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noun
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
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- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
noun
- housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned
- (US, Canada, Philippines) An individual unit (such as an apartment) in such a complex.
- one of the dwelling units in a condominium
- The legal tenure involved.
- A region or territory under such rule.
- (international law) Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries.
- (US, Canada, Philippines) The system of ownership by which such condominiums operate.
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- (US) A one-room apartment.
- (engineering, physics) The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Often given the symbol η.
- The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
- The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
- the ratio of the output to the input of any system
- skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort
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- (originally and chiefly US) Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.
- (linguistics) Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
- (computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
- Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
- (anatomy, historical) Of an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris and not the anterior surface, and thus appearing blue; this was later found to be inaccurate, as eye colour is due to the amount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation.
- allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time
- having only one part or element
noun
- (originally and chiefly US) An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.
- A word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word.
- (algebraic topology, geometry) A generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension, the generalization being the simplest possible convex polytope for a given dimension; more accurately, the convex hull of n+1 affinely independent points in n-dimensional space.
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- (strictly) A house comparable in size to a single-family house but comprising several apartments; typically not more than two or three stories tall and containing a single-digit number of apartments (such as two to six).
- (loosely) Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.
- a building that is divided into apartments
noun
- A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.
- a small house with a single story
- (Singapore, Malaysia) A detached, freestanding house or mansion.
- (Atlantic Canada) A chalet or lodge.
- A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.
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- A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
- (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura.
- Subsidence, as of a sediment
- The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- a large and imposing house
- the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
- the act of dwelling in a place
- any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
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- (countable, US) Initialism of community living center.
- (countable) Initialism of chemical looping combustion.
- (countable, US) Initialism of command light cruiser.
- (countable, US) Initialism of combat logistics company.
- (countable, Australia) Initialism of community legal centre.
- (photography) Initialism of contrast light compensation.
- Initialism of comprehensive land consolidation.
- (countable) Initialism of Chinese language centre.
- (countable) Initialism of collateral ligament complex.
- (countable, UK) Initialism of city learning centre.
- (countable) Initialism of community learning centre.
- (countable) Initialism of closed-loop communication.
- (countable, US) Initialism of central labor council.
- (countable) Initialism of certified lactation counsellor.
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- (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- a house with two units sharing a common wall
- an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
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- (architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
- (metallurgy) Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- (architecture) Having two floors.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
- (used technically of a device or process) having two parts
- allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously
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- (UK) Initialism of home/house in/of multiple occupation/occupancy: a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers.
- (US, Philippines, medicine) Initialism of health maintenance organization.
- group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians
noun
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
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- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- to remove
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
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- Initialism of Home Ownership Scheme.
- Initialism of Housing Ombudsman Service.
- Initialism of Hampshire Ornithological Society.
- Initialism of Head of the Schuylkill.
- Initialism of Hands On Sacramento.
- Initialism of Hekscher-Ohlin-Samuelson.
- Initialism of Horizon Open Systems.
- Initialism of Health Outcomes Survey.
- Initialism of Haverfordwest Operatic Society.
- Initialism of Hornbeck Offshore Services.
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- Initialism of rent-to-own.
- Initialism of road traffic officer.
- (business) Initialism of return to office: an order to lessen the degree of, or cease, working from home.
- (data recovery) Initialism of recovery time objective.
- (aviation) Initialism of rejected takeoff.
- Initialism of retransmission timeout.
- (military) Initialism of radiotelephone operator.
- (business, stock market) Initialism of reverse takeover.
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- (US, especially Southern US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
- (firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
- (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- (slang) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
- firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
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- (US, slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
- (slang, smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- (US, slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
- (transitive, informal) To verbally lay claim to (something)
- (computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
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- A single hut or shelter.
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
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- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- To set up a camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
- establish or set up a camp
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
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- (computer networking) Initialism of single-threaded apartment (in the Component Object Model).
- (computer networking) Initialism of simultaneous thermal analysis.
- (electronics) Initialism of static timing analysis (of a digital circuit).
