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noun
- (business) Initialism of countervailing.
- (philately) Initialism of catalog value.
- (pathology) Initialism of cytolytic vaginosis.
- (engineering) Initialism of constant velocity.
- (automotive) Initialism of commercial vehicle
- (nautical) Initialism of container vessel; a container ship
- Ellipsis of CV joint.
- Initialism of curriculum vitae.
- (nautical) Initialism of construction vessel
- (among vorarephiles) Initialism of cock vore.
- (military) Initialism of combat vehicle.
- (US, navy) aircraft carrier (“Cruiser Voler”), a diesel-powered warship launching and landing heavier than air flying vehicles (a nuclear-powered one is a CVN)
- (astronomy) Initialism of cataclysmic variable.
- Initialism of computer vision.
- (pathology) Initialism of coronavirus.
- Abbreviation of cellevision.
- (anime) Initialism of character's voice (“voice actor”).
- (statistics) Initialism of cross-validation.
- (phonetics) Initialism of cardinal vowel.
- a summary of your academic and work history
adj
name
adj
- involving competition or competitiveness
- Of or pertaining to competition.
- subscribing to capitalistic competition
- showing a fighting disposition
- (biochemistry) Relating to the inhibition of the effects of a chemical substance by another substance competing with it for binding or bonding.
- (economics) Capable of competing successfully.
- (euphemistically, of prices) Cheap, especially used of quality products.
- (of someone's character) Inclined to compete.
noun
adj
- (economics, politics) Advocating such noninterference.
- (economics) Resulting from such noninterference.
- (of a person) Avoiding interference in other people's affairs; choosing to live and let live.
- (economics, politics) Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.
adj
adv
name
noun
- (film) Initialism of assistant director.
- (aviation) Initialism of airworthiness directive.
- (military) Initialism of air defence or air defense.
- (Internet) Initialism of after dark.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of antidepressant.
- (uncountable, pathology) Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
- (television) Abbreviation of audio description.
- (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
noun
- the quality of being at a competitive advantage
- the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- displaying a sense of being better than others
- the quality of being superior
- (Scots law, historical) The right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal.
- The state of being superior.
noun
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- the contestant you hope to defeat
- an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
- a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
- (uncountable, collectively) The competitors in such a contest.
- (countable) A contest for a prize or award.
- (uncountable) The action of competing.
noun
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- a point asserted as part of an argument
- A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
- Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
- (computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.
noun
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- Any competition between two or more things or factors.
- (economics) The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time.
- An ongoing relationship between (usually two) rivals who compete for superiority.
noun
- (politics, business, finance) Inconsiderate or unfair competition, where the competitors are willing to use any means to win.
- (informal) An activity or situation which is congested with participants and which is hectic or tedious, especially in the context of a busy, modern urban lifestyle.
- (by extension) The busy, modern urban lifestyle itself, especially when seen as a competition for wealth or power.
- an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation
noun
- resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices
- (marketing) A general reluctance on the part of a potential buyer to buying a product (as opposed to a specific, legitimate, concern or objection).
- (figuratively) A resistance to accepting a new idea or a change in the way things are done.
adj
noun
- someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
- An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
- A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
- (linguistics) Ellipsis of cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”).
- (uncountable) A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
adj
- ruthless in competition
- violently agitated and turbulent
- marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
- marked by extreme and violent energy
- Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
- (slang, Ireland, rustic) Excellent, very good.
- (US, LGBTQ slang, fashion) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
- Resolute or strenuously active.
- Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.
adv
noun
- A situation in which competition between entities leads to elimination of perks or amenities, often in the interest of cutting costs.
- Any situation in which multiple parties are seemingly competing to achieve the greatest level of mediocrity.
- (economics) A situation in which competition between governments leads to very excessive (harmful) deregulation.
noun
- (idiomatic, by extension) A voracious competition among would-be purchasers, etc. for limited resources.
- (informal) An event in which participants erratically grab and eat food.
- A wild, turbulent situation in which multiple sharks or other predatory fish attack one or more edible creatures simultaneously, in competition with each other.
verb
- (intransitive) To profit or to obtain an advantage.
- (transitive) In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.
- (transitive, business, finance) To contribute or acquire capital (money or other resources) for.
- (transitive, finance) To convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.
- (intransitive, followed by on) To seize, as an opportunity; to obtain a benefit from; to invest on something profitable.
