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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insect |
| Synonyms: | ant, beetle, cootie, flea, gnat, louse, pest, vermin |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings |
| Main Entry: | hang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suspend or be suspended |
| Synonyms: | adhere, attach, be fastened, be in mid-air, be loose, be pendent, be poised, beetle, bend, bow, cling, cover, dangle, deck, decorate, depend, drape, drift, droop, drop, fasten, fix, flap, float, flop, furnish, hold, hover, impend, incline, lean, loll, lop, lower, nail, overhang, pin, project, remain, rest, sag, stay up, stick, swing, tack, trail, wave |
| Main Entry: | insect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bug |
| Synonyms: | ant, aphid, arachnid, arthropod, bedbug, bee, beetle, bumblebee, butterfly, cockroach, cootie, daddy longlegs, dragonfly, flea, fly, fruit fly, gnat, grasshopper, hornet, ladybug, louse, mite, mite, mosquito, moth, pest, praying mantis, spider, termite, tick, vermin, yellowjacket |
| Notes: | a bug is a particular kind of insect, specifically belonging to the order Hemiptera (tough leathery forewings attached to the body - like ladybugs, beetles) while insects generally belong to the class Insecta, which have bodies in three segments, usually two pairs or wings and three pairs of legs (like bees, mosquitoes); spiders are not technically insects because they have four pairs of legs insect (from Latin animal insectum) literally meant 'divided animal' or 'cut up or into' from the segments of its body (head, thorax, abdomen) - the common word being 'bug'; insect is any of an extremely large group of small invertebrate animals - and most undergo metamorphosis while bug denotes a special group of insects with beaklike sucking mouth parts and partly membranous forewings one major difference between insect, spider, and crustacean is the antennae; one pair on most insects, none on spiders, and two pairs for crustaceans |
| Main Entry: | jut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend |
| Synonyms: | beetle, bulge, elongate, impend, lengthen, overhang, poke, pop, pouch, project, protrude, protuberate, stand out, stick out |
| Antonyms: | indent, recede |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend, angle toward |
| Synonyms: | be off, be slanted, bear on, beetle, bow, cant, careen, cock, curve, decline, deflect, dip, divert, drift, droop, fasten on, hang on, heel, incline, jut, list, nod, overhang, pitch, place, prop, put weight on, recline, repose, rest, rest on, roll, sag, sheer, sink, slant, slope, tilt, tip, turn, twist, veer |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | overhang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, hang over |
| Synonyms: | be imminent, be suspended, beetle, cast a shadow, command, dangle over, droop over, endanger, extend, flap over, impend, jut, loom, menace, overtop, poke, portend, pouch, project, protrude, rise above, stand out, stick out, swing over, threaten, tower above |
| Main Entry: | project |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, hang out |
| Synonyms: | be conspicuous, be prominent, beetle, extend, hang over, jut, lengthen, overhang, poke, pop out, pout, prolong, protrude, protuberate, push out, stand out, stick out, stretch out, thrust out |
| Antonyms: | cave in |
| Main Entry: | protrude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stick out |
| Synonyms: | beetle, bulge, butt out, come through, distend, extend, extrude, jut, jut out, obtrude, overhang, point, poke, pop, pouch, pout, project, shoot out, stand out, start, stick up, swell |
| Antonyms: | depress, sink |
| Main Entry: | stand out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be conspicuous, prominent |
| Synonyms: | attract attention, be distinct, be highlighted, be striking, beetle, bulge, bulk, catch the eye, emerge, jut, loom, overhang, poke, pouch, project, protrude, stick out |
| Antonyms: | obscure |
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