| Main Entry: | elongation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extension |
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continuation, expansion, lengthening, prolongation, prolonging, protraction, stretching |
| Main Entry: | enlargement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, expansion |
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aggrandizement, amplification, augmentation, blow up, elongation, extension, growth, spread |
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abridgment, compression, decrease, lessening, lowering, reduction, shrinkage |
| Main Entry: | extension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enlargement, continuation |
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addendum, addition, adjunct, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, arm, augmentation, branch, broadening, compass, continuing, delay, development, dilatation, distension, drawing out, elongation, expansion, extent, increase, lengthening, orbit, postponement, production, prolongation, protraction, purview, radius, reach, scope, span, spread, spreading out, stretch, stretching, supplement, sweep, widening, wing |
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abbreviation, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, decrease, reduction, shortening |
| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of object, distance, time |
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breadth, compass, continuance, diameter, dimension, duration, elongation, endlessness, expanse, expansion, extensiveness, height, interval, lastingness, lengthiness, limit, linearity, loftiness, longitude, longness, magnitude, measure, mileage, orbit, panorama, period, piece, portion, protractedness, purview, quantity, radius, range, ranginess, reach, realm, remoteness, season, section, segment, space, spaciousness, span, stretch, stride, tallness, term, unit, width, year |
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height |
| Main Entry: | production |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creating of goods, result |
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assembly, authoring, bearing, blossoming, construction, creation, direction, elongation, engendering, extention, fabrication, formulation, fructification, generation, giving, lengthening, making, management, manufacture, manufacturing, origination, preparation, presentation, producing, prolongation, protraction, provision, rendering, reproduction, return, staging, yielding |
Antonyms: |
destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | prolongation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extension |
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addendum, addition, adjunct, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, arm, augmentation, branch, broadening, compass, continuing, delay, development, dilatation, distension, drawing out, elongation, expansion, extent, increase, lengthening, orbit, postponement, production, protraction, purview, radius, reach, scope, span, spread, spreading out, stretch, stretching, supplement, sweep, widening, wing |
| Main Entry: | protraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extension |
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addendum, addition, adjunct, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, arm, augmentation, branch, broadening, compass, continuing, delay, development, dilatation, distension, drawing out, elongation, expansion, extent, increase, lengthening, orbit, postponement, production, prolongation, purview, radius, reach, scope, span, spread, spreading out, stretch, stretching, supplement, sweep, widening, wing |
| Main Entry: | extension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
appaumé, armshot, as long as my arm, as long as to, interminable, latitudinal, lengthened, lengthy, lineal, linear, long, longitudinal, longsome, no end of, oblong, outstretched, prolate, sesquipedalian, unshortened, wiredrawn
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| Concept: | Production. |
| Category: | 3. POWER IN OPERATION |
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-nouns
production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement (completion)., flowering, fructification; inflorescence., bringing forth; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen., spontaneous generation; archegenesis, archebiosis; biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis; authorship, publication; works, oeuvre., biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny; tocogony, vacuolization., edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.
-verbs
produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish (complete)., flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world., make productive; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate; procreate, progenerate, propagate; engender; bring into being, call into being, bring into existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring up., induce, superinduce; suscitate; cause; acquire.
-adjectives
produced, producing; productive of; prolific; creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous., digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic; ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous., architectonic.
-phrases
ex nihilo nihil ["Nothing from nothing" (Latin)]; fiat lux ["Let there be light" (Latin)]; materiam superabat opus [Ovid]; nemo dat quod non habet
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Antonyms: |
destruction |
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