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oewn-02769408-v | shimmer | Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight | shine with a weak or fitful light |
oewn-02769567-v | flicker | The candle flickered | shine unsteadily |
oewn-02769567-v | flick | The candle flickered | shine unsteadily |
oewn-02769698-v | beam | The fire beamed on their faces | emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light |
oewn-02770396-v | blaze | The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze | burn brightly and intensely |
oewn-02770572-v | blaze | Meteors blazed across the atmosphere | shine brightly and intensively |
oewn-02770723-v | twinkle | Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star? | emit or reflect light in a flickering manner |
oewn-02770723-v | winkle | Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star? | emit or reflect light in a flickering manner |
oewn-02771048-v | glare | The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface | be sharply reflected |
oewn-02771422-v | absorb | A black star absorbs all matter | suck or take up or in |
oewn-02771650-v | suck | The current boom in the economy sucked many workers in from abroad | attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc. |
oewn-02771882-v | reflect | Drive carefully--the wet road reflects | be bright by reflecting or casting light |
oewn-02772348-v | sparkle | Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside | reflect brightly |
oewn-02772645-v | spark | A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark | emit or produce sparks |
oewn-02772883-v | mirror | The smallest pond at night mirrors the firmament above | reflect as if in a mirror |
oewn-02773074-v | radiate | The sun radiates heat | send out rays or waves |
oewn-02773266-v | emit | The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits | give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. |
oewn-02773718-v | scintillate | the substance scintillated sparks and flashes | give off |
oewn-02774078-v | reek | Marshes reeking in the sun | give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. |
oewn-02774389-v | ray | That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky | emit as rays |
oewn-02774537-v | steam | The rain forest was literally steaming | emit steam |
oewn-02775035-v | gutter | The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground | burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker |
oewn-02775438-v | breeze | It breezes most evenings at the shore | blow gently and lightly |
oewn-02775600-v | set in | That gale could set in on us with the next high tide | blow toward the shore |
oewn-02775741-v | waft | A breeze wafted through the door | blow gently |
oewn-02775858-v | storm | It was storming all night | blow hard |
oewn-02775977-v | squall | When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails | blow in a squall |
oewn-02776128-v | storm | If it storms, we'll need shelter | rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning |
oewn-02776320-v | bluster | A southeaster blustered onshore | blow hard; be gusty, as of wind |
oewn-02776320-v | bluster | The flames blustered | blow hard; be gusty, as of wind |
oewn-02776493-v | thunder | Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed | be the case that thunder is being heard |
oewn-02776675-v | overcast | Fall weather often overcasts our beaches | make overcast or cloudy |
oewn-02777127-v | clear | The sky cleared after the storm | become clear |
oewn-02777278-v | blight | Too much rain may blight the garden with mold | cause to suffer a blight |
oewn-02777522-v | swamp | The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor | drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged |
oewn-02778268-v | deflagrate | care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated | cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity |
oewn-13445356-n | absorption | the absorption of photons by atoms or molecules | (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium |
oewn-13445650-n | accession | the art collection grew through accession | a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group) |
oewn-13446810-n | acetylation | the acetylation of cyclooxygenase-2 by aspirin | the process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound |
oewn-13449332-n | aeration | the aeration of the soil | the process of exposing to air (so as to purify) |
oewn-13456721-n | attack | the film was sensitive to attack by acids | the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent) |
oewn-13456721-n | attack | open to attack by the elements | the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent) |
oewn-13460563-n | bloom | you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed | the organic process of bearing flowers |
oewn-13461236-n | activity | respiratory activity | an organic process that takes place in the body |
oewn-13463341-n | buildup | the buildup of leaves blocked the drain pipes | the result of the process of accumulation |
oewn-13465304-n | catalysis | of the top 50 commodity chemicals, 30 are created directly by catalysis and another 6 are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced | acceleration of a chemical reaction induced by the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction |
oewn-13468534-n | chemical reaction | there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water | (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others |
oewn-13468534-n | reaction | there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water | (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others |
oewn-13469096-n | chemisorption | chemisorption of gaseous nitrogen on iron catalysts | adsorption (especially when irreversible) by means of chemical instead of physical forces |
oewn-13472977-n | consumption | the consumption of energy has increased steadily | (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing |
oewn-13473290-n | control operation | a control operation started the data processing | an operation that controls the recording or processing or transmission of interpretation of data |
oewn-13475491-n | cultivation | the cultivation of bees for honey | the process of fostering the growth of something |
