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A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.

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Broader term 17

Adult 76% connected

Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Characterization 76% connected

The act or process of characterizing.

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Dimension 76% connected

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in leng…

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Enactment 76% connected

The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

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Engrave 76% connected

To deposit in the grave; to bury.

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Grave 76% connected

To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for t…

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Inscribe 76% connected

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.

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Personation 76% connected

The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.

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Portrayal 76% connected

The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Recommendation 76% connected

The act of recommending.

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Reputation 76% connected

The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.

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Repute 76% connected

To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Testimonial 76% connected

A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing.

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Trait 76% connected

A stroke; a touch.

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Narrower term 32

Agonist 76% connected

One who contends for the prize in public games.

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Allograph 76% connected

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

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Asterisk 76% connected

The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or w…

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Blank 76% connected

Of a white or pale color; without color.

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Capital 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the head.

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Dagger 76% connected

A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.

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Diesis 76% connected

A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.

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Heavy 76% connected

Having the heaves.

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Hero 76% connected

An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted, after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules.

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Heroine 76% connected

A woman of an heroic spirit.

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Ideogram 76% connected

An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.

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Ideograph 76% connected

Same as Ideogram.

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Inferior 76% connected

Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath.

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Letter 76% connected

One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.

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Ligature 76% connected

The act of binding.

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Majuscule 76% connected

A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculae.

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Minuscule 76% connected

Any very small, minute object.

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Obelisk 76% connected

An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian…

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Pictograph 76% connected

A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

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Protagonist 76% connected

One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.

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Radical 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the root; proceeding directly from the root.

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Rune 76% connected

A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the…

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Space 76% connected

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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Spirit 76% connected

Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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Star 76% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Stenograph 76% connected

To write or report in stenographic characters.

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Subscript 76% connected

Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below…

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Superior 76% connected

More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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Superscript 76% connected

Superscription.

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Texture 76% connected

The act or art of weaving.

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Type 76% connected

The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

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Villain 76% connected

One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.

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Qualify 74% connected

To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the k…

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Qualify 74% connected

To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the k…

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Component part 2

Integrity 70% connected

The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory.

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Responsibility 70% connected

The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.

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Containing whole 1

Personality 70% connected

That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality.

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Synonym 12

Case 92% connected

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Eccentric 92% connected

Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center o…

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Fiber 92% connected

Alt. of Fibre

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Fibre 92% connected

One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

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graph 92% connected

A diagram representing data or a set of equations

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Lineament 92% connected

One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the p…

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Part 92% 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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Persona 92% connected

Same as Person, n., 8.

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Quality 92% 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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Reference 92% connected

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

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Role 92% connected

A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of phila…

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Type 92% connected

The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

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