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finish
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(n) the act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause"

(n) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance); "the boat had a metallic finish"; "he applied a coat of a clear finish"; "when the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly"

(n) (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed); "the wine has a nutty flavor and a pleasant finish"

(n) event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"

(n) the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict); "booze will be the finish of him"; "it was a fight to the finish"

(n) designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race); "excitement grew as the finish neared"; "my horse was several lengths behind at the finish"; "the winner is the team with the most points at the finish"

(n) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey); "a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly exhuasted as their destination came into view"

(n) a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph

(n) the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"

(v) cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary"

(v) finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"

(v) come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"

(v) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"

(v) provide with a finish; "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"

(v) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony end

firm
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(n) members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house"

(v) make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"

(v) become taut or tauter; "Yur muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"

(s) strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope"

(s) unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends"

(s) securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car"

(s) pleasingly firm and fresh and making a crunching noise when chewed; "crisp carrot and celery sticks"; "a firm apple"; "crunchy lettuce"

(s) not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground"

(s) marked by the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue; "firm muscles"

(s) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"

(s) securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet"

(s) not subject to revision or change; "a firm contract"; "a firm offer"

(s) not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall; "stocks are still firm"

(s) (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling; "his voice was firm and confident"; "a firm step"

(r) with resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm"

final
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(n) an examination administered at the end of an academic term

(n) the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament

(s) not to be altered or undone; "the judge's decision is final"; "the arbiter will have the last say"

(s) occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave"

(s) conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result"

form
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(n) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape"

(n) a mold for setting concrete; "they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation"

(n) a life-size dummy used to display clothes

(n) the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features"

(n) a particular mode in which something is manifested; "his resentment took the form of extreme hostility"

(n) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes through the smoke"

(n) an ability to perform well; "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night"

(n) alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

(n) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"

(n) a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"

(n) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"

(n) a printed document with spaces in which to write; "he filled out his tax form"

(n) an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form"

(n) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; "a new strain of microorganisms"

(n) a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy"

(n) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"

(v) give a shape or form to; "shape the dough"

(v) give shape to; "form the clay into a head"

(v) make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the riceballs carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword"

(v) establish or impress firmly in the mind; "We imprint our ideas onto our children"

(v) create (as an entity); "social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company"

(v) to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"

(v) develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape"

forget
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(v) be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"

(v) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories"

(v) leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"

(v) forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!"

force
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(n) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"

(n) (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"

(n) physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

(n) a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

(n) a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"

(n) a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"

(n) group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"

(n) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"

(n) (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"

(v) impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"

(v) do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!"

(v) cause to move along the ground by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

(v) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"

(v) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"

(v) take by force; "Storm the fort"

(v) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

(v) move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

(v) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"

financial
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(a) involving financial matters; "fiscal responsibility"

forward
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(n) a position on a basketball team

(n) the person who plays the position of forward on a basketball team

(v) send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit; "forward my mail"

(s) moving toward a position ahead; "forward motion"; "the onward course of events"

(s) situated in the front; "the forward section of the aircraft"

(a) at or near or directed toward the front; "the forward section of the aircraft"; "a forward plunge down the stairs"; "forward motion"

(a) of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle; "in a forward gear"

(a) used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty; "a forward child badly in need of discipline"

(s) situated at or toward the front; "the fore cabins"; "the forward part of the ship"

(s) moving forward

(r) in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud"

(r) at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations)

(r) toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to seeing you"

(r) forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward"

(r) near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane; "the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments"

fail
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(v) get worse; "Her health is declining"

(v) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

(v) prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

(v) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"

(v) become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"

(v) fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"

(v) fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"

(v) judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"

(v) be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

(v) fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"

(v) be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"

feeling
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(n) the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"

(n) an intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music"

(n) a physical sensation that you experience; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my leg"; "he lost all feeling in his arm"

(n) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"

(n) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying"

(n) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"

fund
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(n) a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies

(n) a reserve of money set aside for some purpose

(n) a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"

(v) furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in many areas"

(v) accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan"

(v) invest money in government securities

(v) provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest

(v) place or store up in a fund for accumulation

(v) convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds

factor
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(n) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"

(n) an independent variable in statistics

(n) an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a s

(n) anything that contributes causally to a result; "a number of factors determined the outcome"

(n) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

(n) any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together

(n) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?"

(v) resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"

fine
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(n) money extracted as a penalty

(v) issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!"

(s) characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"

(s) (of weather) pleasant; not raining, perhaps with the sun shining; "a fine summer evening"

(s) minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; "a fine distinction"

(s) ; free or impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine"

(s) being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have

(a) of texture; being small-grained or smooth to the touch or having fine particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"

(s) superior to the average; "in fine spirits"; "a fine student"; "made good grades"; "morale was good"; "had good weather for the parade"

(s) thin in thickness or diameter; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print"

(s) being in good health; "he's feeling all right again"; "I'm fine, how are you?"

(r) sentence-initial expression of agreement

(r) in a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"

(r) in a superior and skilled manner; "the soldiers were fighting finely"

foreign
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(a) relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"

(a) of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"

(s) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something; "an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism"; "the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper"; "jealousy is foreign to her nature"

(s) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source; "water free of extraneous matter"; "foreign particles in milk"

focus
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(n) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; "in focus"; "out of focus"

(n) maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"

(n) the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life"

(n) a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section

(n) a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges

(n) a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection"

(n) special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"

(v) put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"

(v) become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused"

(v) direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

(v) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

(v) cause to converge on or toward a central point; "Focus the light on this image"

fill
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(n) a quantity sufficient to satisfy; "he ate his fill of potatoes"; "she had heard her fill of gossip"

(n) any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench"

(v) plug with a substance; "fill a cavity"

(v) become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"

(v) make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"

(v) fill or meet a want or need

(v) fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"

(v) eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"

(v) appoint someone to (a position or a job)

(v) assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"

(v) occupy the whole of; "The liquid fills the container"

fight
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(n) a boxing match; "the fight was on television last night"

(n) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"

(n) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

(n) an aggressive willingness to compete; "the team was full of fight"

(n) an intense verbal dispute; "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate"

(v) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; "the tribesmen fought each other"; "Siblings are always fighting"

(v) fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!"

(v) make a strenuous or labored effort; "She struggled for years to survive without welfare"; "He fought for breath"

(v) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his fa

future
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(n) bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date

(n) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

(n) the time yet to come

(a) yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him"

(s) effective in or looking toward the future; "he was preparing for future employment opportunities"

(a) a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened; "future auxiliary"

fire
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(n) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"

(n) a fireplace in which a fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked"

(n) intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"

(n) the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"

(n) a severe trial; "he went through fire and damnation"

(n) feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"

(n) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

(n) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)

(v) bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"

(v) destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"

(v) cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"

(v) go off or discharge; "The gun fired"

(v) start firing a weapon

(v) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

(v) drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"

(v) provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"

(v) terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

floor
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(n) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room or hallway); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"

(n) structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is the office on?"

(n) a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done; "he is a floor trader"

(n) the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; "there was a motion from the floor"

(n) the parliamentary right to address an assembly; "the chairman granted him the floor"

(n) a lower limit; "the government established a wage floor"

(n) the occupants of a floor; "the whole floor complained about the lack of heat"

(n) the bottom surface of any a cave or lake etc.

(n) the ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor"

(v) knock down with force; "He decked his opponent"

(v) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"

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