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noun
- a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present
- an enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside
- A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present.
- (figuratively) A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something).
- The space above a false ceiling used for cables, ducts etc.
- An enclosed space having greater than atmospheric pressure.
- (physics) A space that is completely filled with matter.
- (computing) A type of network cabling which satisfies a given plenum rating for the purpose of fire safety.
noun
- A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
- (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) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
- An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
- An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
- an address to an academic meeting or seminar
- an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
noun
- An assembly or meeting.
- (ecclesiastical) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
- An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
- The act of calling or assembling by summons.
- (collective) A flock of eagles.
- a group gathered in response to a summons
- the act of convoking
noun
- A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.
- A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative.
- A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
- a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- an informal reference to a marriage proposal
- an instance of questioning
- the subject matter at issue
verb
- (transitive) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.
- (transitive) To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.
- (intransitive) To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
- pose a series of questions to
- conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting
- challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
- pose a question
- place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
noun
- a public meeting or assembly for open discussion
- A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.
- A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
- a public facility to meet for open discussion
- A place for discussion.
- (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
- (historical) A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.
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noun
- a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
- a national legislative assembly
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
noun
- The convening of a formal meeting.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- A meeting or gathering.
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- (diplomacy) an international agreement
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- a large formal assembly
- the act of convening
- something regarded as a normative example
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- The session of a judicial assembly.
- An organization for the administration of law, consisting of a body of judges with a certain jurisdiction along with its administrative apparatus.
- Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone.
- one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
- (Australia, US) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
- The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
- The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
- Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
- An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
- (often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
- The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
- Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) A housing estate under the Home Ownership Scheme.
- The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
- (ornithology) A space prepared and decorated by certain bird species in which to advertise themselves for a mate.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
- respectful deference
- the residence of a sovereign or nobleman
- an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
- an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
- a room in which a law court sits
- the sovereign and their advisers who are the governing power of a state
- a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played
- the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
- a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area
verb
- (transitive) To seek to achieve or win (a prize).
- (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
- (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
- (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win affections.
- (transitive) To attempt to attract, in any way; to invite by attractions.
- (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
- (transitive) To engage in behavior conducive to mating with.
- engage in social activities leading to marriage
- make amorous advances towards
- seek someone's favor
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noun
- (US) A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
- (historical, also figuratively) A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
- (British) A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
- (surgery) An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
- A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
- closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
- instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
verb
- To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
- (also figuratively) To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
- (British) To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
- (US) To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
- kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine
noun
- A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
- a session as of a legislature or court
- A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- (idiomatic) An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position
- (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
- a meeting of spiritualists
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- A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
- a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations
- A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
- A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
noun
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- (Philippines, education) A specialization in senior high school. Some tracks consist of strands.
- (computing) A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- Sound stored on a record.
- (cricket) The pitch.
- (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of caterpillar track.
- (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- Physical course; way.
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a course over which races are run
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
verb
- (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
- (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
- (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
- To separate into educational tracks, each of which teaches to a different level of ability.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
- (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- (transitive) To tow.
- (transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
- go after with the intent to catch
- observe or plot the moving path of something
- carry on the feet and deposit
- travel across or pass over
- make tracks upon
noun
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- a lower limit
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A dance floor.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
verb
- knock down with force
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
noun
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- The private office of a judge.
- (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- (UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
- (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- A bedroom.
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- a room used primarily for sleeping
- a room where a judge transacts business
- a natural or artificial enclosed space
- an enclosed volume in the body
- a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
verb
- (transitive) To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- (transitive) To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- (martial arts, transitive) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- (transitive) To enclose in a room.
- place in a chamber
noun
- Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
- Someone who or something that moves.
- A dancer.
- A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
- (chess, in combination) A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.
- A product that sells well.
- a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
- someone who moves
- (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
- workman employed by a moving company
noun
- A coming together; a meeting.
- (now especially) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
- (India) A Christian school.
- A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
- A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
- The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
noun
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken
- (countable) Something heard; a report or piece of news.
- (uncountable) The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- the act of hearing attentively
- an opportunity to state your case and be heard
- (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
- the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
- the range within which a voice can be heard
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- a meeting devoted to a particular activity
- a meeting for execution of a group's functions
- the time during which a school holds classes
- a meeting of spiritualists
- (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
- (Presbyterianism) The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
- (music) Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
- (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
- (education) An academic term; semester; school year.
- (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
- An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
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noun
- A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
- a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
- A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
- A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
- (figurative) An ulterior motive; a program of various such motives.
