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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 |
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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. |
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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
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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Scope
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Adj) of, pertaining to , endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch. perceptible to the touch
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Tactile
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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
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Undulate
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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
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Range
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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
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Scintillate
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