| haematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: hematocrit |
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| (noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: hematocrit, packed cell volume |
| hawkbit | (noun) any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions | - |
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| hematocrit | (noun) a measuring instrument to determine (usually by centrifugation) the relative amounts of corpuscles and plasma in the blood | Synonyms: haematocrit |
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| (noun) the ratio of the volume occupied by packed red blood cells to the volume of the whole blood as measured by a hematocrit | Synonyms: haematocrit, packed cell volume |
| henbit | (noun) Eurasian plant having toothed leaves and small two-lipped white or purplish-red flowers | Synonyms: Lamium amplexicaule |
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| hermit | (noun) one who lives in solitude | Synonyms: recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte |
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| (noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: anchorite |
| hit | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hitting, striking |
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| (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, smash, smasher, strike |
| (noun) (baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense) | - |
| (noun) a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate | - |
| (noun) a connection made via the internet to another website | - |
| (noun) a dose of a narcotic drug | - |
| (noun) (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | Synonyms: collision |
| (verb) pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to | - |
| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: pip, shoot |
| (verb) hit the intended target or goal | - |
| (verb) deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, impinge on, run into, strike |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) cause to move by striking | - |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, make, reach |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, reach |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, strike |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| hobbit | (noun) an imaginary being similar to a person but smaller and with hairy feet; invented by J.R.R. Tolkien | - |
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| horseshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, Irish bull, shit |
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| illicit | (adjective) contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illegitimate, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
| implicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: inexplicit |
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| (adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: unquestioning |
| inexplicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: implicit |
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| inhabit | (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, live, populate |
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| (verb) be present in | - |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: dwell |
| inherit | (verb) obtain from someone after their death | - |
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| (verb) receive by genetic transmission | - |
| (verb) receive from a predecessor | - |
| inhibit | (verb) prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something | - |
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| (verb) make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally | - |
| (verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, suppress |
| (verb) limit, block, or decrease the action or function of | - |
| inspirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: spirit, spirit up |
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| intermit | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, pause |
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| introit | (noun) a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services | - |
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| intromit | (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: admit, allow in, let in |
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| intuit | (verb) know or grasp by intuition or feeling | - |
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| jackfruit | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jak |
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| (noun) East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds | Synonyms: Artocarpus heterophyllus, jackfruit tree |
| jackrabbit | (noun) large hare of western North America | - |
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| (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
| jumpsuit | (noun) one-piece garment fashioned after a parachutist's uniform | Synonyms: jump suit |
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| kbit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kb, kilobit |
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| kibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bits | Synonyms: kibit |
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| kibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 bits | Synonyms: kibibit |
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| kilobit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 bits | Synonyms: kb, kbit |
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| kit | (noun) young of any of various fur-bearing animals | - |
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| (noun) gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose | Synonyms: outfit |
| (noun) a case for containing a set of articles | - |
| (verb) supply with a set of articles or tools | Synonyms: kit out, kit up |
| knit | (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knitting, knitwork |
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| (noun) a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side | Synonyms: knit stitch, plain, plain stitch |
| (noun) a fabric made by knitting | - |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, pucker, rumple |
| (verb) make (textiles) by knitting | - |
| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: entwine |
| krait | (noun) brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern Asia and Malay peninsula | - |
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| lamplit | (adjective) lighted by a lamp | - |
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| lawsuit | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, cause, suit |
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| licit | (adjective) sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality | - |
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| (adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, legitimate |
| limit | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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| (noun) the boundary of a specific area | Synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line |
| (noun) as far as something can go | - |
| (noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limitation |
| (noun) the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity | Synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation |
| (noun) final or latest limiting point | Synonyms: terminal point, terminus ad quem |
| (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
| lit | (adjective) set afire or burning | Synonyms: lighted |
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| (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: illuminated, lighted, well-lighted |
| (noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: literature |
| maladroit | (adjective) not adroit | - |
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| manumit | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: emancipate |
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| mebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibits or 2^20 (1,048,576) bits | Synonyms: Mibit |
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| megabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Mb, Mbit |
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| megahit | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: blockbuster, smash hit |
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| merit | (noun) any admirable quality or attribute | Synonyms: virtue |
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| (noun) the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance) | Synonyms: deservingness, meritoriousness |
| (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: deserve |
| mesquit | (noun) any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar | Synonyms: mesquite |
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| microcircuit | (noun) a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component | Synonyms: integrated circuit |
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| misfit | (noun) someone unable to adapt to their circumstances | - |
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| moonlit | (adjective) lighted by moonlight | Synonyms: moony |
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| nit | (noun) egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing | - |
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| (noun) a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source | - |
| nitwit | (noun) a stupid incompetent person | Synonyms: dimwit, doofus, half-wit |
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| nonprofit | (adjective) not commercially motivated | Synonyms: non-profit-making |
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| (noun) an organization chartered for other than profit-making activities | Synonyms: nonprofit organization, not-for-profit |
| obit | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obituary |
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| omit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, exclude, leave off, leave out, take out |
| orbit | (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, range, reach, scope |
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| (noun) the bony cavity in the skull containing the eyeball | Synonyms: cranial orbit, eye socket, orbital cavity |
| (noun) the (usually elliptical) path described by one celestial body in its revolution about another | Synonyms: celestial orbit |
| (noun) the path of an electron around the nucleus of an atom | Synonyms: electron orbit |
| (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, sphere |
| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, revolve |
| outfit | (noun) gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose | Synonyms: kit |
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| (noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: getup, rig, turnout |
| (noun) any cohesive unit such as a military company | - |
| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: equip, fit, fit out |
| outwit | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, overreach |
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| overexploit | (verb) exploit excessively | - |
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| pantsuit | (noun) a pair of pants and a matching jacket worn by women | Synonyms: pants suit |
