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• only the silky anteater
Example sentence • The cyclopes were a race of one-eyed giants in Greek mythology.
6 1 verb, adverb, noun v, adv, n noun
• birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
Example sentence • The miners were working in the dark, narrow stopes .
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Example sentence • The boltropes on the sails ensured their stability in the strong winds.
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• a measuring instrument for measuring freezing and melting points
Example sentence • The new cryoscopes on the market are more accurate than previous models.
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• run away secretly with one's beloved
Example sentence • She elopes with her boyfriend and gets married in secret.
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Example sentence • The sailors climbed down the footropes to board the ship.
5 1 verb, noun v, n Example sentence • She watched as the antelope gracefully jumped in swift lopes across the plain.
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• The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
Example sentence • The metopes of the Parthenon depicted scenes from Greek mythology.
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Example sentence • The soldiers used nightscopes to see in the dark.
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• the head of the Roman Catholic Church
Example sentence • The popes of the Roman Catholic Church are the successors of Saint Peter.
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• a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens
Example sentence • As people get older, they may become presbyopes .
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• a deep red garnet used as a gemstone
Example sentence • She collected various pyropes from her travels around the world.
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• tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
Example sentence • She walked across the tightropes with absolute grace.
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• a dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists
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• drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
Example sentence • There were several topes along the mountain trail.
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• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Example sentence • The movie relied heavily on familiar tropes of the romantic comedy genre.
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Example sentence • The technician relied on aeroscopes to assess the air quality in the laboratory.
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• a structurally different form of an element
Example sentence • The study of allotropes is important in the field of materials science.
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• graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks
Example sentence • The savannah is a common habitat for antelopes .
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• someone who is elected pope in opposition to another person who is held to be canonically elected
Example sentence • There were several antipopes in the 14th century.
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• abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds
Example sentence • The process of omitting sounds or letters in a word is known as apocopes .
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• A mixture of two or more substances whose liquid and gaseous forms have the same composition (at a certain pressure); the substances cannot be separated by normal distillation.
Example sentence • The presence of azeotropes in a mixture can complicate the separation of its components.
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Example sentence • He consulted the baroscopes to predict the upcoming storm.
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• a South African movie theater
Example sentence • She attended a lecture on the history of bioscopes .
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• A geographical area that has a uniform biological environment and a uniform distribution of plants and animals
Example sentence • Marine biotopes include coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass beds.
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• An optical instrument used for seeing inside tight spaces, consisting of a rigid or flexible tube with an optical relay inside so that the view through a lens or window at one end of the tube may be seen from a lens or eyepiece in the opposite end of the tube.
Example sentence • With the help of borescopes , engineers can detect defects in infrastructure.
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• A form of endoscope used to examine the ureter and the bladder.
Example sentence • The surgeon used cystoscopes during the bladder surgery.
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• One who has deuteranopia.
Example sentence • Many deuteranopes struggle to distinguish between red and green hues.
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Example sentence • Gemologists often carry dichroscopes as part of their toolkit.
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• measuring instrument that detects electric charge; two gold leaves diverge owing to repulsion of charges with like sign
Example sentence • The professor demonstrated the use of electroscopes in the physics lab.
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Example sentence • Most of the population fall into the category of emmetropes .
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• a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery
Example sentence • Modern endoscopes have high-definition cameras for clear visualization.
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• A form of epidiascope that projects images of opaque objects
Example sentence • The church had a collection of episcopes for use during religious services.
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• the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
Example sentence • Researchers are studying different epitopes to develop effective vaccines.
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• a stethoscope placed on the pregnant woman's abdomen to listen for the fetal heartbeat
Example sentence • Doctors use fetoscopes to listen to the baby's heartbeat in the womb.
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• a flexible medical instrument involving fiber optics that is used to examine internal organs
Example sentence • The detective used fiberscopes to search for hidden compartments in the suspect's car.
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• an X-ray machine that combines an X-ray source and a fluorescent screen to enable direct observation
Example sentence • The hospital uses fluoroscopes to obtain real-time images of the patient's internal organs.
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• a type of endoscope for visually examining the stomach
Example sentence • The doctors used gastroscopes to examine the patient's stomach.
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• rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
Example sentence • The toy drone uses gyroscopes to stabilize and maintain its position in the air.
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• A small opening in an interior wall of a church, enabling those in the transept to view the high altar.
Example sentence • The hagioscopes in the abbey offered a unique perspective on the religious ceremonies.
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• (physics) scientific instrument that traces the path of a charged particle
Example sentence • The hodoscope array is composed of several layers of scintillator hodoscopes .
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• a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets
Example sentence • Some people believe that horoscopes can predict their future.
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• a person with hyperopia; a farsighted person
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• encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license
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• one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons
Example sentence • Scientists can distinguish isotopes of an element through mass spectrometry.
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• a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes
Example sentence • She collected different kaleidoscopes from around the world.
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• a cathode-ray tube in a television receiver; translates the received signal into a picture on a luminescent screen
Example sentence • The film archives contain several kinescopes of classic television shows.
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• a device invented by Edison that gave an impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter; precursor of the modern motion picture
Example sentence • He collected old kinetoscopes as a hobby.
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