| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Informal. One's portable property: belonging (often used in plural), effect (used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, personal property, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural). Law : chattel, movable (often used in plural). See OWNED. 2. The most central and material part: core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, quintessence, root1, soul, spirit, substance. Law : gravamen. See BE. 3. That from which things are or can be made: material, matter, substance. Idioms: grist for one's mill. See MATTER. 4. The basic substance or essential elements of character that qualify a person for a specified role: material, timber. See BE. | | VERB: | To fill to excess by compressing or squeezing tightly: cram, crowd, jam, load, mob, pack. Informal : jam-pack. See FULL, TIGHTEN.
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