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A doing, making, or preparing.

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Book 76% connected

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing c…

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Case 76% 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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Detail 76% connected

A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

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General 76% connected

Relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.

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Index 76% connected

That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

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Indicant 76% connected

Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

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Indicator 76% connected

One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.

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Item 76% connected

Also; as an additional article.

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Observation 76% connected

The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.

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Particular 76% connected

Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Reason 76% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Record 76% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

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Score 76% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Specific 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute i…

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Truth 76% connected

The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.

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Concept 76% connected

An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.

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Conception 76% connected

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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Construct 76% connected

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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Information 76% connected

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

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Realism 76% connected

As opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. According to r…

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Reality 76% connected

The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.

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Realness 76% connected

The quality or condition of being real; reality.

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