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noun
- A subordinate.
- (logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition.
- (British, military) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
- (social sciences, literary theory) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
- a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
adj
prefix
noun
- in a subordinate position
- a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
- A person of low condition or spirit.
- One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
- One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
- (religion) A person who dedicates themselves to God.
noun
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- (historical) A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- (physics) Initialism of center of gravity
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- A tooth on a gear.
verb
- roll steel ingots
- join pieces of wood with cogs
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
noun
adj
- Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
- Descending in a regular series.
- Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
- (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
- lower in rank or importance
- subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
verb
- (transitive, grammar) To embed (a clause) into another clause that is the main one.
- (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
- (transitive) To treat (someone) as of less value or importance.
- rank or order as less important or consider of less value
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
noun
- a male subordinate
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
- a man who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
- A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
- An adult or adolescent male servant. Anyone from a right-hand man (high-ranking assistant) to a low-ranking servant.
- (historical) A vassal; a subject.
- An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
- A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
- (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
- A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
- A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.
- A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
- An adult male human.
- A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
- A husband.
- (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
- (military slang) A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
- A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
- An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.
- A male lover; a boyfriend.
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pron
adj
noun
adj
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adj
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- One who acts in place of a superior.
- (Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”).
- A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
- (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
- Bad or immoral behaviour.
- A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- (law enforcement, slang) Clipping of vice squad.
- (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
- a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place
- a specific form of evildoing
- moral weakness
verb
noun
- The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
- The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
- The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.
- the quality of obedient submissiveness
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head
- the state of being subordinate to something
- the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
noun
adj
name
- (transport) Initialism of Integrated Coach (a school bus manufacturer).
- (medicine) Initialism of interstitial cystitis (a type of chronic pain that affects the urinary bladder).
- (astronomy) Initialism of Index Catalogue (part of the NGC survey of J.L.E. Dreyer’s update to the Herschel General Catalogue).
- (Philippines) Initialism of Iligan City.
- (US politics) Initialism of Intelligence Community.
noun
- (Malaysia, Singapore) Initialism of identity card.
- Initialism of independent contractor.
- Initialism of irreducible complexity.
- Initialism of individual contributor.
- (chemistry) Initialism of ion chromatography.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of intensive care.
- Initialism of intermittent catheterization.
- Initialism of integrity constraint.
- (chemistry) Initialism of intercalation compound.
- (slang) Initialism of incel.
- (electronics) Initialism of integrated circuit.
- (immunology) Initialism of immune complex.
- Initialism of incident commander.
- a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
phrase
verb
- (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- (intransitive) To show, be showing, be revealed.
- To pick up on a difference. (See tell apart for more.)
- (transitive) To instruct or inform.
- (transitive or intransitive) To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)
- (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To narrate, to recount.
- (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
- (transitive) To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
- (transitive) To reveal.
- (authorship, intransitive) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.
- (transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To determine the number, amount, or value of [something].
- narrate or give a detailed account of
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- give evidence
- mark as different
- inform positively and with certainty and confidence
- express in words
- discern or comprehend
- let something be known
noun
- A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
- (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
- (archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
- (informal) A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.
noun
- A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
- A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
- (nautical) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
- (UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).
- A Yeoman Warder.
- A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.
- (US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
- (historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
- A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
- officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
- in former times was free and cultivated their own land
noun
- One having authority to direct.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- One who goes first.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
prep
- Subordinate to; subject to the control of; in accordance with; in compliance with.
- Within the category, classification or heading of.
- Using or adopting (a name, identity, etc.).
- Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or surmounted by.
- Less than.
- (figuratively) In the face of; in response to (some attacking force).
- Below the surface of.
- Subject to.
- From one side of to the other, passing beneath.
adj
- Lower; beneath something.
- In a state of subordination, submission or defeat.
- (informal) Having a particular property that is low, especially so as to be insufficient or lacking in a particular respect.
- (medicine, colloquial) Under anesthesia, especially general anesthesia; sedated.
- located below or beneath something else
- lower in rank, power, or authority
adv
- Down to defeat, ruin, or death.
- In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
- (informal) In or into an unconscious state.
- So as to pass beneath something.
- (usually in compounds) Less than what is necessary to be adequate or suitable; insufficient.
- below the horizon
- below some quantity or limit
- further down
- down to defeat, death, or ruin
- down below
- in or into a state of subordination or subjugation
- through a range downward
- into unconsciousness
noun
verb
noun
- the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play
- (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
- (baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
- A helpful action or an act of giving.
noun
- a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
- a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
- something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (palaeography) A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
- (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
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- (figurative) Any subordinate bound by similar close ties.
- (historical) Any direct subordinate bound by such vows to a superior.
