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verb
noun
- one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line
- (computing) An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
- A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
- (originally) A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
- A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
verb
- write about
- represent in profile, by drawing or painting
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
- (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
noun
- a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
- biographical sketch
- an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
- degree of exposure to public notice
- an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)
- (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
- (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
- (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- (computing, countable) A user's preferences.
- (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
noun
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- 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 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”).
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
intj
verb
- (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.
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- cease an action temporarily
noun
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- An incident or episode.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- The advance of time.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- Part of a path or journey.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
- a journey usually by ship
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- the act of passing something to another person
adj
verb
noun
- A written discourse.
- A conversation or dialogue.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
- formal conversation
verb
noun
- A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
- a long piece of writing
- (by extension) A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
- A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
- Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
- A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.
- The sound of something scratching or tearing.
- A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.
- (chiefly humorous) A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- a long monotonous harangue
- an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete
adj
verb
- (transitive, construction, masonry) To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
- (intransitive) To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To become rent or torn.
- (intransitive, chiefly humorous) To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
noun
- A section of a document.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
noun
- Enumeration; mention.
- The paper containing such summons or notice.
- (lexicography) A quotation with attached bibliographical details demonstrating the use of a particular lexical item in a dictionary, especially a dictionary on historical principles.
- An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.
- A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
- The act of citing a passage from a text, or from another person, using the exact words of the original text or speech and giving credit to the original by referencing.
- An entry in a list of sources from which information was taken, typically following a prescribed bibliographical style; a reference.
- A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
- The passage or words quoted; a quotation.
- (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding
- an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
noun
- Abbreviation of paragraph.
- Abbreviation of parenthesis.
- (UK) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
- Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
- Equality of condition or circumstances.
- Abbreviation of parish.
- (golf, countable) A hole in which a player achieves par.
- Alternative form of parr (“young salmon”).
- (golf, mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
- (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
- a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced
adj
prep
verb
noun
- (journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- (radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
- (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- (finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
- (journalism) Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”).
- (pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
- (poker) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
- One who kicks.
- (sports) One who takes kicks.
- (film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.
- (colloquial) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
- (informal) A relaxed party.
- (nautical) The kicking strap.
- (printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
- (slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
- (American football) A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
- (nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
- (performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
- (journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
- (sports) A launch ramp.
- a player who kicks the football
verb
noun
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A bishop's council.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- A chapter house
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
- a series of related events forming an episode
- a local branch of some fraternity or association
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life
noun
- the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
- someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
- a young animal without a mother
- a child who has lost both parents
- (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
- A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
- A young animal with no mother.
- (computing) Any unreferenced object.
- A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
verb
adj
verb
- (typography, printing) To insert (a word, etc.) without making a line break or new paragraph (so that it is not free-hanging).
- (printing) To alter the position of matter to fill vacant space.
- simple past and past participle of run in
- (rugby) To score (a try).
- (transitive, informal, chiefly passive voice) To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.
- (figuratively) To start a new regime slowly.
- (transitive, British) To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage.
adj
noun
adj
- Relating to a section.
- Separating into sections.
- Relating to conflict between areas.
- related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
- consisting of or divided into sections
- relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
noun
- (music) A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
- An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
- (sports) A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
- (aviation) A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
- a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
verb
- To consist of certain text.
- (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.
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- make sense of a language
- 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
noun
- (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.
- something that is read
noun
- a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article
- fabric forming the tail of a shirt
- A tenuous connection.
- Something small and unimportant.
- A distant kinship.
- (by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
- A small portion
- The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
verb
- be mentioned
- result or issue
- come up, of celestial bodies
- originate or come into being
- start running, functioning, or operating
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- come to the surface
- gather or bring together
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- move upward
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To appear (before a judge or court).
- (intransitive) To come towards; to approach.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To do well or be successful.
- (intransitive) To reach in height.
- (UK, Oxford University, intransitive) To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
- (intransitive) To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status.
- (intransitive) To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To happen or occur.
- (British, slang, intransitive) To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon).
- (intransitive) To draw near in time.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To grow up; to experience a childhood.
- (intransitive) To approach a time or scheduled event.
noun
verb
adj
noun
noun
- A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
- (finance) A written or printed paper (or digital equivalent) acknowledging a debt, and promising payment.
- (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
- (extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
- A diplomatic missive or written communication.
- (uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- (by extension) A call or song of a bird.
- A piece of paper or polymer money; a banknote.
- (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
- (rhythm games) An indication which players have to click, type, hit, tap or do other actions if it appears
- A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune; a beat of a drum.
- A short informal letter; a billet.
- (perfumery) An element of a scent, fragrance, or perfume, especially as a descriptor or category.
- A critical comment.
- (by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
- A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
- A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
- A symbol or annotation.
