… West is the “place” where the sun sets at the equinoxes, on the left-hand side of a person facing north.

Complete definition

West is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. West is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of east and is perpendicular to north and south. The left side of a map is west. To go west using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 270°. West is the direction opposite that of the …

… with a variety of additives. Some gasolines also contain ethanol as an alternative fuel. In North America the term “gasoline” is often shortened in colloquial usage to “gas” but some people use the term “petrol”. Under normal ambient conditions its material state is liquid, unlike liquefied petroleum gas or “natural gas”.

Synonyms of gasoline

noun: petrol, gas, benzine, gasolene, juice; plural: petrols, gases, benzines, gasolenes, juices; related terms: gasohol, …

… or Deadly Nightshade, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Solanaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. The foliage and berries are extremely toxic, containing tropane alkaloids. These toxins include scopolamine and hyoscyamine which cause a bizarre delirium and hallucinations, and are also used as pharmaceutical anticholinergics. The drug atropine is derived from the plant.

Synonyms of atropa belladonna

noun: belladonna, belladonna plant, deadly nightshade; …

… frame, with the mattress resting either on a solid base, often wooden slats, or a sprung base. In North America many beds include a box spring inner-sprung base, a large mattress-sized box containing wood and springs that provide additional support and suspension for the mattress.

Synonyms of bed

noun: couch, layer; plural: couchs, layers; related terms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room, chamber, bedroom furniture, bedframe, bedstead, built in bed, bunk, …

… ball, sports.

Explanation & Definition:

Short explanation

A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.

Complete definition

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to …

… they are adapted to Arctic and Subarctic climates, and have a circumpolar distribution in northern North America, Asia and Europe, one with a small highly disjunctive population in Central America.

Synonyms of bearberry

noun: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus; plural: bearwoods, cascara buckthorns, chittamwoods, chittimwoods, Rhamnus purshianuss; related terms: buckthorn, cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark.

… Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found in the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

Synonyms of bear

verb: endure, carry, suffer, stand, tolerate, support, sustain, undergo; related terms: bear cub, carnivore, family Ursidae, Ursidae, brown bear, Ursus arctos, bruin, bruin, American black bear, Euarctos americanus, Ursus americanus, black bear, Asiatic black bear, black bear, Selenarctos thibetanus, Ursus thibetanus, ice …

… until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet broadsides. The form was often used by poets and composers from the 18th century onwards to produce lyrical ballads. In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

Synonyms of ballad …

… levees, mounds, weirs; related terms: hill, mound, bulwark, rampart, wall, revetement, stone facing, revetment.

… includes the pipits and longclaws. This species breeds in much of Europe and Asia and parts of north Africa. It is resident in the mildest parts of its range, but otherwise migrates to Africa. It has a toehold in Alaska as a scarce breeder. In some areas, notably Britain and Ireland, the sub-species Pied Wagtail (M. a. yarrellii) predominates.

Synonyms of wagtail

– ; related terms: oscine, oscine bird, genus Motacilla, Motacilla.