| Main Entry: | airplane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vehicle that transports cargo or passengers through the air |
Synonyms: |
aeroplane, airbus, aircraft, airliner, airship, cab, crate, jet, kite, plane, ramjet, ship* |
| Main Entry: | clear out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | leave, often quickly |
Synonyms: |
beat it, begone, decamp, depart, go, hightail, kite, make oneself scarce, remove oneself, retire, scram, skedaddle, split*, take a hike, take off, vamoose, withdraw |
Antonyms: |
arrive, rush in |
| Main Entry: | epistle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | letter |
Synonyms: |
FYI, billet doux, cannonball, card, communication, dispatch, get-well, invite, kite, line*, love letter, memo, message, missive, note, poison pen, postcard, scratch*, tab, thank-you |
| Main Entry: | get out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | escape |
Synonyms: |
alight, avoid, be off, beat it, begone, break out, bug off, buzz off, clear out, decamp, depart, dodge, duck, egress, evacuate, evade, exit, extricate oneself, flee, fly, free oneself, go, hightail, kite, leave, make tracks, run away, scram, shirk, shun, skedaddle, split, take a hike, take off, vacate, vamoose, withdraw |
Antonyms: |
capture, grab, seize |
| Main Entry: | letter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written communication |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, answer, billet, dispatch, epistle, junk mail, kite, line, memo, memorandum, message, missive, note, postcard, reply, report, thank you |
Antonyms: |
speech |
| Main Entry: | bounced check |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad check |
Synonyms: |
kite, rubber check |
| Main Entry: | letter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
abecedarian, adscript, alphabetical, alphanumeric, calligraphic, cuneiform, digraphic, hieratic, hypsiloid, literal, syllabic, uncial
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| Concept: | Letter. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional Means; Language Generally |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
letter; character; hieroglyphic (writing); type (printing); capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row., consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable; affix, suffix., spelling, orthography; phonography, phonetic spelling; anagrammatism, metagrammatism. cipher, monogram, anagram; double acrostic.
-verbs
spell.
-adjectives
literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular, minuscular; uncial (writing).
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