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n. a person who drives a taxicab
n. (context US English) A shallow depression denuded of vegetation and potentially muddy, created by the wallowing of hogs.
alt. 1 (context politics abbreviation English) government. 2 (context slang abbreviation English) governor. n. 1 (context politics abbreviation English) government. 2 (context slang abbreviation English) governor.
n. (plural of ping English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: ping)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: undemocratise)
n. (plural of decigrade English)
n. preserved vegetable, meat or seasonings compressed and put into a cube shape
n. (context obsolete English) prosperity; happiness; well-being
adv. (''Scottish English and dialect, archaic'') Aside, on or to one side; awry; off from the straight line.
n. 1 A food made made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables, possibly meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it. 2 In many Asian countries and among their emigrants, an egg-based, flute-shaped pastry, with typically yellowish, flaky crust, often eaten as a sweet snack or dessert.
Having green as its color. n. 1 The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. 2 (context politics sometimes capitalised English) A member of a green party; an environmentalist. 3 (context golf English) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. 4 (context bowls English) The surface upon which bowls is played. 5 (context snooker English) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points. 6 (context British English) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement. 7 A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage. 8 (context mostly in plural English) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths. 9 Any substance or pigment of a green colour. 10 (context British slang uncountable English) marijuana. 11 (context US uncountable English) money. 12 (context particle physics English) One of the three color charges for quarks. v
1 (context transitive English) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. 2 To become or grow green in colour. 3 (context transitive English) To add greenspaces to (a town). 4 (context intransitive English) To become environmentally aware. 5 (context transitive English) To make (something) environmentally friendly.
n. inflammation of the pyosalpinx
n. (plural of perhydrate English)
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The action of the verb '''to rib'''. 2 (context uncountable English) Collectively, the ribs on an object. 3 (context countable English) An instance of teasing. vb. (present participle of rib English)
a. (lb en India cooking) cooked with steam interj. (non-gloss definition: Syllable used when humming a tune.)
vb. (context marketing English) To use too many brands (proprietary names in marketing).
n. (plural of verfremdungseffekt English)
n. The part of a plough that projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts.
vb. (present participle of fess English)
n. 1 The reimposition of an earlier and usually higher tariff. 2 (context slang English) An adjustable, flat-brimmed baseball cap with snap fasteners on the back.
a. having, or bounded by three lines
a. 1 Without motion. 2 Of or pertaining to akinesia: akinesic.
n. 1 (obsolete form of budget English) 2 (context heraldiccharge English) (in plural; also ''water-bougets'') A charge resembling the water bags that were used to supply the army in battle.
n. (plural of limerence English)
n. (plural of quaternation English)
n. (plural of burthen English)
a. (alternative spelling of godlike English)
n. An antiretroviral drug, an integrase inhibitor, used to treat HIV infection.
vb. (en-past of: career)
(context biology of a cell or tissue English) That has taken on a specialized form and function v
(en-past of: differentiate)
vb. (cx informal English) To swear with the pinky fingers entwined.
n. global-scale epidemiology
n. 1 (context archaic English) pressure 2 The juice of the grape extracted by the press. 3 A fee paid for the use of a winepress.
a. 1 (context of a woman or female animal English) That has not given birth 2 (context of a mosquito or other female insect English) That has not yet laid eggs
vb. (present participle of hit out English)
(alternative spelling of paralyzing English) alt. (alternative spelling of paralyzing English) v
(present participle of paralyse English)
vb. (context idiomatic English) To say suddenly, without thinking
n. The practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.
vb. (context idiomatic English) to damage one's own reputation through bad behavior.
vb. (en-past of: keyword)
n. (context physics English) Young's modulus
n. (context biochemistry English) (w: Insulin-degrading enzyme)
vb. To force out or separate by pressure.
vb. (en-past of: depict)
vb. (en-third-person singularkick out)
a. 1 (lb en literally) Not accessible to view. 2 (lb en idiomatic of a goal, aspiration, etc) Not yet attainable. 3 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) superb, excellent. 4 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) Very expensive. 5 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) drunk. alt. 1 (lb en literally) Not accessible to view. 2 (lb en idiomatic of a goal, aspiration, etc) Not yet attainable. 3 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) superb, excellent. 4 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) Very expensive. 5 (lb en idiomatic colloquial) drunk.
n. (plural of addictive English)
Etymology 1
(context obsolete English) Brisk; stirring; jocund. alt. 1 (context intransitive English) To move. 2 (context transitive English) To move. 3 To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. 4 To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field. v
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1 (context intransitive English) To move. 2 (context transitive English) To move. 3 To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. 4 To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field. Etymology 2
a. (context obsolete English) austere or stiff, like scholastics n. A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
n. A national or regional holiday from work on a specific day, usually for cultural reasons or celebrations.
