| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | buffet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meal set out on table for choosing |
| Synonyms: | cafeteria, café, cold table, counter, cupboard, lunch wagon, salad bar, shelf, sideboard, smorgasbord, snack bar |
| Main Entry: | projection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bulge, overhang |
| Synonyms: | bump, bunch, eaves, extension, hook, jut, knob, ledge, outthrust, point, prolongation, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, ridge, rim, shelf, sill, spine, spur, step, swelling |
| Antonyms: | depression |
| Main Entry: | rack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frame, framework |
| Synonyms: | arbor, bed, box, bracket, counter, furniture, holder, ledge, perch, receptacle, shelf, stand, structure, trestle |
| Notes: | rack is the linear gear and pinion is the circular gear in a mechanism rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | base, foundation |
| Synonyms: | basis, bed, bottom, footing, ground, groundwork, holder, pedestal, pediment, pillar, prop, seat, seating, shelf, stand, stay, support, trestle |
| Main Entry: | rock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stone |
| Synonyms: | bedrock, boulder, cobblestone, crag, crust, earth, gravel, lava, lodge, mass, metal, mineral, ore, pebble, promontory, quarry, reef, rubble, shelf, slab, slag |
| Main Entry: | shallow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not deep |
| Synonyms: | cursory, depthless, empty, flat, hollow, inconsiderable, sand bar, shelf, shoal, slight, superficial, surface, trifling, trivial, unsound |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
| Antonyms: | deep |
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
| Synonyms: | abruptness, bank, bend, bevel, bias, cant, declination, declivity, deflection, descent, deviation, diagonal, downgrade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, obliqueness, obliquity, pitch, ramp, rise, rising ground, shelf, skew, steepness, swag, sway, tip |
| Antonyms: | evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
at a loose ends, at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at one's ease, at rest, becalmed, calm, cataleptic, cubatory, deliberate, fixed, hypnagogic, immovable, leisurely, lodged, mawmsey, motionless, moveless, picktooth, quiescent, quiet, recumbent, reposing, restful, semisomnous, silent, sleeping, slow, somnifugous, stagnant, standing still, stationary, still, still as a mouse, still as a post, still as a statue, still as death, stock still, undisturbed, unmoved, unruffled, unstrained, untraveled
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