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faint: a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain (phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
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| syncytium |
a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)
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| syndactylism |
syndactyly: birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes
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| synthetic |
man-made: not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather" involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition" celluloid: artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters" a compound made artificially by chemical reactions not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
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| synthetic fiber |
man-made fiber: created from natural materials or by chemical processes
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