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| act |
a short performance, or one part of a whole performance, of music, dance, or other entertainment. [1/4 definitions] |
| adverb |
a word that describes a verb, adjective, adverb, or whole sentence. When a word is an adverb, it describes how or when or where we do things. Words like "tomorrow," "here," "there," "slowly," and "usually" are adverbs. Adverbs also go in front of other adverbs or adjectives to describe those words. |
| aggregate |
added up, combined, or considered as a whole. [2/6 definitions] |
| aggregation |
the act of collecting or being collected into a whole or mass. [1/2 definitions] |
| aliquot |
in math, forming a whole number divisor of another number without a remainder. [3 definitions] |
| all |
the whole thing of something or every one of some kind of thing. [1/3 definitions] |
| all along |
from the beginning; the whole time. |
| altogether |
if everything is considered; on the whole. [1/3 definitions] |
| analysis |
a careful study of the parts of something in order to understand more about the whole. |
| anesthetic |
a drug that causes anesthesia in the whole body or in a localized area. [1/2 definitions] |
| apportionment |
a distribution based on the relation of part to whole. [1/2 definitions] |
| arithmetic |
the method and process of using whole numbers to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. |
| assembly |
the process of joining things together to make a whole thing. [2/3 definitions] |
| assembly line |
a set-up in a factory whereby a product being put together passes, in moving along a track, conveyor belt, or the like, a succession of stations with workers, each of whom adds, adjusts, or secures apart to the whole. |
| baked Alaska |
a rich dessert made by piling ice cream on top of a layer of cake, covering the whole with meringue, and baking or broiling until the meringue begins to brown. |
| batch |
an amount of something or a number of similar things grouped or considered as a whole. [1/2 definitions] |
| being |
essential or fundamental character; whole self. [1/3 definitions] |
| bingo |
a game in which players try to match numbers on a card with numbers read out by a caller. Each player has a card with numbered squares. The player who is the first to cover a whole row of squares is the winner. |
| black pepper |
a spice made by grinding the whole dried berry of the pepper plant. |
| blood bank |
a place where blood is collected, processed, and stored as whole blood or plasma, for later use in transfusion. |
| bloodbath |
a brutal and indiscriminate slaughter of many people or a whole population; massacre. [1/2 definitions] |
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