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noun
- A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
- (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
- (UK, slang) A police station.
- (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- A factory farm.
- (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
adj
noun
- (process engineering) A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
- (electronics, chiefly historical or in compound terms) A capacitor.
- (optics) A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
- A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.
- an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid
- lens used to concentrate light on an object
- an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge
- a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat
noun
- device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
- a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function
- the technical aspects of doing something
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
- the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
- (philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
- Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
- A mental, physical, or chemical process.
- A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
- (within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
- Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
noun
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
noun
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
verb
- Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
- Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
- To compare or liken something to something else.
- To construct or place something parallel to something else.
- To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
- To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- make or place parallel to something
- duplicate or match
- be parallel to
adj
- (figuratively) Analogous, similar, comparable.
- Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
- (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
- (science fiction, of realities, dimensions, timelines, etc.) Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
- (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
- Equally distant from one another at all points.
- being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
- of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
adv
noun
- (printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
- (military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
- (geography) A line of latitude.
- Something identical or similar in essential respects.
- One of a set of parallel lines.
- Direction conformable to that of another line.
- A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
- An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
- (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
noun
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
- A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- (television) An electron gun.
- (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
- the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- large but transportable armament
- a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
verb
- (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
- (transitive) To cause to speed up.
- Nonstandard spelling of going to.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- shoot with a gun
noun
- A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.
- (South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).
- (surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
- (now historical) A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.
- (dance, preceded by definite article) A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
- (Internet slang, 4chan slang) A habitual poster on the /r9k/ board on 4chan; a member of the /r9k/ community.
- (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
- (figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions or individuality.
- (computing) A bot, software designed to perform a task.
- a mechanism that can move automatically
noun
- A theoretical construct or device with known input and output characteristics but unknown method of operation.
- (transport, by extension) Any similar device on motor vehicles, such as rail event recorders and ship trip recorders.
- (informal, aviation) A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.
- Synonym of football (“the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President”)
- (drama, attributive) A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.
- A device used in phreaking that prevents the calling party from being billed for the call placed.
- equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight
verb
noun
- Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
- A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
- (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
- (figurative) Self-restraint in speech.
- (social media) An appearance-altering digital image effect.
- (photography) A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
- an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
- device that removes something from whatever passes through it
verb
- (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
- (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
- (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- (intransitive, derogatory, fandom slang) To be discouraged where a connoisseur or hardcore fan would not.
- pass through
- run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
- remove by passing through a filter
noun
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- power to direct or determine
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A control group or control experiment.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
verb
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- handle and cause to function
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
noun
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- someone who maintains and audits business accounts
- a person who directs and restrains
- (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
- (computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
- (linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
- (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.
- (espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
- (business) The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
- (video games) A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
- One who controls something.
- (electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
noun
- A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- a machine for performing calculations automatically
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- (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
- (countable) A planned undertaking.
- (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
- (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- (countable) A business or organization.
- (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
noun
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- a dramatic or musical entertainment
- any recognized accomplishment
- the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment
- the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
- That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
- The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
- The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
- (linguistics) The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.
- (art) A live show or concert.
noun
- (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
- (bridge) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
- (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
- Physical motion between points in space.
- (music) Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- (music) A large division of a larger composition.
- Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).
- (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
- the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a euphemism for defecation
- a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- the act of changing the location of something
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
adj
- (electronics) Designed to perform a specific task.
- Not changeable.
- (electronic communications) Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
- (of humans and animals) Describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.
- (of humans and animals) Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior or a habit.
- (computing) Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example).
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
- (US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
adj
noun
- A device that controls or limits something.
- (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
- (mathematics) A positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.
- (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
- (historical) Synonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”).
- Short for diving regulator.
- A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
- A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
- Ellipsis of voltage regulator.
- an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
- any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.
noun
- A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
- (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
- (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- (informal) Father.
- (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
- A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
- (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
- the head of a state government
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
noun
- A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.
- A barrier designed to obstruct and confuse enemies, rendering them vulnerable.
- (US, dialectal, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
- a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
verb
- (technology) To dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control (a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound).
- To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle.
- To expend effort or struggle in vain.
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
noun
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- A royalty.
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
verb
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- rule against
- ride (a horse) too hard
noun
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
adj
verb
noun
- A device which processes, which changes something (a computer processor, food processor, etc.).
