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noun (plural: scruples)
- A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
- Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
- I will not bate thee a . Shak.
- Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience; to consider if something is ethical.
- He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples. -Macaulay.
verb (scrupl, ing)
- (intransitive) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
- We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. -Fuller.
- Men at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. -South.
- To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
- Others long before them ... scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. -Milton.
- To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
- Letters which did still many of them. -E. Symmons.
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noun
- someone who sees something; an eyewitness
- someone who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner
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initialism
- State Emergency Relief
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noun
- (chemistry) A fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container. Solids that are sufficiently heated may sublimate into a gas or melt into a liquid.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object.
adjective
- In the state of being a solid.
- Large, massive.
- Extremely filling (a solid meal.)
- Lacking holes or hollows (solid gold, solid chocolate.)
- Strong, unyielding (solid foundations.)
- Lacking errors or inconsistencies that would render a theory or concept doubtful.
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noun
- A unit of area equal to that of a square, of sides 1cm. Abbreviation cm2, cm2.
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noun (plural square feet)
- A unit of area (abbreviation sq ft or sq. ft. or ft2) equal to the area of a square the sides of which are each one foot long.
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noun (plural square inches)
- A unit of area (abbreviation sq in or sq. in. or '''in2) equal to the area of a square the sides of which are each one inch long.
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noun (US spelling; plural square meters)
- Standard unit of area, symbol m2, equal to the area of a square whose sides are one meter long.
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proper noun the square, Square mile, Mile
- (London) the City
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noun
- a unit of area used for measuring small quantities of land. Equal in size to a square with sides 1 rod in length. Equal to 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre. Sometimes known, simply, as a rod.
- (hardware) a solid, elongated bar whose shape is a square prism.
- ''A square rod could be made of acrylic, nylon, wood, or brass.
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noun (plural square yards)
- A unit of area (abbreviation sq yd or sq. yd.) equal to the area of a square the sides of which are one yard long.
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abbreviation or st. or St.
- Street. Usually as "st." also as "st", sometimes capitalized.
- Saint. (Always capitalized.)
- State
- store, as in shopping centre
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noun
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- Please bring me a chair from that stack in the corner.
- A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- A smokestack.
- (computing) A linear data structure in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved; a LIFO queue.
- (computing) A portion of memory in a computer occupied by a data structure, particularly (the stack) that portion of main memory manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- (geology) Coastal landform. A large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- (context, library) Compactly spaced bookshelf, bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- (figurative) A large amount of an object.
- (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
- (architecture) A vertical drain pipe.
verb
- To place one or more objects or material in the form of a stack or on an existing stack.
- Please stack those chairs in the corner.
- (card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- This is the third hand in a row you've drawn a four-of-a-kind. Someone is stacking the deck!
- (poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!
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noun - A standard land mile of 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards or 1.609344 kilometers
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noun (countable and uncountable; plural stones except as shown below)
- (uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks and boulders.
- A small piece of stone.
- A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.
- (plural: ) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc.
- 1882: Generally, however, the or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen tods. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England Volume 4, p. 209.
- (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.
- a peach
- (medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.
- kidney
- A piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.
- (colour) A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- <table><tr><td>stone colour: </td><td bgcolor="
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- (curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which are bowled down the ice.
verb (ston, ing)
- (transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.
- (transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).
- (intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.
- (context, transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)
adjective
- Constructed of stone.
- walls
- Having the appearance of stone.
- pot
- (colour) Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.
- Complete, absolute, of the highest degree.
- free
adverb
- As a stone (used with following adjective).
- My father is deaf. This soup is cold.
- (slang) absolutely, Absolutely, completely (used with following adjective).
- I went crazy after she left.
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noun
- (context, informal, Northeastern US) superintendent, Superintendent of a building.
- (informal) Short form of superannuation, the Australian retirement benefits or pension scheme.
- Jane looked forward to collecting a large payout when she retired.
adjective
- better than average, better than usual; wonderful.
adverb
- (informal) superb
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