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Factor

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.

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Add 76% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Bestow 76% connected

To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.

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Bourgeois 76% connected

A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

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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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Calculate 76% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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Cause 76% connected

That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Cipher 76% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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Compute 76% connected

To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Contribute 76% connected

To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) f…

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Cypher 76% connected

See Cipher.

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Division 76% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Impart 76% 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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independent variable 76% connected

The factor a study changes or examines as a possible cause.

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Integer 76% connected

A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.

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Lend 76% connected

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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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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Reckon 76% connected

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Sequence 76% connected

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.

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Study 76% connected

A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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allele 76% connected

A variant form of a gene

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Auctioneer 76% connected

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

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Fundamental 76% connected

Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementar…

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Modifier 76% connected

One who, or that which, modifies.

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Parameter 76% connected

A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, se…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Stockbroker 76% connected

A broker who deals in stocks.

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Suppressor 76% connected

One who suppresses.

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Syndic 76% connected

An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.

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Underwriter 76% connected

One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.

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Derivationally related 8

Broker 74% connected

One who transacts business for another; an agent.

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Broker 74% connected

One who transacts business for another; an agent.

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Genetic 74% connected

Same as Genetical.

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Genetic 74% connected

Same as Genetical.

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Genetical 74% connected

Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development.

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Genetical 74% connected

Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development.

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Containing group 1

Brokerage 70% connected

The business or employment of a broker.

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Containing whole 2

Chromosome 70% connected

One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.

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DNA 70% connected

The molecule that carries genetic information in living organisms

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Synonym 8

Agent 92% connected

Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

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Broker 92% connected

One who transacts business for another; an agent.

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Component 92% connected

Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Constituent 92% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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Divisor 92% connected

The number by which the dividend is divided.

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Element 92% 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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gene 92% connected

A segment of DNA that carries genetic information for a specific trait

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Ingredient 92% connected

That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.

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