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#40. [Thing remaining.] Remainder. -- N

• remainder

• residue

• remains

• remanent

• remnant

• rest

• relic

• leavings

• odds and ends

• candle ends

• residuum

• dregs

• refuse

• stubble

• result

• fag-end

• ruins

• wreck

• skeleton

• stump;

• alluvium

• surplus

• excess

• balance

• complement

• superfluity

• survival

• V. remain

• be left

• exceed

• survive

• leave

• Adj. remaining

• left

• left behind left over

• residual

• residuary

• over

• odd

• unconsumed

• sedimentary

• surviving

• net

• exceeding

• over and above;

• outlying

• outstanding

• cast off

• superfluous

#40a. [Thing deducted.] Decrement. -- N.

#41. [Forming a whole without coherence.] Mixture. -- N. mixture

• admixture

• commixture

• intermixture

• matrimony

• junction

• combination

• miscegenation

• impregnation

• infusion

• diffusion suffusion

• transfusion;

• infiltration

• seasoning

• sprinkling

• interlarding

• interpolation

• adulteration

• sophistication

• [Thing mixed] tinge

• tincture

• touch

• dash

• smack

• sprinkling

• spice

• seasoning

• infusion

• soupcon

• [Compound resulting from mixture] alloy

• amalgam

• brass

• pewter

• magma

• half-and-half

• melange

• miscellany

• ambigu|

• medley

• mess

• patchwork

• odds and ends

• all sorts

• jumble

• salad

• sauce

• mash

• gallimaufry

• olio

• salmagundi

• potpourri

• Noah's ark

• caldron texture

• mingled yarn

• mosaic

• half-blood

• half-caste

• mulatto

• quinteron

• quadroon

• octoroon

• Eurasian

• griffe

• marabou

• mestizo

• quintroon

• cross

• hybrid

• mongrel

• V. mix

• join

• combine

• commix

• intermix;

• mix up with

• mingle

• commingle

• intermingle

• shuffle

• (derange)

• pound together

• hash up

• stir up

• knead

• brew

• impregnate

• with

• interlard

• intertwine

• interweave

• associate with

• be mixed

• get among

• be entangled with

• instill

• imbue

• infuse

• suffuse

• transfuse

• infiltrate

• dash

• tinge

• tincture

• season

• sprinkle

• besprinkle

• medicate

• blend

• cross

• alloy

• amalgamate

• compound

• adulterate

• sophisticate

• infect

• Adj. mixed

• composite

• half-and-half

• linsey-

• woolsey

• chowchow

• hybrid

• mongrel

• heterogeneous

• motley

• 440

• miscellaneous

• promiscuous

• indiscriminate

• miscible

• Adv. among

• amongst

• amid

• amidst

• with

• in the midst of

• in the crowd

• purity

• homogeneity

• elimination

• sifting

• purification

• V. render simple

• simplify

• sift

• winnow

• bolt

• eliminate

• exclude

• get rid of

• clear

• purify

• (clean)

• disentangle

• Adj. simple

• uniform

• homogeneous

• single

• pure

• sheer

• neat

• unmixed

• unblended

• uncombined

• uncompounded;

• elementary

• undecomposed

• unadulterated

• unsophisticated

• unalloyed

• unfortified

• free from

• exempt from

• exclusive

• Adv. simple

#44. Disjunction. -- N. disjunction

• disconnection

• disunity

• disunion

• disassociation

• disengagement

• discontinuity

• abstraction

• abstractedness

• isolation

• insularity

• insulation

• oasis

• island;

• separateness

• severalty

• dispersion

• apportionment

• separation

• parting

• circumcision

• detachment

• segregation;

• divorce

• sejunction|

• seposition|

• elision

• caesura

• break

• fracture

• division

• subdivision

• rupture

• compartition |

• dismemberment

• dislocation

• severance

• disseverance

• scission

• rescission

• abscission

• laceration

• disruption

• section

• resection

• cleavage

• fission;

• separability

• fissure

• breach

• rent

• split

• rift

• crack

• slit

• incision

• dissection anatomy

• decomposition

• cutting instrument

• (sharpness)

