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noun (calyces)
- (anatomy) A cup-like structure in the mammalian kidney
- (botany) Collective term for the sepals of a flower, i.e. the outermost whorl of flower parts, when this is not the same in appearance as the next such whorl (the corolla).
- (zoology) The crown of a crinoid
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| cane |
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noun
- (uncountable) The slender, flexible stem of plants such as bamboo, reed, or the like.
- (uncountable) The plant itself.
- (uncountable) sugar cane.
- (countable) A short wooden or bamboo rod or stick used for corporal punishment.
- (the cane; uncountable) Corporal punishment consisting of a beating with a cane.
- The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
- (countable) A strong short staff used for support during walking by the disabled or infirm.
- After breaking his leg, he needed to use a cane to walk.
- (countable) A long collapsible (and usually white for improved visibility) wooden, metal or plastic rod used by blind people to feel for obstacle, obstacles in their path.
verb (can, ing)
- (context, UK, slang) To strike or beat, notably with a cane or similar implement; to destroy.
- (context, UK, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
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| canescent |
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adjective canesecent
- turning white or gray
- covered with short white or gray hairs; hoary
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| capitate |
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noun
- (anatomy) The capitate bone of the wrist.
adjective
- (anatomy) Having a large and globular tip.
- (botany) Forming a dense cluster.
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| capsule |
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noun
- (Physiology) membranous envelope
- (Botany) seed-case
- detachable part of rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing crew's living space
- small container containing dose of medicine
- weasel - suffolk slang
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| Carina |
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proper noun
- (constellation) A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the keel of a ship. It contains the star Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
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| carpel |
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noun - One of the individual female reproductive organs in a flower. A carpel is composed of an ovary, a style, and a stigma, although some flowers have carpels without a distinct style. In origin, carpels are leaves (megasporophylls) that have evolved to enclose the ovule, ovules. The term pistil is sometimes used to refer to a single carpel or to several carpels fused together.
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| carpology |
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noun
- the study of the structure of seeds and fruit
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| caulescent |
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adjective - (botany) having a well-developed stem above ground
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| cauline |
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adjective
- Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis.
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| cell |
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noun
- A component of an electrical battery.
- This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.
- A room in a prison for containing inmates.
- The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
- A room in a monastery for sleeping one person.
- Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his .
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization.
- Those three fellows are the local of that organization.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- There is a powerful storm headed our way.
- (cytology) The basic unit of a living organism, surrounded by a cell membrane.
- There is a virtual zoo of single organisms living in your mouth.
- (biology) An cavity in a structure such as a honeycomb or ovary.
- The bee filled the with honey.
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- (biology) the title of a scientific journal published by Wikipedia:Elsevier, Elsevier
- It was published in Cell. ''-->
- (computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- The upper right always starts with the color green.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet as in Wikipedia:Asynchronous Transfer Mode, asynchronous transfer mode.
- Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- I get good reception in my home because it is near a tower.
- (context, US, informal) A cellular phone.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
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| chaff |
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noun
- The inedible parts of a plant whose seeds are eaten as grain.
- To separate out the , early cultures tossed baskets of grain into the air and let the wind blow away the lighter chaff.
- By extension, any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
- There are plenty of good websites on the subject, but take care to separate the wheat from the .
- Loose material dropped from aircraft specifically to interfere with radar detection.
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| chalaza |
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noun (chalaza, e)
- (zoology) A spiral band which attaches to the yolk of an egg, suspending it in the egg white, white
- (botany) The location where the nucellus attaches to the integuments, opposite the micropyle.
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| chalice |
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noun
- A large cup, particularly one with a stem and base used for religious ceremonies.
- Joan raised the to her lips and drained it.
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| chlorophyllous |
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adjective
- (context, botany) having chlorophyll and, hence, able to engage in photosynthesis
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| chloroplast |
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noun
- (cytology) An organelle found in the cells of green plants, and in photosynthetic algae, where photosynthesis takes place.
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| chop |
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noun
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- I only like lamb chops when it is served with mint jelly.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- It should take just one good to fell the sapling.
- ocean, Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- (poker) The result of a tied poker hand
verb (chops, chopping, chopped, chopped)
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- wood
- an onion
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- Chop off his head.
- (transitive) To prepare marijuana so as to be smokable.
- (context, transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
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| cion |
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noun
- alternative spelling of scion
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| clambering |
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verb
- Present participle of to clamber.
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| clasping |
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verb
- (present participle of, clasp)
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| cleft |
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noun
- an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting
verb
- simple past of to cleave
- past participle of to cleave
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| clove |
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noun (plural cloves)
- A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree (Eugenia aromatica syn. Caryophullus aromatica), a native of the Molucca Isles.
- any one of the separate bulbs that make up the larger bulb of garlic
- an old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds; half a stone.
- Quotations
- 1866: By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 169.
verb
- Past participle of cleave
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| coccus |
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noun (cocci)
- Any approximately spherical bacterium
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| codling |
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noun
- a small greenish English apple, used for cooking
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| collateral |
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noun
- A security or guarantee (usually an asset) pledged for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay.
- Marketing collateral: printed materials to present business information, e.g. leaflets, folders, brochures, fliers, fact sheets, direct mail pieces.
adjective
- (family) Of a family relationship that includes aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews, as opposed to lineal.
- Parallel, along the same vein
- 1885:The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque). The book of the thousand nights and a night, Vol. 5 w:Richard Francis Burton, Richard Burton
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| column |
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noun
- An upright supporting beam.
- A vertical line of entries in a table, going from top to bottom; as opposed to a horizontal row (going from left to right).
