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Salutary
- adjective - tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health;
Saluters
- noun - a person who greets; "the newcomers were met by smiling greeters"
Saluting
- verb - become noticeable; "a terrible stench saluted our nostrils"
- express commendation of; "I salute your courage!"
- greet in a friendly way; "I meet this men every day on my way to work and he salutes me"
- honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers
- propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year"
- recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute"
Solatium
- - Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.
Solitary
- adjective - alone
- being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky"
- characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a solitary walk"
- confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners; "he was held in solitary"
- devoid of creatures; "a lonely crossroads"; "a solitary retreat"; "a trail leading to an unfrequented lake"
- lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler"
- of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies; "solitary bees"
- one who lives in solitude
Solitons
- noun - (physics) a quantum of energy or quasiparticle that can be propagated as a traveling wave in nonlinear systems and is neither preceded nor followed by another such disturbance; does not obey the superposition principle and does not dissipate; "soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure"
Solitude
- noun - a solitary place
- a state of social isolation
- the state or situation of being alone
Solstice
- noun - either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator
- The longest or shortest day of the year
Solution
- noun - a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution; "he used a solution of peroxide and water"
- a method for solving a problem; "the easy solution is to look it up in the handbook"
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places"
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- the successful action of solving a problem; "the solution took three hours"
Solutive
- - Tending to dissolve; loosening; laxative.