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All Words Glossary
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PA |
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abbreviation- Pennsylvania
initialism (pluralPAs)
- public address system
- personal assistant
- Power Amplifier
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Prince Albert (piercing)
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Public Accountant
- Public Act
- Physician's Assistant
- 'per annum'' (i.e. interest)
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pacemaker |
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noun
- One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
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(anatomy) A set of nerves which stimulate the heart to beat.
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(context, hence) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.
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pack |
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noun
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
- A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
- A shook of cask staves.
- A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
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(slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
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(context, snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
verb
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(transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.
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(transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.
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(transitive) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
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(transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.
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(transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
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(transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
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(transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; " sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.
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(transitive) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
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(transitive) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
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(transitive) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.
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(intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
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(intransitive) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.
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(intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
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(intransitive) To depart in haste; " generally with off or away.
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(intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
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(intransitive) To carry a gun.
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pad |
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noun
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
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(context, US, slang) A bed.
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(colloquial) A place of residence.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals; an animal's foot or paw.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
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(cricket) a batsman's leg pad that protects it from damage when hit by the ball
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A keypad.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"
- the effect produced by sustained lower reeds, reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
verb (padd, ing)
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(transitive) To stuff.
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(transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
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(transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
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(transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
to pad cloth
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(context, transitive, cricket) to deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
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palliate |
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verb (palliat, ing)
- To lessen the severity of; to extenuate.
- To cause to seem less serious.
- To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
- To cover by excuses and apologies.
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palliative |
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noun
- Something that palliates, particularly a palliative medicine
- The radiation and chemotherapy were only palliatives.
adjective
- Minimising the progression of a disease and relieving undesirable symptoms for as long as possible, rather than attempting to cure the (usually incurable) disease.
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palpable |
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adjective
- Capable of being touched, felt or handled; touchable, tangible.
- obvious, Obvious or easily perceived.
The fear in the air was .
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(medicine) That can be detected by palpation.
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palpitation |
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noun
- a trembling or throbbing, especially throbbing, quivering, or contraction of a part of the heart
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para |
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noun- Formerly, one-hundredth of a dinar in Yugoslavia and, later, in the constituent states of that country.
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parity |
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noun (parities, -)
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(context, uncountable) equal; even; of comparable strength or intensity
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(context, countable) (italbrac, of a set) the property of having only two classifications, especially (in mathematics) the classifications even and odd
Parity is always preserved in such operations.
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(context, countable) the classification of an item into one of two sets, especially (in mathematics) into even or odd
The particles' parities can switch at random.
- (in physics) symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion
- (in medicine) the number of times a woman has given birth
- (in gaming) in Othello(r) or reversi it is the last move within a given sector of the board
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parturient |
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adjective
- giving birth; in labour
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(context, by extension) about to create a new product, or float a new idea
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passive |
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adjective
- Something that is not active, but rather is acted upon.
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(grammar) When the subject of a sentence has an action done to them.
- The form of "A meteorite hit the earth" is "The earth was hit by a meteorite."
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(slang) Remaining neutral or submissive during an event.
- He remained during the protest.
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patch |
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noun
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
- A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- A small area, a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
- A short period of time, especially one which causes trouble.
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(figuratively) A fit.
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
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(archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
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(computing) A file describing changes made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug. A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program.
- An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin; the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
proper noun
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(computing) The program that updates old versions of files, based on a record of differences with the newer versions.
verb (patches, patching, patched)
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
- To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces fastened on.
- To repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
- To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
- To make of pieces or patches like a quilt.
- To repair as with patches.
- To arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; " generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
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(computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
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patient |
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noun
- Someone who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person.
adjective
- Not lose, losing one's temper while waiting; not bothered with having to wait; not unwilling to wait
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pediatrics |
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noun (plurale tantum, always plural)
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(medicine) The branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of children.
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percussion |
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noun (percussions, -)
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(countable) the collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound
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(countable) the sound so produced
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(countable) the detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm
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(medicine) the tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis
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(music) the section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group
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percussive |
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adjective
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characterized by percussion; caused by or related to the action of striking or pounding something
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He massaged her shoulders with a gentle action.
- ~maintenance: euphemism for hitting a piece of malfunctioning equipment in the hope that it will then work.
