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  2. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    keen very low or competitive (price) eager or intent on, example: he is keen to get to work on time. desirable or just right, example: "peachy keen" – "That's a pretty keen outfit you're wearing." (slang going out of common usage) keeper a curator or a goalkeeper: one that keeps (as a gamekeeper or a warden)

  3. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  4. Alvania halia - Wikipedia

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    The spaces separating these cords are a little narrower than the cords and are crossed by axial lines of growth. The ovate aperture is very oblique. The posterior angle is obtuse. The outer lip is very much thickened by an external varix. The inner lip is very stout, very strongly curved, reflected over, and appressed to the base.

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  6. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  7. Sepsis fulgens - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms; Sepsis communis Frey, 1925; Sepsis concinna Walker, ... males are so keen, that they will very often mount any visiting fly that bears a slight resemblance ...

  8. Oliva porphyria - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms; Oliva fasciata Röding, P.F., 1798; ... Sometimes the shell is very faintly, broadly two- or three-banded with bluish ash. ... Angeline Myra Keen - Sea ...

  9. Keening - Wikipedia

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    Keening was rhythmically free, without a metre. [ 6 ] The words are thought to have been constituted of stock poetic elements (the listing of the genealogy of the deceased, praise for the deceased, emphasis on the woeful condition of those left behind, etc.) set to vocal lament. [ 7 ]