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| shofar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shophar |
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| shophar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shofar |
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| sidebar | (noun) (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing | - |
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| (noun) a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
| sidecar | (noun) conveyance consisting of a small carrier attached to the side of a motorcycle | - |
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| (noun) a cocktail made of orange liqueur with lemon juice and brandy | - |
| similar | (adjective) marked by correspondence or resemblance | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination | Synonyms: like |
| (adjective) having the same or similar characteristics | Synonyms: alike, like |
| (adjective) capable of replacing or changing places with something else; permitting mutual substitution without loss of function or suitability | Synonyms: exchangeable, interchangeable, standardised, standardized |
| (adjective) (of words) expressing closely related meanings | - |
| singular | (adjective) grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit | - |
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| (adjective) composed of one member, set, or kind | - |
| (adjective) unusual or striking | Synonyms: remarkable |
| (adjective) being a single and separate person or thing | - |
| (adjective) the single one of its kind | Synonyms: unique |
| (adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy |
| (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton | Synonyms: singular form |
| sirdar | (noun) an important person in India | - |
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| sitar | (noun) a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings | - |
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| sleepwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, nightwear |
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| smear | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smirch, spot, stain |
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| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smirch, smudge, spot |
| (noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope | Synonyms: cytologic smear, cytosmear |
| (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, vilification |
| (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smirch, sully |
| (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smudge, smutch |
| (verb) stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance | - |
| (verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: daub |
| soar | (noun) the act of rising upward into the air | Synonyms: zoom |
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| (verb) go or move upward | - |
| (verb) fly upwards or high in the sky | - |
| (verb) rise rapidly | Synonyms: soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom |
| (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: sailplane |
| (verb) fly by means of a hang glider | Synonyms: hang glide |
| solar | (adjective) relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun | - |
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| solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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| sonar | (noun) a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return | Synonyms: asdic, echo sounder |
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| spar | (noun) making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer | Synonyms: sparring |
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| (noun) a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging | - |
| (noun) any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable | - |
| (verb) fight verbally | - |
| (verb) box lightly | - |
| (verb) fight with spurs | - |
| (verb) furnish with spars | - |
| spear | (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: lance, shaft |
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| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, lance |
| (verb) pierce with a spear | - |
| (verb) thrust up like a spear | Synonyms: spear up |
| spectacular | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, striking |
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| (adjective) characteristic of spectacles or drama | - |
| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, striking |
| (noun) a lavishly produced performance | - |
| specular | (adjective) capable of reflecting light like a mirror | Synonyms: mirrorlike |
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| spinnbar | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnable |
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| sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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| star | (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, starring, stellar |
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| (noun) the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub | Synonyms: star topology |
| (noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing | Synonyms: asterisk |
| (noun) (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior | - |
| (noun) any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night | - |
| (noun) an actor who plays a principal role | Synonyms: lead, principal |
| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| (noun) a performer who receives prominent billing | Synonyms: headliner |
| (noun) a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem | - |
| (verb) mark with an asterisk | Synonyms: asterisk |
| (verb) be the star in a performance | - |
| (verb) feature as the star | - |
| stellar | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: astral |
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| (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: leading, prima, star, starring |
| stockcar | (noun) boxcar with latticed sides; for transporting livestock | - |
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| streetcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car |
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| sublunar | (adjective) situated between the earth and the moon | Synonyms: cislunar, sublunary |
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| (adjective) of this earth | Synonyms: sublunary, terrestrial |
| subocular | (adjective) situated on or below the floor of the eye socket | Synonyms: suborbital |
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| sugar | (noun) a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative | Synonyms: refined sugar |
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| (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum |
| (noun) an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain | Synonyms: carbohydrate, saccharide |
| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: saccharify |
| superlunar | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunary, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunary, translunar, translunary |
| superstar | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
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| supraocular | (adjective) located or occurring above the eye socket | Synonyms: supraorbital |
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| sustentacular | (adjective) serving to sustain or support | - |
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| swear | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely |
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| (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depone, depose |
| (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, imprecate |
| (verb) promise solemnly; take an oath | - |
| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, verify |
| sweetbriar | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbrier |
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| swimwear | (noun) tight fitting garment worn for swimming | Synonyms: bathing costume, bathing suit, swimming costume, swimsuit |
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| tabular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or arranged in table form | - |
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| (adjective) flat; like a table in form | - |
| tar | (noun) a man who serves as a sailor | Synonyms: gob, Jack-tar, Jack, mariner, old salt, sea dog, seafarer, seaman |
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| (noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: pitch |
| (verb) coat with tar | - |
| tartar | (noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: calculus, tophus |
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| (noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: dragon |
| (noun) a salt used especially in baking powder | Synonyms: cream of tartar, potassium bitartrate, potassium hydrogen tartrate |
| tear | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: teardrop |
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| (noun) the act of tearing | - |
| (noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, bust |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap |
| (verb) to separate or be separated by force | - |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot, shoot down |
| (verb) fill with tears or shed tears | - |
| tegular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a series of tiles | - |
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| tentacular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling tentacles | - |
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| testicular | (adjective) of or involving the testes | - |
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