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• Accordion
  • Definition 1 (n): A portable wind instrument with a small keyboard and free metal reeds that sound when air is forced past them by pleated bellows operated by the player.
  • Definition 2 (adj): Having parallel folds or bends like the bellows of an accordion
  • Derivation(s) : From the German word Akkord (chord) and the French word Acorder (to acord) and the Medieval Latin word Accordare (to bring into agreement).
• Albuquerque
  • City Fact 1: A city of central New Mexico on the upper Rio Grande southwest of Santa Fe.
  • City Fact 2: The largest city in New Mexico.
  • City Fact 3: Founded in 1706, it is a noted health resort.
  • City Fact 4: Population: 384,736 (166,870 housing units) (as of the 1990 Census).
  • City Fact 5: Location: 35.11722 N, 106.62464 W
  • City Fact 6: Area: 342.4 sq km (land), 1.6 sq km (water)
  • City Fact 7: Zip code(s): 87102, 87104, 87105, 87106, 87107, 87108, 87109, 87110, 87111, 87112, 87113, 87116, 87118, 87120, 87121, 87122, 87123
  • Person Fact 1: Name: Albuquerque, Affonso de. (Known as "Affonso the Great.")
  • Person Fact 2: Lived: 1453-1515
  • Person Fact 3: Portuguese colonial administrator considered the founder of the Portuguese empire in the East.
• Amish (also written Omish)
  • Definition 1 (n): Portuguese colonial administrator considered the founder of the Portuguese empire in the East.
  • Definition 2 (adj): Of or relating to this sect or its members.
  • Definition 3 (n): The Amish Mennonites.
  • Definition 4 (n): Of, pertaining to, or designating, the followers of Jacob Amman, a strict Mennonite of the 17th century, who even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as ``worldly conformity''. There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.
  • Definition 5 (n): An American follower of the Mennonite Bishop Amman.
  • Derivation(s) : From the German word Amisch, after Jacob Amman, 17th-century Swiss Mennonite bishop.
• Ball-Peen Hammer
  • Definition 1 (n): A hammer having one end of the head hemispherical and used in working metal
  • Definition 2 (n): A hammer with round and flat ends used in working metal
• Bedrock
  • Definition 1 (n): The solid rock that underlies loose material, such as soil, sand, clay, or gravel
  • Definition 2 (n): Solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil
  • Definition 3 (n): The foundation or a system or set of beliefs
  • Definition 4 (n): The lowest point in a sequential order
  • Synonyms : bedrock, boulder, cobblestone, crag, crust, earth, gravel, lava, lodge, mass, metal, mineral, ore, pebble, promontory, quarry, reef, rubble, shelf, slab, slag, thrum, thrump-cap, basis, bedrock, beginnings, bottom, cause, center, core, crux, derivation, essence, essentiality, footing, foundation, fountain, fountainhead, fundamental, germ, ground, groundwork, heart, inception, infrastructure, mainspring, marrow, more, motive, nub, nucleus, occasion, origin, pith, provenance, provenience, quick, quintessence, radicle, radix, reason, rhizome, rock bottom, seat, seed, soul, source, starting point, stem, stuff, substance, substratum, tuber, underpinning, well, basement, basis, bed, bedrock, bottom, foot, footing, ground, groundwork, infrastructure, lowest point, pedestal, rest, root, seat, seating, stand, substratum, substructure, support, underpinning
• Bermuda
  • Fact 1 : A self-governing British colony comprising about 300 coral islands in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Cape Hatteras.
  • Fact 2 : The first settlement was made in 1609 by British colonists shipwrecked on their way to Virginia.
  • Fact 3 : Tourism is crucial to its economy
  • Fact 4 : Hamilton, on Bermuda Island, the largest in the archipelago, is the capital.
  • Fact 5 : Population = 63,000
• Cassette
  • Definition 1 (n): A small flat case containing two reels and a length of magnetic tape that winds between them, often used in audio and video recorders and players and as a medium for storing data in digital form
  • Definition 2 (n): A lightproof cartridge containing photographic film or plates, used in specially designed cameras
  • Definition 3 (n): A cartridge for holding and winding typewriter or printer ribbon while in the machine
  • Definition 4 (n): A container that holds a magnetic tape used for recording or playing sound or video
  • Derivation(s) : From the Old French, a diminutive of Norman French, word Casse (case).
• Clone
  • Definition 1 (n): A cell, group of cells, or organism that are descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor, such as a bacterial colony whose members arose from a single original cell
  • Definition 2 (n): An organism descended asexually from a single ancestor, such as a plant produced by layering or a polyp produced by budding
  • Definition 3 (n): A DNA sequence, such as a gene, that is transferred from one organism to another and replicated by genetic engineering techniques
  • Definition 4 (n): A group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction
  • Definition 5 (n): An exact duplicate
  • Definition 6 (v): To make an exact copy of something
  • Definition 7 (v): To make multiple identical copies of
  • Definition 8 (v): To produce a copy of; imitate closely
  • Derivation(s) : From the Greek Klon (twig)
  • Synonyms : archetype, carbon, carbon copy, cast, clone, counterfeit, counterpart, ditto, ectype, effigy, ersatz, facsimile, forgery, hard copy, image, imitation, impersonation, impression, imprint, likeness, mimeograph, miniature, mirror, model, offprint, parallel, pattern, photocopy, photograph, photostat, portrait, print, reflection, replica, replication, representation, reprint, reproduction, rubbings, similarity, simulacrum, simulation, study, tracing, transcript, transcription, type, xerox
  • Antonyms : master, original
• Comedian
  • Definition 1 (n): A professional entertainer who tells jokes or performs various other comic acts.
  • Definition 2 (n): An actor in comedy.
  • Definition 3 (n): A writer of comedy.
  • Definition 4 (n): A person who amuses or tries to be amusing; a clown.
  • Definition 5 (n): An actor or player in comedy.
  • Derivation(s) : From the French word Comédien (player, comedian) from Comédie (comedy), which is from the Middle Latin Comedia.
