rial | (noun) the basic unit of money in Yemen; equal to 100 fils | Synonyms: Yemeni rial |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Iran | Synonyms: Iranian rial |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Oman | Synonyms: Omani rial, riyal-omani |
riant | (adjective) showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness | Synonyms: laughing |
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riata | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, lasso, reata |
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rib | (noun) support resembling the rib of an animal | - |
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(noun) a projecting molding on the underside of a vault or ceiling; may be ornamental or structural | - |
(noun) any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) | Synonyms: costa |
(noun) a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant | - |
(noun) a teasing remark | - |
(noun) cut of meat including one or more ribs | - |
(verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, ridicule, roast |
(verb) form vertical ribs by knitting | - |
ribald | (adjective) humorously vulgar | Synonyms: bawdy, off-color |
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(noun) a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language | - |
ribaldry | (noun) behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | Synonyms: gaminess, raciness, spiciness |
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(noun) ribald humor | - |
riband | (noun) a ribbon used as a decoration | Synonyms: ribband |
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ribavirin | (noun) an inhaled antiviral agent (trade name Virazole) that may be used to treat serious virus infections | Synonyms: Virazole |
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ribband | (noun) a ribbon used as a decoration | Synonyms: riband |
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ribbed | (adjective) furnished or strengthened with ribs | - |
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(adjective) (of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture | Synonyms: costate |
ribbing | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: tantalization, tease, teasing |
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(noun) a framework of ribs | - |
ribbon | (noun) notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming | - |
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(noun) a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter | Synonyms: typewriter ribbon |
(noun) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event | Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm |
(noun) any long object resembling a thin line | Synonyms: thread |
ribbonfish | (noun) marine fish having a long compressed ribbonlike body | - |
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(noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, oarfish, Regalecus glesne |
ribbonlike | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbony |
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ribbonwood | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, lacebark |
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(noun) deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong fiber that resembles flax and is called New Zealand cotton | Synonyms: Plagianthus betulinus, Plagianthus regius, ribbon tree |
ribbony | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbonlike |
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ribgrass | (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribwort, ripple-grass |
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ribier | (noun) dark reddish-purple table grape of California | - |
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ribless | (adjective) having no ribs or no visible ribs | - |
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riblike | (adjective) resembling a rib | - |
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riboflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: hepatoflavin, lactoflavin, ovoflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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ribonuclease | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonucleinase, RNase |
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ribonucleinase | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonuclease, RNase |
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ribose | (noun) a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid | - |
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ribosome | (noun) an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell | - |
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ribwort | (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ripple-grass |
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rice | (noun) grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished | - |
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(noun) annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper | - |
(verb) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice | - |
ricebird | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: bobolink, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird |
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(noun) small finch-like Indonesian weaverbird that frequents rice fields | Synonyms: Java finch, Java sparrow, Padda oryzivora |
ricegrass | (noun) any grass of the genus Oryzopsis | Synonyms: rice grass |
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ricer | (noun) a kitchen utensil used for ricing soft foods by extruding them through small holes | - |
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rich | (adjective) possessing material wealth | - |
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(adjective) having an abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances (especially natural resources) | - |
(adjective) suggestive of or characterized by great expense | - |
(adjective) high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air | - |
(adjective) causing indignation due to hypocrisy | - |
(adjective) affording an abundant supply | Synonyms: ample, copious, plenteous, plentiful |
(adjective) strong; intense | Synonyms: deep |
(adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, fertile, productive |
(adjective) pleasantly full and mellow | - |
(adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor | Synonyms: full-bodied, racy, robust |
(adjective) containing plenty of fat, or eggs, or sugar | - |
(adjective) of great worth or quality | - |
(adjective) very productive | - |
(noun) people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group) | Synonyms: rich people |
riches | (noun) an abundance of material possessions and resources | Synonyms: wealth |
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richly | (adverb) in a rich and lavish manner | Synonyms: extravagantly, lavishly |
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(adverb) in a rich manner | Synonyms: high, luxuriously |
(adverb) to an ample degree or in an ample manner | Synonyms: amply |
richness | (noun) a strong deep vividness of hue | - |
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(noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: fullness, mellowness |
(noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, rankness |
(noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, profusion |
(noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, magnificence |
(noun) the quality of having high intrinsic value | - |
(noun) abundant wealth | Synonyms: affluence |
richweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: clearweed, dead nettle, Pilea pumilla |
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(noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, stone-root, stone root, stoneroot |
