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| apartment building |
a building in which there are a number of individual apartments. |
| civil war |
(cap.)The U.S. war (1861-1865) between the Northern states (Union) and the Southern states (Confederacy), which was caused by a conflict over the governing rights of individual states and the practice of slavery. [1/2 definitions] |
| curl |
an individual ring of hair. [1/6 definitions] |
| death |
the end of life in any living thing, or the end of the life of a particular individual. [1/2 definitions] |
| egg1 |
a cell in a female animal or in some kinds of plants that can develop into a new individual after it is fertilized. [1/2 definitions] |
| hacker |
someone who is able to use a computer to get into carefully protected computer systems owned by a government, business, or individual. [1/2 definitions] |
| illness |
a particular disease that can affect many people, or a particular sickness in an individual. [1/2 definitions] |
| individual |
Individual things are things that are single, separate things rather than these same things in a group, touching each other, or being part of one whole, bigger thing. For example, we can talk about a whole plant or we can talk about individual leaves or individual parts of that plant. [5 definitions] |
| melody |
A melody is a string of musical sounds that you can follow as you listen. A melody is something that can be sung because it is made up of individual notes. Often when we talk about a melody, we mean the string of sounds that can be heard most clearly in a song. The melody is the part that most people will sing when they hear the song. |
| organism |
an individual living thing, such as a plant, an animal, or a germ. |
| originality |
the ability to think or act in a new way or as an individual. [1/2 definitions] |
| personally |
as a person or individual. [1/4 definitions] |
| piece |
an individual item of a certain kind of thing. [1/5 definitions] |
| separate |
individual. [1/9 definitions] |
| single |
considered as a separate or individual thing. [1/8 definitions] |
| sparse |
If something is sparse, it is thin. The number of the individual things or people that make it up are low. If someone's hair is sparse, their hair is not thick. They have some hairs, but there is a lot of space between them. |
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