<B>sastra, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(in Hindu use) any of certain sacred books constituting the sources of Hindu law. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any of various authoritative books for instruction in some science or art. Also, <B>shastra.</B> </DL>
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<B>sastruga, </B>noun, pl. <B>-gi.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a windblown ridge of snow and ice; zastruga. </DL>
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<B>sat, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> a past tense and a past participle of <B>sit:</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Yesterday I sat in the train all day. The cat has sat at that mouse's hole for hours.</I> </DL>
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<B>SAT</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Scholastic Aptitude Test. </DL>
<B>Satan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the evil spirit; the enemy of goodness; the Devil. Satan is the great adversary of God and mankind, especially in Christian theology. <BR> <I>Ex. Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do (Isaac Watts). And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years (Revelation 20:2).</I> </DL>
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<B>satang, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tang.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a Thai bronze coin and money of account, equal to 1/100 of a baht. </DL>
<A NAME="satanic">
<B>satanic</B> or <B>Satanic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of Satan. <DD><B> 2. </B>like that of Satan; very wicked. <BR> <I>Ex. Though he is capable of satanic mockery ... the mocker cannot jeer at such a doom without breaking ... his own neck as well (Edmund Wilson).</I> (SYN) diabolical, devilish, infernal. </DL>
<A NAME="satanical">
<B>satanical, </B>adjective. =satanic.</DL>
<A NAME="satanically">
<B>satanically, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a satanic manner; with the wicked and malicious spirit of Satan; devilishly. </DL>
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<B>Satanism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the worship of Satan. Satanism had a vogue in France during the 1800's. It was mostly a form of decadence rather than actual belief in Satan. <DD><B> 2. </B>the principles of or rites used in this worship. <DD><B> 3. </B>devilishness, as a satanic or diabolical disposition or doctrine. <BR> <I>Ex. With such a mixture of ... loyalty, mysterious Satanism, and reputation for conquests over her sex ... Bothwell must have fascinated the Queen (Andrew Lang).</I> </DL>
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<B>satanist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a very wicked person. </DL>
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<B>Satanist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a believer in Satanism. </DL>
<A NAME="satanophany">
<B>satanophany, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an appearance of Satan. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being possessed by a devil. </DL>
<A NAME="satanophobia">
<B>Satanophobia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Rare.) fear of the Devil. </DL>
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<B>Satan's mushroom,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large mushroom, a boletus, that is poisonous to some people and not to others. It grows on the ground in wooded areas. </DL>
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<B>S.A.T.B.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> soprano, alto, tenor, bass. <BR> <I>Ex. Standard carol books still more or less automatically gear their arrangements to the S.A.T.B. church choir (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>satchel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small bag, especially one for carrying clothes or books; handbag. <BR> <I>Ex. The whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
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<B>satchel charge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an explosive charge that can be carried and set off either by one person or a small group. </DL>
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<B>satcom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a station or center for tracking and monitoring communications satellites. <BR> <I>Ex. The difficulty of having large and small stations working through the same transponder has been circumvented by a novel technique, now adopted for the planned NATO satcom (Science Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>sate</B> (1), transitive verb, <B>sated,</B> <B>sating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to satisfy fully (any appetite or desire). <BR> <I>Ex. A long drink sated my thirst.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to supply with more than enough, so as to disgust or weary; glut. </DL>
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<B>sate</B> (2), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) sat; a past tense and a past participle of <B>sit.</B> </DL>
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<B>sateen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cotton cloth made to imitate satin. It is often used for lining sleeves. </DL>
<A NAME="sateless">
<B>sateless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) that cannot be sated; insatiable. </DL>
