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adjective - Pertaining to the point, top or crown.
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proper noun - (baseball) A player on the team "The St. Louis Cardinals".
- Smith became a as the result of a pre-season trade.
- A player on the team "Arizona Cardinals".
- A sports team or a player on a sports team at w:Stanford University, Stanford University.
- A student or player on a sports team at the w:University of Louisville, University of Louisville.
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- (baseball) The team "w:St. Louis Cardinals, The St. Louis Cardinals".
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- A sports team at the w:University of Louisville, University of Louisville.
- The Cardinals take the field.
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adjective
- being in the centre
- being the most important
- having or containing the centre of something
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adjective
- Of, or relating to the brain or cerebral cortex of the brain.
- Intellectual rather than emotional.
- (context, linguistics, obsolete) retroflex, Retroflex.
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verb
- Simple past and past participle of check.
- He his watch for the third time.
adjective - Having a pattern of checks; checkered.
- A tie.
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noun
- An end of something.
- We owe them our thanks for bringing the project to a successful .
verb (clos, ing)
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To move (a door) so that it closes its opening.
- Close the door behind you when you leave.
- To put an end to.
- the session
- To make (a gap) smaller.
- The runner in second place is closing the gap on the leader.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
adjective (clos, er)
- At a little distance; near.
- Is your house ?
- Intimate; well-loved.
- He is a friend.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- (context, Ireland, weather) hot, humid.
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adjective
- inaccessible; not open
- non public (as in closed source)
- (mathematics)
- (Topology) a set is closed if its complement is open
- (Algebra) a set is closed under an operation if the outcome for every argument is also in the set itself. (e.g. <math> \forall x,y \in Z:\, x + y \in Z</math>)
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noun
- an event or occurence that signifies an ending
- a feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period
- (computing): an abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound variable, bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope
- (mathematics): the smallest object that both includes the object as a subset and possesses some given property
| | cluster |
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noun
- A group or bunch of something, containing only a few members, which are close to each other.
- A of flowers grew in the pot.
- (astronomy) A group of galaxy, galaxies or stars that appear near each other.
- The Pleiades contains seven bright stars.
- (music) A chord of three or more notes.
- (phonetics) A group of consonants.
- The word "scrub" begins with a of three consonants.
- (computing) A group of computers that work together.
- (statistics) A significant subset within a population.
- (military) Set of bombs or mines.
- (context, army) A small metal design that indicates that a medal has been awarded to the same person before.
verb
- (intransitive) To form into a cluster.
- The children clustered together around the puppy.
| | coda |
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noun
- (music) A passage which brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
- (linguistics) The final consonant of a syllable.
- The conclusion of a statement.
- (alternative spelling of, CODA)
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noun
- The spectral composition of visible light.
- Humans and birds can perceive .
- A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
- Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and greys).
- He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all ".
- Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
- (figuratively) interest, especially in a selective area.
- a bit of local .
- In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing quarterly results when an officer of a company is speaking to investment analyists.
- Could you give me some with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
- (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons.
(color-colour (noun))
verb
- To give something color.
- We could the walls red.
- To draw within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- My kindergartener loves to .
- (context, of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- To affect without completely changing.
- That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
- To attribute a quality to.
- (colloquial) Color me confused.
(color-colour (verb))
adjective
- Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
- Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
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noun
- (context, phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
- A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
adjective
- Characterized by harmony or agreement.
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adjective
- of, relating to, or functioning as a consonant
- containing one or more consonants
| | constriction |
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noun
- The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts
- A narrow part of something; a stricture
- A compression
| | contour |
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noun
- A curved shape.
- The shapely of a woman's buttocks.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
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noun - a crown or coronet
- 1485: Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur (spelling modernized) - Then the glutton anon started up, and took a great club in his hand, and smote at the king that his coronal fell to the earth.
- a wreath or garland of flowers
- (obsolete) a variant of colonel
adjective - relating to a crown
- (context, astronomy) relating to the corona of a star
- (context, botany) relating to the corona of a flower
- (context, phonetics) relating to a sound made with the tip or blade of the tongue
- see w:Coronal consonant, Wikipedia article on coronal consonant
- (context, anatomy) a "coronal plane" or a "coronal section" divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front)
- see w:Anatomical_terms_of_location, Wikipedia article on anatomical terms of location
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