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noun (pl=salivae)
- (physiology) A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes, It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches.
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| salivate |
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verb (salivat, ing)
- (intransitive) To produce saliva.
- (intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.
- He's been salivating over the latest model sports car for awhile now.
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| sand |
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noun
- Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see w:Grain_size, grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction. Sand may be blown around by the wind; gravel is too heavy, and silt (on beaches) does not usually have time to dry out between tides.
- (often in plural sands) a beach or other expanse of sand.
- (obsolete) Personal courage (used before or around 1920s)
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
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adjective (no (compar) or (superl))
- Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
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| sanguine |
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noun
- (color) Blood colour; red.
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- Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.
- bloodstone, Bloodstone.
- Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1.
verb (sanguin, ing)
- To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.
adjective
- (colour) Having the colour of blood; red.
- Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.
- a bodily temperament
- Warm; ardent.
- a temper
- Anticipating the best; not despondent; confident; full of hope
- of success
- (obsolete) irresponsibly mirthful; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters
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| scent |
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noun
- an odour or smell, especially one left by an animal being hunted by hounds.
- something with a strong odour.
- the scent of flowers
- the scent of a skunk
- perfume.
- (figuratively) any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone.
verb (scents, scenting, scented)
- to detect the scent of
- The hounds scented the fox in the woods.
- to impart an odour to
- Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.
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| scurfy |
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adjective
- covered with scurf
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| sebaceous |
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adjective - of or relating to fat, sebum
- ooze, oozing fat
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| sebum |
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noun
- (physiology) A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.
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| secrete |
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verb (secret, ing)
- (physiology) Of organs: to produce and emit (bodily fluids).
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| secretion |
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noun
- Any substance that is secreted by an organism.
- The act of secreting a substance, especially from a gland
- The act of hiding something
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| secretive |
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adjective - Having an inclination to secrecy
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| seed |
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noun
- (countable) A fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant.
- If you plant a in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.
- (context, countable, botany) A fertilized ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (uncountable) An amount of fertilized grain that cannot be readily counted.
- The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown .
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Sometimes a man may feel encouraged to spread his before he settles down to raise a family.
- (countable) A precursor.
- The of an idea. Which idea was the (idea)?
- (countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precusor in a defined chain of precusors.
- The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- The team with the best regular season record receives the top in the conference tournament.
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
- The rookie was a surprising top .
- Initialization state of a Wikipedia:Pseudorandom number generator, pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). (seed number)
- If you use the same you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.
- Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The latest has attracted a lot of users in our online community.
verb
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- A venture captialist seeds young companies.
- The tournament coordinator will the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
- This marketing company successfully seeds viral campaigns using wikipedia:media meshing, media meshing.
- The programmer seeds fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.''
adjective
- Held in reserve for future growth.
- money
- Don't eat your corn
- First. The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precusor in a defined chain of precusors.
- What was the number that initiated the sequence of values?
- The qualifying match determines the position one will have in the final competition.
- A precursor, especially in a process without a defined initial state.
- What was the idea behind your scheme?
- Use your profits as money for your next venture.
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| semen |
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noun
- The fluid, produced in male reproductive organs of an animal, that contains the reproductive cells.
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| sensation |
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noun
- A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
- A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
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| sense |
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noun
- One of the methods for a living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- A general conscious awareness.
- a sense of security
- Sound practical judgment, as in common sense
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- You don"t make any sense.
- A natural appreciation or ability
- A keen musical sense
- (Pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- (Semantics) A single conventional use of a word. I.e., one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
verb (senses, sensing, sensed)
- To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
- To instinctively be aware.
- She immediately sensed her disdain.
- To comprehend.
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| sensitive |
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adjective
- responsive, Responsive to stimuli.
- Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.
- My friend Max is very , he cried today because of the bad news.
- Accurate (instrument)
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adjective - Of the senses or sensation.
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| serous |
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adjective
- Containing, secreting, or resembling serum; watery.
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| setpoint |
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noun
- The command signal or value which is fed into a controller to establish the target or desired position or state of the controlled device or process.
