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(verb) come to the surface |
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Synonyms: come up, rise, rise up |
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Related Words: ascend, bubble up, emerge, go up, resurface, swell, well |
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(adjective) on the surface; "surface materials of the moon" |
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Antonyms: overhead, subsurface |
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(noun) the outer boundary of an object or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface" |
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Related Words: artefact, artifact, board, face, gameboard, ground, horizontal surface, level, projection screen, screen, side, silver screen, skin, superficies, vertical surface, work surface |
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(noun) a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something; "it was not what it appeared to be on the surface" |
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Related Words: aspect, facet |
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(noun) the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object; "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface" |
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Related Words: bound, boundary, bounds, celestial sphere, empyrean, end, exterior, face, firmament, hard palate, heavens, inside, interface, interior, outside, palate, roof of the mouth, side, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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(noun) the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water" |
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Synonyms: Earth's surface |
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Related Words: floor, layer |
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(verb) put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface; "coat the cake with cholocate" |
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Synonyms: coat |
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Related Words: anodize, blacktop, bonderize, brush on, cement, copper, cover, crumb, daub, dredge, egg, encrust, enrobe, finish, foliate, galvanize, gelatinize, glaze, grit, macadamize, metal, paint, patinate, patinize, pave, plaster, plate, refinish, resurface, rubber, rubberize, seal, size, skim, soot, stucco, tar, tarmac, varnish |
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(noun) information that has become public; "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface" |
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Synonyms: open |
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Related Words: general knowledge, public knowledge |
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(satellite adjective) involving a surface only; "her beauty is only skin-deep"; "superficial bruising"; "a surface wound" |
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Synonyms: skin-deep, superficial |
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(verb) appear or become visible; make a showing; "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again" |
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Synonyms: come on, come out, show up, turn up |
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Related Words: appear |
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(noun) a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight |
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Synonyms: aerofoil, airfoil, control surface |
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Related Words: aileron, device, elevator, flap, flaps, horizontal stabilizer, rotary wing, rotor blade, rudder, spoiler, stabilizer, tailplane, vertical tail, wing |
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