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noun
noun
- A small group.
- (professional road cycling) The trailing group of riders in a stage race that tries to finish the race stage in which it was formed at a time just under the cut-off time for when they would otherwise be disqualified from continuing on to the next stage of the race.
- (music) A group of notes played together that are added to the melody, also known as the "turn" or grace notes.
noun
- a small isolated group of people
- A small, isolated group or area.
- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
- a supply of money
- an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
- a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- an enclosed space
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- (surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- (by extension) A person's financial resources.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- (music) A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
- (clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
verb
adj
noun
- a small collection of people
- a small flock of grouse or partridge
- A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
- (figurative) A group or party of people; also, a group or set of things.
- A group of other birds, such as quail (superfamily Phasianoidea).
verb
noun
- A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
- (journalism) A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.
- (bridge) A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
- (American football) A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
- (informal) a quick private conference
- a disorganized and densely packed crowd
adj
verb
- (transitive) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
- (intransitive, American football) To form a huddle.
- To get together and discuss a topic.
- (intransitive) To crowd together.
- (intransitive) To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
- (transitive) To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
- (bridge, intransitive) To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.
- crouch or curl up
- crowd or draw together
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pron
adj
det
- (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
- (meteorology, of clouds) Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
- (preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
- (meteorology, of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
adj
noun
- (religion) The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.
- (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
- (chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
- followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices
- followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- a system of religious beliefs and rituals
- a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false
noun
- An informal body of friends.
- an informal body of friends
- (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- (US, informal) A considerable amount.
- (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
- (smoking) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- any collection in its entirety
verb
noun
- (by extension) A small group of things or people
- (nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
- (cellular automata) A spaceship made of one or more central mutually stabilizing overweight spaceships flanked by lightweight, middleweight, or heavyweight spaceships that prevent the formation of destructive eggs.
- a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships
- a fleet of small craft
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adj
verb
noun
- a tight cluster of people or things
- A group of people or things.
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- something twisted and tight and swollen
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A difficult situation.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
verb
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
noun
- (singular only, formal) A group of people.
- a select company of people
- (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
- (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
- (countable, informal) An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
- (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
- (countable, informal) A person.
- (countable, informal) A telephone number.
- Quantity.
- (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
- (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
- (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
- (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
- A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
- Something that numbs.
- A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
- An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
- a clothing measurement
- a symbol used to represent a number
- a concept of quantity involving zero and units
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- an item of clothing
- the number is used in calling a particular telephone
- one of a series published periodically
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc.
- a numbered item in a series
- the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
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- (transitive, usually with among) To classify or include (in a group of things)
- (transitive, with off) To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
- (transitive, passive voice) To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
- (intransitive, usually with among) To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
- (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
- (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
- (transitive, with off) To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
- place a limit on the number of
- put into a group
- give numbers to
- determine the number or amount of
- add up in number or quantity
- enumerate
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noun
- A small musical group.
- (slang) A combination.
- (video games) An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.
- (graphical user interface, informal) A combo box.
- (especially collectible card games) A strategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.
- Two or more gameplay elements (e.g. characters, items) which are powerful when used together.
- (Australia, derogatory) A Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman, or who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture.
- a small band of jazz musicians
verb
noun
- A small community or clan.
- A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
- One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
- (heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A division of a political unit.
- An administrative division within a department in France, often being a subdivision of an arrondissement.
- A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
- a small administrative division of a country
verb
noun
verb
- get people together
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- (idiomatic, reciprocal, transitive) To start dating; to start being a couple.
- (intransitive) To have sex
- (transitive, intransitive) To accumulate, to gather.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, together.
- (transitive, intransitive) To meet, to gather together, to congregate.
- (intransitive) To agree.
noun
- a small informal social gathering
- a formally arranged gathering
- the act of joining together as one
- a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
- a casual or unexpected convergence
- A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- An encounter between people, even accidental.
- (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.
