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Dog Definition–noun | 1. | a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.<
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ody, a bushy tail, and large, erect ears. Compare canid. | | 3. | the male of such an animal. | | 4. | any of various animals resembling a dog. | | 5. | a despicable man or youth. | | 6. | Informal. a fellow in general: a lucky dog. | | 8. | Slang. | a. | something worthless or of extremely poor quality: That used car you bought is a dog. | | b. | an utter failure; flop: Critics say his new play is a dog. | | | 9. | Slang. an ugly, boring, or crude person. | | 11. | (initial capital letter ) Astronomy. either of two constellations, Canis Major or Canis Minor. | | 12. | Machinery. | a. | any of various mechanical devices, as for gripping or holding something. | | b. | a projection on a moving part for moving steadily or for tripping another part with which it engages. | | | 13. | Also called gripper, nipper. Metalworking. a device on a drawbench for drawing the work through the die. | | 14. | a cramp binding
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together two timbers. | | 15. | an iron bar driven into a stone or timber to provide a means of lifting it. | | 17. | Meteorology. a sundog or fogdog. | | 18. | a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter D. | –verb (used with object) | 19. | to follow or track like a dog, esp. with hostile intent; hound. | | 20. | to drive or chase with a dog or dogs. | |
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21. | Machinery. to fasten with dogs. | —Idioms | 22. | dog it, Informal. | a. | to shirk one's responsibility; loaf on the job. | | b. | to retreat, flee, renege, etc.: a sponsor who dogged it when needed most. | | | 23. | go to the dogs, Informal. to deteriorate; degenerate morally or physically: This neighborhood is going to the dogs. | | 24. | lead a dog's life, to have an unhappy or harassed existence: He maintained that he led a dog's life in the army. | | 25. | let sleeping dogs lie, to refrain from action that would alter an existing situa
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tion for fear of causing greater problems or complexities. | | 26. | put on the dog, Informal. to assume an attitude of wealth or importance; put on airs. | |
From Dictionary Ear Definition–noun | 1. | the organ of hearing and equilibrium in vertebrates, in humans consisting of an external ear that gathers sound vibrations, a middle ear in which the vibrations resonate against the tympanic membrane, and a fluid-filled internal ear that maintains balance and that conducts the tympanic vibrations to the auditory nerve, which transmits them
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as impulses to the brain. | | 2. | the external ear alone: The hat completely covers his ears. | | 3. | the sense of hearing: sounds that are pleasing to the ear. | |
| 4. | keen or sensitive perception of the differences of sound, esp. sensitiveness to the quality and correctness of musical sounds: an ear for music; a violinist with a good ear. | | 5. | attention; heed: to gain a person's ear. | | 6. | any part that resembles or suggests an ear in position or form, as the handle of a teacup. | | 8. | Journalism. a small box in either upper corner of a newspaper page, usually the front page or split page, containing the name of or a symbol for the edition, a weather bulletin, a slogan, or the like. | | 9. | Furniture. | a. | a decorative feature at the upper end of a leg. | | b. | one of the decorative features at each end of a crest rail. | | —Idioms | 12. | be all ears, Informal. to give all one's attention; listen: We were all ears as the scandal was revealed. | | 13
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. | bend an ear, to listen attentively: to bend an ear to a request for aid. | | 14. | bend someone's ear, Informal. to talk to someone uninterruptedly and often so as to induce boredom: He'll bend your ear for hours if given the chance. | | 15. | by ear, without reference to written or printed music: to play the piano by ear. | | 16. | fall on deaf ears, to be disregarded; pass unheeded: Their pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears. | | 17. | give ear, to pay attention; listen carefully. Also, lend an ear. | | 18. | go in one ear and out the other, to be heard but ignored; be put out of mind: My repeated warnings to her went in one ear and out the other. | | 19. | have or keep one's ear to the grou
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nd, to keep well-informed about current trends; be shrewd or astute: Because she had her ear to the ground, she made a large fortune in stock speculation. | | 20. | have one's ears on, Slang. to be listening through earphones to a radio, cassette player, telephone communication, or the like. | | 21. | pin someone's ears back, Slang. to give a person a sound beating; defeat a person utterly: If he doesn't behave himself, I'll pin his ears back. | | 22. | set by the ears, to cause to dispute or quarrel: He's a troublemaker who keeps trying to set the two other children by the ears. | | 23. | set on one's ear or ears, to excite or stir up; shock; amaze: The presence of the movie star set the whole town on its ear. | | 24. | turn a deaf ear to, to refuse to listen to or consider (a request, petition, etc.): He turns a deaf ear to requests for loans. | | 25. | up to one's ears, deeply involved or occupied to full capacity: We are up to our ears in work. | | 26. | wet behind the ears. wet (def. 19). | | From Dictionary Infection Definition–noun | 1. | an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected. | | 2. | an infecting with germs of disease, as through the medium of infected insects, air, water, or clothing. | | 3. | an infecting agency or influence. | | 4. | an infectious disease: Is this infection very dangerous? | | 5. | the condition of suffering an infection. | | 6. | corruption of another's opinions, beliefs, moral principles, etc.; moral contamination. | | 7. | an influence or impulse passing from one to another and affecting feeling or action. | | 8. | Grammar. (in Celtic languages) assimilation in which a vowel is influenced by a following vowel or semivowel; umlaut. | |
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