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noun
- A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
- a standard by which something can be measured or judged
- A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
- (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
- a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
verb
noun
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
verb
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
adj
- conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
- commonly used or supplied
- established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
- regularly and widely used or sold
- conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
- (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
noun
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- any distinctive flag
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A measure for timber.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- a hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- The sheth of a plough.
- Ellipsis of standard poodle.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- A large drinking cup.
- (in place names, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) a cairn or tumulus
- A musical work of established popularity.
- (historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.
intj
adj
noun
noun
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
verb
- measure precisely and against a standard
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- adapt to a specified measurement
noun
- the condition in which a standard has been successfully established
- the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
- The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
- The process of establishing a standard.
- the imposition of standards or regulations
adj
- Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
- (mathematics) Describing two numbers within the same Archimedean class, so that neither is infinitely larger than the other.
- (physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
- corresponding in size or degree or extent
adj
- to be expected; standard
- belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- of low or inferior quality or value
- commonly encountered
- common to or shared by two or more parties
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
- (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
- (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
- Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
- (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
- Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
- Mutual; shared by more than one.
- Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
- Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
noun
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
- The people; the community.
- Mutual good, shared by more than one.
- (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
adj
noun
- a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
- a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
- a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
- (mathematics) A metric tensor.
- Abbreviation of metric system.
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- (mathematical analysis) A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M×M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y)=d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.
verb
adj
- (statistics) Having the median as its value.
- (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
- (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
- relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
- dividing an animal into right and left halves
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
noun
- (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
- (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
- (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
- the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
verb
- To measure by an associated value.
- (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.
- (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
- (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- To inventory; to take stock.
- (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
- (mechanical engineering, transitive) To use a mechanism to move an object to a precise location.
- adjust through indexation
- list in an index
- provide with an index
noun
- (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
- (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
- (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
- (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
- A sign; an indication; a token.
- That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
- (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
- (algebra, index of a subgroup) The number of cosets that exist.
- An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- the finger next to the thumb
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed
- a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time
- a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number
verb
- measure the caliber of
- make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
- mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units
- (firearms, transitive) To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.
- (technology, transitive) To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
- (technology, transitive) To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
verb
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- (transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- (rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- (nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- (ambitransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- (transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
- (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
- (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- cause to match, as of ideas or acts
- make square
- be compatible with
- position so as to be square
- turn the oar, while rowing
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- raise to the second power
- pay someone and settle a debt
adj
- (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- (of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- (slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Even; tied
- (automotive) Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- (nautical) Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- providing abundant nourishment
- rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- leaving no balance
- without evasion or compromise
- having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
- characterized by honesty and fairness
adv
noun
- (real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- (geometry) A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- (colloquial, US) Ellipsis of square meal.
- (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
- (computing) A pattern to be matched that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
- (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- (slang, MLE) A well-defined torso.
- (slang) Cigarette.
- (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A cell in a grid.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- (Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- (military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- (academia) A mortarboard.
- something approximating the shape of a square
- an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
- a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
- (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
- any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- the product of two equal terms
- a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles
adj
verb
noun
- A scale of values.
- (Australia, slang) A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- (slang) A deliberate swindle or fraud.
- A speed bump.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
- (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- (cricket) A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.
- (slang) An act of violent robbery.
- Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
- (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.
- A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
- (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
- a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
- North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- an inclined surface connecting two levels
verb
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- To behave violently; to rage.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
- (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
- furnish with a ramp
- creep up — used especially of plants
- be rampant
noun
- any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
- a single undivided whole
- an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
- 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
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
adj
prep
- By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
- Because of.
- Indicating something desired or anticipated.
- Supporting, in favour of.
- So as to identify or locate.
- In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
- To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
- (commerce) For the price of.
- In order to cure, remove or counteract.
- (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
- Befitting of someone’s beliefs, needs, wants, skills, or tastes; best suited to.
- In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
- In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
- Directed at; intended to belong to.
- So as to allow (something or someone) to take position.
- In order to obtain or acquire.
- Throughout or across (a distance in space).
- (nonstandard) So (that), in order to
- Used in various other more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.
