A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
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Placebo effect
any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs
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To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thi…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.(physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.A stroke; a blow.
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Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or earl…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.A flowing in or upon; influx.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a w…
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
Used in the same subject area: Environmental science, Education, Media and communication, Research methods, Climate change, Curriculum, Statistical inference, Audiences and reception.The act of production; generation.
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The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisiv…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.Care, heed, or attention.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the possibility of doubt; indubitable evidence, to the senses…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: effect, seems, consequence, administering, placebo.To blossom forth.
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