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Permeable

Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light.

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Porous 84% connected

Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a p…

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Porous 84% connected

Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a p…

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Permeability 74% connected

The quality or state of being permeable.

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Permeability 74% connected

The quality or state of being permeable.

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Leaky 66% connected

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.

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Leaky 66% connected

Permitting water or other fluid to leak in or out; as, a leaky roof or cask.

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Pervious 66% connected

Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.

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Pervious 66% connected

Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.

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Impermeable 94% connected

Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and t…

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Impermeable 94% connected

Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and t…

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Allow verb · 78% connection

To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allo…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Argand lamp unknown · 78% connection

A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Bitterwood noun · 78% connection

handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields…

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Carriageable adjective · 78% connection

Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Crystal noun · 78% connection

A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Current adjective · 78% connection

Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Drawbridge noun · 78% connection

a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Flashing noun · 78% connection

The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a glob…

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Flint glass unknown · 78% connection

A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical…

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Hydrodynamics noun · 78% connection

That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Incoercible adjective · 78% connection

That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat,…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Indifferent adjective · 78% connection

Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Osmose noun · 78% connection

The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densitie…

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Pass verb · 78% connection

To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanc…

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Passable adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passab…

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Passableness noun · 78% connection

The quality of being passable.

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Passage verb · 78% connection

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

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: capable, permeated, passed, yielding, passage.
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Penetrability noun · 78% connection

The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.

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