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4. strut, swagger, peacock, prance, parade, promenade; ride a high horse, swashbuckle, bluster; flourish, flaunt, show off, throw out one's chest, put on airs, be arrogant, be insolent; flounce, U.S. Inf. sashay, -n. 5. dilation, enlargement, widening, thickening, broadening, dilatation; lengthening, expansion, extension, spread; distention, inflation, swelling, bloating, intumescence, tumefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity.
6. protuberance, prominence, eminence, excrescence, gibbosity, tuberosity, convexity; bulge, bow, bell, bump, lump, hump; knob, knurl, knot, node, nodulation, nodosity; protrusion, projection, jut, extrusion, excurvation; beetling, jutting, impendence, overhang.
7. hill, incline, acclivity, slope, Scot. and North Eng. brae, rise; grade, gradient, climb, ramp, hillside, upgrade.
8. increase, magnification, amplification, crescendo; intensification, concentration, exaggeration, deepening, heightening.
9. Slang, a. dandy, fop, coxcomb, SI. peacock, Beau Brummell, fancy Dan; clotheshorse, prettyboy; jack-a-dandy, blade, gay blade, Chiefly Brit, blood, buck; gallant, lady-killer, ladies' man. b. aristocrat, silk-stocking, blue blood; dignitary, celebrity, notable, social lion.
-adj. 10. Slang, (all usu. of things) stylish, modish, fashionable, chic, smart, newfangled; elegant, recherchd, grand, luxurious, deluxe, high-toned.
11. (all of persons) aristocratic, silk-stocking, blue-blooded; distingud, of high standing; poised, genteel, refined, polished, gentlemanly, urbane, suave.
12. first-rate, excellent, first-class, jim-dandy, topflight, superior, of the highest grade.
swelter, v. perspire profusely, sweat, be dripping wet, be bathed with sweat; be oppressed with heat, be overcome by heat, languish, wilt; be flushed, be hot, Inf. be dying from the heat; bake, fry, cook, broil, roast; simmer, boil, steam,
sweltering, adj. humid, hot and humid, sultry, Inf. close, sticky, clammy, muggy, moist, damp; stuffy, stifling, suffocating, oppressive; sudorific, Med. diaphoretic; hot, torrid, roasting, baking, broiling; steamy, dank, misty; tropical, drizzly, rainy,
swerve, v. 1. turn aside, twist, shift. See - sheer (def. 1).
2. move, budge, turn, push, jog, joggle, stir, sway.
-n. 3. deflection, deviation, swerving. See - sheer (def. 2).
swift, adj. 1. quick, fast, fleet, speedy; hurried, rapid, winged, express, expeditious, galloping, tantivy, light of heel, eagle-winged, quick as lightning, swift as an arrow; brisk, lively, agile, light-footed, nimble, spry, active, agitated, feverish, bustling; hasty, impetuous, headlong, precipitate, rash, rushing, urgent; prompt, instant, instantaneous, sudden; cursory, fleeting, superficial, perfunctory.
2. ready, eager, alert, prompt, responsive; bright, intent, ardent, fervent, earnest, avid, zealous,
swiftly, adv. 1. quickly, SI. P.D.Q., speedily, fleetly, rapidly, hurriedly; promptly, instantly, expeditiously, straightaway, SI. pronto, in a wink, in an instant, Inf. in a jiffy, in a trice, in a flash, double-quick, Inf. like greased lightning, like a shot, like a house afire, like blazes, like a thunderbolt, SI. like mad, SI. like a bat out of hell; directly, at once, without delay, in less than no time, before one can say “Jack Robinson,” before the ink is dry, Inf. lickety-split; fast, full tilt, full pelt, full gallop, tantivy, by leaps and bounds, hotfoot, at full blast, in high gear, as fast as one's legs can carry one.
2. precipitately, hurriedly, headlong; abruptly, suddenly, unexpectedly; rashly, at half cock, pell-mell, harum-scarum, helter-skelter, head over heels.
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Invention : transistor
Year : 1947
Inventor : john bardeen, walter h. brattain, william b. shockley
Country : us. .. More >>