  • Synonyms : comic
• Comedy
  • Definition 1 (n): A dramatic work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone and that usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.
  • Definition 2 (n): The genre made up of such works.
  • Definition 3 (n): A literary or cinematic work of a comic nature or that uses the themes or methods of comedy.
  • Definition 4 (n): Popular entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.
  • Definition 5 (n): The art of composing or performing comedy.
  • Definition 6 (n): A humorous element of life or literature.
  • Definition 7 (n): A humorous occurrence.
  • Definition 8 (n): Light and humorous drama with a happy ending.
  • Definition 9 (n): A comic incident or series of incidents.
  • Definition 10 (n): A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy.
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English Comedie, which is derived from the Medieval Latin Comedia, the Latin Comoedia, the Greek Komoidia and Komoidos (comic actor), which is based on the words Komos (revel) and Aoidos (singer); Aoidos is from the word Aeidein (to sing), which has Indo-European Roots.
  • Synonyms : drollery, clowning, funniness
  • Antonyms : tragedy
• Compact Disk (Compact Disc, CD)
  • Definition 1 (n): A small optical disk on which data such as music, text, or graphic images is digitally encoded
  • Definition 2 (n): A recording that is smaller than a phonograph record; played back by a laser
• Complicated
  • Definition 1 (adj): Containing intricately combined or involved parts
  • Definition 2 (adj): Not easy to understand or analyze
  • Definition 3 (adj): Folded longitudinally one or several times, as certain leaves or the wings of some insects (Biology)
  • Derivation(s) : From the Latin Complicare, Complicat- (to fold together), com- and plicare meaning "to fold"
  • Synonyms : complex, intricate, involved, Byzantine, Rube Goldberg, abstruse, arduous, convoluted, daedal, difficult, difficult, elaborate, entangled, fancy, gasser, gordian, hard, hi tech, interlaced, intricate, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, mega factor, mind blower, mixed, perplexing, problematic, puzzling, rat's nest, recondite, snake pit, sophisticated, troublesome, various
  • Antonyms : easy, simple
• Concert
  • Definition 1 (n): A performance given by one or more singers or instrumentalists or both.
  • Definition 2 (n): A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
  • Definition 3 (n): A performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging.
  • Definition 4 (v): To plan or arrange by mutual agreement.
  • Definition 5 (v): To act together in harmony.
  • Derivation(s) : The word is French, derived from the Italian Concerto (agreement, harmony) which comes from Old Italian, Concertare (to bring into agreement), and possibly from Vulgar Latin Concertare (to settle an argument), which is derived from Latin (to debate).
  • Synonyms : music, strain, tune, air, melody, aria, arietta, piece of music, sonata, rondo, rondeau, pastorale, cavatina, roulade, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza, cadence, fugue, canon, serenade, notturno, dithyramb opera, operetta, oratorio, composition, movement, stave, passamezzo, toccata, Vorspiel, instrumental music, full score, minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee, band, orchestra, concerted piece, potpourri, capriccio
• Constipated
  • Definition 1 (adj): Difficult, incomplete, or infrequent evacuation of dry hardened feces from the bowels
  • Definition 2 (adj): Having being crowded or pressed together
  • Definition 3 (adj): Bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened
  • Definition 4 (adj): Irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels
  • Synonyms : condensation, costiveness, obstruction, stultification,
• Copyright
  • Definition 1 (n): The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.
  • Definition 2 (n): The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.
  • Definition 3 (n): The exclusive rights of the owner of the copyright on a work to make and distribute copies, prepare derivative works, and perform and display the work in public (these last two mainly apply to plays, films, dances and the like, but could also apply to software).
  • Fact 1 (n): A work, including a piece of software, is under copyright by default in most coutries, whether of not it displays a copyright notice. However, a copyright notice may make it easier to assert ownership. The copyright owner is the person or company whose name appears in the copyright notice on the box, or the disk or the screen or wherever.
  • Fact 2 (n): A copyright notice has three parts. The first can be either a c with a circle around it (LaTeX \copyright), or the word Copyright or the abbreviation Copr. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" has no legal meaning. This is followed by the name of the copyright holder and the year of first publication.
  • Fact 3 (n): Countries around the world have agreed to recognise and uphold each others' copyrights, but this world-wide protection requires the use of the c in a circle.
  • Fact 4 (n): Originally, most of the computer industry assumed that only the program's underlying instructions were protected under copyright law but, beginning in the early 1980s, a series of lawsuits involving the video screens of game programs extended protections to the appearance of programs.
• Decapitated
  • Definition 1 (adj): To have the heat cut off from
  • Derivation(s) : Late Latin Decapitare, Decapitat- : Latin De- ("Un" or "Without") and Caput, Capit (head) with Indo-European roots
  • Synonyms : beheaded
• Dement
  • Definition 1 (tr.v): To make (a person) insane
  • Definition 2 (tr.v): To cause (a person) to lose intellectual capacity
  • Derivation(s) : From the Latin Demens and Dement- (senseless), and the Latin word Mens (mind), also with Indo-European Roots.
• Dementia
  • Definition 1 (n): Deterioration of intellectual facilities, such as memory, concentration, and jusgement, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain; it is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes
  • Definition 2 (n): Madness; insanity
  • Definition 3 (n): Form of insanity or madness which consists of weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy
  • Derivation(s) : From the Latin Demens and Dement- (senseless), and the Latin word Mens (mind), also with Indo-European Roots.
  • Synonyms : paranoia, dementation, insanity, demency, phrenitis, phrensy
  • Antonyms : sanity, soundness, rationality, sobriety, licidity, lucid interval
• Dictionary
  • Definition 1 (n): A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology
  • Definition 2 (n): A book listing the words of a language with translations into another language
  • Definition 3 (n): A book listing words or other linguistic items in a particular category or subject with specialized information about them
  • Definition 4 (n): A list of words stored in machine-readable form for reference, as by spelling-checking software
  • Definition 5 (n): A book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically
  • Definition 6 (n): A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
  • Derivation(s) : From the Medieval Latin word Dictionarium and from the Latin Dictio (diction)
• Director
  • Definition 1 (n): One that supervises, controls, or manages.
