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difference
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foil
token
swindle
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turd in the punchbowl
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edition
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representation
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kissing cousin
different breed of cat
contrapose
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illusion
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antipode
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turn-off
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first-of-its-kind
overshape
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unique
quasiequivalent
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sequel
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quiddity
haecceity
unfavorite
pop
little black dress
fly in the ointment
differing
erratic
two sides of the same coin
nonnegotiable
isolant
inhomogeneity
real thing
stick out a mile
obtuseness
traverse
absolute
whatever
negatum
unconventional
seity
compatible
externality
appendant
insipidity
transverse
cousin
pseudoneutral
parallel
match
analogue
not a pretty sight
analog
wind egg
inseparable
discern
partitive
wooden nickel
craporama
parameter
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mismatch
variant
nonstandard
change
foil
token
swindle
coordinate
turd in the punchbowl
complementer
nonexample
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edition
internality
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version
representation
variation
actuator
misappearance
kissing cousin
different breed of cat
tiger of a different stripe
illusion
excuse
second best
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imperfection
turn-off
asexual
weak point
noncomestible
overshape
dislike
unnature
homomorph
inclemency
nonexternality
unique
extraneity
sequel
subsequence
quiddity
haecceity
unfavorite
pop
little black dress
fly in the ointment
erratic
two sides of the same coin
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inhomogeneity
real thing
obtuseness
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absolute
whatever
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seity
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appendant
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analog
wind egg
inseparable
partitive
wooden nickel
craporama
parameter
rinky-dink
type shit
contrapose
stick out a mile
discern
noun
- Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
- A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
- Antithesis.
- is a substance used to increase the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging.
- The degree of this difference.
- A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
verb
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- An opponent.
- A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
- An antonym.
- An additive inverse.
adv
prep
adj
- Facing in the other direction.
- Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
- Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
- Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
- Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
noun
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A hit counter.
- One who counts.
- A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
adv
adj
noun
- A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
- The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
- A disagreement or argument.
- An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See augmentation and cadency.
- The quality of being different.
- The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
- The set of elements that are in one set but not another ( scriptstyle A◌̅B).
- Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
- A Boolean operation which is true when the two input variables are different but is otherwise false; the XOR operation ( scriptstyle A◌̅B+◌̅AB).
adj
- Other; different from something else.
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
- Presenting two or more alternatives.
- Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
noun
- A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
- One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
- alternative rock
- A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.
- The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
noun
- a thing that is different
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
- the action of changing something
- the result of alteration or modification
- the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
- a different or fresh set of clothes
- coins of small denomination regarded collectively
- money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
- a difference that is usually pleasant
verb
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change clothes; put on different clothes
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- give to, and receive from, one another
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- become deeper in tone
- remove or replace the coverings of
noun
- Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
- Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
- A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
- A very thin sheet of metal.
- A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
- A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
- In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.
- One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
- A stylized flower or leaf.
- Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
- The track of an animal.
verb
noun
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A keepsake.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- A tally.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
adj
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- He was hired as the company's token black person.
- Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
verb
noun
- The opposite of something.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
verb
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
adj
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
noun
- something a little different from others of the same type
- an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)
noun
- That which represents something else.
- The act of representing.
- An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
- A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others
- The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
- A theatrical performance.
- An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
noun
- something a little different from others of the same type
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- an activity that varies from a norm or standard
- a repetition of a musical theme in which it is modified or embellished
- an artifact that deviates from a norm or standard
- the angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north
- the process of varying or being varied
- (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon)
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure
- the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard
noun
- Something that actuates something else.
- A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
- The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
- A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve.
noun
- An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
- Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
- A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
verb
noun
- Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses.
- A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson.
- A bird, the European redwing.
- A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece.
- A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
- A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
- An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
- The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
- One's father.
- A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack.
- Pop music.
- A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop.
- The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
intj
adj
verb
- To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
- To burst (something) with a popping sound.
- To give birth.
- To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
- To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
- To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
- To ejaculate; to orgasm.
- To pawn (something) (to raise money).
- To hit (something or someone).
- To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
- To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
- To perform the popping style of dance.
- To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).
- To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
- To make a short trip or visit.
- To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.
- To arrest.
noun
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
adv
adj
verb
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
noun
adj
adj
noun
pron
- Anything; thing(s) of unspecified kind, or no matter what kind; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.
- Anything that; all that.
- Regardless of anything that.
- What ever; emphasised form of 'what', used to ask which thing, event, circumstance, etc.
adj
intj
adv
det
noun
- Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
- An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
adj
- Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
- Attached as an appendage.
- Annexed; concomitant.
noun
adj
- (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
- Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
- Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.
verb
noun
- Something kindred or related to something else.
- The child of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin.
- Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of one's extended family; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.
- A member of the British intelligence services (from an American perspective) or of the American intelligence services (from a British perspective).
noun
- something that resembles or harmonizes with
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
- a burning piece of wood or cardboard
- an exact duplicate
- the score needed to win a match
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- a pair of people who live together
verb
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- provide funds complementary to
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- be equal to in quality or ability
- make correspond or harmonize
- give or join in marriage
- set into opposition or rivalry
- be equal or harmonize
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
noun
adj
adj
noun
- Something that purports to be something other than it actually is, especially that purports to be more valuable than it actually is.
- The smallest amount of money imaginable.
- A wooden token that is manufactured and distributed by a particular business as an advertising gimic or which can be exchanged for goods. Many wooden nickels have now become collector's items.
- A worthless replica of a coin, usually intended to defraud.
noun
- A characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others.
- An input variable of a function definition, that gets an actual value (argument) at execution time.
- The ratio of the three crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane.
- A variable that describes some system (material, object, event, etc.) or some aspect thereof.
- The fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
- An actual value given to such a formal parameter.
- A variable of a model that is trained by a machine learning algorithm.
- A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation, or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc.
- Any measured quantity of a statistical population that summarises or describes an aspect of the population.
- In the ellipse and hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the corresponding ordinate.
noun
- Something that is not up to acceptable standards.
- A tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk.
- An amateur or someone who is underqualified.
- A thingy; a miscellaneous thing or object.
- Deceptive or underhanded rigmarole; trickery.
- A small-time crook or conman; someone who operates unethically.
- A bad deal; the result of a false promise.
adj
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