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1: in an awkward manner; "he bent awkwardly"

1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: {clumsiness}, {ineptness}, {ineptitude}, {maladroitness}, {slowness}] 2: the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness ...

1: a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes

1: devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence [syn: {aweless}] 2: neither feeling nor showing respect [syn: {aweless}, {disrespectful}]

1: small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal [syn: {Subularia aquatica}]

1: slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses

1: having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses; "awned wheatgrass" [syn: {awny}] [ant: {awnless}]

1: a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun [syn: {sunshade}, {sunblind}]

1: a deck at the top of a passenger ship [syn: {hurricane deck}, {hurricane roof}, {promenade deck}]

1: covered with an awning; "with awninged windows on the west side"

1: lacking or having only very short awns; "awnless bromegrass" [ant: {awned}]

1: drought-resistant perennial with awns lacking or very short and long creeping rhizomes; Europe and temperate Asia [syn: {Bromus inermis}]

1: having awns i.e. bristle- or hair-like appendages on the flowering parts of some cereals and grasses; "awned wheatgrass" [syn: {awned}] [ant: {awnless}]

{awake}

{awake}

1: absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" [syn: {truant}] 2: having deserted your post or station without leave n : one who is away or absent without ...

1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: {askew}, {awry(p)}, {cockeyed}, {lopsided}, ...

1: an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle [syn: {axe}] v 1: chop or split with an ax; "axe wood" [syn: {axe}] 2: terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped fundin...

1: the handle of an ax [syn: {axe handle}]

1: the cutting head of an ax [syn: {axe head}]

1: an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle [syn: {ax}] v 1: chop or split with an ax; "axe wood" [syn: {ax}] 2: terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding ...

1: the handle of an ax [syn: {ax handle}]

1: the cutting head of an ax [syn: {ax head}]

1: (of experimental animals) raised under sterile conditions; "axenic conditions"; "germfree animals" 2: used of cultures of microorganisms; not contaminated by or completely free of the presence of o...

1: any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes [syn: {vitamin A}, {antiophthalmic factor}, {A}]

{ax}

1: of or relating to or resembling an axis of rotation 2: relating to or attached to the axis; "axial angle" [syn: {axile}] 3: situated on or along or in the direction of an axis

1: rotary motion of an object around its own axis; "wheels in axial rotation" [syn: {axial rotation}, {roll}]

1: a skeletal muscle of the trunk or head

1: rotary motion of an object around its own axis; "wheels in axial rotation" [syn: {axial motion}, {roll}]

1: the part of the skeleton that includes the skull and spinal column and sternum and ribs

1: with respect to an axis; "the jet was directed axially toward the cathode"

1: the upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk

1: relating to or attached to the axis; "axial angle" [syn: {axial}]

1: ovules are borne at or around the center of a compound ovary on an axis formed from joined septa

1: the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder; "they were up to their armpits in water" [syn: {armpit}, {axillary cavity}, {axillary fossa}] [also: {axillae} (pl)]

{axilla}

1: of or relating to the axil [syn: {alar}] 2: of or relating to the armpit; "axillary gland"

1: the part of the main artery of the arm that lies in the armpit and is continuous with the subclavian artery above and the brachial artery below [syn: {arteria axillaris}]

1: the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder; "they were up to their armpits in water" [syn: {armpit}, {axilla}, {axillary fossa}]

1: the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder; "they were up to their armpits in water" [syn: {armpit}, {axilla}, {axillary cavity}]

1: any of the lymph glands of the armpit; fights infections in the neck and chest and arm regions

1: a continuation of the basilic vein and brachial vein that becomes the subclavian vein [syn: {vena axillaris}]

1: of or relating to the study of values

1: the study of values and value judgments

1: a saying that widely accepted on its own merits [syn: {maxim}] 2: (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident

1: evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident" [syn: {self-evident}, {taken for granted(p)}] 2: containing aphorisms or maxims; "axiomatic wisdom...

1: of or relating to or derived from axioms; "axiomatic physics"; "the postulational method was applied to geometry"- S.S.Stevens [syn: {axiomatic}, {postulational}]

1: on the basis of axioms; "this is axiomatically given"

1: a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions 2: the center around which something rotates [syn: {axis of rotation}] 3: the main stem or central part about which plant ...

1: the center around which something rotates [syn: {axis}]

1: the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head [syn: {axis}]

1: a shaft on which a wheel rotates

1: an iron bar that serves as an axletree

1: a thick heavy grease used to lubricate axles

1: a dead axle on a carriage or wagon that has terminal spindles on which the wheel revolve

1: outer membrane covering an axon

1: larval salamander of mountain lakes of Mexico that usually lives without metamorphosing [syn: {mud puppy}, {Ambystoma mexicanum}]

1: long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron [syn: {axone}]

1: of or relating to or resembling an axon