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A-
unknown · 78% connection
A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Adjunct
noun · 78% connection
A word or words added to quality or amplify the force of other words; as, the History of the American Revolution, where the words in i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Anacoluthon
noun · 78% connection
A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter pa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
And
conj. · 78% connection
A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Antimetathesis
noun · 78% connection
A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Apodosis
noun · 78% connection
The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Coercion
noun · 78% connection
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Condemn
verb · 78% connection
To pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty.
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Crescendo
a. & adv. · 78% connection
With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
DB
noun · 78% connection
a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
De-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Decibel
noun · 78% connection
a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Dependent
adjective · 78% connection
(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Dependent clause
noun · 78% connection
a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adje…
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Dis-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix from the Latin, whence F. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. The Latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
Doom
verb · 78% connection
To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
En-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written ind…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
For-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix to verbs, having usually the force of a negative or privative. It often implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and som…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: increasing, force, intensity, intensive, words.