- A column of troops.
- A newspaper column.
- Anything having similar form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column, etc.
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| commissure |
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noun
- the place where two things are joined, especially the line where two parts of an anatomical structure join
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| compost |
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noun - the decayed remains of vegetable matter that has rotted
- Dig plenty of into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure.
verb - to produce compost
- If you your grass clippings, you can improve your soil.
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| compound |
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noun
- an enclosure within which workers, prisoners, or soldiers are confined
verb
- (intransitive) to come together
- (intransitive) to come to terms of agreement
- (transitive) to put together
- (transitive) to add to
- (context, transitive, law) to settle by agreeing on less than the claim
adjective
- composed of elements; not simple
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| coniferous |
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adjective - Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
- Pertaining to a conifer, a member of the Coniferae.
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| conjugate |
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noun (plural conjugates)
- (mathematics) (of a complex number) A complex conjugate.
verb (conjugat, es)
- (transitive) To list the inflected forms of a verb for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
- In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are' (or 'thou art'), 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
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adjective
- (botany) heart-shaped, with a point at the apex and a notch at the base.
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| Cork |
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proper noun
- Principal city of County Cork.
- County in the Republic of Ireland. (County Cork)
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| corm |
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noun
- A short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.
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noun
- The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows
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| cornstalk |
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noun
- (botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
- (botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
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| corolla |
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noun (pl. corollas)
- (botany) the outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, when this is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx). This is either a collective term for the petals of a flower or a term to indicate the fused whole of this whorl.
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noun (plural: coronae or coronas)
- A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
- (star): The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse,
- (biology): Any crown-like appendage of a plant or animal.
- (electrical): a low energy discharge caused by ionization of a gas by an electric field quite common at conductor bends of 12kV or higher.
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| cotton |
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noun
- A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
- The textile that is harvested from the cotton plant.
adjective
- Made of cotton.
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| cotyledon |
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noun - (botany) the leaf of the embryo of a seed-bearing plant; after germination it becomes the first leaves of the seedling
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| crawl |
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noun
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick
verb
- (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground
- Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.
- (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.
- (intransitive) To act in a servile manner
- Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!
- (intransitive) To teem; to be covered or swarming (with)
- ''The crime scene was crawling with police and reporters.
- (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation
- ''The horrible sight made my skin .
- (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke
- I think I'll the next hundred metres.
- (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees.
- The baby crawled the entire second floor.
- (intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated
- They crawled the downtown bars.
- (transitive) To index files or web sites in order to make them available for search;
- Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficient.
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| creeper |
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noun
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- a device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position
- (nautical) a small, four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed
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| crosier |
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noun
- A staff with a hooked end similar to a shepherd's crook, or with a cross at the end, carried by an abbot, bishop, or archbishop as a symbol of office.
- (botany): A young fern frond, before it has unrolled; fiddlehead
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| cross-fertilization |
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noun
- fertilization by the union of gametes of different plants (sometimes of different species)
- (context, by extension) the mutual exchange of ideas or concepts from different fields for mutual benefit
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| cross-pollination |
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noun - Fertilization by the transfer of pollen from an anther of one plant to a stigma of another
- Inspiration, stimulation or influence between diverse elements
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| cryptogam |
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noun
- A member of a former taxonomic group of plants that reproduce using spores, such as ferns, mosses, algae, fungus, fungi, lichens or liverworts.
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| Culm |
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proper noun
- A German bishopric, founded in 1234.
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| cultivar |
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noun - A cultivated variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.
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| cuneate |
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adjective - (biology) Wedge-shaped.
- (botany) Wedge-shaped, with the narrow part at the base.
- (botany) Having straight, or almost straight sides meeting at the apex or base.
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| cut |
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noun
- An opening resulting from cutting.
- Look at this on my finger!
- The act of cutting.
- He made a fine with his sword.
- The result of cutting.
- She tried out for the team, but didn't make the .
- A share or portion.
- The lawyer took a of the profits.
- (Cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (Cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- The player next to the dealer the deck by placing the bottom half on top.
- The manner or style a garment is fashioned in.
- I like the of that suit.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- That"s our finest of meat.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
verb (cuts, cutting, cut)
- To perform an incision, for example with a knife.
- I the skin on my arm.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- Would you please the cake?
- To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- Travis was from the team.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- One student kept trying to in front of the line.
- (context, cinema, audio) To cease recording activities.
- After the actors read their lines, the director yelled "Cut!"
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- They're going to salaries by fifteen percent.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- I have three diamonds to today.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- This road cuts right through downtown.
- (cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (colloquial) Not to attend a class, especially when this is not permitted.
- I fifth period to hang out with Angela.
- To change direction suddenly.
- The football player to his left to evade a tackle.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two
- If you then I'll deal.
adjective
- (participial adjective) Having been .
- reduce, Reduced.
- The pitcher threw a fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
- Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
- (context, of a gem) carve, Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (colloquial) circumcised, Circumcised.
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| cuticle |
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noun
- The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
- The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- Dead or cornified epidermis.
- (context, zoology, botany) The outer protective covering of invertebrates and plants.
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| cutting |
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noun
- The action of the verb to cut.
- How many different cuttings can this movie undergo?
- A section removed from the larger whole.
- A newspaper clipping.
- A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- The actor had to make his shorter to fit the audition time.
- The editing of film or other recordings.
- Self-harm.
verb
- Present participle of to cut.
adjective
- (not comparable) That is used for cutting.
- I need some sort of utensil to get through this shrink wrap.
- Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.
- The director gave the auditioning actors criticism.
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