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noun
- The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
- Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
- nonelective government officials
- (chiefly derogatory) Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.
- (business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.
- a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
- any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
noun
- a group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority
- (figurative) Any group of three people regarded as significant in some way; also (rare), a group of three things; a trio.
- (Ancient Rome, government, historical) A council of three magistrates ruling jointly; specifically, the First Triumvirate (60 or 59 – 53 B.C.E.) or the Second Triumvirate (43 – 33 or 27 B.C.E.); the office of a triumvir (“one of such magistrates”), or of the three triumviri.
- (government) Any group of three joint rulers.
noun
- The group of people who make up an administrative body.
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
- (management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
- The state of being governed.
- The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
- the act of governing; exercising authority
noun
- (figuratively) The people who hold a certain type of official seat, collectively; a group of officeholders.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.
- (law, figuratively) The people who decide on the verdict, collectively; the judiciary.
- (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
- A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
- (geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
- (sports, politics, figuratively) The number of players on a team able to participate, often expressed in terms of length.
- (government) A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.
- A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
- (figuratively) The dignity of holding an official seat.
- (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
- A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
- A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
- (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
- A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
- (law, figuratively) The office or dignity of a judge.
- a long seat for more than one person
- a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic
- the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively
- a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- the reserve players on a team
- (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom
- persons who administer justice
verb
- (transitive) To place on a bench or seat of honour.
- Alternative spelling of bentsh.
- (transitive, sports) To remove a player from play.
- (transitive, figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
- (transitive and intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
- (transitive) To furnish with benches.
- (slang) To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
- exhibit on a bench
- To exercise using a bench press
- take out of a game; of players
- To lift a weight using a bench press
noun
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
- (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- A cupboard.
- (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- A museum display case.
- (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- (politics, often capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
- persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
- housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
noun
- a body serving in an administrative capacity
- a meeting of people for consultation
- (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine
- (UK, metonymic) A local authority.
- (Christianity) Short for church council
- A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
- Discussion or deliberation.
noun
- A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
- the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
- Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
- A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
- a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
noun
- (plural) Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
- an administrative unit of government
- (uncountable) Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
- (countable) A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit.
- (countable) A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
- (uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.
- (uncountable) Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation.
- (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- an authoritative written work
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- official permission or approval
- an expert whose views are taken as definitive
noun
- The executive or policymaking officers of an organization.
- (often attributive, often figurative) The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation.
- An office which members of the general public can contact or consult when dealing with an organization.
adj
- Official.
- (mathematics, philosophy) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.
- Relating to the form or structure of something.
- Ceremonial or traditional.
- Relating to formation.
- In accordance with established forms.
- Organized; well-structured and planned.
- Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
- (especially sciences, mathematics, linguistics) In accordance with a methodological framework with well-defined rules or laws; rigorous.
- characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
- logically deductive
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
- (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
- refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
- being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
noun
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
- The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
- Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the territory occupied by a nation
- an area outside of cities and towns
- a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- the people who live in a nation or country
- The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
- (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
- (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
- (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
- The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public.
- (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
- (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
- Ellipsis of country music.
- (uncountable, countable) An area of land of indefinite extent or of more or less definite extent in relation to human occupation, especially characterized by its particular physical features, or its suitability for a particular activity or connected with its population (by race, dialect, culture, etc.) or a person, especially a writer, or their works.
adj
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use
- the people who live in a nation or country
- a domain in which something is dominant
- agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- the land on which real estate is located
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- A country or region.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- lant; urine
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- (often in combination) Realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
verb
- bring into a different state
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come to the ground
- deliver (a blow)
- bring ashore
- arrive on shore
- reach or come to rest
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive, figurative) To go down well with an audience.
- (intransitive, of a punch) To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
- (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
- (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- (transitive, of a blow) To deliver.
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
- the people who live in a nation or country
- (rare) Damnation.
- In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and (often also) their federally recognized territory.
- (chiefly historical) An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.
- (international law, metonymic) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.
- (by extension, informal, often humorous) A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.
