1: a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body [syn: {vitamin E}, {tocopherol}] 2: a radioactive transuranic el...

1: a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length [syn: {Heaviside layer}, {Kennelly-Heaviside layer}, {E region}]

1: a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length [syn: {Heaviside layer}, {Kennelly-Heaviside layer}, {E layer}]

1: even

1: at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time"; "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever hoping to strike it rich"; "ever...

1: a bomb that explodes in midair and releases a massive burst of electromagnetic energy sufficient to disable computers and telecommunications without killing people or damaging buildings [syn: {micr...

1: (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in [syn:...

1: an antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus; effective against many Gram-positive bacteria and some Gra...

1: Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949) [syn: {Willebrand}, {von Willebrand}, {Erik von Willebrand}, {Erik Adolf von Willebrand}]

1: United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) [syn: {White}, {Elwyn Brooks White}]

1: a species of bacterium normally present in intestinal tract of humans and other animals; sometimes pathogenic; can be a threat to food safety [syn: {Escherichia coli}]

1: United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) [syn: {cummings}, {Edward Estlin Cummings}]

1: United States actor (1914-1998) [syn: {Marshall}]

1: United States railway tycoon (1848-1909) [syn: {Harriman}, {Edward Henry Harriman}]

1: German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878) [syn: {Weber}, {Ernst Heinrich Weber}]

1: United States novelist (born in 1931) [syn: {Doctorow}, {Edgard Lawrence Doctorow}]

1: United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958) [syn: {Lawrence}, {Ernest Orlando Lawrence}]

1: United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929) [syn: {Wilson}, {Edward Osborne Wilson}]

1: German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822) [syn: {Hoffmann}, {Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann}, {Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann}]

1: Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995) [syn: {Walton}, {Ernest Walton}, {Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton}]

1: United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923) [syn: {Morley}, {Edward Morley}, {Edward Williams Morley}]

1: as an example; "take ribbon snakes, for example" [syn: {for example}, {for instance}]

1: apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses [syn: {clairvoyance}, {second sight}, {extrasensory perception}, {ESP}]

1: the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element

1: (used of count nouns) every one considered individually; "each person is mortal"; "each party is welcome" [syn: {each(a)}] adv : to or from every one of two or more (considered individually); "they...

1: without missing a day; "he stops by daily" [syn: {daily}, {every day}]

1: without missing a month; "we get paid monthly" [syn: {monthly}, {every month}]

1: without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly" [syn: {hebdomadally}, {weekly}, {every week}]

1: without missing a year; "they travel to China annually" [syn: {annually}, {yearly}, {every year}] 2: by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received); "he earned ...

1: imperial moths [syn: {genus Eacles}]

1: large American moth having yellow wings with purplish or brownish markings; larvae feed on e.g. maple and pine trees [syn: {imperial moth}]

1: United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (1830-1904) [syn: {Muybridge}, {Edward James Muggeridge}]

1: King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959) [syn: {Edwy}]

1: having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy; "eager to learn"; "eager to travel abroad"; "eager for success"; "eager helpers"; "an eager look" [ant: {uneager}] 2: mark...

1: an alert and energetic person [syn: {busy bee}, {live wire}, {sharpie}, {sharpy}]

1: with eagerness; in an eager manner; "the news was eagerly awaited" [syn: {thirstily}]

1: a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something [syn: {avidity}, {avidness}, {keenness}]

1: any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight [syn: {bird of Jove}] 2: (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole 3: a former ...

1: powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays

1: a boy scout who has earned many merit badges

1: capable of seeing to a great distance [syn: {keen-sighted}, {farseeing}, {longsighted}]

1: a young eagle

1: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: {tidal bore}, {bore}, {aegir}, {eager}]

1: United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978) [syn: {Charles Eames}]

1: a chair designed by Charles Eames; originally made of molded plywood; seat and back shaped to fit the human body

1: Irish statesman (born in the United States); as president of the Irish Free State he was responsible for the new constitution of 1937 that created the state of Eire (1882-1975) [syn: {de Valera}]

1: the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium 2: good hearing; "he had a keen ear"; "a good ear for pitch" 3: the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear [syn: {auricle}, {pinn...

1: either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane [syn: {auditory meatus}, {acoustic meatus}, {auditory canal}, {external auditory canal}]

1: a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases [syn: {ear specialist}, {otologist}]

1: widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood [syn: {Jew's-ear}, {Jew's-ears}, {Auricularia auricula}]

1: a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears

1: the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear [syn: {earlobe}]

1: a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases [syn: {ear doctor}, {otologist}]

1: a conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person [syn: {hearing aid}]

1: a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat [syn: {ENT man}, {otolaryngologist}, {otorhinolaryngologist}, {rhinolaryngologist}]

1: having a shape resembling an ear [syn: {auriform}]

1: any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior [syn: {abalone}]

1: an ache localized in the middle or inner ear [syn: {otalgia}]

1: an earring with a pendant ornament [syn: {pendant earring}, {drop earring}]

1: the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound [syn: {tympanum}, {tympanic membrane}, {myringa}]

1: worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages" [syn: {dog-eared}] 2: hav...

