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N) a great wave or surge
V) to rise or roll in, to swell out, puff up, to make rise or surge
Billow
V) to lessen;decrease;to detreact from the authority, honor,stature,or reputation of; disparage.
Architecture. to give (a column)a form tapering inward from bottom to top
Music. to make (an interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding perfect or minor interval.
Diminish
Adj) pertaining to hearing,to the senses of hearing, or to the organs of hearing. perceived through the sense of hearing
-Noun Archaic.
audience, an auditorium
Auditory
N) a particular period of time marked by instinctive features, events, etc. the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything.
Geology. any of several divisions of a geological period which a geologic series is formed
Astronomy. an arbitrarily fixed instant of time or date, usally the beginning of a century or half a century, used as a reference in giving the elements of a planetary orbit or the like
Epoch
V) to proceed by take or a winding ir indirect course, to wander aimlessly, ramble; a circuitous movement or journey'Surveying. to DEFINE the margin of (a body of water) with a meander line
Origin: 1570- 80;< L maeander < Gk maiandros a winding, special use of Maiandros, the Menderes River, noted for its winding course
Meander
N) surroundings,esp. of a social or cultural nature: a snobbish milieu.
Origin. 1795-1805;< F, equiv. to mi (< L medius middle:see medium) + lieu LIEU- place
Milieu
Adj) offensive or disgusting, as in an odor harmful or injurious to health; noxious
Origin. 1350-1400; ME noy (aph. var. of ANNOY)+ -SOME
Noisome
N) V) extent or range of view, outlook, applicaton, operation, effectiveness space for movement or activity; oppurtunity for operation leangth: a scope of cable. aim or purpose ( used as a short form of miscroscope, OSCILLOSCOPE, periscope, radarscope, riflescope, telescopic sight, etc) Slang, scope out, check out, to master: figure out
Scope
Adj) of, pertaining to , endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch. perceptible to the touch
Tactile
V) to move with sinuous or wavelike motion to have wavy form or surface,; bend with succesive curves in alternate dirctions; ( of a sound) to rise and fall in pitch; to cause to move in waves
Undulate
N) Adj) V) the extent of or limit of something; its scope. the distance to which a projectile is or may be sent by a weapon. an area equipped with targets for practice in shooting weapons. the distance that can be covered w/o refueling Statistics. the difference b/w the largest and smalest valuesin a statisticf distrubution. a rank, class, or order a row, line, or series, as of persons or things. also called rangeland, an area or tract that is or may be ranged iver, esp. an open region for the grazing of livestock; the region over which a population or species is distrubuted Mathematics. the set of all values attained by a given function througout its domain. a chain of mount. forming a single system a large portable or staionary cooking stove working or graxing on a range, to rove, roam , or wander, to stretch our or extend in a line in range ,( of two or more objects observed from a vessel) located one directly behind the other
Range
V) to sparkle; flash, to twinkle, as the stars. to fluctuate in a random manner. to produce a flas of light sparkling, intelligent, and witty
Scintillate