absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
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(adjective) not limited by law | - |
(adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
(adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
(adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
(noun) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative | - |
circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
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convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
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(verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
(verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolve |
dilute | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: diluted |
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(verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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flute | (noun) a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown | Synonyms: transverse flute |
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(noun) a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) | Synonyms: fluting |
(noun) a tall narrow wineglass | Synonyms: champagne flute, flute glass |
(verb) form flutes in | - |
glute | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: gluteal muscle, gluteus, gluteus muscle |
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involute | (adjective) (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured | - |
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(adjective) especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward | Synonyms: rolled |
irresolute | (adjective) uncertain how to act or proceed | - |
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lute | (noun) chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard | - |
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(noun) a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid | Synonyms: luting |
pollute | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, foul |
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resolute | (adjective) firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination | - |
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(adjective) characterized by quickness and firmness | Synonyms: unhesitating |
salute | (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salutation |
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(noun) a formal military gesture of respect | Synonyms: military greeting |
(noun) an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat | - |
(verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
(verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
(verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
(verb) express commendation of | - |
(verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
(verb) become noticeable | - |
solute | (noun) the dissolved matter in a solution; the component of a solution that changes its state | - |
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volute | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, voluted, whorled |
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(noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, whorl |
(noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: spiral |