- (academic) An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
- A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
- high status importance owing to marked superiority
- a brief written record
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
- a short personal letter
- a characteristic emotional quality
- a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling
verb
- (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
- (transitive) To denote; to designate.
- (transitive, law) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
- (transitive) To annotate.
- (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
- (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
- notice or perceive
- make mention of
- observe with care or pay close attention to
- make a written note of
verb
- (printing, historical) To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
- (transitive) To rely on (something) for popular support in an election.
- Using a certain time zone.
- To operate with a particular energy source.
- (idiomatic) To continue talking for a long time.
- (ditransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To attempt to enact (a plan, trick or scheme) on (someone).
- (idiomatic) To continue without interruption
- To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
- continue uninterrupted
- talk or narrate at length
prep
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- At or in (a geographical location or position).
- At (a relative spatial position).
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Serving as a member of.
- Under the influence of (a drug, or something that is causing drug-like effects).
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- (snooker) In a position of being able to pot (a given ball).
- (also often 'upon') Arrived or coming into the presence of.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At (an instant or cusp).
- Aboard (a mode of transport, especially public transport, or transport that one sits astride or uses while standing).
- Expressing figurative placement, burden, or attachment.
- At (a certain position within a sequence).
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything By means of; with.
- Covering.
- (mathematics) Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for the specified set V and some integer n.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- (mathematics, uncommon) Divided by.
- (especially Ireland) Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- (UK) At (a certain value or level).
- With verbs describing an action of pushing, pulling, pressing, etc., designates the thing to which force is applied.
- (also often 'upon') At the time of (and often because of).
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without.
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Because of; upon the basis of (something not yet confirmed as true).
- (informal) In the possession of.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- (philosophy, logic) According to, from the standpoint of; (expressing what must follow, whether accepted or not, if a given premise or system is assumed true).
- (UK, especially in sports reporting) At (a given time after the start of something).
- Near; adjacent to; alongside; just off.
- Paid for by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- (especially when numbers of combatants or competitors are specified) Against; in opposition to.
- At or during the date or day of.
- (mathematics) Having as identical domain and codomain.
- (nautical) In the direction of (some part of one's vessel), to within 45 degrees.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Indicating a means of subsistence or sustenance.
- (mathematics) Generated by.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- (informal, chiefly in set phrases) Ellipsis of I swear on: on my life, on God, on everything, etc.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- With verbs describing an action of hitting, rubbing, scratching, binding against, etc., designates the thing impacted or contacted.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
adj
- (euphemistic) Menstruating.
- (chiefly UK, informal, chiefly in the negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
- (snooker, postpositive) Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
- (informal) Of a person, used to express agreement to or acceptance of a proposal or challenge made by that person; most commonly with subject "you" (see you're on).
- (acting, drama, roleplaying games) Acting in character.
- (chiefly in the negative) Possible; capable of being successfully carried out.
- Fitted; covering or being worn.
- (cricket) Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- (informal, of a person) Performative or funny in a wearying manner.
- (e.g. of points in a game) Available; remaining.
- (postpositive) Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- in operation or operational
- (of events) planned or scheduled
adv
- (infrequent in the US) Later.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
- (snooker) Of a ball, into a pottable position.
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action), onwards.
- To an operating state.
- indicates continuity or persistence or concentration
- in a state required for something to function or be effective
- with a forward motion
noun
verb
noun
- Clipping of paragraph.
- (New Zealand) Synonym of king fern (“the plant Ptisana salicina”).
- (military) Clipping of paratrooper.
- (US, education, informal) Clipping of paraprofessional educator.
- (medicine) A woman who has given birth or brought pregnancies to viable gestational age a certain number of times, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
- (historical) A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
- Clipping of paraphilia.
- Clipping of paraplegic.
- (Islam, South Asia) Synonym of juz.
- 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia
- (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
- a soldier in the paratroops
adj
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
- a group of followers or enthusiasts
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
- Vocation; business; profession.
- (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
- (social media) An account which is followed.
prep
verb
verb
- discuss or mention
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- (idiomatic, colloquial, imperative) Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talk, about.
- (idiomatic, colloquial, usually in the present progressive) Used to draw attention to the speaker's approval or affirmation of someone or something.
noun
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
verb
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
adj
noun
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a headlong jump (or fall)
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- One who puts a head on something.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- (programming) Clipping of header file.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
verb
noun
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- (flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
- (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
- Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
- (nautical and aeronautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
- (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
verb
verb
noun
- A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
- An object, a member of a group or class.
- A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
- A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
- Ellipsis of genuine article.
- (grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
- nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
- (grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase
- one of a class of artifacts
- a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
noun
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- 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 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”).
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
intj
verb
- (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.