- (historical, law) The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
- a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
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noun
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- Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred, or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.
- (chiefly historical) Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between the moon and the earth.
- (figurative) Inferior, subordinate.
- In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.
- situated between the earth and the moon
- of this earth
verb
noun
- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
- someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies
- a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)
- a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
- (historical) A member of the French Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
- (Ireland, often capitalized) A member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann.
- (US, law enforcement) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.
- A member of the French National Assembly.
- One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
- (government) The name for a member of legislature in some countries.
verb
noun
- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
- a commissioned military officer
- an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
- an officer in a police force
- A person who manages or executes the plans and directives of another, more senior person; a manager to their director.
- (military, US) A commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration whose rank is above that of ensign and below lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A naval officer whose rank is above that of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander.
- (military, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A naval commissioned officer who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
- The second-in-command (2IC) of a group.
- (military, US) In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.
- (military, US, navy) A naval officer whose rank is above that of ensign in the United States Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A commissioned officer in the British Army and Royal Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant"; however, "second lieutenant" is to specify that the officer is not yet a full lieutenant.
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- Initialism of Adaptive Public License.
- Initialism of AROS Public License.
- (physics, US) Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory, at the University of Washington.
- (computer languages) An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.
- (astronomy, NASA, physics) Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory, a Johns Hopkins University laboratory.
verb
- (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
- (computing, Internet, transitive) (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.
- (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- transfer power to someone
noun
- (computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
- A representative at a conference, etc.
- A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
- (US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
- A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
- a person appointed or elected to represent others
noun
- A subordinate.
- (logic) A subaltern proposition; a proposition implied by a universal proposition.
- (British, military) A commissioned officer having a rank below that of captain; a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
- (social sciences, literary theory) A member of a group that is socially, politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.
- a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain
adj
noun
- in a subordinate position
- a person working in the service of another (especially in the household)
- A person of low condition or spirit.
- One who serves another, providing help in some manner.
- One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
- (religion) A person who dedicates themselves to God.
noun
- a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
- An unimportant individual in a greater system.
- Alternative form of cogue (“wooden vessel for milk”).
- (carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
- (historical) The hypothetical precursor ship type of the above said to be in use during the early Middle Ages, variously alleged to be Frisian or Scandinavian.
- (mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
- A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
- (historical) A partially clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged mediaeval ship of burden or war, with a round, bulky hull and a single mast, typically 15 to 25 meters in length, in use from ca. 1150 to 1500.
- (physics) Initialism of center of gravity
- (by extension) A small fishing boat.
- A tooth on a gear.
verb
- roll steel ingots
- join pieces of wood with cogs
- To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
- To furnish with a cog or cogs.
- To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
- To plagiarize.
- To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
- (intransitive) Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
noun
adj
- Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
- Descending in a regular series.
- Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
- (grammar, of a clause, not comparable) dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
- lower in rank or importance
- subject or submissive to authority or the control of another
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
verb
- (transitive, grammar) To embed (a clause) into another clause that is the main one.
- (transitive, finance) To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
- (transitive) To treat (someone) as of less value or importance.
- rank or order as less important or consider of less value
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
noun
- a male subordinate
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
- a man who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
- A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
- An adult or adolescent male servant. Anyone from a right-hand man (high-ranking assistant) to a low-ranking servant.
- (historical) A vassal; a subject.
- An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
- A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
- (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
- A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
- A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.
- A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
- An adult male human.
- A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
- A husband.
- (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
- (military slang) A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
- A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
- An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.
- A male lover; a boyfriend.
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adj
intj
name
pron
noun
- The process of making or classing (something or somebody) as subordinate.
- The property of being subordinate; inferiority of rank or position.
- The quality of being properly obedient to a superior (as a superior officer); this quality as a systemic principle of discipline within a hierarchical organization.
- the quality of obedient submissiveness
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- the grammatical relation of a modifying word or phrase to its head
- the state of being subordinate to something
- the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class
noun
adj
noun
- One who acts in place of a superior.
- (Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”).
- A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
- (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
- Bad or immoral behaviour.
- A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- (law enforcement, slang) Clipping of vice squad.
- (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
- a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place
- a specific form of evildoing
- moral weakness
verb
noun
- A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
- A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
- (nautical) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
- (UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).
- A Yeoman Warder.
- A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.
- (US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
- (historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
- A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
- officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
- in former times was free and cultivated their own land
noun
- One having authority to direct.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- One who goes first.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
noun
- a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
- a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
- something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (palaeography) A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
- (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
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- Of or relating to the material world (as opposed to clerical, sacred, or spiritual); ephemeral, temporal, worldly.
- (chiefly historical) Situated beneath the moon; specifically, between the moon and the earth.
