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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)
Usage examples of "micro-organisms".
Looking down it he described for the first time in human history a hitherto invisible world, teeming with micro-organisms - animalicules, he called them - present in their thousands in every drop of pond-water.
Most vascular plants and mosses succumbed as well, leaving the land and oceans empty save for micro-organisms: multi-celled animals like algae and fungi.
The parcels in which the micro-organisms arrived were egg-like, containing a small amount of prepackaged nutrients.
There were new micro-organisms in the poisoned soil against which there was no defense.
The aboriginal micro-organisms here did not attack wastes of introduced terrestrial types.
Familiar micro-organisms and a standard vegetation added to the practicality of human settlements on otherwise alien worlds.
There were plants, as has come about wherever micro-organisms have broken down rock to a state where it can nourish vegetation.
Today, in the human bloodstream, are micro-organisms which, a scant year ago, would have caused a painful and violent death.
The micro-organisms which once threatened his life now work with his body to maintain its functions.
What would happen if micro-organisms in a culture tray were subjected to hard radiation?
It is also possible that planets with very hostile environments by terrestrial standards, or planets where there is a great danger of contamination by terrestrial micro-organisms, will be explored by men inside machines like enormous prosthetic devices, amplifying the sense perceptions and muscular abilities of the human operator.