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drink
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(n) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"

(n) the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips"

(n) any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?"

(n) a single serving of a beverage; "I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner"

(n) any large deep body of water; "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued"

(v) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to; "The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage"

(v) take in liquids; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda"

(v) consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night"

(v) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; "The husband drinks and beats his wife"

(v) propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year"

driver
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(n) a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee

(n) (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device

(n) the operator of a motor vehicle

(n) a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver

(n) someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle

define
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(v) give a definition for the meaning of a word; "Define `sadness'"

(v) determine the essential quality of

(v) determine the nature of; "What defines a good wine?"

(v) delineate the form or outline of; "The tree was clearly defined by the light"; "The camera could define the smallest object"

date
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(n) sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed

(n) a meeting arranged in advance; "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"

(n) a participant in a date; "his date never stopped talking"

(n) the present; "they are up to date"; "we haven't heard from them to date"

(n) the specified day of the month; "what is the date today?"

(n) a particular day specified as the time something will happen; "the date of the election is set by law"

(n) the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred; "he tried to memorizes all the dates for his history class"

(n) a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date"

(v) assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of; "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"

(v) provide with a dateline; mark with a date; "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"

(v) stamp with a date; "The package is dated November 24"

(v) go on a date with; "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"

(v) date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!"

department
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(n) a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"

(n) a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"

(n) the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

dozen
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(n) the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

(s) denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

directly
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(r) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!"

(r) without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"

(r) in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay"

(r) without anyone or anything intervening; "these two factors are directly related"; "he was directly responsible"; "measured the physical properties directly"

debate
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(n) a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"

(n) the formal presentation of and opposition to a stated proposition (usually followed by a vote)

(v) argue with one another; "We debated the question of abortion"; "John debated Mary"

(v) have an argument about something

(v) discuss the pros and cons of an issue

(v) think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"

dinner
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(n) the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday; "dinner will be at 8"; "on Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church"

(n) a party of people assembled to have dinner together; "guests should never be late to a dinner party"

discussion
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(n) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased"

(n) an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it"

down
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(n) (American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have 4 downs to gain 10 yards"

(n) soft fine feathers

(n) fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)

(n) (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil

(n) English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)

(v) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"

(v) bring down or defeat (an opponent)

(v) eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

(v) drink down entirely; "He downed three martinis before dinner"; "She killed a bottle of brandy that night"; "They popped a few beer after work"

(v) cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"

(v) shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"

(s) the fractional price paid in cash at time of purchase; "the down payment"; "a payment of $200 down"

(s) not functioning (temporarily or permanently); "we can't work because the computer is down"

(s) cut down; "the tree is down"

(s) shut; "the shades were down"

(s) understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"

(a) being or moving lower in position or less in some value; "lay face down"; "the moon is down"; "our team is down by a run"; "down by a pawn"; "the stock market is down today"

(r) spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward"

(r) away from a more central or a more northerly place; "was sent down to work at the regional office"; "worked down on the farm"; "came down for the wedding"; "flew down to Florida"

(r) paid in cash at time of purchase; "put ten dollars down on the necklace"

(r) in an inactive or inoperative state; "the factory went down during the strike"; "the computer went down again"

(r) to a lower intensity; "he slowly phased down the light until the stage was completely black"

(r) from an earlier time; "the story was passed down from father to son"

detail
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(n) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information"

(n) extended treatment of particulars; "the essay contained too much detail"

(n) a crew of workers selected for a particular task; "a detail was sent to remove the fallen trees"

(n) a temporary military unit; "the peace-keeping force includes one British contingent"

(n) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details"

(v) assign to a specific task; "The ambulances were detailed to the fire station"

(v) provide details for

dream
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(n) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

(n) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"

(n) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night"

(n) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"

(n) a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"

(n) someone of something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"

(v) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

(v) experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"

deep
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(n) literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"

(n) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

(n) the central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night"; "in the deep of winter"

(s) exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy; "deep political machinations"; "a deep plot"

(s) strong; intense; "deep purple"; "a rich red"

(s) very distant in time or space; "deep in the past"; "deep in enemy territory"; "deep in the woods"; "a deep space probe"

(a) having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination; "a deep well"; "a deep dive"; "deep water"; "a deep casserole"; "a deep gash"; "deep m

(a) relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply; "a deep breath"; "a deep sigh"; "deep concentration"; "deep emotion"; "a deep trance"; "in a deep sleep"

(s) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"

(s) of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutible workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals t

(s) with head or back bent low; "a deep bow"

(s) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; "a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"

(s) large in quantity or size; "deep cuts in the budget"

(s) extreme; "in deep trouble"; "deep happiness"

(s) (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"

(s) marked by depth of thinking; "deep thoughts"; "a deep allegory"

(s) relatively thick from top to bottom; "deep carpets"; "deep snow"

(s) extending relatively far inward; "a deep border"

(r) to a great depth; "dived deeply"; "dug deep"

(r) to far into space; "penetrated deep into enemy territory"; "went deep into the woods";

(r) to an advanced time; "deep into the night"; "talked late into the evening"

discover
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(v) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"

(v) identify as in botany or biology, for example

(v) make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"

(v) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring

(v) make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

(v) see for the first time; make a discovery; "Who discovered the North Pole?"

(v) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"

(v) find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

direction
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(n) the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was installed under the direction of the king"

(n) the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?"

(n) the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life"

(n) a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm"

(n) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action

(n) a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them"

(n) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury"

(n) a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home"

(n) the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves; "he checked the direction and velocity of the wind"

Democrat
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(n) an advocate of democratic principles

(n) a member of the Democratic Party

design
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(n) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument"

(n) a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"

(n) a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something; "the design of a building"

(n) the creation of something in the mind

(n) an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests"

(n) something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"

(n) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his d

(v) intend or have as a purpose; "She designed to go far in the world of business"

(v) design something for a specific role or purpose or effect; "This room is not designed for work"

(v) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent; "She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day"

(v) make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"

(v) make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum"

(v) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit"

(v) create designs; "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"

dark
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(n) an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"

(n) an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

(n) absence of light or illumination

(n) absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"

(n) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

(s) not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"

(s) having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples"

(s) brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"

(a) devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"

(s) causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

(a) (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"

(s) marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"

(s) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"

(s) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the sc

(s) showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper

(s) secret; "keep it dark"; "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East"

democratic
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(s) representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science"; "popular fiction"

(a) characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality; "democratic government"; "a democratic country"; "a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords"- George du Maurier

(a) belong to or relating to the Democratic Party; "Democratic senator"

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