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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

sisterhood
noun an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest

sisterly
sisterlike adjective like or characteristic of or befitting a sister; `sisterly kindness`; `sororal concern`

sistership
noun an association or society of women who are linked together by a common religion or trade or interest

Sistine Chapel
noun the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by an named after Sixtus IV in 1473

Sistrurus
genus Sistrurus noun pygmy rattlesnakes

Sisyphean
adjective both extremely effortful and futile

Sisyphus
noun (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again

Sisyridae
family Sisyridae noun an arthropod family of the order Neuroptera that includes spongeflies

Sisyrinchium
genus Sisyrinchium noun chiefly North American grasslike herbs

sit-down
sit-down strike noun a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached

sit-in
noun a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move

sit-up
noun an stomach exercise in which a person sits up from a supine position without using the arms for leverage

Sita
noun wife of the Hindu god Rama; regarded as an ideal of womanhood

sitar
noun a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings

sitar player
noun a musician who plays the sitar

site
land site noun the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located); `a good site for the school`

site
noun physical position in relation to the surroundings; `the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides`

site visit
noun a visit in an official capacity to examine a site to determine its suitability for some enterprise

Sitka
noun a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906

Sitka spruce
Picea sitchensis noun a large spruce that grows only along the northwestern coast of the United States and Canada; has sharp stiff needles and thin bark; the wood has a high ratio of strength to weight

Sitka willow
silky willow 2 Salix sitchensis noun small shrubby tree of western North America (Alaska to Oregon)

Sitophylus
genus Sitophylus noun a genus of Bruchidae

Sitotroga
genus Sitotroga noun grain moths

Sitta
genus Sitta noun type genus of the Sittidae

Sitter
noun Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)

Sittidae
family Sittidae noun nuthatches

sitting
adjective not moving and therefore easy to attack; `a sitting target`

sitting
noun (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); `he wanted his portrait painted but couldn`t spare time for the sitting`

Sitting Bull
noun a chief of the Sioux; took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops; he was present at the battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer`s troops (1831-1890)

sitting duck
easy mark noun a defenseless victim

sitting trot
noun the rider sits still in the saddle

situation
state of affairs noun the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; `the present international situation is dangerous`; `wondered how such a state of affairs had come about`; `eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation`- Franklin D.Roosevelt

situation
noun physical position in relation to the surroundings; `the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides`

situation comedy
sitcom noun a humorous television program based on situations that could arise in everyday life

Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell noun English poet (1887-1964)

sitz bath
hip bath noun a bathtub in which your buttocks and hips are immersed as if you were sitting in a chair and you bathe in a sitting position

Sium
genus Sium noun perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips

Siva
Shiva noun the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon

Sivan
Siwan noun the ninth month of the civil year; the third month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in May and June)

Sivapithecus
noun fossil primates found in India

six
6 adjective denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units

six-footer
noun a person who is at least six feet tall

six-membered
6-membered adjective of a chemical compound having a ring with six members; `having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring`

six-pack
six pack noun a carton containing six bottles or cans

six-pointed
adjective having six points

six-sided
adjective having six sides

six-spot
noun a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows six pips

sixfold
six times adverb by a factor of six; `the population of this town increased sixfold when gold was found in the surrounding hills`

sixpence
tanner noun a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970

sixpenny
threepenny adjective of trifling worth

sixpenny nail
noun a nail 2 inches long

sixteen
16 adjective being one more than fifteen

sixteenth
16th adjective coming next after the fifteenth in position

sixteenth note
semiquaver noun a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note

sixth
6th adjective coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position

Sixth Crusade
noun a Crusade from 1228 to 1229 led by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II who fell ill and was excommunicated by the Pope; by negotiation Frederick II was able to crown himself king of Jerusalem

sixth form
noun students preparing for their A levels in their final two years of secondary education

sixth-former
noun a student in the sixth form

sixthly
adverb in the sixth place; `sixthly, we cannot afford a vacation`

sixties
mid-sixties noun the time of life between 60 and 70

sixties
noun the decade from 1960 to 1969

sixtieth
60th adjective the ordinal number of sixty in counting order

Sixtus IV
Francesco della Rovere noun Italian pope from 1471 to 1484 who consented to the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition and built the Sistine Chapel (1414-1484)

sixty
60 adjective being ten more than fifty

sixty-eight
68 adjective being eight more than sixty

sixty-fifth
65th adjective the ordinal number of sixty-five in counting order

sixty-five
65 adjective being five more than sixty

sixty-four
64 adjective being four more than sixty

sixty-fourth
64th adjective the ordinal number of sixty-four in counting order

sixty-fourth note
hemidemisemiquaver noun a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note

sixty-nine
69 adjective being nine more than sixty

sixty-one
61 adjective being one more than sixty

sixty-seven
67 adjective being seven more than sixty

sixty-six
66 adjective being six more than sixty

sixty-three
63 adjective being three more than sixty

sixty-two
62 adjective being two more than sixty

size
adjective (used in combination) sized; `the economy-size package`; `average-size house`

size constancy
noun the tendency to perceive the veridical size of a familiar object despite differences in their distance (and consequent differences in the size of the pattern projected on the retina of the eye)

size stick
noun a mechanical measuring stick used by shoe fitters to measure the length and width of your foot

sized
adjective having a specified size

sizzle
noun a sizzling noise

sizzling
adjective hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; `a sizzling steak`; `a sizzling spell of weather`

Skagens Odde
Skaw noun a cape on the northernmost tip of Jutland between the Skagerrak and the Kattegatt

Skagerrak
Skagerak noun a broad strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Norway

Skagit
noun a Salishan dialect spoken by the Skagit

Skagway
noun a town in southeastern Alaska at the northern end of the Inside Passage; a gateway to the Klondike during the Alaskan gold rush

Skanda
noun god of war

skank
noun a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees

skate
noun large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins

skateboard
noun a board with wheels that is ridden in a standing or crouching position and propelled by foot

skateboarder
noun someone who skates on a skateboard

skateboarding
noun the sport of skating on a skateboard

skater
noun someone who skates

skating
noun the sport of gliding on skates

Skeat
Walter William Skeat noun English philologist (1835-1912)

skedaddle
noun a hasty flight

skeen arch
skene arch noun an arch whose height is less than half its width

skeet
skeet shooting noun the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird

skeg
noun a brace that extends from the rear of the keel to support the rudderpost

skein
noun coils of worsted yarn