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vertical combination |
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the absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution |
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veering |
Noun
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the act of turning aside suddenly |
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vent |
Noun
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activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion |
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vent |
Noun
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external opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate |
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vent |
Noun
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a hole for the escape of gas or air |
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vent |
Noun
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a slit in a garment (as in the back seam of a jacket) |
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vent |
Noun
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a fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt |
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vent |
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expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen |
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vent |
Verb
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give expression or utterance to |
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vampirism |
Noun
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the actions or practices of a vampire |
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vampirism |
Noun
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belief in the existence of vampires |
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version |
Noun
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manual turning of a fetus in the uterus to aid delivery |
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version |
Noun
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something a little different from others of the same type |
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version |
Noun
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a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something |
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version |
Noun
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an artistic work that has been recast in a new form |
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version |
Noun
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a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language |
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version |
Noun
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an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint |
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vermin |
Noun
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any of various small animals or insects that are pests |
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vermin |
Noun
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an irritating or obnoxious person |
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varmint |
Noun
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any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable |
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varment |
Noun
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any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable |
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vibrio |
Noun
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curved rodlike motile bacterium, first discovered as part of the cholera outbreak but several other pathological species exist |
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vibrion |
Noun
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curved rodlike motile bacterium, first discovered as part of the cholera outbreak but several other pathological species exist |
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virus |
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(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts |
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virus |
Noun
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a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer |
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virus |
Noun
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a harmful or corrupting agency |
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varicella zoster virus |
Noun
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the member of the herpes virus family that is responsible for chickenpox |
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virion |
Noun
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a complete viral particle |
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vesiculovirus |
Noun
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an animal virus that causes vesicular stomatitis |
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variola virus |
Noun
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the virus that causes smallpox in humans |
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variola major |
Noun
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a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent |
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variola major |
Noun
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a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars |
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variola major virus |
Noun
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a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to 25 percent |
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variola minor |
Noun
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a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent |
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variola minor |
Noun
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a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus |
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variola minor virus |
Noun
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a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about 1 percent |
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viroid |
Noun
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the smallest of viruses |
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virusoid |
Noun
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the smallest of viruses |
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vector |
Noun
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(genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell |
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vector |
Noun
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a variable quantity that can be resolved into components |
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vector |
Noun
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any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease |
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vector |
Noun
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a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction |
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vorticella |
Noun
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any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk |
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vitellus |
Noun
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nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo, especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg |
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vitelline sac |
Noun
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a membranous structure that functions as the circulatory system in mammalian embryos until the heart becomes functional |
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vesper sparrow |
Noun
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common North American finch noted for its evening song |
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vermillion flycatcher |
Noun
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tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona |
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veery |
Noun
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a tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song |
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verdin |
Noun
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very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America |
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vireo |
Noun
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any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color |