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Woolly AphidnounMWEsecretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threadsverified
Woolly Apple AphidnounMWEprimarily a bark feeder on aerial parts and roots of apple and other treesverified
Woolly BearnounMWEcaterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairsverified
Woolly Bear CaterpillarnounMWEcaterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairsverified
Woolly MammothnounMWEvery hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphereverified
Woolly ManzanitanounMWEerect openly branched California shrub whose twigs are woolly when youngverified
Woolly MonkeynounMWElarge monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basinsverified
Woolly Plant LousenounMWEsecretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threadsverified
Woolsorter's DiseasenounMWEa form of anthrax infection acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracisverified
Woolsorter's PneumonianounMWEa form of anthrax infection acquired by inhalation of dust containing Bacillus anthracisverified
Wooly Blue CurlsnounMWEan aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexicoverified
Wooly Lip FernnounMWEsmall North American evergreen fern whose stipes and lower frond surfaces are densely woolyverified
Word ClassnounMWEone of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical contextverified
Word DeafnessnounMWEan impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing lossverified
Word EmbeddingnounMWEa popular framework to represent text data as vectors which has been used in many machine learning and natural language processing tasks. . . . A word embedding, trained on word co-occurrence in text corpora, represents each word (or common phrase) w as a d-dimensional word vector w~ 2 Rd. It serves as a dictionary of sorts for computer programs that would like to use word meaning. First, words with similar semantic meanings tend to have vectors that are close together. Second, the vector differences between words in embeddings have been shown to represent relationships between words.verified
Word FindernounMWEa thesaurus organized to help you find the word you want but cannot think ofverified
Word FormnounMWEthe phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify somethingverified
Word of AdvicenounMWEcautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)verified
Word ProcessingnounMWErapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editingverified
Word Processing SystemnounMWEan application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printerverified
Word ProcessornounMWEan application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printerverified
Word SquarenounMWEa puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as acrossverified
work factornounMWEEstimate of the effort or time needed by a potential perpetrator, with specified expertise and resources, to overcome a protective measure.verified
Work of ArtnounMWEart that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit)verified
work outverbMWEhappen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often wellverified
work papernounMWEThe written record of the basis for the auditor's conclusions that provides the support for the auditor's representations, whether those representations are contained in the auditor's report or otherwise.verified
Work PermitnounMWEa legal document giving information required for employment of certain people in certain countriesverified
Work StoppagenounMWEa group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditionsverified
Work StudynounMWEan analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effortverified
Work SurfacenounMWEa horizontal surface for supporting objects used in working or playing gamesverified
Work to RulenounMWEa job action in which workers cause a slowdown by doing only the minimum amount required by the rules of the workplaceverified
Work transfernounMWEWork-transfer is a process whereby the staff located at a recovery site accepts the workload of staff located at a primary production site, and a data center located at a recovery site accepts the workload of the primary data processing site.verified
Work-Study ProgramnounMWEan educational plan in which students alternate between paid employment and formal studyverified
Working DognounMWEany of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogsverified
Working GroupnounMWEa group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achievedverified
Working PapersnounMWEa legal document giving information required for employment of certain people in certain countriesverified
Working PartynounMWEa group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achievedverified
Workmen's CompensationnounMWEcompensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employmentverified