Word Finder - natural

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A native inhabitant of a place, country etc.

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A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental.

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The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.

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One with an innate talent at or for something.

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He's a natural on the saxophone.

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An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.

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One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.

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One's natural life.

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A hairstyle for people with afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.

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Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.

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That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.

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The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.

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Of or relating to nature.

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In the natural world the fit tend to live on while the weak perish.

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Without artificial additives.

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Natural food is healthier than processed food.

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As expected; reasonable.

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His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.

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Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.

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There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp.

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Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

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Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

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Having 1 as the base of the system, of a function or number.

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Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.

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So-called second-generation silicone breast implants looked and felt more like the natural breast.

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Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.

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Connected by the ties of consanguinity.

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Related genetically but not legally to one's father; born out of wedlock, illegitimate.

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(of sexual intercourse) Without a condom.

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We made natural love.

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Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.

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Naturally; in a natural manner.

We think he might have some natural ability.

We have a natural desire to want to help others.

You have a natural instinct for the simple but elegant.

A more simple and natural man it would be hard to find.

Alex was doing everything in his power to provide her with all the experiences of a natural mother.

It wasn't a natural phenomenon.

Deer are the mountain lion's natural prey.

It is natural in her state.

Howie was a natural born follower and damaged goods.

Every Natural has a talent.

Trac—the Natural tracker was able to identify patterns in the attacks.

To Justin, it all came natural.

The natural beauty of this area is perfect for many outdoor activities, including hiking, biking, boating, fishing and skiing.

I think it's only natural.

The gangly youth before him had dyed his hair from platinum back to its natural color of black.

Maybe the deer had died of natural causes.

Jennifer never saw her natural father face-to-face and gave the impression she didn't give a flip.

It smelled natural and so minimal he had to search for it.

It was pristine and white, rising out of the ground like a natural formation.

That was when Carmen realized Alex was a natural tour guide.

The conception will be made clearer when it is remembered that Aquinas, taught by the mysterious author of the writings of the pseudo-Dionysius, who so marvellously influenced medieval writers, sometimes spoke of a natural revelation, or of reason as a source of truths in themselves mysterious, and was always accustomed to say that reason as well as revelation contained two kinds of knowledge.

In 1817 a Roman Catholic theological faculty was added, with a seminary called the Konvikt, and there are now also faculties of law, medicine, philosophy, political economy and natural science.

The natural basis for a standard musical pitch is the voice, particularly the male voice, which has been of greater importance historically.

However, notwithstanding the insistence on ritual, natural in a priest, his moral standard is high; following the prescription of Ex.

Among its natural productions are lemons, citrons, olives, wine and honey; it also exports a considerable quantity of valonia.

These natural advantages make possible the production of pig iron at an unusually low cost.

The natural antipathy between the two sections of the race, though less evident than in former times, is far from extinct.

It was therefore natural that Haggai and Zechariah should urge the speedy building of the temple, in order that the great king might be fittingly received.

As there is no accent in Indian words, the natural pronunciation of this name would be Man-i-CO-ba.

The other three methods he devised for the sake of those who would prefer to work with natural numbers; and he mentions that the promptuary was his latest invention.

It lies on either side of the formerly natural, now artificial outlet of the river Waveney to the North Sea, while to the west the river forms Oulton Broad and Lothing Lake.

The caucus, which is the natural corollary of the detachment, determines by majority the vote of the whole of the members of the party, independence of action being allowed on minor questions only.

Meanwhile Philip had appointed his natural brother, Don John of Austria, to be governor-general in the place of Requesens.

The cause of medical materialism is the natural bias of physicians towards explaining the health and disease of mind by the health and disease of body.

Some of his finest tragedies were written for her, but her repertoire was not confined to them, and many an indifferent play - like Thomas Corneille's Ariane and Comte d'Essex - owed its success to "her natural manner of acting, and her pathetic rendering of the hapless heroine."

It has a fair natural harbour, which is the nearest outlet of the rich district of Menemen.

Here he was besieged by Don Frederick of Toledo, Alva's natural son, who blockaded all approach to the town.

It can be shown that if two circuits, both having capacity (C) and inductance (L), are coupled together inductively, then, when oscillations are set up in one circuit, oscillations of two periods are excited in the other differing in frequency from each other and from the natural frequency of the circuit.

Besides the delta of the Po and the large marshy tracts which it forms, there exist on both sides of it extensive lagoons of salt water, generally separated from the Adriatic by narrow strips of sand or embankments, partly natural and partly artificial, but havin openings which admit the influx and efflux of the sea-water, and serve as ports for communication with the mainland.

Nor do the highest summits form a continuous ridge of great altitude for any considerable distance; they are rather a series of groups separated by tracts of very inferior elevation forming natural passes across the range, and broken in some places (as is the case in almost all limestone countries) by the waters from the upland valleys turning suddenly at right angles, and breaking through the mountain ranges which bound them.

The sugar-cane flourishes, the cotton-plant ripens to perfection, date-trees are seen in the gardens, the rocks are clothed with the prickly-pear or Indian fig, the enclosures of the fields are formed by aloes and sometimes pomegranates, the liquorice-root grows wild, and the mastic, the myrtle and many varieties of oleander and cistus form the underwood of the natural forests of arbutus and evergreen oak.

The quality, too, owing to bad weather at the time of vintage, was not good; Italian wine, indeed, never is sufficiently good to compete with the best wines of other countries, especially France (thotigh there is more opening for Italian wines of the Bordeaux and,Burgundy type); nor will many kinds of it stand keeping, partly owing to their natural qualities and partly to the insufficient care devoted to their preparation.

There is a considerable trade (not very large for export, however) in natural mineral Waters, which are often excellent.

At first, indeed, the term was apparently confined to the regions of the central and southern districts, exclusive of Cisalpine Gaul and the whole tract north of the Apennines, and this continued to be the official or definite signification of the name down to the end of the republic. But the natural limits of Italy are so clearly marked that the name came to be generally employed as a geographical term at a much earlier period.

The natural sciences are much cultivated in Russia.

It consists of a rocky promontory, containing three natural harbours, a large one on the north-west which is still one of the chief commercial harbours of the Levant, and two smaller ones on the east, which were used chiefly for naval purposes.

By Ancillon he was grounded in religion, in history and political science, his natural taste for the antique and the picturesque making it easy for his tutor to impress upon him his own hatred of the Revolution and its principles.

Your natural expectation would be that they would talk, at least as well as Scooby does.

She almost overwhelmed me with inquiries which were the natural outgrowth of her quickened intelligence.

Sometimes, on Sundays, I heard the bells, the Lincoln, Acton, Bedford, or Concord bell, when the wind was favorable, a faint, sweet, and, as it were, natural melody, worth importing into the wilderness.