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adj
- inactive but capable of becoming active
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- (architecture) Leaning.
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
noun
adj
- lacking activity; lying idle or unused
- not active physically or mentally
- Not active, temporarily or permanently.
- lacking in energy or will
- not exerting influence or change
- not in physical motion
- (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
- (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert
- not engaged in full-time work
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- (military) not involved in military operations
- Not functioning or operating; broken down
- (chemistry) Relatively inert.
- Retired from duty or service.
- (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.
- Not engaging in physical activity.
noun
noun
- the state of being active
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the series of events that form a plot
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- a military engagement
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- (Misesian praxeology, Austrian economics) Purposeful behavior.
- (military) Combat.
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- (slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
- (music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
- A demonstration by activists.
- (mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (sciences) A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- Fast-paced activity.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- (Christianity) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
- (literature) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
verb
adj
intj
noun
- the state of being active
- any specific behavior
- (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction
- an organic process that takes place in the body
- the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- (countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
- (physics) The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
- (countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
- The property of substances to react with other substances
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.
adj
- physically inactive
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- the complete stoppage of an action
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
adv
verb
verb
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
noun
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
adv
noun
- the act of retiring into inactivity
- cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
- the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
- (computing) A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.
- (biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
- (biology, sleep, space science) A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
adj
noun
- (archaeology) A large rectangular monolith lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright stones, the flankers; found in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
- A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.
adj
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
verb
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
noun
verb
- make less active or intense
- become less in amount or intensity
- To lower (something) in price or value.
- To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- (chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To decrease in amount or size.
- (chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
- To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
- To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
- (chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
- To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
- To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
- To put an end to (a nuisance).
verb
- make less active or intense
- become less in amount or intensity
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
noun
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
adv
verb
- make less active or intense
- satisfy (thirst)
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
- (transitive) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
- (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).
- (transitive, Scotland) To besmear.
- (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
noun
adj
noun
- The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
- (newspaper, publishing) A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
- A bench at the back of a room or seating area.
- A back bench in a courtroom.
- The back pew of a church.
- A position of secondary importance.
- (politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by members of each party group who are not party leaders, cabinet ministers, holders of offices such as the whips, etc.
- The back row of a classroom.
- any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
adj
- Physically inactive.
- of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous
- Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
- (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
- (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
- relating to involuntary bodily functions
- (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
- composed of vegetation or plants
noun
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
- (figurative) Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
verb
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- cease an action temporarily
- (transitive) To stop (an activity) for a while.
- (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
- (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
intj
noun
- The process of becoming less active or severe.
- (geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.
- a gradual sinking to a lower level
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it
adj
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- at a slow tempo
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
adv
noun
verb
adj
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Officious; meddling.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
verb
noun
verb
- remain inactive or immobile
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- withstand the force of something
- be standing; be upright
- be available for stud services
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be in some specified state or condition
- put into an upright position
- (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
- (intransitive) To appear in court.
- (intransitive, British) To be a candidate (in an election).
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.
- (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- (intransitive, of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.
- (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- (intransitive) To remain valid.
- (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
- (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
- (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To tolerate.
- (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
noun
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a support or foundation
- a defensive effort
- an interruption of normal activity
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- (cricket) A partnership.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- (US, historical) Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- (advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- (historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- The act of standing.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
verb
- be in an inactive or dormant state
- sleep during winter
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- (intransitive) To live in seclusion.
- (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
noun
- a disposition to remain inactive or inert
- (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
- (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
- (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
- (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
verb
- (intransitive) To do nothing. To be inactive in a situation.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to continue to support despite things being bad.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To wait in expectation of some event; to be ready.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To remain loyal or faithful to.
- be loyal to
- not act or do anything
- be available or ready for a certain function or service
prefix
- (no longer productive) To do excessively.
- At, at the suffixed time. Forming an unfixed point in time, rather than a duration.
- (no longer productive) Parting: forming verbs that involve cleaving, breaking, or sundering.
- Of, as characteristic of the suffixed time period. Forming adverbs and adjectives.
- Current, the current form of the suffixed time. Forming nouns.
- During the suffixed time. Forming adverbs.
- Toward in direction or location.
- (no longer productive) Moving.
- Adding, additional in quantity.
- (no longer productive) Completely.
- On (this) time, which is a fixed point in time. Forming adverbs.
noun
- quiet and inactive restfulness
- a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction
- Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
- (microbiology) The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
- (entomology) In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.
- The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
- The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
adj
- passive as a result of indolence or indifference
- lying face upward
- Lying on its back.
- (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
- (rare, now poetic) Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.
- (of the hand, forearm or foot) Turned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe.
noun
- (grammar, also attributively) In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
- (grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
- (grammar, also attributively) (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.
verb
- engage in passive relaxation
- grow like a plant
- establish vegetation on
- lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
- produce vegetation
- propagate asexually
- grow or spread abnormally
- (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
- (of a plant) To grow or sprout.
