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n. 1 The formal performance of a solemn rite, such as Christian sacrament 2 The observance of a holiday or feast day, as by solemnities 3 The act, process of showing appreciation, gratitude and/or remembrance, notably as a social event. 4 A social gathering for entertainment and fun; a party.
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The inability to read. 2 (context uncountable English) The portion of a population unable to read, generally given as a percentage. 3 (context countable English) A word, phrase(,) or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
n. (plural of dimestore English)
n. (plural of identikit English)
vb. (context archaic English) (en-third-person singular of: sprawl)
n. 1 (context British informal English) Short form of pantomime 2 (context rail transport informal English) Short form of pantograph
n. The quality of being alible; nourishingness.
n. (plural of shovelard English)
n. (plural of positronium English)
a. Pertaining to anaphylaxis.
vb. To conjure back; to bring something back as if by magic
vb. (en-past of: demineralise)
a. (en-comparativefabby)
n. (plural of substudy English)
interj. (context British colloquial dated English) A greeting.
n. (plural of seminist English)
n. The scientific study correlate ethnic groups, their health, and how it relates to their physical habits and methodology in creating and using medicines.
n. (context enzyme English) amidoligase
vb. (en-past of: consternate)
n. 1 The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur. 2 A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. 3 A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To use a rowel on something, especially to drain fluid. 2 (context transitive English) To incite, to goad.
n. (plural of translavation English)
a. (context chemistry English) Of, relating to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or phenol.
vb. (en-archaic third-person singular of: inhabit)
n. interchange, exchange
n. 1 (context pathology English) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection. 2 (context pathology English) peptic ulcer 3 (context figurative English) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.
n. (plural of divergence English)
a. dominated or plagued by violence.
vb. (en-past of: encage)
n. The belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomena, that things such as mind and body may remain distinct while not actually being separate.
n. (plural of nanowall English)
n. (context rare English) A counter bond, or a surety to secure one who has given security.
n. 1 (context linguistics English) A sound change in which [b] (the voiced bilabial plosive) shifts to [v] (the voiced labiodental fricative). 2 A speech disorder involving excessive use of the [b] sound, or conversion of other sounds into it.
abbr. engineering
n. Storage space on a ship.
n. (plural of clergywoman English)
n. (context physics English) an idealized solid whose size and shape are fixed and remain unaltered when forces are applied; used in Newtonian mechanics to model real objects
n. 1 Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts 2 Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
a. Not feline, or not pertaining to felines. n. A creature that is not feline.
n. 1 (context legal English) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. 2 authority, power to enforce compliance 3 (context obsolete English) that which is written; writing vb. (context dated nonstandard English) (past participle of write English)
a. Pertaining to erosion.
a. Having exaggerated articulation.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: unindent)
1 dark, faint or indistinct. 2 hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous. 3 Difficult to understand. v
(label en transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
n. A meteorite consisting of rock containing chondrules
adv. In an intercurrent way.
n. (plural of ambisexual English)
n. (eight-thousander English)
n. (plural of catchword English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: eventuate)
n. (alternative form of potichomania English)
a. Referring or relating to real estate.
n. (chain gang English)
a. Not implied; unimplied.
n. (plural of zigzagging English)
n. The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.
vb. 1 To make angry. 2 To make insane; to inflame with passion. 3 (context obsolete English) To become furious.
n. (plural of elbaite English)
n. A phenothiazine used for the treatment of migraine.
vb. (present participle of repunctuate English)
n. (plural of pretest English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: bedaub)
n. (plural of downgrader English)
a. (alternative form of metaphrastic English)
alt. 1 (context British Canada informal English) A dense, yellowish fog. 2 (context Canada slang derogatory English) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec. n. 1 (context British Canada informal English) A dense, yellowish fog. 2 (context Canada slang derogatory English) A French-Canadian person, especially a Francophone from the province of Québec.
