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noun
verb
- (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- (transitive) To conclude.
- (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- (intransitive) To issue or result.
- (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
adj
noun
- (specifically) An act of terminating the employment of a worker or making an employee redundant, often to reduce expenses; a layoff.
- (especially politics) The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.
- (by extension) Withdrawal.
- A curtailment or reduction.
- (specifically) An act of reducing expenses; economizing.
- the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
- entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
verb
- (euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.
- (intransitive, with of and transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- (euphemistic, usually reflexively) To gain weight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- To emotionally disengage or distract oneself from a situation.
- (transitive) To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- be relaxed
- release, as from one's grip
verb
- (slang, transitive) To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
- (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
noun
- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- (chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- (slang) One year of prison time.
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- (Canada, US, horse racing) The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
- (attributive) Very fast (speedy).
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- a high-speed passenger train
noun
- the act of laying off an employee or a work force
- (chiefly US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
- (British, soccer) A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
- A bet that is laid off, i.e. placed with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
verb
- (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.
- (transitive) To seal in a can.
- (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.
- (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.
- (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.
- (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can
- (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to.
- (Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- (transitive, slang) To shut up.
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- preserve in a can or tin
intj
noun
- (childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.
- (slang) Jail or prison.
- (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
- (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
- A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.
- A chimney pot.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
- (nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- the quantity contained in a can
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
particle
verb
- (transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- (ambitransitive, art) In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- (transitive) To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (transitive, of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- simple past of lie off
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
- dismiss, usually for economic reasons
- put an end to a state or an activity
noun
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- The state of being redundant.
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- repetition of an act needlessly
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
noun
noun
- Synonym of unemployment.
- The removal of the occupants of a place.
- Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness.
- (art) The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture.
- The process of ending a military occupation.
verb
- (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- (business) To cancel a project or product.
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
noun
- (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) A racetrack, hippodrome.
- (uncountable, countable) A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
- (uncountable, by extension) A person's domain or sphere of influence.
- (uncountable, slang) A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
- (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- (uncountable, specifically) A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) The sport of racing horses.
- (countable) A block of peat used as fuel.
- the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- range of jurisdiction or influence
verb
noun
verb
adj
noun
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
- a limited period of time
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
prep_phrase
noun
- (informal, with definite article) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
- (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
- (US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
- (countable, uncountable) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
- (aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
- (uncountable) Profit, plunder.
- (footwear) A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
- (uncountable) A blow with the foot; a kick.
- (firearms) A hard or rigid case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun.
- (baseball) A bobbled ball.
- (US, military, usually plural) A soldier, especially a footsoldier.
- (Australia, British, New Zealand, South Africa, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
- (slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football (historically in the form of boots, now shorter, but still called the same).
- (US, transport) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
- (slang, motor racing) A tyre.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
- (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
- (British, slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
- (figurative, with definite article) Oppression, an oppressor.
- an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
- protective casing for something that resembles a leg
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools
- footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
- a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed
- the act of delivering a blow with the foot
verb
- (MLE, criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
- (colloquial, Canada, US, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
- (informal) To eject; kick out.
- (transitive) To kick.
- (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
- (slang) To vomit.
- To put boots on, especially for riding.
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
- kick; give a boot to
verb
- (transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- (intransitive) To live less expensively; to economize.
- (intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.
- (transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- (intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
- (transitive) To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- (transitive) To cut down or reduce.
- (transitive) To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
- make a reduction, as in one's workforce
noun
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
- (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
- (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
- (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- an enclosed space
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- the quantity contained in a sack
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
- (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- put in a sack
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- cook until very little liquid is left
- lessen and make more modest
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To fall in; to cave in.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, in.
- (transitive, US) To install components, particularly car engines.
- (surfing, intransitive) To paddle into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding.
- (idiomatic) To arrive casually and unannounced, with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment.
- visit informally and spontaneously
verb
noun
- (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
noun
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- coming apart
- the distance between things
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- sorting one thing from others
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- the social act of separating or parting company
- the state of lacking unity
- The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
- The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
- (law) An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
- (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
- An object that separates two spaces.
- The place at which a division occurs.
- The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
- An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- (specifically) An act of terminating the employment of a worker or making an employee redundant, often to reduce expenses; a layoff.
- (especially politics) The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.
- (by extension) Withdrawal.
- A curtailment or reduction.
- (specifically) An act of reducing expenses; economizing.
- the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
- entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
noun
- the act of laying off an employee or a work force
- (chiefly US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
- (British, soccer) A short pass that has been rolled in front of another player for them to kick.
- A bet that is laid off, i.e. placed with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- A period of time when someone is unavailable for work.
noun
- (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand) The state of being unemployed because one's job is no longer necessary; the dismissal of such an employee; a layoff.
- (law) surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
- A superfluity; something redundant or excessive; a needless repetition in language.
- Duplication of parts of a message to guard against transmission errors.
- A duplication of components or circuits to provide survival of the total system in case of failure of single components.
