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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue, abundance |
| Synonyms: | breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, leakage, movement, oozing, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | breed, descent, family, heredity, lineage, pedigree, race, stock, strain, succession |
| Main Entry: | lineage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ancestry |
| Synonyms: | birth, blood, breed, clan, descendants, descent, extraction, family, folk, forebears, genealogy, heredity, house, kin, kindred, line, offspring, origin, pedigree, progenitors, progeny, race, stirps, stock, succession, tribe |
| Notes: | linage (pronounced LYE-nij) refers to the number of lines of printed material, as in a newspaper; lineage (pronounced LIN-ee-ij) refers to ancestry, derivation, or line of descent |
| Main Entry: | offspring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | child, children |
| Synonyms: | baby, bambino, brood, chip off old block, cub, descendant, family, generation, heir, heredity, issue, kid*, lineage, offshoot, posterity, produce, progeniture, progeny, pup, scion, seed, spawn, succession, successor, young |
| Antonyms: | parent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | order |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arrangement, organization |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, aligning, array, assortment, cast, categorization, classification, codification, composition, computation, disposal, disposition, distribution, establishment, form, grouping, harmony, layout, line, lineup, management, method, neatness, ordering, orderliness, pattern, placement, plan, procedure, procession, progression, propriety, regularity, regulation, rule, scale, scheme, sequence, series, setup, standardization, structure, succession, symmetry, system, tidiness, uniformity |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
| Antonyms: | confusion, disorder, disorganization, mess, muddle |
| Main Entry: | procession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | parade, sequence |
| Synonyms: | advance, autocade, cavalcade, column, consecution, cortege, course, cycle, file, march, motorcade, movement, order, process, run, series, string, succession, train |
| Notes: | a choir entering a church is a procession; leaving is a recession |
| Main Entry: | queue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sequence |
| Synonyms: | chain, concatenation, echelon, file, line, order, progression, rank, row, series, string, succession, tail, tier, train |
| Notes: | a queue is a line of people or vehicles waiting for something or an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted; a cue is a signal or stimulus that helps to solve a problem or provides information about what to do - or a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards |
| Antonyms: | disorganization |
| Main Entry: | rash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outbreak of disease or condition |
| Synonyms: | breakout, epidemic, eruption, flood, hives, pandemic, plague, series, spate, succession, wave |
| Notes: | rash (the adjective) suggests imprudence and lack of forethought; reckless implies disregard of possible consequences |
| Main Entry: | round |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cycle, stage |
| Synonyms: | ambit, beat, bout, circuit, circulation, circumvolution, compass, course, division, gyration, lap, level, performance, period, revolution, rotation, round trip, routine, schedule, sequence, series, session, succession, tour, turn, wheel, whirl |
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