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<B>satellite, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a heavenly body that revolves around a planet, especially around one of the nine major planets of the solar system. The moon is a satellite of the earth. <BR> <I>Ex. The number of known satellites in the solar system, including the earth's moon, rose to 32 (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a man-made object launched by rocket into an orbit around the earth or other heavenly body; artificial satellite. Such satellites are used to send weather or other scientific information back to earth; they also transmit television programs across the earth. <BR> <I>Ex. Far up in outer space, U.S. satellites derive their radio voices from the Transistor (New Yorker). The magnetic field of the Earth induces sufficiently large eddy currents in the metal hull of a satellite to slow down its rotation (New Scientist).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>a follower or attendant upon a person of importance. <BR> <I>Ex. Three thousand armed satellites escorted his steps (John L. Motley).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a subservient follower. <BR> <I>Ex. Legree encouraged his two black satellites to a kind of coarse familiarity with him (Harriet Beecher Stowe).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) <DD><B> a. </B>a country that claims to be independent but is actually under the control of another, especially such a country under the control of the former Soviet Union. <BR> <I>Ex. There was considerable unrest in the satellites, though this seemed to be economic rather than political in origin (New International Year Book).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(U.S.) a suburban community; suburb. <BR> <I>Ex. DeKalb County, Ga. [is] a white-collar, upper-middle-class satellite of Atlanta (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or of the nature of a satellite: <DD><B> a. </B>secondary; minor. <BR> <I>Ex. a satellite group, party, or regime.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>allied; associated. <BR> <I>Ex. Percival maintains that Canada's supremacy in hockey is being lost because coaching and conditioning in the NHL and its satellite leagues hasn't advanced (Eric Hutton).</I> </DL>
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<B>satellite city,</B> =new town.</DL>
<A NAME="satellitedish">
<B>satellite dish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large microwave antenna shaped like a dish that tracks and receives signals from earth satellites. </DL>
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<B>satellite DNA,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a form of DNA in animal cells which is of a different density than other DNA and consists of repeating sequences of nucleotide pairs. Its specific function is not known. </DL>
<A NAME="satellitetown">
<B>satellite town,</B> =new town.</DL>
<A NAME="satellitic">
<B>satellitic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or of the nature of a satellite. <BR> <I>Ex. With a directed booster at the end, this rocket could have been fired into a satellitic orbit (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>satellitism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the policy or practice of seeking political satellites. <BR> <I>Ex. The nationalism learned from the West makes the new nations sensitive to Communist satellitism (American Scholar).</I> </DL>
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<B>satellization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the turningof a country into a satellite. <BR> <I>Ex. Understanding of a wider world would help Canadians resist American satellization (Canadian Saturday Night).</I> </DL>
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<B>satelloid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a space vehicle that travels at less than the speed required for it to remain long in orbit. <BR> <I>Ex. The glider is now a satelloid ... travelling 1,000 mph less than the velocity needed to make it an orbiting space fixture (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a manned and rocket-powered space vehicle that is part airplane and part satellite, made to orbit the earth for a short time and return intact. <BR> <I>Ex. Pilots of experimental rocket aircraft ... are only a few years before pilots of "satelloids," a class of semi-space ships now being developed (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>satem language,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of the languages of the eastern division of the Indo-European languages, including Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian. The satem languages are characterized by their use of sibilant sounds instead of the velar sounds found in corresponding words of the centum languages. </DL>
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<B>sati, </B>noun. =suttee.</DL>
<A NAME="satiability">
<B>satiability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> capability of being satiated. </DL>
<A NAME="satiable">
<B>satiable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be satiated. noun <B>satiableness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="satiably">
<B>satiably, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> so as to satiate. </DL>
<A NAME="satiate">
<B>satiate, </B>verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to feed fully; satisfy fully. <DD><B> 2. </B>to weary or disgust with too much; supply with too much; glut; cloy. <BR> <I>Ex. She was so satiated with bananas that she would not even look at another one.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> filled to satiety; satiated. <BR> <I>Ex. In life's cool evening, satiate of applause (Alexander Pope).</I> </DL>
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<B>satiation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of satiating. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being satiated. </DL>
<A NAME="satiety">
<B>satiety, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the feeling of having had too much; disgust or weariness caused by excess; satiated condition. <BR> <I>Ex. Of knowledge there is no satiety (Francis Bacon).</I> </DL>
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<B>satin, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a silk, rayon, nylon, or cotton cloth with one very smooth, glossy side. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>made of satin. <DD><B> 2. </B>of satin; like satin in texture or surface; smooth and glossy. <BR> <I>Ex. The color finish--of semi-gloss or satin appearance--is said to be permanent (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