  • Definition 2 (n): A member of a group of persons chosen to control or govern the affairs of an institution or corporation.
  • Definition 3 (n): A person who supervises the creative aspects of a dramatic production or film and instructs the actors and crew.
  • Definition 4 (n): The conductor of an orchestra or chorus.
  • Definition 5 (n): An electronic device that continually calculates and displays information used for firing weapons at moving targets, such as missiles or aircraft.
  • Definition 6 (n): Someone who controls resources and expenditures.
  • Definition 7 (n): Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show.
  • Definition 8 (n): The person who leads a musical group.
  • Definition 9 (n): A member of a board of directors.
  • Definition 10 (n): A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.
  • Definition 11 (n): A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.
  • Synonyms : manager, managing director, stage director, conductor, music director
• DVD
  • Definition 1 (n): A high-density compact disk for storing large amounts of data, especially high-resolution audio-visual material
  • Definition 2 (n): Digital Versatile Disk
  • Definition 3 (n): Digital Video Disk
• Entertainer
  • Definition 1 (n): One who entertains.
  • Definition 2 (n): A person who tries to please or amuse.
• Entertainment
  • Definition 1 (n): The act of entertaining.
  • Definition 2 (n): The art or field of entertaining.
  • Definition 3 (n): Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show.
  • Definition 4 (n): The pleasure afforded by being entertained.
  • Definition 5 (n): Maintenance; support.
  • Definition 6 (n): Employment.
  • Definition 7 (n): The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception.
  • Definition 8 (n): Reception or treatment, in general.
  • Definition 9 (n): That which entertains, or with which one is entertained.
  • Definition 10 (n): Hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal.
  • Definition 11 (n): That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement.
  • Definition 12 (n): Admission into service.
  • Definition 13 (n): Payment of soldiers or servants.
  • Definition 14 (n): An activity that entertains.
  • Synonyms : amusement, hospitality, wages, diversion, recreation, pastime, sport, feast, banquet, repast, carousal
• Family Crest
  • Definition (n): Family Crest is part of the story of Heraldry, which began in the 11th century in Europe. A Crest was a device worn on top of a helmet, made of wood, metal, or boiled leather. It provided a visual identification of the bearer.
  • Synonyms : Coat Of Arms
• Funny
  • Definition 1 (adj): Causing laughter or amusement
  • Definition 2 (adj): Intended or designed to amuse
  • Definition 3 (adj): Strangely or suspiciously odd; curious
  • Definition 4 (adj): Tricky or deceitful
  • Definition 5 (n): A clinkerbuit; narrow boat for sculling
  • Definition 6 (adj): Droll, comical, amusing, laughable
  • Derivation(s) : From the English word Fun
  • Synonyms : ludicrous, comical, droll, ridiculousness, laughable, pour rire, grotesque
  • Antonyms : conventiuonal, typical, normal, nominal, formal, sound, strict, rigid, uncompromising
• Genius
  • Definition 1 (n): Extraordinary intellectual and creative power
  • Definition 2 (n): A person of extraordinary intellect and talent
  • Definition 3 (n): A person who has an exceptionally high intelligence quotient, typically above 140
  • Definition 4 (n): Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations
  • Definition 5 (n): A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties
  • Definition 6 (n): A strong natural talent, aptitude, or inclination
  • Definition 7 (n): The prevailing spirit or distinctive character, as of a place, a person, or an era
  • Definition 8 (n): A person who has great influence over another
  • Definition 9 (n): A jinni in Muslim mythology
  • Derivation(s) : The word is Middle English meaning "Guardian Spirit", derived from Latin with Indo-European Roots
  • Synonyms : academician, doctor, egghead, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, mastermind, prodigy, pundit, sage, scholar, accomplished, acute, astute, brainy, bright, clever, discerning, egghead, expert, gifted, ingenious, intellectual, inventive, knowing, knowledgeable, masterly, penetrating, profound, quick, quick-witted, sharp, smart, talented, whiz, adequacy, aptitude, aptness, bent, brains, caliber, capability, cleverness, compass, competence, competency, efficiency, facility, faculty, forte, gift, inclination, intelligence, knack, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, stature, strength, talent, ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, aptness, astuteness, bent, brain, brilliance, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, inventiveness, knack, maestro, master, mastermind, mature, originality, percipience, perspicacity, power, precocity, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, superability, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, adeptness, adroitness, bent, capability, cleverness, command, competence, craft, deftness, expertise, expertness, finesse, flair, gift, handiness, ingenuity, intelligence, knack, know-how, mastery, proficiency, resourcefulness, savvy, skill, skillfulness, strength, talent, the goods, the stuff
  • Antonyms : dummy, idiot, imbecile, moron, dim-witted, dull, slow, stupid, unintelligent, incapability, incapableness, incompetence, inability, limitation
• Hamster
  • Definition 1 (n): A small Eurasian rodent of the subfamily Cricetinae, especially Mesocricetus auratus, having large cheek pouches and a short tail and often kept as a pet or used in laboratory research.
  • Definition 2 (n): A small European rodent (Cricetus frumentarius). It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.
  • Definition 3 (n): Short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
  • Definition 4 (n): Computer hardware: A tailless mouse; that is, one with an infrared link to a receiver on the machine, as opposed to the conventional cable.
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle High German word Hamastra and perhaps from the Old High German word Hamustro; of Slavis origin.