- (figurative) Inferior, subordinate.
- In or of this world (as opposed to heaven, etc.); earthly, terrestrial.
- situated between the earth and the moon
- of this earth
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- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
- someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies
- a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)
- a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others
- (historical) A member of the French Chamber of Deputies, formerly called Corps Législatif.
- (Ireland, often capitalized) A member of Dáil Éireann, or the title of a member of Dáil Éireann.
- (US, law enforcement) a law enforcement officer who works for the county sheriff's office; a deputy sheriff or sheriff's deputy; the entry level rank in such an agency.
- A member of the French National Assembly.
- One appointed as the substitute of others, and empowered to act for them, in their name or their behalf; a substitute in office.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to install and remove props, brattices, etc. and to clear gas, for the safety of the miners.
- (government) The name for a member of legislature in some countries.
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- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
- a commissioned military officer
- an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
- an officer in a police force
- A person who manages or executes the plans and directives of another, more senior person; a manager to their director.
- (military, US) A commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration whose rank is above that of ensign and below lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A naval officer whose rank is above that of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander.
- (military, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A naval commissioned officer who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
- The second-in-command (2IC) of a group.
- (military, US) In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.
- (military, US, navy) A naval officer whose rank is above that of ensign in the United States Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A commissioned officer in the British Army and Royal Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant"; however, "second lieutenant" is to specify that the officer is not yet a full lieutenant.
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- Initialism of Adaptive Public License.
- Initialism of AROS Public License.
- (physics, US) Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory, at the University of Washington.
- (computer languages) An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.
- (astronomy, NASA, physics) Initialism of Applied Physics Laboratory, a Johns Hopkins University laboratory.
verb
- (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
- (intransitive) To show, be showing, be revealed.
- To pick up on a difference. (See tell apart for more.)
- (transitive) To instruct or inform.
- (transitive or intransitive) To notice, discern. (Roughly, "can tell" means "know" but with a sense of direct perception.)
- (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To narrate, to recount.
- (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
- (transitive) To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
- (transitive) To reveal.
- (authorship, intransitive) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement — contrasted with show.
- (transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To determine the number, amount, or value of [something].
- narrate or give a detailed account of
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- give evidence
- mark as different
- inform positively and with certainty and confidence
- express in words
- discern or comprehend
- let something be known
noun
- A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
- (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
- (archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
- (informal) A giveaway; something that unintentionally reveals or hints at a secret.
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- the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play
- (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
- (baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
- A helpful action or an act of giving.
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- (figurative) Any subordinate bound by similar close ties.
- (historical) Any direct subordinate bound by such vows to a superior.
- (historical, law) The grantee of a fief, a subordinate granted use of a superior's land and its income in exchange for vows of fidelity and homage and (typically) military service.
- a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord
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- (intransitive) To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
- (computing, Internet, transitive) (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.
- (transitive) To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- transfer power to someone
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- (computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
- A representative at a conference, etc.
- A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
- (US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
- A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
- a person appointed or elected to represent others
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- One who acts in place of a superior.
- (Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”).
- A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
- (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
- Bad or immoral behaviour.
- A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
- (law enforcement, slang) Clipping of vice squad.
- (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
- a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place
- a specific form of evildoing
- moral weakness
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- (transport) Initialism of Integrated Coach (a school bus manufacturer).
- (medicine) Initialism of interstitial cystitis (a type of chronic pain that affects the urinary bladder).
- (astronomy) Initialism of Index Catalogue (part of the NGC survey of J.L.E. Dreyer’s update to the Herschel General Catalogue).
- (Philippines) Initialism of Iligan City.
- (US politics) Initialism of Intelligence Community.
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- (Malaysia, Singapore) Initialism of identity card.
- Initialism of independent contractor.
- Initialism of irreducible complexity.
- Initialism of individual contributor.
- (chemistry) Initialism of ion chromatography.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of intensive care.
- Initialism of intermittent catheterization.
- Initialism of integrity constraint.
- (chemistry) Initialism of intercalation compound.
- (slang) Initialism of incel.
- (electronics) Initialism of integrated circuit.
- (immunology) Initialism of immune complex.
- Initialism of incident commander.
- a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence
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noun
- a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another
- a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence
- something added to another thing but not an essential part of it
- An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.
- (education) Ellipsis of adjunct professor.
- (music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.
- (palaeography) A graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of an adjective that modifies that logogram (rather than as a phonetic complement that disambiguates the logogram).
- (syntax, X-bar theory) A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.
- A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.
- (rhetoric) Symploce.
- (grammar) A phrase within a clause or sentence that is grammatically dispensable but not semantically so, modifying the meaning.
- (brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.
- (category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.