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noun
- (uncountable) The art or process of doing this.
- (countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
- (countable, television and film) A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.
- a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of creating something.
- (countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.
- (uncountable) All which exists.
- the human act of creating
- an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
- everything that exists anywhere
- the event that occurred at the beginning of something
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
noun
- (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.
- (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
- (uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
- (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
- (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
- (countable) Anything erected or built.
- an erect penis
- the act of building or putting up
- a structure that has been erected
noun
- (uncountable) The act of adding anything.
- (organic chemistry) an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct).
- (music) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
- (chiefly law) A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The arithmetic operation of adding.
- (heraldry) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
- Anything that is added.
- the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
- the act of adding one thing to another
- something added to what you already have
- a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area
- a quantity that is added
- a component that is added to something to improve it
noun
- (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
- (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- (countable) A planned undertaking.
- (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
- (computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
- (military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
- (mathematics, more formally, countable) A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
- (countable) A business or organization.
- (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
- (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- a business especially one run on a large scale
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- the state of being in effect or being operative
- process or manner of functioning or operating
noun
- (mathematics, uncountable) The act or process of calculating.
- (chess, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
- (countable) Reckoning, estimate.
- (mathematics, countable) The result of calculating.
- (countable) An expectation based on circumstances.
- problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
- the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
- planning something carefully and intentionally
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- the act or process of dividing
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
noun
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
- (countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
- (countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
- the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list)
- something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
noun
- (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- (programming) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
- (countable) An act of preparing something to begin.
- (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
noun
- (uncountable) The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
- (countable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
- (countable) A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
- (uncountable, now dialectal) Anxiety, distress.
- (uncountable) The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
- the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
- the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
- (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood.
- (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- writing in a fictional form
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.
- (mathematics) Synonym of Tits building.
- (countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
- the occupants of a building
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
- the act of constructing something
verb
noun
verb
- (auxiliary) Used concessively to admit something before making a more accurate or important statement; although
- (auxiliary) Used in polite requests for permission.
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions; would perhaps/maybe.
- (auxiliary, UK, meiosis) Used to express certainty.
- (auxiliary) simple past of may
- Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
noun
- (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the act of starting something
- the first part or section of something
- the event consisting of the start of something
adj
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of naming or designating.
- (countable) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc.
- (countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals.
- (countable, religion) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a subdivision of a religion.
- a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
- identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle.
- (countable) Any of a set of slots or grooves in an object, often machined into a metal part, as for example on a castellated nut.
- (uncountable) The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed fortification against border-raider attacks.
noun
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- A particular method for performing a task.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
- a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
noun
- (uncountable) The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
- (countable) Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
- (uncountable, medicine, psychology) An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.
noun
- (uncountable, countable) The act, process or result of approximating, as:
- (mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
- (medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
- (linguistics) The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation resulting from that act.
- an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
- the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
- an imprecise or incomplete account
- the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)
noun
- (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
- (uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
- (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- (countable) A replacement.
- (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
- a thing that is different
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- the action of changing something
- money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
- a different or fresh set of clothes
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
- coins of small denomination regarded collectively
- the result of alteration or modification
- the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
- (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
- (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- (intransitive) To become something different.
- (transitive) To replace.
- (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
- (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it), especially to put a clean diaper on (someone).
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- change clothes; put on different clothes
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
- become deeper in tone
- remove or replace the coverings of
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- give to, and receive from, one another
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- (uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.
- (programming, derogatory, informal) Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”).
- (by extension, countable, uncountable) A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
- (electrical engineering) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
- (film) Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”).
- (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
- (derogatory, informal) An Italian person.
- (road transport) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- (rare) plural of spaghetto
- spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
- pasta in the form of long strings
verb
- (humorous) To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
- (humorous) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
- To cause (something) to become tangled.
- To become tangled.
noun
- (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
- (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
- (uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
- a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
- the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
noun
- (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- (sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
noun
- (uncountable) The capacity to think independently or be inventive.
- (countable) Something original.
- (uncountable) The original state or condition of a thing.
- (uncountable) The quality of being original or novel.
- the ability to think and act independently
- the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
noun
- (uncountable) The action of continuing.
- (countable, law, chiefly US) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
- The period during which something continues or goes on; duration.
