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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortification, stronghold |
| Synonyms: | barricade, barrier, bastion, breastwork, bulwark, defense, earthwork, elevation, embankment, fence, fort, guard, hill, mound, parapet, protection, ridge, security, support, vallation, wall |
| Main Entry: | shelf |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jutting, flat area or piece |
| Synonyms: | bank, bracket, console, counter, cupboard, ledge, mantelpiece, mantle, rack, reef, ridge, rock, shallow, shoal |
| Main Entry: | spine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backbone |
| Synonyms: | back, bone, chine, rachis, ridge, spinal column, vertebrae, vertebral column |
| Main Entry: | streak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vein, line; small part |
| Synonyms: | band, bar, beam, dash, element, hint, intimation, layer, ray, ridge, rule, shade, slash, smear, strain, stream, strip, stripe, stroke, suggestion, suspicion, touch, trace |
| Main Entry: | swelling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical growth; lump |
| Synonyms: | abscess, blister, boil, bruise, bulge, bump, bunion, carbuncle, contusion, corn, dilation, distention, enlargement, hump, increase, inflammation, injury, knob, knurl, node, nodule, pimple, pock, protuberance, puff, puffiness, pustule, ridge, sore, tumescence, tumor, wale, wart, weal, welt |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | wave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sea surf, current |
| Synonyms: | bending, billow, breaker, coil, comber, convolution, corkscrew, crest, crush, curl, curlicue, drift, flood, foam, ground swell, gush, heave, influx, loop, movement, outbreak, rash, ridge, ripple, rippling, rocking, roll, roller, rush, scroll, sign, signal, stream, surge, sweep, swell, tendency, tide, tube, twirl, twist, undulation, unevenness, uprising, upsurge, whitecap, winding |
| Main Entry: | welt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | red mark |
| Synonyms: | bruise, contusion, injury, mouse, ridge, scar, streak, stripe, wale, weal, wheal, wound |
| Main Entry: | headland |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high land area |
| Synonyms: | bluff, cape, cliff, foreland, ness, peak, promontory, ridge, spit, strip |
| Main Entry: | fillet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fastener |
| Synonyms: | band, bandeau, chaplet, crown, fish, garland, headband, listel, meat, molding, ribbon, ridge, slice, snood, strip, tape, wreath |
| Notes: | a boned piece of meat is a filet (preferred in U.S.) or fillet, a thin slice of meat is an escalope, and a thick slice is a steak; a fillet/filet is a narrow band (from Latin filum 'thread') - as in a band of nerve or muscle fiber |
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