| poach | (verb) cook in a simmering liquid | - |
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| (verb) hunt illegally | - |
| poached | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: boiled, stewed |
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| poacher | (noun) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters | Synonyms: sea poacher, sea poker |
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| (noun) a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs) | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another | - |
| poaching | (noun) cooking in simmering liquid | - |
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| pochard | (noun) heavy-bodied Old World diving duck having a grey-and-black body and reddish head | Synonyms: Aythya ferina |
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| pock | (noun) a pustule in an eruptive disease | - |
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| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, scar |
| pocked | (adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease | Synonyms: pockmarked |
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| (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pockmarked, potholed |
| pocket | (noun) a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles | - |
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| (noun) an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck | - |
| (noun) (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) | Synonyms: pouch |
| (noun) a small isolated group of people | - |
| (noun) a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly | Synonyms: air hole, air pocket |
| (noun) a supply of money | - |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pouch, sac, sack |
| (noun) a hollow concave shape made by removing something | Synonyms: scoop |
| (noun) (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left | - |
| (verb) put in one's pocket | - |
| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: bag |
| pocketable | (adjective) small enough to be carried in a garment pocket | Synonyms: pocket-size, pocket-sized |
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| pocketbook | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, purse |
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| (noun) pocket-sized paperback book | Synonyms: pocket book, pocket edition |
| (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: billfold, notecase, wallet |
| (noun) your personal financial means | - |
| pocketcomb | (noun) a small comb suitable for carrying in a pocket | Synonyms: pocket comb |
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| pocketful | (noun) the quantity a pocket will hold | - |
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| pocketknife | (noun) a knife with a blade that folds into the handle; suitable for carrying in the pocket | Synonyms: pocket knife |
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| pockmark | (noun) a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease | - |
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| (verb) mark with or as if with pockmarks | - |
| pockmarked | (adjective) marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease | Synonyms: pocked |
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| (adjective) used of paved surfaces having holes or pits | Synonyms: pocked, potholed |
| pod | (noun) a detachable container of fuel on an airplane | Synonyms: fuel pod |
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| (noun) a group of aquatic mammals | - |
| (noun) a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant | Synonyms: seedpod |
| (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: cod, seedcase |
| (verb) produce pods, of plants | - |
| (verb) take something out of its shell or pod | - |
| podalgia | (noun) foot pain | - |
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| podcast | (verb) distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer | - |
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| podetium | (noun) an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the ascocarp is borne | - |
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| podgy | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby |
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| podiatrist | (noun) a specialist in care for the feet | Synonyms: chiropodist, foot doctor |
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| podiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine concerned with the feet | Synonyms: chiropody |
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| podium | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stump |
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| podlike | (adjective) resembling a pod | - |
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| podocarp | (noun) any evergreen in the Southern Hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed | - |
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| podsol | (noun) a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer | Synonyms: podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol, podzol soil |
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| podzol | (noun) a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer | Synonyms: podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil, podzol soil |
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| poeciliid | (noun) small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control | Synonyms: live-bearer, poeciliid fish, topminnow |
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| poem | (noun) a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines | Synonyms: verse form |
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| poenology | (noun) the branch of criminology concerned with prison management and prisoner rehabilitation | Synonyms: penology |
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| poesy | (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poetry, verse |
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| poet | (noun) a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) | - |
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| poetess | (noun) a woman poet | - |
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| poetic | (adjective) of or relating to poetry | Synonyms: poetical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to poets | - |
| (adjective) characterized by romantic imagery | - |
| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting poetry | Synonyms: poetical |
| poetical | (adjective) of or relating to poetry | Synonyms: poetic |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting poetry | Synonyms: poetic |
| poetically | (adverb) in a poetic manner | - |
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| poeticism | (noun) a poetic phrase, utterance, etc. | - |
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| poetics | (noun) study of poetic works | - |
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| poetise | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetize, verse, versify |
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| poetiser | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier |
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| poetize | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, verse, versify |
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| poetizer | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, rhymer, rhymester, versifier |
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| poetry | (noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poesy, verse |
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| (noun) any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling | - |
| pogey | (noun) money received from the state | Synonyms: dole, pogy |
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| pogge | (noun) northern Atlantic sea poacher | Synonyms: Agonus cataphractus, armed bullhead |
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| pogonia | (noun) any hardy bog orchid of the genus Pogonia: terrestrial orchids having slender rootstocks and erect stems bearing one or a few leaves and a solitary terminal flower | - |
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| pogonion | (noun) the craniometric point that is the most forward-projecting point on the anterior surface of the chin | - |
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| pogonip | (noun) a dense winter fog containing ice particles | Synonyms: ice fog |
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| pogonophoran | (noun) slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering; lives on the deep ocean bottom | Synonyms: beard worm |
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| pogrom | (noun) organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews) | - |
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| pogy | (noun) money received from the state | Synonyms: dole, pogey |
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| poi | (noun) Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment | - |
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| poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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| poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
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| (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
| poignant | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: affecting, touching |
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| (adjective) keenly distressing to the mind or feelings | - |
| poignantly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: affectingly, touchingly |
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| poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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| poikilothermic | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermous |
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| poikilothermous | (adjective) of animals except birds and mammals; having body temperature that varies with the environment | Synonyms: ectothermic, heterothermic, poikilothermic |
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| poilu | (noun) thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | Synonyms: chicken purloo, purloo |
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| (noun) a French soldier (especially in World War I) | - |
| poinciana | (noun) a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana | Synonyms: bird of paradise, Caesalpinia gilliesii, Poinciana gilliesii |
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| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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| point | (noun) sharp end | - |