- the period of time during which something continues
- the act of continuing an activity without interruption
- the property of enduring or continuing in time
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
- (uncountable, artificial intelligence) Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
- (countable, artificial intelligence) An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.
- (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
- the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
noun
- (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
- (countable) An order or command.
- (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
- (in the plural) A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
- (law, in the plural) The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
- (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- the profession of a teacher
- a message describing how something is to be done
noun
- (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.
- The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
- Machines or equipment thus designed.
- (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
- (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
- the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems
- the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment
- machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences
noun
- (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
- (countable) A thing that reinforces.
- A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.
- (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
- (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- a device designed to provide additional strength
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
noun
- (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
- (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
- (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- (computing, countable) A user's preferences.
- (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
- biographical sketch
- an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
- degree of exposure to public notice
- an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)
verb
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
- (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- write about
- represent in profile, by drawing or painting
noun
- (countable, uncountable) The process by which something is loaded.
- (Australia, industrial relations, countable) An hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than the equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.
- A weighting or bias.
- (countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
- the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
- (countable) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
- (zoology, taxonomy) An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
- a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing
noun
- (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
- The amount of material contained.
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- the amount that can be contained
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
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noun
- (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
- (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
noun
- (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
- (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- the relation of comprising something
- any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
- the act of including
- the state of being included
noun
- (uncountable) Changing of a thing from one form to another; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Changing of the key in a piece of music; also, the effect achieved by this as an element of harmony; (countable) an instance of this.
- (biology, uncountable) Variation in the activity or form of a cell in response to changes in the environment; (countable) an instance of this.
- (art, uncountable) Variation (especially softening or toning down) of brightness, form, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Modification or regulation of something to achieve an appropriate measure or proportion; (countable) an instance of this.
- (engineering, physics, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: modification of an electromagnetic wave or other oscillating carrier wave to apply a signal to it; (countable) an instance of this; also, the extent to which such a wave is modified; and the modified wave or signal.
- (typography, uncountable) The quality of a typeface of having contrasting, thick and thin parts of the strokes; stroke-width variation.
- (uncountable) Variation of the intensity, pitch, and tone of the sound of a musical instrument or voice; inflection; (countable) an instance of this.
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
- rise and fall of the voice pitch
- the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
noun
- (uncountable) The act of tying or binding something.
- (countable) A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
- (countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- (countable) A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
- (countable, music) A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
- A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
- A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.
- The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
- (music) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
- Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.
- character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
- (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
- something used to tie or bind
- the act of tying or binding things together
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- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
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- (uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
- (music) A choice of notation among enharmonic equivalents for the same pitch.
- (uncountable) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
- (countable) A specific spelling of a word.
- forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
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- (usually uncountable) The process of creating such a representation: a literary device or other artistic method in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
- (countable) An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human.
- (countable) A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- a person who represents an abstract quality
- representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
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- (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
- (countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.
- (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
- the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
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- (uncountable) A manner of expression.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) Profanity.
- (uncountable) The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
- (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
- (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
- (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
- a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
- the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
- (language) communication by word of mouth
- a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
- the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
- the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
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- (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
- (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
- (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
- a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
- a naturally enclosed space
- something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
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- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
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- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To force to work.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To exhaust, by working.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- cause to undergo fermentation
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- (uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
- (music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.
- (anatomy) A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.
- A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.
- Devotional exercises introducing an office.
- (uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness.
- (music) Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.
- (Judaism) The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
- the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
- the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening
- preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
- the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action)
- a substance prepared according to a formula
- (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord
- the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose
- activity leading to skilled behavior
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- (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
- (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
- (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
- (chess and similar games) The standardization and study of fixed sequences of moves, especially in the opening phase of a game.
- A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
- (informal) A hypothesis or conjecture.
- (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
- a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
- a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
- a belief that can guide behavior
noun
- (uncountable) The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
- (organic chemistry, countable) The presence of a functional group.
- (US, law, uncountable) In trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than the identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
- capable of serving a purpose well
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- (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
- (countable) (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
- (uncountable) Artwork.
- (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
- (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
- (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
- a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation
- the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
- the creation of beautiful or significant things
- photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication
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- (uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
- (uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating.
- (countable) An instance or session of giving food.
- (countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating.
- (uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
- the act of supplying food and nourishment
- the act of consuming food
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- (uncountable) The discovering of new things.