- (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- (collective) The people at such a gathering.
verb
noun
- an informal body of friends
- the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
- the team of men or women manning a racing shell
- an organized group of workmen
- A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
- (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
- (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
- A group of people working together on a task.
- (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
- (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
- (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
- (British, dialectal chiefly Scotland, Northern England, East Midlands) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
- (scouting) A group of Rovers.
- (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
- (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
verb
noun
- an informal body of friends
- a large number of things or people considered together
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- approach a certain age or speed
- to gather together in large numbers
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
noun
- an informal body of friends
- an association of criminals
- tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
- an organized group of workmen
- A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- (African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
- A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- (mining) Alternative form of gangue.
- A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
- A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- (US) A chain gang.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
- (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A term of address for any other person or group of people.
- A set; all required for an outfit.
- A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
verb
noun
- A group of people or things.
- a group of persons together in one place
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
- (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
- (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
- (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- the social act of assembling
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verb
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- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- (computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- (business) A commercial organization.
- (military) An air force formation.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (chemistry) A functional group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
- any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
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noun
- A group of three people or things.
- (music) A piece of music written for three musicians.
- Synonym of three-in-one (“type of fast food”).
- A group of three musicians.
- Any cocktail made with a spirit, a liqueur, and a creamy ingredient.
- (music) A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.
- three people considered as a unit
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- three performers or singers who perform together
- a musical composition for three performers
adj
- Having few members.
- 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.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- 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
- the group that gathers together for a particular occasion
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
- (ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip
- what is produced in a given time period
- a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park
- attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election)
- The act of coming forth.
- The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.
- (US) A place to pull off a road.
- (rail transport, chiefly US) A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.
- That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage.
- Net quantity of produce yielded.
- The act of putting out to pasture.
- (ballet) Rotation of the leg at the hips which causes the feet and knees to turn outward, away from the front of the body.
prefix
noun
- A group or set of four people or things.
- (mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.
- A word of four syllables.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
noun
noun
- A group of four people or things, particularly
- (music) A musical composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
- (music) A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony.
- (music) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.
- four people considered as a unit
- four performers or singers who perform together
- a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- a musical composition for four performers
noun
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- (US) An important or critical situation.
- A difficult maneuver.
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs; a sitting.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism
- a tense critical situation
- a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
- the act of grasping
- a number of birds hatched at the same time
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verb
- (video games) To win despite being the only remaining player on one's team, against several opponents.
- (video games, by extension) To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
- (transitive) To hatch.
- (transitive) To seize, as though with claws.
- (transitive) To grip or grasp tightly.
- affect
- hold firmly, usually with one's hands
- take into your hands deliberately
noun
- number of people in a particular group
- More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. (Generally used adjectivally.)
- The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
- By extension, one slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.
noun
- A short conversation between a smaller portion of a group held outside the hearing of the rest of the group.
- (US, law) A short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the hearing of the jury and the spectators at the court.
- (typography) A block of information placed at the side of a printed page.
- (US, law) The place in the courtroom where such a conference happens.
- An accessory side note or aside made during a conversation, without changing the scope of the audience.
- A short news story printed alongside a larger one.
- (Internet) A block of information placed at the side of a webpage.
- (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing
- a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
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noun
noun
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- A decorative border.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
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verb
noun
- An individual member of such a group.
- A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.
- Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
- (typography) A typeface with 12 characters per inch.
- a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
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noun
- a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
- a unit of firefighters including their equipment
- the state of being with someone
- a social gathering of guests or companions
- a social or business visitor
- an institution created to conduct business
- organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)
- small military unit; usually two or three platoons
- crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship
- (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
- (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
- (uncountable) Companionship.
- (A group of) adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
- A small group of birds or animals.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
- (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
verb
noun
- a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
- an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment
- a gathering of people for pleasure
- an organization to gain political power
- a person involved in legal proceedings
- A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
- (military) A detachment of troops selected for a particular service or duty.