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| (noun) a wall socket | Synonyms: power point |
| (noun) the gun muzzle's direction | Synonyms: gunpoint |
| (noun) a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs | Synonyms: breaker point, distributor point |
| (noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: pointedness |
| (noun) an outstanding characteristic | Synonyms: spot |
| (noun) a distinguishing or individuating characteristic | - |
| (noun) a geometric element that has position but no extension | - |
| (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: detail, item |
| (noun) the object of an activity | - |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, stop |
| (noun) a brief version of the essential meaning of something | - |
| (noun) a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer | Synonyms: head |
| (noun) a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list | Synonyms: item |
| (noun) the dot at the left of a decimal fraction | Synonyms: decimal point, percentage point |
| (noun) the precise location of something; a spatially limited location | - |
| (noun) a promontory extending out into a large body of water | - |
| (noun) one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan | - |
| (noun) a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch | - |
| (noun) the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest | - |
| (noun) any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass | Synonyms: compass point |
| (noun) a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect | - |
| (noun) a V shape | Synonyms: peak, tip |
| (noun) a very small circular shape | Synonyms: dot |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, stage |
| (noun) an instant of time | Synonyms: point in time |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: sharpen, taper |
| (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: repoint |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, show |
| (verb) indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle | - |
| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, level |
| (verb) be positionable in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, target |
| (verb) mark with diacritics | - |
| (verb) mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes | - |
| (verb) mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, steer |
| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: luff |
| (verb) be oriented | Synonyms: orient |
| pointed | (adjective) having a point | - |
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| (adjective) direct and obvious in meaning or reference; often unpleasant | - |
| pointedly | (adverb) in such a manner as to make something clearly evident | - |
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| pointedness | (noun) the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip | Synonyms: point |
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| (noun) the quality of being obviously directed at a particular person or thing | - |
| pointel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointrel |
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| pointer | (noun) a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game | Synonyms: Spanish pointer |
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| (noun) an indicator as on a dial | - |
| (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: cursor |
| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: arrow |
| pointfulness | (noun) The state or condition of having meaning, relevance or force. | - |
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| pointillism | (noun) a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France | - |
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| (noun) a school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers late in 19th century France | - |
| pointillist | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillistic |
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| (noun) a painter who uses the technique of pointillism | - |
| pointillistic | (adjective) of or relating to pointillism | Synonyms: pointillist |
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| pointless | (adjective) not having a point especially a sharp point | Synonyms: unpointed |
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| (adjective) having no points scores | Synonyms: goalless, hitless, scoreless |
| (adjective) serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being | Synonyms: otiose, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted |
| pointlessly | (adverb) in a pointless manner | - |
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| pointlessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
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| pointrel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointel |
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| pointsman | (noun) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic | - |
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| poise | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, cool, sang-froid |
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| (noun) a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second | - |
| (noun) a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium | - |
| (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: balance |
| (verb) cause to be balanced or suspended | - |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: brace |
| (verb) be motionless, in suspension | - |
| poised | (adjective) marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action | - |
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| (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, equanimous, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
| poison | (noun) anything that harms or destroys | - |
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| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant |
| (verb) administer poison to | - |
| (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
| (verb) kill with poison | - |
| (verb) kill by its poison | - |
| (verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
| poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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| poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
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| poisoning | (noun) the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | - |
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| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: intoxication, toxic condition |
| poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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| (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
| (adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
| poisonously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: venomously |
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| poke | (noun) (boxing) a blow with the fist | Synonyms: biff, clout, lick, punch, slug |
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| (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poking, thrust, thrusting |
| (noun) a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases | Synonyms: carrier bag, paper bag, sack |
| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer |
| (noun) tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous | Synonyms: garget, Phytolacca americana, pigeon berry, scoke |
| (verb) make a hole by poking | - |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, prod, stab |
| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) stir by poking | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, pry |
| poker | (noun) any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand | Synonyms: poker game |
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| (noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, salamander, stove poker |
| pokeweed | (noun) perennial of the genus Phytolacca | - |
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| pokey | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, poky |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, poky |
| (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, poky, slammer |
| poking | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, thrust, thrusting |
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| poky | (adjective) small and remote and insignificant | Synonyms: jerkwater, one-horse, pokey |
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| (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, laggard, pokey |
| (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, slammer |
| pol | (noun) a person active in party politics | Synonyms: political leader, politician, politico |
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| polack | (noun) a person of Polish descent | - |
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| polar | (adjective) of or existing at or near a geographical pole or within the Arctic or Antarctic Circles | - |
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| (adjective) located at or near or coming from the earth's poles | - |
| (adjective) having a pair of equal and opposite charges | - |
| (adjective) extremely cold | Synonyms: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy |
| (adjective) being of crucial importance | Synonyms: pivotal |
| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, opposite |
| polarimeter | (noun) an optical device used to measure the rotation of the plane of vibration of polarized light | Synonyms: polariscope |
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| polarisation | (noun) the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration | Synonyms: polarization |
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| (noun) the condition of having or giving polarity | Synonyms: polarization |
| polariscope | (noun) an optical device used to measure the rotation of the plane of vibration of polarized light | Synonyms: polarimeter |
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| polarise | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarize |
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| (verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarize |
| (verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarize |
| polarity | (noun) having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges) | Synonyms: sign |
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| (noun) a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies | Synonyms: mutual opposition |
| polarization | (noun) the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration | Synonyms: polarisation |
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| (noun) the condition of having or giving polarity | Synonyms: polarisation |