a. (context poetic English) Marked with crow's feet, wrinkles about the eyes.
n. 1 A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern. (from 18th c.) 2 (label en historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid; 3 A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA. vb. To gather up (skirts) around the body. (from 14th c.)
n. (plural of auscultation English)
n. (plural of defibrillator English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: endark)
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the exterior of the nose 2 Of or pertaining to that part of the brain exterior to the entorhinal cortex
n. Any of several species of fish in the genus (taxlink Brevoortia genus noshow=1) and (taxlink Ethmidium genus noshow=1), used for fish meal, fish oil, fertilizer, and bait.
n. (context geology English) The mechanics of rocks and soil
n. (context biochemistry English) Either of a pair of subunits of a complex
a. (context philosophy English) Of or pertaining to reliabilism n. (context philosophy English) A person who supports the doctrine of reliabilism
n. A fish, the three-bearded rockling.
n. (context organic chemistry English) Any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives
Not set; not fixed or appointed. v
(label en transitive) To make not set.
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To accuse or bring criminal charges against. 2 (context transitive English) To indicate the guilt of.
adv. (misspelling of in fact English)
n. (alternative form of catastasis English)
a. of, pertaining to or situated on a waterside n. The land bordering a body of water
n. (context zoology English) Any member of the Rajidae.
n. (plural of vigily English)
a. Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
a. (alternative form of unhandseled English)
n. (context music English) A non-musician who is active in a particular musical scene.
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To perform an action which is illegal, prohibited, forbidden or proscribed and to become subject to punishment for such action. 2 (context intransitive English) To fall into difficulty. 3 (context slang English) (Usually said of an unmarried woman) to become pregnant.
n. (misspelling of kindergarten English)
vb. 1 In card playing, to accidentally reveal one's cards or hand. 2 (context idiomatic English) To inadvertently reveal any secret, particularly a secret that puts one at an advantage or disadvantage.
n. (plural of coowner English)
n. (plural of typo English)
a. Not waived.
n. An antiplatelet drug.
n. (alternative spelling of vidéo vérité English)
a. dominated or plagued by crime.
n. a mermaid, a maiden of the sea; siren
n. (plural of schlich English)
n. (plural of decorament English)
vb. To drag one's feet.
n. (plural of lipidoid English)
n. 1 (context countable English) One of several natural languages, typically used by the deaf, where the words and phrases consist of hand shapes, motions, positions, and facial expressions. 2 (context uncountable English) The sign language (sense 1) that is used locally or that is mistakenly believed to be the only one. 3 (context uncountable English) Sign languages (sense 1) considered collectively. 4 (context countable or uncountable English) communication through gestures used when speech is impossible, for example, between monks under a vow of silence or people speaking different languages.
n. (context finance English) A schedule defining the dates and amounts of payments to be made for a financial instrument such as a bond and a derivative.
vb. (context biology English) To transform solitary insects etc. into a swarm or gregaria due to rapid growth in population
n. (alternate form of lang=en AC72s) (plural of lang=en AC72)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: survive)
vb. (en-past of: entice)
a. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from cirrhosis.
a. (en-superlative of: slight).
n. ''Ginkgo biloba.
n. (plural of abomasus English)
vb. To drag one's feet.
n. (context pathology English) Inflammation of one or both adrenal glands, leading to an insufficiency of cortisol and/or aldosterone.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: laconize)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: emblaze)
n. (plural of filtride English)
n. An individual daily combat food ration introduced by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Army during World War II and comprising three courses for breakfast, dinner and supper.
n. (context legal English) Any portion of the testator's estate that is not specifically devised to someone in the will, or any property that is part of such a specific devise that fails (for example, due to the death of the intended beneficiary preceding that of the testator).
n. (alternative spelling of ziggurat English)
n. A brief slump in performance
vb. To clear or excuse.
a. Resembling an intestine or intestines.
a. (context simile English) Very quiet, so as to not be heard
n. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. vb. (context intransitive English) To interrupt an activity and wait.
