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verb
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
noun
- Frugal use of resources.
- the efficient use of resources
- (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
- (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
- the system of production and distribution and consumption
adj
adv
verb
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
conj
noun
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
prep
noun
- The prudent management or conservation of resources.
- Techniques of animal care.
- The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
- (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
- the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
noun
- The conservation of a resource.
- An organization dedicated to the conservation of natural resources.
- (British) A commission that deals with fishery and navigation.
- (US, law) A state in which a company is allowed to continue trading without incurring any new financial liabilities or disposing of any assets.
- a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river
- the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.
noun
- Specifically, the prudent care and management of resources; thriftiness, frugality.
- The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature, etc.).
- A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention.
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for their creatures
- the guardianship and control exercised by a deity
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
noun
- One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
- (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
- An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
- the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
- someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
adj
noun
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
- A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
- Scotch tape.
- Alternative form of Scotch (“whisky”).
- A surface cut or abrasion.
verb
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- make a small cut or score into
- (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
- (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) To rape.
- (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
- (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
noun
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- absence of affectation or pretense
verb
adj
noun
noun
- One who preserves.
- A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.
- A person who refinishes furniture.
- A life preserver.
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
- a cook who preserves fruits or meat
verb
- use cautiously and frugally
- preserve with sugar
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
- (transitive) To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
- (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process
- (transitive) To protect an environment, heritage, etc.
noun
verb
adj
det
noun
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- limit in quality or quantity
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
noun
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- smallest American sandpiper
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- retained; not shed
- stubbornly unyielding
- never-ceasing
- continually recurring to the mind
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
adj
- containing little excess
- not profitable or prosperous
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- lacking excess flesh
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
noun
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
- cause to lean to the side
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- rely on for support
- cause to lean or incline
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To press against.
adj
- avoiding excess
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
adj
noun
noun
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
adj
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
verb
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
verb
- To separate in order to store.
- (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
- (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- set apart from others
- keep away from others
- requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
- undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
noun
noun
- A reserve source or supply.
- A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
- A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
- An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- the large log at the back of a hearth fire
- an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
verb
noun
- Frugal use of resources.
- the efficient use of resources
- (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)
- (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
- the system of production and distribution and consumption
adj
adv
noun
- The prudent management or conservation of resources.
- Techniques of animal care.
- The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.
- (now chiefly nautical) Administration or management of day-to-day matters.
- the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
noun
- The conservation of a resource.
- An organization dedicated to the conservation of natural resources.
- (British) A commission that deals with fishery and navigation.
- (US, law) A state in which a company is allowed to continue trading without incurring any new financial liabilities or disposing of any assets.
- a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river
- the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.
noun
- Specifically, the prudent care and management of resources; thriftiness, frugality.
- The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature, etc.).
- A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention.
- a manifestation of God's foresightful care for their creatures
- the guardianship and control exercised by a deity
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
noun
- One who conserves, preserves or protects something.
- A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.
- (Roman Catholicism) A judge delegated by the pope to defend certain privileged classes of persons from manifest or notorious injury or violence, without recourse to a judicial process.
- An officer in charge of preserving the public peace, such as a justice or sheriff.
- (law) A person appointed by a court to manage the affairs of another; similar to a guardian but with some powers of a trustee.
- the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
- someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person
noun
- Lack of complication; efficiency.
- Lack of sharpness of mind; lack of ability to think using complex ideas; stupidity
- The quality or state of being unmixed or uncompounded
- The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts.
- Lack of subtlety or abstruseness; clarity
- Lack of artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness
- a lack of penetration or subtlety
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- lack of ornamentation
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded
- absence of affectation or pretense
noun
- One who preserves.
- A person who prepares preserves of fruit or preserved meats.
- A person who refinishes furniture.
- A life preserver.
- a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture
- someone who keeps safe from harm or danger
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
- a cook who preserves fruits or meat
noun
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
adj
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
verb
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
noun
- A reserve source or supply.
- A log containing text previously read, as in text-based video games or chat rooms.
- A large log to burn at the back of a fire.
- An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders, unconsumed products or unfinished work.
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- the large log at the back of a hearth fire
- an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
verb
verb
noun
- The male of a pair of animals.
- A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
- (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
- A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position.
- A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse.
- (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
- a married man; a woman's partner in marriage
verb
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
conj
noun
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
prep
verb
adj
noun
verb
- use cautiously and frugally
- preserve with sugar
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change
- (transitive) To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
- (physics, chemistry, intransitive) To remain unchanged during a process
- (transitive) To protect an environment, heritage, etc.
noun
verb
adj
det
noun
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- limit in quality or quantity
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
noun
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- smallest American sandpiper
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
verb
- To separate in order to store.
- (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
- (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- set apart from others
- keep away from others
- requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
- undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
noun
adj
noun
- a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
- A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
- A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
- Scotch tape.
- Alternative form of Scotch (“whisky”).
- A surface cut or abrasion.
verb
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- make a small cut or score into
- (transitive) To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
- (transitive, textile manufacturing) To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
- (transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
- (transitive) To prevent (something) from being successful.
- (transitive, Australian rhyming slang) To rape.
- (transitive) To block a wheel or other round object.
- (transitive) To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- retained; not shed
- stubbornly unyielding
- never-ceasing
- continually recurring to the mind
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
adj
- containing little excess
- not profitable or prosperous
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- lacking excess flesh
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
noun
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
- cause to lean to the side
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- rely on for support
- cause to lean or incline
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To press against.
adj
- avoiding excess
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
adj
noun
noun
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
adj
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
verb
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action