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noun
- a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
- a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- A companion; a comrade.
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
adj
verb
- make a logical or causal connection
- bring or come into association or action
- keep company with; hang out with
- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
noun
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
- someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else
- (information technology) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
- (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- Someone responsible for organizing an event
- (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
- (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- (higher education) An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- (motor racing) A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents.
- A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
- A bartender.
- A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
- A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.
- one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
- a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management
- the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements
- an attendant on an airplane
verb
noun
- One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
- A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- One who roots or rummages through something.
- (woodworking) A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- (computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- (by extension) A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
- One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
noun
noun
- A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
- A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
- (cricket) A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.
- A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
- One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
- the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
adj
noun
noun
- A person or organisation in an intermediate position (in a transaction, agreement, supply chain, etc.)
- An agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation.
- One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.
- a negotiator who acts as a link between parties
adj
noun
- (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
- An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
- A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
- A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
adj
noun
- the management of someone or something
- manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
- the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
- A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
- (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
verb
noun
- the management of someone or something
- a manner of dealing with something artistically
- (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
- (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
- Medical care for an illness or injury.
- The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
- (euphemistic) harsh punishment; retribution
- The process or manner of treating someone or something.
- (countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
adj
verb
- To divide into two equal parts.
- (intransitive) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
- To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
- To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
- To act as a spiritualistic medium.
- (transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
- occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
- act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
noun
- someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
- a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
- (colloquial, idiomatic) A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.
- (colloquial, idiomatic) A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.
noun
- an informal representative
- a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another
- A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.
- An official messenger and representative.
- (sports) A player who is an excellent role-model and who upholds the integrity of the game and thereby contributes to the sport's popularity and growth.
- A diplomat of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there their sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
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noun
adj
- Of or relating to a corporation.
- Unified into one body; collective.
- (colloquial) Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.
- Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
- organized and maintained as a legal corporation
- done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
- possessing or existing in bodily form
- of or belonging to a corporation
noun
- A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
- (business, countable) A corporate company or group.
- (business, informal, uncountable) The higher managerial echelons of a corporation.
- (business, countable) A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
- (finance) A bond issued by a corporation.
noun
- The management of another's affairs.
- The act of procuring; procurement.
- The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
- A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.
noun
- A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required.
- Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.
- a worker who holds or is invested with an office
noun
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- A position of secondary importance.
- The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
- (newspaper, publishing) A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
- A bench at the back of a room or seating area.
- A back bench in a courtroom.
- The back pew of a church.
- (politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by members of each party group who are not party leaders, cabinet ministers, holders of offices such as the whips, etc.
- The back row of a classroom.
- any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
adj
suffix
- one who owns or manages something;
- one who engages in a particular type of activity;
- one who suffers from a specific condition or syndrome
- a person who studies or practices a particular discipline;
- a person who speaks or specializes in a (usually constructed) language.
- one who has a certain ideology or set of beliefs;
- a person who uses a device of some kind;
- one who subscribes to a particular theological doctrine or religious denomination;
- a person who holds bigoted, partial views with respect to a particular matter.
noun
- a person responsible for the administration of a business
- someone who manages a government agency or department
- persons who administer the law
- (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
- The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
- A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
adj
noun
- someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction
- a political party organized in opposition to the major parties in a two-party system
- (business, commerce) Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).
- (politics, chiefly US) A political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system.
- A person or party not directly involved with an arrangement, in contrast to active parties, characteristically the first party (producer) and second party (consumer).
- (law) Someone only incidentally or tangentially connected to an incident or dispute; someone other than the principals; a bystander or independent witness.
noun
- A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
- Outward form or part; exterior.
- (programming) In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
- A day-scholar.
- a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there
noun
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
- the money risked on a gamble
verb
- (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
- (cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
- (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
- (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
- kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
- place a bet on
- tie or fasten to a stake
- mark with a stake
- put at risk
adj
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
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det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
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noun
- (law) A minor.
- (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.
- A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
- a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
adj
noun
- (informal) An employee of such a firm, especially a former employee of the firm's clients.
- (informal) A short-term money lender to contractors working for the US government but waiting for US congressional appropriations.
- (informal) A consulting or research company that mostly carries out work for US government departments or agencies.
adj
- Concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation.