• buzzsaw

• circular saw

• rip saw

• separatist

• V. be disjoined

• come off

• fall off

• come to pieces

• fall to

• pieces

• peel off

• get loose

• disjoin

• disconnect

• disengage

• disunite

• dissociate

• divorce

• part

• detach

• separate

• cut off

• rescind

• segregate

• set apart

• keep apart

• insulate

• isolate

• throw out of gear;

• cut adrift

• loose

• unloose

• undo

• unbind

• unchain

• unlock

• unpack

• unravel

• disentangle

• set free

• sunder

• divide

• subdivide

• sever

• dissever

• circumcise;

• cut

• incide|

• incise

• saw

• snip

• nib

• nip

• cleave

• rive

• rend

• slit

• split

• splinter

• chip

• crack

• snap

• break

• tear

• burst

• rend

• rend in twain

• wrench

• rupture

• shatter

• shiver

• crunch

• chop

• cut up

• rip up

• hack

• hew

• slash

• whittle

• haggle

• hackle

• discind|

• lacerate

• mangle

• gash

• hash

• slice

• cut up

• carve

• dissect

• anatomize

• take to pieces

• pull

• to pieces

• pick to pieces

• tear to pieces

• tear to tatters

• tear piecemeal

• tear limb from limb

• skin

• disintegrate

• dismember

• disband

• disperse

• dislocate

• disjoint;

• break up

• mince

• comminute

• apportion

• part

• part company

• separate

• leave

• Adj. disjoined

• discontinuous

• abstract

• disjunctive

• secant

• isolated

• insular

• separate

• disparate

• discrete

• apart

• asunder

• far between

• loose

• free

• unattached

• unannexed

• unassociated

• unconnected

• distinct

• adrift

• straggling

• rift

• [capable of being cut] scissile[Chem]

• divisible

• partible

• separable

• Adv. separately

• one by one

• severally

• apart

• adrift

• asunder

• in twain

• in the abstract

• abstractedly

#45. [Connecting medium.] Connection. -- N. vinculum

#46. Coherence. -- N. coherence

• adherence

• adhesion

• adhesiveness;

• concretion

• accretion

• conglutination

• agglutination

• agglomeration;

• aggregation

• consolidation

• set

• cementation

• sticking

• soldering

• connection

• dependence

• tenacity

• toughness

• stickiness

• inseparability

• inseparableness

• bur

• remora

• conglomerate

• concrete

• V. cohere

• adhere

• stick

• cling

• cleave

• hold

• take hold of

• hold

• fast

• close with

• clasp

• hug

• grow together

• hang together

• twine round

• (join) 43

• stick like a leech

• stick like wax

• stick close;

• cling like ivy

• cling like a bur

• adhere like a remora

• adhere like

• Dejanira's shirt

• glue

• agglutinate

• cement

• lute

• paste

• gum;

• solder

• weld

• cake

• consolidate

• agglomerate

• Adj. cohesive

• adhesive

• adhering

• cohering

• tenacious

• tough;

• sticky

• united

• unseparated

• inseparable

• inextricable

• compact

#47. [Want of adhesion

• nonadhesion

• immiscibility.] Incoherence

• immiscibility

• incoherence

• looseness

• laxity

• relaxation

• loosening

• freedom

• disjunction

• rope of sand

• V. make loose

• loosen

• slacken

• relax

• unglue

• detach

• Adj. nonadhesive

• immiscible

• incoherent

• detached

• loose

• baggy

• slack

• lax

• relaxed

• flapping

• streaming

• disheveled

• segregated

• like

• grains of sand unconsolidated

• uncombined

#48. Combination. -- N. combination

• mixture

• junction

• union

• unification

• synthesis

• incorporation

• amalgamation

• embodiment

• coalescence

• fusion

• blending

• absorption

• centralization

• alloy

• compound

• amalgam

• composition

• resultant

• impregnation

• V. combine

• unite

• incorporate

• amalgamate

• embody

• absorb

• blend

• merge

• fuse

• melt into one

• consolidate

• coalesce

• centralize

• impregnate

• put together

• lump together

• cement a union

• marry

• Adj. combined

• impregnated with

• ingrained

• imbued inoculated

#49. Decomposition. -- N. decomposition

• analysis

• dissection

• resolution

• catalysis

• dissolution

• corruption

• dispersion

• disjunction

• disintegration

• V. decompose

• decompound

• analyze

• disembody

• dissolve

• resolve into

• its elements

• separate into its elements

• electrolyze[Chem]

