| categorial | (adjective) of or relating to the concept of categories | - |
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| categoric | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categorical |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categorical, flat, unconditional |
| categorical | (adjective) relating to or included in a category or categories | Synonyms: categoric |
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| (adjective) not modified or restricted by reservations | Synonyms: categoric, flat, unconditional |
| categorically | (adverb) in an unqualified manner | Synonyms: flatly, unconditionally |
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| categorisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorization, classification, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorization, classification |
| categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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| categorised | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorized |
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| categorization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorisation, classification, sorting |
| (noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorisation, classification |
| categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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| categorized | (adjective) arranged into categories | Synonyms: categorised |
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| category | (noun) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme | - |
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| (noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: class, family |
| catena | (noun) a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma) | - |
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| catenary | (noun) the curve theoretically assumed by a perfectly flexible and inextensible cord of uniform density and cross section hanging freely from two fixed points | - |
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| catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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| catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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| (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
| cater | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: ply, provide, supply |
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| (verb) supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets | - |
| catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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| caterer | (noun) someone who provides food and service (as for a party) | - |
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| catering | (noun) providing food and services | - |
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| caterpillar | (noun) a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth | - |
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| caterwaul | (noun) the yowling sound made by a cat in heat | - |
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| (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
| catfish | (noun) any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth | Synonyms: siluriform fish |
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| (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: wolf fish, wolffish |
| (noun) flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed | Synonyms: mudcat |
| (verb) To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity | - |
| catgut | (noun) a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery | Synonyms: gut |
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| (noun) perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone | Synonyms: goat's rue, Tephrosia virginiana, wild sweet pea |
| catharsis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions | Synonyms: abreaction, katharsis |
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| (noun) purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: katharsis, purgation |
| cathartic | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: releasing |
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| (adjective) strongly laxative | Synonyms: evacuant, purgative |
| (adjective) emotionally purging | Synonyms: psychotherapeutic |
| (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, physic, purgative |
| cathartid | (noun) large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures | Synonyms: New World vulture |
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| cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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| cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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| cathedra | (noun) a throne that is the official chair of a bishop | Synonyms: bishop's throne |
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| cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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| (noun) any large and important church | - |
| (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: duomo |
| catheter | (noun) a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open | - |
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| catheterisation | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterization |
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| catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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| catheterization | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterisation |
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| catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
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| cathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object | Synonyms: charge |
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| cathode | (noun) a negatively charged electrode that is the source of electrons entering an electrical device | - |
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| (noun) the positively charged terminal of a voltaic cell or storage battery that supplies current | - |
| cathodic | (adjective) of or at or pertaining to a cathode | - |
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| catholic | (adjective) free from provincial prejudices or attachments | - |
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| catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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| catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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| catholicize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, latinise, latinize |
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| catholicon | (noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: cure-all, nostrum, panacea |
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| cathouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, bordello, brothel, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| cation | (noun) a positively charged ion | - |
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| cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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| catkin | (noun) a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence | Synonyms: ament |
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| catkinate | (adjective) resembling a catkin | - |
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| catling | (noun) a long double-edged knife used for amputations | - |
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| catmint | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catnip, Nepeta cataria |
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| catnap | (noun) sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) | Synonyms: forty winks, light sleep, nap, short sleep, snooze |
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| (verb) take a siesta | Synonyms: catch a wink, nap |
| catnip | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catmint, Nepeta cataria |
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| catoptric | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptrical |
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| catoptrical | (adjective) of or relating to catoptrics; produced by or based on mirrors | Synonyms: catoptric |
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| catoptrics | (noun) branch of optics dealing with formation of images by mirrors | - |
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| catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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| catsup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: cetchup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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| cattail | (noun) tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
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| cattalo | (noun) hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds | Synonyms: beefalo |
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| cattie | (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: catty |
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| cattiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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| cattish | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, catty |
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| cattle | (noun) domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age | Synonyms: Bos taurus, cows, kine, oxen |
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| cattleman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) cattle | Synonyms: beef man, cow man |
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| (noun) a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowboy, cowman |
| cattleship | (noun) a cargo ship for the transport of livestock | Synonyms: cattle boat |
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| cattleya | (noun) any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known | - |
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| catty | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, cattish |
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| (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: cattie |
| catwalk | (noun) narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage or between parts of a building or along a bridge) | - |
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| (noun) narrow platform extending out into an auditorium | - |