col | (noun) a pass between mountain peaks; geomorphological term for the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks | Synonyms: gap |
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cola | (noun) carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts | Synonyms: dope |
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colander | (noun) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods | Synonyms: cullender |
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colchicine | (noun) an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout | - |
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cold | (adjective) having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration | - |
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(adjective) extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion | - |
(adjective) (color) giving no sensation of warmth | - |
(adjective) lacking the warmth of life | - |
(adjective) of a seeker; far from the object sought | - |
(adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate |
(adjective) so intense as to be almost uncontrollable | - |
(adjective) marked by errorless familiarity | - |
(adjective) having lost freshness through passage of time | - |
(adjective) unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication | - |
(adjective) feeling or showing no enthusiasm | - |
(adjective) sexually unresponsive | Synonyms: frigid |
(adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | Synonyms: dusty, moth-eaten, stale |
(noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
(noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: coldness |
(noun) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) | Synonyms: common cold |
coldcock | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: deck, dump, floor, knock down |
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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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coldhearted | (adjective) lacking in sympathy or feeling | - |
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coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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coldly | (adverb) lacking warmth of feeling; in a cold, unemotional manner | - |
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coldness | (noun) the absence of heat | Synonyms: cold, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature |
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(noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
(noun) the sensation produced by low temperatures | Synonyms: cold |
coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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cole | (noun) coarse curly-leafed cabbage | Synonyms: kail, kale |
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(noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, colewort, kail, kale |
coleslaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: slaw |
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coleus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical plants of the genus Coleus having multicolored decorative leaves and spikes of blue flowers | Synonyms: flame nettle |
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colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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colic | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: gripes, griping, intestinal colic |
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colicky | (adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulent, gassy |
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colicroot | (noun) any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic | Synonyms: colic root, crow corn, star grass, unicorn root |
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coliphage | (noun) a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli | - |
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coliseum | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, amphitheatre |
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colitis | (noun) inflammation of the colon | Synonyms: inflammatory bowel disease |
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collaborate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: cooperate, join forces |
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(verb) cooperate as a traitor | - |
collaboration | (noun) act of working jointly | Synonyms: coaction |
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(noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism |
collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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collaborative | (adjective) accomplished by collaboration | - |
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collaborator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: cooperator, pardner, partner |
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(noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, quisling |
(noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: confederate, henchman, partner in crime |
collage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: montage |
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(noun) any collection of diverse things | - |
collagen | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling | - |
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collagenase | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin | - |
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collagenic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenous |
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collagenous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenic |
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collapsable | (adjective) capable of collapsing or being collapsed | Synonyms: collapsible |
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collapse | (noun) the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink | Synonyms: flop |
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(noun) a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in | - |
(noun) a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) | Synonyms: crash |
(noun) an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion | Synonyms: prostration |
(verb) collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack | Synonyms: break down |
(verb) lose significance, effectiveness, or value | - |
(verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, crack, crack up, crock up |
(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, fall in, founder, give, give way |
(verb) fold or close up | - |
(verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, crumble, crumple, tumble |
(verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: burst |
collapsible | (adjective) capable of collapsing or being collapsed | Synonyms: collapsable |
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collar | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, pinch, taking into custody |
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(noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: leash |
(noun) a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over | Synonyms: neckband |
(noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: choker, dog collar, neckband |
(noun) a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it | - |
(noun) the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: shoe collar |
(noun) a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part | - |
(noun) anything worn or placed about the neck | - |
(noun) (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal | - |
(verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
(verb) furnish with a collar | - |
(verb) seize by the neck or collar | - |
collarbone | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: clavicle |
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collard | (noun) variety of kale having smooth leaves | - |
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collards | (noun) kale that has smooth leaves | Synonyms: collard greens |
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collarless | (adjective) without a collar | - |
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collate | (verb) compare critically; of texts | - |
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(verb) to assemble in proper sequence | - |
collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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(adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
(adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
(adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
(adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
(noun) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan | - |
collateralize | (verb) pledge as a collateral | - |
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collation | (noun) careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement | - |
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(noun) assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence | - |
(noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: bite, snack |
collator | (noun) a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards. | - |
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colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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(noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
(adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays | - |
(verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
(verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
(verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
(verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
collectable | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectible, payable |
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(noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectible |
collected | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: gathered |
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(adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
collectedly | (adverb) in a self-collected or self-possessed manner | Synonyms: composedly |
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collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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collectible | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, payable |
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(noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
collecting | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collection |
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collection | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collecting |
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(noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: compendium |
(noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, ingathering, solicitation |
(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage |
collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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(adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
(adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
(noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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(adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
collectivism | (noun) a political theory that the people should own the means of production | - |
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(noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism |
collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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(noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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(adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
collector | (noun) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes | - |
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(noun) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth | - |
(noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer |
(noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: aggregator |
colleen | (noun) an Irish girl | - |
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college | (noun) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed | - |
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(noun) the body of faculty and students of a college | - |
(noun) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university | - |
collegial | (adjective) characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues | - |
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(adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegiate |
collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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collegiate | (adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegial |
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collembolan | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: springtail |
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collet | (noun) a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting | - |
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(noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: ferrule |
(noun) a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe | Synonyms: collet chuck |
collide | (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: clash |
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(verb) cause to collide | - |
(verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: clash, jar |
collider | (noun) an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on | - |
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collie | (noun) a silky-coated sheepdog with a long ruff and long narrow head developed in Scotland | - |
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collier | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, pitman |
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colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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colligate | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: subsume |
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(verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
colligation | (noun) the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis | - |
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(noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: conjugation, conjunction, junction |
collimate | (verb) adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) | - |
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(verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: parallel |
collimation | (noun) the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope | - |
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collimator | (noun) optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam | - |
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(noun) a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one | - |
collinear | (adjective) lying on the same line | - |
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collins | (noun) tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice | Synonyms: Tom Collins |
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collision | (noun) a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals | - |
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(noun) an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object | - |
(noun) (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | Synonyms: hit |
collocate | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, lump |
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(verb) have a strong tendency to occur side by side | - |
collocation | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, juxtaposition |
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(noun) a grouping of words in a sentence | - |
collodion | (noun) a colorless syrupy solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol; used as a coating for wounds or photographic films | - |
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collogue | (verb) confer secretly | - |
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colloid | (noun) a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension | - |
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colloidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid | - |
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colloidally | (adverb) in a colloidal manner | - |
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colloquial | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: conversational |
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colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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colloquially | (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: conversationally, informally |
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colloquium | (noun) an address to an academic meeting or seminar | - |
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(noun) an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting | - |
colloquy | (noun) formal conversation | - |
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(noun) a conversation especially a formal one | - |
collotype | (noun) a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors | Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process |
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