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- cease an action temporarily
noun
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- An incident or episode.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- The advance of time.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- Part of a path or journey.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
- a journey usually by ship
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- the act of passing something to another person
adj
verb
noun
- A written discourse.
- A conversation or dialogue.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
- formal conversation
verb
noun
- A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.
- a long piece of writing
- (by extension) A speech or piece of writing which contains angry and extended criticism.
- A tool, usually a long strip of wood or other material, placed on a floor to be covered with concrete, a wall to be plastered, etc., as a guide for producing a smooth, flat surface.
- Chiefly in the plural form screeds: a large quantity.
- A smooth, flat layer of concrete, plaster, or similar material, especially if acting as a base for paving stones, tiles, wooden planks, etc.
- The sound of something scratching or tearing.
- A tool such as a long strip of wood or other material which is drawn over a wet layer of concrete, plaster, etc., to make it smooth and flat; also, a machine that achieves this effect; a screeder.
- (chiefly humorous) A (discordant) sound or tune played on bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
- a long monotonous harangue
- an accurately levelled strip of material placed on a wall or floor as guide for the even application of plaster or concrete
adj
verb
- (transitive, construction, masonry) To use a screed to produce a smooth, flat surface of concrete, plaster, or similar material; also (generally) to put down a layer of concrete, plaster, etc.
- (intransitive) To make a discordant or harsh scratching or tearing sound.
- (intransitive, Scotland) To become rent or torn.
- (intransitive, chiefly humorous) To play bagpipes, a fiddle, or a pipe.
noun
- A section of a document.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
noun
- Enumeration; mention.
- The paper containing such summons or notice.
- (lexicography) A quotation with attached bibliographical details demonstrating the use of a particular lexical item in a dictionary, especially a dictionary on historical principles.
- An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.
- A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
- The act of citing a passage from a text, or from another person, using the exact words of the original text or speech and giving credit to the original by referencing.
- An entry in a list of sources from which information was taken, typically following a prescribed bibliographical style; a reference.
- A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
- The passage or words quoted; a quotation.
- (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding
- an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
noun
- Abbreviation of paragraph.
- Abbreviation of parenthesis.
- (UK) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
- Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
- Equality of condition or circumstances.
- Abbreviation of parish.
- (golf, countable) A hole in which a player achieves par.
- Alternative form of parr (“young salmon”).
- (golf, mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
- (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
- a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced
adj
prep
verb
noun
- (journalism) The last one or two paragraphs of a story.
- (radio, television) A lighthearted or humorous item used to round off a news broadcast.
- (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".
- (finance) An enticement for investors, e.g. warranty added to the investment contract.
- (journalism) Synonym of lead-in (“start of photo caption”).
- (pinball) A rubber pad that propels the ball away upon impact, like a bumper, but usually a horizontal side of a wall.
- (poker) An unpaired card which is part of a pair, two pair, or three of a kind poker hand.
- One who kicks.
- (sports) One who takes kicks.
- (film, television) A backlight positioned at an angle.
- (colloquial) An unexpected situation, detail or circumstance, often unpleasant, serving as a punchline or clincher.
- (informal) A relaxed party.
- (nautical) The kicking strap.
- (printing) A device that periodically displaces a newspaper from the print production line, to aid in gathering the newspapers into fixed-size bundles.
- (slang, Southern US) A particular type of Texan who is associated with country/western attire, attitudes, and/or philosophy.
- (American football) A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.
- (nautical, informal) An outboard motor.
- (performance art) A practitioner of the kicking performance art.
- (journalism) Small text above a headline that indicates the topic of the story.
- (sports) A launch ramp.
- a player who kicks the football
noun
- the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
- someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
- a young animal without a mother
- a child who has lost both parents
- (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
- A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
- A young animal with no mother.
- (computing) Any unreferenced object.
- A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
verb
adj
noun
- a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article
- fabric forming the tail of a shirt
- A tenuous connection.
- Something small and unimportant.
- A distant kinship.
- (by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
- A small portion
- The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
noun
- A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
- (finance) A written or printed paper (or digital equivalent) acknowledging a debt, and promising payment.
- (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
- (extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
- A diplomatic missive or written communication.
- (uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
- (by extension) A call or song of a bird.
- A piece of paper or polymer money; a banknote.
- (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
- (rhythm games) An indication which players have to click, type, hit, tap or do other actions if it appears
- A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune; a beat of a drum.
- A short informal letter; a billet.
- (perfumery) An element of a scent, fragrance, or perfume, especially as a descriptor or category.
- A critical comment.
- (by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
- A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
- A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
- A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
- A symbol or annotation.
- (academic) An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
- A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
- high status importance owing to marked superiority
- a brief written record
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a promise to pay a specified amount on demand or at a certain time
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
- a short personal letter
- a characteristic emotional quality
- a tone of voice that shows what the speaker is feeling
verb
- (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
- (transitive) To denote; to designate.
