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ad
(definition)
adv 1: in the Christian era; used before dates after the
supposed year Christ was born; "in AD 200" [syn: AD,
A.D., anno Domini]
n 1: a public promotion of some product or service [syn: ad,
advertisement, advertizement, advertising,
advertizing, advert]
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add
(definition)
n 1: a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral
and learning disorders [syn: attention deficit disorder,
ADD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD,
hyperkinetic syndrome, minimal brain dysfunction,
minimal brain damage, MBD]
v 1: make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with
others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of;
"We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a
personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add
some extra plates to the dinner table" [ant: take away,
take out]
2: state or say further; "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied"
[syn: add, append, supply]
3: bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to
the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She
brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a
light note to the program" [syn: lend, impart, bestow,
contribute, add, bring]
4: make an addition by combining numbers; "Add 27 and 49,
please!" [syn: add, add together] [ant: deduct,
subtract, take off]
5: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to
those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot
up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add
together, tally, add up]
6: constitute an addition; "This paper will add to her
reputation"
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bad
(definition)
adv 1: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for
`badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were
badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn:
badly, bad]
2: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard
for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in
need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it"
[syn: badly, bad]
adj 1: having undesirable or negative qualities; "a bad report
card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a
bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut";
"bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were
bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading";
"the movie was a bad choice" [ant: good]
2: very intense; "a bad headache"; "in a big rage"; "had a big
(or bad) shock"; "a bad earthquake"; "a bad storm" [syn:
bad, big]
3: feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally
used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she
felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless
night" [syn: bad, tough]
4: (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition; "bad
meat"; "a refrigerator full of spoilt food" [syn: bad,
spoiled, spoilt]
5: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss
over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his
vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he
felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful, sorry,
bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting]
6: not capable of being collected; "a bad (or uncollectible)
debt" [syn: bad, uncollectible]
7: below average in quality or performance; "a bad chess
player"; "a bad recital"
8: nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"
9: not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high
risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much
can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises"
[syn: bad, risky, high-risk, speculative]
10: physically unsound or diseased; "has a bad back"; "a bad
heart"; "bad teeth"; "an unsound limb"; "unsound teeth"
[syn: bad, unfit, unsound]
11: capable of harming; "bad air"; "smoking is bad for you"
12: characterized by wickedness or immorality; "led a very bad
life"
13: reproduced fraudulently; "like a bad penny..."; "a forged
twenty dollar bill" [syn: bad, forged]
14: not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a
defective appliance" [syn: bad, defective]
n 1: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics
or decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: bad,
badness] [ant: good, goodness]
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bade
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
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brad
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a small nail
v 1: fasten with brads
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cad
(definition)
n 1: someone who is morally reprehensible; "you dirty dog" [syn:
cad, bounder, blackguard, dog, hound, heel]
2: software used in art and architecture and engineering and
manufacturing to assist in precision drawing [syn: computer-
aided design, CAD]
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comrade
(definition)
n 1: a friend who is frequently in the company of another;
"drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn:
companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate]
2: a fellow member of the Communist Party
3: used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in
the same movement; "Greetings, comrade!" [syn: brother,
comrade]
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dad
(definition)
n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby
talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa,
pop]
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doodad
(definition)
n 1: something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not
known; "she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its
socket"; "there may be some great new gizmo around the
corner that you will want to use" [syn: doodad,
doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo, gismo,
gubbins, thingamabob, thingumabob, thingmabob,
thingamajig, thingumajig, thingmajig, thingummy,
whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget]
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dyad
(definition)
n 1: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair,
twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet,
distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad]
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fad
(definition)
n 1: an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always
follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season"
[syn: fad, craze, furor, furore, cult, rage]
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footpad
(definition)
n 1: a highwayman who robs on foot [syn: footpad, padder]
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gad
(definition)
n 1: an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating
anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or
trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has
lasted for more than six months [syn: generalized anxiety
disorder, GAD, anxiety reaction]
2: a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse
onward; "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on" [syn:
spur, gad]
v 1: wander aimlessly in search of pleasure [syn: gallivant,
gad, jazz around]
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glad
(place)
(definition)
adj 1: showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made
happy; "glad you are here"; "glad that they succeeded";
"gave a glad shout"; "a glad smile"; "heard the glad
news"; "a glad occasion" [ant: sad]
2: eagerly disposed to act or to be of service; "glad to help"
[syn: glad, happy]
3: feeling happy appreciation; "glad of the fire's warmth"
4: cheerful and bright; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning"
[syn: beaming, glad]
n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native
chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped
leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-
shaped flowers; widely cultivated [syn: gladiolus,
gladiola, glad, sword lily]
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grad
(place)
(definition)
n 1: one-hundredth of a right angle [syn: grad, grade]
2: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school
or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum,
graduate, grad]
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ironclad
(definition)
adj 1: sheathed in iron plates for protection
2: inflexibly entrenched and unchangeable; "brassbound
traditions"; "brassbound party loyalists"; "an ironclad rule"
[syn: ironclad, brassbound]
n 1: a wooden warship of the 19th century that is plated with
iron or steel armor
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keypad
(definition)
n 1: a keyboard that is a data input device for computers;
arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter
keyboard [syn: computer keyboard, keypad]
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lad
(definition)