1: small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck; found in Eurasia and southern Africa as well as western United States [syn: {black-necked grebe}, {Podiceps nigricollis}]

1: pinniped mammal having external ear flaps and hind limbs used for locomotion on land; valued for its soft underfur

1: one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm [syn: {earlap}]

1: an outpouring of gossip 2: a severe scolding [syn: {castigation}, {bawling out}, {chewing out}, {upbraiding}, {going-over}, {dressing down}]

1: first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928); while attempting to fly around the world she disappeared over the Pacific (1898-1937) [syn: {Amelia Earhart}]

1: a British peer ranking below a Marquess and above a Viscount

1: an officer of the English peerage who organizes royal processions and other ceremonies

1: an English nobleman who led the baronial rebellion against Henry III (1208-1265) [syn: {Montfort}, {Simon de Montfort}]

1: English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the ...

1: English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Whitehead (1872-1970) [syn: {Russell}, {Bertrand Russell}, {Bertrand Arthur William Russell}]

1: United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1891-1974) [syn: {Warren}]

1: one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm [syn: {earflap}]

1: the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess 2: the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess

1: small erect deciduous tree with large leaves in coiled formations at branch tips [syn: {Magnolia fraseri}]

1: lacking external ears; "earless seals" [ant: {eared}]

1: any of several slender lizards without external ear openings: of plains of western United States and Mexico

1: any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers [syn: {true seal}, {hair seal}]

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{early}

1: quality of coming early or earlier in time [ant: {lateness}]

1: the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear [syn: {ear lobe}]

1: at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retireme...

1: a person who arrives early before others do 2: a person who gets up very early in the morning

1: the early stage of growth or development [syn: {infancy}, {babyhood}]

1: plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Ala...

1: an early period of development; "during the youth of the project" [syn: {youth}]

1: resembles a thimble on a finger; the surface of the fertile portion is folded into wrinkles that extend from the top down; fruiting begins in spring before the leaves are out on the trees [syn: {Ve...

1: during an early stage; "early on in her career" [syn: {early}]

1: Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike [syn: {male orchis}, {Orchis mascula}]

1: spring-blooming spider orchid having a flower with yellow or green or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip [syn: {Ophrys sphegodes}]

1: a low perennial white-flowered trillium found in the southeastern United States [syn: {dwarf-white trillium}, {snow trillium}]

1: a radar that is part of an early warning system

1: a network of radar installations designed to detect enemy missiles or aircraft while there is still time to intercept them

1: of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida [syn: {Belle Isle cress}, {land cress}, {American cress}, {American watercress}, {Barbarea verna}, {Barbarea praecox}]

1: an hour early in the morning

1: being somewhat early; "at an earlyish hour"

1: identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal 2: a distinctive characteristic or attribute [syn: {hallmark}, {trademark}, {stylemark}] v : give or assign a share of money or time to a particu...

1: either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather

1: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; ...

1: gained or acquired; especially through merit or as a result of effort or action; "a well-earned reputation for honesty"; "earned income"; "an earned run in baseball" [ant: {unearned}]

1: a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team [ant: {unearned run}]

1: someone who earn wages in return for their labor [syn: {wage earner}]

1: characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn so...

1: money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract

1: in a serious manner; "talking earnestly with his son"; "she started studying snakes in earnest"; "a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce" [syn: {seriously}, {in earnest}]

1: an earnest and sincere feeling [syn: {seriousness}, {sincerity}] 2: the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice [syn: {seriousness}, {ser...

1: the portion of a company's profit allocated to each outstanding share of common stock

1: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) [syn: {net income}, {net}, {net profit}, {lucre}, {profit}, {profits}] 2: somethin...

1: income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted; an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts) [sy...

1: a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period [syn: {income statement}, {operating statement}, {profit-and-loss statement}]

1: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" [syn: {earpiece}, {hea...

1: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" [syn: {earphone}, {hea...

1: the range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot" [syn: {earshot}, {hearing}]

1: jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe

1: the range within which a voice can be heard; "the children were told to stay within earshot" [syn: {earreach}, {hearing}]

1: loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss [syn: {deafening}, {roaring}, {thunderous}, {thundery}]

1: the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world" [syn: {world}, {globe}] 2: the loose soft material that makes up a large par...

1: European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers [syn: {chufa}, {yellow nutgrass}, {ground almond}, {rush nut}, {Cyperus esculentus}]

1: a colored mineral used as a pigment

1: the earth conceived of as the female principle of fertility

1: any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts

1: a small earthquake [syn: {tremor}, {microseism}]

1: block with earth, as after a landslide [syn: {land up}]

1: a waxy mineral that is a mixture of hydrocarbons and occurs in association with petroleum; some varieties are used in making ceresin and candles [syn: {ader wax}, {mineral wax}, {ozokerite}, {ozoce...