- a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
noun
- a meeting of heads of governments
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- (nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- (by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
- (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
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- A pre-arranged meeting.
- A point in time.
- One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
- (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- The date palm.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- the specified day of the month
- the present
verb
- (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- go on a date with
- stamp with a date
- assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- provide with a dateline; mark with a date
noun
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- a state of change
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- (physics) A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
- (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
- (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- (slang, uncountable) Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
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- (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
- a fundamental or central idea
- the principal theme in a speech or literary work
- (music) The note on which a musical key is based; the tonic.
- A speech that sets the main theme of a conference or other gathering; a keynote speech or keynote address.
- The main theme of a speech, a written work, or a conference.
noun
- a group of representatives or delegates
- an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- the act of committing a crime
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a special group delegated to consider some matter
- An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
- A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
- The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).
- A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
- The thing to be done as agent for another.
- A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
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- a group of representatives or delegates
- A group of delegates.
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
- (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
- (law) The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
- An act of delegating.
noun
- a group of representatives or delegates
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
- The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
- The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; a delegation.
- Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field.
noun
- a group of representatives or delegates
- an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters
- the organized work of a religious missionary
- an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
- (colloquial) An ordeal; an difficult, trying task.
- (countable) A missionary expedition.
- (slang, drugs) A drug run.
- (in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
- (countable, Catholicism) An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
- A important goal or purpose; an objective.
- A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
- A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
- (Australia, becoming obsolete) An settlement predominantly inhabited by Indigenous Australians living in housing commission.
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- a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting)
- kind and considerate regard for others
- a considerate and thoughtful act
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
- a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
- the process of giving careful thought to something
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- (law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.
- The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
noun
- a meeting of a legislative body at which all members are present
- an enclosed space in which the air pressure is higher than outside
- A legislative meeting (especially of the Communist Party) in which all members are present.
- (figuratively) A state of fullness, a great quantity (of something).
- The space above a false ceiling used for cables, ducts etc.
- An enclosed space having greater than atmospheric pressure.
- (physics) A space that is completely filled with matter.
- (computing) A type of network cabling which satisfies a given plenum rating for the purpose of fire safety.
noun
- A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
- (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) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
- An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
- An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
- an address to an academic meeting or seminar
- an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting
noun
- An assembly or meeting.
- (ecclesiastical) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
- An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
- The act of calling or assembling by summons.
- (collective) A flock of eagles.
- a group gathered in response to a summons
- the act of convoking
noun
- A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.
- A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative.
- A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
- a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- an informal reference to a marriage proposal
- an instance of questioning
- the subject matter at issue
verb
- (transitive) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.
- (transitive) To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.
- (intransitive) To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
- pose a series of questions to
- conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting
- challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
- pose a question
- place in doubt or express doubtful speculation
noun
- a public meeting or assembly for open discussion
- A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.
- A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
- a public facility to meet for open discussion
- A place for discussion.
- (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
- (historical) A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.
noun
- The convening of a formal meeting.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- A meeting or gathering.
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- (diplomacy) an international agreement
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- a large formal assembly
- the act of convening
- something regarded as a normative example
noun
noun
- The session of a judicial assembly.
- An organization for the administration of law, consisting of a body of judges with a certain jurisdiction along with its administrative apparatus.
- Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone.
- one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play
- (Australia, US) A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
- The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
- The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases.
- Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
- An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
- (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games
- (often capitalized) The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
- The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
- Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) A housing estate under the Home Ownership Scheme.
- The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.
- (ornithology) A space prepared and decorated by certain bird species in which to advertise themselves for a mate.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings.
- respectful deference
- the residence of a sovereign or nobleman
- an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
- an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings
- a room in which a law court sits
- the sovereign and their advisers who are the governing power of a state
- a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played
- the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
- a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area
verb
- (transitive) To seek to achieve or win (a prize).
- (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
- (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
- (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win affections.
- (transitive) To attempt to attract, in any way; to invite by attractions.
- (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
- (transitive) To engage in behavior conducive to mating with.
- engage in social activities leading to marriage
- make amorous advances towards
- seek someone's favor
noun
verb
noun
- (US) A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
- (historical, also figuratively) A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
- (British) A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
- (surgery) An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
- A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
- closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill
- instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people
verb
- To cut or trim (a body part, a stack of paper, etc.) with a guillotine.
- (also figuratively) To execute (someone) with a guillotine.
- (British) To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
- (US) To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
- kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine
noun
- A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
- a session as of a legislature or court
- A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- (idiomatic) An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position
- (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
- a meeting of spiritualists
adj
verb
noun
- A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
- a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations
- A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
- A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
noun
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- (Philippines, education) A specialization in senior high school. Some tracks consist of strands.