ricin | (noun) a toxic protein extracted from castor beans; used as a chemical reagent; can be used as a bioweapon | Synonyms: ricin toxin |
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rick | (noun) a stack of hay | Synonyms: hayrick, haystack |
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(noun) a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) | Synonyms: crick, kink, wrick |
(verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
(verb) pile in ricks | - |
ricketiness | (noun) the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place | Synonyms: unsteadiness |
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rickets | (noun) childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus | Synonyms: rachitis |
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rickettsia | (noun) any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings | - |
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rickettsial | (adjective) relating to or caused by rickettsias | - |
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rickettsialpox | (noun) mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox | - |
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rickettsiosis | (noun) infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria | Synonyms: rickettsial disease |
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rickety | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets | Synonyms: rachitic |
(adjective) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect | Synonyms: shaky, wobbly, wonky |
rickey | (noun) a mixed drink made of sweetened lime juice and soda water usually with liquor | - |
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rickrack | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: ricrac |
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ricksha | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: jinrikisha, rickshaw |
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rickshaw | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: jinrikisha, ricksha |
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ricochet | (noun) a glancing rebound | Synonyms: carom |
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(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring, take a hop |
ricotta | (noun) soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese | - |
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ricrac | (noun) a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming | Synonyms: rickrack |
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rictus | (noun) a gaping grimace | - |
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rid | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, free |
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riddance | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, expulsion |
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(noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: elimination |
riddle | (noun) a coarse sieve (as for gravel) | - |
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(noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma |
(verb) explain a riddle | - |
(verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
(verb) speak in riddles | - |
(verb) pierce with many holes | - |
(verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
(verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
riddled | (adjective) (often followed by `with') damaged throughout by numerous perforations or holes | - |
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(adjective) spread throughout | - |
ride | (noun) a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile) | Synonyms: drive |
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(noun) a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement | - |
(verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
(verb) keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot | - |
(verb) copulate with | Synonyms: mount |
(verb) be carried or travel on or in a vehicle | - |
(verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: sit |
(verb) move like a floating object | - |
(verb) climb up on the body | - |
(verb) sit on and control a vehicle | - |
(verb) ride over, along, or through | - |
(verb) continue undisturbed and without interference | - |
(verb) lie moored or anchored | - |
(verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: drive |
(verb) be sustained or supported or borne | - |
(verb) be contingent on | Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, turn on |
rider | (noun) a clause that is appended to a legislative bill | - |
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(noun) a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) | - |
(noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: passenger |
(noun) a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle) | - |
ridge | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridgepole, rooftree |
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(noun) any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane | - |
(noun) a long narrow natural elevation or striation | - |
(noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridgeline |
(noun) a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean | - |
(noun) any long raised strip | - |
(verb) form into a ridge | - |
(verb) spade into alternate ridges and troughs | - |
(verb) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides | - |
(verb) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | - |
(verb) extend in ridges | - |
ridged | (adjective) having a ridge or shaped like a ridge or suggesting the keel of a ship | Synonyms: carinate, carinated, keeled |
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ridgel | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgeling, ridgil, ridgling |
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ridgeline | (noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridge |
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ridgeling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgil, ridgling |
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ridgepole | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridge, rooftree |
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ridgil | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgeling, ridgling |
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ridgling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgeling, ridgil |
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ridicule | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: derision |
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(noun) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate | - |
(verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
ridiculer | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, satirist |
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ridiculous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous |
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(adjective) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce | Synonyms: farcical, ludicrous |
(adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, silly |
ridiculously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, ludicrously, preposterously |
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ridiculousness | (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdity, absurdness |
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riding | (noun) travel by being carried on horseback | Synonyms: horseback riding |
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(noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: equitation, horseback riding |
ridley | (noun) a marine turtle | - |
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riel | (noun) the basic unit of money in Cambodia; equal to 100 sen | - |
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rifampin | (noun) an antibacterial drug (trade names Rifadin and Rimactane) used to treat tuberculosis | Synonyms: Rifadin, Rimactane |