- (law, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- (chess) A discovered attack.
- (law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- Something discovered.
- the act of discovering something
- (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
- something that is discovered
- a productive insight
noun
- (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
- (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
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- (uncountable) Automatic or involuntary action.
- (uncountable, art) A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it.
- (uncountable) The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus.
- (countable, psychology) An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness.
- (uncountable) The doctrine that animals are automata, operating according to mechanical laws.
- any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
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- (uncountable) The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.
- (uncountable) The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
- (uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
- (countable) A canal; a waterway comprising one or more canals and river stretches in communication with one another.
- (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
- the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
- the work of a sailor
- ship traffic
noun
- (uncountable, countable) The process of becoming generic; an instance of it.
- (countable) An instance of this act or process; a generic name thus created.
- (uncountable, law) With respect to a trademark, the act or process of becoming so widely identified as a reference for a type of product as to cease representing a particular brand or manufacturer of that type of product.
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- (uncountable) The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises, abstract thought, ratiocination; (countable) any instance of this, especially as a process leading to an action, motive.
- (countable) A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.
- thinking that is coherent and logical
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- (uncountable) The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind.
- A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.
- A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
- any collection of diverse things
- a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
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- (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
- (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).
- a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
- specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
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- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- An established communications or transportation link.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- A kinship relationship between people.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
- Sexual intercourse.
- (religion) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- a connecting shape
- (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- the state of being connected
- an instrumentality that connects
- a supplier (especially of narcotics)
noun
- (uncountable) The act of negating something.
- (logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
- (logic, countable) A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
- (countable) A denial or contradiction.
- a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
- the speech act of negating
- (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
noun
- (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
- (countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
- (topology, of a given open set U) A collection of sets U_i such that their union contains U; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is open; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is contained in U.
- (topology) A special kind of map that establishes a relationship between two topological spaces in the sense that, under the action of the map, the one looks locally like several copies of the second: Formally, a continuous map π:E→X between topological spaces such that there exists, for every point x in X, a discrete space D_x and an open neighborhood U of x such that π⁻¹(U)= displaystyle ⨆_(d∈D_x)V_d and π|_(V_d):V_d→U is a homeomorphism for every d∈D_x. See Covering space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- the work of applying something
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- the act of protecting something by covering it
- an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
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- (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
- (uncountable, linguistics) Ellipsis of language transfer.
- (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
- (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
- (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
- (US, Canada, varsity sports) Ellipsis of transfer student.
- (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
- (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
- (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
- (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
- A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transferring something from one form to another
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- transferring ownership
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- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
- (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
- move from one place to another
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- move around
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- send from one person or place to another
- cause to change ownership
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- transfer from one place or period to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
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- (uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
- (computing, uncountable) The alteration of computer code to preserve its behavior while concealing its structure and intent.
- (countable) A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
- (uncountable) Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
- darkening or obscuring the sight of something
- the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
- confusion resulting from failure to understand
noun
- (uncountable) The art or process of doing this.
- (countable) A composite work, particularly an artwork, created by assembling or putting together other elements such as pieces of music, pictures, texts, videos, etc.
- (countable, television and film) A sequence of brief clips, often set to music, used to compress a long event or series of events into a short scene.
- a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
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- (uncountable) The act of creating something.
- (countable) Something created such as an invention or artwork.
- (uncountable) All which exists.
- the human act of creating
- an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
- everything that exists anywhere
- the event that occurred at the beginning of something
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
noun
- (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.
- (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
- (uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
- (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
- (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
- (countable) Anything erected or built.
- an erect penis
- the act of building or putting up
- a structure that has been erected
noun
- (uncountable) The act of adding anything.
- (organic chemistry) an organic reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct).
- (music) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.
- (chiefly law) A title annexed to a person's name to identify him or her more precisely.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The arithmetic operation of adding.
- (heraldry) Something added to a coat of arms, as a mark of honour.
- Anything that is added.
- the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
- the act of adding one thing to another
- something added to what you already have
- a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area
- a quantity that is added
- a component that is added to something to improve it
noun
- (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
- (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- (countable) A planned undertaking.
- (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
- (computing, logic, mathematics, countable) A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
- (military, countable) A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm).
- (mathematics, more formally, countable) A function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
- (countable) A business or organization.
