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• The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist.
Example sentence • The patens of the church are made of brass.
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• a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images
Example sentence • She wiped the lens of her camera before taking a picture.
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• handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil
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• all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
Example sentence • Many humans enjoy solving complex puzzles.
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• the habitation of wild animals
Example sentence • Many animals hibernate in dens during winter.
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• a large number or amount
Example sentence • There were dozens of people waiting in line for the concert tickets.
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• half the width of an em
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• 100 fen equal 1 yuan in China
Example sentence • The fens are a type of wetland characterized by marshy, low-lying areas.
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• a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions
Example sentence • A 60-watt incandescent light bulb typically produces about 800 lumens of light output.
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• the male reproductive organ of a flower
Example sentence • The flower had five stamens .
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• any of several small active brown birds of the Northern Hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects
Example sentence • We saw a family of wrens building a nest in our backyard.
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• of or relating to or characteristic of Homo sapiens
Example sentence • Homo sapiens is the scientific name for modern human beings.
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• a word used in exclamations of confusion
Example sentence • What the dickens are you doing?
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• a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
Example sentence • He rolled two sevens in a row.
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• the first canonical hour; at daybreak
Example sentence • I always attend matins at the church every Sunday morning.
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• a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes
Example sentence • The congregation responded with loud amens at the end of the prayer.
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• a mountain or tall hill
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• a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II
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Example sentence • Travel broadens the mind.
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Example sentence • She flattens the dough with a rolling pin.
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• a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
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• the usual or familiar type
Example sentence • The botanical gardens had a wide variety of exotic plants.
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Example sentence • Winning the game gladdens the team and their fans.
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• a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
Example sentence • The glens of Scotland are famous for their natural beauty.
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• An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.
Example sentence • The East African Rift System is characterized by several grabens .
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Example sentence • The greyhens were pecking at the grass searching for insects.
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• the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents
Example sentence • He had a collection of old guldens from different countries.
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