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–adjective | 1. | thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea. |
| 2. | expressing a quality or characteristic apart from any specific object or instance, as justice, poverty, and speed. |
| 3. | theoretical; not applied or practical: abstract science. |
| 4. | difficult to understand; abstruse: abstract speculations. |
| 5. | Fine Arts. | a. | of or pertaining to the formal aspect of art, emphasizing lines, colors, generalized or geometrical forms, etc., esp. with reference to their relationship to one another. |
| b. | (often initial capital letter[image]) pertaining to the nonrepresentational art styles of the 20th century. |
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–noun | 6. | a summary of a text, scientific article, document, speech, etc.; epitome. |
| 7. | something that concentrates in itself the essential qualities of anything more extensive or more general, or of several things; essence. |
| 8. | an idea or term considered apart from some material basis or object. |
| 9. | an abstract work of art. |
–verb (used with object) | 10. | to draw or take away; remove. |
| 11. | to divert or draw away the attention of. |
| 13. | to consider as a general quality or characteristic apart from specific objects or instances: to abstract the notions of time, space, and matter. |
| 14. | to make an abstract of; summarize. |
—Idioms| 15. | abstract away from, to omit from consideration. |
| 16. | in the abstract, without reference to a specific object or instance; in theory: beauty in the abstract. |
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–noun | 1. | a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm. |
| 2. | anything profound, unfathomable, or infinite: the abyss of time. |
| 3. | (in ancient cosmogony) | a. | the primal chaos before Creation. |
| b. | the infernal regions; hell. |
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–noun (usually used with a singular verb[image]) | 1. | the science or study of the motion of projectiles, as bullets, shells, or bombs. |
| 2. | the art or science of designing projectiles for maximum flight performance. |
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–adjective | 1. | of, pertaining to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac. |
| 2. | without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman: bestial treatment of prisoners. |
| 3. | beastlike in gratifying one's sensual desires; carnal; debased. |
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- To confuse or befuddle, especially with numerous conflicting situations, objects, or statements. See Synonyms at puzzle.
- To cause to lose one's bearings; disorient: The twists and turns in the cave soon bewildered us.
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–noun, plural -nies. | 1. | harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails. |
| 2. | a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds: the cacophony produced by city traffic at midday. |
| 3. | Music. frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand. |
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–noun | 1. | an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream. |
–verb (used with object) | 2. | Also, centrifugalize. to subject to the action of a centrifuge. |
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–noun | 1. | a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc. |
| 2. | cinders, | a. | any residue of combustion; ashes. |
| b. | Geology. coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes. |
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| 3. | a live, flameless coal; ember. |
| 4. | Metallurgy. | b. | a mixture of ashes and slag. |
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–verb (used with object) | 5. | to spread cinders on: The highway department salted and cindered the icy roads. |
| 6. | Archaic. to reduce to cinders. |
–verb (used without object) | 7. | to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk: My neighbor began cindering as soon as the first snowflake fell. |
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–noun | 2. | the state of being condemned. |
| 3. | strong censure; disapprobation; reproof. |
| 4. | a cause or reason for condemning. |
| 5. | U.S. Law. the seizure, as of property, for public use. |
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–noun | 1. | profound dedication; consecration. |
| 2. | earnest attachment to a cause, person, etc. |
| 3. | an assignment or appropriation to any purpose, cause, etc.: the devotion of one's wealth and time to scientific advancement. |
| 4. | Often, devotions. Ecclesiastical. religious observance or worship; a form of prayer or worship for special use. |
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| adjective | | causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" |
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–noun | 1. | a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath |
–verb (used with object) | 2. | to measure the depth of by means of a sounding line; sound. |
| 3. | to penetrate to the truth of; comprehend; understand: to fathom someone's motives. |
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v. tr.
- To give a false appearance of: feign sleep.
- To represent falsely; pretend to: feign authorship of a novel.
- To imitate so as to deceive: feign another's voice.
- To fabricate: feigned an excuse.
- Archaic To invent or imagine.
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To pretend; dissemble. |
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A passage or duct for smoke in a chimney. Example: Most chimneys have flues in them. |
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1.a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, esp. one through which a stream runs. 2. To swallow, esp. greedily. Example: The man was gorging himself on food. |
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A supply of light. Example: I turned on the light in my room to enhance the illumination in there. |
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A furnace or apparatus for burning trash to ashes. Example: The trash was thrown into the incinerator. |
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Unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish. Example: When I was a baby, I could only jargon. |
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| The emission of light not caused by incandescence and occurring at a temperature below that of incandescent bodies. |
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a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs. Example: Jeff Dunham doesn't have any marionettes in his shows. |
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A stately and magnificent tomb. Example: George Washington was buried in a mausoleum. |
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A gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged; depression. Example: I was melancholy all day |
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not flammable Example: All the houses were noncombustible. |
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intentness on objects external to the mind Example: I had great objectivity for him. |
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of or pertaining to the sense of smell Example: Dogs have great olfactory systems. |
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natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition Example: Everyone has proclivities. |
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to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding Example: The rock was pulverized. |
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to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grasp
Example: The cop seized the bad guy.
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a case or covering for the blade of a sword, dagger, or the like Example: The hunter put his knife in his sheath. |
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one of a number of portions or divisions likened to layers or levels Example: The earth has many stratums. |
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perceptible to the touch Example: Babies are more tactile then adults. |
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a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence Example: The vilagers lived near a torrent |
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full of or containing venom; poisonous Example: The snake was very venomous. |
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a contrivance or opening for replacing foul or stagnant air with fresh air Example: The kids were big enough to fit through the ventilator. |
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to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water Example: The smell of oranges waft through the air. |
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