- (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
- (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
- activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
- a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
- the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
- a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
- a business especially one run on a large scale
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- the state of being in effect or being operative
- process or manner of functioning or operating
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- (mathematics, uncountable) The act or process of calculating.
- (chess, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
- (countable) Reckoning, estimate.
- (mathematics, countable) The result of calculating.
- (countable) An expectation based on circumstances.
- problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
- the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods
- planning something carefully and intentionally
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- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- the act or process of dividing
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
noun
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
verb
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
- (countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
- (countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
- the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list)
- something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
noun
- (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- (programming) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
- (countable) An act of preparing something to begin.
- (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
noun
- (uncountable) The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
- (countable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
- (countable) A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
- (uncountable, now dialectal) Anxiety, distress.
- (uncountable) The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
- the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
- the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
- (countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood.
- (cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- a deliberately false or improbable account
- writing in a fictional form
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.
- (mathematics) Synonym of Tits building.
- (countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
- the occupants of a building
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
- the act of constructing something
verb
noun
verb
- (auxiliary) Used concessively to admit something before making a more accurate or important statement; although
- (auxiliary) Used in polite requests for permission.
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions; would perhaps/maybe.
- (auxiliary, UK, meiosis) Used to express certainty.
- (auxiliary) simple past of may
- Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
noun
- (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the act of starting something
- the first part or section of something
- the event consisting of the start of something
adj
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of naming or designating.
- (countable) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc.
- (countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals.
- (countable, religion) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a subdivision of a religion.
- a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
- identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle.
- (countable) Any of a set of slots or grooves in an object, often machined into a metal part, as for example on a castellated nut.
- (uncountable) The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed fortification against border-raider attacks.
noun
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- A particular method for performing a task.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
- a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
noun
- (uncountable) The process of concretizing a general principle or idea by delineating, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
- (countable) Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
- (uncountable, medicine, psychology) An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.
noun
- (uncountable, countable) The act, process or result of approximating, as:
- (mathematics) An imprecise solution or result that is adequate for a defined purpose.
- (medicine) The act of bringing together the edges of tissue to be sutured.
- (linguistics) The act of producing a near-simulation of the pronunciation of a foreign language for a loanword therefrom, or any given pronunciation resulting from that act.
- an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
- the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue
- an imprecise or incomplete account
- the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity)
noun
- (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
- (uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
- (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- (countable) A replacement.
- (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
- a thing that is different
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- the action of changing something
- money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
- a different or fresh set of clothes
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
- coins of small denomination regarded collectively
- the result of alteration or modification
- the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
- (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
- (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- (intransitive) To become something different.
- (transitive) To replace.
- (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
- (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it), especially to put a clean diaper on (someone).
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- change clothes; put on different clothes
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
- become deeper in tone
- remove or replace the coverings of
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- give to, and receive from, one another
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- (uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.
- (programming, derogatory, informal) Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”).
- (by extension, countable, uncountable) A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
- (electrical engineering) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
- (film) Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”).
- (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
- (derogatory, informal) An Italian person.
- (road transport) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- (rare) plural of spaghetto
- spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
- pasta in the form of long strings
verb
- (humorous) To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
- (humorous) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
- To cause (something) to become tangled.
- To become tangled.
noun
- (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
- (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
- (uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
- a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
- the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
noun
- (uncountable) The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- (uncountable) The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- (countable, authorship) An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- (countable, evolutionary theory) An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- (countable) A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- (sociology) The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
- (uncountable, evolutionary theory) The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)
noun
- (uncountable) The capacity to think independently or be inventive.
- (countable) Something original.
- (uncountable) The original state or condition of a thing.
- (uncountable) The quality of being original or novel.
- the ability to think and act independently
- the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
noun
- (uncountable) The action of continuing.
- (countable, law, chiefly US) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
- The period during which something continues or goes on; duration.
- the period of time during which something continues
- the act of continuing an activity without interruption
- the property of enduring or continuing in time
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
- (uncountable, artificial intelligence) Output generated by a trained machine learning model as it applies learned patterns to new data.
- (countable, artificial intelligence) An instance or example of this, such as a prediction, classification, decision, etc.
- (countable) That which is inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
- the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
noun
- (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
- (countable) An order or command.
