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- (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
- (chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
- the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
- time during which some action is awaited
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noun
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
verb
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- be subject to fluctuation
noun
- (file format) Initialism of advanced audio coding.
- (military, aviation) Abbreviation of airborne aircraft carrier.
- (aviation, military) Initialism of aircraft armament change.
- Initialism of aerated autoclaved concrete.
- Initialism of Anno ante Christum, in the year before Christ.
- (aviation) Initialism of aeronautical approach chart.
- (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft command.
- Initialism of area advisory committee.
- Initialism of augmentative and alternative communication.
- Initialism of affirming Anglican catholicism.
- a lightweight, precast, concrete building material invented in the mid-1920s that simultaneously provides structure, insulation, and fire- and mold-resistance.
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- Initialism of American Atheist Center.
- Initialism of American Association of Criminology.
- Initialism of Aluminum Annodizers Council.
- (historical) Initialism of Auto Avia Contruzione, Enzo Ferrari's first company.
- Initialism of American Airlines Center.
- Initialism of American Archery Council.
- Initialism of Army Apprentices College.
- Initialism of Anglo-American Corporation.
- Initialism of Australian Association of Chiropractors.
- Initialism of Australian Apprentiship Centre.
- Initialism of Advanced Aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of All-American Canal.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Army Corps.
- Initialism of Automotive Advertisers Council.
- Initialism of American Anglican Council.
- Initialism of Alaskan Air Command.
- Initialism of Aerial Ambulance Company.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Artillery Corps.
- (military) Initialism of Anti-aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of American Academy of Criminalists.
- Initialism of American Alumni Council, now known as Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
- Initialism of Atlanta Athletic Club.
- Initialism of Aeronautical Advisory Council.
- Initialism of American Alpine Club.
- Initialism of Alameda Arts Council.
- (British English, US) Initialism of Army Air Corps; Army Air Corps.
- Initialism of Agility Association of Canada.
- Initialism of Association of American Choruses.
- Initialism of Allumnae Advisory Center.
- Initialism of Australian Agricultural Company.
- Initialism of Association of Alabama Camps.
- Initialism of Amphibian Airplanes of Canada.
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- An audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high frequency signals, and through the addition of subtle harmonic distortion.
- The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
- One who or that which excites.
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- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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verb
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
noun
- an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound
- (software engineering) A series of steps which reproduce a bug or other condition of interest.
- One who reproduces something.
- In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound.
- In a manograph, a device for reproducing the engine stroke on a reduced scale.
noun
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
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- The time needed to synchronize with an electronic signal.
- The time taken to sample data in order to obtain an image or measurement to a specified resolution.
- (physics) The amount of time required to acquire and convert a signal into a data record.
- The time needed to complete a procurement.
- (telecommunications) The amount of time required for a GPS receiver to acquire a satellite signal in order to determine the initial position.
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adj
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- (sound engineering, especially music) Going off the rhythm, especially during a transition from one time signature to another.
- In mechanics, relating to a pair of forces, a pair of oscillations or other motion acting in the opposite direction to symmetric.
- (electrical engineering) The converse of symmetric in electrical network theory, especially filter theory. A network where the input and output image impedances are the dual, or inverse, of each other as opposed to symmetric networks where they are equal.
- Opposed to metrication.
adj
noun
- (linguistics, rare) Either term of a conjunctive conjunction.
- (logic, linguistics) Either term of a conjunction.
- (linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.
verb
- (sound engineering) To equalize a sound system to eliminate feedback.
- To sound clearly and loudly.
- (telephony) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.
- (video games, ambitransitive) To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.
- (finance) To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
- sound loudly
noun
noun
- (music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
- A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
- (music) A diatonic succession of chords.
- (phonetics) Ablaut.
- The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
- (countable) A calibration marking.
- A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
- Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
- relative position in a graded series
- the act of arranging in grades
- a degree of ablaut
verb
noun
- (audio) Auxiliary audio input fed to a synthesizer etc. and used to selectively trigger an effect.
- (cryptocurrencies) A separate blockchain attached to a parent blockchain (mainchain) to extend its functionalities.
- (biochemistry) Any of the variable parts of amino acids that extend from the peptide backbone in proteins; they are referred to as R-groups, which branch off the backbone at the alpha carbon (Cα).