- (law, US) Initialism of special temporary authority (to operate a radio station in the US).
- (biology) Initialism of Spike-Triggered Average, a tool for characterizing the response properties of a neuron.
- (algebra) Abbreviation of spacetime algebra (in mathematical physics).
- (material science) Initialism of solution treating and aging (in heat treating of materials).
- (computer networking) Abbreviation of station (in IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) terminology)
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- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
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- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
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- An indoor or outdoor stand where food is sold to the public.
- A mountain that can be climbed without specialist equipment.
- (aviation) An informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training.
- (US) An apartment or block with stairs rather than an elevator.
- (music, especially bass) A sequence of notes that raises in pitch stepwise, connecting two or more chords.
- A customer who arrives without a reservation; a walk-in.
- Colaptes auratus, northern flicker.
- an apartment building without an elevator
- an apartment in a building without an elevator
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- detached or semidetached suburban house
- country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard
- pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds
- (Ancient Rome) A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
- A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
- (Nigeria, slang) One’s village or ancestral homeland.
- (UK) A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
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- A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
- Any shop owned by a cooperative.
- Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
- (video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.
- a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners
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- Initialism of high density.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of homeodomain.
- Initialism of heavy duty.
- (television) Initialism of high definition (“1280×720 pixels”).
- (pathology) Initialism of Hodgkin's disease.
- (computing) Initialism of hard disc, hard disk, or hard drive.
- (medicine) Initialism of hemodialysis.
- (pathology) Initialism of Hansen's disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of Huntington's disease.
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- (UK, informal) A single house in such a group.
- (geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
- A street with such a group of houses in it.
- (heraldry) A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.
- (chiefly India) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- (agriculture) A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- (in the plural, chiefly British) The standing area of a sports stadium.
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
- a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
- usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
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- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
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- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
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- (US, Australia, New Zealand) A measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
- (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
- (medicine) A quantity of approximately 517 milliliters (1.1 U.S. pints) of blood.
- An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
- (education) A course, lesson, or section of a curriculum covering a particular topic or skill.
- (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
- (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.
- (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
- (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
- (US, slang, vulgar) A penis, especially a large one.
- (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
- (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
- (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
- Ellipsis of international unit.
- (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
- A work unit.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A physically large person.
- (UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
- (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
- (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity or magnitude.
- (UK) A unit of alcohol.
- (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
- (retail) A structure used to display goods for sale (usually containing shelves, pegs or hooks)
- The number one.
- (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
- (mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
- a single undivided whole
- an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
- any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
- a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
- an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
- an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
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- Initialism of public house.
- Initialism of physical health.
- Initialism of penthouse.
- (computer science) Initialism of polynomial hierarchy.
- Initialism of public holiday.
- (health, policy) Initialism of public health.
- (business, hydrology) Initialism of professional hydrologist.
- Initialism of Purple Heart.
- (law) Initialism of preliminary hearing.
- Initialism of pommel horse.
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- The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
- The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
- (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
- (chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
- Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
- Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
- (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
- study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
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- (countable) A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
- A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.
- (uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
- (Louisiana) A farm, ranch or plantation.
- the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
- housing that someone is living in
- the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
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- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
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- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
noun
- housing consisting of a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned
- (US, Canada, Philippines) An individual unit (such as an apartment) in such a complex.
- one of the dwelling units in a condominium
- The legal tenure involved.
- A region or territory under such rule.
- (international law) Joint sovereignty over a territory by two or more countries.
- (US, Canada, Philippines) The system of ownership by which such condominiums operate.
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- (US) A one-room apartment.
- (engineering, physics) The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Often given the symbol η.
- The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
- The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
- the ratio of the output to the input of any system
- skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort
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- (strictly) A house comparable in size to a single-family house but comprising several apartments; typically not more than two or three stories tall and containing a single-digit number of apartments (such as two to six).
- (loosely) Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.
- a building that is divided into apartments
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- (originally and chiefly US) Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.
