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noun • the act of making something clean adjective satellite • cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands • acting like an antiseptic | ||||||||
| 26% | 6 | British Comets, e.g. | ||||||
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. | ||||||||
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