| seasoned | | |
| adj. | 1. seasoned | aged or processed.; "seasoned wood" |
| ~ cured | (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening. |
| adj. | 2. seasoned, veteran | rendered competent through trial and experience.; "a seasoned traveler"; "veteran steadiness"; "a veteran officer" |
| ~ experienced, experient | having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation. |
| luba | | |
| n. (person) | 1. chiluba, luba | a member of a Bantu people in southeastern Congo. |
| ~ belgian congo, congo, democratic republic of the congo, zaire | a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960. |
| ~ bantu | a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa. |
| n. (communication) | 2. luba, tshiluba | a Bantu language spoken in southeastern Congo. |
| ~ bantoid language, bantu | a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent. |
| gist | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. burden, core, effect, essence, gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. |
| ~ meaning, signification, import, significance | the message that is intended or expressed or signified.; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience.; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" |
| ~ cognitive content, mental object, content | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. |
| ~ bare bones | (plural) the most basic facts or elements.; "he told us only the bare bones of the story" |
| ~ hypostasis | (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality. |
| ~ haecceity, quiddity | the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other. |
| ~ quintessence | the purest and most concentrated essence of something. |
| ~ stuff | a critically important or characteristic component.; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative" |
| heartwood | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. duramen, heartwood | the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| ~ wood | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees. |
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