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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incision |
| Synonyms: | carving, chip, chop, cleavage, cleft, dissection, fissure, furrow, gash, graze, groove, intersection, kerf, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, passage, penetration, pierce, prick, rabbet, rent, rip, scarification, sculpture, section, shave, slash, slit, slot, snip, stab, stroke, trench, trim, wound |
| Main Entry: | furrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
| Synonyms: | channel, corrugation, crease, crinkle, crow's-foot, dike, fluting, fold, groove, gutter, hollow, line, plica, rabbet, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rut, seam, trench, wrinkle |
| 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: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | empty out; make concave |
| Synonyms: | channel, chase, corrugate, dent, dig, dish, ditch, excavate, furrow, gorge, groove, indent, notch, pit, rabbet, remove, rut, scoop, shovel, trench |
| Antonyms: | fill, make convex, raise |
| Main Entry: | indent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a space; push in slightly |
| Synonyms: | bash, cave in, cut, dent, depress, dint, hollow, jag, mark, nick, notch, pink, pit, rabbet, rut, scallop, score, serrate |
| Antonyms: | flush |
| Main Entry: | notch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indentation |
| Synonyms: | cleft, cut, gap, gash, groove, incision, indent, indenture, mark, mill, nick, nock, rabbet, rut, score, scratch |
| Main Entry: | rut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | groove, indentation |
| Synonyms: | furrow, gouge, hollow, pothole, rabbet, score, track, trench, trough |
| Antonyms: | closing |
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| Main Entry: | groove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
bisulcate, bisulcous, canaliculated, cannelured, corduroy, corrugated, dadoed, fluted, foiled, furrowed, glyphic, gouged, lirate, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, rugulose, striate, striated, sulcated, trisulcate, vandyked
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| Concept: | Furrow. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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-nouns
furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole., channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse, trough, kennel; ravine (interval); tajo [U.S.], thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.].
-verbs
furrow; flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in.
-adjectives
furrowed; ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated; bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated; canaliferous; trisulcate; curduroy, thin-wale, wide-wale; unisulcate; costate, rimiform.
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