- (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
adj
adv
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
verb
noun
- a meeting of heads of governments
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- (nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- (by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
- (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
verb
pron
noun
- (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
- (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
- (uncountable, business) Management.
- (countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
- (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
- (uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
- a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- the tenure of a president
- the act of meting out justice according to the law
- the act of administering medication
noun
- administration
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- army
- application
- adjutant
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- automobile
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
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noun
- the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
- (zoology) The natural ranking of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birds.
- (figuratively, by extension) The usually informal hierarchy of authority, command, or social status, as determined by the especially natural propensity for domination of different members of a specific group over each other, such as older brothers and sisters over their younger siblings.
noun
- a leader engaged in civil administration
- a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways
- a person active in party politics
- A politically active or interested person.
- One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
- Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.
- A sly or ingratiating person.
noun
adj
- currently holding an office
- necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
- lying or leaning on something else
- (zoology) Of a body part such as a hair, spine, or wing: bent downwards or otherwise positioned so that it, or part of it, rests on or touches something else; specifically (ornithology), of the hind toe of a bird: fully resting on a support.
- (poetic) Hanging or leaning over.
- Oppressive, pressuring.
- Being the current holder of an office or a title; specifically (Christianity, obsolete), of an ecclesiastical benefice.
- Followed by on or upon: imposed on one as an obligation, especially due to one's office or position.
- (botany) Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
noun
- A government organization; agency; authority.
- The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
- (slang) The penis.
- (historical, military) An Asian form of mitrailleuse.
- An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
- (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
- (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
- Ellipsis of organ pipe cactus.
- a periodical that is published by a special interest group
- a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
- a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
- (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
- a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function
- wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
noun
- A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
- A proprietor or owner.
- (espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
- A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
- The rights of a proprietor.
- an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
adj
- Of or relating to property or ownership.
- Owning something; having ownership.
- (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
- Privately owned.
- Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
- Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
- protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights
noun
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the position of professor
- a particular seat in an orchestra
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
- (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
verb
- preside over
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
- (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
noun
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
- the chief executive of a republic
- an executive officer of a firm or corporation
- the head administrative officer of a college or university
- A person presiding over a meeting; a chair, presiding officer, presider.
- Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
- The head of state of a republic.
- In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
verb
noun
- the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed
- the study of government of states and other political units
- Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government.
- (grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents.
- The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
- In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.
- The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
- (uncountable) The management or control of a system.
- (debating) The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
- The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
noun
- the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
- (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
- A period of rule.
- A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
- A regulated system; a regimen.
- (hydrology) A set of characteristics.
- A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
- Mode of rule or management.
noun
- a politically organized unit
- shrewd or crafty management of public affairs
- the form of government of a social organization
- (politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
- (political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
noun
- A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- (African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
- A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- (mining) Alternative form of gangue.
- A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
- (US) A chain gang.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
- (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A term of address for any other person or group of people.
- A set; all required for an outfit.
- A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
- an association of criminals
- tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
- an informal body of friends
- an organized group of workmen
verb
noun
- persons who administer the law
- a person responsible for the administration of a business
- someone who manages a government agency or department
- (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
- The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
- A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
adj
noun
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
- (gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
- (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- (weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
- (baking) A short baguette.
- (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- (heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- (cooking) A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
- (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
verb
noun
- A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
- The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
- (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
- (textual criticism) In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)
- (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
- A complex machine or instrument.
- (rhythmic gymnastics) Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.
- (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
- (collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
noun
- the head of a city government
- (figurative, humorous) A local VIP, a muckamuck or big shot reckoned to lead some local group.
- (historical) Ellipsis of mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire.
- (historical) Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.
- The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
- (chiefly US) A largely ceremonial position in some municipal governments that presides over the city council while a contracted city manager holds actual executive power.
noun
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- (computing) A computer.
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- an efficient person
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
verb
noun
- the members of a social organization who are in power
- A complete set of institutions, political organizations, interest groups (such as political parties, trade unions, lobby groups), the relationships between those institutions and the political norms and rules that govern their functions (constitution, election law).
- A system composed of the members of a social organization (group) who are in power.
noun
- the head of a state government
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
- (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
- (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- (informal) Father.
