samosa
1: small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot
samovar
1: a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea
Samoyed
1: a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia 2: the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed people in northwestern Siberia [syn: {Samoyedic}] 3: Siberian breed of white or cream dog of the sp...
Samoyede
1: Siberian breed of white or cream dog of the spitz family [syn: {Samoyed}]
Samoyedic
1: the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed people in northwestern Siberia [syn: {Samoyed}]
sampan
1: an Asian skiff usually propelled by two oars
samphire
1: fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass [syn: {glasswort}, {Salicornia europaea}]
sample
1: a small part of something intended as representative of the whole 2: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: {sample distribution}, {sampli...
sample distribution
1: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: {sample}, {sampling}]
sampler
1: an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something [syn: {sampling station}] 2: someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: {taster}, {taste tester}, {taste-...
sampling
1: (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study 2: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: {sample distribution}, {sample}] 3: me...
sampling frequency
1: (telecommunication) the frequency of sampling a continuously varying signal
sampling rate
1: (telecommunication) the frequency of sampling per unit time
sampling station
1: an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something [syn: {sampler}]
samsara
1: (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth
Samson
1: (Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah 2: a large and strong and heavyset man; "he...
Samuel
1: (Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king
Samuel Adams
1: American Revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the Boston Tea Party and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1722-1803) [syn: {Adams}, {Sam Adams}]
Samuel Barber
1: United States composer (1910-1981) [syn: {Barber}]
Samuel Beckett
1: a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the Theater of the Absurd (1906-1989) [syn: {Beckett}]
Samuel Dashiell Hammett
1: United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961) [syn: {Hammett}, {Dashiell Hammett}]
Samuel de Champlain
1: French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635) [syn: {Champlain}]
Samuel F. B. Morse
1: United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) [syn: {Morse}, {Samuel Morse}, {Samuel Finley Breese Morse}]
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1: United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) [syn: {Morse}, {Samuel Morse}, {Samuel F. B. Morse}]
Samuel Goldwyn
1: United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974) [syn: {Goldwyn}, {Sam Goldwyn}]
Samuel Gompers
1: United States labor leader (born in England) who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1886 to 1924 (1850-1924) [syn: {Gompers}]
Samuel Houston
1: United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863) [syn: {Houston}, {Sam Houston}]
Samuel Huntington
1: American revolutionary leader who signed the Declaration of Independence and was president of the Continental Congress (1731-1796) [syn: {Huntington}]
Samuel Jackson Snead
1: United States golfer known for the graceful arc of his swing (1912-2002) [syn: {Snead}, {Sam Snead}]
Samuel Johnson
1: English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784) [syn: {Johnson}, {Dr. Johnson}]
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
1: United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910) [syn: {Clemens}, {Mark Twain}]
Samuel Morse
1: United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) [syn: {Morse}, {Samuel F. B. Morse}, {Samuel Finley Breese Morse}]
Samuel Pepys
1: English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703) [syn: {Pepys}]
Samuel Pierpoint Langley
1: United States astronomer and aviation pioneer who invented the bolometer and contributed to the design of early aircraft (1834-1906) [syn: {Langley}]
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
1: British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902) [syn: {Gardiner}]
Samuel Rosenstock
1: French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the Dada movement (1896-1963) [syn: {Tzara}, {Tristan Tzara}]
Samuel Wiesenthal
1: Austrian investigator of Nazi war crimes (born in 1908) [syn: {Wiesenthal}]
Samuel Wilder
1: United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002) [syn: {Wilder}, {Billy Wilder}]
samurai
1: a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy 2: feudal Japanese military aristocracy
San Andreas Fault
1: a major geological fault in California; runs from San Diego to San Francisco; the source of serious earthquakes
San Angelo
1: a town in west central Texas; formerly a notorious frontier town
San Antonio
1: a city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers
San Bernadino
1: a city in southern California east of Los Angeles
San Diego
1: a picturesque city of southern California on San Diego Bay near the Mexican border; site of an important naval base
San Fernando Valley
1: a fertile valley in southern California north of Los Angeles; includes many residential communities
San Francisco
1: a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge
San Joaquin River
1: a river in central California that rises in the Sierra Nevada and flows northwest to form a large delta with the Sacramento River
San Jose
1: a city in western California located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay south of San Francisco; a center for computer and electronics industries 2: the capital and largest city of Costa Rica ...
San Jose scale
1: small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees [syn: {Aspidiotus perniciosus}]
San Juan
1: the capital and largest city of Puerto Rico
San Juan Mountains
1: a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains
San Marinese
1: of or relating to San Marino or its people; "San Marinese castles" n : a native or inhabitant of San Marino
San Marino
1: the capital and only city of San Marino [syn: {capital of San Marino}] 2: the smallest republic in the world; the oldest independent country in Europe (achieved independence in 301); located in the...
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San Mateo
1: a town in California south of San Francisco
San Pablo
1: a town in western California north of Oakland on an arm of San Francisco Bay
San Salvador
1: the capital and largest city of El Salvador; has suffered from recurrent earthquakes [syn: {Salvadoran capital}]
San Sebastian
1: a city in northern Spain on the Bay of Biscay near the French border; a fashionable seaside resort
Sana
1: the capital and largest city of Yemen; on the central plateau [syn: {Sanaa}, {Sana'a}]
Sana'a
1: the capital and largest city of Yemen; on the central plateau [syn: {Sana}, {Sanaa}]
Sanaa
1: the capital and largest city of Yemen; on the central plateau [syn: {Sana}, {Sana'a}]
sanatarium
1: a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases [syn: {sanatorium}, {sanitarium}]
sanative
1: tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"...
sanatorium
1: a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases [syn: {sanatarium}, {sanitarium}] 2: pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: {Bedlam}, {booby hatch}, {crazy house}, {cuckoo...
