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    DREGS

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquidplay

    Synonyms:

    dregs; settlings

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

    Hypernyms ("dregs" is a kind of...):

    deposit; sediment (matter that has been deposited by some natural process)

    Domain usage:

    plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dregs"):

    grounds (dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue)

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