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NOUN |
Thing word |
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APPELLATION |
The word by which a particular person or thing is
called and known; name; title; designation. |
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SINGULAR |
The singular number, or the number denoting one person or
thing; a word in the singular number. |
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NOTHING |
Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word
thing); -- opposed to anything and something. |
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HOMELING |
A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular
country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. |
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VERB |
A word which affirms or predicates something of some person
or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering
of action. |
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PREFIX |
To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another
thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an
agreement. |
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VARIANT |
Something which differs in form from another thing, though
really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a
variant of a story or a word. |
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AUTONOMASY |
The use of a word of common or general signification
for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He
has gone to London." |
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EUPHEMISM |
A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or
expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an
inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable. |
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ON |
By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or
engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or
promised on his word, or on his honor. |
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SHOOT |
To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile;
often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting
the person or thing hit, as an object. |
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DEED |
That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an
act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application,
including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small. |
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PLOCE |
... by way of
emphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted by it,
but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, "His wife's a... |
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DEFINITION |
Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a
description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning
of a word or te... |
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IMPLORE |
...; to
prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to
beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or
... |
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ONOMATOPOEIA |
... figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound
of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss
... |
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CLUMPS |
...se of
enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously
selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because
... |
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ADJECTIVE |
A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a
quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit
or define it, or t... |
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PROMISE |
... words or
in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or
nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to
... |
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ANALYZE |
To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex)
into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the
purpose of an examinat... |