- On behalf of.
- Towards; in the direction of.
- Over (a period of time).
- Used to introduce a subject of a to-infinitive clause.
- (with names, chiefly US) In honor of; after.
- To be, or as being.
- (usually in the phrase 'for all') Despite, in spite of.
- In anticipation of.
- (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
- (UK) Due for or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
- (in expressions such as 'for a start') Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence .
conj
noun
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- A slight speck.
- A tap or light touch.
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
- (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- a metallic tapping sound
- any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
- a light mattress
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
verb
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
- To strike gently; to pat.
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- make a clicking or ticking sound
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- sew
noun
adj
- (philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
- Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.
- Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
- relying on medical quackery
- derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
noun
- a standard or typical example
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- an iconic mental representation
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- A statue or idol.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
verb
noun
- a standard or typical example
- the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
- the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
- systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
- A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
- An example serving as the model for such a pattern; an exceptionally good or prototypical example of a pattern or group.
- (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
noun
- a standard or typical example
- (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
- (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
- (motor racing) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
- An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
- An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
verb
noun
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- The extent of what one has read.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
verb
adj
- relating to the measurement of quantity
- (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables
- expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement
- Of logical analysis: based on quantification as well as qualification, rather than solely the latter: thus, not ignorant of magnitudes (large or small).
- Of a measurements and data types: based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality.
- (chemistry) Of a form of analysis, that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample.
noun
- an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
- (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
- a statistic describing the location of a distribution
- (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
- (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
adj
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
- around the middle of a scale of evaluation
- lacking exceptional quality or ability
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
- (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
- (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
- Typical.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
verb
- compute the average of
- achieve or reach on average
- amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
- (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
noun
- (figurative) The highest or most reliable benchmark against which all others in a category are judged or measured.
- (economics) A monetary system where the value of circulating money is linked to the value of gold.
- a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold
- a paragon of excellence
noun
- an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared
- the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases
- the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line
- A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
- (typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
- (tennis) The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
- A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
- (engineering) A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.
verb
noun
- Initialism of average standard deviation.
- Initialism of after-school detention.
- Initialism of activity support date.
- Initialism of atrial septal defect.
- Initialism of aircraft statistical data.
- Initialism of autism spectrum disorder.
- (seduction community) Initialism of anti-slut defense.
- Initialism of Assistant Secretary of Defense.
- Initialism of actual ship date.
- a spectrum disorder marked by characteristics such as social communication, sensory processing differences, focused interests, and repetitive behaviors
name
adj
noun
- a variable quantity that is random
- an event that departs from expectations
- something a little different from others of the same type
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
- (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
adj
noun
- (mathematics) The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
- (loosely) The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate.
- (bridge) A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
- (strictly) The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
- the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance
noun
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- power to direct or determine
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A control group or control experiment.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
verb
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- handle and cause to function
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
noun
- A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
- a standard by which something can be measured or judged
- A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
- (computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
- a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point
verb
noun
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
verb
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
noun
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
verb
- measure precisely and against a standard
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- adapt to a specified measurement
noun
- the condition in which a standard has been successfully established
- the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
- The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
- The process of establishing a standard.
- the imposition of standards or regulations
noun
- A scale of values.
- (Australia, slang) A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- (slang) A deliberate swindle or fraud.
- A speed bump.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
- (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- (cricket) A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.
- (slang) An act of violent robbery.
- Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
- (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.
- A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
- (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
- a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
- North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- an inclined surface connecting two levels
verb
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- To behave violently; to rage.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
- (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
- furnish with a ramp
- creep up — used especially of plants
- be rampant
noun
- any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
- a single undivided whole
- an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole
- 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
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
adj
noun
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- A slight speck.
- A tap or light touch.
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
- (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- a metallic tapping sound
- any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
- a light mattress
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
verb
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
- To strike gently; to pat.
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- make a clicking or ticking sound
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- sew
noun
adj
- (philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation.
- Pertaining to or based on experience, as opposed to theory.
- Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments which extend the senses.