- (organic chemistry) That part of a molecule attached to some core structure; a radical.
- (rail transport) On some railways, a chain fitted on both sides of a centre coupler or buffer at each end of a rail vehicle, which has a hook for connection to a corresponding chain on the next vehicle in a train.
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- the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion
- vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
- The vertical measurement, top to bottom, for example for clearance under a bridge.
- The distance between the actual performance of an algorithm and its maximum possible performance.
- Synonym of headspace (“space between the top of the contents of a container and its seal”).
- The vertical clearance above someone's head, as in a tunnel, doorway etc; room (space) for one's head.
- (electronics) The ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom.
noun
- an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.
- a mechanical device that compresses gasses
- (anatomy) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
- (computing) A program or algorithm for compressing data.
- (audio, sound engineering) A device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.
- An instrument for compressing an artery (especially the femoral artery) or other part.
- A device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.
- An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; a compressorium.
- A machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.
noun
- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- the quality of being faithful
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
- Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
- The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
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verb
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
adj
noun
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- shallow container made of metal
noun
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
verb
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
noun
- (film, television) The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.
- (military, slang, US) The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.
- (dance) A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
- (music) A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
- (especially attributive) An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, characterized by unbridled enthusiasm, hedonism, and cynical regard for authoritarian bodies.
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
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- (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
- (uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
- (countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
- (Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.
- (countable) Any audio playing device, such as the on-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media; see also car radio.
- medium for communication
- an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals
- a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves
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- sing in modulation
- make high-pitched sounds
- (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.
- (intransitive) To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
- (Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth; to bicker or argue.
- (transitive, radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.
noun
noun
- (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
- (chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
- the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
- time during which some action is awaited
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noun
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
verb
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- be subject to fluctuation
noun
- (file format) Initialism of advanced audio coding.
- (military, aviation) Abbreviation of airborne aircraft carrier.
- (aviation, military) Initialism of aircraft armament change.
- Initialism of aerated autoclaved concrete.
- Initialism of Anno ante Christum, in the year before Christ.
- (aviation) Initialism of aeronautical approach chart.
- (military) Initialism of anti-aircraft command.
- Initialism of area advisory committee.
- Initialism of augmentative and alternative communication.
- Initialism of affirming Anglican catholicism.
- a lightweight, precast, concrete building material invented in the mid-1920s that simultaneously provides structure, insulation, and fire- and mold-resistance.
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- Initialism of American Atheist Center.
- Initialism of American Association of Criminology.
- Initialism of Aluminum Annodizers Council.
- (historical) Initialism of Auto Avia Contruzione, Enzo Ferrari's first company.
- Initialism of American Airlines Center.
- Initialism of American Archery Council.
- Initialism of Army Apprentices College.
- Initialism of Anglo-American Corporation.
- Initialism of Australian Association of Chiropractors.
- Initialism of Australian Apprentiship Centre.
- Initialism of Advanced Aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of All-American Canal.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Army Corps.
- Initialism of Automotive Advertisers Council.
- Initialism of American Anglican Council.
- Initialism of Alaskan Air Command.
- Initialism of Aerial Ambulance Company.
- Initialism of Auxiliary Artillery Corps.
- (military) Initialism of Anti-aircraft Corps.
- Initialism of American Academy of Criminalists.
- Initialism of American Alumni Council, now known as Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
- Initialism of Atlanta Athletic Club.
- Initialism of Aeronautical Advisory Council.
- Initialism of American Alpine Club.
- Initialism of Alameda Arts Council.
- (British English, US) Initialism of Army Air Corps; Army Air Corps.
- Initialism of Agility Association of Canada.
- Initialism of Association of American Choruses.
- Initialism of Allumnae Advisory Center.
- Initialism of Australian Agricultural Company.
- Initialism of Association of Alabama Camps.
- Initialism of Amphibian Airplanes of Canada.
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- An audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high frequency signals, and through the addition of subtle harmonic distortion.
- The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
- One who or that which excites.
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- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (countable) An experience.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
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- an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound
- (software engineering) A series of steps which reproduce a bug or other condition of interest.
- One who reproduces something.
- In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound.
- In a manograph, a device for reproducing the engine stroke on a reduced scale.
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- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
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- The time needed to synchronize with an electronic signal.
- The time taken to sample data in order to obtain an image or measurement to a specified resolution.