- (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
- (in the plural) A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
- (law, in the plural) The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
- (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- the profession of a teacher
- a message describing how something is to be done
noun
- (uncountable, academic) The study of or a collection of techniques.
- The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
- Machines or equipment thus designed.
- (countable) Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
- (countable, figurative) Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
- the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems
- the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment
- machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences
noun
- (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
- (countable) A thing that reinforces.
- A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.
- (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
- (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- a device designed to provide additional strength
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
noun
- (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
- (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
- (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- (computing, countable) A user's preferences.
- (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
- biographical sketch
- an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
- degree of exposure to public notice
- an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)
verb
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
- (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- write about
- represent in profile, by drawing or painting
noun
- (countable, uncountable) The process by which something is loaded.
- (Australia, industrial relations, countable) An hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than the equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.
- A weighting or bias.
- (countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
- the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement.
- (countable) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document.
- (zoology, taxonomy) An intentional change in the spelling of a scientific name, which is usually not allowed.
- a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing
noun
- (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
- The amount of material contained.
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- the amount that can be contained
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
adj
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
- (countable, uncountable) Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
- (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
- verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
noun
- (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
- (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- the relation of comprising something
- any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
- the act of including
- the state of being included
noun
- (uncountable) Changing of a thing from one form to another; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Changing of the key in a piece of music; also, the effect achieved by this as an element of harmony; (countable) an instance of this.
- (biology, uncountable) Variation in the activity or form of a cell in response to changes in the environment; (countable) an instance of this.
- (art, uncountable) Variation (especially softening or toning down) of brightness, form, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Modification or regulation of something to achieve an appropriate measure or proportion; (countable) an instance of this.
- (engineering, physics, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: modification of an electromagnetic wave or other oscillating carrier wave to apply a signal to it; (countable) an instance of this; also, the extent to which such a wave is modified; and the modified wave or signal.
- (typography, uncountable) The quality of a typeface of having contrasting, thick and thin parts of the strokes; stroke-width variation.
- (uncountable) Variation of the intensity, pitch, and tone of the sound of a musical instrument or voice; inflection; (countable) an instance of this.
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
- rise and fall of the voice pitch
- the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
noun
- (uncountable) The act of tying or binding something.
- (countable) A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
- (countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- (countable) A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
- (countable, music) A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
- A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
- A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.
- The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
- (music) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
- Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.
- character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
- (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
- something used to tie or bind
- the act of tying or binding things together
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
adj
adv
prep
noun
- (uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
- (music) A choice of notation among enharmonic equivalents for the same pitch.
- (uncountable) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.
- (countable) A specific spelling of a word.
- forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (usually uncountable) The process of creating such a representation: a literary device or other artistic method in which an inanimate object or an idea is given human qualities.
- (countable) An artistic representation of an abstract quality as a human.
- (countable) A person, thing, or name typifying a certain quality or idea; an embodiment or exemplification.
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- a person who represents an abstract quality
- representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
noun
- (uncountable) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding.
- (countable) The mental content of an act of grasping by means of the intellect, as a thought, idea, or conception.
- (countable) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect.
- the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
noun
- (uncountable) A manner of expression.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) Profanity.
- (uncountable) The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
- (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
- (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
- (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
- a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
- the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
- (language) communication by word of mouth
- a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
- the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
- the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
intj
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
- (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
- (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
- a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
- a naturally enclosed space
- something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
noun
adj
noun
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
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- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To force to work.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To exhaust, by working.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- cause to undergo fermentation
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- (uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
- (music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.
- (anatomy) A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.
- A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.
- Devotional exercises introducing an office.
- (uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness.
- (music) Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.
- (Judaism) The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
- the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
- the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening
- preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)
- the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action)
- a substance prepared according to a formula
- (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord
- the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose
- activity leading to skilled behavior
noun
- (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice.
- (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc.
- (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
- (chess and similar games) The standardization and study of fixed sequences of moves, especially in the opening phase of a game.
- A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
- (informal) A hypothesis or conjecture.
- (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
- a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena
- a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena
- a belief that can guide behavior
noun
- (uncountable) The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
- (organic chemistry, countable) The presence of a functional group.
- (US, law, uncountable) In trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than the identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
- capable of serving a purpose well
noun
- (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
- (countable) (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
- (uncountable) Artwork.
