ironwood
— Noun
– English
~ medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
ironwood
— Noun
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~ exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
ironwork
— Noun
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~ work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc); "the houses had much ornamental ironwork"
ironworker
— Noun
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~ a person who makes articles of iron
ironworks
— Noun
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~ the workplace where iron is smelted or where iron goods are made
irony
— Noun
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~ a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
irony
— Noun
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~ witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift
irony
— Noun
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~ incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
iroquoian
— Noun
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~ a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
iroquois
— Noun
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~ any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
Iroquois
— Noun
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~ a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois
irradiation
— Noun
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~ (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
irradiation
— Noun
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~ (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex
irradiation
— Noun
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~ (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
irradiation
— Noun
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~ the condition of being exposed to radiation
irradiation
— Noun
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~ the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background
irradiation
— Noun
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~ a column of light (as from a beacon)
irrational
— Noun
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~ a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number
irrational impulse
— Noun
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~ a strong spontaneous and irrational motivation; "his first impulse was to denounce them"; "the urge to find out got him into trouble"