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- The overall effect of something.
- The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on another.
- An impersonation.
- an outward appearance
- an online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad is shown once
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- A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloy, alloying from constituents.
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verb (inoculates, inoculating, inoculated, inoculated)
- (context, transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
- (context, transitive, by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
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noun - (chemistry) any solid material, composed of two or more metal atoms in a definite proportion, that has a definite structure which differs from those of its constituent metals
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noun
- An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system. A temporary designation by the U.S. http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/ Naval Research Lab Joint Typhoon Warning Center and http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ National Hurricane Center. Internal jargon (possibly teletype abbreviation) in the 1980's. Appears today on some tracking maps, e.g. tropical storm advisories at the http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/ wunderground.com tropical weather page. Designation, e.g. <code>91e</code>, is a cyclic number (90-99) and a letter suffix for oceanic region:
- <code>a</code> - Arabian Sea
- <code>b</code> - Bay of Bengal
- <code>c</code> - North Central Pacific Ocean
- <code>e</code> - Northeast Pacific Ocean
- <code>l</code> - North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea
- <code>p</code> - South Pacific Ocean
- <code>s</code> - South Indian Ocean
- <code>w</code> - Northwest Pacific Ocean
verb
- (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
- To envelop, wrap, cover.
- 1667: Night / Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes " John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 207-8
- To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
- To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
- The contributors to the Wikipedia and Wiktionary projects have invested countless hours into this resource..
- To ceremonially install someone in some office.
- To formally give someone some power or authority.
- To lay siege to.
- (intransitive): To make investments.
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noun - A temporary donation of money to a cause in expectation of making a profit.
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noun
- (context, uncountable) A metallic chemical element having atomic number 26, and symbol Fe.
- (context, countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
- (context, usually plural, irons) Shackles.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (context, uncountable) A dark shade of the colour/color silver.
- (context, Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof; countable, offensive, ) A male homosexual.
verb
- (transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
adjective (more iron, most iron)
- {not comparable} Made of the metal iron.
- (context, figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
- She had an iron will.
- He held on with an iron grip.
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- Anything made of iron, or consists largely of it, especially when used for decoration.
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