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first and last
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eeny
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excepting
rare
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nonexcepted
secundum quid
less'n
wanting
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apart from
aside
exclusive
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unexcepted
excludingly
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noninclusive
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inessential
attenuate
uninclude
out of the way
unusualness
negligibility
insignificantly
stuff
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misken
day-to-day
scarcely
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unpalatability
⠁⠇⠹
semirare
extraneity
rareish
restrictedly
small beer
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midgeling
epsilon
disrelated
only if
noncommonable
uncommonable
irrelated
bar none
obomegoid
pissant
big if
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signal
e'en
secondarily
geason
unfunctional
crackpot
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semispecific
lacking
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out of order
exclusory
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last
omissive
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nobbut
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prep
conj
noun
- The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- A saving throw.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
verb
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To store for future use.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
prep
- Except, apart from.
- Near, but not in.
- Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.
- On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
adj
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
noun
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
verb
adv
prep
adv
noun
- An instance or example of using the word "but".
- A limit; a boundary.
- The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
- The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
conj
- Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".
- However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand (introducing a clause contrary to prior belief or in contrast with the preceding clause or sentence).
- Used to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.
- On the contrary, rather (as a regular adversative conjunction, introducing a word or clause in contrast or contradiction with the preceding negative clause or sentence).
- Used at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.
conj
adv
- As recently as.
- Without others or anything further; exclusively.
- Used to express surprise or consternation at an action.
- Introduces a disappointing or surprising outcome that renders futile something previously mentioned.
- No more than; just.
adj
- Alone in a category.
- Singularly superior; the best.
- Without sibling; without a sibling of the same gender.
noun
prep
- Except, other than, besides.
- Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
verb
- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- To prohibit.
- To lock or bolt with a bar.
noun
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- One of those musical sections.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
adv
adv
conj
adj
- Only.
- Unique; unsurpassed.
- With independent power; unfettered.
- Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed.
noun
- The bottom or plantar surface of the foot.
- The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes.
- A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
- The bottom of a furrow.
- The bottom of a shoe or boot.
- The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade.
- The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
- The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat
- Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae.
- The bottom of an embrasure.
- The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
- A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water.
verb
prep
noun
adj
conj
adj
- Exclusionary.
- Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
- Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
- Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
noun
verb
- To rarefy.
- To reduce the amplitude of an electrical, radio, or optical signal.
- To weaken.
- To reduce in size, force, value, amount, or degree.
- To become thin or fine; to grow less.
- (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.
- To reduce the virulence of a bacterium or virus.
- To make thinner, as by physically reshaping, starving, or decaying.
adj
verb
noun
- Unspecified things or matters.
- Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
- Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
verb
- To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- To fill with seasoning.
- To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- To break; to destroy.
- To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- To sate.
- To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- To sexually penetrate.
- To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
verb
- To fail to mention.
- To mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive.
- To misunderstand; mistake; have the wrong idea of.
- To fail to recognise or identify.
- To fail to know; be ignorant or unaware of; appear to be ignorant of.
- To refuse to acknowledge; disown; repudiate; pass over; ignore; disregard; neglect; overlook; disavow; disclaim; disown; deny.
- To esteem oneself incorrectly; have a false or exaggerated opinion of oneself or one's position.
adj
abbrev
adj
adj
noun
- An exception.
- A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
- A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
- A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
noun
- Something negligible or insignificant.
- In IPA, the phonetic symbol ɛ that represents the open-mid front unrounded vowel.
- The name for the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, ε or Ε, preceded by delta (Δ, δ) and followed by zeta (Ζ, ζ).
- A small child.
- Yes, we have to convert all the symbol names to upper case at startup, but that’s epsilon.
- The percentage change in an option value with respect to the underlying dividend yield.
- An arbitrarily small quantity.
adj
adj
adj
adj
adv
prep
adj
prep
- In addition to; besides.
- In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface.
- Higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; higher in measure, degree, volume, or pitch, etc. than; out of reach; not exposed to; not likely to be affected by; incapable of negative actions or thoughts.
- Higher in rank, status, or position.
- Farther north than.
- In preference to.
- Upstage of.
- Rising; appearing out of reach height-wise.
- Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing.
- Surpassing in number or quantity; more than.
- Beyond; on the other side.
- Too proud to stoop to; averse to; disinclined towards;
adj
noun
- Something, especially a person's name in legal documents, that appears higher on the same page or on a preceding page.
- Heaven.
- Higher authority.
adv
- Higher in rank, power, or position.
- On the upper half or the dorsal surface of an animal.
- Above zero; above freezing.
- More in number.
- Into or from heaven; in the sky.
- Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.
- In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.
- Directly overhead; vertically on top of.
adv
adj
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- immediately past
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- occurring at the time of death
- conclusive in a process or progression
- highest in extent or degree
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
verb
adj
noun
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
adv
noun
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- The defensive backs.
- An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- A satellite.
- An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
- A secondary circle.
- A secondary school.
adj
- Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
- Developed by pressure or other causes.
- Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- Of less than primary importance.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
- Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
- Formed by mixing primary colors.
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
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