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• An athletics event in which contestants compete in swimming, cycling and running in turn.
Example sentence • She finished in the top three in all of her triathlons last year.
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Example sentence • She has competed in duathlons all around the world.
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• women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)
Example sentence • She wore a pair of black nylons with her new dress.
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• (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
Example sentence • I have a collection of music icons on my computer.
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• a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides
Example sentence • A hexagon and a pentagon are both examples of polygons .
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• plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood)
Example sentence • She bought a package of tampons at the pharmacy.
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• a large number or amount
Example sentence • I have tons of homework to do tonight.
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• a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes
Example sentence • She sewed the buttons onto the shirt.
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• the area in which something exists or lives
Example sentence • She enjoys exploring the environs of her new neighborhood.
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• a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women
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• a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain
Example sentence • The pons is a structure found in the brainstem.
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• women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)
Example sentence • She colored the picture using bright rayons .
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• (Greek mythology) a member of the warriors who followed Achilles on the expedition against Troy
Example sentence • The king's army consisted of a thousand myrmidons .
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• United States artist and proponent of pop art (born in 1930)
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Example sentence • The commons are used for grazing livestock.
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• a request to be present
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• call in an official matter, such as to attend court
Example sentence • He received a summons to appear in court.
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• a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance
Example sentence • The hiker followed the trail, guided by the beacons marked along the way.
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• conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
Example sentence • One of the cons of living in a big city is the high cost of living.
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• smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
Example sentence • The gibbons in the zoo were playful and energetic.
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• any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
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• of orange tinged with pink
Example sentence • The river is teeming with salmons during spawning season.
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• a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey
Example sentence • The eagle swooped down and grabbed its prey with its strong talons .
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• any of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103
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• a festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes
Example sentence • The Greek tragedies were full of intense emotional agons .
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• an airfoil that controls lateral motion
Example sentence • The pilot adjusted the ailerons to control the roll of the aircraft.
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Example sentence • The aleurons in rice contain enzymes that help break down starches.
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• (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
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• a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response
Example sentence • The choir sang the antiphons during the church service.
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Example sentence • The behavior of anyons is governed by exotic quantum statistics.
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• a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
Example sentence • The use of argons in lighting fixtures can help produce a bright and clear light.
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• long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
Example sentence • Damaged axons can lead to impaired nerve function.
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Example sentence • The azlons in this sweater are soft and comfortable against the skin.
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• A viol-like stringed instrument (chordophone) mainly played with a bow but with a set of plucked strings as well, originating in European music prior to the 1800s.
Example sentence • He played the barytons beautifully at the concert.
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• a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
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• accelerates a continuous beam of electrons to high speeds by means of the electric field produced by changing magnetic flux
Example sentence • In particle accelerators, betatrons are commonly used for electron acceleration.
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Example sentence • The workers poured betons to construct the foundation of the building.
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• a cyclotron that accelerates protons up to several billion electron volts
Example sentence • Scientists at the laboratory are developing new bevatrons for particle acceleration experiments.
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Example sentence • The biotrons were used to study the effects of temperature on plant growth.
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• A garment drawn tight at the waist with blousing hanging over the waistband
Example sentence • I bought two blousons for the winter season.
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• a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician
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• a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate
Example sentence • I bought a box of delicious bonbons for my friend's birthday.
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• a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder
Example sentence • The borons in the periodic table are grouped with metals.
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• any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons
Example sentence • In quantum mechanics, bosons follow Bose-Einstein statistics.
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• state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
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• a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
Example sentence • He enjoys playing traditional bourdons on his accordion.
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• an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
Example sentence • Scientists are studying ways to optimize the performance of cyclotrons .
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