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A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses.
Example: There were stalls for fourteen horses in the squire's stables.
(metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner.
A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers.
An organization of sumo wrestlers who live and train together.
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A device or object that works by the operation of steam.
A mode of transportation propelled by steam.
A babycino (frothy milk drink).
A wetsuit with long sleeves and legs.
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A mug.
A homosexual man with a preference for passive partners.
A prostitute's client.
A gambler who increases a wager after losing.
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A kind of chest for luggage, having a flat or slightly curved top and usually covered in canvas, leather or patterned paper.
Synonyms:packersteamer
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Treasure.
The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
Race; lineage, pedigree.
Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
Example: There is a strain of madness in her family.
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The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
Example: he jumped up with a strain; the strain upon the sailboat's rigging
An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
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A Greek unit of land area, now equal to a decare (1,000 m²) but previously 10,000 square Greek feet.
The dunam, the Turkish unit of land area derived from the Greek unit.
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The quality or degree of being strong.
Example: It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
Antonyms:weaknessThe intensity of a force or power; potency.
Example: He had the strength of ten men.
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
A positive attribute.
Example: We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
Antonyms:weakness
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A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
Such a structure considered as a substance.
Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
Example: a bowstring
A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
Example: a string of sausages