midnight
The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
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The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.
Put into a package.
A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings.
Commendation; favourable representation in words.
The act of presenting, or something presented.
The study of the human mind.
The manner in which two things may be associated.
A projectile. — A cylindrical projectile that can be fired to a great height through combustion, (specifically) a type of firework of this form, typically exploding with light and colour; a skyrocket.
The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a house or castle.
A person from Saudi Arabia or of Saudi Arabian descent.
Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.
A formal binding agreement concluded by subjects of international law, namely, states and international organizations; a convention, a pact.
Made up of three related elements, often matching
Not likely; improbable; not to be reasonably expected.
Having been viewed; having been seen, watched or witnessed.
a foolish or stupid person
Something which is done or is to be done; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public.
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.
The act of cooperating.
Intellectual power; skill; art. — Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity .
The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
A change to the text of a document.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
weakness; defect
a small or insignificant amount
The act of completing something.
Destiny, especially favorable.
Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.
Flour made by grinding wheat berries including the bran.
Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.
Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
In part, or to some degree, but not completely.
A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance.
A short written or spoken expression.
In a physical manner.
Of or relating to a race (or a people).
maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly
Mode of rule or management.
The practice of medical doctors visiting patients in a hospital or in their homes according to a predetermined order.
Having printed lines.
To sexually assault (someone).
A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
Detached; not connected or joined; two or more things stand apart.
Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. — A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
In a like style or manner.
To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
The topmost point or surface of a thing; the apex, the peak. — The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.