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rife | (adjective) excessively abundant | Synonyms: overabundant, plethoric |
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(adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevailing, prevalent |
riff | (noun) a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation | - |
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(verb) play riffs | - |
(verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riffle, thumb |
riffle | (noun) shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners | - |
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(noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: ripple, rippling, wavelet |
(verb) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix | - |
(verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, ruffle |
(verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
(verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb |
riffraff | (noun) disparaging terms for the common people | Synonyms: rabble, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail |
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rifle | (noun) a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore | - |
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(verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: go |
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip |
riflebird | (noun) velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail | Synonyms: Ptloris paradisea |
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rifled | (adjective) of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel | - |
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rifleman | (noun) a soldier whose weapon is a rifle | - |
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(noun) someone skilled in the use of a rifle | - |
rifling | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: grooving |
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rift | (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance |
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(noun) a narrow fissure in rock | - |
(noun) a gap between cloud masses | - |
rig | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, swindle |
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(noun) gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise | - |
(noun) formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel | Synonyms: rigging |
(noun) a set of clothing (with accessories) | Synonyms: getup, outfit, turnout |
(noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: carriage, equipage |
(noun) a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together | Synonyms: articulated lorry, semi, tractor trailer, trailer truck, trucking rig |
(noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, tackle |
(verb) equip with sails or masts | Synonyms: set, set up |
(verb) connect or secure to | - |
(verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: manipulate |
(verb) arrange the outcome of by means of deceit | Synonyms: set up |
rigamarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigmarole |
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(noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigmarole |
rigatoni | (noun) tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces | - |
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rigged | (adjective) fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc) | - |
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rigger | (noun) a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists | Synonyms: rigger brush |
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(noun) a sailing vessel with a specified rig | - |
(noun) someone who rigs ships | - |
(noun) someone who works on an oil rig | Synonyms: oil rigger |
rigging | (noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: tackle |
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(noun) formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel | Synonyms: rig |
right | (adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the east when facing north | - |
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(adjective) in conformance with justice or law or morality | - |
(adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: correct |
(adjective) of or belonging to the political or intellectual right | - |
(adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: correct |
(adjective) precisely accurate | Synonyms: veracious |
(adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: proper |
(adjective) (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier | Synonyms: one |
(adjective) most suitable or right for a particular purpose | Synonyms: good, ripe |
(adjective) (of the side of cloth or clothing) facing or intended to face outward | - |
(adjective) having the axis perpendicular to the base | - |
(adjective) intended for the right hand | Synonyms: right-hand |
(adjective) in or into a satisfactory condition | - |
(adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: correct |
(adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: correct |
(noun) a turn toward the side of the body that is on the south when the person is facing east | - |
(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right field, rightfield |
(noun) an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature | - |
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: rightfulness |
(noun) the hand that is on the right side of the body | Synonyms: right hand |
(noun) those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged | Synonyms: right wing |
(noun) location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east | - |
(noun) (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing | - |
(adverb) an interjection expressing agreement; Yes, you are indeed correct | Synonyms: right on |
(adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, decently, properly |
(adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: aright, correctly |
(adverb) toward or on the right; also used figuratively | - |
(adverb) precisely, exactly | - |
(adverb) in accordance with moral or social standards | Synonyms: justly |
(adverb) (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree | Synonyms: mightily, mighty, powerful |
(adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, altogether, completely, entirely, totally, whole, wholly |
(adverb) immediately | - |
(adverb) completely | Synonyms: flop |
(verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, rectify |
(verb) regain an upright or proper position | - |
(verb) put in or restore to an upright position | - |
(verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, redress |
righteous | (adjective) characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice | - |
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(adjective) morally justified | - |
righteously | (adverb) in a righteous manner | - |
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righteousness | (noun) adhering to moral principles | - |
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rightfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) | Synonyms: right field |
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(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right | Synonyms: right, right field |
rightful | (adjective) legally valid | - |
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(adjective) having a legally established claim | Synonyms: lawful, true |
rightfully | (adverb) by right | Synonyms: truly |
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rightfulness | (noun) anything in accord with principles of justice | Synonyms: right |
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righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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