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  • 111moment — n. 1. Instant, second, trice, flash, jiffy, twinkling, twinkling of an eye, point of time. 2. Importance, consequence, weight, significance, value, import, force, consideration, avail, signification, gravity. 3. Momentum, impulsive power, impetus …

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  • 112trice — n. Moment, instant, second, jiffy, flash, twinkling, twinkling of an eye …

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  • 113flash — I. n. 1. Momentary blaze, sudden burst of light, gleam, glare. 2. Instant, moment, twinkling, twinkling of an eye. 3. Slang (of thieves and gypsies), cant language. II. v. n. 1. Emit a sudden light. 2. Break (forth) suddenly …

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  • 114instant — I. a. 1. Pressing, urgent, importunate, earnest. 2. Immediate, quick, instantaneous. 3. Current, present, now passing. II. n. 1. Moment, second, twinkling, flash, trice, jiffy, twinkling of an eye, smallest conceivable point of time. 2. Time,… …

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  • 115flash — n 1. streak, patch, glint, lightning; shaft, ray, beam; gleam, glare, fulguration, coruscation; brightness, dazzle, dazzling, bedazzlement, bedazzling, blinding; blaze, flame, flare, spark, scintilla, scintillation; shimmer, flicker, twinkle,… …

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  • 116instant — n 1. moment, minute, twinkling, flash, jiffy, breath, trice, crack, burst, flick, Inf. whipstitch, flash of lightning, twinkling of an eye, Fr. coup d oeil. 2. present time, this very minute, this very hour, specific moment, stroke of time,… …

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  • 117jiffy — n Informal. a little while, a short time, Inf. whipstitch; minute, moment, second, Inf. sec, split second, instant; flash, twinkling, twinkle, breath, trice; eyewink, wink of the eye, Fr. coup d oeil. twinkling of an eye, Inf. bat of an eye, two… …

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  • 118minute — I n 1. a short time, a little while, bit, Inf. jiffy, Inf. whipstitch; moment, second, Inf. sec, split second, instant; flash, twinkling, twinkle, breath, trice; eyewink, wink of an eye, Fr. coup d oeil. twinkling of an eye, Inf. bat of an eye,… …

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  • 119moment — n 1. instant, second, Inf. sec, minute, short time, little while; no time, less than no time, twinkling, twinkling or twinkle of an eye, wink, wink of an eye, trice, flash, Inf. jiffy or jiff, Inf. whipstitch, Inf. two shakes, Inf. two shakes of… …

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  • 120starlike — adj 1. stellate, stelliform, stellular, star shaped, astral, starry; radiate. 2. shining, bright, brilliant, illuminated, alight, light, lit, lighted; white, aureate, radiant, irradiant, lambent, resplendent, beaming, beamy; dazzling, fulgent,… …

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