- (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
- (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
- (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
- a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation
- the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
- the creation of beautiful or significant things
- photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of giving food.
- (uncountable, usually said of animals) The act or process of eating.
- (countable) An instance or session of giving food.
- (countable, usually said of animals) An instance or session of eating.
- (uncountable) The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
- the act of supplying food and nourishment
- the act of consuming food
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noun
- (uncountable) The discovering of new things.
- (law, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- (chess) A discovered attack.
- (law, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
- Something discovered.
- the act of discovering something
- (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
- something that is discovered
- a productive insight
noun
- (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
- (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
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- (uncountable) Automatic or involuntary action.
- (uncountable, art) A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it.
- (uncountable) The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus.
- (countable, psychology) An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness.
- (uncountable) The doctrine that animals are automata, operating according to mechanical laws.
- any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
noun
- (uncountable) The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.
- (uncountable) The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
- (uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
- (countable) A canal; a waterway comprising one or more canals and river stretches in communication with one another.
- (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
- the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
- the work of a sailor
- ship traffic
noun
- (uncountable, countable) The process of becoming generic; an instance of it.
- (countable) An instance of this act or process; a generic name thus created.
- (uncountable, law) With respect to a trademark, the act or process of becoming so widely identified as a reference for a type of product as to cease representing a particular brand or manufacturer of that type of product.
noun
- (uncountable) The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises, abstract thought, ratiocination; (countable) any instance of this, especially as a process leading to an action, motive.
- (countable) A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.
- thinking that is coherent and logical
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- (uncountable) The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind.
- A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.
- A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
- any collection of diverse things
- a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
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- (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
- (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).
- a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
- specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
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noun
- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- An established communications or transportation link.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- A kinship relationship between people.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
- Sexual intercourse.
- (religion) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- a connecting shape
- (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- the state of being connected
- an instrumentality that connects
- a supplier (especially of narcotics)
noun
- (uncountable) The act of negating something.
- (logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
- (logic, countable) A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
- (countable) A denial or contradiction.
- a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
- the speech act of negating
- (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
noun
- (uncountable) Action of the verb to cover.
- (countable) That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
- (topology, of a given open set U) A collection of sets U_i such that their union contains U; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is open; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is contained in U.
- (topology) A special kind of map that establishes a relationship between two topological spaces in the sense that, under the action of the map, the one looks locally like several copies of the second: Formally, a continuous map π:E→X between topological spaces such that there exists, for every point x in X, a discrete space D_x and an open neighborhood U of x such that π⁻¹(U)= displaystyle ⨆_(d∈D_x)V_d and π|_(V_d):V_d→U is a homeomorphism for every d∈D_x. See Covering space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- the work of applying something
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- the act of protecting something by covering it
- an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
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- (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
- (uncountable, linguistics) Ellipsis of language transfer.
- (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
- (genetics) The conveying of genetic material from one cell to another.
- (sports) A person who transfers or is transferred from one club or team to another.
- (US, Canada, varsity sports) Ellipsis of transfer student.
- (countable, transport) An act of exiting one mass transit vehicle and boarding another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
- (countable) Of a person with limited mobility: an instance of independent or assisted movement from one stable surface to another.
- (bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.
- (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
- A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
- (countable, transport) A paper receipt given to a rider of one bus (and historically also certain elevated or subway lines), allowing free entry onto another bus to continue a journey.
- the act of moving something from one location to another
- someone who transfers or is transferred from one position to another
- the act of transferring something from one form to another
- application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
- a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances
- transferring ownership
verb
- (transitive) To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
- (intransitive) To be or become transferred.
- (intransitive) To move from a wheelchair to another seating surface, or to a wheelchair from another seating surface.
- (transport, of a traveler) To exit one mass transit vehicle and board another (typically one belonging to a different line or mode of transportation) to continue a journey.
- (transitive) To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
- (transitive, law) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
- move from one place to another
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- move around
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- send from one person or place to another
- cause to change ownership
- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- transfer from one place or period to another
- lift and reset in another soil or situation
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
- (computing, uncountable) The alteration of computer code to preserve its behavior while concealing its structure and intent.
- (countable) A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
- (uncountable) Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
- darkening or obscuring the sight of something
- the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
- confusion resulting from failure to understand
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