n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow
at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke"
[syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent,
blighter, cuss, bloke]
2: a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) [syn:
cub, lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy]
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mad
(place)
(definition)
adj 1: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain;
"she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his
friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: huffy, mad,
sore]
2: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
[syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad,
sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
3: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of
delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their
gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious,
excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained]
4: very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind
the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge
between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane, mad]
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nomad
(definition)
n 1: a member of a people who have no permanent home but move
about according to the seasons
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pad
(definition)
n 1: a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one
edge [syn: pad, pad of paper, tablet]
2: the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water
lily)
3: a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to
transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp [syn: pad, inkpad,
inking pad, stamp pad]
4: a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing,
or comfort
5: a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
[syn: launching pad, launchpad, launch pad, launch
area, pad]
6: temporary living quarters [syn: diggings, digs,
domiciliation, lodgings, pad]
7: the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a
human's finger
v 1: add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard,
embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up,
dramatize, dramatise]
2: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;
"Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog,
footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp]
3: line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra" [syn: pad,
fill out]
4: add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair" [syn: pad,
bolster]
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plaid
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a cloth having a crisscross design [syn: tartan, plaid]
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sad
(definition)
adj 1: experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling
sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you
should forget and smile / Than that you should remember
and be sad"- Christina Rossetti [ant: glad]
2: of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't
like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead,
my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti
3: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
"a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a
sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing,
lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
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shad
(name)
(definition)
n 1: bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their
migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of
Atlantic coast
2: herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh
water to spawn
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tad
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a slight amount or degree of difference; "a tad too
expensive"; "not a tad of difference"; "the new model is a
shade better than the old one" [syn: tad, shade]
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triad
(definition)
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
[syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce,
leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary,
ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-
ace]
2: a set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn:
trio, triad, triplet, triple]
3: three people considered as a unit [syn: trio, threesome,
triad, trinity]
4: a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and
fifth tones [syn: common chord, triad]
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unclad
(definition)
adj 1: having removed clothing [syn: unappareled, unattired,
unclad, undressed, ungarbed, ungarmented]
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mossad
(definition)
n 1: the Israeli foreign intelligence agency; "the primary focus
of the Mossad is on Arab nations"
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riyadh
(place)
(definition)
n 1: joint capital (with Mecca) of Saudi Arabia located in the
central oasis; largest city in Saudi Arabia [syn: Riyadh,
capital of Saudi Arabia]
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chad
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when
a hole is punched in a card or paper tape
2: a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river [syn:
Lake Chad, Chad]
3: a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was
under French control until 1960 [syn: Chad, Republic of
Chad, Tchad]
4: a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones)
spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north
central Africa [syn: Chad, Chadic, Chadic language]
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nad
(definition)
n 1: a coenzyme present in most living cells and derived from
the B vitamin nicotinic acid; serves as a reductant in
various metabolic processes [syn: nicotinamide adenine
dinucleotide, NAD]
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rad
(definition)
n 1: a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per
gram of irradiated material
2: the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme
International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a
circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius
(approximately 57.295 degrees) [syn: radian, rad]
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scad
(name)
(definition)
n 1: any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
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strad
(definition)
n 1: a violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his
family [syn: Stradavarius, Strad]
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trad
(definition)
n 1: traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s
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khad
(1 vote)
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ciudad
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egad
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forbade
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had
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ayyad
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riyad
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chadd
(name)
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flad
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gadd
(name)
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gladd
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hadd
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hlad
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ladd
(name)
(place)
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madd
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radde
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schad
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shadd
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tadd
(name)
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thad
(name)
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vlad
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arvad
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forbad
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mirad
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shabad
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shahrzad
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sociedad
(place)
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prad
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yclad
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polyclad
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semiclad
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superadd
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novi
(place)
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alclad
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asclad
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triclad