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Channel

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Verb group 6

Carry 84% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Carry 84% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Convey 84% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Convey 84% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Express 84% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Express 84% connected

Exactly representing; exact.

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Broader term 22

Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Communicating 76% connected

of Communicate

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Communication 76% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Depression 76% connected

The act of depressing.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Displace 76% connected

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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Guide 76% connected

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Impression 76% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Imprint 76% connected

To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

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Maneuver 76% connected

Alt. of Manoeuvre

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Manoeuvre 76% connected

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

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Marketing 76% connected

of Market

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Passage 76% connected

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man o…

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Passageway 76% connected

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Steer 76% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Transmission 76% connected

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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Water 76% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Manner of action 10

Bring 76% connected

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Convey 76% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Fetch 76% connected

To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Project 76% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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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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Release 76% connected

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

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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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Translate 76% connected

To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.

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Turn 76% connected

To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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Narrower term 33

Bronchiole 76% connected

A minute bronchial tube.

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Canal 76% connected

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

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Canaliculus 76% connected

A minute canal.

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Dado 76% connected

That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.

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Epididymis 76% connected

An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.

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Flute 76% connected

A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened b…

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Fluting 76% connected

of Flute

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Gut 76% connected

A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.

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Gutter 76% connected

A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

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Lens 76% connected

A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, a…

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Liaison 76% connected

A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

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Link 76% connected

A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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Patter 76% connected

To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.

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Pore 76% connected

One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

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Quirk 76% connected

A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

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Rabbet 76% connected

To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

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Rebate 76% connected

To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.

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Rill 76% connected

A very small brook; a streamlet.

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Rut 76% connected

Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

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Sinus 76% connected

of Sinus

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Sound 76% connected

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

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Strait 76% connected

A variant of Straight.

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Stria 76% connected

A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on…

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Striation 76% connected

The quality or condition of being striated.

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Tideway 76% connected

Channel in which the tide sets.

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Track 76% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

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Trough 76% connected

A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray…

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Umbilical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to an umbilicus, or umbilical cord; umbilic.

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Ureter 76% connected

The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.

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Urethra 76% connected

The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.

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Vagina 76% connected

A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.

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Washout 76% connected

The washing out or away of earth, etc., especially of a portion of the bed of a road or railroad by a fall of rain or a freshet; also, a place, espec…

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Canalization 74% connected

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.

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Canalization 74% connected

Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.

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Conduct 74% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Conduct 74% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Groove 74% connected

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a dep…

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Groove 74% connected

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a dep…

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Rut 74% connected

Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

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Rut 74% connected

Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.

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Transfer 74% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Transfer 74% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Transferrer 74% connected

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

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Transferrer 74% connected

One who makes a transfer or conveyance.

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Transmission 74% connected

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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Transmission 74% connected

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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Transmit 74% 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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Transmit 74% 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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Transport 74% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Transport 74% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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Component part 1

Ampulla 70% connected

A narrow-necked vessel having two handles and bellying out like a jug.

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Synonym 11

Canal 92% connected

An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

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Carry 92% connected

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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Conduct 92% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Convey 92% connected

To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Duct 92% connected

Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.

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Groove 92% connected

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a dep…

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Impart 92% connected

To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warm…

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Line 92% connected

Flax; linen.

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Transfer 92% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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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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Transport 92% connected

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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