- (biology) Present or arising within an organism or one of its parts.
- Concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
- Of or situated on the inside.
- (medicine) Within the body.
- Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed.
- (British, education, of a student) Attending a university as well as taking its examinations.
- (pharmacology) Applied or intended for application through the stomach by being swallowed.
- Of the inner nature of a thing.
- located inward
- happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
- inside the country
- occurring within an institution or community
- innermost or essential
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noun
adj
noun
- a young child who is small for their age
- widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- underground pod of the peanut vine
- (in the plural) See peanuts (“very small amount”).
- A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
- (US) Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
verb
verb
- (transitive) To have as one's business; to manage, be responsible for.
- (transitive, now regional) To seek out, to look for.
- (transitive, also reflexive) To care for; to keep safe.
- (transitive) To follow with the eyes; to look in the direction of (someone or something departing).
- keep under careful scrutiny
noun
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- a worker who makes metal castings
verb
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
- fail utterly; collapse
- sink below the surface
- stumble and nearly fall
- break down, literally or metaphorically
noun
- someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
- the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
- A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
- One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
- An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
noun
- a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise
- A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
- any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another
- a friend who is frequently in the company of another
- a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor
- a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies
- One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
- (algebra) One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit).
- A companion; a comrade.
- Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague.
- A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or employee.
adj
verb
- make a logical or causal connection
- bring or come into association or action
- keep company with; hang out with
- (transitive, with with) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
- (transitive) To connect or join together; combine.
- (transitive) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
- (intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
- (intransitive) To spend time socially; keep company.
- (mathematics) To be associative.
- (reflexive, in deliberative bodies) To endorse.
noun
- A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity.
- someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else
- (information technology) Somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
- (Scotland) A magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
- Someone responsible for organizing an event
- (historical) A chief administrator of a medieval manor.
- (nautical) A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
- A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
- A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
- (higher education) An officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
- (motor racing) A person who is responsible for the arbitration of incidents at a motor racing event and determining whether or not fines or penalties should be issued for such incidents.
- A junior assistant in a Masonic lodge.
- A bartender.
- A person who has charge of buildings, grounds, or animals.
- A person who exercises responsible and caring administration of something; a person who exhibits stewardship.
- one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
- a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management
- the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements
- an attendant on an airplane
verb
noun
- One who holds a primary or founding position in an enterprise.
- (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
- A device for boring a pathway through a blocked drain or sewer.
- One who roots or rummages through something.
- (woodworking) A blade for producing a narrow groove in a piece of wood.
- A plant, viewed in terms of how it establishes its roots.
- (computing) A type of malware that obtains and runs using privileged access, bypassing normal security systems.
- (by extension) A type of heavy machinery similar to a plow for breaking up soil, concrete, asphalt, etc.
- One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
- an enthusiastic devotee of sports
noun
noun
- A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
- A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
- (cricket) A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.
- A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
- One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
- the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
noun
- A person or organisation in an intermediate position (in a transaction, agreement, supply chain, etc.)
- An agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation.
- One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.
- a negotiator who acts as a link between parties
adj
noun
- (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
- An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
- A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
- A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
adj
noun
- the management of someone or something
- manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something
- the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
- A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
- (art) The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
- A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
verb
noun
- the management of someone or something
- a manner of dealing with something artistically
- (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
- (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
- Medical care for an illness or injury.
- The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
- (euphemistic) harsh punishment; retribution
- The process or manner of treating someone or something.
- (countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
noun
- someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
- a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
- (colloquial, idiomatic) A person who serves in a supporting, secondary, or subsidiary capacity; an assistant.
- (colloquial, idiomatic) A comedian who plays a secondary or supporting role, especially as straight man and traditionally in vaudeville or burlesque theatre.
noun
- an informal representative
- a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another
- A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.
- An official messenger and representative.
- (sports) A player who is an excellent role-model and who upholds the integrity of the game and thereby contributes to the sport's popularity and growth.
- A diplomat of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there their sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
noun
- The management of another's affairs.
- The act of procuring; procurement.
- The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
- A sum of money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; called also proxy.
noun
- A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required.
- Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.
