coma | (noun) a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury | Synonyms: comatoseness |
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(noun) (astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed | - |
(noun) (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds) | - |
comal | (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comate, comose |
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comate | (adjective) bearing a coma; crowned with an assemblage of branches or leaves or bracts | Synonyms: comose |
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(adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comal, comose |
comatose | (adjective) relating to or associated with a coma | - |
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(adjective) in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness; unable to respond to external stimuli | - |
comatoseness | (noun) a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury | Synonyms: coma |
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comatulid | (noun) free-swimming stalkless crinoid with ten feathery arms; found on muddy sea bottoms | Synonyms: feather star |
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comb | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: combing |
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(noun) ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore | - |
(noun) the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds | Synonyms: cockscomb, coxcomb |
(noun) a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair | - |
(noun) any of several tools for straightening fibers | - |
(verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb out, disentangle |
(verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: ransack |
(verb) straighten with a comb | - |
combat | (noun) an engagement fought between two military forces | Synonyms: armed combat |
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(noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: fight, fighting, scrap |
(verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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(noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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(adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
(adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
combatively | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: scrappily |
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combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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combed | (adjective) (of hair) made tidy with a comb | - |
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comber | (noun) a machine that separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
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(noun) a long curling sea wave | - |
(noun) a person who separates and straightens the fibers of cotton or wool | - |
combinable | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinational, combinatory |
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combination | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combining, compounding |
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(noun) the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | - |
(noun) a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | - |
(noun) a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | - |
(noun) a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | - |
(noun) an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | - |
(noun) a coordinated sequence of chess moves | - |
combinational | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinatory |
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combinative | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinatory |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinatorial, combinatory |
combinatorial | (adjective) relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets | - |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatory |
combinatory | (adjective) marked by or relating to or resulting from combination | Synonyms: combinative |
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(adjective) relating to or involving combinations | Synonyms: combinative, combinatorial |
(adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinational |
combine | (noun) harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field | - |
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(noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combining |
(noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service | Synonyms: cartel, corporate trust, trust |
(verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
(verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
(verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
(verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
(verb) add together from different sources | - |
(verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
(verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
combined | (adjective) made or joined or united into one | - |
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combing | (noun) the act of drawing a comb through hair | Synonyms: comb |
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combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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(noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
combo | (noun) a small band of jazz musicians | Synonyms: jazz band, jazz group |
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combretum | (noun) any of numerous shrubs or small trees of the genus Combretum having spikes of small flowers | - |
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comburant | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburent, combustive |
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comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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(verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
(verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
(verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
(verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
combustibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibleness |
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combustible | (adjective) capable of igniting and burning | - |
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(noun) a substance that can be burned to provide heat or power | Synonyms: combustible material |
combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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combustion | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: burning |
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(noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: burning |
(noun) a state of violent disturbance and excitement | - |
combustive | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, comburent |
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come | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: cum, ejaculate, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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(verb) come to pass; arrive, as in due course | - |
(verb) be found or available | - |
(verb) reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position | - |
(verb) happen as a result | - |
(verb) have a certain priority | - |
(verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: occur |
(verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody | Synonyms: come up |
(verb) be received | Synonyms: come in |
(verb) cover a certain distance | - |
(verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, get |
(verb) experience orgasm | - |
(verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: fall |
(verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: do, fare, get along, make out |
(verb) extend or reach | - |
(verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: follow |
(verb) exist or occur in a certain point in a series | - |
(verb) be a native of | Synonyms: hail |
(verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, amount |
(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, number, total |
(verb) come forth | Synonyms: issue forth |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: derive, descend |
comeback | (noun) return by a celebrity to some previously successful activity | - |
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(noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: counter, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte |
comedian | (noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comic |
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(noun) an actor in a comedy | - |
comedienne | (noun) a female comedian | - |
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(noun) a female actor in a comedy | - |
comedo | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: blackhead |
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comedogen | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogenic, comedogenic substance |
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comedogenic | (noun) A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin. | Synonyms: comedogen, comedogenic substance |
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comedown | (noun) decline to a lower status or level | - |
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comedy | (noun) light and humorous drama with a happy ending | - |
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(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, drollery, funniness |
comeliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, fairness, loveliness |
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comely | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, fair, sightly |
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(adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
comer | (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) | Synonyms: arrival, arriver |
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(noun) someone with a promising future | - |