• dissect

• decentralize

• break up

• disperse

• unravel

• crumble

• into dust

• Adj. decomposed

• catalytic

• analytical

• resolvent

• separative

• solvent

• 4. CONCRETE QUANTITY

#50. Whole. [Principal part.] -- N. whole

• totality

• integrity;

• totalness

• entirety

• ensemble

• unity

• completeness

• indivisibility

• integration

• embodiment

• integer

• all

• the whole

• total

• aggregate

• one and all

• gross amount

• sum

• sum

• total

• tout ensemble

• length and breadth of

• Alpha and Omega

• "be all and end all"

• complex

• lock

• stock and barrel

• bulk

• mass

• lump

• tissue

• staple

• body

• trunk

• torso

• bole

• hull

• hulk

• skeleton greater part

• major part

• best part

• principal

• part

• main part

• essential part

• lion's share

• Benjamin's mess

• the long and the short

• nearly

• all

• almost all

• V. form a whole

• constitute a whole

• integrate

• embody

• amass;

• aggregate

• amount to

• come to

• Adj. whole

• total

• integral

• entire

• complete

• one

• individual

• unbroken

• intact

• uncut

• undivided

• uncropped

• unshorn

• seamless

• undiminished

• undemolished

• undissolved

• undestroyed

• unbruised

• indivisible

• indissoluble

• wholesale

• sweeping

• comprehensive

• Adv. wholly

• altogether

• totally

• entirely

• all

• all in all

• as a whole

• wholesale

• in a body

• collectively

• all put

• together

• in the aggregate

• in the lump

• in the mass

• in the gross

• in the

• main

• in the long run

• en masse

• as a body

• on the whole

• bodily|!

• en

• bloc

• throughout

• every inch

• substantially

#51. Part. -- N. part

• portion

• dose

• item

• particular

• aught

• any;

• division

• ward

• subdivision

• section

• chapter

• clause

• count

• paragraph

• verse

• article

• passage

• sector

• segment

• fraction

• fragment

• cantle

• frustum

• detachment

• parcel

• lump

• bit cut

• cutting

• chip

• chunk

• slice

• scale

• lamina

• small part

• morsel

• particle

• installment

• dividend

• share

• debris

• odds and ends

• oddments

• detritus

• member

• limb

• lobe

• lobule

• arm

• wing

• scion

• branch

• bough

• joint

• link

• offshoot

• ramification

• twig

• bush

• spray

• sprig

• runner

• leaf

• leaflet

• stump;

• component part

• compartment

• department

• county

• V. part

• divide

• break

• partition

• 786

• Adj. fractional

• fragmentary

• sectional

• aliquot

• divided

• in

• compartments

• disconnected

• partial

• Adv. partly

• in part

• partially

• piecemeal

• part by part

• by

• installments

• by snatches

• by inches

• by driblets

• bit by bit

• inch by

• inch

• foot by foot

• drop by drop

• in detail

• in lots

#52. Completeness. -- N. completeness

• completion

• integration

• entirety

• perfection

• solidity

• solidarity

• unity

• all

• ne

• ideal

• limit

• complement

• supplement

• make-weight

• filling

• up

• saturation

• saturity|

• high water

• high tide

• flood

• tide

• spring tide

• fill

• load

• bumper

• sufficiency

• V. be complete

• come to a head

• render complete

• complete

• fill

• charge

• load

• replenish

• make up

• make good

• eke out

• supply

• deficiencies

• fill up

• fill in

• fill to the brim

• fill the measure of;

• saturate

• go the whole hog

• go the whole length

• go all lengths

• Adj. complete

• entire

• whole

• perfect

• full

• good

• absolute

• thorough

• plenary

• solid

• undivided

• with all its parts

• all-

• sided

• exhaustive

• radical

• sweeping

• thorough-going

• dead

• regular

• consummate

• unmitigated

• sheer

• unqualified

• unconditional

• free

• abundant

• brimming

• brimful

• topful

• topfull

• chock full

• choke full

• as full as

• an egg is of meat

• as full as a vetch

• saturated

• crammed

• replete

• (redundant)

• fraught

• laden

• full-laden

• full-fraught

• full-charged;

