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Bent
verb · 78% connection
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Bought
noun · 78% connection
A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Brad
noun · 78% connection
A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat ci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Caesura
noun · 78% connection
A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Cephalo
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form denoting the head, of the head, connected with the head; as, cephalosome, cephalopod.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Chelidon
noun · 78% connection
The hollow at the flexure of the arm.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Country
adverb · 78% connection
A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Crook
noun · 78% connection
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Crown
noun · 78% connection
The topmost part of the head (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Curl
verb · 78% connection
An undulating or waving line or streak in any substance, as wood, glass, etc.; flexure; sinuosity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Curve
adjective · 78% connection
A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Flexural
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Geanticlinal
noun · 78% connection
An upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Head
noun · 78% connection
The place where the head should go; as, the head of a bed, of a grave, etc.; the head of a carriage, that is, the hood which covers th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Hermes
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Horn
noun · 78% connection
Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A proje…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Ivory
noun · 78% connection
The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
Local
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local cu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, region, middle, head, flexure.
