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verb
- make plain and comprehensible
- (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
- define
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
- (transitive) To give the reason for, justification for, or cause of.
- (transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
verb
- make unintelligible
- stir vigorously
- bring into random order
- to move hurriedly
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
- (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
- (transitive) To process telecommunication signals to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
- (transitive, military, also by extension) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
- (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
- (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
- (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
- (Rubik's Cube) To permute parts of a twisty puzzle (especially, Rubik's Cube) until it is ready to be solved from scratch.
- (intransitive, military) To be quickly deployed in this manner.
- (intransitive, climbing) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
- (transitive) To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.
- (transitive) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
noun
- an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- rushing about hastily in an undignified way
- A motocross race.
- (golf) A statistic used in assessing a player's short game, consisting of a chip or putt from under 50 yards away that results in requiring one putt or less on the green.
- (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
- A venue where enslaved people were auctioned during the Atlantic slave trade.
- Any frantic period of competitive activity.
- (gridiron football) An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
- A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.
- A dish (meal) involving scrambled eggs and a hodgepodge of complementary ingredients, usually closer to a casserole than to an omelette.
- (golf) A variant of golf in which each player in a team tees off on each hole, and the players decide which shot was best. Every player then plays their second shot from within a club length of where the best ball has come to rest, and the procedure is repeated until the hole is finished.
intj
verb
- make unintelligible or unclear
- reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
- (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
adj
- difficult to find
- not clearly expressed or understood
- remote and separate physically or socially
- not famous or acclaimed
- not drawing attention
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- Dark, faint or indistinct.
- Not well-known.
- Unknown or uncertain; unclear.
- Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse.
verb
- make clear and (more) comprehensible
- make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating
- (by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
- (ergative, of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.
verb
- make clear and (more) comprehensible
- finish a task completely
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
- become clear
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- (intransitive) To depart or disappear.
- (intransitive) Of stormy weather, to dissipate, to become calm.
- (UK, transitive, intransitive) To clean up.
- (snooker, billiards, intransitive) To pot all of the remaining balls in a single turn.
- (transitive) To clarify, to correct a misconception.
- (intransitive, of skin or medical images) To become free of certain blemishes.
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noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of comprehensible input.
- (politics) Initialism of constitutional initiative.
- (espionage) Initialism of counterintelligence.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of confidential informant.
- Initialism of Companion, part of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
- Initialism of competitive intelligence.
- Initialism of civil infraction.
- Initialism of creative industries.
- Initialism of cochlear implant.
- Initialism of contextual inquiry.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of chief inspector, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (software engineering) Initialism of continuous integration.
- (statistics) Initialism of confidence interval.
- Initialism of cast iron.
- Initialism of corporate identity (“a specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors”).
- (baseball) Initialism of corner infielder.
verb
- make sense of a language
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- create an image or likeness of
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give an interpretation or explanation to
- (intransitive) To convey what a user of one language is saying or signing, in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating, to a user of a different language
- To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.
- To decode the meaning of a topic and then act, whether to continue researching the topic, follow through, act in opposition, or further the understanding through sharing an interpretation.
- To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation
verb
- make sense of a language
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- be a student of a certain subject
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- interpret something that is written or printed
- to hear and understand
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- simple past and past participle of read
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To consist of certain text.
noun
- something that is read
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
verb
- make sense of a language
- be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
- change from one form or medium into another
- bring to a certain spiritual state
- change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
- determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
- subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
- express, as in simple and less technical language
- be equivalent in effect
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- (transitive, genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
- (transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
- (intransitive) To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
- (transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
- (transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
- (intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
- Senses relating to a change of position.
- (transitive, music) To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
noun
verb
- make sense of a language
- believe to be the case
- know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- be understanding of
- (transitive, of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
- (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (transitive, of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
- (transitive, generally) To know the meaning of.
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noun
noun
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible
- the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- (music, uncountable) The manner in which a note is attacked.
- (uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
- (phonetics) The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- (anatomy) Such a joint in an animalian body, as for example between bones or between exoskeleton segments.
- (education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
noun
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
verb
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
noun
- the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible
- thought that makes something comprehensible
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- The act or process of explaining.
- A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
- Something that explains or makes understandable.
noun
adj
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Uncircumcised.
- (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- (Of a pimple) not having a well-defined head.
- (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
- unable to see
- not based on reason or evidence
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
adv
noun
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A hiding place.
- A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (military) A blindage.
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
verb
- (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
- render unable to see
- make blind by putting the eyes out
- make dim by comparison or conceal
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verb
noun
adj
adj
noun
- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
- the quality of clear water
- The ability to be easily understood.
- The ability to think clearly and rationally.
- The ability to be easily heard.
- The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.
noun
- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
- the quality of clear water
- The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.
- The state of being free from obstruction or interference.
- Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
verb
- make audible
- raise in rank or condition
- take illegally
- take off or away by decreasing
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- put an end to a situation
- move upwards
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- remove (hair) by scalping
- move upward
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- cancel officially
- rise up
- invigorate or heighten
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- remove from a surface
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- make off with belongings of others
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1 18)
- (transitive) To cause to move upwards.
- (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
- (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
- (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
noun
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- the act of raising something
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- the event of something being raised upward
- a ride in a car
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- An act of lifting or raising.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- (historical slang) A thief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- (figurative) An improvement in mood.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- (broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.
- (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
verb
- begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
- begin to speak or say
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- have a beginning, of a temporal event
- be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- (ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
- (intransitive) To come into existence.
noun
adj
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- having a clear mind
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
- Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
- Mentally rational; sane.
- Clear; easily understood.
noun
adj
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
- Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
- Easily understood; clear.
- Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.
verb
- (intransitive) To use sign language.
- (transitive) To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- (transitive or reflexive) To write (one's name) as a signature.
- (transitive) To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- (intransitive) To communicate using a gesture or signal.
- (intransitive) To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- (transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- (transitive) To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- (intransitive) To write one's signature.
- (transitive) To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- (transitive) To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- (reflexive) To cross oneself.
- To determine the sign of
- (transitive) More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- (transitive) To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- (transitive) To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
- be engaged by a written agreement
- place signs, as along a road
- engage by written agreement
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
noun
- (Canada, US, Australia, uncountable) Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- (astrology) An astrological sign.
- (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
- An omen.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- (countable, uncountable) A visible fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (uncountable) Sign language in general.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- a public display of a message
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To produce the components of speech.
- (transitive) To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.
- (intransitive) To pass judgment.
- (transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
- (transitive) To emphasize, highlight.
- (passive voice) To sound like.
- (transitive) To pronounce dead.
- (transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.
- (transitive) To read aloud.
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- pronounce judgment on
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- (linguistics) Initialism of comprehensible input.
- (politics) Initialism of constitutional initiative.
- (espionage) Initialism of counterintelligence.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of confidential informant.
- Initialism of Companion, part of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India.
- Initialism of competitive intelligence.
- Initialism of civil infraction.
- Initialism of creative industries.
- Initialism of cochlear implant.
- Initialism of contextual inquiry.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of chief inspector, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
- (software engineering) Initialism of continuous integration.
- (statistics) Initialism of confidence interval.
- Initialism of cast iron.
- Initialism of corporate identity (“a specific design of a company, to be applied in all public appearances to be clearly distinguishable from its competitors”).
- (baseball) Initialism of corner infielder.
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noun
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible
- the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- (music, uncountable) The manner in which a note is attacked.
- (uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
- (phonetics) The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- (anatomy) Such a joint in an animalian body, as for example between bones or between exoskeleton segments.
- (education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
noun
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
verb
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
noun
- the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible
- thought that makes something comprehensible
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- The act or process of explaining.
- A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
- Something that explains or makes understandable.
noun
noun
verb
noun
adj
noun
- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
- the quality of clear water
- The ability to be easily understood.
- The ability to think clearly and rationally.
- The ability to be easily heard.
- The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.
noun
- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
- the quality of clear water
- The state of being free from obscurities or opacity; distinctness of light, colour etc.
- The state of being free from obstruction or interference.
- Mental or sensory distinctness; clarity of understanding, perception etc.
noun
name
verb
- make plain and comprehensible
- (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
- define
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
- (transitive) To give the reason for, justification for, or cause of.
- (transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
verb
- make unintelligible
- stir vigorously
- bring into random order
- to move hurriedly
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- (transitive) To gather or collect by scrambling.
- (intransitive) To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
- (transitive) To process telecommunication signals to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
- (transitive, military, also by extension) To quickly deploy (vehicles, usually aircraft) to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
- (transitive, of food ingredients, usually including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
- (intransitive, sports) To partake in motocross.
- (intransitive) To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
- (Rubik's Cube) To permute parts of a twisty puzzle (especially, Rubik's Cube) until it is ready to be solved from scratch.
- (intransitive, military) To be quickly deployed in this manner.
- (intransitive, climbing) To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
- (transitive) To throw something down for others to compete for in this manner.
- (transitive) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
noun
- an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- rushing about hastily in an undignified way
- A motocross race.
- (golf) A statistic used in assessing a player's short game, consisting of a chip or putt from under 50 yards away that results in requiring one putt or less on the green.
- (military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
- A venue where enslaved people were auctioned during the Atlantic slave trade.
- Any frantic period of competitive activity.
- (gridiron football) An impromptu maneuver or run by a quarterback, attempting to gain yardage or avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage.
- A rush or hurry, especially making use of the limbs against a surface.
