| stria | (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, banding, striation |
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| (noun) any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue | Synonyms: striation |
| striate | (adjective) marked with stria or striations | - |
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| (verb) mark with striae or striations | - |
| striation | (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, banding, stria |
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| (noun) any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue | Synonyms: stria |
| striatum | (noun) a striped mass of white and grey matter located in front of the thalamus in each cerebral hemisphere; consists of the caudate nucleus and the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: corpus striatum, striate body |
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| stricken | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | Synonyms: smitten, struck |
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| (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: afflicted |
| (adjective) put out of action (by illness) | Synonyms: laid low |
| strickle | (noun) a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand | - |
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| (noun) a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure | - |
| (noun) an implement for sharpening scythes | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
| strict | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: nonindulgent |
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| (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, stern |
| (adjective) rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard | Synonyms: rigorous |
| (adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility | Synonyms: rigid |
| (adjective) (of rules) stringently enforced | Synonyms: hard-and-fast |
| strictly | (adverb) restricted to something | Synonyms: purely |
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| (adverb) in a rigorous manner | Synonyms: rigorously |
| (adverb) in a stringent manner | Synonyms: stringently |
| strictness | (noun) uncompromising resolution | Synonyms: sternness |
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| (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: stringency |
| stricture | (noun) severe criticism | - |
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| (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stenosis |
| stride | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, tread |
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| (noun) significant progress (especially in the phrase `make strides') | - |
| (noun) the distance covered by a step | Synonyms: footstep, pace, step |
| (verb) walk with long steps | - |
| stridence | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridency |
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| stridency | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridence |
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| strident | (adjective) unpleasantly loud and harsh | Synonyms: raucous |
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| (adjective) being sharply insistent on being heard | Synonyms: shrill |
| (adjective) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry | Synonyms: blatant, clamant, clamorous, vociferous |
| (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, spirant |
| stridently | (adverb) in a strident manner | - |
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| strider | (noun) a person who walks rapidly with long steps | - |
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| stridor | (noun) a whistling sound when breathing (usually heard on inspiration); indicates obstruction of the trachea or larynx | - |
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| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
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| stridulation | (noun) a shrill grating or chirping noise made by some insects by rubbing body parts together | - |
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| strife | (noun) bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension | - |
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| (noun) lack of agreement or harmony | Synonyms: discord |
| strike | (noun) a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions | Synonyms: work stoppage |
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| (noun) a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball | Synonyms: ten-strike |
| (noun) an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective | - |
| (noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, hit, smash, smasher |
| (noun) (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders | - |
| (noun) a gentle blow | Synonyms: rap, tap |
| (verb) cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp | - |
| (verb) arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing | - |
| (verb) indicate (a certain time) by striking | - |
| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, scratch |
| (verb) pierce with force | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strickle |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: seize |
| (verb) produce by ignition or a blow | - |
| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: coin, mint |
| (verb) disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, impress, move |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: assume, take, take up |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, hit |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon |
| (verb) stop work in order to press demands | Synonyms: walk out |
| (verb) attain | Synonyms: come to |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, shine |
| strikebound | (adjective) closed or immobilized by a strike | - |
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| strikebreaker | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| strikeout | (noun) an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
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| striker | (noun) the part of a mechanical device that strikes something | - |
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| (noun) an employee on strike against an employer | - |
| (noun) someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating | - |
| (noun) a forward on a soccer team | - |
| (noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: hitter |
| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, hitting |
| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, impinging |
| strikingly | (adverb) in a striking manner | - |
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| strikingness | (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: boldness |
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| (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, saliency |
| string | (noun) a lightweight cord | Synonyms: twine |
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| (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, drawstring |
| (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: chain, strand |
| (noun) a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket | - |
| (noun) a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand | - |
| (noun) stringed instruments that are played with a bow | Synonyms: bowed stringed instrument |
| (noun) a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.) | - |
| (noun) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding | Synonyms: train |
| (noun) (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop | Synonyms: cosmic string |
| (noun) a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) | - |
| (verb) add as if on a string | Synonyms: string up |
| (verb) provide with strings | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, thread |
| (verb) remove the stringy parts of | - |
| (verb) string together; tie or fasten with a string | - |
| (verb) stretch out or arrange like a string | - |
| (verb) move or come along | Synonyms: string along |
| stringency | (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: strictness |
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| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: tightness |
| stringent | (adjective) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | Synonyms: rigorous, tight |
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| stringently | (adverb) in a stringent manner | Synonyms: strictly |
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| stringer | (noun) a long horizontal timber to connect uprights | - |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull | - |
| (noun) a worker who strings | - |
| (noun) a member of a squad on a team | - |
| strings | (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: condition, term |
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| (noun) the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments | Synonyms: string section |
| stringy | (adjective) consisting of or containing string or strings | - |
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| (adjective) forming viscous or glutinous threads | Synonyms: ropey, ropy, thready |
| (adjective) lean and sinewy | Synonyms: wiry |
| (adjective) (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew | Synonyms: fibrous, sinewy, unchewable |
| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| strip | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip show, striptease |
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| (noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: slip |
| (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip |
| (noun) thin piece of wood or metal | - |
| (noun) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies |
| (noun) a relatively long narrow piece of something | - |
| (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
| (verb) draw the last milk (of cows) | - |
| (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: dismantle |
| (verb) remove a constituent from a liquid | - |
| (verb) remove the thread (of screws) | - |
| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude |
| (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress |
| (verb) remove the surface from | - |
| (verb) strip the cured leaves from | - |
| (verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, divest |
| stripe | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, banding |
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| (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, streak |
| (noun) a kind or category | - |
| (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripes |
| (noun) a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service | - |
| (verb) mark with stripes | - |
| striped | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: stripy |
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| striper | (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass |
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| (noun) caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: striped bass |
| (noun) a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service | - |
| stripes | (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripe |
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| striping | (noun) the act of marking with stripes | - |
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| stripling | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenager |
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| stripped | (adjective) having everything extraneous removed including contents | Synonyms: bare |
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| (adjective) having only essential or minimal features | Synonyms: stripped-down |
| (adjective) with clothing stripped off | - |
| stripper | (noun) an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day | Synonyms: stripper well |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stemmer |
| (noun) a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish | - |
| stripping | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, uncovering |
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| striptease | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip, strip show |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
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| stripy | (adjective) marked or decorated with stripes | Synonyms: striped |
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| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| striver | (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, slave |
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| striving | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, pains, strain |
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