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Purdah

A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.

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Isolation 76% connected

The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.

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Screen 76% connected

Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire s…

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Segregation 76% connected

The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.

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Separatism 76% connected

The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.

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Solitude 92% connected

state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

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Mores noun · 78% connection

(sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group

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Sociology noun · 78% connection

That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.

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Stress noun · 78% connection

Distress.

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Acculturation noun · 78% connection

the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture"

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Arrangement noun · 78% connection

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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Average noun · 78% connection

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

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Biotic community noun · 78% connection

(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other

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Community noun · 78% connection

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.

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Enculturation noun · 78% connection

the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture"

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Function noun · 78% connection

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.

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Fundamental interaction noun · 78% connection

(physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediate…

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Group noun · 78% connection

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a grou…

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Institution noun · 78% connection

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

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Network noun · 78% connection

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving s…

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Norm adjective · 78% connection

A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.

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Office noun · 78% connection

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Bastion noun · 78% connection

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: curtain, screen, cotton, fabric, blue.
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Bescreen verb · 78% connection

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: curtain, screen, cotton, fabric, blue.
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Bise noun · 78% connection

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: curtain, screen, cotton, fabric, blue.
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Blanket adjective · 78% connection

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any…

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Blaubok noun · 78% connection

The blue buck. See Blue buck, under Blue.

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Blind adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

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Blue superl. · 78% connection

Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; b…

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Burlap noun · 78% connection

A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.

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Cambric noun · 78% connection

A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.

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Chastise verb · 78% connection

To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with st…

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Cloth noun · 78% connection

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adap…

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Cottony adjective · 78% connection

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

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Curtain noun · 78% connection

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cl…

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Demilune noun · 78% connection

A work constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curta…

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Dimity noun · 78% connection

A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, b…

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Fabric noun · 78% connection

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fa…

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Flank noun · 78% connection

The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

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Gingham noun · 78% connection

A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from pri…

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