| acrobat | (noun) an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination | - |
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| afloat | (adjective) borne on the water; floating | - |
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| (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
| (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
| amadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: avadavat |
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| anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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| aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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| at | (noun) 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos | - |
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| autocrat | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: despot, tyrant |
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| automat | (noun) a cafeteria where food is served from machines | - |
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| (noun) a vending machine from which you can get food | - |
| avadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: amadavat |
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| baccarat | (noun) a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine | Synonyms: chemin de fer |
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| backbeat | (noun) a loud steady beat | - |
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| backchat | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: banter, give-and-take, raillery |
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| backseat | (noun) a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile) | - |
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| (noun) a secondary or inferior position or status | - |
| bacteriostat | (noun) a chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth | - |
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| bareboat | (noun) a vessel (such as a yacht) that can be chartered without a captain or crew or provisions | - |
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| bat | (noun) (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit | Synonyms: at-bat |
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| (noun) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate | Synonyms: chiropteran |
| (noun) a club used for hitting a ball in various games | - |
| (noun) the club used in playing cricket | Synonyms: cricket bat |
| (noun) a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash | Synonyms: squash racket, squash racquet |
| (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: flutter |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
| (verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat | - |
| (verb) use a bat | - |
| (verb) have a turn at bat | - |
| bayat | (noun) an oath of allegiance to an emir | - |
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| bearcat | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, binturong |
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| beat | (adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, bushed, dead |
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| (noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing | - |
| (noun) a stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular rate of repetition | - |
| (noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music | Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
| (noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter, metre |
| (noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
| (noun) the sound of stroke or blow | - |
| (noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: round |
| (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beatnik |
| (noun) a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations | - |
| (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
| (verb) hit repeatedly | - |
| (verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
| (verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
| (verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
| (verb) shape by beating | - |
| (verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
| (verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
| (verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
| (verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
| (verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
| (verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
| (verb) be superior | - |
| blat | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blate, bleat |
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| bleat | (noun) the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) | - |
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| (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, blate |
| (verb) talk whiningly | - |
| bloat | (noun) swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas | - |
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| (verb) become bloated or swollen or puff up | - |
| (verb) make bloated or swollen | - |
| bluecoat | (noun) a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor) | - |
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| bluethroat | (noun) songbird of northern Europe and Asia | Synonyms: Erithacus svecicus |
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| boat | (noun) a small vessel for travel on water | - |
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| (noun) a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce | Synonyms: gravy boat, gravy holder, sauceboat |
| (verb) ride in a boat on water | - |
| bobcat | (noun) small lynx of North America | Synonyms: bay lynx, Lynx rufus |
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| bobfloat | (noun) a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line | Synonyms: bob, bobber, cork |
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| bogmat | (noun) having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America | Synonyms: mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata |
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| brat | (noun) a very troublesome child | Synonyms: holy terror, little terror, terror |
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| (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: bratwurst |
| brickbat | (noun) blunt criticism | - |
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| (noun) a fragment of brick used as a weapon | - |
| browbeat | (verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: bully, swagger |
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| (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
| buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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| (noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
| bullbat | (noun) mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker | Synonyms: mosquito hawk, nighthawk |
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| bumboat | (noun) a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor | - |
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| bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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| butat | (noun) 100 bututs equal 1 dalasi in Gambia | Synonyms: butut |
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| butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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| carat | (noun) a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg | - |
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| (noun) the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold | Synonyms: karat, kt |
| cat | (noun) feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats | Synonyms: true cat |
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| (noun) any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild | Synonyms: big cat |
| (noun) a whip with nine knotted cords | Synonyms: cat-o'-nine-tails |
| (noun) a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work | Synonyms: Caterpillar |
| (noun) the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant | Synonyms: African tea, Arabian tea, kat, khat, qat, quat |
| (noun) a spiteful woman gossip | - |
| (noun) an informal term for a youth or man | Synonyms: bozo, guy, hombre, sod |
| (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
| (verb) beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails | - |
| catboat | (noun) a sailboat with a single mast set far forward | - |
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| caveat | (noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caution |
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| (noun) (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing | - |
| chat | (noun) songbirds having a chattering call | Synonyms: Old World chat |
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| (noun) birds having a chattering call | Synonyms: New World chat |
| (noun) an informal conversation | Synonyms: confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze |
| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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| (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
| (noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| chitchat | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| cleat | (noun) a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached | - |
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| (noun) a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured | - |
| (noun) a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping | - |
| (verb) secure on a cleat | - |
| (verb) provide with cleats | - |
| coat | (noun) growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal | Synonyms: pelage |
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| (noun) an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors | - |
| (noun) a thin layer covering something | Synonyms: coating |
| (verb) cover or provide with a coat | - |
| (verb) put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface | Synonyms: surface |
| (verb) form a coat over | Synonyms: cake |
| coelostat | (noun) optical device used to follow the path of a celestial body and reflect its light into a telescope; has a movable and a fixed mirror | - |
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| combat | (noun) an engagement fought between two military forces | Synonyms: armed combat |
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| (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: fight, fighting, scrap |
| (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
| commissariat | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: provender, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| concordat | (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: compact, covenant |
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| copycat | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, emulator, imitator |
