licence | (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: license, permit |
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(noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: license |
(noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: license |
(verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, license |
licenced | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licensed |
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license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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(noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
(noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
(noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
(verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
licensed | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: accredited, commissioned, licenced |
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licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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licentiate | (noun) holds a license (degree) from a (European) university | - |
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licentious | (adjective) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained | - |
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licentiously | (adverb) in a licentious and promiscuous manner | Synonyms: promiscuously, wantonly |
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licentiousness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, looseness, profligacy |
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(noun) the quality of being lewd and lascivious | Synonyms: wantonness |
lichee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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(noun) Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium | Synonyms: litchi, Litchi chinensis, litchi tree, Nephelium litchi |
lichen | (noun) any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc. | - |
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(noun) any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks | - |
lichgate | (noun) a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | Synonyms: lychgate |
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lichi | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: leechee, lichee, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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licit | (adjective) sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality | - |
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(adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, legitimate |
licitly | (adverb) in a manner acceptable to common custom | Synonyms: lawfully, legitimately |
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licitness | (noun) the quality of strictly conforming to law | - |
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lick | (noun) touching with the tongue | Synonyms: lap |
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(noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, poke, punch, slug |
(noun) a salt deposit that animals regularly lick | Synonyms: salt lick |
(verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out |
(verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap, lap up |
(verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lap |
(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash |
licked | (adjective) having been got the better of | - |
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licking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: defeat |
licorice | (noun) a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant | Synonyms: liquorice |
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(noun) deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots | Synonyms: Glycyrrhiza glabra, liquorice |