comestible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible |
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(noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
comet | (noun) (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit | - |
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cometary | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometic |
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cometic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a comet | Synonyms: cometary |
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comeupance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeuppance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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comeuppance | (noun) an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved and fitting | Synonyms: comeupance, just deserts, poetic justice |
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comfit | (noun) candy containing a fruit or nut | - |
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(verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: confect, confection |
comfort | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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(noun) assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal | - |
(noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt |
(noun) a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment | - |
(noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfortableness |
(noun) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state | Synonyms: ease |
(noun) satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing | - |
(verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
(verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
comfortable | (adjective) providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal) | Synonyms: comfy |
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(adjective) free from stress or conducive to mental ease; having or affording peace of mind | - |
(adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: easy, prosperous, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
(adjective) sufficient to provide comfort | - |
(adjective) having a wide margin | - |
comfortableness | (noun) a feeling of being at ease in a relationship | - |
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(noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfort |
comfortably | (adverb) in mental comfort; without stress | - |
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(adverb) in financial comfort | Synonyms: well |
(adverb) in physical comfort | - |
comforted | (adjective) made comfortable or more comfortable in a time of distress | - |
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comforter | (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, puff, quilt |
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(noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, pacifier, teething ring |
(noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: sympathiser, sympathizer |
(noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: allayer, reliever |
comforting | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: consolatory, consoling |
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(adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, satisfying |
comfortingly | (adverb) in a comforting or consoling manner | Synonyms: consolingly |
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comfortless | (adjective) without comfort | - |
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comforts | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, conveniences, creature comforts |
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comfrey | (noun) leaves make a popular tisane; young leaves used in salads or cooked | Synonyms: healing herb |
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(noun) perennial herbs of Europe and Iran; make rapidly growing groundcover for shaded areas | Synonyms: cumfrey |
comfy | (adjective) providing or experiencing physical well-being or relief (`comfy' is informal) | Synonyms: comfortable |
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comic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of comedy | - |
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(adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
(noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | Synonyms: comedian |
comical | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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comicality | (noun) the quality of being comical | - |
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comically | (adverb) in a comical manner | - |
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coming | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, forthcoming, upcoming |
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(noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: climax, orgasm, sexual climax |
(noun) arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous) | Synonyms: advent |
(noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, approaching |
(noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, approaching |
comity | (noun) a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect | - |
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comma | (noun) anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing | Synonyms: comma butterfly, Polygonia comma |
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(noun) a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence | - |
command | (noun) the power or authority to command | - |
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(noun) availability for use | - |
(noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: control, mastery |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: instruction, program line, statement |
(noun) a military unit or region under the control of a single officer | - |
(noun) a position of highest authority | - |
(verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
(verb) be in command of | - |
(verb) demand as one's due | - |
(verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
(verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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(noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
(noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
(noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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commanding | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: dominating, overlooking |
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commandment | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: precept, teaching |
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(noun) something that is commanded | - |
commando | (noun) an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory | - |
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(noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: ranger |
commelina | (noun) any plant of the genus Commelina | - |
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commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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(verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
(verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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(noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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(noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
commence | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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(verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, lead off, start |
(verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: embark on, start, start up |
commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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(noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
commend | (verb) express approbation of | - |
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(verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: remember |
(verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: recommend |
(verb) give to in charge | - |
(verb) present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence | - |
commendable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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(adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily |
commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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(noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
commensal | (adjective) living in a state of commensalism | - |
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(noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | - |
commensalism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it | - |
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commensally | (adverb) in a commensal manner | - |
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commensurable | (adjective) capable of being measured by a common standard | - |
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commensurate | (adjective) corresponding in size or degree or extent | - |
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commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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comment | (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: input, remark |
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(noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: commentary |
(noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: gossip, scuttlebutt |
(verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: notice, point out, remark |
(verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, gloss |
(verb) explain or interpret something | - |
commentary | (noun) a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material | Synonyms: comment |
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commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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(verb) make a commentary on | - |