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• used of your own ground
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• where you live at a particular time
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• at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
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• provide with, or send to, a home
Example sentence • I can't wait to go home and relax after work.
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• a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
Example sentence • The stadium has a retractable dome .
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• another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments
Example sentence • I love the shiny chrome finish on my new car.
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• a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
Example sentence • I have a small gnome figurine in my garden.
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• a complex of concurrent things
Example sentence • Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes intellectual disability and distinctive physical features.
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• a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
Example sentence • She used a comb to style her hair.
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• a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
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• become bubbly or frothy or foaming
Example sentence • The waves crashed against the rocks, creating white foam .
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• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Example sentence • The tourists decided to roam around the ancient ruins.
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• the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
Example sentence • The human genome consists of approximately 3 billion base pairs.
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• a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century
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• a (usually) large and scholarly book
Example sentence • I found an old tome in the library.
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• a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order
Example sentence • Humans typically have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
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• clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music
Example sentence • I need to buy a metronome for my piano practice.
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• an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
Example sentence • The airdrome was bustling with activity as passengers boarded their flights.
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• a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Example sentence • She picked a ripe pome from the tree.
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• a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
Example sentence • Ginger is a rhizome that is commonly used in cooking.
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• an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
Example sentence • He landed his private jet at the small local aerodrome .
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• a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations
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• a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin
Example sentence • A dermatome is a surgical instrument used to remove layers of skin.
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• a stadium for horse shows or horse races
Example sentence • The ancient hippodrome in Constantinople was a famous venue for chariot races.
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• a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction
Example sentence • The loxodrome is the curve formed by the intersection of a sphere with a plane that cuts all the meridians at the same angle.
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• a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
Example sentence • A man, a plan, a canal: Panama is a palindrome .
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• a banked oval track for bicycle or motorcycle racing
Example sentence • The velodrome track is made of smooth, wooden boards.
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• a toilet that is available to the public
Example sentence • I need to find the nearest restroom .
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• any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
Example sentence • He planted brome grass in the field to prevent erosion.
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• an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur
Example sentence • The prodrome of the illness includes symptoms such as fatigue and headache.
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• a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves
Example sentence • The radome protects the antenna from weather and environmental damage.
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• having or involving three colors
Example sentence • The bird's feathers had a striking trichrome pattern of red, blue, and yellow.
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Example sentence • The distome parasite infects cattle.
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• In vertebrate embryonic development, a group of tissues formed from somites that develop into the body wall muscle.
Example sentence • The doctor tested the patient's myotome to assess their muscle strength.
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Example sentence • After a long day of work, the tired employees were eager to relax in their nonhome clothes.
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Example sentence • The phyllome consists of all the leaves on a plant.
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• In sponges, the shaft of a cladose rhabdus, bearing the cladome.
Example sentence • The rhabdome is the retina-like structure in the compound eye of arthropods.
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Example sentence • The seadrome is a floating airport in the middle of the ocean.
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• A townhouse or row house.
Example sentence • I live in a cozy townhome in the heart of the city.
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• A hair- or scale-like extension of the epidermis of a plant.
Example sentence • The trichomes on the plant's leaves capture and store water.
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Example sentence • The trisome condition can lead to developmental delays and intellectual disabilities.
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• a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg
Example sentence • The acrosome is a cap-like structure that covers the head of a sperm cell.
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• small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules
Example sentence • The centrosome is an organelle found in eukaryotic cells.
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• an organelle containing enzymes responsible for producing energy
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• primitive aquatic vertebrate
Example sentence • The cyclostome is a type of jawless fish.
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• (biochemistry) a class of hemoprotein whose principal biological function is electron transfer (especially in cellular respiration)
Example sentence • Scientists have discovered a new type of cytochrome in bacteria that helps them survive in extreme environments.
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• a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)
Example sentence • The dictyosome is responsible for packaging and distributing proteins in the cell.
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• DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells)
Example sentence • The plasmid pBR322 is a well-known example of an episome .
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• a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Example sentence • The renowned gastronome enjoyed exploring different cuisines.
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• an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector
Example sentence • The liposome encapsulated the medication, allowing it to be targeted to a specific area of the body.
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• an organelle found in the cytoplasm of most cells (especially in leukocytes and liver and kidney cells)
Example sentence • The lysosome is responsible for breaking down waste materials in the cell.
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• a tiny granule in the cytoplasm that is where protein synthesis takes place under the direction of mRNA
Example sentence • The microsome is a small organelle found in cells.
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