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Naturally
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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| natural (ˈnætʃrəl, -tʃərəl) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | of, existing in, or produced by nature: natural science; natural cliffs |
| 2. | in accordance with human nature: it is only natural to want to be liked |
| 3. | as is normal or to be expected; ordinary or logical: the natural course of events |
| 4. | not acquired; innate: a natural gift for sport |
| 5. | being so through innate qualities: a natural leader |
| 6. | not supernatural or strange: natural phenomena |
| 7. | not constrained or affected; genuine or spontaneous |
| 8. | not artificially dyed or coloured: a natural blonde |
| 9. | following or resembling nature or life; lifelike: she looked more natural without her make-up |
| 10. | not affected by man or civilization; uncultivated; wild: in the natural state this animal is not ferocious |
| 11. | being or made from organic material; not synthetic: a natural fibre like cotton |
| 12. | illegitimate; born out of wedlock |
| 13. | not adopted but rather related by blood: her natural parents |
| 14. | music |
| a. not sharp or flat | |
| b. (postpositive) denoting a note that is neither sharp nor flat: B natural | |
| c. flat Compare sharp (of a key or scale) containing no sharps or flats | |
| 15. | music of or relating to a trumpet, horn, etc, without valves or keys, on which only notes of the harmonic series of the keynote can be obtained |
| 16. | determined by inborn conviction: natural justice; natural rights |
| 17. | cards |
| a. (of a card) not a joker or wild card | |
| b. (of a canasta or sequence) containing no wild cards | |
| c. (of a bid in bridge) describing genuine values; not conventional | |
| 18. | based on the principles and findings of human reason and what is to be learned of God from nature rather than on revelation: natural religion |
| —n | |
| 19. | informal a person or thing regarded as certain to qualify for success, selection, etc: the horse was a natural for first place |
| 20. | music |
| a. Also called (US): cancel, Usual symbol: ♮ an accidental cancelling a previous sharp or flat | |
| b. flat Compare sharp a note affected by this accidental | |
| 21. | pontoon the combination of an ace with a ten or court card when dealt to a player as his or her first two cards |
| 22. | obsolete an imbecile; idiot |
| 'naturally | |
| —adv | |
| 'naturalness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
naturally
"as might be expected," 1641, from natural (q.v.). The notion is "as a natural result."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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