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Apron string

The string of an apron.

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Cord 76% connected

A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Apron 70% connected

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or…

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A unknown · 78% connection

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

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Append verb · 78% connection

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to…

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Apron man unknown · 78% connection

A man who wears an apron; a laboring man; a mechanic.

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Aproned adjective · 78% connection

Wearing an apron.

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Apronful noun · 78% connection

The quantity an apron can hold.

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Apronless adjective · 78% connection

Without an apron.

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Arbalist noun · 78% connection

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bendi…

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Arthrospore noun · 78% connection

one of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi

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Barmcloth noun · 78% connection

Apron.

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Base noun · 78% connection

An apron.

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Bellycheat noun · 78% connection

An apron or covering for the front of the person.

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Binary code noun · 78% connection

code using a string of 8 binary digits to represent characters

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Boot noun · 78% connection

An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

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Bosonic string theory noun · 78% connection

the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.; "Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it…

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Brat noun · 78% connection

A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.

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Chaplet noun · 78% connection

A string of beads, or part of a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads.

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Creeper noun · 78% connection

Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner…

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