- (linguistics) Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
- (computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
- Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
- (anatomy, historical) Of an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris and not the anterior surface, and thus appearing blue; this was later found to be inaccurate, as eye colour is due to the amount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation.
- allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time
- having only one part or element
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- (originally and chiefly US) An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.
- A word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word.
- (algebraic topology, geometry) A generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension, the generalization being the simplest possible convex polytope for a given dimension; more accurately, the convex hull of n+1 affinely independent points in n-dimensional space.
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- A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.
- a small house with a single story
- (Singapore, Malaysia) A detached, freestanding house or mansion.
- (Atlantic Canada) A chalet or lodge.
- A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.
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- A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
- (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura.
- Subsidence, as of a sediment
- The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- a large and imposing house
- the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
- the act of dwelling in a place
- any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
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- (countable, US) Initialism of community living center.
- (countable) Initialism of chemical looping combustion.
- (countable, US) Initialism of command light cruiser.
- (countable, US) Initialism of combat logistics company.
- (countable, Australia) Initialism of community legal centre.
- (photography) Initialism of contrast light compensation.
- Initialism of comprehensive land consolidation.
- (countable) Initialism of Chinese language centre.
- (countable) Initialism of collateral ligament complex.
- (countable, UK) Initialism of city learning centre.
- (countable) Initialism of community learning centre.
- (countable) Initialism of closed-loop communication.
- (countable, US) Initialism of central labor council.
- (countable) Initialism of certified lactation counsellor.
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- (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- a house with two units sharing a common wall
- an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
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- (architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
- (metallurgy) Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- (architecture) Having two floors.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
- (used technically of a device or process) having two parts
- allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously
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- (UK) Initialism of home/house in/of multiple occupation/occupancy: a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers.
- (US, Philippines, medicine) Initialism of health maintenance organization.
- group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians
noun
- an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
- A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
- (obsolete outside of compounds) An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
- (music, slang) Alternative form of woodshed.
- (British, rail transport, informal) A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
- (weaving) An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
- (British, derogatory, informal) An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
- A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
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- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
- to remove
- (ambitransitive) To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, cast, let fall, be divested of.
- To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
- (transitive, UK, dialectal) To part, separate or divide.
- (transitive) To radiate, cast, give off (light).
- (weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
- (transitive) To allow to flow or fall.
- (transitive) To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
- (transitive, music) To woodshed.
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- Initialism of rent-to-own.
- Initialism of road traffic officer.
- (business) Initialism of return to office: an order to lessen the degree of, or cease, working from home.
- (data recovery) Initialism of recovery time objective.
- (aviation) Initialism of rejected takeoff.
- Initialism of retransmission timeout.
- (military) Initialism of radiotelephone operator.
- (business, stock market) Initialism of reverse takeover.
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- (US, especially Southern US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
- (firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
- (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- (slang) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
- firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
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- (US, slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
- (slang, smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- (US, slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
- (transitive, informal) To verbally lay claim to (something)
- (computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
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- A single hut or shelter.
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
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- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- To set up a camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
- establish or set up a camp
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
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- (computer networking) Initialism of single-threaded apartment (in the Component Object Model).
- (computer networking) Initialism of simultaneous thermal analysis.
- (electronics) Initialism of static timing analysis (of a digital circuit).
- (law, US) Initialism of special temporary authority (to operate a radio station in the US).
- (biology) Initialism of Spike-Triggered Average, a tool for characterizing the response properties of a neuron.
- (algebra) Abbreviation of spacetime algebra (in mathematical physics).
- (material science) Initialism of solution treating and aging (in heat treating of materials).
- (computer networking) Abbreviation of station (in IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) terminology)
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- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
verb
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
noun
- detached or semidetached suburban house
- country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard
- pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds
- (Ancient Rome) A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.
- A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
- (Nigeria, slang) One’s village or ancestral homeland.
- (UK) A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.
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- A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
- Any shop owned by a cooperative.
- Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
- (video games, board games) A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.
- a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners
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- (UK, informal) A single house in such a group.