- A social gathering, usually of invited guests, which typically involves eating, drinking, and entertainment and often held to celebrate a particular occasion.
- A small group of birds or mammals.
- (law) A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
- A group of people gathered together, especially temporarily, for a specific purpose such as travel or sport.
verb
- have or participate in a party
- (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
- (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
- (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
- (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
adj
noun
- a group of persons together in one place
- the social act of assembling
- a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
- A gathering of people.
- A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
- (archaeology) A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
- (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
- The process of assembling or bringing together.
noun
noun
- A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
- A frame or framework.
- (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
- (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
- a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
noun
noun
- A small group.
- (professional road cycling) The trailing group of riders in a stage race that tries to finish the race stage in which it was formed at a time just under the cut-off time for when they would otherwise be disqualified from continuing on to the next stage of the race.
- (music) A group of notes played together that are added to the melody, also known as the "turn" or grace notes.
noun
- a small isolated group of people
- A small, isolated group or area.
- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
- a supply of money
- an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
- a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- an enclosed space
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- (surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- (by extension) A person's financial resources.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- (music) A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
- (clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
verb
adj
noun
- a small collection of people
- a small flock of grouse or partridge
- A brood or family of partridges (family Phasianidae), which includes game birds such as grouse (tribe Tetraonini) and ptarmigans (tribe Tetraonini, genus Lagopus).
- (figurative) A group or party of people; also, a group or set of things.
- A group of other birds, such as quail (superfamily Phasianoidea).
verb
noun
- A small group of individuals in very close proximity to one another.
- (journalism) A session in which a group of journalists assemble in an informal, dense cluster to question a person of interest.
- (bridge) A hesitation during play to think about one's next move.
- (American football) A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
- (informal) a quick private conference
- a disorganized and densely packed crowd
adj
verb
- (transitive) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
- (intransitive, American football) To form a huddle.
- To get together and discuss a topic.
- (intransitive) To crowd together.
- (intransitive) To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
- (transitive) To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
- (bridge, intransitive) To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move.
- crouch or curl up
- crowd or draw together
noun
pron
adj
det
- (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.
- (meteorology, of clouds) Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.
- (preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.
- (meteorology, of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.
noun
- An informal body of friends.
- an informal body of friends
- (cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- (US, informal) A considerable amount.
- (forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- (geology, mining) An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- (informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
- A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
- (textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
- (smoking) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
- A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- any collection in its entirety
verb
noun
- (by extension) A small group of things or people
- (nautical) A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
- (cellular automata) A spaceship made of one or more central mutually stabilizing overweight spaceships flanked by lightweight, middleweight, or heavyweight spaceships that prevent the formation of destructive eggs.
- a United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships
- a fleet of small craft
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a tight cluster of people or things
- A group of people or things.
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- something twisted and tight and swollen
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A difficult situation.
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
verb
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
noun
- (singular only, formal) A group of people.
- a select company of people
- (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought from a dealer.
- (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
- (countable, informal) An outfit, particularly a stylish one.
- (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or №). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.
- (countable, informal) A person.
- (countable, informal) A telephone number.
- Quantity.
- (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.
- (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.
- (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.
- (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.
- A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
- Something that numbs.
- A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.
- An activity; assignment; job, as in cushy number.
- a clothing measurement
- a symbol used to represent a number
- a concept of quantity involving zero and units
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- an item of clothing
- the number is used in calling a particular telephone
- one of a series published periodically
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc.
- a numbered item in a series
- the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
adj
verb
- (transitive, usually with among) To classify or include (in a group of things)
- (transitive, with off) To enumerate or list, especially while assigning numbers to.
- (transitive, passive voice) To limit to a certain number; to reckon (as by fate) to be few in number.
- (intransitive, usually with among) To be classified or included (in a certain group or category of things).
- (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).
- (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.
