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Margin

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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Broader term 15

Amount 76% connected

To go up; to ascend.

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Bound 76% connected

of Bind

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Boundary 76% connected

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

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Deposit 76% connected

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich al…

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Disagreement 76% connected

The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity.

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Discrepancy 76% connected

The state or quality of being discrepant; disagreement; variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety.

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Divergence 76% connected

Alt. of Divergency

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Earnings 76% connected

of Earning

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Edge 76% connected

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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Lucre 76% connected

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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Net 76% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Profit 76% connected

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or o…

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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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Variance 76% connected

The quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.

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Narrower term 3

Lip 76% connected

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to…

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Narrowness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being narrow.

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Slimness 76% connected

The quality or state of being slim.

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Bound 74% connected

of Bind

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Bound 74% connected

of Bind

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Containing whole 1

Page 70% connected

A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in Engl…

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

Synonym 5

Allowance 92% connected

Approval; approbation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Border 92% connected

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Leeway 92% connected

The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Perimeter 92% connected

The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tolerance 92% connected

The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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