| cautious | | |
| n. (group) | 1. cautious, timid | people who are fearful and cautious.; "whitewater rafting is not for the timid" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| adj. | 2. cautious | showing careful forethought.; "reserved and cautious; never making swift decisions"; "a cautious driver" |
| ~ unadventurous | lacking in boldness. |
| ~ careful | exercising caution or showing care or attention.; "they were careful when crossing the busy street"; "be careful to keep her shoes clean"; "did very careful research"; "careful art restorers"; "careful of the rights of others"; "careful about one's behavior" |
| ~ chary, cagey, cagy | characterized by great caution and wariness.; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor" |
| ~ fabian | using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation.; "a fabian policy" |
| ~ gingerly | with extreme care or delicacy.; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way" |
| ~ guarded, restrained | prudent.; "guarded optimism" |
| ~ overcautious | unnecessarily cautious.; "sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business" |
| adj. | 3. cautious, conservative | avoiding excess.; "a conservative estimate" |
| ~ moderate | being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme.; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart" |
| amp | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. a, amp, ampere | the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites.; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps" |
| ~ current unit | a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time. |
| ~ milliampere, ma | one thousandth of an ampere. |
| ~ abamp, abampere | a unit of current equal to 10 amperes. |
| n. (substance) | 2. adenosine monophosphate, adenylic acid, amp | a nucleotide found in muscle cells and important in metabolism; reversibly convertible to ADP and ATP. |
| ~ nucleotide, base | a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA). |
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