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n. a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

n. operating system company

be

v. spend or use time; "I may be an hour"

v. exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor"

be, exist

v. have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?"

be, have the quality of being

v. have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

occur, be

v. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"

be, be identical to

v. be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house"

cost, be

v. be priced at; "These shoes cost $100"

live, be, have life

v. have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

make up, represent, constitute, be

v. form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army"

be, occupy a certain area, occupy a certain position

v. occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"

equal, be, be identical to

v. be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!"

personify, characterize, be, embody

v. represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

past, by

adv. "every hour, a train goes past"

aside, away, by, in reserve

adv. "Put aside some money"

aside, by, apart, on one side, set to one side

adv. "She put her sewing by when he entered"

affected

adj. acted upon; influenced

affected, unnatural

adj. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

affected, concerned

adj. involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business"

affected, stirred, touched

adj. slightly insane

side, bye, by

adj. located on a side; "side fences"; "the side porch"

stand, bear, stomach, brook, suffer, endure, tolerate, abide, put up with

v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

last, endure

v. persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"

fit, meet, conform to

v. satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"

duplicate, twin, parallel

v. duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"

parallel

v. be parallel to; "Their roles are paralleled by ours"

coordinate, co-ordinate

v. be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well"

cause, create, originate

v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

name, mention, identify, give the name of, refer to by name

v. give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property; "Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months"

incarnate, embody, body forth, represent in bodily form

v. represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

refer to, denote, have as a meaning

v. have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' "

imply, connote

v. express or state indirectly

imply, indicate by inference

v. suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic

mean, intend

v. mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?"

signify

v. convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"

sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, feigned, fictitious, pretended

adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

back, backward, in the opposite direction, fro, in the reverse direction

adv. "He faced backward"

late, belatedly, tardily, later than usual, later than expected

adv. later than usual or than expected; "the train arrived late"; "we awoke late"; "the children came late to school"; "notice came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline"; "I belatedly wished her a happy birthday"

unnatural

adj. not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death"

moved

adj. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion; "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the stranger's kindness"

active, participating

adj. taking part in an activity; "an active member of the club"; "he was politically active"; "the participating organizations"

caught up

adj. having become involved involuntarily; "caught up in the excitement of the crowd"; "caught up in the scandal"

entangled, embroiled

adj. deeply involved especially in something complicated; "embroiled in the conflict"; "felt unwilling entangled in their affairs"

implicated

adj. culpably involved; "all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified"; "named three officials implicated in the plot"; "an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime"

parenthetic, parenthetical

adj. qualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses; "parenthetical remarks"

peripheral

adj. related to the key issue but not of central importance; "a peripheral interest"; "energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy"; "peripheral issues"

secondary

adj. depending on or incidental to what is original or primary; "a secondary infection"

supplementary, supplemental

adj. added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced supplementary volumes"

differ

v. be different; "These two tests differ in only one respect"

unaffected

adj. undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment"

natural, unaffected

adj. free of artificiality; sincere and genuine; "an unaffected grace"

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