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pessary |
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noun (pessar, ies)
- vaginal, Vaginal suppository.
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pharyngoscope |
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noun
- an instrument used to examine the pharynx
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phlebogram |
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noun
- a venogram
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phlebography |
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noun
- An X-ray examination of a system of veins that have been injected with a contrast medium; venography
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photofluorogram |
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noun-
(photography) A photograph made by photofluorography
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photofluorography |
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noun-
(medicine), (photography) The photographic recording of fluoroscope images
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photogenic |
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adjective
- generated or caused by light
photogenic melanoma
- generating or emiting light, phosphorescent
photogenic bacteria
- looking good when photographed
photogenic face
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placebo effect |
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noun
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(pharmacology) The tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work.
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plaster |
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noun (plasters, -)
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(uncountable) A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
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(countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast.
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(uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
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(countable) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
verb
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(transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster, or apply a plaster.
Her face was plastered in mud.
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(transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster.
The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.
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pneumatometer |
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noun
- A device used to measure the force of inspiration or expiration of a persons lungs
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podiatrist |
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noun
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(context, medicine) A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments.
- I visited my to obtain a new pair of orthopedic inserts for my shoes.
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podiatry |
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noun-
,(medicine) chiropody
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point |
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noun
- A location or place.
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(geometry) A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence.
At this point in the meeting, I'd like to propose a new item for the agenda.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A peninsula.
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(arithmetic) A decimal point (used when reading decimal fractions aloud).
10.5 ("ten point five"; = ten and a half)
- An opinion which adds (or supposedly adds) to the discussion.
- A unit of measure of success or failure in a game or competition; the unit of score, scoring.
The one with the most points will win the game
Germany awarded Greece the maximum 12 points in the Eurovision Song Contest.
- The color/colour on the extremities of an animal (typically darker or richer) than the rest of the coat).
The point color of that cat was a deep, rich sable.
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(rail transport, Commonwealth) a device by which trains change tracks; switch
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(cricket) a fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
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2005: Willie Jones decided to become Kimani Jones, Black Panther, on the day his best friend, Otis Nicholson, stepped on a mine while walking during a sweep in the central highlands. " Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 189)
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(nautical) An angle equivalent to eleven and a quarter degrees, that is 1/32 of a circle. Most commonly used to indicate a relative bearing to an object or vessel, but can be used to describe a compass bearing.
verb
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(intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
It's rude to at other people.
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(transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction
If he asks for food, him toward the refrigerator.
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polygraph |
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noun
- a device which measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while a series of questions is being asked, in an attempt to detect lies.
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polypnea |
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noun-
(medicine) rapid breathing; panting
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positive |
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noun
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- Something having a value in physics, such as an electric charge.
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(grammar) An adjective or adverb in the degree.
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(context, photography) A image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
adjective
- Definitively laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed, precise, emphatic.
- Bacon:
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: Positive words, that he would not bear arms against King Edward"s son.
- Fully assured, confident; certain.
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I"m absolutely you've spelt that wrong.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
- Pope:
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: Some , persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always so.
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(grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective or adverb; not comparative or superlative.
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"Better" is an irregular comparative of the form "good".
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
- The idea of beauty is not , but depends on the different tastes of individuals.
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Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
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Good lord, you've built up a arsenal of weaponry here.
- Characterised by the existence or presence of qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
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The box was not empty " I felt some substance within it.
- Characterised by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
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The results of our experiment are .
- Characterised by affirmation, constructiveness, or influence for the better; favourable.
- He has a outlook on life.
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The first-night reviews were largely .
- Swift:
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: a voice in legislation.
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(context, chiefly, philosophy) actual, Actual, real, concrete.
- Bacon:
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: Positive good.
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(photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- A photograph can be developed from a photographic negative.
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(physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- A cation is a positive ion as it has more protons than electrons.
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(slang) HIV positive.
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postnatal |
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adjective
- of or pertaining to the period immediately after birth
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postpartum |
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adjective
- postnatal
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poultice |
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noun (Plural:poultices)
- A soft moist mass applied topically to sore, aching or lesioned part of the body to sooth. The poultice is usually wrapped in cloth and often warmed before being applied.
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predisposition |
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noun
- the state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a disease or other health problem
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pregnancy |
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noun (pregnancies)
- the condition of being pregnant
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pregnant |
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adjective
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(notcomparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
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(comparable) Having many possibility, possibilities or implications.
