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upper crust |
Noun
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the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy |
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unionism |
Noun
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the system or principles and theory of labor unions |
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unemployment line |
Noun
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a queue of people waiting for employment |
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unemployed people |
Noun
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people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group) |
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underbrush |
Noun
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the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest |
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undergrowth |
Noun
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the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest |
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underwood |
Noun
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the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest |
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urban center |
Noun
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a large and densely populated urban area |
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urban sprawl |
Noun
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an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities |
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underside |
Noun
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the lower side of anything |
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undersurface |
Noun
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the lower side of anything |
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upper limit |
Noun
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the limit on the upper (or northernmost) side of something |
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upper limit |
Noun
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the largest possible quantity |
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unknown region |
Noun
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an unknown and unexplored region |
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upper side |
Noun
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the highest or uppermost side of anything |
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upside |
Noun
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the highest or uppermost side of anything |
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urban area |
Noun
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a geographical area constituting a city or town |
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used-car lot |
Noun
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a parking lot where a dealer in used-cars displays cars for sale |
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ultima Thule |
Noun
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the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world |
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urinary calculus |
Noun
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a calculus formed in the kidney |
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unit cell |
Noun
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the smallest group of atoms or molecules whose repetition at regular intervals in three dimensions produces the lattices of a crystal |
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upper mantle |
Noun
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the upper part of the mantle |
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up quark |
Noun
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a stable quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron |
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urolith |
Noun
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a urinary stone |
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undine |
Noun
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any of various female water spirits |
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Uncle Tom |
Noun
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(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites |
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unusual person |
Noun
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a person who is unusual |
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unfortunate person |
Noun
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a person who suffers misfortune |
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unwelcome person |
Noun
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a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome |
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unpleasant person |
Noun
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a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
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unskilled person |
Noun
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a person who lacks technical training |
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umpire |
Noun
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someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue |
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umpire |
Noun
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an official at a baseball game |
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umpire |
Verb
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be a referee or umpire in a sports competition |
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unmarried man |
Noun
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a man who has never been married |
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uranologist |
Noun
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a physicist who studies astronomy |
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university student |
Noun
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a student enrolled in a college or university |
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unbeliever |
Noun
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someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) |
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unraveler |
Noun
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a person who removes tangles |
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unraveller |
Noun
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a person who removes tangles |
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underwater diver |
Noun
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someone who works underwater |
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undoer |
Noun
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a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
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undoer |
Noun
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a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens |
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undoer |
Noun
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a seducer who ruins a woman |
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uprooter |
Noun
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a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
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Ubermensch |
Noun
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a person with great powers and abilities |
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user |
Noun
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a person who takes drugs |
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user |
Noun
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a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically |
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user |
Noun
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a person who makes use of a thing |
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unwelcome guest |
Noun
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someone who gets into a party without an invitation or without paying |