attemper | (verb) modify the temperature of | - |
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bumper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage | - |
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(noun) a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast) | - |
camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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(noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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(noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
(noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
damper | (noun) a depressing restraint | - |
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(noun) a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations | Synonyms: muffler |
(noun) a movable iron plate that regulates the draft in a stove or chimney or furnace | - |
distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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(noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
(noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
(noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
(noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
(verb) paint with distemper | - |
dumper | (noun) truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity | Synonyms: dump truck, tip truck, tipper, tipper lorry, tipper truck |
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hamper | (noun) a basket usually with a cover | - |
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(noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, shackle, trammel |
(verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, halter, strangle |
(verb) put at a disadvantage | Synonyms: handicap, hinder |
jumper | (noun) (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump | Synonyms: jump shot |
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(noun) a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing | Synonyms: pinafore, pinny |
(noun) a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen | - |
(noun) a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections | - |
(noun) a coverall worn by children | - |
(noun) a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body | Synonyms: sweater |
(noun) an athlete who competes at jumping | - |
(noun) a person who jumps | - |
limper | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: hobbler |
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lumper | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics | - |
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(noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, stevedore |
pamper | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, spoil |
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romper | (noun) a one-piece garment for children to wear at play; the lower part is shaped like bloomers | Synonyms: romper suit |
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(noun) a person who romps or frolics | - |
scamper | (noun) rushing about hastily in an undignified way | Synonyms: scramble, scurry |
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(verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scurry, scuttle, skitter |
shrimper | (noun) a vessel engaged in shrimping | - |
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simper | (noun) a silly self-conscious smile | - |
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(verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: smirk |
stamper | (noun) a power tool that stamps | Synonyms: stamping machine |
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(noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stomper, tramper, trampler |
(noun) a workman whose job is to form or cut out by applying a mold or die (either by hand or by operating a stamping machine) | - |
stomper | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, tramper, trampler |
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stumper | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, toughie |
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tamper | (noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) | Synonyms: tamp, tamping bar |
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(verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, monkey |
(verb) intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly | Synonyms: meddle |
temper | (noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: toughness |
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(noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness |
(noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, humour, mood |
(noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: irritation, pique |
(verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, mollify, season |
(verb) adjust the pitch (of pianos) | - |
(verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: harden |
(verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: chasten |
(verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: anneal, normalize |
tramper | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, stomper, trampler |
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(noun) a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) | Synonyms: hiker, tramp |
vamper | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp |
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whimper | (noun) a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way | Synonyms: whine |
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(verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, wail |