- (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
- A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
- A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
- (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
noun
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- an ornament or utensil made of brass
- impudent aggressiveness
- a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
- the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments
- an alloy of copper and zinc
- a memorial made of brass
- Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.
- A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
- (uncountable) The color of brass (etymology 1 sense 1).
- Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
- (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
- (countable, slang) A prostitute.
- (military, business or other organizations, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymic) High-ranking officers: the brass hats.
- Inferior composition.
- (music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.
adj
verb
noun
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the act of forming or establishing something
- (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat
- any large organization
- an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
- a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
- the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
- The number of staff required to run a department or organisation (often used in the context of healthcare and other public services).
- (Christianity) The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland.
- The ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched authority dedicated to preserving the status quo.
- That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.
- The act or process of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
- The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.
noun
- The body of officers and administrators, especially of a government.
- Government by bureaus or their administrators or officers.
- nonelective government officials
- (chiefly derogatory) Excessive red tape and routine in any administration, body or behaviour.
- (business, organizational theory) A system of administration based upon organisation into bureaus, division of labour, a hierarchy of authority, etc., designed to dispose of a large body of work in a routine manner.
- a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
- any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
noun
- a group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority
- (figurative) Any group of three people regarded as significant in some way; also (rare), a group of three things; a trio.
- (Ancient Rome, government, historical) A council of three magistrates ruling jointly; specifically, the First Triumvirate (60 or 59 – 53 B.C.E.) or the Second Triumvirate (43 – 33 or 27 B.C.E.); the office of a triumvir (“one of such magistrates”), or of the three triumviri.
- (government) Any group of three joint rulers.
noun
- The group of people who make up an administrative body.
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
- (management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
- The state of being governed.
- The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
- the act of governing; exercising authority
noun
- (figuratively) The people who hold a certain type of official seat, collectively; a group of officeholders.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.
- (law, figuratively) The people who decide on the verdict, collectively; the judiciary.
- (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
- A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
- (geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
- (sports, politics, figuratively) The number of players on a team able to participate, often expressed in terms of length.
- (government) A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.
- A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
- (figuratively) The dignity of holding an official seat.
- (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.
- A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
- A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
- (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
- A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.
- (law, figuratively) The office or dignity of a judge.
- a long seat for more than one person
- a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic
- the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively
- a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- the reserve players on a team
- (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom
- persons who administer justice
verb
- (transitive) To place on a bench or seat of honour.
- Alternative spelling of bentsh.
- (transitive, sports) To remove a player from play.
- (transitive, figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
- (transitive and intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
- (transitive) To furnish with benches.
- (slang) To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
- exhibit on a bench
- To exercise using a bench press
- take out of a game; of players
- To lift a weight using a bench press
noun
- A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
- An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
- (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
- The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
- A cupboard.
- (figuratively) A source of valuable things; a storehouse.
- A museum display case.
- (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
- (politics, often capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
- A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
- (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
- (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
- a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
- a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
- persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
- housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
noun
- a body serving in an administrative capacity
- a meeting of people for consultation
- (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine
- (UK, metonymic) A local authority.
- (Christianity) Short for church council
- A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
- Discussion or deliberation.
noun
- A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
- the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
- Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.
- A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
- a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system
noun
- (plural) Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement.
- an administrative unit of government
- (uncountable) Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
- (countable) A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit.
- (countable) A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject.
- (uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.
- (uncountable) Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation.
- (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- an authoritative written work
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- official permission or approval
- an expert whose views are taken as definitive
noun
- The executive or policymaking officers of an organization.
- (often attributive, often figurative) The systems or divisions of an organization that deal with customer or public interactions or revenue generation.
- An office which members of the general public can contact or consult when dealing with an organization.
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
- The entirety of a (secular) society, a polity, a state.
- Republic. Often capitalized, as Commonwealth.
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the territory occupied by a nation
- an area outside of cities and towns
- a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- the people who live in a nation or country
- The territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc.
- (especially British, uncountable, countable) An area of land of undefined extent; a region, a district.