- (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally.
noun
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
adj
noun
adj
noun
- a state of inactivity (in business or art etc.)
- a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific
- (nautical, oceanography, by extension) Usually preceded by the: a part of the ocean near the equator where calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds are common.
- Usually preceded by the: a state of apathy or lack of interest; a situation where one feels boredom, ennui, or tedium; a state of listlessness or malaise.
- (nautical) Usually preceded by the: the state of a sailing ship when it is impeded by calms or light, baffling winds, and is unable to make progress.
noun
- a state of inactivity (in business or art etc.)
- inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation
- (figurative, uncountable) The state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; inactivity, staleness; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) The state of lacking flow or motion, usually causing a lack of freshness or health; (countable) an instance of this.
- (economics, uncountable) The state of low or no growth in an economy; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
- make active or more active
- make more adsorptive
- make (substances) radioactive
- aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
- put in motion or move to act
- (transitive, chemistry) To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
- (transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
- (transitive, biology) To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
- (transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
- (transitive, physics) To render a substance radioactive.
- (transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
- (transitive, military) To organize or create a military unit or station.
- (transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
- (transitive, sports) To bring a player back after an injury.
- (transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.
noun
- the state of being active
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the series of events that form a plot
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- a military engagement
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- (Misesian praxeology, Austrian economics) Purposeful behavior.
- (military) Combat.
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- (slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
- (music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
- A demonstration by activists.
- (mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (sciences) A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- Fast-paced activity.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- (Christianity) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
- (literature) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
verb
adj
intj
noun
- the state of being active
- any specific behavior
- (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction
- an organic process that takes place in the body
- the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- (countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
- (physics) The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
- (countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
- The property of substances to react with other substances
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.
noun
- the act of retiring into inactivity
- cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
- the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
- (computing) A standby state which conserves power by writing the contents of the memory to disk and completely power off the computer, in order that one will resume the session from the disk.
- (biology, sleep) A state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in some animals during winter.
- (biology, sleep, space science) A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
noun
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
- (figurative) Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
verb
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- cease an action temporarily
- (transitive) To stop (an activity) for a while.
- (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
- (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
intj
noun
- The process of becoming less active or severe.
- (geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.
- a gradual sinking to a lower level
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease)
- the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it
noun
- a disposition to remain inactive or inert
- (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
- (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
- (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
- (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
noun
- quiet and inactive restfulness
- a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction
- Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
- (microbiology) The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
- (entomology) In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.
- The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
- The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
noun
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
adj
noun
noun
- a state of inactivity (in business or art etc.)
- a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific
- (nautical, oceanography, by extension) Usually preceded by the: a part of the ocean near the equator where calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds are common.
- Usually preceded by the: a state of apathy or lack of interest; a situation where one feels boredom, ennui, or tedium; a state of listlessness or malaise.
- (nautical) Usually preceded by the: the state of a sailing ship when it is impeded by calms or light, baffling winds, and is unable to make progress.
noun
- a state of inactivity (in business or art etc.)
- inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation
- (figurative, uncountable) The state of lacking activity, change or progress, or excitement in an unhealthy manner; inactivity, staleness; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) The state of lacking flow or motion, usually causing a lack of freshness or health; (countable) an instance of this.
- (economics, uncountable) The state of low or no growth in an economy; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
noun
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
verb
- make less active or intense
- become less in amount or intensity
- To lower (something) in price or value.
- To lessen (something) in force or intensity; to moderate.
- (chiefly US) To dismiss or otherwise bring to an end (legal proceedings) before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To decrease in amount or size.
- (chiefly US) Of legal proceedings: to be dismissed or otherwise brought to an end before they are completed, especially on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
- To reduce (something) in amount or size.
- To decrease in force or intensity; to subside.
- To lower in price or value; (law) specifically, of a bequest in a will: to lower in value because the testator's estate is insufficient to satisfy all the bequests in full.
- (chiefly historical) Of a writ or other legal document: to become null and void; to cease to have effect.
- To make (a writ or other legal document) void; to nullify.
- To cut away or hammer down (material from metalwork, a sculpture, etc.) in such a way as to leave a figure in relief.
- To put an end to (a nuisance).
verb
- make less active or intense
- become less in amount or intensity
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
noun
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
adv
verb
- make less active or intense
- satisfy (thirst)
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
- (transitive) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
- (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).
- (transitive, Scotland) To besmear.
- (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
noun
verb
- remain inactive or immobile
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- withstand the force of something
- be standing; be upright
- be available for stud services
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be in some specified state or condition
- put into an upright position
- (intransitive) To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.
- (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.
- (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.
- (intransitive) To appear in court.
- (intransitive, British) To be a candidate (in an election).
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain motionless.
- (card games) To stop asking for more cards; to keep one's hand as it has been dealt so far.
- (intransitive, of tears, sweat, etc.) To be present, to have welled up.