- (transitive, accounting, taxation) To treat as capital, not as an expense.
- draw advantages from
- convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital
- consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses
- supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders
- compute the present value of a business or an income
- write in capital letters
noun
- (business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
- (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
- (countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
- (Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
- (uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
- (crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
- (uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
- (countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
- (chiefly US) A sustained campaign against a social problem, idea, set of values, etc.
- a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
- a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
- an active struggle between competing entities
- the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
verb
noun
- a slight competitive advantage
- the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- the boundary of a surface
- the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
- a line determining the limits of an area
- (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- An advantage.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
verb
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- advance slowly, as if by inches
- provide with an edge
- provide with a border or edge
- (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
noun
- an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market
- a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution
- (politics) Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.
- (economics) An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
- The quality of being liberal.
prep
- In competition with, versus.
- In opposition to.
- In front of; before (a background).
- In physical opposition to; in collision with.
- As protection from.
- (Hollywood) To be paid now in contrast to the following amount to be paid later under specified circumstances, usually that a movie is made or has started filming.
- In contrast or comparison with.
- As a charge on.
- In physical contact with, so as to abut or be supported by.
- Contrary to; in conflict with.
- In anticipation of; in preparation for (a particular time, event etc.).
- As counterbalance to.
- Of betting odds, denoting a worse-than-even chance.
- In exchange for.
- Close to, alongside.
- In a contrary direction to.
verb
- compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with
- strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
- imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software
- (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
- To copy or imitate, especially a person.
adv
- at a disadvantage
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
adj
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
prep
verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- withdraw, as from reality
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to keep or maintain (of a state)
- fail to win
- fail to get or obtain
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- (transitive) Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
- (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
- (transitive) To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- (transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- (transitive) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
- (transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- (transitive) To shed (weight).
- (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
noun
verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- undergo or suffer
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- be in pain
- be given to
- get worse in quality
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- undergo or be subjected to
- (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- (intransitive) To become worse.
- (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- (intransitive) To feel pain.
noun
- (business) Initialism of countervailing.
- (philately) Initialism of catalog value.
- (pathology) Initialism of cytolytic vaginosis.
- (engineering) Initialism of constant velocity.
- (automotive) Initialism of commercial vehicle
- (nautical) Initialism of container vessel; a container ship
- Ellipsis of CV joint.
- Initialism of curriculum vitae.
- (nautical) Initialism of construction vessel
- (among vorarephiles) Initialism of cock vore.
- (military) Initialism of combat vehicle.
- (US, navy) aircraft carrier (“Cruiser Voler”), a diesel-powered warship launching and landing heavier than air flying vehicles (a nuclear-powered one is a CVN)
- (astronomy) Initialism of cataclysmic variable.
- Initialism of computer vision.
- (pathology) Initialism of coronavirus.
- Abbreviation of cellevision.
- (anime) Initialism of character's voice (“voice actor”).
- (statistics) Initialism of cross-validation.
- (phonetics) Initialism of cardinal vowel.
- a summary of your academic and work history
adj
name
noun
adj
- (economics, politics) Advocating such noninterference.
- (economics) Resulting from such noninterference.
- (of a person) Avoiding interference in other people's affairs; choosing to live and let live.
- (economics, politics) Practicing or representing governmental noninterference, or minimal interference, especially in economic affairs; pertaining to free-market capitalism.
noun
- the quality of being at a competitive advantage
- the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- displaying a sense of being better than others
- the quality of being superior
- (Scots law, historical) The right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal.
- The state of being superior.
noun
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- the contestant you hope to defeat
- an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants
- a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers
- (uncountable, collectively) The competitors in such a contest.
- (countable) A contest for a prize or award.
- (uncountable) The action of competing.
noun
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- a point asserted as part of an argument
- A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
- Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
- (computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.
noun
- the act of competing as for profit or a prize
- Any competition between two or more things or factors.
- (economics) The characteristic of being a rivalrous good, such that it can be consumed or used by only one person at a time.
- An ongoing relationship between (usually two) rivals who compete for superiority.
noun
- (politics, business, finance) Inconsiderate or unfair competition, where the competitors are willing to use any means to win.
- (informal) An activity or situation which is congested with participants and which is hectic or tedious, especially in the context of a busy, modern urban lifestyle.
- (by extension) The busy, modern urban lifestyle itself, especially when seen as a competition for wealth or power.
