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noun • an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets • (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape • a level of existence or development • a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood • a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood adjective satellite • having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another verb • cut or remove with or as if with a plane • travel on the surface of water • make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane | ||||||||
26% | 5 | Comets' heads | ||||||
noun • A cloud of dust surrounding the nucleus of a comet. • A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points. • A tuft or bunch, such as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree, a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant, or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. | ||||||||
26% | 4 | Musical genre pioneered by Bill Haley and His Comets | ||||||
noun • a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter • United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984) • material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust • (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable • hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint) • a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western • pitching dangerously to one side verb • move back and forth or sideways • cause to move back and forth | ||||||||
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