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| parfait | (noun) layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream | - |
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| pebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibits or 2^50 bits | Synonyms: Pibit |
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| peewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, pewit |
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| (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, pewee, pewit, wood pewee |
| permit | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: license, permission |
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| (noun) large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies | Synonyms: Trachinotus falcatus |
| (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, license |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, let |
| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, tolerate |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, let |
| petabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits | Synonyms: Pb, Pbit |
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| pewit | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, lapwing, peewit |
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| (noun) small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America | Synonyms: Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewee, wood pewee |
| (noun) small black-headed European gull | Synonyms: blackcap, Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit gull |
| pipit | (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: lark, titlark |
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| pit | (noun) a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate | Synonyms: quarry, stone pit |
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| (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: colliery |
| (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pitfall |
| (noun) lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers | Synonyms: orchestra pit |
| (noun) (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled | - |
| (noun) (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on | - |
| (noun) an enclosure in which animals are made to fight | - |
| (noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, perdition |
| (noun) a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) | Synonyms: cavity |
| (noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: endocarp, stone |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) | Synonyms: fossa |
| (verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: stone |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, oppose, play off |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pock, scar |
| plait | (noun) any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape | Synonyms: pleat |
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| (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, tress, twist |
| (verb) weave into plaits | - |
| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, lace |
| plaudit | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, acclamation, eclat, plaudits |
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| playsuit | (noun) a sports outfit for women or children; usually consists of shorts and a blouse | - |
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| portrait | (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrayal |
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| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portraiture, portrayal |
| posit | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: postulate |
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| (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
| preterit | (noun) a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | Synonyms: preterite |
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| pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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| (verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
| profit | (noun) the advantageous quality of being beneficial | Synonyms: gain |
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| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profits |
| (verb) make a profit; gain money or materially | Synonyms: turn a profit |
| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, gain |
| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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| pulpit | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, rostrum, soapbox, stump |
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| pundit | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, savant |
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| pursuit | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, following, pursual |
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| (noun) a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly) | Synonyms: interest, pastime |
| (noun) an auxiliary activity | Synonyms: avocation, by-line, hobby, sideline, spare-time activity |
| (noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, quest |
| quit | (verb) give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat | Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, throw in, throw in the towel |
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| (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: depart, take leave |
| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, relinquish, renounce |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, resign, step down |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, stop |
| quoit | (noun) game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits | - |
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| rabbit | (noun) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food | Synonyms: coney, cony |
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| (noun) flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food | Synonyms: hare |
| (noun) the fur of a rabbit | Synonyms: lapin |
| (verb) hunt rabbits | - |
| rarebit | (noun) cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast | Synonyms: Welsh rabbit, Welsh rarebit |
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| readmit | (verb) admit anew | - |
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| (verb) admit again or anew | - |
| recommit | (verb) send back to a committee | - |
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| (verb) commit again | - |
| (verb) commit once again, as of a crime | - |
| recruit | (noun) any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) | Synonyms: enlistee |
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| (noun) a recently enlisted soldier | Synonyms: military recruit |
| (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, raise |
| (verb) seek to employ | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, raise |
| redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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| (verb) deposit once again | - |
| refit | (noun) outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts) | - |
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| (verb) fit out again | - |
| remit | (noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court) | Synonyms: remission, remitment |
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| (noun) the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with | - |
| (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: slacken |
| (verb) diminish or abate | - |
| (verb) release from (claims, debts, or taxes) | - |
| (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remand, send back |
| (verb) forgive | - |
| (verb) send (money) in payment | - |
| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, set back, shelve, table |
| reposit | (verb) put (something) in a place for storage | - |
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| resubmit | (verb) submit (information) again to a program or automatic system | Synonyms: feed back |
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| retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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| retrofit | (noun) the act of adding a component or accessory to something that did not have it when it was manufactured | - |
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| (noun) a component or accessory added to something after it has been manufactured | - |
| (verb) substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones | - |
| (verb) fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house | - |
| (verb) provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture | - |
| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| ringgit | (noun) the basic unit of money in Malaysia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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| sandpit | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandbox, sandpile |
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| (noun) a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug | - |
| sawpit | (noun) a pit over which lumber is positioned to be sawed by two men with a long two-handed saw | - |
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| sennit | (noun) flat braided cordage that is used on ships | - |
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| shit | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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| (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull |
| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| (noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: dump |
| (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, squat |
| (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shite, turd |
| (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| sit | (verb) serve in a specific professional capacity | - |
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| (verb) be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside | Synonyms: sit down |
| (verb) show to a seat; assign a seat for | Synonyms: seat, sit down |
| (verb) take a seat | Synonyms: sit down |
| (verb) be in session | - |
| (verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: ride |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, posture |
| (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, babysit |
| (verb) be around, often idly or without specific purpose | Synonyms: sit around |
| (verb) be located or situated somewhere | - |
| skit | (noun) a short theatrical episode | - |
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| slit | (noun) a long narrow opening | - |
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| (noun) obscene terms for female genitals | Synonyms: cunt, puss, pussy, snatch, twat |
| (noun) a narrow fissure | - |
| (noun) a depression scratched or carved into a surface | Synonyms: dent, incision, prick, scratch |
| (verb) cut a slit into | - |
| (verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slice |
| snit | (noun) a state of agitated irritation | - |
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| snowsuit | (noun) a child's overgarment for cold weather | - |
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| soffit | (noun) the underside of a part of a building (such as an arch or overhang or beam etc.) | - |
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