- (uncountable, usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
- (informal) The spirit of the country (rural places): the spirit of country folkways; those folkways.
- The inhabitants or people of a district, region, or nation; the populace, the public.
- (mining) The rock through which a vein of ore or coal runs.
- (Australia, usually capitalised) Traditional lands of Indigenous people with embedded cultural, spiritual, cosmological, ecological, and physical attributes and values.
- Ellipsis of country music.
- (uncountable, countable) An area of land of indefinite extent or of more or less definite extent in relation to human occupation, especially characterized by its particular physical features, or its suitability for a particular activity or connected with its population (by race, dialect, culture, etc.) or a person, especially a writer, or their works.
adj
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use
- the people who live in a nation or country
- a domain in which something is dominant
- agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- the land on which real estate is located
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- A country or region.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- lant; urine
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- (often in combination) Realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
verb
- bring into a different state
- shoot at and force to come down
- cause to come to the ground
- deliver (a blow)
- bring ashore
- arrive on shore
- reach or come to rest
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive, figurative) To go down well with an audience.
- (intransitive, of a punch) To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
- (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
- (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- (transitive, of a blow) To deliver.
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
- the people who live in a nation or country
- (rare) Damnation.
- In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and (often also) their federally recognized territory.
- (chiefly historical) An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.
- (international law, metonymic) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.
- (by extension, informal, often humorous) A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.
- (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
adj
adv
noun
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
- (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)
- the territory occupied by a nation
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
- a state of depression or agitation
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- (historically often capitalized) A sovereign country or city state, with the central government acting as its visible instrument.
verb
noun
- a meeting of heads of governments
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- (nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- (by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
- (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
verb
pron
noun
- (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
- (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
- (uncountable, business) Management.
- (countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
- (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
- (uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
- a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- the tenure of a president
- the act of meting out justice according to the law
- the act of administering medication
noun
- administration
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- army
- application
- adjutant
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- automobile
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
adj
adv
name
prep
verb
noun
verb
noun
- the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body
- (zoology) The natural ranking of social status and dominance occurring in a group of birds.
- (figuratively, by extension) The usually informal hierarchy of authority, command, or social status, as determined by the especially natural propensity for domination of different members of a specific group over each other, such as older brothers and sisters over their younger siblings.
noun
- a leader engaged in civil administration
- a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways
- a person active in party politics
- A politically active or interested person.
- One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
- Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.
- A sly or ingratiating person.
noun
adj
- currently holding an office
- necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
- lying or leaning on something else
- (zoology) Of a body part such as a hair, spine, or wing: bent downwards or otherwise positioned so that it, or part of it, rests on or touches something else; specifically (ornithology), of the hind toe of a bird: fully resting on a support.
- (poetic) Hanging or leaning over.
- Oppressive, pressuring.
- Being the current holder of an office or a title; specifically (Christianity, obsolete), of an ecclesiastical benefice.
- Followed by on or upon: imposed on one as an obligation, especially due to one's office or position.
- (botany) Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
noun
- A government organization; agency; authority.
- The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
- (slang) The penis.
- (historical, military) An Asian form of mitrailleuse.
- An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
- (by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
- (music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
- Ellipsis of organ pipe cactus.
- a periodical that is published by a special interest group
- a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
- a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
- (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
- a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function
- wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
noun
- A body of proprietors, taken collectively.
- A proprietor or owner.
- (espionage) A company doing legitimate business while also serving as a front for espionage.
- A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.
- The rights of a proprietor.
- an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
adj
- Of or relating to property or ownership.
- Owning something; having ownership.
- (of a person) Possessive, jealous, or territorial.
- Privately owned.
- Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.
- Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.
- protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights
noun
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- the position of professor
- a particular seat in an orchestra
- an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
- (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
- (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
- (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
- An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
verb
- preside over
- act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
- (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
noun
- the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
- the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
- the chief executive of a republic
- an executive officer of a firm or corporation
- the head administrative officer of a college or university
- A person presiding over a meeting; a chair, presiding officer, presider.
- Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
- The head of state of a republic.