n. (plural of recategorization English)
n. (plural of glucosyltransferase English)
Powered by electricity. v
(en-past of: electrify)
vb. (present participle of sacralize English)
vb. (en-past of: guts out)
vb. (en-third-person singularchill out)
n. A topical corticosteroid.
alt. 1 A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off. 2 (context roller derby English) A shoulder hit to the chest, usually accomplished while moving from a crouched to a standing position. n. 1 A device used to open tin cans, usually by slicing the lid off. 2 (context roller derby English) A shoulder hit to the chest, usually accomplished while moving from a crouched to a standing position.
n. (context mathematics English) A function which when applied a given number of times, equals a given function.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: single out)
vb. To become angry; to make a fuss.
vb. (present participle of zombie out English)
n. 1 (context US pathology English) An excessive accumulation of serum in tissue spaces or a body cavity 2 (context US English) A similar swelling in plants caused by excessive accumulation of water
a. Of or pertaining to agnotology.
a. Directed; prescribed. n. 1 Something prescribed; a rule, regulation or dictate. 2 (context obsolete English) A medical prescription.
vb. to take advantage of, to exploit (usually a tragic or unfortuate situation)
n. (found object English)
n. (alternative form of allocability English)
n. A written account of events and when they happened, ordered by time. vb. To record in or as in a chronicle.
vb. (en-past of: allot)
n. (plural of steening English)
n. (plural of orthophotograph English)
n. (context mathematics topology English) A decomposition of a 3-manifold into a link and a fibration over the circle by surfaces bounded by that link.
alt. (label en British spelling) One who studies behaviour, in humans or animals. n. (label en British spelling) One who studies behaviour, in humans or animals.
n. (plural of leptoquark English)
vb. (alternative form of pull in one's horns English)
n. 1 A person who works in space. 2 An object inserted to hold a space open in a row of items, e.g. beads or printed type. 3 A bushing. 4 (context slang English) A forgetful person. 5 (context medicine English) A type of add-on device used by an asthmatic person to increase the effectiveness of a metered-dose inhaler.
vb. (alternative form of pull in one's horns English)
n. (alternative spelling of tsarevich English)
a. (context mathematics stochastic processes of a Markov chain English) a square matrix whose rows consist of nonnegative real numbers, with each row summing to . Used to describe the transitions of a Markov chain; its element in the 'th row and 'th column describes the probability of moving from state to state in one time step.
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The quality of being artificial or produced unnaturally. 2 (context countable English) Something artificial.
abbr. colloquial
n. A tool powered by human muscle rather than a motor or engine.
n. (context rare English) A female student of a high school; compare (term highschoolboy English).
n. A person who has been cryonically frozen in the hope of later revival in science fiction.
n. (plural of seter English)
n. 1 A pair of blue jeans. 2 (attributive of blue jeans English)
vb. (context archaic English) (en-third-person singular of: tax)
n. An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another.
n. (plural of anatase English)
n. (plural of flutterboard English)
n. (plural of CPU time English)
vb. (present participle of lant English)
vb. (en-past of: cherup)
Etymology 1 letter (Latn-def en letter 4 dee) num. (Latn-def en ordinal 4 dee) Etymology 2
abbr. 1 died, death. 2 (context cricket English) declared; also abbreviated as (term dec English) sym. 1 (context until February 1971 English) a British penny; an old penny (the modern decimal penny being abbreviated (term p English)). 2 (context games infix English) dice to use in a diceroll 3 penny, a measure of the size of nails
n. (alternative form of Surgeon General English)
n. A first-generation antihistamine of the piperazine class, used as an antihistamine, antiemetic, anxiolytic, and weak analgesic.
n. (news wire English)
vb. (en-past of: crashland)
n. The presentation (and subsequent interpretation) of a dramatic narrative
a. 1 Useful in an inferior capacity. 2 obsequiously submissive.
a. (context medical English) Referring to the rate of electrical impulses in the heart (AV node conduction velocity).
n. (plural of flutemouth English)
n. (plural of halier English)
n. (alternative form of worksurface English)
n. (plural of plasticulture English)
n. (plural of chough English)
n. someone who is not a goalkeeper
n. the design and operation of a system or process to make it as good as possible in some defined sense
n. A person with pedohebephilia.
n. (context philosophy English) form; essence; type; species
vb. (en-past of: pitchpole)
a. Not cryogenic.
a. Comprised of similar types of cells.
vb. (en-third-person singular of: let loose)
vb. (context American spelling English) (alternative spelling of visualise English)
n. 1 tubes, considered as a group 2 a length of tube, or a system of tubes 3 the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube vb. (present participle of tube English)
n. (plural of breakthrough English)
a. constant-velocity
Made of leather. n. 1 A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing. 2 A piece of the above used for polishing. 3 (context colloquial English) A cricket ball or football. 4 (''plural'': '''leathers''') clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders. 5 (context baseball English) A good defensive play 6 (context dated humorous English) The skin. v
1 To cover with leather. 2 To strike forcefully.
n. The study of heuristic methods and principles.
