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  • 61down*/*/*/ — [daʊn] grammar word I summary: Down can be: ■ a preposition: She was walking down the street. ■ an adverb: She lay down and fell asleep. ■ used after the verb ‘to be : Oil prices are down. ■ an adjective: I ve been feeling rather down lately. 1)… …

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  • 62soft-pedal — [c]/sɒft ˈpɛdl / (say soft pedl) verb (soft pedalled or, US, soft pedaled, soft pedalling or, US, soft pedaling) –verb (i) 1. to use the soft pedal. 2. Colloquial to make concessions or be conciliatory, as in criticism: *Eventually I ll ask him… …

  • 63soft-top — ˈ ̷ ̷ ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : an automobile or motorboat having a top that may be folded down * * * /sawft top , soft /, n. 1. the folding top of a convertible automobile. 2. an automobile having such a top; convertible. adj. 3. of or pertaining to such an… …

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  • 64Soft Hail — Infobox Album Name = Soft Hail Type = Album Longtype = Artist = John Craigie Released = 2008 Recorded = Bocean Studios, San Rafael, CA Length = 58:03 Genre = Folk Label = Zabriskie Point Records Producer = John Craigie, Trent Boeschen Reviews =… …

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  • 65Soft Target (book) — Infobox Book name = Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada title orig = image caption = Cover page. author = Zuhair Kashmeri Brian McAndrew cover artist = country = Canada language = English series = subject = genre =… …

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  • 66Soft Machine, The — by Wiliam S. Burroughs (1961)    The Soft Machine is the first volume of what is popularly called William S. Burroughs’s cutups trilogy The Soft Machine, The ticket tHat exploded, and nova express. Although these books are formed from material… …

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  • 67down — I 1. adverb 1) they went down in the elevator Syn: toward a lower position, downward, downstairs Ant: up 2) she fell down Syn: to the ground, to the floor, over …

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  • 68down — {{11}}down (adv.) late O.E. aphetic form of O.E. ofdune downwards, from dune from the hill, dative of dun hill (see DOWN (Cf. down) (n.2)). A sense development peculiar to English. Used as a preposition since c.1500. Sense of depressed mentally… …

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  • 69Soft Magnetic Materials Conference — The Soft Magnetic Materials Conference, commonly referred to as SMM, is an international conference devoted to all kinds of soft magnetic materials with the emphasis on industrial and applications aspects. Format and purpose The SMM is held for… …

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  • 70down — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. downward; under, beneath, below. See lowness, descent.Ant., up, above. II (Roget s IV) prep. and modif. 1. [Having a downward motion] Syn. forward, headlong, downward, downhill, downstairs,… …

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