- A microprocessor.
- A person or institution who processes things (foods, photos, applications, etc.).
- A central processing unit.
- (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
- someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
- a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market
verb
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
noun
- a device that retards something's motion
- the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
- the state of being physically constrained
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- The repression of one's feelings.
noun
- a device that retards something's motion
- a rule or condition that limits freedom
- the act of controlling by restraining someone or something
- lack of ornamentation
- discipline in personal and social activities
- the state of being physically constrained
- (uncountable) control or caution; reserve
- (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures
noun
- A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
- A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
- A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
- A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
- a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control
- a mechanism that can move automatically
- someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
noun
- (figurative) A system or process through which something is conducted.
- A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
- (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
- (figuratively) A continuous, contributing source of benefits, talent, or innovation.
- A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
- (figurative) A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- gossip spread by spoken communication
verb
adj
- (used technically of a device or process) having two parts
- allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously
- (metallurgy) Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- (architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- (architecture) Having two floors.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
noun
- a house with two units sharing a common wall
- an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
- (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
verb
noun
- A device to aid in the delineation of something.
- (computing) Synonym of delimiter.
- Any of various jobs that involve delineation, especially that of technical details.
- One who makes line drawings.
- Any of various devices that aid a person in copying the outlines of a drawing or object, including the ability to enlarge or shrink the image.
- (grammar) A suffix used in some Melanesian languages that acts like a determiner and signals that the noun to which it is attached can be used as an agent.
- A technical illustrator.
- One who makes architectural drawings.
- A road safety marker that indicates where traffic should go.
- One who, or that which, delineates.
- A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.
- One who assembles a complete technical description of wetlands.
- One who depicts or describes a character.
noun
- a mechanism that puts something into automatic action
- (electricity) A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
- Something that actuates something else.
- A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve.
- (computer hardware) The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
noun
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- (computing) A computer.
- (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- an efficient person
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
verb
noun
noun
- A mechanism or machinery; the means by which something happens.
- (with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
- (slang) A heroin or other drug addict's equipment: syringes, needles, etc.
- plural of work in its countable senses
- A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial facilities.
- (with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- the internal mechanism of a device
- everything available; usually preceded by ‘the’
- performance of moral or religious acts
verb
noun
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- (usually) A locomotive.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- something used to achieve a purpose
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
noun
- (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
- (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- one who supervises or has charge and direction of
- a program that controls the execution of other programs
noun
- A particular method for performing a task.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- (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
- A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
- (historical) A person who performs mathematical calculation.
- A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic
noun
- (engineering) A device for controlling or maintaining the flow of liquid.
- (informal) Something that tends to flood.
- (informal) A person employed to handle issues arising from flooding.
- (Internet slang) A person who floods message boards, chat rooms etc. with unwanted or repetitive comments.
- (agriculture) A channel or device for carrying and controlling water used in flood irrigation.
adj
noun
- someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles
- a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
- (gambling) A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
- (now chiefly historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
- (video games, tabletop games) A function, rule or other implementation that dictates gameplay; a ludeme, a feature.
- A device, method or means; a function.
- Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
- (slang) A hitman.
adj
noun
- The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
- In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
- (golf) The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
- the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
verb
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
- (attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
- (UK, slang) A police station.
- (historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- A factory farm.
- (programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
adj
noun
- (process engineering) A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
- (electronics, chiefly historical or in compound terms) A capacitor.
- (optics) A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
- A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.
- an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid
- lens used to concentrate light on an object
- an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge
- a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat
noun
- device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
- a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function
- the technical aspects of doing something
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
- the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
- (philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
- Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
- A mental, physical, or chemical process.
- A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
- (within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
- Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
noun
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
noun
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
noun
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
- A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- (television) An electron gun.
- (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
- the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- large but transportable armament
- a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
verb
- (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
- (transitive) To cause to speed up.
- Nonstandard spelling of going to.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- shoot with a gun
noun
- A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.
- (South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).
- (surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
- (now historical) A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.
- (dance, preceded by definite article) A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
- (Internet slang, 4chan slang) A habitual poster on the /r9k/ board on 4chan; a member of the /r9k/ community.
- (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
- (figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions or individuality.