• Hat
  • Definition 1 (n): A covering for the head, especially one with a shaped crown and brim
  • Definition 2 (n): A covering for the head; especially one with a crown and brim, made of various materials, and worn by men or women for protecting the head from the sun or weather, or for ornament
  • Definition 3 (n): Protects from weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
  • Definition 4 (n): Computer ASCII Language: A common name for the carrot (^) symbol
  • Definition 5 (n): A role or office symbolized by or as if by the wearing of different hats
  • Definition 6 (v): To supply or cover with a hat
  • Definition 7 (v): To put on or wear a hat
  • Derivation(s) : Derived from the Middle English, but originally from the Old English words Haet and Haett
  • Synonyms : cap, chapeau, lid, covering, Panama, Stetson, bean pod, beaver, boater, bonnet, bowler, bucket, chimney, cow's breakfast, dicer, fedora, headgear, headpiece, helmet, millinery, plug, rim, roof, sailor, skimmer, sky, sky piece, sombrero, stove pipe, straw, ten-gallon, topper, kippah
• Hero
  • Definition 1 (n): A person of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person
  • Definition 2 (n): A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life
  • Definition 3 (n): A person noted for special achievement in a particular field
  • Definition 4 (n): A person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
  • Definition 5 (n): In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods
  • Definition 6 (n): The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad and Ulysses in the Odyssey
  • Derivation(s) : Formerly Heroe, formerly ther Greek Heros
  • Synonyms : ace, adventurer, celebrity, champion, combatant, conqueror, daredevil, demigod, diva, exemplar, gallant, god, goddess, great person, heavy, heroine, ideal, idol, lead, leading lady, leading man, lion, martyr, master, model, paladin, popular figure, prima donna, principal, protagonist, saint, star, superstar, tin god, victor, worthy
• Humor
  • Definition 1 (n): The quality that makes something laughable or amusing
  • Definition 2 (n): That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement
  • Definition 3 (n): The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd
  • Definition 4 (n): One of the four fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile, whose relative proportions were thought in ancient and medieval physiology to determine a person's disposition and general health
  • Definition 5 (n): A person's characteristic disposition or temperament
  • Definition 6 (n): An often temporary state of mind, a mood
  • Definition 7 (n): A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
  • Definition 8 (n): That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations
  • Definition 9 (n): To help on by indulgence or compliant treatment
  • Derivation(s) : From the Old French and Latin word Umor
  • Synonyms : funniness, wit, jocularity, jocosity, jocoseness, facetiousness, waggery, waggishness, whimsicality, comicality
  • Antonyms : dullness, heaviness, flatness, infestivity, stupidity, want of originality, dearth of ideas
• Jingle
  • Definition 1 (n): A catchy, often musical advertising slogan
  • Definition 2 (n): A comic verse of irregular measure
  • Definition 3 (n): A piece of light singsong verse or rhyme
  • Definition 4 (n): The sound produced by or as if by bits of metal striking together
  • Definition 5 (v): To have the catchy sound of a simple, repetitious rhyme or doggerel
  • Definition 6 (v): To cause to make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound
  • Definition 7 (v): To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together
  • Definition 8 (v): To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English ginglen, "of immitative origin"
  • Synonyms : byword, catchphrase, catchword, expression, idiom, phrase, proverb, rallying cry, saying, shibboleth, trademark, war cry, watchword, chime, chink, chinkle, clamor, clang, clatter, clink, ding, jangle, rattle, reverberate, ring, sound, tingle, tinkle, tintannabulate
• Jurassic
  • Definition 1 (adj): Of or belonging to the geologic time, rock series, or sedimentary deposits of the second period of the Mesozoic Era, in which dinosaurs continued to be the dominant land fauna and the earliest birds appeared
  • Definition 2 (adj): Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden
  • Definition 3 (n): A period of time from 190 million to 135 million years ago, dominterd by dinosaurs (animal) and conifers (vegetable) life forms
  • Definition 4 (n): The Jurassic Period or its system of deposits
  • Derivation(s) : From the French Jurassique after the Jura Mountains
• Laugh
  • Definition 1 (v): To express certain emotions. especially mirth or delight, by a series of spontaneous, usually unarticulated sounds often accompanied by corresponding facial and bodily movements
  • Definition 2 (v): To show or feel amusement or good humor
  • Definition 3 (v): To feel a triumphant or exhultant sense of well-being
  • Definition 4 (v): To feel or express derision or contempt; mock
  • Definition 5 (v): To produce sounds resembling laughter
  • Definition 6 (n): The act of laughing
  • Definition 7 (n): The sound of laughing; laughter
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English Laugher and the Old English word hlaehhan, probably of imitative origin
  • Synonyms (v): amuse, entertain, divert, enliven, tickle the fance, titillate, raise a smile, put in good hump, cause laughter, set the table in a roar, be the death of one, giggle, titter, snicker, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout, guffaw, cachinnation
  • Synonyms (n): amusement, entertainment, diversion, divertissement, reaction, solace, pastime, passetemps, sport, labor of love, pleasure
  • Antonyms : weariness, defatigation, lassidude, fatigue, drowsiness, disgust, bore, monotony, loathing
• Leper
  • Definition 1 (n): A person affected by leprosy
  • Definition 2 (n): A person afflicted with leprosy
  • Definition 3 (n): A person who is avoided by others; a pariah
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English Lepre (leprosy), derived from the Old French & Late Latin word Lepra and the Greek Lepros (scaly) with the word origin Lepis (scale)
• Leper Colony
  • Definition 1 (n): A location where a person afflicted with Leprosy can be treated and made comfortable without the possibility of spreading the contagion, isolating them from public exposure
• Leprosy
  • Definition 1 (n): A chronic, mildly contagious granulomatous disease of tropical and subtropical regions, caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae, characterized by ulcers of the skin, bone, and viscera and leading to loss of sensation, paralysis, gangrene, and deformation
  • Definition 2 (n): A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, an[ae]sthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.
  • Definition 3 (n): chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions
  • Definition 4 (n): An infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an obligate intracellular parasite that survives lysosomal enzyme attack by possessing a waxy coat. Leprosy is a chronic disease associated with depressed cellular (but not humoral) immunity, the bacterium requires a lower temperature than 37­C and thrives particularly in peripheral Schwann cells and macrophages.
