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1: surgical incision into or division of the vas deferens [syn: {vasosection}]

1: a surgical procedure that attempts to restore the function of the vas deferens after a vasectomy

1: inflammation of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles; usually occurring with prostatitis

1: a person holding a fief [syn: {liege}, {liegeman}, {liege subject}, {feudatory}]

1: the state of a serf [syn: {serfdom}, {serfhood}]

1: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los An...

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1: to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator" [syn: {immensely}]

1: unusual largeness in size or extent [syn: {enormousness}, {grandness}, {greatness}, {immenseness}, {immensity}, {sizeableness}]

1: a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production [syn: {value-added tax}, {ad valorem tax}] 2: a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [...

1: a dye that is applied by reducing the dye to a base-soluble form, applying the dye, then regenerating the insoluble dye by oxidation in the material; used for dyeing cotton [syn: {vat dye}]

1: a dye that is applied by reducing the dye to a base-soluble form, applying the dye, then regenerating the insoluble dye by oxidation in the material; used for dyeing cotton [syn: {vat color}]

1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn:...

1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn:...

1: the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City [syn: {Vatican Palace}]

1: the capital of the State of the Vatican City [syn: {Citta del Vaticano}]

1: the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City [syn: {Vatican}]

1: predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration [syn: {prophesy}] 2: foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy

1: knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) [syn: {prophecy}, {prognostication}]

1: an authoritative person who divines the future [syn: {prophet}, {oracle}, {seer}]

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1: a variety show with songs and comic acts etc. [syn: {music hall}]

1: a theater in which vaudeville is staged [syn: {music hall}, {vaudeville theatre}]

1: a theater in which vaudeville is staged [syn: {music hall}, {vaudeville theater}]

1: a performer who works in vaudeville

1: United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990) [syn: {Sarah Vaughan}]

1: English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958) [syn: {Ralph Vaughan Williams}]

1: a burial chamber (usually underground) [syn: {burial vault}] 2: a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables [syn: {bank vault}] 3: an arched brick or stone ceilin...

1: the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected [syn: {celestial sphere}, {sphere}, {empyrean}, {firmament}, {heavens}, {welkin}]

1: having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: {domed}]

1: an athlete who jumps over a high crossbar with the aid of a long pole [syn: {pole vaulter}, {pole jumper}]

1: revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights; "vaulting ambition" [syn: {overreaching}] n 1: (architecture) a vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting" 2: a light leap by a horse in...

1: a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting [syn: {long horse}, {buck}]

1: extravagant self-praise v : show off [syn: {boast}, {tout}, {swash}, {shoot a line}, {brag}, {gas}, {blow}, {bluster}, {gasconade}]

1: a very boastful and talkative person [syn: {bragger}, {braggart}, {boaster}, {blowhard}, {line-shooter}]

1: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: {boastfully}, {big}, {large}]

1: United States landscape architect (born in England) who designed Central Park (1824-1895) [syn: {Calvert Vaux}]

1: wind god

1: a magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs [syn: {videocassette recorder}]

1: a communicable disease transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact [syn: {venereal disease}, {social disease}, {Cupid's itch}, {Cupid's disease}, {Venus's curse}, {sexually transmitted dis...

1: (British) a device for displaying input signals as letters on a screen; usually has a keyboard [syn: {visual display unit}]

1: included seven times in every 19 years [syn: {Adar Sheni}]

1: meat from a calf [syn: {veau}]

1: thin slices of veal stuffed with cheese and ham and then sauteed

1: sauteed veal cutlet in a breadcrumb-and-cheese coating served with tomato sauce [syn: {veal parmigiana}]

1: sauteed veal cutlet in a breadcrumb-and-cheese coating served with tomato sauce [syn: {veal parmesan}]

1: cut of veal suitable for roasting [syn: {roast veal}]

1: thin sauteed cutlets of veal

1: meat from a calf [syn: {veal}]

1: United States economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption (1857-1929) [syn: {Thorstein Veblen}, {Thorstein Bunde Veblen}] 2: United States mathematician (1880-1960) [syn: {Oswald Veblen}]

1: a variable quantity that can be resolved into components 2: a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction 3: any agent (person or animal or microorga...

1: the part of algebra that deals with the theory of vectors and vector spaces

1: the analysis of a vector field [syn: {decomposition}]

1: a vector that is the product of two other vectors [syn: {cross product}]

1: a vector that is the sum of two or more other vectors [syn: {resultant}]

1: indirect transmission of an infectious agent that occurs when a vector bites or touches a person

1: (from the Sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionallly believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyaka...

1: native to Australia; introduced elsewhere to control scale insects [syn: {Rodolia cardinalis}]