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1: a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body [syn: {vitamin E}, {tocopherol}] 2: a radioactive transuranic el...

1: a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length [syn: {Heaviside layer}, {Kennelly-Heaviside layer}, {E region}]

1: a region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length [syn: {Heaviside layer}, {Kennelly-Heaviside layer}, {E layer}]

1: even

1: at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time"; "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever hoping to strike it rich"; "ever...

1: a bomb that explodes in midair and releases a massive burst of electromagnetic energy sufficient to disable computers and telecommunications without killing people or damaging buildings [syn: {micr...

1: (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that is generated at the recipient's terminal when he logs in [syn:...

1: an antibiotic (trade name Erythrocin or E-Mycin or Ethril or Ilosone or Pediamycin) obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus; effective against many Gram-positive bacteria and some Gra...

1: Finnish physician who first described vascular hemophilia (1870-1949) [syn: {Willebrand}, {von Willebrand}, {Erik von Willebrand}, {Erik Adolf von Willebrand}]

1: United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) [syn: {White}, {Elwyn Brooks White}]

1: a species of bacterium normally present in intestinal tract of humans and other animals; sometimes pathogenic; can be a threat to food safety [syn: {Escherichia coli}]

1: United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) [syn: {cummings}, {Edward Estlin Cummings}]

1: United States actor (1914-1998) [syn: {Marshall}]

1: United States railway tycoon (1848-1909) [syn: {Harriman}, {Edward Henry Harriman}]

1: German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878) [syn: {Weber}, {Ernst Heinrich Weber}]

1: United States novelist (born in 1931) [syn: {Doctorow}, {Edgard Lawrence Doctorow}]

1: United States physicist who developed the cyclotron (1901-1958) [syn: {Lawrence}, {Ernest Orlando Lawrence}]

1: United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929) [syn: {Wilson}, {Edward Osborne Wilson}]

1: German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822) [syn: {Hoffmann}, {Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann}, {Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann}]

1: Irish physicist who (with Sir John Cockcroft in 1931) first split an atom (1903-1995) [syn: {Walton}, {Ernest Walton}, {Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton}]

1: United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923) [syn: {Morley}, {Edward Morley}, {Edward Williams Morley}]

1: as an example; "take ribbon snakes, for example" [syn: {for example}, {for instance}]

1: apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses [syn: {clairvoyance}, {second sight}, {extrasensory perception}, {ESP}]

1: the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element

1: (used of count nouns) every one considered individually; "each person is mortal"; "each party is welcome" [syn: {each(a)}] adv : to or from every one of two or more (considered individually); "they...

1: without missing a day; "he stops by daily" [syn: {daily}, {every day}]

1: without missing a month; "we get paid monthly" [syn: {monthly}, {every month}]

1: without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly" [syn: {hebdomadally}, {weekly}, {every week}]

1: without missing a year; "they travel to China annually" [syn: {annually}, {yearly}, {every year}] 2: by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received); "he earned ...

1: imperial moths [syn: {genus Eacles}]

1: large American moth having yellow wings with purplish or brownish markings; larvae feed on e.g. maple and pine trees [syn: {imperial moth}]

1: United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (1830-1904) [syn: {Muybridge}, {Edward James Muggeridge}]

1: King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959) [syn: {Edwy}]

1: having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy; "eager to learn"; "eager to travel abroad"; "eager for success"; "eager helpers"; "an eager look" [ant: {uneager}] 2: mark...

1: an alert and energetic person [syn: {busy bee}, {live wire}, {sharpie}, {sharpy}]

1: with eagerness; in an eager manner; "the news was eagerly awaited" [syn: {thirstily}]

1: a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something [syn: {avidity}, {avidness}, {keenness}]

1: any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight [syn: {bird of Jove}] 2: (golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole 3: a former ...

1: powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays

1: a boy scout who has earned many merit badges

1: capable of seeing to a great distance [syn: {keen-sighted}, {farseeing}, {longsighted}]

1: a young eagle

1: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) [syn: {tidal bore}, {bore}, {aegir}, {eager}]

1: United States designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978) [syn: {Charles Eames}]

1: a chair designed by Charles Eames; originally made of molded plywood; seat and back shaped to fit the human body

1: Irish statesman (born in the United States); as president of the Irish Free State he was responsible for the new constitution of 1937 that created the state of Eire (1882-1975) [syn: {de Valera}]

1: the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium 2: good hearing; "he had a keen ear"; "a good ear for pitch" 3: the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear [syn: {auricle}, {pinn...

1: either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane [syn: {auditory meatus}, {acoustic meatus}, {auditory canal}, {external auditory canal}]

1: a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases [syn: {ear specialist}, {otologist}]

1: widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood [syn: {Jew's-ear}, {Jew's-ears}, {Auricularia auricula}]

1: a hole (as in a helmet) for sound to reach the ears

1: the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear [syn: {earlobe}]

1: a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases [syn: {ear doctor}, {otologist}]

1: a conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person [syn: {hearing aid}]

1: a specialist in the disorders of the ear or nose or throat [syn: {ENT man}, {otolaryngologist}, {otorhinolaryngologist}, {rhinolaryngologist}]

1: having a shape resembling an ear [syn: {auriform}]

1: any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior [syn: {abalone}]

1: an ache localized in the middle or inner ear [syn: {otalgia}]

1: an earring with a pendant ornament [syn: {pendant earring}, {drop earring}]

1: the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound [syn: {tympanum}, {tympanic membrane}, {myringa}]