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| shock |
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noun
- Sudden, heavy impact.
- Something so surprising that it is stunning.
- More fully electric shock, a sudden burst of electric energy, hitting an animate animal such as a human.
- (pathology) A life-threatening medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
- A tuft or bunch of something (ie - hair, grass)
verb
- Caused to be emotionally shocked.
- Give an electric shock.
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| sight |
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noun
- the ability to see
- something seen
- 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 236d.
- : He's a really remarkable mean and it's very hard to get him in one's sights;
- something worth seeing
- a device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target
verb
- (transitive) to visually register
- (transitive) to get sight of (something)
- (transitive) to take aim at
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| slaver |
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noun
- a person engaged in the slave trade
- white slaver, who sells prostitutes into illegal 'sex slavery'
- (nautical) a ship used to transport slaves
verb to slaver
- to drool saliva from the mouth; to slobber
- to fawn
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| sleep |
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noun
- (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- I really need some .
- (countable) (informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
- I"m just going to have a quick .
- (uncountable) A substance found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
- Wipe the from your eyes.
verb (sleeps, sleeping, slept)
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- You should 8 hours a day.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- This caravan can up to four people.
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| sleeper |
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noun - (countable) Someone who sleeps.
- (countable) A saboteur or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- (countable) A railroad sleeping car.
- (countable)(context, rail transport, UK) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together railway lines.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- (countable) A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family Odontobutidae. Also "sleeper goby."
- (clothing) A type of pajamas, pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers its whole body, including their feet.
- Aaron, Devin, Ryan H., Cody, Ryan O., Wade, Lisa and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers.
- A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joist, joists beneath and floorboard, floorboards above.
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| sleeping |
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noun (A verbal noun of the verb sleep)
- the state or act of being asleep.
verb
- (present participle of, sleep)
adjective
- asleep
- used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
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noun - The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it.
verb
- (present participle of, sleepwalk)
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| slobber |
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noun
- Liquid material, generally saliva, that dribbles or drools outward and downward from the mouth.
- There was dried slobber on his coat lapel.
verb
- To emit saliva or intaken but not yet swallowed liquid to run from one's mouth. To drool.
- All babies slobber.
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| slumber |
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noun
- a very light state of sleep, almost awake
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| smegma |
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noun
- A whitish sebaceous secretion that collects between the glans penis and foreskin or in the vulva.
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| smell |
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noun
- A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals, water) carrying airborne molecules of a substance.
- I love the of fresh bread.
- (physiology) The sense that detects smells.
verb (smells, smelling, smelled or smelt)
- (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
- I can fresh bread.
- Smell the milk and tell me whether it's gone off.
- (context, transitive, followed by like or of) To have the smell (of).
- His feet of cheese.
- The bum smelt like a brewery.
- (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad.
- The roses lovely.
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| sneeze |
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noun
- An act of sneezing.
verb (sneez, ing)
- To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
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| sniff |
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noun
- an instance of sniffing.
verb
- to make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as if to smell something.
- to be dismissive or contemptuous of something.
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| sniffle |
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noun
- The act, or the sound of sniffling; the condition of having a runny or wet nose, as from a cold or allergies.
- I sometimes have a during allergy season.
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| snivel |
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noun
- the act of snivelling
- nasal mucus; snot
verb
- to breath heavily through the nose; to sniffle
- to whine or complain, whilst crying
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| snooze |
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noun
- A period of sleep; a nap.
- The cat enjoys taking a on a sunny windowsill.
- Something boring.
- The whole movie was a .
verb (snoozes, snoozing, snoozed) (intransitive)
- To sleep, especially briefly; to nap.
- The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.
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| snuff |
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noun
- fine-ground smokeless tobacco, intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose
verb
- To inhale through the nose
- (slang) To be killed while engaged in sexual intercourse.
adjective
- Relating to death
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| snuffle |
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noun
- An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly
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| sodium pump |
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noun - (biochemistry) the transport of sodium ions across biological membranes using the metabolic energy of ATP
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| somnambulate |
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verb (somnambulat, ing)
- (intransitive) To walk while sleeping.
