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Projection

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Narrower term 53

Acantha 76% connected

A prickle.

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Arm 76% connected

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

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Belch 76% connected

To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.

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Belching 76% connected

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Boss 76% connected

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

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Branch 76% connected

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

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Brim 76% connected

The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.

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Bulge 76% connected

The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Burr 76% connected

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also,…

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Cleat 76% connected

A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

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Cornice 76% connected

Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedes…

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Disgorgement 76% connected

The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged.

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Drip 76% connected

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

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Emesis 76% connected

A vomiting.

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Eructation 76% connected

The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.

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Excrescence 76% connected

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a tr…

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Expectoration 76% connected

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

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Extrusion 76% connected

The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.

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Flange 76% connected

An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel (see Car wheel.); or f…

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Flue 76% connected

An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing a current of air, gases, etc.; an air passage

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Fluke 76% connected

The European flounder. See Flounder.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hump 76% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

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Jag 76% connected

A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.

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Jut 76% connected

To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

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Keel 76% connected

To cool; to skim or stir.

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Knife 76% connected

An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and…

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Knob 76% connected

A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

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Limb 76% connected

A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

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Lobe 76% connected

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form

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Lug 76% connected

The ear, or its lobe.

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Overhang 76% connected

To impend or hang over.

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Prominence 76% connected

Alt. of Prominency

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Prong 76% connected

A sharp-pointed instrument.

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Protrusion 76% connected

The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.

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Protuberance 76% connected

That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or kno…

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Puking 76% connected

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Regurgitation 76% connected

The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance

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Rim 76% connected

The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

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Salient 76% connected

Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.

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Spike 76% connected

A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

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Spine 76% connected

A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

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Spit 76% connected

A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

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Spitting 76% connected

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Spur 76% connected

A sparrow.

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Swelling 76% connected

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Tail 76% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

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Tenon 76% connected

A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame;…

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Tongue 76% connected

an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

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Tooth 76% connected

One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which u…

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Vomit 76% connected

To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.

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Vomiting 76% connected

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Actuation 76% connected

A bringing into action; movement.

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Anticipation 76% connected

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

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Construction 76% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Convexity 76% connected

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

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Defence 76% connected

See Defense.

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Defense 76% connected

Alt. of Defence

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Prediction 76% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

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Prevision 76% connected

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

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Program 76% connected

Same as Programme.

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Programme 76% connected

That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order…

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Propulsion 76% connected

The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.

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Representation 76% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Eject 74% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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Eject 74% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

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Project 74% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Project 74% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Ejection 92% connected

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

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Expulsion 92% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Jut 92% connected

To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

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Jutting 92% connected

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Project 92% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Protrusion 92% connected

The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.

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