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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"

at hand, imminent

adj. close in time; about to occur; "retribution is at hand"; "some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand"; "in imminent danger"; "his impending retirement"

forthcoming, imminent, impendent, impending

adj. close in time; about to occur; "retribution is at hand"; "some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand"; "in imminent danger"; "his impending retirement"

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?"

eventual

adj. expected to follow in the indefinite future from causes already operating; "hope of eventual (or ultimate) rescue"; "if this trend continues it is not reasonable to expect the eventual collapse of the stock market"

resultant, consequent, ensuant, resulting, sequent

adj. following as an effect or result; "the period of tension and consequent need for military preparedness"; "the ensuant response to his appeal"; "the resultant savings were considerable"; "the health of the plants and the resulting flowers"

ensuing

adj. following immediately and as a result of what went before; "ensuing events confirmed the prediction"

future

adj. yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him"

forbidding, ugly, ominous, dire, direful, baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, sinister, threatening

adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly"

foreboding, fateful, portentous

adj. ominously prophetic

next, adjacent, juxtaposed, cheek by jowl, side by side

adj. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"

enveloping, ambient, encompassing, surrounding

adj. closely enveloping or surrounding on all sides

appressed, adpressed

adj. pressed close to or lying flat against something; "adpressed hairs along the plant's stem"; "igneous rocks...closely appressed by this force"-L.V.Pirsson

approximate, close together

adj. located close together; "with heads close together"; "approximate leaves grow together but are not united"

at hand, close-by, close by, close at hand

adj. close in space; within reach; "the town is close at hand"

close-hauled

adj. having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible

close-set

adj. set close together: "close-set eyes"; "close-set teeth"

closer

adj. comparative of "close"; indicating that one of two that is the shorter distance away

closest

adj. superlative of "close"; indicating that one of several that is the shortest distance away

contiguous, immediate

adj. very close or connected in space or time; "contiguous events"; "immediate contact"; "the immediate vicinity"; "the immediate past"

hand-to-hand, at close quarters

adj. being at close quarters; "hand-to-hand fighting"

near, proximate

adj. very close in space or time; "proximate words"; "proximate houses"

walk-to

adj. close enough to be walked to; "walking distance"; "the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory"

immediate

adj. immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect; "the immediate result"; "the immediate cause of the trouble"

differ

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

distant

adj. separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; "distant villages"; "the sound of distant traffic"; "a distant sound"; "a distant telephone call"

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