- A dish (meal) involving scrambled eggs and a hodgepodge of complementary ingredients, usually closer to a casserole than to an omelette.
- (golf) A variant of golf in which each player in a team tees off on each hole, and the players decide which shot was best. Every player then plays their second shot from within a club length of where the best ball has come to rest, and the procedure is repeated until the hole is finished.
intj
verb
- make unintelligible or unclear
- reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa
- make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- make less visible or unclear
- (transitive) To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious.
- (transitive) To hide, put out of sight etc.
adj
- difficult to find
- not clearly expressed or understood
- remote and separate physically or socially
- not famous or acclaimed
- not drawing attention
- marked by difficulty of style or expression
- Dark, faint or indistinct.
- Not well-known.
- Unknown or uncertain; unclear.
- Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse.
verb
- make clear and (more) comprehensible
- make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating
- (by extension) To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
- (ergative, of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.
verb
- make clear and (more) comprehensible
- finish a task completely
- free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
- become clear
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- (intransitive) To depart or disappear.
- (intransitive) Of stormy weather, to dissipate, to become calm.
- (UK, transitive, intransitive) To clean up.
- (snooker, billiards, intransitive) To pot all of the remaining balls in a single turn.
- (transitive) To clarify, to correct a misconception.
- (intransitive, of skin or medical images) To become free of certain blemishes.
verb
- make sense of a language
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- create an image or likeness of
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give an interpretation or explanation to
- (intransitive) To convey what a user of one language is saying or signing, in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating, to a user of a different language
- To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.
- To decode the meaning of a topic and then act, whether to continue researching the topic, follow through, act in opposition, or further the understanding through sharing an interpretation.
- To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation
verb
- make sense of a language
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- be a student of a certain subject
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- interpret something that is written or printed
- to hear and understand
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- simple past and past participle of read
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To consist of certain text.
noun
- something that is read
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
verb
- make sense of a language
- be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
- change from one form or medium into another
- bring to a certain spiritual state
- change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
- determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA
- subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
- express, as in simple and less technical language
- be equivalent in effect
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- (transitive, genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
- (transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
- (intransitive) To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
- (transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
- (transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
- (intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
- Senses relating to a change of position.
- (transitive, music) To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
noun
verb
- make sense of a language
- believe to be the case
- know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- be understanding of
- (transitive, of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
- (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (transitive, of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
- (transitive, generally) To know the meaning of.
intj
verb
- make audible
- raise in rank or condition
- take illegally
- take off or away by decreasing
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- put an end to a situation
- move upwards
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- remove (hair) by scalping
- move upward
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- cancel officially
- rise up
- invigorate or heighten
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- remove from a surface
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- make off with belongings of others
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1 18)
- (transitive) To cause to move upwards.
- (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
- (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
- (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
noun
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- the act of raising something
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- the event of something being raised upward
- a ride in a car
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- An act of lifting or raising.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- (historical slang) A thief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- (figurative) An improvement in mood.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- (broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.
- (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
verb
- begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
- begin to speak or say
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- have a beginning, of a temporal event
- be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- (ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
- (intransitive) To come into existence.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To use sign language.
- (transitive) To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- (transitive or reflexive) To write (one's name) as a signature.
- (transitive) To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- (intransitive) To communicate using a gesture or signal.
- (intransitive) To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- (transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- (transitive) To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- (intransitive) To write one's signature.
- (transitive) To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- (transitive) To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- (reflexive) To cross oneself.
- To determine the sign of
- (transitive) More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- (transitive) To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- (transitive) To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
- be engaged by a written agreement
- place signs, as along a road
- engage by written agreement
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
noun
- (Canada, US, Australia, uncountable) Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- (astrology) An astrological sign.
- (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
- An omen.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- (countable, uncountable) A visible fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (uncountable) Sign language in general.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- a public display of a message
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To produce the components of speech.
- (transitive) To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.
- (intransitive) To pass judgment.
- (transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
- (transitive) To emphasize, highlight.
- (passive voice) To sound like.
- (transitive) To pronounce dead.
- (transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.
- (transitive) To read aloud.
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- pronounce judgment on
noun
adj
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Uncircumcised.
- (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- (Of a pimple) not having a well-defined head.
- (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
- unable to see
- not based on reason or evidence
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
adv
noun
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A hiding place.
- A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (military) A blindage.
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
verb
- (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
- render unable to see
- make blind by putting the eyes out
- make dim by comparison or conceal
adj
adj
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- having a clear mind
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
- Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
- Mentally rational; sane.
- Clear; easily understood.
noun
adj
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- Of a person, their mind, etc.: able to think and understand clearly; not confused; clear, sharp.
- Of music or some other sound: not discordant or harsh; clear and pure-sounding.
- Easily understood; clear.
- Allowing the passage of light; translucent or transparent.