counterpart
Webster Dictionary
a thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite
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metonym
(metonym)
Princeton's WordNet
a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing
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copy
(copy)
Princeton's WordNet
a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing
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insurable interest
(insurable interest)
Princeton's WordNet
an interest in a person or thing that will support the issuance of an insurance policy; an interest in the survival of the insured or in the preservation of the thing that is insured
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interchange
(exchange, interchange)
Princeton's WordNet
the act of changing one thing for another thing
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exchange
(exchange, interchange)
Princeton's WordNet
the act of changing one thing for another thing
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whole
Webster Dictionary
the entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself
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fact
Webster Dictionary
the assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts
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congener
Webster Dictionary
a thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action
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whatever
Webster Dictionary
anything soever which; the thing or things of any kind; being this or that; of one nature or another; one thing or another; anything that may be; all that; the whole that; all particulars that; -- used both substantively and adjectively
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direction
Webster Dictionary
the name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter
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fetch
Webster Dictionary
a stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice
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eleventh
Webster Dictionary
constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing
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valuable
Webster Dictionary
a precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural
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have
Webster Dictionary
to take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; -- used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion
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extraneous
Webster Dictionary
not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter
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servitude
Webster Dictionary
a right whereby one thing is subject to another thing or person for use or convenience, contrary to the common right
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reservation
Webster Dictionary
a clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before
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carcass
Webster Dictionary
the abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing
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heteronym
Webster Dictionary
that which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym
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rarity
Webster Dictionary
that which is rare; an uncommon thing; a thing valued for its scarcity
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nothing
Webster Dictionary
not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something
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warrant
Webster Dictionary
to assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be, which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by it
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vindication
Webster Dictionary
the claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing
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formal
Webster Dictionary
belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect
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phenomenon
(ɪˈnɒm əˌnɒn, -nən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(in Kantian philosophy) a thing as it appears to and is constructed by the mind, as distinguished from a noumenon, or thing-in-itself.
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analogy
(əˈnæl ə dʒi)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of known similarities in other respects.
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individual
Webster Dictionary
a single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person
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contexture
Webster Dictionary
the arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture
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something
Webster Dictionary
anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing
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