- (geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
- A street with such a group of houses in it.
- (heraldry) A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.
- (chiefly India) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- (agriculture) A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- (in the plural, chiefly British) The standing area of a sports stadium.
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
- a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
- usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
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- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
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- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
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- (US, Australia, New Zealand) A measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household; an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
- (algebra) An element having an inverse, an invertible element; an associate of the unity.
- (medicine) A quantity of approximately 517 milliliters (1.1 U.S. pints) of blood.
- An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
- (education) A course, lesson, or section of a curriculum covering a particular topic or skill.
- (US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
- (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand) Any piece of equipment, such as an appliance, power tool, stereo system, computer, tractor, or machinery.
- (military, informal) A member of a military organization.
- (US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organization.
- (US, slang, vulgar) A penis, especially a large one.
- (US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued, or detailed. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
- (historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
- (category theory) In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the identity functor of the domain of the left adjoint functor to the composition of the right adjoint functor with the left adjoint functor.
- Ellipsis of international unit.
- (US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
- A work unit.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A physically large person.
- (UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
- (algebra) The identity element, neutral element.
- (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity or magnitude.
- (UK) A unit of alcohol.
- (commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
- (retail) A structure used to display goods for sale (usually containing shelves, pegs or hooks)
- The number one.
- (geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
- (mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.
- a single undivided whole
- an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
- any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
- a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else
- an organization regarded as part of a larger social group
- an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
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- Initialism of public house.
- Initialism of physical health.
- Initialism of penthouse.
- (computer science) Initialism of polynomial hierarchy.
- Initialism of public holiday.
- (health, policy) Initialism of public health.
- (business, hydrology) Initialism of professional hydrologist.
- Initialism of Purple Heart.
- (law) Initialism of preliminary hearing.
- Initialism of pommel horse.
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- The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
- The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
- (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
- (chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
- Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
- Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
- (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
- study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
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- (countable) A place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
- A group, lodge, or company, as of the Primrose League.
- (uncountable) The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.
- (Louisiana) A farm, ranch or plantation.
- the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)
- housing that someone is living in
- the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
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- (originally and chiefly US) Of an apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property): having only one floor or storey; single-storey.
- (linguistics) Of a word: having no (derivational) affixes; simple, monomorphemic, uncompounded.
- (computing, telecommunications) Of a circuit or device: involving signals which travel in one direction at a time; unidirectional.
- Of a polyploid organism: having one dominant allele at a given locus on all homologous chromosomes.
- (anatomy, historical) Of an eye: (supposedly) having pigment on only the posterior surface of the iris and not the anterior surface, and thus appearing blue; this was later found to be inaccurate, as eye colour is due to the amount of pigment in the anterior surface of the iris; also, of eye pigmentation: present only on the posterior surface of the iris; and of a person: having eyes with this form of pigmentation.
- allowing communication in only one direction at a time, or in telegraphy allowing only one message over a line at a time
- having only one part or element
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- (originally and chiefly US) An apartment (or, sometimes, another type of property) having only one floor or storey; a single-storey property.
- A word which is not compound and contains no derivational affixes (inflectional affixes are usually disregarded); a monomorphemic word.
- (algebraic topology, geometry) A generalization of a triangle or tetrahedron to an arbitrary dimension, the generalization being the simplest possible convex polytope for a given dimension; more accurately, the convex hull of n+1 affinely independent points in n-dimensional space.
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- (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- a house with two units sharing a common wall
- an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
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- (architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
- (metallurgy) Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- (architecture) Having two floors.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
- (used technically of a device or process) having two parts
- allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously
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- An indoor or outdoor stand where food is sold to the public.
- A mountain that can be climbed without specialist equipment.
- (aviation) An informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training.
- (US) An apartment or block with stairs rather than an elevator.
- (music, especially bass) A sequence of notes that raises in pitch stepwise, connecting two or more chords.
- A customer who arrives without a reservation; a walk-in.
- Colaptes auratus, northern flicker.
- an apartment building without an elevator
- an apartment in a building without an elevator