- a worker who holds or is invested with an office
noun
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- A position of secondary importance.
- The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
- (newspaper, publishing) A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
- A bench at the back of a room or seating area.
- A back bench in a courtroom.
- The back pew of a church.
- (politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by members of each party group who are not party leaders, cabinet ministers, holders of offices such as the whips, etc.
- The back row of a classroom.
- any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
adj
noun
- a person responsible for the administration of a business
- someone who manages a government agency or department
- persons who administer the law
- (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
- The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
- A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
adj
noun
- someone other than the principals who are involved in a transaction
- a political party organized in opposition to the major parties in a two-party system
- (business, commerce) Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).
- (politics, chiefly US) A political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system.
- A person or party not directly involved with an arrangement, in contrast to active parties, characteristically the first party (producer) and second party (consumer).
- (law) Someone only incidentally or tangentially connected to an incident or dispute; someone other than the principals; a bystander or independent witness.
noun
- A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
- Outward form or part; exterior.
- (programming) In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
- A day-scholar.
- a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there
noun
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
- the money risked on a gamble
verb
- (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
- (cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
- (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
- (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
- kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
- place a bet on
- tie or fasten to a stake
- mark with a stake
- put at risk
noun
- (law) A minor.
- (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.
- A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
- a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
adj
noun
- (informal) An employee of such a firm, especially a former employee of the firm's clients.
- (informal) A short-term money lender to contractors working for the US government but waiting for US congressional appropriations.
- (informal) A consulting or research company that mostly carries out work for US government departments or agencies.
noun
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- a worker who makes metal castings
verb
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
- fail utterly; collapse
- sink below the surface
- stumble and nearly fall
- break down, literally or metaphorically
noun
- someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
- the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
- A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
- One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
- An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
verb
- (transitive) To have as one's business; to manage, be responsible for.
- (transitive, now regional) To seek out, to look for.
- (transitive, also reflexive) To care for; to keep safe.
- (transitive) To follow with the eyes; to look in the direction of (someone or something departing).
- keep under careful scrutiny
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noun
adj
verb
- To divide into two equal parts.
- (intransitive) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
- To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
- To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
- To act as a spiritualistic medium.
- (transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
- occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
- act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
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noun
adj
- Of or relating to a corporation.
- Unified into one body; collective.
- (colloquial) Soulless and inoffensive; sanitized and sterile, like a design from a large corporation.
- Formed into a corporation; incorporated.
- organized and maintained as a legal corporation
- done by or characteristic of individuals acting together
- possessing or existing in bodily form
- of or belonging to a corporation
noun
- A short film produced for internal use in a business, e.g. for training, rather than for a general audience.
- (business, countable) A corporate company or group.
- (business, informal, uncountable) The higher managerial echelons of a corporation.
- (business, countable) A corporation that franchises, as opposed to an individual franchise.
- (finance) A bond issued by a corporation.
adj
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Short in duration; brief.
- (derogatory) To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- (offensive) Used to belittle a person.
- Very young, of childhood age.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow, shallow, contracted; mean, illiberal, ungenerous.
- (often capitalized) Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- (of a sibling) Younger.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- (of a voice) faint
- limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- (of children and animals) young, immature
- lowercase
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some
- small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its opposite depending on the context)
- (informal) small and of little importance
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
adv
det
noun
- (countable, age regression) One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- Ellipsis of little go (“type of examination”).
- (countable, university slang) A newly initiated member of a sorority or fraternity, who is mentored by a big.
- (countable, ageplay) The participant who acts out the younger role.
- (chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
- (countable, informal) A child, particularly an infant.
- a small amount or duration
pron
adj
- Concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation.
- (biology) Present or arising within an organism or one of its parts.
- Concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
- Of or situated on the inside.
- (medicine) Within the body.
- Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed.
- (British, education, of a student) Attending a university as well as taking its examinations.
- (pharmacology) Applied or intended for application through the stomach by being swallowed.
- Of the inner nature of a thing.
- located inward
- happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface
- inside the country
- occurring within an institution or community
- innermost or essential
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noun
adj
noun
- a young child who is small for their age
- widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- underground pod of the peanut vine
- (in the plural) See peanuts (“very small amount”).
- A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
- (US) Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).