n. (alternative spelling of indomethacin English)
n. (micro-organism English)
n. (context colloquial English) A type of slang used by geeks, especially computer geeks. It incorporates several terms derived from science fiction, as well as neologisms and grammar quirks, and is frequently found in combination with computer jargon.
a. Having the characteristics of a blog; resembling a blog
n. 1 (context architecture English) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield. 2 (context Egyptian hieroglyphics English) an oval figure containing characters that represent the names of royal or divine people. 3 A paper cartridge. 4 A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon. 5 A gunner's bag for ammunition. 6 A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
n. The regnal year, reign period, or regnal title used when traditionally numbering years in a Chinese emperor's reign and in name certain Chinese rulers.
vb. (context intransitive English) To jump on one leg while moving the other back and forth, a motion sometimes employed by guitar players in popular music.
n. (context physics English) a theory that organizes subatomic particles into octets
n. (plural of spanning English)
n. (context organic compound English) The diketone CH3-CO-CO-CH3 that is used in organic synthesis
n. (context linguistics English) A generative grammar, especially of a natural language, developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars (as opposed to dependency grammars), and involving the use of defined operations called transformations to produce new sentences from existing ones.
a. (attributive of metabolic pathway lang=en nodot=1), ''noun''.
n. A β2-agonist.
n. (plural of superhumeral English)
n. (plural of spillage English)
n. (context obsolete English) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction.
n. An ophthalmic instrument that is used to test for glaucoma by blowing a puff of air at the cornea and measuring the subsequent flattening
n. A thing or person intended for playing with.
n. a slave girl, a servant-girl
n. (context rare music English) A musician who plays the ukulele.
vb. (present participle of resculpture English)
a. Of or pertaining to radiation
n. (context computing programming English) The declaration of variables or objects as immutable.
n. a unit of mass used in India, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains ((nowrap: 11.663 8038 grams)) in 1833, of a similar but slightly variable value before that date
a. 1 in the manner of a dastard; marked by cowardice; pusillanimous 2 treacherous; given to backstabbing
n. (plural of spleenwort English)
n. (context printing English) The process of printing on both sides of the print material during its single pass through the printing press. vb. (present participle of perfect English)
n. (obligate carnivore English)
n. (plural of onanist English)
n. (context medicine English) The turning outwards of a lip, a deformation accompanying certain forms of ichthyosis.
n. (plural of forebeam English)
a. Not shaven.
n. (plural of chaetognath English)
a. (en-comparative of: gloopy)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: resurge)
n. (alternative form of greyness English)
a. 1 (context rare English) Without a category or categories. 2 (context rare English) That does not belong to any category.
a. Resembling a ridge.
n. (context obsolete British legal English) A demesne, especially the Ancient demesne claimed by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20the%20Conqueror.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: thwap)
n. 1 A herb of the mint family, (taxlink Origanum vulgare species noshow=1), having aromatic leaf. 2 Other herbs with a similar flavor, including other species in the genus (taxlink Origanum genus noshow=1), and Mexican oregano, (taxlink Lippia graveolens species noshow=1) 3 The leaves of these plants used in flavouring food.
n. A bird, the American bittern.
n. 1 A fast movement in literal or figurative sense. 2 A clattering sound. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To move rapidly, violently, or without control. 2 (context intransitive archaic English) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. 3 (context intransitive archaic English) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound. 4 (context transitive English) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently. 5 (context intransitive archaic English) To push; to jostle; to hurl.
n. (context historical English) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½(,) and at Hamburg 38¼. (first attested around 1350 to 1470)
init. 1 (context electronics English) (initialism of cathode ray tube English) 2 display using a cathode ray tube 3 (context software English) (initialism of w:C runtime C Run Time English) n. 1 (context computing English) a monitor that uses a cathode ray tube 2 (context mathematics English) the Wikipedia:Chinese remainder theorem in Abstract Algebra
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically ''Avena sativa''. 2 (context countable English) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus ''Avena''. 3 (context usually as plural English) The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.