- (physics) The amount of time required to acquire and convert a signal into a data record.
- The time needed to complete a procurement.
- (telecommunications) The amount of time required for a GPS receiver to acquire a satellite signal in order to determine the initial position.
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- (music) A gradual change within one parameter, or an overlapping of two blocks of sound.
- A passing by small degrees from one tone or shade, as of color, to another.
- (music) A diatonic succession of chords.
- (phonetics) Ablaut.
- The act of gradating or arranging in grades.
- (countable) A calibration marking.
- A sequence of gradual, successive stages; a systematic progression.
- Any degree or relative position in an order or series.
- relative position in a graded series
- the act of arranging in grades
- a degree of ablaut
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- (audio) Auxiliary audio input fed to a synthesizer etc. and used to selectively trigger an effect.
- (cryptocurrencies) A separate blockchain attached to a parent blockchain (mainchain) to extend its functionalities.
- (biochemistry) Any of the variable parts of amino acids that extend from the peptide backbone in proteins; they are referred to as R-groups, which branch off the backbone at the alpha carbon (Cα).
- (organic chemistry) That part of a molecule attached to some core structure; a radical.
- (rail transport) On some railways, a chain fitted on both sides of a centre coupler or buffer at each end of a rail vehicle, which has a hook for connection to a corresponding chain on the next vehicle in a train.
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- the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion
- vertical space available to allow easy passage under something
- The vertical measurement, top to bottom, for example for clearance under a bridge.
- The distance between the actual performance of an algorithm and its maximum possible performance.
- Synonym of headspace (“space between the top of the contents of a container and its seal”).
- The vertical clearance above someone's head, as in a tunnel, doorway etc; room (space) for one's head.
- (electronics) The ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom.
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- an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.
- a mechanical device that compresses gasses
- (anatomy) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
- (computing) A program or algorithm for compressing data.
- (audio, sound engineering) A device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.
- An instrument for compressing an artery (especially the femoral artery) or other part.
- A device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.
- An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; a compressorium.
- A machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.
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- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- the quality of being faithful
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
- Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
- The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
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- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
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- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
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- (film, television) The ability to run the picture and audio back and forth in synchronization, allowing the correction of mistakes during dubbing.
- (military, slang, US) The full automatic fire capability selection on a selective fire weapon.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Dole, payment by the state to the unemployed.
- (dance) A style of vigorous dancing associated with this genre of music.
- (music) A genre of popular music that evolved in the 1950s from a combination of rhythm and blues and country music, characterized by electric guitars, strong rhythms, and youth-oriented lyrics.
- (especially attributive) An intangible feeling, philosophy, belief or allegiance relating to rock music, characterized by unbridled enthusiasm, hedonism, and cynical regard for authoritarian bodies.
- a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
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- (countable) A device that can capture (receive) the signal sent over radio waves and render the modulated signal as sound.
- (uncountable) The technology that allows for the transmission of sound or other signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves.
- (countable) A device that can transmit radio signals.
- (Internet, uncountable) The continuous broadcasting of sound via the Internet in the style of traditional radio.
- (countable) Any audio playing device, such as the on-board entertainment system in a car, usually including a radio receiver as well as the capability to play audio from recorded media; see also car radio.
- medium for communication
- an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals
- a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves
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- (sound engineering) To equalize a sound system to eliminate feedback.
- To sound clearly and loudly.
- (telephony) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.
- (video games, ambitransitive) To throw (an opponent) out of the arena, thereby winning.
- (finance) To eliminate the middlemen in a circular pattern of transactions.
- sound loudly
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- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
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- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- shallow container made of metal
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- sing in modulation
- make high-pitched sounds
- (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.
- (intransitive) To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
- (Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth; to bicker or argue.
- (transitive, radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.
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- (sound engineering, especially music) Going off the rhythm, especially during a transition from one time signature to another.
- In mechanics, relating to a pair of forces, a pair of oscillations or other motion acting in the opposite direction to symmetric.
- (electrical engineering) The converse of symmetric in electrical network theory, especially filter theory. A network where the input and output image impedances are the dual, or inverse, of each other as opposed to symmetric networks where they are equal.
- Opposed to metrication.
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- (linguistics, rare) Either term of a conjunctive conjunction.
- (logic, linguistics) Either term of a conjunction.
- (linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.