- relying on medical quackery
- derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
noun
- a standard or typical example
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- an iconic mental representation
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- A statue or idol.
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
verb
noun
- a standard or typical example
- the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
- the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
- systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
- A pattern, a way of doing something; especially a pattern of thought, a system of beliefs, a conceptual framework.
- An example serving as the model for such a pattern; an exceptionally good or prototypical example of a pattern or group.
- (linguistics) A set of all forms which contain a common element, especially the set of all inflectional forms of a word or a particular grammatical category.
noun
- a standard or typical example
- (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
- (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
- (motor racing) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.
- An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
- An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models.
verb
noun
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- The extent of what one has read.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
verb
noun
- an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual
- (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities
- a statistic describing the location of a distribution
- (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode.
- (law, marine) Financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
- (mathematics) The arithmetic mean.
- (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc.
adj
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value
- around the middle of a scale of evaluation
- lacking exceptional quality or ability
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
- (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average.
- (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
- Typical.
- Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category.
verb
- compute the average of
- achieve or reach on average
- amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain
- (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
- (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
- (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
- (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
noun
- (figurative) The highest or most reliable benchmark against which all others in a category are judged or measured.
- (economics) A monetary system where the value of circulating money is linked to the value of gold.
- a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold
- a paragon of excellence
noun
- an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared
- the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases
- the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line
- A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
- (typography) A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
- (tennis) The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
- A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
- (engineering) A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.
verb
noun
- Initialism of average standard deviation.
- Initialism of after-school detention.
- Initialism of activity support date.
- Initialism of atrial septal defect.
- Initialism of aircraft statistical data.
- Initialism of autism spectrum disorder.
- (seduction community) Initialism of anti-slut defense.
- Initialism of Assistant Secretary of Defense.
- Initialism of actual ship date.
- a spectrum disorder marked by characteristics such as social communication, sensory processing differences, focused interests, and repetitive behaviors
name
adj
noun
- a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
- a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
- a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
- (mathematics) A metric tensor.
- Abbreviation of metric system.
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- (mathematical analysis) A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M×M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y)=d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.
verb
noun
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- power to direct or determine
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A control group or control experiment.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
verb
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- handle and cause to function
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
noun
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
verb
- measure precisely and against a standard
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- adapt to a specified measurement
verb
- To measure by an associated value.
- (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.
- (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
- (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- To inventory; to take stock.
- (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
- (mechanical engineering, transitive) To use a mechanism to move an object to a precise location.
- adjust through indexation
- list in an index
- provide with an index
noun
- (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
- (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
- (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
- (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
- A sign; an indication; a token.
- That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
- (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
- (algebra, index of a subgroup) The number of cosets that exist.
- An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- the finger next to the thumb
- a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
- an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed
- a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time
- a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number
noun
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
verb
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
verb
- measure the caliber of
- make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
- mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units
- (firearms, transitive) To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.
- (technology, transitive) To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
- (technology, transitive) To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
verb
- To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
- (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
- (transitive, geometry) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
- (rowing) To rotate the oars so that they are perpendicular to the water.
- (nautical) To place at a right angle to the mast or keel.
- To form with four sides and four right angles.
- (ambitransitive) To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit.
- To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
- To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
- To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
- (transitive, geometry) To tile (completely fill) with squares.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular:
- (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
- (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
- cause to match, as of ideas or acts
- make square
- be compatible with
- position so as to be square
- turn the oar, while rowing
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- raise to the second power
- pay someone and settle a debt
adj
- (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
- Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
- Honest; straightforward; fair.
- (of box-shaped objects such as buildings or metal frames) Forming right angles in all planes as intended; not racked or leaning.
- (slang, derogatory) Socially conventional; boring.
- Satisfied; comfortable with; not experiencing any conflict.
- Solid, decent, substantial.
- Even; tied
- (automotive) Of an internal combustion engine design, in which the diameter of the piston is similar, roughly, approximately, equal to its stroke distance.
- Forming a right angle (90°).
- (nautical) Forming right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
- Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
- Shaped like a square (the polygon).