- (transitive, with off) To call out and assign a series of numbers (usually to people), either for the sake of dividing into groups or for counting.
- place a limit on the number of
- put into a group
- give numbers to
- determine the number or amount of
- add up in number or quantity
- enumerate
noun
- A small musical group.
- (slang) A combination.
- (video games) An action composed of a sequence of simpler actions, especially a composite attacking move in a fighting game.
- (graphical user interface, informal) A combo box.
- (especially collectible card games) A strategy aiming to win by playing a specific combination of cards (or similar), often in a single turn.
- Two or more gameplay elements (e.g. characters, items) which are powerful when used together.
- (Australia, derogatory) A Caucasian man who marries or has a sexual relationship with an Aboriginal woman, or who lives among Aboriginal people and adopts Aboriginal culture.
- a small band of jazz musicians
verb
noun
- A small community or clan.
- A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
- One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
- (heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A division of a political unit.
- An administrative division within a department in France, often being a subdivision of an arrondissement.
- A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
- a small administrative division of a country
verb
noun
verb
- get people together
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- (idiomatic, reciprocal, transitive) To start dating; to start being a couple.
- (intransitive) To have sex
- (transitive, intransitive) To accumulate, to gather.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, together.
- (transitive, intransitive) To meet, to gather together, to congregate.
- (intransitive) To agree.
noun
- a small informal social gathering
- a formally arranged gathering
- the act of joining together as one
- a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
- a casual or unexpected convergence
- A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- An encounter between people, even accidental.
- (gerund, uncountable) The act of persons or things that meet.
- (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
- (collective) The people at such a gathering.
verb
noun
- an informal body of friends
- the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
- the team of men or women manning a racing shell
- an organized group of workmen
- A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
- (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
- (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
- A group of people working together on a task.
- (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
- (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
- (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
- (British, dialectal chiefly Scotland, Northern England, East Midlands) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
- (scouting) A group of Rovers.
- (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
- (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
verb
noun
- an informal body of friends
- a large number of things or people considered together
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- approach a certain age or speed
- to gather together in large numbers
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
noun
- an informal body of friends
- an association of criminals
- tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
- an organized group of workmen
- A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- (African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
- A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- (mining) Alternative form of gangue.
- A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
- A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- (US) A chain gang.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
- (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A term of address for any other person or group of people.
- A set; all required for an outfit.
- A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
verb
noun
- A group of people or things.
- a group of persons together in one place
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
- (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
- (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
- (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- the social act of assembling
adj
verb
noun
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
- (computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- (business) A commercial organization.
- (military) An air force formation.
- An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
- (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
- (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
- (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
- (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
- (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
- (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
- (chemistry) A functional group.
- (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
- a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
- any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
verb
noun
- A group of three people or things.
- (music) A piece of music written for three musicians.
- Synonym of three-in-one (“type of fast food”).
- A group of three musicians.
- Any cocktail made with a spirit, a liqueur, and a creamy ingredient.
- (music) A passage in the middle of a minuet, frequently in a different key.
- three people considered as a unit
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- three performers or singers who perform together
- a musical composition for three performers
noun
- the group that gathers together for a particular occasion
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
- (ballet) the outward rotation of a dancer's leg from the hip
- what is produced in a given time period
- a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park
- attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election)
- The act of coming forth.
- The number or proportion of people who attend or participate in an event (especially an election) or are present at a venue.
- (US) A place to pull off a road.
- (rail transport, chiefly US) A place where moveable rails allow a train to switch tracks; a set of points.
- That which is prominently brought forward or exhibited; hence, an equipage.
- Net quantity of produce yielded.
- The act of putting out to pasture.
- (ballet) Rotation of the leg at the hips which causes the feet and knees to turn outward, away from the front of the body.
noun
- A group or set of four people or things.
- (mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.
- A word of four syllables.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
noun
noun
- A group of four people or things, particularly
- (music) A musical composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
- (music) A group of four singers, usually males, who sings together in four-part harmony.
