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noun • the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information | ||||
| 35% | 4 | Adjective once misapplied to the Earth | ||
adjective • lacking contrast or shading between tones • (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone noun • a level tract of land • a shallow box in which seedlings are started • a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named • freight car without permanent sides or roof • a deflated pneumatic tire • scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting • a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house adverb • with flat sails • in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly adjective satellite • having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another • having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness • not modified or restricted by reservations • stretched out and lying at full length along the ground • flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) • lacking taste or flavor or tang • lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting • having lost effervescence • sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch • horizontally level • lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth • not reflecting light; not glossy • commercially inactive | ||||
| 34% | 11 | Misapplied or distorted metaphor | ||
noun • strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') | ||||
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