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| sperm |
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noun (plural sperms or )
- (cytology) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male, the spermatozoon.
- The semen
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| sphygmomanometer |
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noun
- A device used to measure blood pressure.
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| spit |
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noun
- A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
- A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
verb (spit, t, ed)
- To impale on a spit.
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| sputum |
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noun (plural sputa)
- (physiology) Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.
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| stool |
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noun
- A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
- A footstool.
- feces, Feces; excrement.
- 'Usage notes: 'The word stool is preferred to fí¦ces and excrement in medical use.
- (archaic) A decoy.
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noun (es, -)
- (context, countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by �
- (context, countable, physics) externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- (context, uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
- Some people put the on the first syllable of "controversy"; others put it on the second.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
- (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
verb (stresses, stressing, stressed)
- To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
- To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
- To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
- "Emphasis" is stressed on the first syllable, but "emphatic" is stressed on the second.
- To emphasise (words in speaking).
- To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
- I must that this information is given in strict confidence.
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| sudoriferous |
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adjective
- sweaty or sweating
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| summation |
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noun
- A summarization.
- (math): An adding up of a series of items.
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| superfecundation |
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noun
- the fertilisation of two or more ova by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse, which can lead to twins with different fathers
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| superfetation |
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noun
- an excessive accumulation; a superfluous addition
- 1857: These gentlemen were greatly astonished at Bovary's romantic ideas, and the pharmacist hurried in to say to him: "This velvet looks to me rather a superfetation. Besides, the expense..." " Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (tr. Geoffrey Wall 1992).
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| suspended animation |
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noun
- A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
- (science fiction) The deliberate slowing of the body's functions, sometimes by the use of cryonics, on long interstellar journeys.
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| swallow |
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noun
- (archaic) A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
- He took the aspirin with a single of water.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to pass from the mouth into the stomach.
- Try not to too much toothpaste.
- The duck swallowed the frog.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagous which this entails.
- I swallowed nervously, wondering who was outside the window.
- (transitive) To take in, to consume, to absorb or cause to disappear.
- Any extra money will be swallowed up by the mortgage repayments.
- (transitive) To believe or accept.
- I find his excuses a little hard to .
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| sweat |
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noun
- (physiology) Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
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| sweet |
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noun
- (uncountable) The basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
- (countable) A confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content.
- (countable) A food eaten for dessert.
- Can we see the menu, please?
- sweetheart
adjective (er, est)
- Having a pleasant taste, especially one relating to the basic taste sensation induced by sugar.
- Having a taste of sugar.
- Containing a sweetening ingredient.
- (context, wine) Retaining a portion of sugar.
- Not having a salty taste.
- butter
- water
- Having a pleasant smell.
- a scent
- Not decaying, fermented, rancid, sour, spoiled, or stale.
- milk
- Having a pleasant sound.
- a tune
- a voice
- Having a pleasing disposition.
- a child
- Having a helpful disposition.
- It was of him to help out.
- Free from excessive unwanted substances like acid or sulphur.
- soil
- crude oil
- (colloquial) very good
adverb
- In a sweet manner.
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| sympathy |
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noun (sympath, ies)
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
- The ability to share the feelings of another; empathy.
- (context, psychology) A mutual relationship between people such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- (context, physiology) A mutual relationship between organs such that a condition of one part causes an effect in the other.
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| synergy |
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noun (synerg, ies)
- behavior, Behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts.
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- (w:General Systems Theory, general systems theory): Behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.
- Behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassembly, subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole. (R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics)-->
- (context, medicine) Combined action; the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
- The result of combine, combining two different groups, people, objects or processes.
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| synovia |
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noun , plural of synovium
- (uncountable) (anatomy) The lubricating fluid secreted by the synovium of a joint or other such structure.
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| systole |
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noun
- (physiology) the rhythmic contractions of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries
- 1974: There is no essential virtue in comfort. To be relaxed is good if it is part of a process of and diastole. Relaxation comes between phases of tenseness. " Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament
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