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style.noun
Botany
– the usually slender part of a pistil,
situated between the ovary and the stigma
sustenance.noun
the supporting of life or health; maintenance;
the act of sustaining; the condition
of being sustained
sop, sopped,
sopping,
sops.verbs
intransitive
verb use.something yielded to placate
or soothe; a bribe; to be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated
transitive
verb use.to dip, soak, or drench in
a liquid; saturate; to take up by absorption (sop up water with a paper
towel)
sop.noun
a piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid
stern,
sterner,
sternest.adjectives
hard, harsh,
or severe in
manner or character.(a
stern disciplinarian); grim, gloomy, or
forbidding
in appearance or outlook; firm or unyielding; uncompromising; inexorable;
relentless
sternly.adverb
sternness.noun
synonyms.severe,
austere,
gruff, harsh
Nautical.-.stern.noun
the rear part of a ship or boat; rear part or
section
stress,
stressed,
stressing,
stresses.transitive
verbs
a mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting
condition occurring in response to adverse
external influences and capable of affecting physical health, usually characterized
by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, muscular tension, irritability,
and depression
sacred.adjective
dedicated spiritual things; the things of the
spirit; made or declared holy; worthy of religious
veneration;
dedicated or devoted exclusively to a single use, purpose, or person
sacredly.adverb
sacredness.noun
synonym.sanctified
sea urchin.noun
any of various echinoderms of the class Echinoidea,
having a soft body enclosed in a round, symmetrical, calcareous shell covered
with long spines
silica.noun
a white or colorless crystalline compound, SiO2,
occurring abundantly as quartz, sand, flint, agate, and many other minerals
and used to manufacture a wide variety of materials, especially glass and
concrete
sage1.noun
one venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom
sage, sager,
sagest.adjectives
having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment;
proceeding from or marked by wisdom and calm judgment (sage advice)
sagely.adverb
sageness.noun
sage2.noun
any of various plants of the genus Salvia, especially
S. officinalis, having aromatic grayish-green, opposite leaves used as
a cooking herb; also called ramona
sinusoid.noun
Mathematics – sine
1. The ordinate of the endpoint of an arc of a
unit circle centered at the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system, the
arc being of length x and measured counterclockwise from the point (1,
0) if x is positive or clockwise if x is negative
2. In a right triangle, the ratio of the length
of the side opposite an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse.
Fournier showed long ago that any signal can be
described as a sum of sine and cosine waveforms of different amplitudes
(sizes) and frequencies. If the signal under consideration is an image,
the sines, and cosines become functions
of space, undulating between light and dark as one moves across the image
from top to bottom.
stupendous.adjectve
of astounding force, volume, degree, or excellence;
marvelous; amazingly large or great; huge
stupendously.adverb
stupendousness.noun
subsequent.adjective
following in time or order; succeeding
subsequently.adverb
subsequentness.noun
sympathetic.adjective
of, expressing, feeling,
or resulting from sympathy (a sympathetic glance); favorably inclined (sympathetic
to her proposal); agreeably suited to one's disposition
or mood; congenial
(sympathetic surroundings); of, relating to, or acting on the sympathetic
nervous system (a sympathetic neuron; sympathetic stimulation)
sympathetically.adverb
sympathize, sympathized,
sympathizing,
sympathizes.intransitive
verbs
to feel or express compassion,
as for another's suffering; commiserate;
to share or understand the feelings or ideas of another (sympathized with
the other members); to be in accord;
correspond
sympathizer.noun
sympathizingly.adverb
sympathy.noun,.plural.sympathies
a relationship or an affinity
between people or things in which whatever affects one correspondingly
affects the other; mutual understanding
or affection arising from this relationship or affinity; the act or power
of sharing the feelings of another; compassion
or commiseration; pity;
harmonious
agreement; accord.(he
is in sympathy with their beliefs); a feeling of loyalty; allegiance;
often used in the plural (sympathies usually are with families first)
sympathetic nervous system.noun
the part of the
autonomic nervous system originating in the thoracic and lumbar regions
of the spinal cord that in general inhibits or opposes the physiological
effects of the parasympathetic
nervous system, as in tending
to reduce digestive secretions,
speeding up the heart, and contracting
blood vessels
symptom.noun
a characteristic
sign or indication of the existence of something else
symptomless.adjective
symptomatically.adverb
synonym-sign
symptomatic.adjective
of, relating to, or based on symptoms;
constituting
a symptom (a rise in unemployment symptomatic of a weakening economy
somatic nervous system
all information in the body that you are conscious
of comes from the somatic nervous system; this system allows voluntary
control over skeletal muscle - you intend to move your arm and you do;
see also autonomic
nervous system
somatic.adjective
of, relating to, or affecting the body, especially
as distinguished from a body
part, the mind, or the environment; corporeal
or physical; bodily; of or relating to the wall of the body cavity, especially
as distinguished from the head, limbs, or viscera
(soft internal organs); of or relating to a somatic cell or the
somatoplasm
somatically.adverb
somatoplasm.noun
the entirety of specialized protoplasm, other
than germ plasm, constituting
the body; the protoplasm of a somatic cell
somatoplastic.adjective
scavenge,
scavenged,
scavenging,
scavenges.verbs
transitive verb use.to
collect and remove refuse from (the oceans are scavened by sharks, snails
and many other scavengers); to search through for salvageable material
(scavenged the garbage cans for food scraps)
intransitive verb use.to
feed on dead or decaying matter; to search through refuse for useful material
sect.noun
a
distinct
unit of people within a larger group
sectarian.adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic
of a sect; adhering
or confined to the dogmatic
limits of a sect or denomination;
partisan;
narrow minded; parochial
sectarian.noun
a member of a sect; one characterized
by bigoted.adherence
to a factional
viewpoint
sectarianism.noun
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