- an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation
noun
- resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices
- (marketing) A general reluctance on the part of a potential buyer to buying a product (as opposed to a specific, legitimate, concern or objection).
- (figuratively) A resistance to accepting a new idea or a change in the way things are done.
noun
- A situation in which competition between entities leads to elimination of perks or amenities, often in the interest of cutting costs.
- Any situation in which multiple parties are seemingly competing to achieve the greatest level of mediocrity.
- (economics) A situation in which competition between governments leads to very excessive (harmful) deregulation.
noun
- (idiomatic, by extension) A voracious competition among would-be purchasers, etc. for limited resources.
- (informal) An event in which participants erratically grab and eat food.
- A wild, turbulent situation in which multiple sharks or other predatory fish attack one or more edible creatures simultaneously, in competition with each other.
noun
- (business) A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
- (countable) A particular conflict of this kind.
- (countable, by extension) Any protracted conflict, particularly
- (Internet) An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
- (uncountable, card games) Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
- (crime) A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
- (uncountable) Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
- (countable, sometimes proscribed) Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
- (chiefly US) A sustained campaign against a social problem, idea, set of values, etc.
- a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
- a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
- an active struggle between competing entities
- the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
verb
noun
- a slight competitive advantage
- the attribute of urgency in tone of voice
- a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object
- the boundary of a surface
- the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something
- a line determining the limits of an area
- (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- An advantage.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- (computing, often attributive) The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
verb
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- advance slowly, as if by inches
- provide with an edge
- provide with a border or edge
- (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- (figurative) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- (intransitive, transitive, slang) To intentionally stay or keep someone extremely close to the point of orgasm for a long period of time.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively) To agitate or exasperate (someone) due to constant delays of something.
- (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- (transitive) To form a border to; to enclose, to border.
- (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
noun
- an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market
- a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution
- (politics) Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.
- (economics) An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
- The quality of being liberal.
verb
- (intransitive) To profit or to obtain an advantage.
- (transitive) In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.
- (transitive, business, finance) To contribute or acquire capital (money or other resources) for.
- (transitive, finance) To convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.
- (intransitive, followed by on) To seize, as an opportunity; to obtain a benefit from; to invest on something profitable.
- (transitive, accounting, taxation) To treat as capital, not as an expense.
- draw advantages from
- convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital
- consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses
- supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders
- compute the present value of a business or an income
- write in capital letters
verb
- compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with
- strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
- imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software
- (computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
- To copy or imitate, especially a person.
verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- withdraw, as from reality
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to keep or maintain (of a state)
- fail to win
- fail to get or obtain
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- (transitive) Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
- (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
- (transitive) To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- (transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- (transitive) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
- (transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- (transitive) To shed (weight).
- (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
noun
verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- undergo or suffer
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- be in pain
- be given to
- get worse in quality
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- undergo or be subjected to
- (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- (intransitive) To become worse.
- (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- (intransitive) To feel pain.
adv
- at a disadvantage
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
adj
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
prep
adj
- involving competition or competitiveness
- Of or pertaining to competition.
- subscribing to capitalistic competition
- showing a fighting disposition
- (biochemistry) Relating to the inhibition of the effects of a chemical substance by another substance competing with it for binding or bonding.
- (economics) Capable of competing successfully.
- (euphemistically, of prices) Cheap, especially used of quality products.
- (of someone's character) Inclined to compete.
adj
adv
name
noun
- (film) Initialism of assistant director.
- (aviation) Initialism of airworthiness directive.
- (military) Initialism of air defence or air defense.
- (Internet) Initialism of after dark.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of antidepressant.
- (uncountable, pathology) Initialism of Alzheimer's disease.
- (television) Abbreviation of audio description.
- (US, Navy) Initialism of auxiliary destroyer (a naval tender, a destroyer tender that tends to destroyers).
adj
noun
- someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
- An unscrupulous, ruthless or unethical person.
- A murderer who slits the throats of victims.
- (linguistics) Ellipsis of cutthroat compound (“an agentive-instrumental verb-noun compound word”).
- (uncountable) A three-player pocket billiards game where the object is to be the last player with at least one ball still on the table.
adj
- ruthless in competition
- violently agitated and turbulent
- marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
- marked by extreme and violent energy
- Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
- (slang, Ireland, rustic) Excellent, very good.
- (US, LGBTQ slang, fashion) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
- Resolute or strenuously active.
- Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.