• heavy laden

• completing

• supplemental

• supplementary

• Adv. completely

• altogether

• outright

• wholly

• totally

• in

• toto

• quite

• all out

• over head and ears

• effectually

• for good and all

• nicely

• fully

• through thick and thin

• head and shoulders

• neck and heel

• neck and crop

• in all respects

• in every respect

• at all points

• out and

• out

• to all intents and purposes

• utterly

• clean

• clean as

• a whistle

• to the full

• to the utmost

• to the backbone

• hollow

• stark;

• heart and soul

• root and branch

• down to the ground

• to the top of one's bent

• as far as possible

• throughout

• from first to last

• from beginning to end

• from end to

• end

• from one end to the other

• from Dan to Beersheba

• from head to foot

• from top to toe

• from top to bottom

• a fond

• a

• fore and aft

• every

• whit

• every inch

• cap-a-pie

• to the end of the chapter

• up to the brim

• up

• to the ears

• up to the eyes

• as . . . as can be

• on all accounts

• with a vengeance

• with a

• witness

• false

• in everything]

• una scopa nuova spazza bene

• [Italian]

#53. Incompleteness. -- N. incompleteness

• deficiency

• short

• measure

• shortcoming

• insufficiency

• imperfection

• immaturity

• half measures

• [part wanting] defect

• deficit

• defalcation

• omission

• caret;

• shortage

• interval

• break

• noncompletion

• 730

• missing link

• missing piece

• missing part

• gap

• hole

• lacuna

• V. be incomplete

• fall short of

• lack

• insufficient) 640

• neglect

• Adj. incomplete

• imperfect

• unfinished

• uncompleted

• complete

• defective

• deficient

• wanting

• lacking

• failing

• in

• default

• short of

• hollow

• meager

• lame

• halfand-half

• perfunctory

• sketchy

• crude

• mutilated

• garbled

• docked

• lopped

• truncated

• in progress

• in hand

• going on

• proceeding

• Adv. incompletely

• by halves

• caret

#54. Composition. -- N. composition

• constitution

• combination

• inclusion

• admission

• comprehension

• reception;

• embodiment

• formation

• V. be composed of

• be made of

• be formed of

• be made up of

• consist

• of

• be resolved into

• include

• contain

• hold

• comprehend

• take in

• admit

• embrace

• embody

• involve

• implicate

• drag into

• compose

• constitute

• form

• make

• make up

• fill up

• build up

• enter into the

• composition of

• Adj. containing

• constituting

#55. Exclusion. -- N. exclusion

• nonadmission

• omission

• exception

• rejection

• repudiation

• exile

• preclusion

• prohibition

• separation

• segregation

• elimination

• expulsion;

• cofferdam

• V. be excluded from

• exclude

• bar

• leave out

• shut out

• bar out

• reject

• repudiate

• blackball

• lay apart

• put apart

• set apart

• lay aside

• put aside

• relegate

• segregate

• throw overboard

• strike off

• strike out

• neglect

• banish

• separate.

• pass over

• omit

• garble

• eliminate

• weed

• winnow

• Adj. excluding

• exclusive

• excluded

• not included in

• inadmissible

• Adv. exclusive of

• barring

• except

• with the exception of

• save;

• bating

#56. Component. -- N. component

• component part

• integral part

• element

• constituent

• ingredient

• leaven

• part and

• parcel

• contents

• appurtenance

• feature

• member

• personnel

• V. enter into

• enter into the composition of

• be a component

• be

• part of

• form part of

• merge in

• be merged in

• be implicated in;

• share in

• belong to

• appertain to

• combine

• inhere

• in

• unite

• form

• make

• constitute

• compose

• Adj. forming

#57. Extraneousness. -- N. extraneousness

• extrinsicality

• exteriority

• alienism

• foreign body

• foreign substance

• foreign element

• alien

• stranger

• intruder

• interloper

• foreigner

• newcomer

• immigrant

• emigrant

• creole

• outsider

• Dago*

• wop

• mick

• polak

• greaser

• slant

• Easterner [U.S.]

