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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversation |
| Synonyms: | chat, conference, discussion, talk |
| Main Entry: | conversation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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chatty, colloquial, conversable, conversational, conversing, discoursive, discursive, interlocutory
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| Main Entry: | gathering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accumulable, aggregable, agminate, all of a heap, allemang, as thick as hops, assembled, chockablock, closely packed, coacervate, crowded to suffocation, cumulative, dense, fasciculated, pily, populous, ramé, serried, styptic, swarming, teeming
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| Main Entry: | hearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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: | [Indefinite duration] Course. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
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corridors of time, sweep of time, vesta of time, course of time, progress of time, process of time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step of time, flight of time; duration., [Indefinite time] aorist.
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elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course., expire; go by, pass by; be past.
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elapsing; aoristic; progressive.
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in due time, in due season; in in due course, in due process, in the fullness of time; in time.
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labitur et labetur [Horace]; truditur dies die [Horace]; fugaces labuntur anni [Horace]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
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| Concept: | [Sense of sound] Hearing. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; sound; perception of sound |
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hearing; audition, auscultation; eavesdropping; audibility., acute ear, nice ear, delicate ear, quick ear, sharp ear, correct ear, musical ear; ear for music., ear, auricle, lug, acoustic organs, auditory apparatus; eardrum, tympanum; ear trumpet, speaking trumpet; telephone, phonograph, gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon, microphone., hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper., auditory, audience.
-verbs
hear, overhear; hark, harken; list, listen; give an ear, lend an ear, bend an ear; catch a sound, prick up one's ears; give ear, give a hearing, give audience to., hang upon the lips of, be all ears, listen with both ears., become audible; meet the ear, fall upon the ear, catch the ear, reach the ear; be heard; ring in the ear (resound).
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hearing; auditory, auricular, acoustic; phonic.
-adverbs
arrectis auribus.
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| Antonyms: | deafness |
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