- (computing) A bot, software designed to perform a task.
- a mechanism that can move automatically
noun
- A theoretical construct or device with known input and output characteristics but unknown method of operation.
- (transport, by extension) Any similar device on motor vehicles, such as rail event recorders and ship trip recorders.
- (informal, aviation) A flight recorder; the brightly colored cockpit voice recorders and flight data recorders in an aircraft designed to aid in determining the cause of an accident.
- Synonym of football (“the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President”)
- (drama, attributive) A type of theater characterized by a lack of decoration or complex mechanisms.
- A device used in phreaking that prevents the calling party from being billed for the call placed.
- equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight
verb
noun
- Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
- A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
- (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
- (figurative) Self-restraint in speech.
- (social media) An appearance-altering digital image effect.
- (photography) A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
- an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
- device that removes something from whatever passes through it
verb
- (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
- (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
- (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- (intransitive, derogatory, fandom slang) To be discouraged where a connoisseur or hardcore fan would not.
- pass through
- run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
- remove by passing through a filter
noun
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- power to direct or determine
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A control group or control experiment.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
verb
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- handle and cause to function
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
noun
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- someone who maintains and audits business accounts
- a person who directs and restrains
- (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
- (computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
- (linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
- (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.
- (espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
- (business) The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
- (video games) A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
- One who controls something.
- (electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
noun
- A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- a machine for performing calculations automatically
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- (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
- (countable) A planned undertaking.
- (countable, medicine) A surgical procedure.
- (uncountable) The method or practice by which actions are done.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The act or process of operating (verb): agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- (countable) A business or organization.
- (uncountable) The method by which a device performs its function.
noun
- process or manner of functioning or operating
- a dramatic or musical entertainment
- any recognized accomplishment
- the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment
- the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
- That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
- The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
- The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
- (linguistics) The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.
- (art) A live show or concert.
noun
- (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
- (bridge) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
- (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
- Physical motion between points in space.
- (music) Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
- (music) A large division of a larger composition.
- Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).
- (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
- The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
- A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
- the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a euphemism for defecation
- a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
- a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- the act of changing the location of something
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
noun
- (figuratively) Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
- (US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
adj
noun
- A device that controls or limits something.
- (genetics) A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
- (mathematics) A positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.
- (rail transport) A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
- (historical) Synonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”).
- Short for diving regulator.
- A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
- A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
- Ellipsis of voltage regulator.
- an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
- any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.
noun
- A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
- (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
- (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- (informal) Father.
- (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
- A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
- (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
- the head of a state government
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
noun
- A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.
- A barrier designed to obstruct and confuse enemies, rendering them vulnerable.
- (US, dialectal, coal mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
- a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
verb
- (technology) To dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control (a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound).
- To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle.
- To expend effort or struggle in vain.
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
noun
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- A royalty.
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
verb
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- rule against
- ride (a horse) too hard
noun
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
adj
verb
noun
- A device which processes, which changes something (a computer processor, food processor, etc.).
- A microprocessor.
- A person or institution who processes things (foods, photos, applications, etc.).
- A central processing unit.
- (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
- someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.)
- a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market
noun
- a device that retards something's motion
- the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
- the state of being physically constrained
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- The repression of one's feelings.
noun
- a device that retards something's motion
- a rule or condition that limits freedom
- the act of controlling by restraining someone or something
- lack of ornamentation
- discipline in personal and social activities
- the state of being physically constrained
- (uncountable) control or caution; reserve
- (countable) something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures
noun
- A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
- A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
- A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
- A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
- a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control
- a mechanism that can move automatically
- someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
noun
- (figurative) A system or process through which something is conducted.
- A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.
- (surfing) The inside of a wave that a surfer is riding, when the wave has started closing over it.
- (figuratively) A continuous, contributing source of benefits, talent, or innovation.
- A channel (either physical or logical) by which information is transmitted sequentially (that is, the first information in is the first information out).
- (figurative) A widely observed pattern of development in personal interests, circumstances, or opinions.
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- gossip spread by spoken communication
verb
noun
- A device to aid in the delineation of something.
- (computing) Synonym of delimiter.
- Any of various jobs that involve delineation, especially that of technical details.
- One who makes line drawings.