• Dutchman

• tenderfoot

• Adj. extraneous

• foreign

• alien

• ulterior

• tramontane

• ultramontane

• excluded

• inadmissible

• exceptional

• Adv. in foreign parts

• in foreign lands

• abroad

• beyond seas

• over sea

• on one's travels

#58. Order. -- N. order

• regularity

• uniformity

• symmetry

• lucidus

• music of the spheres

• gradation

• progression

• series

• subordination

• course

• even tenor

• routine

• method

• disposition

• arrangement

• array

• system

• economy

• discipline orderliness

• rank

• place

• V. be in order

• become in order

• form

• fall in

• draw up;

• arrange itself

• range itself

• place itself

• fall into one's place

• take

• one's place

• take one's rank

• rally round

• adjust

• methodize

• regulate

• systematize

• Adj. orderly

• regular

• in order

• in trim

• in apple-pie order

• in

• its proper place

• neat

• tidy

• well regulated

• correct

• methodical

• uniform

• symmetrical

• shipshape

• businesslike

• systematic;

• unconfused

• arranged

• Adv. in order

• methodically

• in -turn

• - its turn

• step by

• step

• by regular -steps

• -gradations

• -stages

• -intervals

• seriatim

• systematically

• by clockwork

• at stated periods

• (periodically) 138

• "order is heaven's first law"

• [Pope]

• "order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]

• ordo est parium

• <-- here we should break up 59 into disorder (randomness)

• and complexity

• These are two different concepts. Note that simplicity

• (entry 849) refers

• to affections or appearance

• not internal complexity

• We also need a corresponding entry for conceptual or organizational

• simplicity. -->

#59. [Absence

• or want of Order

• derangement

• irregularity

• anomaly

• anarchy

• anarchism

• want of method

• untidiness

• disunion

• discord

• confusion

• confusedness

• mishmash

• mix

• disarray

• jumble

• huddle

• litter

• lumber

• farrago

• mess

• mash

• muddle

• muss [U. S.]

• hash

• hodgepodge

• imbroglio

• chaos

• medley

• mere mixture

• fortuitous concourse of

• atoms

• complexity

• turmoil

• ferment

• to-do

• trouble

• pother

• row

• rumble

• disturbance

• hubbub

• convulsion

• tumult

• uproar

• revolution

• riot

• rumpus

• scramble

• brawl

• fracas

• rhubarb

• [baseball]

• fight

• free-for-all

• row

• ruction

• rumpus

• embroilment

• melee

• spill and pelt

• rough and tumble

• whirlwind

• bear garden

• Babel

• Saturnalia

• donnybrook

• Donnybrook Fair

• confusion worse confounded

• most

• admired disorder

• Bedlam

• all hell broke loose;

• bull in a china shop

• all the fat in the fire

• Devil

• to pay

• pretty kettle of fish

• pretty piece of

• [legal terms] disorderly person

• disorderly persons offence;

• misdemeanor

• [moral disorder] slattern

• slut (libertine) 962

• V. be disorderly

• ferment

• play at cross-purposes

• put out of order

• derange

• ravel

• ruffle

• rumple

• Adj. disorderly

• orderless

• out of order

• out of place

• out of gear;

• irregular

• desultory

• anomalous

• deranged

• aimless

• disorganized

• straggling

• unmethodical

• unsystematic

• untidy

• slovenly;

• dislocated

• out of sorts

• promiscuous

• indiscriminate

• chaotic

• anarchical;

• unarranged

• confused

• deranged

• topsy-turvy

• shapeless

• disjointed

• out of

• joint

• riotous

• complex

• Adv. irregularly

• by fits

• by fits and snatches

• by fits and

• starts

• pellmell

• higgledy-piggledy

• helter-skelter

• harum-scarum

• in a

• ferment

• at sixes and sevens

• at cross-purposes

• upside down

• Phr. the cart before the horse

• [Grk][Grk];

• chaos is come again

• "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds"

• [Addison]

#59a. Complexity -- N. complexity

• complexness

• complication

• implication

• intricacy

• perplexity

• network

• labyrinth

• wilderness

• jungle

• involution

• raveling

• entanglement

• coil

• tangled skein

• knot

• Gordian knot

• wheels within wheels

• kink

• gnarl

• [complexity if a task or action] difficulty

• complicate

• Adj. gnarled

• complexed

• intricate

• complicated

• perplexed

• involved

• raveled

• entangled

• knotted

• tangled

• inextricable

• irreducible