  • Definition 5 (n): Only humans and the nine banded armadillo are susceptible
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English Lepruse, derived from Leprus (leprous)
  • Synonyms : Hansen's Disease
  • Antonyms :
• Lyric
  • Definition 1 (n): A lyric poem or a lyrical composition
  • Definition 2 (n): The words of a song (often used in the plural "lyrics")
  • Definition 3 (n): A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry
  • Definition 4 (n): The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
  • Definition 5 (n): Language for Your Remote Instruction by Computer (a CAI language implemented as a Fortran preprocessor)
  • Definition 6 (adj): Of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style or form
  • Definition 7 (adj): Having a singing voice of light volume and modest range
  • Definition 8 (adj): Of, relating to, or being musical drama, especially opera or having a pleasing succession of sounds, melodious
  • Definition 9 (adj): Appropriate for accompaniment by the lyre
  • Derivation(s) : From the French word Lyrique (of a lyre), which is derived from the Latin word Lyricus and the Greek word Lurikos, which itself is from Lura (lyre)
  • Synonyms (adj) : musical, instrumental, vocal, choral, lyric, operatic, harmonious
• Media
  • Definition 1 (n): A plural of "medium".
  • Definition 2 (n): A means of mass communication, such as newpapers, magazines, radio, or television.
  • Definition 3 (n): The group of journalists and others who constitute the communications industry and profession.
  • Definition 4 (n): An object or device, such as a disk, on which data is stored.
  • Definition 5 (n): Transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public.
  • Definition 6 (n): A surrounding environment in which something functions and thrives.
  • Definition 7 (n): A village in Illinois.
  • Definition 8 (n): A borough in Pennsylvania.
  • Definition 9 (adj): Occurring or being between two degrees, amounts, or quantities; intermediate.
  • Definition 10 (n): An ancient country of southwest Asia in present-day northwest Iran. Settled by an Indo-European people, it became part of the Assyrian Empire and was conquered c. 550 B.C. by Cyrus the Great, who added it to the Persian Empire.
  • Definition 11 (n): The middle, often muscular layer of the wall of a blood vessel
  • Derivation(s) : The word is Late Latin, from the feminine of Latin Medius, meaning middle.
  • Synonyms : mass media, average
• Medley
  • Definition 1 (n): An often jumbled assortment
  • Definition 2 (n): An arrangement made from a series of melodies, often from various sources (Music)
  • Definition 3 (n): An event in competitive swimming in which backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle are swum in equal distances by an individual or as divisions of a relay race (Sports)
  • Definition 4 (n): A composition of passages detached from several different compositions; a potpourri
  • Definition 5 (n): Of mixed material or color
  • Definition 6 (n): A musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
  • Definition 7 (n): Medley, FL (town, FIPS 43900) Location: 25.86304 N, 80.34813 W Population (1990): 663 (335 housing units) Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)
  • Definition 8 (n): Medley, WV Zip code(s): 26734
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English Medlee and from the Anglo-Norman Medlee (Meddling) and from the past participle of "Medler" (to meddle)
  • Synonyms : mixture, jumble, hodgepodge, potpourri, pastiche
• Movie
  • Definition 1 (n): A sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
  • Definition 2 (n): A connected cinematic narrative represented in this form.
  • Definition 3 (n): A showing of a movie (often used in the plural).
  • Definition 4 (n): A moving picture or a moving picture show.
  • Definition 5 (n): A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
  • Derivation(s) : Shortening and alteration of moving picture.
  • Synonyms : film, picture, moving picture, motion picture, picture show, flick
• Music
  • Definition 1 (n): The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre
  • Definition 2 (n): Vocal or instrumental sounds possessing a degree of melody, harmony, or rhythm
  • Definition 3 (n): A musical composition
  • Definition 4 (n): The written or printed score for such a composition
  • Definition 5 (n): A musical accompanyment
  • Definition 6 (n): An aesthetically pleasing or harmonius sound or combination of sounds
  • Definition 7 (n): an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
  • Derivation(s) : From the Old French word Musique and from the Latin word Musica and from the Greek words Mousike (of the muses) and Mousa (muse)
  • Synonyms : concert, strain, tune, air, melody, aria, ariett, sonata, overture, symphony, variations, serenade, dithyramb, opera, oratorio, composition, movement, stave
• Music Video
  • Definition 1 (n): A filmed or videotaped rendition of a recorded song, often portraying musicians performing the song or including visual images interpreting the lyrics
  • Derivation(s) : From the Old French word Musique and from the Latin word Musica and from the Greek words Mousike (of the muses) and Mousa (muse)
• Musician
  • Definition 1 (n): One who composes, conducts, or performs music, especially instrumental music.
  • Definition 2 (n): One skilled in the art or science of music, especially a skilled singer or performer on a musical instrument.
  • Definition 3 (n): Someone who plays a musical instrument as a profession.
  • Definition 4 (n): Someone who composes or conducts music as a profession.
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English Musicien, derived from Old French and from the Latin Musica (music).