- (transitive, law) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
- (transitive) To annotate.
- (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
- (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
- notice or perceive
- make mention of
- observe with care or pay close attention to
- make a written note of
noun
- Clipping of paragraph.
- (New Zealand) Synonym of king fern (“the plant Ptisana salicina”).
- (military) Clipping of paratrooper.
- (US, education, informal) Clipping of paraprofessional educator.
- (medicine) A woman who has given birth or brought pregnancies to viable gestational age a certain number of times, indicated by the number prepended to this word.
- (historical) A former subunit of currency in several countries in the Ottoman/Turkish and Yugoslav regions.
- Clipping of paraphilia.
- Clipping of paraplegic.
- (Islam, South Asia) Synonym of juz.
- 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia
- (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
- a soldier in the paratroops
adj
noun
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
verb
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
adj
noun
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a headlong jump (or fall)
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- One who puts a head on something.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- (programming) Clipping of header file.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
verb
noun
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- (flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
- (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
- Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
- (nautical and aeronautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
- (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
verb
verb
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- one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line
- (computing) An offset of 16 bytes in Intel memory architectures.
- A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.
- (originally) A mark or note set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, such as a change of subject.
- A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
verb
- write about
- represent in profile, by drawing or painting
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- (transitive) To draw in profile or outline.
- (transitive, engineering) To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- (transitive) To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
noun
- a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
- biographical sketch
- an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics
- degree of exposure to public notice
- an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side)
- (countable) The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- (architecture) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
- (archaeology) A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- (figurative, uncountable) Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- (countable) A summary or collection of information, especially about a person.
- (countable) The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- (uncountable) The amount by which something protrudes.
- (military slang) An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- (civil engineering) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- (computing, countable) A user's preferences.
- (Internet, countable) A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
verb
noun
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A bishop's council.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- A chapter house
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
- a series of related events forming an episode
- a local branch of some fraternity or association
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life
verb
- (typography, printing) To insert (a word, etc.) without making a line break or new paragraph (so that it is not free-hanging).
- (printing) To alter the position of matter to fill vacant space.
- simple past and past participle of run in
- (rugby) To score (a try).
- (transitive, informal, chiefly passive voice) To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.
- (figuratively) To start a new regime slowly.
- (transitive, British) To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage.
adj
noun
verb
- To consist of certain text.
- (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.
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- make sense of a language
- 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
noun
- (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.
- something that is read
verb
- be mentioned
- result or issue
- come up, of celestial bodies
- originate or come into being
- start running, functioning, or operating
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- come to the surface
- gather or bring together
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- move upward
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To appear (before a judge or court).
- (intransitive) To come towards; to approach.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To do well or be successful.
- (intransitive) To reach in height.
- (UK, Oxford University, intransitive) To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
- (intransitive) To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status.
- (intransitive) To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To happen or occur.
- (British, slang, intransitive) To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon).
- (intransitive) To draw near in time.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To grow up; to experience a childhood.
- (intransitive) To approach a time or scheduled event.
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noun
verb
- (printing, historical) To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.
- (transitive) To rely on (something) for popular support in an election.
- Using a certain time zone.
- To operate with a particular energy source.
- (idiomatic) To continue talking for a long time.
- (ditransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To attempt to enact (a plan, trick or scheme) on (someone).
- (idiomatic) To continue without interruption
- To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.
- continue uninterrupted
- talk or narrate at length
verb
- discuss or mention
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- (idiomatic, colloquial, imperative) Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talk, about.
- (idiomatic, colloquial, usually in the present progressive) Used to draw attention to the speaker's approval or affirmation of someone or something.
verb
noun
- A part or segment of something joined to other parts, or, in combination, forming a structured set.
- An object, a member of a group or class.
- A section of a legal document, bylaws, etc. or, in the plural, the entire document seen as a collection of these.
- A piece of nonfiction writing such as a story, report, opinion piece, or entry in a newspaper, magazine, journal, encyclopedia, etc.
- Ellipsis of genuine article.
- (grammar) A part of speech that indicates, specifies and limits a noun (a, an, or the in English). In some languages the article may appear as an ending (e.g. definite article in Swedish) or there may be none (e.g. Russian, Pashto).
- nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication
- (grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase
- one of a class of artifacts
- a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
adj
- Relating to a section.
- Separating into sections.
- Relating to conflict between areas.
- related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
- consisting of or divided into sections
- relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
noun
- (music) A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
- An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
- (sports) A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
- (aviation) A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
- a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
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adj
noun
- a group of followers or enthusiasts
- the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.
- Vocation; business; profession.
- (with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.
- (social media) An account which is followed.