- In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
verb
noun
- the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed
- the study of government of states and other political units
- Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government.
- (grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents.
- The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
- In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.
- The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
- (uncountable) The management or control of a system.
- (debating) The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
- The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
noun
- the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
- (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
- A period of rule.
- A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
- A regulated system; a regimen.
- (hydrology) A set of characteristics.
- A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
- Mode of rule or management.
noun
- a politically organized unit
- shrewd or crafty management of public affairs
- the form of government of a social organization
- (politics, religion, usually uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
- (political science, countable) A politically organized unit, especially a nation of people, a class or ingroup that governs it, or the state ruled thereby.
noun
- A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- (African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
- A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- (mining) Alternative form of gangue.
- A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
- (US) A chain gang.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
- (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A term of address for any other person or group of people.
- A set; all required for an outfit.
- A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
- an association of criminals
- tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
- an informal body of friends
- an organized group of workmen
verb
noun
- persons who administer the law
- a person responsible for the administration of a business
- someone who manages a government agency or department
- (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.
- The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
- A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
adj
noun
- a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority
- a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
- a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
- a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette
- (gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
- (military) A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
- (weaponry, US) A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
- (baking) A short baguette.
- (sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
- A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
- (heraldry) A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
- A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
- (cooking) A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
- (music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
verb
noun
- A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
- The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
- (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
- (textual criticism) In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)
- (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
- A complex machine or instrument.
- (rhythmic gymnastics) Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.
- (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
- (collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
noun
- the head of a city government
- (figurative, humorous) A local VIP, a muckamuck or big shot reckoned to lead some local group.
- (historical) Ellipsis of mayor of the palace, the royal stewards of the Frankish Empire.
- (historical) Synonym of mair, various former officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.
- The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.
- (chiefly US) A largely ceremonial position in some municipal governments that presides over the city council while a contracted city manager holds actual executive power.
noun
- Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.
- (politics, chiefly US) The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.
- (poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
- (computing) A computer.
- A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.
- (historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.
- (figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.
- (telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.
- any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks
- an efficient person
- a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- an intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently
- a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
- a group that controls the activities of a political party
verb
noun
- the members of a social organization who are in power
- A complete set of institutions, political organizations, interest groups (such as political parties, trade unions, lobby groups), the relationships between those institutions and the political norms and rules that govern their functions (constitution, election law).
- A system composed of the members of a social organization (group) who are in power.
noun
- the head of a state government
- a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
- (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
- (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- (informal) Father.
- (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
- A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
- A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
- (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
noun
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- an ornament or utensil made of brass
- impudent aggressiveness
- a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
- the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments
- an alloy of copper and zinc
- a memorial made of brass
- Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.
- A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
- (uncountable) The color of brass (etymology 1 sense 1).
- Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
- (uncountable, informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
- (countable, slang) A prostitute.
- (military, business or other organizations, uncountable, used as a singular or plural noun, metonymic) High-ranking officers: the brass hats.
- Inferior composition.
- (music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.
adj
verb
noun
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the act of forming or establishing something
- (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat
- any large organization
- an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
- a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
- the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof
- The number of staff required to run a department or organisation (often used in the context of healthcare and other public services).
- (Christianity) The institution and official status of a church as a state church, especially that of the Church of England and historically of Ireland.
- The ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched authority dedicated to preserving the status quo.
- That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.
- The act or process of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
- The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.
noun
- A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- (African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
- A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- (mining) Alternative form of gangue.
- A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
- (US) A chain gang.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
- (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A term of address for any other person or group of people.
- A set; all required for an outfit.
- A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
- an association of criminals
- tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
- an informal body of friends
- an organized group of workmen
verb
adj
- Official.
- (mathematics, philosophy) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.
- Relating to the form or structure of something.
- Ceremonial or traditional.
- Relating to formation.
- In accordance with established forms.
- Organized; well-structured and planned.
- Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
- (especially sciences, mathematics, linguistics) In accordance with a methodological framework with well-defined rules or laws; rigorous.
- characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
- logically deductive
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
- (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
- refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
- being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)