  • Synonyms : instrumentalist, player, singer, artiste, performer, minstrel, bard (poet), accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, vocalist, melodist, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis
• Mutilated
  • Definition 1 (adj): To have been deprived of a limb or an essential part
  • Definition 2 (adj): To be disfigured by damaged irreparably
  • Definition 3 (adj): To have destroyed or removed a material part of, so as to render imperfect
  • Definition 4 (adj): Badly injured, perhaps with amputation
  • Definition 5 (adj): Having a part of the body crippled or disabled
  • Derivation(s) : Latin Mutilare, Mutilat-, from Mutilus (maimed)
  • Synonyms : crippled, burst, busted, collapsed, cracked, crippled, crumbled, crushed, damaged, defective, demolished, disintegrated, dismembered, fractured, fragmentary, fragmented, hurt, injured, mangled, mutilated, pulverized, rent, riven, ruptured, separated, severed, shattered, shivered, shredded, slivered, smashed, split, bedridden, broken, damaged, defective, deformed, enfeebled, game, gimp, gimpy, halt, hamstrung, handicapped, harmed, hog-tied, housebound, impaired, incapacitated, laid up, lame, maimed, mangled, marred, mutilated, paralyzed, sidelined, banged up, bedridden, broken down, castrated, confined, cracked up, crip, decrepit, disarmed, done for, done in, game, gimp, gimpy, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, helpless, hurt, imbecile, impotent, incapable, incapacitated, infirm, laid up, lame, maimed, mangled, mutilated, palsied, paralyzed, paraplegic, powerless, run-down, senile, sidelined, silenced, stalled, superannuated, taken out, unable, useless, weak, weakened, worn-out, wounded, wrecked, aching, aggrieved, agonized, battered, bleedin', bruised, buffeted, bunged up, burned, busted up, contused, crushed, cut, damaged, disfigured, distressed, disturbed, grazed, harmed, hit, impaired, in pain, indignant, lacerated, marred, mauled, miffed, mutilated, nicked, offended, pained, piqued, put away, resentful, rueful, sad, scarred, scraped, scratched, screwed up, shook, shot, sore, stricken, struck, suffering, tender, tortured, umbrageous, unhappy, warped, wounded, zinged
  • Antonyms : able, complete, conditioned, fit, fixed, functioning, healthy, intact, sound, strong, unbroken, whole
• Palindrome
  • Definition 1 (n): A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward
  • Definition 2 (n): A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward
  • Definition 3 (n): A segment of double-stranded DNA in which the nucleotide sequence of one strand reads in reverse order to that of the complementary strand
  • Derivation(s) : From the Greek Palindromos (running back again, recurring), Palin (again) with Indo-European Roots and Dromos (a running)
  • Example 1: madam
  • Example 2: Hannah
  • Example 3: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
  • Example 4: Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel
• Parody
  • Definition 1 (n): The practice of reworking an already established composition, especially the incorporation into the Mass of material borrowed from other works, such as motets or madrigals
  • Definition 2 (n): A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule
  • Definition 3 (n): A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked
  • Definition 4 (n): A kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque
  • Definition 5 (n): A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way
  • Definition 6 (n): Travesty
  • Definition 7 (n): Humorous or satirical mimicry
  • Definition 8 (v): To write a parody upon
  • Definition 9 (v): Make a spoof of, make fun of
  • Derivation(s) : From the Latin word Parodia and from the Greek word Paroidia, which is based on Para- (subsidiary to) and Aoide / Oide (song), with additional Indo-European Roots
  • Synonyms (n): lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimiery, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation
  • Synonyms (v): spoof, imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat, do like, echo, reecho, catch, transcribe, match, parallel, mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate
  • Antonyms (n): nonimitation, no imitation, originality, invention, creation
• Performance
  • Definition 1 (n): The act of performing or the state of being performed.
  • Definition 2 (n): The act or style of performing a work or role before an audience.
  • Definition 3 (n): The way in which someone or something functions.
  • Definition 4 (n): A presentation, especially a theatrical one, before an audience.
  • Definition 5 (n): Something performed; an accomplishment.
  • Definition 6 (n): One's actual use of language in actual situations
  • Definition 7 (n): The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.
  • Definition 8 (n): That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character.
  • Definition 9 (n): A dramatic or musical entertainment.
  • Definition 10 (n): The act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment.
  • Definition 11 (n): The act of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it.
  • Definition 12 (n): An act or process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • Definition 13 (n): Any recognized accomplishment.
• Performer
  • Definition 1 (n): One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp
  • Definition 2 (n): An entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience.
  • Synonyms : performing artist
• Plethora
  • Definition 1 (n): State of being overfull
  • Definition 2 (n): Extreme excess
  • Definition 3 (n): Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity
  • Definition 4 (n): An excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or areaAn excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or area
  • Derivation(s) : Late Latin, from the Greek Plethein (to be full), with Indo-European roots
  • Synonyms : deluge, excess, flood, glut, many, much, multitude, overabundance, overflow, overkill, overmuch, plenty, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus
• Polka
  • Definition 1 (n): A lively dance originating in Bohemia and performed by couples
  • Definition 2 (n): Music for this dance, having duple meter
  • Definition 3 (n): An object-oriented parallel logic programming language, built on top of Parlog
  • Definition 4 (v): To dance the polka
  • Derivation(s) : Of Czech derivation, from the Polish word Polka (Polish Woman), with Indo-European Roots
• Poodle
  • Definition 1 (n): Any of a breed of dogs originally developed in Europe as hunting dogs, having thick curly hair of varying color, and classified by shoulder height into standard, miniature, and toy varieties.
  • Definition 2 (n): A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.
  • Definition 3 (n): An intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dog
  • Derivation(s) : From the German word Pudel which is short for Pudelhund (a combination of Pudeln which means "to splash about, as in puddle" and Hund which means "hound" or "dog")
  • Synonyms : Poodle Dog
• Premiere
  • Definition 1 (n): The first public performance, as of a movie or play
  • Definition 2 (n): Prime, chief, leader of a group, prime minister
  • Definition 3 (v): To present the first public performance of (v.tr.)
  • Definition 4 (v): To make a first appearance in a public performance (v.intr.)
  • Definition 5 (adj): Preceding all others in time
  • Definition 6 (adj): First in status or importance; principal or chief
  • Definition 7 (adj): First to occur or exist; earliest; most ancient
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English word Primier which was derived from the Old French/Latin word Primarius relating to the word Primus (First).
  • Synonyms : first, paramount, premier, beginning, debut, opening
  • Antonyms : finale
• Rabbi
  • Definition 1 (n): A person trained in Jewish law, ritual, and tradition and ordained for leadership of a Jewish congregation, especially one serving as chief religious official of a synagogue
  • Definition 2 (n): A scholar qualified to interpret Jewish law
  • Definition 3 (n): A Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law
  • Definition 4 (n): Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply the halakhah and other Jewish law
  • Definition 5 (n): A title of dignity given by the Jews to their doctors of the law and their distinguished teachers
  • Derivation(s) : The English version of the word is derived from the Middle English word Rabi from the Old French/Late Latin word Rabbi (master) and the Greek word Rhabbi (O my master), but originally from the Hebrew and Aramaic word Rabbi (my master), based on the word Rab (master; to become great).