oewn-13482365-n | demand | the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips | the ability and desire to purchase goods and services |
oewn-13482365-n | demand | the demand exceeded the supply | the ability and desire to purchase goods and services |
oewn-13482925-n | denazification | denazification was a slow process | social process of removing Nazis from official positions and giving up any allegiance to Nazism |
oewn-13483590-n | derivation | `singer' from `sing' or `undo' from `do' are examples of derivations | (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation |
oewn-13484192-n | desertification | the dust storms in Korea are the result of rapid desertification in China | the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert; is usually caused by climate change or by destructive use of the land |
oewn-13484458-n | desensitisation | she laments on society's gradual desensitisation to the horrors of xenophobia | the process of reducing sensitivity |
oewn-13484859-n | destalinization | his statue was demolished as part of destalinization | social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor |
oewn-13485760-n | development | the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours | processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible |
oewn-13486023-n | development | the development of his ideas took many years | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) |
oewn-13486023-n | evolution | the evolution of Greek civilization | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) |
oewn-13486023-n | development | the slow development of her skill as a writer | a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) |
oewn-13487789-n | discharge | the discharge of pus | any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body |
oewn-13488646-n | dissimilation | the Old French MARBRE became the English MARBLE by dissimilation | a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other |
oewn-13489297-n | dissolving | the dissolving of salt in water | the process of going into solution |
oewn-13490729-n | doubling | doubling with a computer took no time at all | increase by a factor of two |
oewn-13497147-n | erosion | after the accounting scandal there was an erosion of confidence in the auditors | a gradual decline of something |
oewn-13497793-n | eutrophication | he argued that the controlling factor in eutrophication is not nitrate but phosphate | excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life |
oewn-13501379-n | fibrinolysis | drugs causing fibrinolysis have been utilized therapeutically | a normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots |
oewn-13502051-n | fire | fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries | the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke |
oewn-13503197-n | flop | this computer can perform a million flops per second | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers |
oewn-13503783-n | flowage | rock fracture and rock flowage are different types of geological deformation | gradual internal motion or deformation of a solid body (as by heat) |
oewn-13504691-n | formation | the formation of gas in the intestine | natural process that causes something to form |
oewn-13504691-n | formation | the formation of crystals | natural process that causes something to form |
oewn-13504691-n | formation | the formation of pseudopods | natural process that causes something to form |
oewn-13505506-n | fragmentation | fragmentation slows system performance because it takes extra time to locate and assemble the parts of the fragmented file | (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk |
oewn-13507473-n | gasification | coal gas is produced by the gasification of coal | the process of changing into gas |
oewn-13509313-n | globalization | the globalization of the communication industry | growth to a global or worldwide scale |
oewn-13510240-n | development | he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level |
oewn-13511546-n | growth | the growth of culture | a progression from simpler to more complex forms |
oewn-13512112-n | habit | a shrub of spreading habit | the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal) |
oewn-13512263-n | hardening | the hardening of concrete | the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization |
oewn-13512263-n | set | he tested the set of the glue | the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization |
oewn-13515910-n | hydrogenation | food producers use hydrogenation to keep fat from becoming rancid | a chemical process that adds hydrogen atoms to an unsaturated oil |
oewn-13517720-n | impregnation | the impregnation of wood with preservative | the process of totally saturating something with a substance |
oewn-13517720-n | saturation | the saturation of cotton with ether | the process of totally saturating something with a substance |
oewn-13517974-n | inactivation | the gene inactivation system | the process of rendering inactive |
oewn-13517974-n | inactivation | thermal inactivation of serum samples | the process of rendering inactive |
oewn-13518338-n | increase | the increase in unemployment | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important |
oewn-13518338-n | growth | the growth of population | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important |
oewn-13520031-n | inflation | in inflation everything gets more valuable except money | a general and progressive increase in prices |
oewn-13520368-n | deflation | a constant deflation of the desert landscape | (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind |
oewn-13521417-n | inhibition | the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve | (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part |
oewn-13521640-n | inpouring | an inpouring of spiritual comfort | an inflow |
oewn-13521640-n | inpour | an inpouring of spiritual comfort | an inflow |
oewn-13523144-n | invagination | the invagination of the blastula | the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface |
oewn-13525111-n | iteration | the solution is obtained by iteration | (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained |
oewn-13525376-n | iteration | the solution took hundreds of iterations | (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated |
oewn-13527930-n | leak | he had to take a leak | a euphemism for urination |