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| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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: | [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.
-verbs
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.
-adjectives
elapsing; aoristic; progressive.
-adverbs
in due time, in due season; in in due course, in due process, in the fullness of time; in time.
-phrases
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: | Furrow. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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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.
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furrowed; ribbed, striated, sulcated, fluted, canaliculated; bisulcous, bisulcate, bisulcated; canaliferous; trisulcate; curduroy, thin-wale, wide-wale; unisulcate; costate, rimiform.
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| Concept: | Habit. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
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-nouns
habit, habitude; assuetude, assuefaction, wont; run, way., common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground., prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette (gentility); order of the day, cry; conformity; consuetude, dustoor., one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae; laudator temporis acti., rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism; pipe clay; rut, groove., cacoethes; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit; addiction, trick., training (education); seasoning, second nature, acclimatization; knack.
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be wont., fall into a rut, fall into a custom (conform to) [more]; tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten path; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way., habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train (educate)., get into the way, get into the knack of; learn; cling to, adhere to; repeat; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into., be habitual; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take root; gain upon one, grow upon one.
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habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; of daily occurrence, everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood., conformable; according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable (genteel)., wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated; in the habit of; habitue; at home in (skillful); seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to., hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting; naturalized; ingrained (intrinsic).
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habitually; always (uniformly)., as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards; more suo, more solito; ex more., as a rule, for the most part; usually, generally, typically; most often, most frequently.
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cela s'entend; abeunt studia in mores; adeo in teneris consuescere multum est; consuetudo quasi altera natura [Cicero]; hoc erat in more majorum; "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" [Two Gentlemen]; magna est vis consuetudinis; morent fecerat usus
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| Antonyms: | desuetude |
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| Concept: | Method. [Path.] |
| Category: | 1. Conceptional volition |
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method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise; modus operandi, MO; procedure (line of conduct)., path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack., steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile; perron., bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway; drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe., door; gateway (opening); channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit; artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor; back door, back stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel., roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike , freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut (mid-course) [more]; carrefour; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal (conduit); street (abode); speedway.
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how; in what way, in what manner; by what mode; so, in this way, after this fashion., one way or another, anyhow; somehow or other (instrumentality); by way of; via; in transitu; on the high road to.
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| Concept: | Notch. |
| Category: | 3. Superficial form |
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notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple., embrasure, battlement, machicolation; saw, tooth, crenelle, scallop, scollop, vandyke; depression; jag.
-verbs
notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scollop, scallop, crenulate, vandyke.
-adjectives
notched; crenate, crenated, pinked; denate, denated; denticulate, denticulated; toothed, palmated, serrated.
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