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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | protect |
| Synonyms: | bulwark, chamber, conceal, cover, cover all bases, cover up, defend, fend, give cover, give shelter, go to bat for, guard, harbor, haven, house, ride shotgun, roof, safeguard, screen, secure, shelter, shotgun, stonewall, take under one's wing, ward off |
| Antonyms: | endanger, lay bare, open, uncover |
| Main Entry: | catacomb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | underground tunnel |
| Synonyms: | cave, chamber, crypt, grotto, passageway |
| Main Entry: | caisson |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wagon |
| Synonyms: | box, case, chamber, chest, float |
| Main Entry: | chamber pot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | container as toilet |
| Synonyms: | bedpan, chamber, jerry, jordan, pisspot, potty, thunder mug |
| Main Entry: | atrium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | central building area |
| Synonyms: | cavity, chamber, court, entrance, passage, room |
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| Main Entry: | flat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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accumbent, aclinal, agroof, alluvial, applanate, calm, calm as a mill pond, campestral, champaign, couchant, decubital, decumbent, discoid, even, flat, flat as a billiard table, flat as a board, flat as a bowling-green, flat as a flounder, flat as a fluke, flat as a pancake, flat as my hand, flush, horizontal, jacent, level, lying, oblate, planar, plane, procumbent, prone, prostrate, raxed, rectiserial, recumbent, smooth, smooth as glass, supine, ventricumbent
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| Main Entry: | music |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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a cappella, accelerando, agitato, allegretto, allegro, andante, andantino, animato, appassionato, assonant, atonal, calando, canorous, choral, chromatic, classical, clear, clear as a bell, concentual, contrapuntal, crescendo, diatonic, diminuendo, dolce, dulcet, enchanting, enharmonic, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, fidicinal, fine, fortissimo, full, go, grazioso, harmonical, harmonious, hip, homophonous, in concert, in concord, in tune, instrumental, isotonic, larghetto, largo, legato, lento, lyric, lyriform, lyrophorous, maestoso, marcato, martellato, measured, melismatic, mellifluous, mellow, melodious, melomaniac, modal, moderato, modern, modulaminous, musical, operatic, parlando, pedaliter, pentatonic, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, plagal, playing, presto, rallentando, rhythmical, ripieno, ritardando, romantic, rubato, scherzando, semiclassical, semplice, silver, soft, sostenuto, spiccato, staccato, subito, sweet, symphonious, symphonizing, tenuto, tunable, tuneful, tutti, twelve, unplugged, vigoroso, vocal, zoppa
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| Concept: | Council. |
| Category: | 2. Complex voluntary action |
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-nouns
council, committee, subcommittee, comitia, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff., senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma, house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal (tribunal); board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board., audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber., cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod, congress, convention, diet, states-general., assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire [N.Am.], powwow [U.S.], primary [U.S.]., senator; member, member of parliament, M.P.; councilor, representative of the people; assemblyman, congressman.
-adjectives
senatorial, curule; congressional, parliamentary.
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| Concept: | Music. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; musical sounds |
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music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody; aria, arietta; piece of music, sonata; rondo, rondeau; pastorale, cavatina, roulade, fantasia, concerto, overture, symphony, variations, cadenza; cadence; fugue, canon, serenade, notturno [Italian], dithyramb; opera, operetta; oratorio; composition, movement; stave; passamezzo [Italian], toccata, Vorspiel [German]., instrumental music; full score; minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee, band, orchestra; concerted piece, potpourri, capriccio., vocal music, vocalism; chaunt, chant; psalm, psalmody; hymn; song (poem); canticle, canzonet, cantata, bravura, lay, ballad, ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo, solfeggio., Lydian measures; slow music, slow movent; adagio; minuet; siren strains, soft music, lullaby; dump; dirge (lament); pibroch; martial music, march; dance music; waltz (dance)., solo, duet, duo, trio; quartet, septet; part song, descant, glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale; antiphon, antiphony; accompaniment, second, bass; score; bourdon, drone, morceau, terzetto., composer; musician.
-verbs
compose, perform; attune.
-adjectives
musical; instrumental, vocal, choral, lyric, operatic; harmonious; Wagnerian.
-adverbs
adagio; largo, larghetto, andante, andantino; alla capella; maestoso, moderato; allegro, allegretto; spiritoso, vivace, veloce; presto, prestissimo; con brio; capriccioso; scherzo, scherzando; legato, staccato, crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando, affettuoso; obbligato; pizzicato; desto.
-phrases
"in notes by distance made more sweet" [Collins]; "like the faint exquisite music of a dream" [Moore]; "music arose with its voluptuous swell" [Byron]; "music is the universal language of mankind" [Longfellow]; "music's golden tongue" [Keats]; "the speech of angels" [Carlyle]; "will
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