• Radio
  • Definition 1 (n): The wireless transmission through space of electromagnetic waves in the approximate frequency range from 10 kilohertz to 300,000 megahertz
  • Definition 2 (n): Communication of audible signals encoded in electromagnetic waves
  • Definition 3 (n): Transmission of programs for the public by radio broadcast
  • Definition 4 (n): An apparatus used to transmit and to receive radio signals
  • Definition 5 (n): A station for radio transmitting; a radio broadcasting organization or network of affiliated organizations; the radio broadcasting industry
  • Definition 6 (n): A message sent by radio
  • Definition 7 (n): Of or pertaining to, or employing, or operated by, radiant energy, specifically that of electric waves; hence, pertaining to, or employed in, radiotelegraphy
  • Definition 8 (n): An electronic device that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals
  • Definition 9 (n): A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves
  • Derivation(s) : Short for the Modern English word Radiotelegraphy
  • Synonyms : transmitter, receiver
• Record
  • Definition 1 (v): To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
  • Definition 2 (v): To register (sound or images) in permanent form by mechanical or electrical means for reproduction.
  • Definition 3 (v): To register the words, sound, appearance, or performance of by such means.
  • Definition 4 (n): An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.
  • Definition 5 (n): Something on which such an account is based.
  • Definition 6 (n): Something that records.
  • Definition 7 (n): Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved.
  • Definition 8 (n): The known history of performance, activities, or achievement.
  • Definition 9 (n): An unsurpassed measurement.
  • Definition 10 (n): A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit. (Computer Science)
  • Definition 11 (n): A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.
  • Definition 12 (n): Something, such as magnetic tape, on which sound or visual images have been recorded.
  • Definition 13 (v): To reflect; to ponder.
  • Definition 14 (v): To sing or repeat a tune.
  • Definition 15 (n): To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English word Recorden and the Old French word Recorder, which are from the Latin word Recordar, (to remember), with Indo-European roots.
  • Synonyms : phonograph record, phonograph recording, disk, disc, platter, recordbook, book, criminal record, enter, put down, tape, read, register, show, commemorate, memorialize, immortalize
  • Antonyms : erase
• Rotten
  • Definition 1 (adj): Being in a state of putrefaction or decay
  • Definition 2 (adj): Having a foul odor resulting from or suggestive of decay
  • Definition 3 (adj): Made weak or unsound by rot; having rotted
  • Definition 4 (adj): Morally corrupt or despicable
  • Definition 5 (adj): Offensive to the smell
  • Definition 6 (adj): Damaged by decay, hence unsound and useless
  • Definition 7 (adj): Having rotted or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
  • Derivation(s) : Middle English Roten from the Old Norse Rotinn
  • Synonyms : bad, bad-smelling, corroded, corrupt, crumbled, crumbling, decaying, decayed, decomposed, decomposing, disgusting, disintegrated, disintegrating, fecal, feculent, festering, fetid, foul, gross, high, infected, loathsome, loud, mephitic, moldering, moldy, noisome, noxious, offensive, over-ripe, perished, polluted, purulent, pustular, putrescent, putrid, putrified, rancid, rank, rotting, smelling, sour, spoiled, stale, stinking, strong, tainted, touched, unsound, wretched
  • Antonyms : clean, fresh, pure
• Satire
  • Definition 1 (n): A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit
  • Definition 2 (n): Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity
  • Definition 3 (n): A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation
  • Definition 4 (n): A keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke
  • Definition 5 (n): Keeness and severity of remark, caustic exposure to reprobation, trenchant wit, sarcasm
  • Definition 6 (n): Witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  • Derivation(s) : From the Latin word Satira, probably derived from Satura [fruit (plate) mixture] and Satur (sated, well-fitted)
• Song
  • Definition 1 (n): A brief composition written or adapted for singing
  • Definition 2 (n): A distinctive or characteristic sound made by an animal, such as a bird or an insect
  • Definition 3 (n): A lyric poem or ballad
  • Definition 4 (n): Poetry, verse
  • Definition 5 (n): At a low price (I bought it for a song)
  • Definition 6 (n): That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
  • Definition 7 (n): A short musical composition with words
  • Derivation(s) : Middle English, from the Old English Sang
  • Synonyms : ballad, poem, verse, music, concert, strain, tune, air, melody, aria, arietta, piece of music, sonata, rondo, rondeau, pastorale, cavatina, roulade, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza, cadence, fugue, canon, serenade
• SPAM (all capital letters)
  • Definition 1 (n): A trademark used for a canned meat product consisting primarily of chopped pork pressed into a loaf
  • Definition 2 (n): (Trademark) A tinned luncheon meat made largely from pork
  • Derivation(s) : Hormel Foods product copyright
• spam (all lower-case letters)
  • Definition 1 (n): Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups
  • Definition 2 (n): Junk e-mail
  • Definition 3 (v): To post irrelevant or inappropriate messages to one or more Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, or other messaging system in deliberate or accidental violation of netiquette
  • Definition 4 (v): To indiscrimately send large amounts of unsolicited e-mail meant to promote a product or service. Spam in this sense is sort of like the electronic equivalent of junk mail sent to "Occupant".
  • Definition 5 (v): To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data
  • Derivation(s) : From "Spam" (probably inspired by a comedy routine on the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which the word is repeated incessantly)
• Spatula
  • Definition 1 (n): A small implement having a broad, flat, flexible blade that is used to mix, spread, or lift material
  • Definition 2 (n): A device, such as a small wooden paddle, used to press down the tongue during an examination of the mouth or throat
  • Definition 3 (n): An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc.
  • Definition 4 (n): A cooking utensil with a narrow flexible blade
  • Definition 5 (n): A tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances
  • Derivation(s) : Latin for "flat piece of wood; splint", diminutive of the word Spatha meaning "broadsword"
• Superhero
  • Definition 1 (n): A figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime
• Talent
  • Definition 1 (n): A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment
  • Definition 2 (n): A person or group of people who have a natural endowment or ability of a superior quality
  • Definition 3 (n): A variable unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East
  • Fact 1 : Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93? lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from [pounds]340 to [pounds]396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.