1: the outer layer of the Earth [syn: {crust}]

1: the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water" [syn: {surface}]

1: any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe [syn: {truffle}, {earthnut}]

1: a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate [syn: {outhouse}, {privy}, {jakes}]

1: a god of fertility and vegetation

1: a goddess of fertility and vegetation

1: European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey [syn: {heath pea}, {earthnut pea}, {tuberous vetch}, {Lathyrus tuberosus}]

1: the coordinated universal time when an event is received on Earth [syn: {ERT}]

1: any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum [syn: {earthtongue}]

1: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles [syn: {false truffle}, {puffball}, {hard-skinned puffball}]

1: of earthly origin (as mortals are); "earthborn existence" 2: springing from or born on the earth; "earthborn beings" 3: connected with earthly life; of earthly origin; "earthborn cares and pleasure...

1: confined to the earth 2: lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot" [syn: {pedestrian}, {prosaic}, {prosy}]

1: made of earth (or baked clay); "an earthen pot"

1: ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat

1: an earthen jar (made of baked clay) [syn: {crock}]

{earthy}

{earthy}

1: fastening electrical equipment to earth [syn: {grounding}]

{earthly}

{earthly}

1: earth colored; having a color of soil or earth; "a range of earthlike colors" 2: resembling or characteristic of earth; "earthlike atmosphere"

1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: {tellurian}, {earthman}]

1: of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven; "earthly beings"; "believed that our earthly life is all that matters"; "earthly love"; "our earthly home" [ant: {he...

1: the concerns of the world as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent of the world" [syn: {worldly concern}, {world}, {earth}]

1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: {tellurian}, {earthling}]

1: any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe [syn: {truffle}, {earth-ball}] 2: a common European plant having edible tubers with ...

1: European herb bearing small tubers used for food and in Scotland to flavor whiskey [syn: {heath pea}, {earth-nut pea}, {tuberous vetch}, {Lathyrus tuberosus}]

1: shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity [syn: {quake}, {temblor}, {seism}] 2: a disturbance that is extre...

1: loud enough to shake the very earth 2: sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; "earthshaking proposals"; "the contest was no world-shaking affair"; "the conversation...could hardly be c...

1: any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star

1: any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum [syn: {earth-tongue}]

1: an earthen rampart

1: terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers [syn: {angleworm}, {fishworm}, {fishing worm}, {wiggler}, {nightwalk...

1: conspicuously and tastelessly indecent; "coarse language"; "a crude joke"; "crude behavior"; "an earthy sense of humor"; "a revoltingly gross expletive"; "a vulgar gesture"; "full of language so vu...

1: a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal [syn: {cerumen}]

1: any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen

1: a federal warning system that is activated by FEMA; enables the President to take over the United States airwaves to warn the whole country of major catastrophic events [syn: {Emergency Alert Syste...

1: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation" [syn: {easiness}, {simplicity}] [ant: {diffic...

1: become less intense [syn: {ease up}, {slacken off}, {flag}] 2: reduce pressure or intensity; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down" [syn: {ease up}, {let up}]

1: move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" [syn: {move over}, {give way}, {give}, {yield}] 2: become less intense [...

1: (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear [syn: {alleviated}, {relieved}]

1: an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas)

1: (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land) 2: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he aske...

{easy}

{easy}

{easy}

1: with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily'); "she was easily excited"; "was easily confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very easily"; "success came too easy" [syn: {easy}...

1: a state of refreshing tranquility [syn: {relaxation}] 2: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of tran...

1: a change for the better [syn: {moderation}, {relief}] 2: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain" [syn: {easement}, {a...

1: situated in or facing or moving toward the east [ant: {west}] n 1: the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees [syn: {due east}, {E}] 2: the countries of Asia [syn: {Orient}] 3: the region of ...

1: a geographical area in eastern Africa

1: of or relating to or located in East Africa

1: tropical African timber tree with fragrant wood [syn: {Juniperus procera}]

1: a region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom

1: the compass point that is one point north of due east [syn: {EbN}]

1: the compass point that is one point south of due east [syn: {EbS}]

1: a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad

1: part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia

1: the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.)

1: relating to or characteristic of East Germany; "East German spies" n : a native or inhabitant of the former republic of East Germany

1: an extinct branch of the Germanic languages [syn: {East Germanic language}]

1: an extinct branch of the Germanic languages [syn: {East Germanic}]

1: a republic in north central Europe on the Baltic; established by the Soviet Union in 1954; reunified with West Germany in 1990 [syn: {German Democratic Republic}]

1: a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia [syn: {Malay Archipelago}, {East Indies}]

1: an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia; in the 18th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until th...

1: reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc [syn: {Malabar kino}, {kino gum}]

1: East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood [syn: {Indian blackwood}, {East Indian rosewood}, {Indian rosewood}, {Dalbergia latifolia}]

1: of or relating to or located in the East Indies

1: East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks [syn: {banyan}, {banyan tree}, {banian}, {banian tree}, {Indian banyan}, {Ficus bengalensis}]

1: tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand [syn: {crape jasmine}, {crepe jasmine}, {crepe gardenia}, {pinwheel flo...

1: East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood [syn: {Indian blackwood}, {East India rosewood}, {Indian rosewood}, {Dalbergia latifolia}]

1: a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia [syn: {Malay Archipelago}, {East India}]

1: the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo

1: the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English

1: the compass point midway between northeast and east [syn: {ENE}]