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adj
- Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.
- Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending.
- (astronomy) Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.
- Pertaining to an increase in status or power.
- Pertaining to progress or improvement.
- Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.
- tending to rise
noun
- informing by words
- a request for payment
- an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
- (countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
- (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
- (uncountable) The act of notifying.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- a device designed to provide additional strength
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
- (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
- (countable) A thing that reinforces.
- A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.
- (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
- (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
noun
- a discussion that provides additional information
- developing in intricate and painstaking detail
- the result of improving something
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
- (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.
- The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order
- The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
noun
- a discussion that provides additional information
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- the state of being enlarged
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- An act or instance of making something larger.
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
noun
- a discussion that provides additional information
- adding information or detail
- a function expressed as a sum or product of terms
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- (geometry) Stretching of geometric objects with flat sides.
- The string of text thus substituted.
- (algebra) The rewriting of an expression as a longer but equivalent sum of terms.
- The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
- (steam engines) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
- (building) A new addition.
- An act, process, or instance of expanding.
- (economics) An increase in the market value of an economy over time.
- The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
- That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
- A product to be used with a previous product.
- (video games) Ellipsis of expansion pack.
prefix
noun
adj
noun
noun
- Useful information, as opposed to noise.
- A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
- (biochemistry) A signalling interaction between cells
- A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
- (computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
- An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
- (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
- A railway signal.
- An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
- Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
- A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
- an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- any incitement to action
adj
verb
verb
- To enlighten intellectually.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- (art) To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- (rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- (also figurative) To shine light on (something).
- (also figurative) To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To become bright; to light up.
- introduce light into
adj
- (computing, education, media studies) Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.
- Suitable for being drilled through.
- (agriculture) Suitable for being applied using a seed drill.
- (education) Appropriate for learning through repeated practice (drill).
- (robotics) Having an arm or manipulator that can position the tool or attachment at the end in different orientations.
noun
- An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
- An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information.
- A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
- (statistics, computing) An adjustment of parametres in a model, or the rule by which they are adjusted.
- (software) A version of something which is newer than other versions.
- information or data that updates
- the act of bringing someone or something up to date
verb
noun
- Initialism of supporting information.
- Initialism of subinspector (of police, etc).
- (Philippines, accounting, business) Initialism of sales invoice.
- Initialism of suicidal ideation.
- (UK, Canada, Australia, law) Initialism of statutory instrument.
- Initialism of synthetic intelligence.
- (finance) Initialism of systematic internaliser.
- Initialism of special intelligence.
- (electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.
- Initialism of swarm intelligence.
- (technology) Initialism of systems integration.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of surface interval.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of self-insertion (of the author into fan fiction).
- (mechanical engineering) Initialism of spark ignition.
- Initialism of self-injury.
- a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
adj
name
verb
- To become relevant, applicable, or useful.
- (of a fugitive or a person in hiding) To surrender; to turn oneself in.
- (of a broadcast, such as radio or television) To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well.
- To finish a race or similar competition in a particular position, such as first place, second place, or the like.
- (informal) To enter a plan or group; to join in.
- To become available.
- To enter.
- To fully develop.
- To become fashionable.
- To arrive.
- To finish a race or similar competition in first place.
- To function in the indicated manner.
- (music) To join or enter; to begin playing with a group.
- (often imperative) To begin transmitting.
- (of the tide) To rise.
- (intransitive) To yield or surrender.
- (intransitive) To report to a workplace for a shift.
- come into fashion; become fashionable
- to come or go into
- to insert between other elements
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- be received
verb
- (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (transitive) To bring to the surface.
- (transitive) To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
- come to the surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
noun
- (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
- The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- (crosswording) The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
- (computer graphics) A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- information that has become public
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
adj
adj
- tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
- serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
- providing or conveying information
- Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
- Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
verb
- become aware of
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
noun
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
name
noun
phrase
noun
- informing by words
- a request for payment
- an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
- (countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
- (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
- (uncountable) The act of notifying.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- a device designed to provide additional strength
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
- (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
- (countable) A thing that reinforces.
- A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.
- (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
- (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
noun
- a discussion that provides additional information
- developing in intricate and painstaking detail
- the result of improving something
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
- (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.
- The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order
- The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
noun
- a discussion that provides additional information
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- the state of being enlarged
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- An act or instance of making something larger.
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
noun
- a discussion that provides additional information
- adding information or detail
- a function expressed as a sum or product of terms
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
- (geometry) Stretching of geometric objects with flat sides.
- The string of text thus substituted.
- (algebra) The rewriting of an expression as a longer but equivalent sum of terms.
