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bacon
has definitions from the fields of chemistry,food,philosophy,politics,religion
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[ noun ] (chemistry,food) back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
Used in print (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)The enormous plates which had held Mr._Jack 's four fried_eggs and five strips of bacon were still stacked in the sink . Related terms cut_of_pork flitch gammon bacon_strip Canadian_bacon bacon_rind |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1041
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[ noun ] (religion) English Franciscan monk and scientist who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
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[ noun ] (philosophy,politics) English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
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