- (transitive) To cover the expense of; to pay for.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of a ship or its captain, to steer, sail (in a specified direction, for a specified destination etc.).
- (intransitive) To remain valid.
- (transitive) To oppose, usually as a team, in competition.
- (intransitive) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.
- (intransitive) To measure when erect on the feet.
- (intransitive, followed by to + infinitive) To be positioned to gain or lose.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as an umpire.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain without ruin or injury.
- (intransitive) To be consistent; to agree; to accord.
- (transitive) To undergo; withstand; hold up.
- (transitive) To place in an upright or standing position.
- (intransitive, copulative) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition.
- (transitive, chiefly in the negative) To tolerate.
- (intransitive) To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.
noun
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a support or foundation
- a defensive effort
- an interruption of normal activity
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- (sports) Grandstand. (often in the plural)
- (forestry) A contiguous group of trees sufficiently uniform in age-class distribution, composition, and structure, and growing on a site of sufficiently uniform quality, to be a distinguishable unit.
- A small building, booth, or stage, as in a bandstand or hamburger stand.
- (cricket) A partnership.
- The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.
- (US, historical) Ellipsis of tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).
- A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree.
- A location or position where one may stand.
- (advertising) An advertisement filling an entire billboard, comprising many sheets of paper.
- (historical) An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.
- (military, plural often stand) A single set, as of arms.
- A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.
- The act of standing.
- A designated spot where someone or something may stand or wait.
- A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.
- A period of performance in a given location or venue.
- A standstill, a motionless state, as of someone confused, or a hunting dog who has found game.
- A defensive position or effort.
- A device to hold something upright or aloft.
verb
- be in an inactive or dormant state
- sleep during winter
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- (intransitive) To live in seclusion.
- (intransitive, biology) To spend the winter in a dormant or inactive state of minimal activity, low body temperature, slow breathing and heart rate, and low metabolic rate; to go through a winter sleep.
verb
- (intransitive) To do nothing. To be inactive in a situation.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to continue to support despite things being bad.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To wait in expectation of some event; to be ready.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To remain loyal or faithful to.
- be loyal to
- not act or do anything
- be available or ready for a certain function or service
verb
- engage in passive relaxation
- grow like a plant
- establish vegetation on
- lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
- produce vegetation
- propagate asexually
- grow or spread abnormally
- (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
- (of a plant) To grow or sprout.
- (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally.
adj
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
verb
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
noun
verb
- make active or more active
- make more adsorptive
- make (substances) radioactive
- aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
- put in motion or move to act
- (transitive, chemistry) To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
- (transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
- (transitive, biology) To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
- (transitive) To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.
- (transitive, physics) To render a substance radioactive.
- (transitive, computing, software) To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
- (transitive, military) To organize or create a military unit or station.
- (transitive) To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
- (transitive, sports) To bring a player back after an injury.
- (transitive, chemistry, physics) To render more reactive; excite.
adv
adj
- inactive but capable of becoming active
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- lying with head on paws as if sleeping
- (architecture) Leaning.
- (heraldry) In a sleeping posture; distinguished from couchant.
- Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
noun
adj
- lacking activity; lying idle or unused
- not active physically or mentally
- Not active, temporarily or permanently.
- lacking in energy or will
- not exerting influence or change
- not in physical motion
- (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
- (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert
- not engaged in full-time work
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- (military) not involved in military operations
- Not functioning or operating; broken down
- (chemistry) Relatively inert.
- Retired from duty or service.
- (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.
- Not engaging in physical activity.
noun
adj
- physically inactive
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- the complete stoppage of an action
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
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verb
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- (archaeology) A large rectangular monolith lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright stones, the flankers; found in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
- A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.
adj
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not yielding a return
verb
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
noun
adj
noun
- The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
- (newspaper, publishing) A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
- A bench at the back of a room or seating area.
- A back bench in a courtroom.
- The back pew of a church.
- A position of secondary importance.
- (politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by members of each party group who are not party leaders, cabinet ministers, holders of offices such as the whips, etc.
- The back row of a classroom.
- any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons
adj
- Physically inactive.
- of or relating to an activity that is passive and monotonous
- Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
- (biology) Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
- (medicine) Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
- relating to involuntary bodily functions
- (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes
- composed of vegetation or plants
adj
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
- Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- (informal, somewhat derogatory) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of business) not active or brisk
- at a slow tempo
- not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
adv
noun
verb
adj
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Officious; meddling.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
verb
noun
adj
- passive as a result of indolence or indifference
- lying face upward
- Lying on its back.
- (figuratively) Reluctant to take action due to indifference or moral weakness; apathetic or passive towards something.
- (rare, now poetic) Inclining or leaning backward; inclined, sloping.
- (of the hand, forearm or foot) Turned facing toward the body or upward: with the thumb outward (palm up), or with the big toe raised relative to the little toe.
noun
- (grammar, also attributively) In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
- (grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
- (grammar, also attributively) (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.