  • Definition 4 (n): Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty
  • Definition 5 (n): A person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity
  • Definition 6 (n): A city in Oregon - (city, FIPS 72500) Location: 42.24013 N, 122.78096 W Population (1990): 3274 (1438 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97540
  • Synonyms : ability, gift, endowment, skill, skillfulness, address, dexterity, dexterousness, adroitness, expertness, expertise, proficiency, competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight, mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy
  • Antonyms : unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery
• Television
  • Definition 1 (n): The transmission of visual images of moving and stationary objects, generally with accompanying sound, as electromagnetic waves and the reconversion of received waves into visual images
  • Definition 2 (n): An electronic apparatus that receives electromagnetic waves and displays the reconverted images on a screen
  • Definition 3 (n): The integrated audible and visible content of the electromagnetic waves received and converted by such an apparatus
  • Definition 4 (n): The industry of producing and broadcasting television programs
  • Definition 5 (n): A dedicated push media device for receiving streaming video and audio, either by terrestrial radio broadcast, satellite or cable
  • Definition 6 (n): Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
  • Definition 7 (n): A communication that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points
  • Definition 8 (n): A receiver that displays television images
  • Derivation(s) : From the Greek words Tele- (far) and Vision (vision, sight)
  • Synonyms : telly, TV, telecasting, television set, television receiver, television system, TV set, idiot box, boob tube, goggle box
• Thesaurus
  • Definition 1 (n): A book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms
  • Definition 2 (n): A book of selected words or concepts, such as a specialized vocabulary of a particular field, as of medicine or music
  • Definition 3 (n): A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge, often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia
  • Definition 4 (n): A book of synonyms
  • Derivation(s) : From the Latin Thesaurus (treasury) and from the Greek Thesauros
  • Synonyms : dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, index, glossary, thesaurus, gradus, delectus, concordance
• Trash
  • Definition 1 (n): Worthless or discarded material or objects
  • Definition 2 (n): Something broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings
  • Definition 3 (n): The refuse of sugar cane after extraction of the juice
  • Definition 4 (n): Nonsensical talk or writing
  • Definition 5 (n): A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game
  • Definition 6 (n): A place or receptacle where rubbish is discarded
  • Definition 7 (n): Dispose of or destroy
  • Derivation(s) : Possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian dialectal Trask
  • Synonyms : debris, dreck, dregs, droppings, dross, excess, filth, fragments, junk, leavings, litter, oddments, offal, pieces, refuse, residue, rubbish, rubble, rummage, scourings, scrap, scraps, scum, sediment, shavings, slag, sweepings, waste
• Tune
  • Definition 1 (n): A melody, especially a simple and easily remembered one
  • Definition 2 (n): A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony
  • Definition 3 (n): A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
  • Definition 4 (n): Adjustment of a receiver or circuit for maximum response to a given signal or frequency
  • Definition 5 (v): To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds
  • Definition 6 (v): To optimize a program or system for a particular environment
  • Definition 7 (v): To put into proper pitch
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English, a variant of tone
  • Synonyms : song, melody, air, aria, carol, chorus, composition, concert, consonance, descant, diapason, ditty, harmony, jingle, lay, measure, melodia, motif, number, piece, strain, theme, warble, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, adapt, alter, arrange, compose, conform, dispose, doctor, fiddle with, fine tune, fit, fix, fix up, habituate, harmonize, make conform, modify, order, quadrate, reconcile, rectify, redress, regulate, remodel, settle, suit, tailor, tailor-make, tune
  • Antonyms : confuse, derange, disarrange, disorder, disorganize, upset
• Twine
  • Definition 4 (n): A strong string or cord made of two or more threads twisted together
  • Definition 5 (n): Something formed by twining
  • Definition 6 (n): A lightweight cord; A tangle; a knot
  • Definition 7 (n): A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string
  • Definition 1 (v): To twist together (threads, for example); intertwine
  • Definition 2 (v): To form by twisting, intertwining, or interlacing
  • Definition 3 (v): To encircle or coil about
  • Definition 9 (v): To become twisted, interlaced, or interwoven
  • Definition 8 (v): To go in a winding course; twist about
  • Derivation(s) : From the Middle English words Twinen and Twin (twine), originally from the Old English word Twin (double thread)
  • Synonyms : rope, braid, coil, convolution, cord, cordage, knot, snarl, string, tangle, thread, twist, whorl, yarn, bond, connection, cordage, fiber, line, link, shaganappi, tendon, tie
• UHF
  • Definition 1 (n): Ultra-High Frequency
  • Definition 2 (n): A band of broadcast frequencies from 300 to 3,000 megahertz
• Video
  • Definition 1 (n): The visual portion of a televised broadcast
  • Definition 2 (n): A videocassette or videotape, especially one containing a recording of a movie, music performance, or television program
  • Definition 3 (n): A music video
  • Definition 4 (n): The appearance of text and graphics on a video display
  • Definition 5 (n): The visible part of a television transmission
  • Definition 6 (n): The visual elements of television
  • Definition 7 (n): Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
  • Definition 8 (adj): Of or relating to television, especially televised images
  • Definition 9 (adj): Of or relating to videotaped productions or videotape equipment and technology
  • Derivation(s) : From the Latin word Videre (to see)
• Weird
  • Definition 1 (adj): Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural
  • Definition 2 (adj): Of a strikingly odd or unusual character, strange
  • Definition 3 (adj): Of or relating to fate or the Fates(Archaic)
  • Definition 4 (adj): strikingly odd or unusual
  • Definition 5 (adj): suggesting the operation of supernatural influences
  • Definition 6 (v): To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to
  • Definition 7 (v): To experience or cause to experience an odd, unusual, and sometimes uneasy sensation (often used with out)
  • Definition 8 (n): One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil
  • Derivation(s) : The Middle English word Werde (fate, having power to control fate) which is derived from the old English word Wyrd (fate).
  • Synonyms (adj): unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, singular, unique, curious, odd, extraordinary, weird, strange, monstrous, wonderful
  • Synonyms (n): unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity
  • Antonyms (adj): regular, typical, normal, nominal, formal, canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive, uncompromising