- providing abundant nourishment
- rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- leaving no balance
- without evasion or compromise
- having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle
- characterized by honesty and fairness
adv
noun
- (real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
- (geometry) A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
- (colloquial, US) Ellipsis of square meal.
- (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
- (computing) A pattern to be matched that consists of a subpattern repeated, such as "papa" or "wikiwiki".
- (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
- (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
- (slang, MLE) A well-defined torso.
- (slang) Cigarette.
- (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
- (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
- (often in street names or addresses) A street surrounding a public square or plaza.
- A cell in a grid.
- The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
- A square piece, part, or surface.
- An open space or park, often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
- (Canada, US) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
- (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m²) of roof area. The materials for roofing jobs are often billed by the square in the United States.
- An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
- (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
- The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
- (military formation) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
- (academia) A mortarboard.
- something approximating the shape of a square
- an open area at the meeting of two or more streets
- a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
- (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
- any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles
- someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- the product of two equal terms
- a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles
adj
- conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind
- commonly used or supplied
- established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence
- regularly and widely used or sold
- conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers
- Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
- Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
- As normally supplied (not optional).
- Having recognized excellence or authority.
- (linguistics) Conforming to the standard variety.
- (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
- (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
noun
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- any distinctive flag
- One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
- A measure for timber.
- A level of quality or attainment.
- A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
- Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
- Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
- A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
- The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
- a hill with a cairn or tumulus at its summit
- A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
- (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
- An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
- The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
- (India) Grade level in primary education.
- The sheth of a plough.
- Ellipsis of standard poodle.
- A manual transmission vehicle.
- (sociolinguistics) standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
- (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
- A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
- A large drinking cup.
- (in place names, chiefly Northern England, Scotland) a cairn or tumulus
- A musical work of established popularity.
- (historical) A collar of mail protecting the neck.
intj
adj
noun
adj
- Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
- (mathematics) Describing two numbers within the same Archimedean class, so that neither is infinitely larger than the other.
- (physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
- corresponding in size or degree or extent
adj
- to be expected; standard
- belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public
- lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
- of low or inferior quality or value
- commonly encountered
- common to or shared by two or more parties
- of or associated with the great masses of people
- having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual
- (taxonomy) Vernacular, referring to the name of a kind of plant or animal.
- (taxonomy) As part of the vernacular name of a species, usually denoting that it is abundant or widely known.
- Occurring or happening regularly or frequently; usual.
- (law) Arising from use or tradition, as opposed to being created by a legislative body.
- (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the common gender.
- Of a quality: existing among virtually all people; universal.
- Mutual; shared by more than one.
- Simple, ordinary or vulgar.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to common nouns as opposed to proper nouns.
- Found in large numbers or in a large quantity; usual.
noun
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- A tract of land in common ownership; common land.
- The people; the community.
- Mutual good, shared by more than one.
- (law) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
adj
noun
- a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
- a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
- a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds)
- (mathematics) A metric tensor.
- Abbreviation of metric system.
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- (mathematical analysis) A function which satisfies a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize the notion of the distance between two points. Formally, a real-valued function d on M×M, where M is a set, is called a metric if (1) d(x,y)=0 if and only if x=y, (2) d(x,y)=d(y,x) for all pairs (x,y), and (3) d obeys the triangle inequality.
verb
adj
- (statistics) Having the median as its value.
- (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
- (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
- relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
- dividing an animal into right and left halves
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
noun
- (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
- (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
- (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
- the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
adj
verb
adj
- relating to the measurement of quantity
- (of verse) having a metric system based on relative duration of syllables
- expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement
- Of logical analysis: based on quantification as well as qualification, rather than solely the latter: thus, not ignorant of magnitudes (large or small).
- Of a measurements and data types: based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality.
- (chemistry) Of a form of analysis, that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample.
adj
noun
- a variable quantity that is random
- an event that departs from expectations
- something a little different from others of the same type
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
- (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
adj
noun
- (mathematics) The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
- (loosely) The state of being precise or exact; especially, both exact and accurate.
- (bridge) A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.
- (strictly) The ability of a measurement to be reproduced consistently.
- the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance