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• to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
Example sentence • Money is a means to buy things.
5 1 noun n noun
• (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
Example sentence • I need to buy a new pair of jeans .
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• an amphibious division of the United States Navy
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• a borough of New York City, it is the easternmost, largest in area, and second-largest in population of New York City's five boroughs
7 1 verb, noun v, n verb
• clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
Example sentence • She went on a cleanse to improve her health.
5 1 noun n noun
• the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20
Example sentence • The teens were excited for their school dance.
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• a collection of small fragments considered as a whole
Example sentence • The explosion reduced the old building to smithereens .
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• a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects
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• derivative of opium; used as an antitussive (to relieve coughing) and an analgesic (to relieve pain)
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Example sentence • The croceines bloomed beautifully in the garden.
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• an amino acid containing sulfur that is found in most proteins; oxidizes on exposure to air to form cystine
Example sentence • Many proteins contain multiple cysteines in their sequences.
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Example sentence • She consumes oleines in her diet to maintain heart health.
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• a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom
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• fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine
Example sentence • Fishermen used seines to catch large schools of fish.
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Example sentence • The presence of sparteines in the plant gives it a bitter taste.
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• A French type of small gateau or sponge cake, often shaped like an elongated scallop shell.
Example sentence • I baked a batch of madeleines for the party.
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• small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall
Example sentence • The dandelion produces achenes that are dispersed by the wind.
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Example sentence • Strawberries are an example of a plant that produces akenes .
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• any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon
Example sentence • The unsaturated nature of alkenes makes them highly reactive.
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• a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals
Example sentence • Some common examples of amines are methylamine and ethylamine.
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Example sentence • Benzene is the simplest of the arenes .
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• Any of a class of organic compounds, having the general formula R2C=NN=CR2, produced by the action of a carbonyl compound with hydrazine.
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• a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets
Example sentence • The humpback whale uses its baleens to filter-feed on small fish and krill.
5 1 verb, noun v, n noun
• any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food
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• hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball
Example sentence • I love to eat baked beans for breakfast.
8 2 noun n noun
• music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance
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Example sentence • Bullying is a cruel act that bemeans its victims.
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Example sentence • I bought a box of berlines for breakfast.
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• A pair of trousers made from denim cotton and dyed dark blue.
Example sentence • I love wearing my bluejeans jacket on casual Fridays.
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• perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface
Example sentence • The leaves of bogbeans are trifoliate and often have a reddish color.
7 2 noun n noun
• A narrow, frequently unpaved, rural road in Ireland.
Example sentence • The Irish countryside is known for its beautiful boreens .
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Example sentence • I planted broadbeans in my garden.
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• edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
Example sentence • She harvested a basket full of dasheens from her garden.
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Example sentence • The dauphines were celebrating the birth of the new heir to the throne.
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• an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
Example sentence • The deans of the university meet every month to discuss academic matters.
7 2 verb v verb
• reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
Example sentence • Using derogatory language demeans others and shows a lack of respect.
7 2 noun n noun
• a clay pipe with a short stem
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Example sentence • His health dwines as he refuses to seek medical treatment.
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Example sentence • Axonemal dyneins are responsible for generating the force in beating cilia and flagella.
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• the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
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• being one more than seventeen
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• a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic
Example sentence • Polyethylene is made from ethenes .
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• (fortification) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.
Example sentence • The army used fascines to reinforce the riverbank.
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Example sentence • The flavines found in plants are responsible for their bright colors.
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Example sentence • I bought several bottles of fuchsines for my art project.
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• a homeless girl who roams the streets
Example sentence • The group of gamines participated in a dance competition.
9 2 noun n noun
• necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
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• (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
Example sentence • Our genes determine our unique physical characteristics.
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