- The state of being redundant.
- repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission
- repetition of an act needlessly
- (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
noun
noun
- Synonym of unemployment.
- The removal of the occupants of a place.
- Lack of occupation; The state of having nothing to occupy one's time; idleness.
- (art) The use of art to convert a space to one that reveals "emptiness", as opposed to one that is merely empty; the revelation of negative space by sculpture.
- The process of ending a military occupation.
verb
noun
noun
- (informal, with definite article) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
- (construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
- (US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
- (countable, uncountable) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
- (aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
- (uncountable) Profit, plunder.
- (footwear) A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
- (uncountable) A blow with the foot; a kick.
- (firearms) A hard or rigid case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun.
- (baseball) A bobbled ball.
- (US, military, usually plural) A soldier, especially a footsoldier.
- (Australia, British, New Zealand, South Africa, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
- (slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football (historically in the form of boots, now shorter, but still called the same).
- (US, transport) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
- (usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
- (slang, motor racing) A tyre.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
- (botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
- (British, slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
- (figurative, with definite article) Oppression, an oppressor.
- an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg
- protective casing for something that resembles a leg
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools
- footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
- a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed
- the act of delivering a blow with the foot
verb
- (MLE, criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
- (colloquial, Canada, US, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
- (informal) To eject; kick out.
- (transitive) To kick.
- (computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
- (slang) To vomit.
- To put boots on, especially for riding.
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
- kick; give a boot to
noun
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
- (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
- (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
- (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- an enclosed space
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- the quantity contained in a sack
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
- (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- put in a sack
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To fall in; to cave in.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, in.
- (transitive, US) To install components, particularly car engines.
- (surfing, intransitive) To paddle into and take off on a wave another surfer is already riding.
- (idiomatic) To arrive casually and unannounced, with little or no warning; also, to visit without an appointment.
- visit informally and spontaneously
noun
- the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
- coming apart
- the distance between things
- the act of dividing or disconnecting
- sorting one thing from others
- the space where a division or parting occurs
- the social act of separating or parting company
- the state of lacking unity
- The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
- The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
- (law) An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
- (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
- An object that separates two spaces.
- The place at which a division occurs.
- The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
- An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
verb
- (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- (transitive) To conclude.
- (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- (intransitive) To issue or result.
- (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
adj
verb
- (euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.
- (intransitive, with of and transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.
- (euphemistic, usually reflexively) To gain weight.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, go.
- To emotionally disengage or distract oneself from a situation.
- (transitive) To ignore (a comment, etc.).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
- be relaxed
- release, as from one's grip
verb
- (slang, transitive) To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
- (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
noun
- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- (chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- (slang) One year of prison time.
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- (Canada, US, horse racing) The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
- (attributive) Very fast (speedy).
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- a high-speed passenger train
verb
- (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.
- (transitive) To seal in a can.
- (Manglish, Singlish, intransitive) To be fine or acceptable; to be possible; (with liao or already) to be enough. Often used in conjunction with a variety of clause-final particles, e.g., lah, meh or one, to express different attitudes towards the subject matter.
- (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.
- (transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.
- (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- (India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be (followed by a word like able, possible, allowed). third-person singular simple present indicative of can
- (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.
- (auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to.
- (Manglish, Singlish, auxiliary or intransitive) To be able to or know how to (do something); an accompanying verb is not required if it is already inferable from context.
- (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- (transitive, slang) To shut up.
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- preserve in a can or tin
intj
noun
- (childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.
- (slang) Jail or prison.
- (US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
- A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
- (slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
- (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.
- (slang, in the plural) Headphones.
- A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.
- A chimney pot.
- A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
- (nautical) A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
- a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- the quantity contained in a can
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
particle
verb
- (transitive, chiefly US, idiomatic) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- (ambitransitive, art) In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- (transitive) To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (transitive, of a bookmaker) To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- simple past of lie off
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
- dismiss, usually for economic reasons
- put an end to a state or an activity
verb
- (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- (business) To cancel a project or product.
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
noun
- (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) A racetrack, hippodrome.
- (uncountable, countable) A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
- (uncountable, by extension) A person's domain or sphere of influence.
- (uncountable, slang) A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
- (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- (uncountable, specifically) A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) The sport of racing horses.
- (countable) A block of peat used as fuel.
- the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- range of jurisdiction or influence
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adj
noun
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
- a limited period of time
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
verb
- (transitive, specifically) To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- (intransitive) To live less expensively; to economize.
- (intransitive) To take up a new defensive position.
- (transitive, military) To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- (intransitive) To abridge; to curtail.
- (transitive) To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- (transitive) To cut down or reduce.
- (transitive) To confine; to limit; to restrict.
- tighten one's belt; use resources carefully
- make a reduction, as in one's workforce
verb
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- cook until very little liquid is left
- lessen and make more modest
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
verb
noun
- (informal) A dismissal or rejection.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- (finance) A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- (slang, music) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
- (figurative) A drastic reduction or cutback.
- an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
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