abbr. (context computing English) graphics
n. (context obsolete English) A promoter.
acr. Characteristics of Transportation Resources Report
a. Not myelinated.
a. 1 That simulates 2 (misspelling of stimulative English)
vb. (en-third-person singular of: diddle)
vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling penalize English)
n. device that measures the tenderness of a substance such as farm produce.
n. (plural of kreatine English)
n. (plural of tinware English)
n. (plural of collectivization English)
adv. Proportionally, in relation to some larger scale thing.
adv. 1 In an antipodal manner 2 With regard to antipodes
n. The emission and diffusion of rays of light.
n. An anxiolytic drug.
n. That which is not a color.
a. 1 Without a zip fastener. 2 (context informal figuratively English) Without complications and hindrances.
n. An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
adv. In a melancholious manner.
n. (giant star English)
n. Any monorchiid of genus (taxlink Opisthomonorchis genus)
vb. (context dialectal English) To pour; pour in
a. 1 Like or resembling a spire. 2 Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.
a. (archaic form of bashful English)
n. (plural of defibrination English)
a. Without an airport.
Etymology 1 n. (context musical instruments English) A large stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings. (From lowest to highest C-G-D-A) Etymology 2
n. cellophane
n. A thin lens, made of flexible or rigid plastic, that is placed directly on to the eye to correct vision, used as an alternative to spectacles, or, if coloured, to change one's eye color cosmetically.
a. (context rare English) Having no ox or oxen.
n. (draggle-tail English)
vb. To undergo, or to subject to, coaddition
vb. (context transitive English) To craft again or anew.
n. 1 Someone who speaks by divine inspiration. 2 Someone who predicts the future; a soothsayer.
n. (context aviation English) A heavier-than-air craft, deriving its lift from motion.
a. (en-comparativewan)
n. (attributive of anorthoscopic perception English)
a. 1 Not capable of being discerned, of being perceived. 2 Not capable of being distinguished from something else. n. (context chiefly philosophy English) Something which is incapable of being discerned.
a. Moving clockwise; having rotary motion in the manner of a clock. adv. 1 (context of movement English) In a circular fashion so as to be moving to the right at the top of the circle and to the left at the bottom, in the way that the hands of a clock move. 2 (context of movement English) Positioned as such when facing the side of a circular structure or configuration, objects moving within the structure approach from the right-hand side, and depart toward the left-hand side.
n. (plural of arbitrageur English)
a. Having a hemline at mid-calf length. n. A coat or skirt having such a hemline.
vb. (en-past of: biotransform)
a. Of or relating to the blastoderm.
n. (context steroid hormone English) progestagen
n. The act or process of deindividualize.
n. 1 A person who has converted to his or her religion. 2 A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked. vb. (lb en transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
n. (plural of overrepresentation English)
n. (plural of biogeography English)
n. (plural of urachus English)
a. Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly.
n. 1 specific impedance; especially the ratio of a pressure phasor associated with a wave at any given point in a medium to the velocity phasor at that point. 2 bulk impedance; a measurement of the electrical impedance per unit distance in a bulk material or a solution
Usage examples of "impedivity".
Chinook was, or Arthur Walden, either, because Chinook was the most famous dog in America, and Walden, his owner, was pretty famous, too.
Walden wrote a popular book, A Dog-Puncher in the Yukon, and he and his Chinook dogs - the famous sire himself and a team of his offspring - won the first Eastern International Sled Dog Derby in 1922.
Walden, who I had last year for English and World Civ, was always saying, anyway.
Disappointed Smith, Mix Walden and Si Hedges still seated at their breakfast table.
Disappointed Smith and Mix Walden put up a fight, but Si Hedges burst into tears.
Pea, whose first settlers stripped it of useful resources and sold it to a wealthy fellow who renamed it Walden, restored the landscape with trees and such, and invited settlers who would live the Thoreauvian life of simplicity.
Walden and its happy police force, who wave to us as our spaceliner lifts toward the skies.
As at Walden, in sultry dogday weather, looking down through the woods on some of its bays which are not so deep but that the reflection from the bottom tinges them, its waters are of a misty bluish-green or glaucous color.
In time even the Waldenian government would realize that death rays didn't exist, and a lawyer might be able to clear things for his return to Walden.
Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them.
Walden started all her classes with a military-style workout, complete with jumping jacks and squat thrusts.
Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
Walden held up a stack of Scantron sheets and said, "Number-two pencils only, please.
Walden, our homeroom teacher and class advisor, began passing out the Scantron sheets.
Normally they picked up a trickle charge from broadcast power, on Walden, but there was no broadcast power on the liner, nor on Darth.