- (music) A group of four musicians who perform classical music together.
- four people considered as a unit
- four performers or singers who perform together
- a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- a musical composition for four performers
noun
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- (US) An important or critical situation.
- A difficult maneuver.
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs; a sitting.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- (by extension) A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism
- a tense critical situation
- a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand
- a collection of things or persons to be handled together
- a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism
- the act of grasping
- a number of birds hatched at the same time
adj
verb
- (video games) To win despite being the only remaining player on one's team, against several opponents.
- (video games, by extension) To unexpectedly or luckily succeed in a difficult activity.
- (transitive) To hatch.
- (transitive) To seize, as though with claws.
- (transitive) To grip or grasp tightly.
- affect
- hold firmly, usually with one's hands
- take into your hands deliberately
noun
- number of people in a particular group
- More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. (Generally used adjectivally.)
- The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
- By extension, one slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.
noun
- A short conversation between a smaller portion of a group held outside the hearing of the rest of the group.
- (US, law) A short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the hearing of the jury and the spectators at the court.
- (typography) A block of information placed at the side of a printed page.
- (US, law) The place in the courtroom where such a conference happens.
- An accessory side note or aside made during a conversation, without changing the scope of the audience.
- A short news story printed alongside a larger one.
- (Internet) A block of information placed at the side of a webpage.
- (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing
- a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story
verb
noun
noun
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- A decorative border.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
adj
verb
noun
- An individual member of such a group.
- A special group or social class of people who have a superior social or economic status and attendant power, advantages, or privileges in society; a member of such a group.
- Someone who is among the best at a certain task.
- (typography) A typeface with 12 characters per inch.
- a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
adj
noun
- a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
- a unit of firefighters including their equipment
- the state of being with someone
- a social gathering of guests or companions
- a social or business visitor
- an institution created to conduct business
- organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)
- small military unit; usually two or three platoons
- crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship
- (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
- (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
- (uncountable) Companionship.
- (A group of) adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
- A small group of birds or animals.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
- (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
verb
noun
- a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
- an occasion on which people can assemble for social interaction and entertainment
- a gathering of people for pleasure
- an organization to gain political power
- a person involved in legal proceedings
- A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them.
- (military) A detachment of troops selected for a particular service or duty.
- A social gathering, usually of invited guests, which typically involves eating, drinking, and entertainment and often held to celebrate a particular occasion.
- A small group of birds or mammals.
- (law) A person or group of people constituting one side in a legal proceeding, such as in a legal action or a contract.
- A group of people gathered together, especially temporarily, for a specific purpose such as travel or sport.
verb
- have or participate in a party
- (intransitive) To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats.
- (intransitive) To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself.
- (intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To take recreational drugs.
- (online gaming, intransitive) To form a party (with).
adj
noun
- a group of persons together in one place
- the social act of assembling
- a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
- A gathering of people.
- A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
- (archaeology) A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
- (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
- The process of assembling or bringing together.
noun
noun
- A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
- A frame or framework.
- (military) The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
- (chiefly in communism) The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
- a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
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adj
noun
- (religion) The veneration, devotion, and religious rites given to a deity (especially in a historical polytheistic context), or (in a Christian context) to a saint; a subset of worship.
- (informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
- (chiefly derogatory) A group, sect or movement following an unorthodox religious or philosophical system of beliefs, especially one in which members remove and exclude themselves from greater society, including family members not part of the cult, and show extreme devotion to a charismatic leader.
- followers of an exclusive system of beliefs and practices
- followers of an unorthodox, extremist, or false religion or sect who often live outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader
- an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- a system of religious beliefs and rituals
- a religion or sect that is generally considered to be unorthodox, extremist, or false
adj
- Having few members.
- 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.
- (of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a small scale.
- Small and underdeveloped, particularly (of a male) in the genitals.
- 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