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prenatal |
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adjective- Being or happening before birth.
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prescribe |
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verb (prescrib, ing)
- To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient.
- To specify as a required procedure or ritual.
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prescription |
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noun
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the act of prescribing a rule, law, etc.
"Jurisdiction to prescribe" is a state's authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. -- Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
- a written order, as by a physician, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention
The surgeon wrote a for a pain killer and physical therapy.
- the medicine or intervention so prescribed
The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her .
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the formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc.
The optician followed the optometrist's for her new eyeglasses.
- advice
"Early to bed and early to rise" is a for a healthy lifestyle.
adjective
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(of a drug, etc.) only available with a physician's written prescription
- Many powerful pain killers are drugs in the U.S.
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preventive |
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noun
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(nonstandard) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
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(nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
- A contraceptive, especially a condom.
adjective
- prevent, Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
- Carried out to deter military aggression.
- slow, Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
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primary care |
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noun
- the medical attention that a patient receives upon first contact with a healthcare system; either a general practitioner or the A&E or ER department of a hospital
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proctology |
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noun
- Branch of learning dealing with the colon, rectum and anus.
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proctoscope |
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noun
- a tube-like instrument, equipped with a light, used to examine the rectum; a rectoscope
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prognosis |
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noun (prognoses)
- A prediction of the course or outcome of a disease or disorder.
- A prediction about how a given situation will develop in the future.
- Any forecast or prediction.
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prognostic |
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noun
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a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction.
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Careful observers may foretell the hour
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(By sure prognostics) when to dread a show"r.
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While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o"er
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Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift
- A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.
adjective- of or relating to prognosis, prediction
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Progressive |
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proper noun
- A member or supporter of a Progressive Party
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prophylactic |
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noun
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
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American usage only (dated) Specifically, a prophylactic condom.
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1977, Human Life Center, International Review of Natural Family Planning, Human Life Center, St. John's University (1977), p. 2,
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It is not clear whether such education is to be directed to homosexuals (for whom prophylactics are not a contraceptive) or to heterosexuals as well (for whom prophylactics are a contraceptive).
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1994, Mary Louise Roberts, Civilization Without Sexes: reconstructing gender in postwar France, 1917-1927, University of Chicago Press (1994), p. 96,
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Given the widespread use of coitus interruptus and male prophylactics as contraceptive practices in France …
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2000, Peter Parnell and John Irving, The Cider House Rules: Here in St. Cloud's, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. (2000), p. 46,
- Some men put the on just the tip of the penis: this is a mistake, because the prophylactic will come off.
adjective
- prophylactical, Prophylactical.
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protocol |
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noun
- A rule which guides how an activity should be performed.
- The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.
- The minutes, or rough draft, of an instrument or transaction.
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(context, diplomacy) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.
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(context, diplomacy) A convention not formally ratified.
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(context, diplomacy) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.
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(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data, especially across a network. A message syntax or electrical specification and a description 2 or more communication nodes: finite state machine, state machines, the transition function, transition functions of which take messages or times as input and, when then so triggered, may themselves send messages.
verb
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(obsolete), (transitive): To make a protocol of.
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(obsolete), (intransitive): To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
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public health |
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noun
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(medicine) The science and practice of community hygiene; includes preventive medicine, health education, sanitation and environmental safety.
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puerperal |
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adjective derived from puerperum
- Of or pertaining to or associated with childbirth.
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pulse |
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noun
- Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.
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(physiology) A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.
- A beat, throb.
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(music) A periodically recurring short stimulus, perceived as points in time. (DeLone? et. al. (Eds.), 1975, chap. 3) Often the stimuli are defined as identical (Cooper & Meyer, 1960). (rfc, music definition needs rewritten because the current one is copyrighted)
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pulsometer |
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noun
- a vacuum pump or hydrotrope
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purge |
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noun
- the act of purging
- evacuation of the bowels or of pipes
- forcible removal of undesirable people from political activity, etc.
verb (purg, ing)
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(transitive) to clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurity, impurities
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(transitive) (religion) to free from sin, guilt, or the burden or responsibility of misdeeds
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(transitive) (medicine) to void the bowel
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(transitive) (law) to clear of a charge, suspicion, or imputation
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