Sanchez
1: Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949) [syn: {Ilich Sanchez}, {Ilich Ramirez Sanchez}, {Carlos}, {Carlos the J...
sanctification
1: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy
sanctify
1: render holy by means of religious rites [syn: {consecrate}, {bless}, {hallow}] [ant: {desecrate}] 2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" [syn: {purify}, {purge}] [...
sanctimonious
1: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile" [syn: {holier-than-thou}, {pietistic}, {pietistical}, {pharisaic}, {pharisaical}, {self-righteous}]
sanctimoniously
1: in a sanctimonious manner; "she was sanctimoniously criticizing everybody" [syn: {self-righteously}]
sanctimony
1: the quality of being hypocritically devout [syn: {sanctimoniousness}]
sanction
1: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: {countenance}, {endorsement}, {indorsement}, {warrant}, {imprimatur}] 2: a mechanism of social control for enfo...
sanctionative
1: implying sanction or serving to sanction; "the guardian's duties were primarily sanctionative rather than administrative" [syn: {sanctioning}]
sanctioned
1: conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis [syn: {canonic}, {canonical}] 2: formally approved and invested with le...
sanctioning
1: implying sanction or serving to sanction; "the guardian's duties were primarily sanctionative rather than administrative" [syn: {sanctionative}]
sanctity
1: the quality of being holy [syn: {holiness}] [ant: {unholiness}]
sanctuary
1: a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept 2: a shelter from danger or hardship [syn: {refuge}, {asylum}] 3: area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a l...
sanctum
1: a place of inviolable privacy; "he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go" [syn: {sanctum sanctorum}] 2: a sacred place of pilgrimage [syn: {holy place}, {holy}] [also...
sanctum sanctorum
1: a place of inviolable privacy; "he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go" [syn: {sanctum}] 2: (Judaism) sanctuary comprised of the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle...
sand
1: a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral 2: French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876) [syn: {George Sand}, {Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin}, {B...
sand badger
1: southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig [syn: {hog badger}, {hog-nosed badger}, {Arctonyx collaris}]
sand bar
1: a bar of sand [syn: {sandbar}]
sand berry
1: evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn [syn: {common bearberry}, {red bearberry}, {wild cranberry}, ...
sand blackberry
1: stiff shrubby blackberry of the eastern United States (Connecticut to Florida) [syn: {Rubus cuneifolius}]
sand cast
1: pour molten metal into a mold of sand
sand cherry
1: small straggling American cherry growing on sandy soil and having minute scarcely edible purplish-black fruit [syn: {Prunus pumila}, {Prunus pumilla susquehanae}, {Prunus susquehanae}, {Prunus cune...
sand crack
1: a fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness
sand cricket
1: large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States [syn: {Jerusalem cricket}, {Stenopelmatus fuscus}]
sand dab
1: the lean flesh of a small flounder from the Pacific coast of North America 2: small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
sand devil's claw
1: alternatively placed in genus Martynia [syn: {Proboscidea arenaria}, {Martynia arenaria}]
sand dollar
1: flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms
sand dropseed
1: erect smooth grass of sandy places in eastern North America [syn: {Sporobolus cryptandrus}]
sand dune
1: a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans [syn: {dune}]
sand eel
1: very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches [syn: {sand lance}, {sand launce}, {launce}]
sand flea
1: small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches [syn: {beach flea}, {sand hopper}, {sandhopper}]
sand fly
1: any of various small dipterous flies; blood-sucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis [syn: {sandfly}, {Phlebotomus papatasii}]
sand grouse
1: pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young [syn: {sandgrouse}]
sand hopper
1: small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches [syn: {beach flea}, {sandhopper}, {sand flea}]
sand lance
1: very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches [syn: {sand launce}, {sand eel}, {launce}]
sand launce
1: very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches [syn: {sand lance}, {sand eel}, {launce}]
sand leek
1: European leek cultivated and used like leeks [syn: {giant garlic}, {Spanish garlic}, {rocambole}, {Allium scorodoprasum}]
sand lizard
1: a common and widely distributed lizard of Europe and central Asia [syn: {Lacerta agilis}] 2: one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States [syn: {side-blotched lizard}, {Uta st...
sand martin
1: swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks [syn: {bank martin}, {bank swallow}, {Riparia riparia}]
sand myrtle
1: low-growing evergreen shrub of New Jersey to Florida grown for its many white star-shaped flowers and glossy foliage [syn: {Leiophyllum buxifolium}]
sand painting
1: a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho); made of fine colored sands on a neutral background
sand phlox
1: low mat-forming herb of rocky places in United States [syn: {chickweed phlox}, {Phlox bifida}, {Phlox stellaria}]
sand rat
1: small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas 2: southern European gerbil [syn: {Meriones longifrons}]
sand reed
1: European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla [syn: {sand sedge}, {Carex arenaria}]
sand sage
1: silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands [syn: {silvery wormwood}, {Artemisia filifolia}]
sand sedge
1: European maritime sedge naturalized along Atlantic coast of United States; rootstock has properties of sarsaparilla [syn: {sand reed}, {Carex arenaria}]
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