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| Main Entry: |
abridgement
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortening, summary |
| Synonyms: | abbreviation, abstract, brief, compendium, condensation, conspectus, contraction, curtailment, cutting, decrease, digest, diminishment, diminution, lessening, outline, precis, reducing, reduction, synopsis |
| Antonyms: | addition, enlargement, expansion, extension, increase, lengthening, padding |
| Main Entry: | excavation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | site of digging; digging |
| Synonyms: | blasting, burrow, cavity, cut, cutting, dig, disinterring, ditch, dugout, exhuming, hole, hollow, mine, mining, pit, quarry, removal, scooping, shaft, shoveling, trench, trough, unearthing |
| Antonyms: | filling |
| Main Entry: | extract |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something condensed from whole |
| Synonyms: | abstract, citation, clipping, concentrate, cutting, decoction, distillate, distillation, elicitation, essence, excerpt, infusion, juice*, passage, quotation, selection |
| Antonyms: | insertion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | groove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | channel, indentation |
| Synonyms: | canal, corrugation, crease, crimp, cut, cutting, depression, ditch, flute, fluting, furrow, gouge, gutter, hollow, incision, notch, pucker, rabbet, rut, scallop, score, scratch, slit, trench, valley |
| Main Entry: | plant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organism belonging to the vegetable kingdom |
| Synonyms: | annual, biennial, bush, creeper, cutting*, flower, grass, greenery, herb, perennial, seedling, shoot, shrub, slip, sprout, tree, vine, weed |
| Antonyms: | animal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quotation/quote |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repetition of something spoken or written by someone |
| Synonyms: | citation, citing, cutting, excerpt, extract, passage, quote, recitation, reference, saying, selection |
| Main Entry: | scrap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny bit of something |
| Synonyms: | atom, bite, bits and pieces, butt, castoff, chip, chunk, crumb, cutting, discard, end, fragment, glob, gob, grain, hunk, iota, jot, junk, leaving, leftover, lump, mite, modicum, morsel, mouthful, odds and ends, orts, part, particle, piece, portion, remains, shred, slice, sliver, smithereen, snatch, snippet, speck, stump, trace, waste |
| Antonyms: | load, lot |
| Main Entry: | slab |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chunk of solid object |
| Synonyms: | bar, billet, bit, board, boulder, chip, cut, cutting, hunk, ingot, lump, muck, piece, plate, portion, rod, slice, stave, stick, stone, strip, wedge |
| Main Entry: | clipping |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excerpt |
| Synonyms: | cutting, part, piece |
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