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noun
- A channel which connects one body of water to another.
- A waterway used for transportation of vessels, especially a manmade one.
- A tubular channel within the body.
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noun
- (anatomy) The capitate bone of the wrist.
adjective
- (anatomy) Having a large and globular tip.
- (botany) Forming a dense cluster.
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(context, US, informal) A cellular phone (mobile phone).
adjective
- Of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling a cell or cells.
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| chemotropism |
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noun
- the movement or growth of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus
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| cladistics |
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(systematics): An approach to biological systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon synapomorphy, synapomorphies (shared derived characteristics) only, and not upon symplesiomorhy, symplesiomorphies (shared ancestral characteristics).
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(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' .
: Often used to imply membership of a large class.
:: This word has a whole of metaphoric extensions.
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(countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
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(uncountable) The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with in 18th-century England.
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(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real .
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(context, countable, and, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
The was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
- A series of classes covering a single subject.
I took the cooking for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
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(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
The of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
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(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
I used to fly business , but now my company can only afford economy.
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(context, biology, taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank
Magnolias belong to the Magnoliopsida.
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(computing) A set of objects possibly differing in state but not behavior.
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(math) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
The of all sets is not a set.
verb (classes, classing, classed)
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(transitive) To assign to a class.
- I would this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
adjective
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(context, UK, slang) great; fabulous
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| classification |
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noun
- The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
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| clastic |
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adjective
- made up from parts that are easily removable
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(geology) (of rock) made from fragments of pre-existing rocks
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| clathrate |
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noun
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(chemistry) a clathrate compound
adjective
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(biology) having a lattice-like structure
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(chemistry) of an inclusion complex in which molecules of one compound are enclosed within the crystal structure of another
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| cline |
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(biology) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.
- Any graduated continuum.
- 2005, Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction, p. 412
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: This account effectively reconstructs the well-known grammaticalisation from anaphora to agreement, …
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| clock |
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noun
- An instrument used to measure or keep track of time; a non-portable timepiece.
- The odometer of a motor vehicle.
This car has over 300,000 miles on the .
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(electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuit, digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
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(transitive) To measure the duration of.
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(transitive) To measure the speed of.
He was clocked at 155 miles per hour.
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(context, transitive, slang) To hit (someone)
When the boxer let down his guard, his opponent clocked him.
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(slang) To take notice of.
Clock the wheels on that car!
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(context, UK, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
I don't believe that car has done only 40,000 miles. It's been clocked.
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| coat |
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(countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
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(countable) A covering of material, such as paint.
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(countable) The fur or feathers of animal.
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(context, uncountable, nautical) canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather)
verb
- To cover with a coat of some material
One can buy coated frying pans, which are much easier to wash up than normal ones.
- To cover as a coat.
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| cohort |
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noun
- a group of people
- a demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group
- any division of a Roman legion; normally of about 500 men
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| congener |
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- A plant or animal of the same taxonomic genus as another
- A person or thing similar in behavior or nature to another
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(chemistry) Any of several alcohols, other than ethanol, that are found in fermented and distilled alcoholic drinks, and are partially responsible for their flavour and character.
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| conspecific |
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noun- An organism belonging to the same species as another
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(systematics): Of, or belonging to the same species
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| convergence |
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noun
- the act of moving toward union or uniformity.
- a meeting place
We built a homestead at the of two rivers
- the intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT
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(mathematics) the process of approaching some limiting value
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(physiology) the coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range
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(biology) the evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution
- the merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole (ex AT&T buying out every other company to have a monopole as they did in the 1980's and have succeeded into doing once more after the recent purchase of cingular.)
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| correlative |
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noun
- Either of two correlative things.
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(grammar) A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbal form, in Esperanto regularly formed, indicating which?, that, some, none, and every, as applied to people, things, type, place, manner, reason, time, or quantity, as: kiu "who" (which person?), iu "someone" (some person), tie "there" (that place), ĉie "everywhere" (all places), etc.
adjective
- mutually related; corresponding
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| corticate |
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adjective
- sheathed in bark or in a cortex.
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