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| countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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| crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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| cravat | (noun) neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front | - |
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| cryostat | (noun) a thermostat that operates at very low temperatures | - |
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| cumquat | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp | Synonyms: kumquat, kumquat tree |
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| cushat | (noun) Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck | Synonyms: Columba palumbus, ringdove, wood pigeon |
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| cutthroat | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: bowelless, fierce |
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| (noun) someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | - |
| deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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| defat | (verb) remove the fat from | - |
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| defeat | (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: licking |
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| (noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | Synonyms: frustration |
| (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: get the better of, overcome |
| (verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
| democrat | (noun) an advocate of democratic principles | - |
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| dichromat | (noun) a person with any of the various forms of dichromacy | - |
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| diddlysquat | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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| dingbat | (noun) a silly empty-headed person | - |
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| diplomat | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations | Synonyms: diplomatist |
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| (noun) a person who deals tactfully with others | - |
| doormat | (noun) a mat placed outside an exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering | Synonyms: welcome mat |
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| (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: weakling, wuss |
| downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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| drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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| (noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
| (noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
| ducat | (noun) formerly a gold coin of various European countries | - |
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| eat | (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, rust |
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| (verb) take in solid food | - |
| (verb) eat a meal; take a meal | - |
| (verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way | Synonyms: eat on |
| eclat | (noun) brilliant or conspicuous success or effect | - |
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| (noun) ceremonial elegance and splendor | Synonyms: pomp |
| (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, plaudit, plaudits |
| entreat | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press |
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| escheat | (noun) a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs | - |
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| (noun) the property that reverts to the state | - |
| expat | (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
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| fat | (adjective) having an (over)abundance of flesh | - |
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| (adjective) containing or composed of fat | Synonyms: fatty |
| (adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fertile, productive, rich |
| (adjective) lucrative | Synonyms: juicy |
| (adjective) having a relatively large diameter | - |
| (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, blubber, fatness |
| (noun) a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs | Synonyms: adipose tissue, fatty tissue |
| (noun) a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) | - |
| (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
| feat | (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: effort, exploit |
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| ferryboat | (noun) a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | Synonyms: ferry |
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| fiat | (noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, order, rescript |
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| fireboat | (noun) a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront | - |
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| firebrat | (noun) lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces | Synonyms: Thermobia domestica |
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| flat | (adjective) (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone | - |
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| (adjective) lacking contrast or shading between tones | - |
| (adjective) not reflecting light; not glossy | Synonyms: mat, matt, matte, matted |
| (adjective) having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another | Synonyms: level, plane |
| (adjective) horizontally level | - |
| (adjective) commercially inactive | - |
| (adjective) lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth | Synonyms: 2-dimensional, two-dimensional |
| (adjective) having lost effervescence | - |
| (adjective) having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness | - |
| (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
| (adjective) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) | Synonyms: compressed |
| (adjective) stretched out and lying at full length along the ground | Synonyms: prostrate |
| (adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch | Synonyms: monotone, monotonic, monotonous |
| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, categorical, unconditional |
| (adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: bland |
| (noun) a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house | Synonyms: apartment |
| (noun) scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting | - |
| (noun) a deflated pneumatic tire | Synonyms: flat tire |
| (noun) freight car without permanent sides or roof | Synonyms: flatbed, flatcar |
| (noun) a shallow box in which seedlings are started | - |
| (noun) a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named | - |
| (noun) a level tract of land | - |
| (adverb) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly | Synonyms: directly, straight |
| (adverb) with flat sails | - |
| flatboat | (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: barge, hoy, lighter |
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| float | (noun) an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy | Synonyms: air bladder, swim bladder |
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| (noun) something that floats on the surface of water | - |
| (noun) a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco | Synonyms: plasterer's float |
| (noun) an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade | - |
| (noun) a drink with ice cream floating in it | Synonyms: ice-cream float, ice-cream soda |
| (noun) the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public | - |
| (noun) the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment | - |
| (verb) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation | - |
| (verb) allow (currencies) to fluctuate | - |
| (verb) make the surface of level or smooth | - |
| (verb) put into the water | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift |
| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: swim |
| (verb) set afloat | - |
| (verb) move lightly, as if suspended | - |
| (verb) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with | - |
| flyswat | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswatter, swatter |
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| forcemeat | (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: farce |
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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 |
| frat | (noun) a social club for male undergraduates | Synonyms: fraternity |
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| gat | (noun) a gangster's pistol | Synonyms: rod |
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| ghat | (noun) stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water | - |
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| gloat | (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: glee, gloating |
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| (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, triumph |
| (verb) gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy | - |
| gnat | (noun) any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies | - |
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| (noun) (British usage) mosquito | - |
| goat | (noun) any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns | Synonyms: caprine animal |
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| (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, laughingstock, stooge |
| great | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, heavy, large, with child |
| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, majuscule |
| (adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect | - |
| (adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: outstanding |
| (adjective) relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind | - |
| (noun) a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field | - |
| greatcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: overcoat, topcoat |
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| groat | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: fourpence |
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| gunboat | (noun) a small shallow-draft boat carrying mounted guns; used by costal patrols | - |
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| habitat | (noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | Synonyms: home ground |
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| haemostat | (noun) a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel | Synonyms: hemostat |
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| hat | (noun) an informal term for a person's role | - |
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| (noun) headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim | Synonyms: chapeau, lid |
| (verb) put on or wear a hat | - |
| (verb) furnish with a hat | - |