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Similar meaning 16

Beginning 84% connected

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Beginning 84% connected

of Begin

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First 84% connected

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

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First 84% connected

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

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Inaugural 84% connected

Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

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Inaugural 84% connected

Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

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Initiative 84% connected

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

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Initiative 84% connected

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

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Initiatory 84% connected

Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step.

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Initiatory 84% connected

Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step.

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Introductory 84% connected

Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory d…

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Introductory 84% connected

Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory d…

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Maiden 84% connected

An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

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Maiden 84% connected

An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

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starting 84% connected

of Start

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starting 84% connected

of Start

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Broader term 26

Alternative 76% connected

Offering a choice of two things.

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Artefact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Artifact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Beginning 76% connected

of Begin

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Ceremonial 76% connected

Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.

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Ceremony 76% connected

Ar act or series of acts, often of a symbolical character, prescribed by law, custom, or authority, in the conduct of important matters, as in the pe…

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Chance 76% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

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Choice 76% connected

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in prefe…

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Commencement 76% connected

The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

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Entrance 76% connected

The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of pro…

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Entree 76% connected

A coming in, or entrance; hence, freedom of access; permission or right to enter; as, to have the entree of a house.

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Entry 76% connected

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city;…

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Introduction 76% connected

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

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Motility 76% connected

Capability of motion; contractility.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Observance 76% connected

The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and f…

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Opportunity 76% connected

Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.

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Option 76% connected

The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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Passage 76% connected

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man o…

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Passageway 76% connected

A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.

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Sequence 76% connected

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

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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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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Succession 76% connected

The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succe…

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Narrower term 57

Anus 76% connected

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

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Aperture 76% connected

The act of opening.

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Bell 76% connected

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound o…

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Blastopore 76% connected

The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

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Breach 76% connected

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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Breech 76% connected

The lower part of the body behind; the buttocks.

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Cardia 76% connected

The heart.

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Cervix 76% connected

The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.

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Chasm 76% connected

A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.

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Cleft 76% connected

of Cleave

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Crevice 76% connected

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Cutting 76% connected

of Cut

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Diastema 76% connected

A vacant space, or gap, esp. between teeth in a jaw.

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Embrasure 76% connected

An embrace.

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Fenestra 76% connected

A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

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Fissure 76% connected

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.

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Fly 76% connected

To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Fontanel 76% connected

An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.

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Fontanelle 76% connected

Same as Fontanel, 2.

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Foramen 76% connected

A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.

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Gap 76% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Grille 76% connected

A lattice or grating.

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Hiatus 76% connected

of Hiatus

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Hole 76% connected

Whole.

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Inlet 76% connected

A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance.

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Intake 76% connected

The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

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Interstice 76% connected

That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a nar…

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Lattice 76% connected

Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.

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Lunette 76% connected

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

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Mouth 76% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Muzzle 76% connected

The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.

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Neck 76% connected

The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

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Pocket 76% connected

A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

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Port 76% connected

A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.

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Porthole 76% connected

An embrasure in a ship's side. See 3d Port.

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Possible 76% connected

Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -…

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Pylorus 76% connected

The opening from the stomach into the intestine.

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Rent 76% connected

of Rend

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Rift 76% connected

p. p. of Rive.

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Rima 76% connected

A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

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Rip 76% connected

A wicker fish basket.

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Salutation 76% connected

The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; als…

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Scissure 76% connected

A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.

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Slit 76% connected

3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.

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Snag 76% connected

A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

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Spiracle 76% connected

The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.

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Split 76% connected

of Split

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Spout 76% connected

To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

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Stoma 76% connected

One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.

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Tear 76% connected

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moiste…

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Teaser 76% connected

One who teases or vexes.

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Throat 76% connected

The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.

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Vent 76% connected

Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

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Wicket 76% connected

A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or…

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Window 76% connected

An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material,…

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Breach 74% connected

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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Breach 74% connected

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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Open 74% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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Open 74% connected

Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…

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Unfold 74% connected

To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

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Unfold 74% connected

To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.

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Component part 1

Hatch 70% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Containing whole 1

Surface 70% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Gap 92% connected

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…

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Hatchway 92% connected

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

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Initiative 92% connected

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

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Orifice 92% connected

A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.

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Porta 92% connected

The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus.

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Possibility 92% connected

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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Scuttle 92% connected

A broad, shallow basket.

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