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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gossip |
| Synonyms: | babble, bad-mouth, bend one's ear, blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, cut to pieces, cut up, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw, noise, prate, prattle, rattle on, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spill the beans, spread*, suggest, talk, talk idly, tattle, tell secrets, tell tales out of school, tell tales, whisper, wiggle-waggle |
| Main Entry: | news |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Intelligence. Wisdom. |
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-nouns
intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe [U.S.], savvy [U.S.]; intellect; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness; acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination; cunning; refinement (taste)., head, brains, headpiece, upper story, long head; eagle eye, eagle glance; eye of a lynx, eye of a hawk., wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense [U.S.], plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind., genius, inspiration, geist, fire of genius, heaven-born genius, soul; talent (aptitude)., [Wisdom in action] prudence [more]; vigilance; tact; foresight; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast., a bright thought, not a bad idea.
-verbs
be intelligent; have all one's wits about one; understand (intelligible); catch an idea, take in an idea; take a joke, take a hint., see through, see at a glance, see with half an eye, see far into, see through a millstone; penetrate; discern (descry); foresee., discriminate; know what's what [more]; listen to reason.
-adjectives
[Applied to persons] intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp-eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle; alive to (cognizant); clever (apt); arch (cunning); pas si bete; acute., wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens, judicious, strong-minded., unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted, unprepossessed; undazzled, unperplexed; of unwarped judgment, impartial, equitable, fair., cool; cool-headed, long-headed, hardheaded, strong-headed; long-sighted, calculating, thoughtful, reflecting; solid, deep, profound.
-phrases
aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportet; "but with the morning cool reflection came" [Scott]; flosculi sententiarum; les affaires font les hommes; mas vale saber que haber; mas vale ser necio que profiadol nemo solus sapit [Plautus]; nosce te; nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit [Seneca, from Aristotle]; sapere
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| Antonyms: | imbecility, folly |
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| Concept: | News. |
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-nouns
news; information; piece of news, budget of news, budget of information; intelligence, tidings., word, advice, aviso, message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable, marconigram, wire, communication, errand, embassy., report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, gossip, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat., fresh news, stirring news; glad tidings., old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut., narrator (describe); newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer, telltale, gossip, tattler.
-verbs
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many-tongued; rumored; publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported; rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town.
-adverbs
as the story goes, as the story runs; as they say, it is said; by telegraph, by wireless.
-phrases
"airy tongues that syllable men's names" [Milton].
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| Concept: | [Air in motion] Wind. |
| Category: | 2. Fluid matter; fluids in motion |
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. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent., gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther., windiness; ventosity; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black squall, white squall., anemography, aerodynamics; windgauge, weathercock, weathervane; anemometer, anemoscope., sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing, fanning; ventilation., sneezing; errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath., Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus., air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator, punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum.
-verbs
blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane; wuther; stream, issue., respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough., fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up.
-adjectives
blowing; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy, tempestuous, blustering; boisterous (violent)., pulmonic, pulmonary.
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"lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air" [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged
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| Concept: | Word. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional Means; Language Generally |
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-nouns
word, term, vocable; name; phrase; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech (grammar); ideophone., dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, index, glossary, thesaurus, gradus, delectus, concordance., etymology, derivation; glossology, terminology, orismology; paleology (philogy)., lexicography; glossography (scholar); lexicologist, verbarian.
-adjectives
verbal, literal; titular, nominal., [Similarly derived] conjugat, paronymous; derivative.
-adverbs
verbally; verbatim (exactly).
-phrases
"the artillery of words" [Swift].
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