- (computing) A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- Sound stored on a record.
- (cricket) The pitch.
- (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of caterpillar track.
- (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- Physical course; way.
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a course over which races are run
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
verb
- (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
- (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
- (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
- To separate into educational tracks, each of which teaches to a different level of ability.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
- (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- (transitive) To tow.
- (transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
- go after with the intent to catch
- observe or plot the moving path of something
- carry on the feet and deposit
- travel across or pass over
- make tracks upon
noun
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- a lower limit
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A dance floor.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
verb
- knock down with force
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
noun
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- The private office of a judge.
- (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- (UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
- (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- A bedroom.
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- a room used primarily for sleeping
- a room where a judge transacts business
- a natural or artificial enclosed space
- an enclosed volume in the body
- a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
verb
- (transitive) To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- (transitive) To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- (martial arts, transitive) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- (transitive) To enclose in a room.
- place in a chamber
noun
- Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.
- Someone who or something that moves.
- A dancer.
- A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
- (chess, in combination) A chess problem in which the solver must attain checkmate within the specified number of moves.
- A product that sells well.
- a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another
- someone who moves
- (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
- workman employed by a moving company
verb
noun
- a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
- a national legislative assembly
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
noun
- A coming together; a meeting.
- (now especially) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
- (India) A Christian school.
- A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
- A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
- The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
noun
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken
- (countable) Something heard; a report or piece of news.
- (uncountable) The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- the act of hearing attentively
- an opportunity to state your case and be heard
- (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
- the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
- the range within which a voice can be heard
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verb
noun
verb
noun
- a meeting devoted to a particular activity
- a meeting for execution of a group's functions
- the time during which a school holds classes
- a meeting of spiritualists
- (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
- (Presbyterianism) The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
- (music) Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
- (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
- (education) An academic term; semester; school year.
- (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
- An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
verb
noun
- A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
- a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
- A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
- A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
- (figurative) An ulterior motive; a program of various such motives.
- a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
noun
- a meeting of heads of governments
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- (nautical, rail transport, road transport) The highest point of a canal, railway, road, etc.
- (by extension) An assembly or gathering of the leaders of countries to discuss issues of international significance; also (loosely), an important or high-level gathering or meeting.
- (mathematics) A vertex of a polygon or polyhedron.
- The highest point of a hill, mountain, or similar geographical feature.
- The highest point of achievement, development, etc., that can be reached; the acme, the pinnacle.
verb
pron
noun
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- A point in time.
- One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
- (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- The date palm.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- the specified day of the month
- the present
verb
- (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- go on a date with
- stamp with a date
- assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- provide with a dateline; mark with a date
noun
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- a state of change
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
- (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- (physics) A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
- (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
- (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- (slang, uncountable) Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
verb
noun
- a group of representatives or delegates
- an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
- a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- the state of being in good working order and ready for operation
- the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions
- the act of committing a crime
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a special group delegated to consider some matter
- An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
- A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
- The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error).
- A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
- The thing to be done as agent for another.
- A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
verb
noun
- a group of representatives or delegates
- A group of delegates.
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
- (computing) A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
- (law) The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
- An act of delegating.
noun
- a group of representatives or delegates
- authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions
- The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
- The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; a delegation.
- Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field.
noun
- a group of representatives or delegates
- an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters
- the organized work of a religious missionary
- an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
- (colloquial) An ordeal; an difficult, trying task.
- (countable) A missionary expedition.
- (slang, drugs) A drug run.
- (in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
- (countable, Catholicism) An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
- A important goal or purpose; an objective.
- A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
- A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work.
- (Australia, becoming obsolete) An settlement predominantly inhabited by Indigenous Australians living in housing commission.
verb
noun
- a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting)
- kind and considerate regard for others
- a considerate and thoughtful act
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
- a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
- the process of giving careful thought to something
- A payment or other recompense for something done.
- The thought process of considering, of taking multiple or specified factors into account (with of being the main corresponding adposition).
- (law) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
- Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
- Importance or regard; a claim to notice or attention.
- The tendency to consider others and make allowances for their needs or desires.
verb
noun
- a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
- a national legislative assembly
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
verb
noun
- (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
- a fundamental or central idea
- the principal theme in a speech or literary work
- (music) The note on which a musical key is based; the tonic.
- A speech that sets the main theme of a conference or other gathering; a keynote speech or keynote address.
- The main theme of a speech, a written work, or a conference.