abeam | (adverb) at right angles to the length of a ship or airplane | - |
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agleam | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: gleaming, nitid |
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airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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(noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
beam | (noun) long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction | - |
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(noun) a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts | Synonyms: balance beam |
(noun) the broad side of a ship | - |
(noun) (nautical) breadth amidships | - |
(noun) a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather | Synonyms: radio beam |
(noun) a column of light (as from a beacon) | Synonyms: beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light |
(noun) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: electron beam, ray |
(verb) smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression | - |
(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, broadcast, send, transmit |
(verb) express with a beaming face or smile | - |
(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: glow, radiate, shine |
(verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: shine |
bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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bream | (noun) any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis | Synonyms: freshwater bream |
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(noun) any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae | Synonyms: sea bream |
(noun) flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae | Synonyms: sea bream |
(noun) flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe | Synonyms: freshwater bream |
(verb) clean (a ship's bottom) with heat | - |
coldcream | (noun) a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin | Synonyms: cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream |
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cream | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, ointment |
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(noun) the part of milk containing the butterfat | - |
(noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: pick |
(verb) add cream to one's coffee, for example | - |
(verb) make creamy by beating | - |
(verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream off, skim, skim off |
(verb) put on cream, as on one's face or body | - |
(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash |
crossbeam | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crosspiece, trave, traverse |
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daydream | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydreaming, oneirism, reverie, revery |
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(verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: dream, stargaze, woolgather |
(verb) have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake | Synonyms: moon |
downstream | (adjective) in the direction of a stream's current | - |
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(adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downriver |
dream | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dreaming |
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(noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dreaming |
(noun) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) | Synonyms: pipe dream |
(noun) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality | - |
(noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: ambition, aspiration |
(noun) someone or something wonderful | - |
(verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather |
(verb) experience while sleeping | - |
gleam | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleaming, glow, lambency |
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(noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleaming, glimmer |
(verb) to shine with faint or brief light | - |
(verb) shine brightly, like a star or a light | Synonyms: glimmer |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: glint, glisten, glitter, shine |
headstream | (noun) a stream that forms the source of a river | - |
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hornbeam | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | - |
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icecream | (noun) frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring | Synonyms: ice cream |
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mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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midstream | (noun) the middle of a stream | - |
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moonbeam | (noun) a ray of moonlight | Synonyms: moon-ray, moon ray |
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ream | (noun) a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires | - |
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(noun) a large quantity of written matter | - |
(verb) enlarge with a reamer | - |
(verb) remove by making a hole or by boring | - |
(verb) squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer | - |
scream | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: screaming, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
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(noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow |
(noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: screaming, screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
(verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: yell |
(verb) make a loud, piercing sound | - |
seam | (noun) joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces | - |
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(noun) a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | Synonyms: bed |
(noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, furrow, line, wrinkle |
(verb) put together with a seam | - |
slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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steam | (noun) water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere | - |
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(verb) cook something by letting steam pass over it | - |
(verb) clean by means of steaming | Synonyms: steam clean |
(verb) get very agitated or angry | - |
(verb) rise as vapor | - |
(verb) travel by means of steam power | Synonyms: steamer |
(verb) emit steam | - |
stream | (noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression | Synonyms: flow |
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(noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: current |
(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: current, flow |
(noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: watercourse |
(noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | Synonyms: flow |
(verb) exude profusely | - |
(verb) flow freely and abundantly | Synonyms: well out |
(verb) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind | - |
(verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem |
(verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs |
sunbeam | (noun) a ray of sunlight | Synonyms: sunray |
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team | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: squad |
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(noun) two or more draft animals that work together to pull something | - |
(verb) form a team | Synonyms: team up |
upstream | (adjective) in the direction against a stream's current | - |
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(adverb) toward the source or against the current | Synonyms: upriver |