- The fractional change in unit length per unit length per unit temperature change.
- (steam engines) The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.
- (building) A new addition.
- An act, process, or instance of expanding.
- (economics) An increase in the market value of an economy over time.
- The replacement of a short name (e.g., acronym, initialism, alphanumeric symbol, abbreviation) with the longer name that is synonymous with it, as when spelling out acronyms to ensure clarity for a general audience.
- That which is expanded; expanse; extended surface.
- A product to be used with a previous product.
- (video games) Ellipsis of expansion pack.
noun
noun
- Useful information, as opposed to noise.
- A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
- (biochemistry) A signalling interaction between cells
- A sequence of states representing an encoded message in a communication channel.
- (computing, Unix) A simple interprocess communication used to notify a process or thread of an occurrence.
- An action, change or process done to convey information and thus reduce uncertainty.
- (of a radio, TV, telephone, internet, etc.) An electromagnetic action, normally a voltage that is a function of time, that conveys the information of the radio or TV program or of communication with another party.
- A railway signal.
- An on-off light, semaphore, or other device used to give an indication to another person.
- Any variation of a quantity or change in an entity over time that conveys information upon detection.
- A sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, or danger, or to indicate the start of a concerted action.
- an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- any incitement to action
adj
verb
noun
- An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
- An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information.
- A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
- (statistics, computing) An adjustment of parametres in a model, or the rule by which they are adjusted.
- (software) A version of something which is newer than other versions.
- information or data that updates
- the act of bringing someone or something up to date
verb
noun
- Initialism of supporting information.
- Initialism of subinspector (of police, etc).
- (Philippines, accounting, business) Initialism of sales invoice.
- Initialism of suicidal ideation.
- (UK, Canada, Australia, law) Initialism of statutory instrument.
- Initialism of synthetic intelligence.
- (finance) Initialism of systematic internaliser.
- Initialism of special intelligence.
- (electronics) Initialism of signal integrity.
- Initialism of swarm intelligence.
- (technology) Initialism of systems integration.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of surface interval.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of self-insertion (of the author into fan fiction).
- (mechanical engineering) Initialism of spark ignition.
- Initialism of self-injury.
- a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela)
adj
name
verb
- To enlighten intellectually.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- (art) To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- (rare) To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- (also figurative) To shine light on (something).
- (also figurative) To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To become bright; to light up.
- introduce light into
verb
- To become relevant, applicable, or useful.
- (of a fugitive or a person in hiding) To surrender; to turn oneself in.
- (of a broadcast, such as radio or television) To have a strong enough signal to be able to be received well.
- To finish a race or similar competition in a particular position, such as first place, second place, or the like.
- (informal) To enter a plan or group; to join in.
- To become available.
- To enter.
- To fully develop.
- To become fashionable.
- To arrive.
- To finish a race or similar competition in first place.
- To function in the indicated manner.
- (music) To join or enter; to begin playing with a group.
- (often imperative) To begin transmitting.
- (of the tide) To rise.
- (intransitive) To yield or surrender.
- (intransitive) To report to a workplace for a shift.
- come into fashion; become fashionable
- to come or go into
- to insert between other elements
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- be received
verb
- (transitive) To make (information, facts, content, etc) known.
- (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
- (transitive) To bring to the surface.
- (transitive) To provide with a surface; to apply a surface to.
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of hiding.
- (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
- (intransitive, of information, facts, content, etc) To become known or apparent; to appear or be found; to come to light.
- come to the surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
noun
- (figurative) Outward or external appearance.
- The overside or upside of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
- The outside hull of a tangible object.
- (crosswording) The story or image suggested by a cryptic clue, when read as a whole sentence without considering wordplay.
- (computer graphics) A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a space of more than two dimensions.
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- information that has become public
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
adj
verb
- become aware of
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
noun
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
adj
- Pertaining to an increase in clarity and understanding.
- Relating to upward movement; pertaining to the act of rising or ascending.
- (astronomy) Pertaining to right ascension and/or oblique ascension.
- Pertaining to an increase in status or power.
- Pertaining to progress or improvement.
- Pertaining to the achievement of a higher spiritual state.
- tending to rise
adj
noun
adj
- (computing, education, media studies) Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.
- Suitable for being drilled through.
- (agriculture) Suitable for being applied using a seed drill.
- (education) Appropriate for learning through repeated practice (drill).
- (robotics) Having an arm or manipulator that can position the tool or attachment at the end in different orientations.
adj
- tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
- serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
- providing or conveying information
- Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
- Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.