n. (plural of chemical element English)
pre. Prefix meaning on, at, toward, upon.
n. (context BDSM LGBT slang English) A sub male participant in urolagnia.
n. (plural of faceplate English)
a. (context fandom English) Having a gloomy, dystopian atmosphere.
n. (context music English) A musician who frequently produces hits; a star
n. An isoline, or contour line.
a. (alternative form of katabatic English)
WordNet
n. emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness [syn: pitch accent]
n. a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event [syn: jubilation]
any joyous diversion [syn: festivity]
the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage" [syn: solemnization, solemnisation]
n. ignorance resulting from not reading
an inability to read [syn: analphabetism] [ant: literacy]
n. a tariff imposed to raise revenue
n. an abbreviation of pantomime
adj. related to the hypersensitivity known as anaphylaxis; "anaphylatic shock"
n. a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: shop]
n. a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue [syn: ulceration]
n. an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum [syn: dhawa]
n. most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having birdlike jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs
n. a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
n. (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer [syn: judicial writ]
n. used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus [syn: Corylaceae, family Corylaceae]
adj. not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke [syn: vague]
marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure" [syn: dark]
difficult to find; "hidden valleys"; "a hidden cave"; "an obscure retreat" [syn: hidden]
not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war" [syn: unknown, unsung]
not drawing attention; "an unnoticeable cigarette burn on the carpet"; "an obscure flaw" [syn: unnoticeable]
remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an obscure village" [syn: apart(p), isolated]
v. make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds" [syn: befog, becloud, obnubilate, haze over, fog, cloud, mist]
make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions" [syn: confuse, blur, obnubilate]
make obscure or unclear; "The distinction was obscured" [syn: bedim, overcloud]
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn: blot out, obliterate, veil, hide]
make difficult to perceive by sight; "The foliage of the huge tree obscures the view of the lake" [syn: benight, bedim]
n. a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules
v. cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind [syn: craze]
drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves
make mad; "His behavior is maddening"
n. a heavy thick yellow fog [syn: pea soup]
n. a knee-length pleated tartan skirt worn by men in the Highlands of northern Scotland
n. shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer [syn: Brevoortia tyrannis]
n. land bordering a body of water
adj. of or relating to the formation of red blood cells
v. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally]
n. language expressed by visible hand gestures [syn: signing]
n. a bomb consisting of an explosive and timer hidden inside a briefcase
n. plants that are grown for their produce [ant: weed]
adj. (usually follows `the') most meager; "didn't have the slightest chance"
v. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally]
n. the latter part of night
n. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something [syn: intermission, break, interruption, suspension]
temporary inactivity
v. interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing; "The speaker paused" [syn: hesitate]
cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch" [syn: intermit, break]
n. a cartridge (usually with paper casing) [syn: cartouch]
n. oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood [syn: elk nut, oil nut]
shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes [syn: rabbitwood, Pyrularia pubera]
n. an artifact designed to be played with [syn: toy]
adj. treacherously cowardly; "the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"- F.D. Roosevelt [syn: dastard(a)]
n. a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds; "the dog barked all night" [syn: dog, Canis familiaris]
adv. much; "allegro molto"
n. saline fluid secreted by lacrimal glands; lubricates the surface of the eyeball [syn: lacrimal secretion]
n. aromatic Eurasian perennial [syn: marjoram, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter sweet, Origanum vulgare]
pungent leaves used as seasoning with meats and fowl and in stews and soups and omelets [syn: marjoram]
n. the ocean waters from the low tide mark to a depth of about 100 fathoms
n. annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats')
Usage examples of "catabatic".
Soon the air was chili, but chill air must still lift over hills, over soaring heights, because of catabatic convection flow.