NOUN | body | blood | the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets |
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attribute | blood | temperament or disposition | |
person | blood, rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, roue | a dissolute man in fashionable society | |
group | blood, lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock | the descendants of one individual | |
group | blood | people viewed as members of a group | |
VERB | contact | blood | smear with blood, as in a hunting / hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill |
Sounds | blah'd | |
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Rhymes | abbreviated ... wounded: 365 rhymes with ahd... |
Meaning | The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets. | |
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Category | vertebrate, craniate | animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium |
Parts | blood cell, blood corpuscle, corpuscle | Either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets |
Narrower | arterial blood | blood found in arteries |
blood clot, grume | A semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells | |
blood group, blood type | Human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens | |
bloodstream, blood stream | The blood flowing through the circulatory system | |
cord blood | Blood obtained from the umbilical cord at birth | |
gore | coagulated blood from a wound / wound | |
lifeblood | The blood considered as the seat of vitality | |
menorrhea, menstrual blood, menstrual flow | Flow of blood from the uterus | |
venous blood | blood found in the veins | |
whole blood | blood that has not been modified except for the addition of an anticoagulant | |
Broader | liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour | The liquid parts of the body |
Substances | serum, blood serum | An amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates |
Spanish | sangre | |
Catalan | sang | |
Adjectives | bloody | having or covered with or accompanied by blood |
hemic, haemic, hematic, haematic | relating to or containing or affecting blood | |
Verbs | blood | smear with blood, as in a hunting / hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill |
Meaning | temperament or disposition. | |
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Example | "a person of hot blood" | |
Broader | disposition, temperament | Your usual / usual mood |
Spanish | carácter, sangre | |
Catalan | sang |
Meaning | A dissolute man in fashionable society. | |
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Synonyms | rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, roue | |
Broader | libertine, debauchee, rounder | A dissolute person |
Spanish | disoluto, libertino, licencioso | |
Catalan | dissolut, llicenciós |
Meaning | The descendants of one individual. | |
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Synonyms | lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock | |
Narrower | family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry | People descended from a common ancestor |
side | A family line of descent | |
Broader | genealogy, family tree | successive generations of kin |
Spanish | abolengo, árbol genealógico, ascendencia, casta, descendencia, estirpe, linaje, línea de descendencia, línea de sangre, línea, origen, parentela, parentesco, pedigrí, saga, sangre | |
Catalan | descendència, estirp, llinatge, nissaga, origen, pedigrí |
Meaning | people viewed as members of a group. | |
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Example | "we need more young blood in this organization" | |
Broader | people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively |
Spanish | sangre | |
Catalan | sang |
Meaning | smear with blood, as in a hunting / hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Broader | daub, smear | Cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it |
Nouns | blood | the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets |
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