- Any of various devices that aid a person in copying the outlines of a drawing or object, including the ability to enlarge or shrink the image.
- (grammar) A suffix used in some Melanesian languages that acts like a determiner and signals that the noun to which it is attached can be used as an agent.
- A technical illustrator.
- One who makes architectural drawings.
- A road safety marker that indicates where traffic should go.
- One who, or that which, delineates.
- A perambulator which records distances and delineates a profile, as of a road.
- One who assembles a complete technical description of wetlands.
- One who depicts or describes a character.
noun
- a mechanism that puts something into automatic action
- (electricity) A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
- Something that actuates something else.
- A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve.
- (computer hardware) The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
noun
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- (computing) A computer.
- (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- an efficient person
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
verb
noun
noun
- A mechanism or machinery; the means by which something happens.
- (with "the") Drastic treatment; abuse; the axe (dismissal).
- (slang) A heroin or other drug addict's equipment: syringes, needles, etc.
- plural of work in its countable senses
- A factory or factories, or a similar collection(s) of industrial facilities.
- (with "the") Everything or everything that is available or possible; especially, all available toppings on food.
- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- the internal mechanism of a device
- everything available; usually preceded by ‘the’
- performance of moral or religious acts
verb
noun
- A complex mechanical device which converts energy into useful motion or physical effects.
- The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion.
- (usually) A locomotive.
- A self-powered vehicle used for moving cars along a track.
- A person or group of people which influence a larger group; a driving force.
- (computing) A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- A large construction used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult etc.
- Anything used to effect a purpose; any device or contrivance; an agent.
- something used to achieve a purpose
- an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.
- a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
- motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work
noun
- (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
- (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- one who supervises or has charge and direction of
- a program that controls the execution of other programs
noun
- A particular method for performing a task.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- (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
- A mechanical or electronic device that performs mathematical calculations; (now usually) an electronic one specifically.
- (historical) A person who performs mathematical calculation.
- A person who calculates (in the sense of scheming).
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic
noun
- (engineering) A device for controlling or maintaining the flow of liquid.
- (informal) Something that tends to flood.
- (informal) A person employed to handle issues arising from flooding.
- (Internet slang) A person who floods message boards, chat rooms etc. with unwanted or repetitive comments.
- (agriculture) A channel or device for carrying and controlling water used in flood irrigation.
noun
adj
noun
adj
verb
- Of a process etc: To be analogous to something else.
- Of a path etc: To be parallel to something else.
- To compare or liken something to something else.
- To construct or place something parallel to something else.
- To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, etc.
- To equal; to match; to correspond to.
- To produce or adduce as a parallel.
- make or place parallel to something
- duplicate or match
- be parallel to
adj
- (figuratively) Analogous, similar, comparable.
- Having the same overall direction; the comparison is indicated with "to".
- (computing) Involving the processing of multiple tasks at the same time.
- (science fiction, of realities, dimensions, timelines, etc.) Coexisting but normally not interacting with the regular reality.
- (hyperbolic geometry, said of a pair of lines) Either not intersecting, or coinciding.
- Equally distant from one another at all points.
- being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
- of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations
adv
noun
- (printing) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines, used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.
- (military) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.
- (geography) A line of latitude.
- Something identical or similar in essential respects.
- One of a set of parallel lines.
- Direction conformable to that of another line.
- A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity.
- An arrangement of electrical components such that a current flows along two or more paths; see in parallel.
- (mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes)
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
- an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
verb
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
adj
- (electronics) Designed to perform a specific task.
- Not changeable.
- (electronic communications) Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
- (of humans and animals) Describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.
- (of humans and animals) Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior or a habit.
- (computing) Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example).
verb
adj
- (used technically of a device or process) having two parts
- allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously
- (metallurgy) Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- (architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- (architecture) Having two floors.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
noun
- a house with two units sharing a common wall
- an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
- (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
verb
adj
noun
- someone whose occupation is repairing and maintaining automobiles
- a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
- (gambling) A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
- (now chiefly historical) A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
- (video games, tabletop games) A function, rule or other implementation that dictates gameplay; a ludeme, a feature.
- A device, method or means; a function.
- Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
- (slang) A hitman.
adj
noun
- The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
- In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
- (golf) The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
- the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver