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Air

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

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Broader term 18

Appear 76% connected

To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.

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Bare 76% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Dry 76% connected

Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid o…

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Element 76% connected

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Freshen 76% connected

To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

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Gas 76% connected

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…

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Medium 76% connected

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Music 76% connected

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a…

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Refresh 76% connected

To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew…

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Region 76% connected

One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general…

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Traveling 76% connected

of Travel

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Travelling 76% connected

of Travel

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Wind 76% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Manner of action 17

Beam 76% connected

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

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Broadcast 76% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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Bulletin 76% connected

A brief statement of facts respecting some passing event, as military operations or the health of some distinguished personage, issued by authority f…

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Circulate 76% connected

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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Diffuse 76% connected

To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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Disperse 76% connected

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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Disseminate 76% connected

To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and err…

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Distribute 76% connected

To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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Interrogate 76% connected

To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.

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Issue 76% connected

The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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Propagate 76% connected

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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Publish 76% connected

To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an ed…

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Satellite 76% connected

An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.

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Send 76% connected

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Spread 76% connected

of Spread

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Transmit 76% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

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Narrower term 16

Breath 76% connected

The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous…

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Fanfare 76% connected

A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

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Flight 76% connected

The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

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Flourish 76% connected

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

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Flying 76% connected

of Fly

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Glissando 76% connected

A gliding effect; gliding.

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Idea 76% connected

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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Leitmotif 76% connected

See Leading motive, under Leading, a.

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Note 76% connected

To butt; to push with the horns.

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Part 76% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Roulade 76% connected

A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

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Signature 76% connected

A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.

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Theme 76% connected

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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Tucket 76% connected

A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare.

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Vibration 76% connected

The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical strin…

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Voice 76% connected

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quali…

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Derivationally related 14

Aerate 74% connected

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

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Aerate 74% connected

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

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Aerial 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regi…

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Aerial 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aerial regi…

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Atmospherical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere; as, atmospheric air; the atmospheric envelope of the earth.

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Atmospherical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the atmosphere; of the nature of, or resembling, the atmosphere; as, atmospheric air; the atmospheric envelope of the earth.

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Gasify 74% connected

To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

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Gasify 74% connected

To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

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Publicist 74% connected

A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.

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Publicist 74% connected

A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.

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Ventilator 74% connected

A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apa…

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Ventilator 74% connected

A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apa…

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Substance part 7

Ar 70% connected

Ere; before.

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Argon 70% connected

A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness.

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N 70% connected

A measure of space equal to half an M (or em); an en.

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Ne 70% connected

Not; never.

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Nitrogen 70% connected

A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free…

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O 70% connected

Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expresse…

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Oxygen 70% connected

A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and ab…

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Component part 1

Phrase 70% connected

A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as,…

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Wind 70% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Synonym 17

Aerate 92% connected

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

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Atmosphere 92% connected

The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphe…

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Aura 92% connected

Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing e…

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Aviation 92% connected

The art or science of flying.

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Bare 92% connected

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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Beam 92% connected

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

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Breeze 92% connected

Alt. of Breeze fly

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Broadcast 92% connected

A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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Line 92% connected

Flax; linen.

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Melody 92% connected

A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

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Send 92% connected

To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.

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Strain 92% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Transmit 92% connected

To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…

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Tune 92% connected

A sound; a note; a tone.

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Vent 92% connected

Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

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Ventilate 92% connected

To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a…

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Zephyr 92% connected

The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.

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