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noun
- The act of postulating or something postulated.
- (logic) Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument.
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
noun
- Something that is posited; a postulate.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
- (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
verb
noun
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- The act of presuming, or something presumed.
- The condition upon which something is presumed.
- a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming
- The belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
- (law) An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by statute or case law) unless the party against whom the inference is drawn is able to rebut it with admissible, competent evidence.
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- an assumption that is taken for granted
- (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
noun
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- (rhetoric) Assumptio.
- The taking of a person up into heaven.
- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
- A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- the act of assuming or taking for granted
- the act of taking possession of or power over something
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
- a hypothesis that is taken for granted
noun
verb
- express a supposition
- (informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- indicate
- recite or repeat a fixed text
- state as one's opinion or judgement; declare
- report or maintain
- utter aloud
- express in words
- communicate or express nonverbally
- (transitive) To indicate in a written form.
- (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- (transitive) To pronounce.
- (transitive) To recite.
- (transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To try; to assay.
- (impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
noun
adv
intj
verb
- express a supposition
- expect, believe, or suppose
- to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
- take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand
- (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
- (transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
- (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
verb
- imply or suggest
- kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
- proceed or get along
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- try to establish
- have sexual intercourse with
- write all the required information onto a form
- make out and issue
- detect with the senses
- distinguish by sight or hearing
- (transitive, intransitive) To represent; to make (something) appear to be true.
- (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To make an (often temporary) home.
- (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately.
- (transitive) To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque). [with to ‘a given recipient, payee’]
- (now chiefly US, regional, intransitive) To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.).
- (slang, originally US, intransitive, nonstandard, rare) To engage in heavy petting or sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To discern; to manage to see, hear etc.
- (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To get along with (someone).
noun
verb
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
- To make a premise.
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- take something as preexisting and given
- set forth beforehand, often as an explanation
noun
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
- (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
- (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
pron
- As the object of a preposition.
- Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- (nonstandard, in apposition) Would be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
- (informal, with a conjunction, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
- (nonstandard, not with a conjunction) As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
- As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.
- (colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
det
noun
pron
- As the object of a preposition.
- As the object of a verb.
- (fused relative, archaic outside set patterns) The person(s) whom; whomever.
- (informal, especially non-US) Also used with names of collective nouns that are groups of people, especially singularly-named musical groups or sports teams.
- (relative) Used to refer to a previously mentioned person or people.
adj
- (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.
- (botany) Subordinate.
- Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
- (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
- (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
- Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
- (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
- (followed by ‘of’ or ‘to’) having a strong preference or liking for
- being or affecting only a part; not total
- constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety
- showing favoritism
noun
- (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
- (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
- (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
- (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
- (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
- (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
- (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
- the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant
- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
verb
adj
noun
pron
- Used as the object of a preposition.
- (informal set phrases, dialectal or nonstandard) They or those.
- Used as the indirect object of a verb.
- Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- Used as the direct object of a verb.
- (nonstandard or colloquial, uncommon) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
det
verb
- (transitive) To assume; to suppose.
- (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
- (transitive, Internet slang, rhetorical, sarcastic) Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
- (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
- (intransitive) To use one's imagination.
- (transitive) To conjecture; to guess.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
noun
verb
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- (music) To embellish.
- (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
- (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
- (chiefly US) To come to understand.
- (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- understand
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- be or play a part of or in
- judge to be probable
noun
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A shape.
- A number, an amount.
- (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
- (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A numeral.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A figure of speech.
- (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
- a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- a well-known or notable person
- a decorative or artistic work
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
- an amount of money expressed numerically
- the impression produced by a person
- one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
- a model of a bodily form (especially of a person)
adj
- implied by or inferred from actions or statements
- not made to sound
- expressed without speech
- failing to speak or communicate etc. when expected to
- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility
- marked by absence of sound
- Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
- (technology) With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
- Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
- Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
- Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
- (technology) Without audio capability.
- Hidden, unseen.
- Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
- (pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
- Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
- (genetics) Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
- Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
noun
intj
- Used to indicate that one is speculating (often used sarcastically when stating the obvious).
- Used in response to a question or command in which the target person does not know the answer to or how to respond.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, don't, know.
- (UK) Used to express exasperation or incredulity about a given situation or person.
adj
- implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something
- being without doubt or reserve
- Suggested indirectly, without being directly expressed.
- Contained in the essential nature of something but not openly shown.
- Having no reservations or doubts; unquestioning or unconditional; usually said of faith or trust.
verb
- (transitive) To take as a premise; to assume for the sake of argument.
- (transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
- (intransitive) To impose (on) for one's advantage; to be presumptuous; to take advantage (of); to take liberties (with) [with on or upon].
- (transitive) To be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission [with to (+ infinitive)].
- take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
- constitute reasonable evidence for
- take liberties or act with too much confidence
verb
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
verb
- postulate positively and assertively
- state categorically
- insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
- To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- (reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
- (programming) To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
- To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
- (electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
noun
verb
- postulate positively and assertively
- be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
- beg persistently and urgently
- (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
- (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.
verb
noun
- A bet; a stake; a pledge.
- The subject of a bet.
- Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
- (law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
- (law) An offer to make oath.
- the act of gambling
- the money risked on a gamble
verb
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
noun
adj
- Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
- (often law) Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn.
- Often postpositive, as in heir presumptive: of an heir or heiress: presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior entitlement is born.
- Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”).
- (embryology) Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but is presumed to develop into a particular body part.
- affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance
- having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance
adj
noun
prep
verb
adj
adv
verb
adj
- Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.
- Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
- Of or relating to existence.
- (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- of or as conceived by existentialism
- derived from experience or the experience of existence
- relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)
noun
noun
- The act of postulating or something postulated.
- (logic) Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument.
- a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
- (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument
noun
- Something that is posited; a postulate.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
- (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
verb
noun
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- The act of presuming, or something presumed.
- The condition upon which something is presumed.
- a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming
- The belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
- (law) An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by statute or case law) unless the party against whom the inference is drawn is able to rebut it with admissible, competent evidence.
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- an assumption that is taken for granted
- (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
noun
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- (rhetoric) Assumptio.
- The taking of a person up into heaven.
- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
- A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
- (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
- the act of assuming or taking for granted
- the act of taking possession of or power over something
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
- a hypothesis that is taken for granted
noun
noun
verb
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
- To make a premise.
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- take something as preexisting and given
- set forth beforehand, often as an explanation
noun
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
- (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
- (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
verb
- express a supposition
- (informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- indicate
- recite or repeat a fixed text
- state as one's opinion or judgement; declare
- report or maintain
- utter aloud
- express in words
- communicate or express nonverbally
- (transitive) To indicate in a written form.
- (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- (transitive) To pronounce.
- (transitive) To recite.
- (transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To try; to assay.
- (impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
noun
adv
intj
verb
- express a supposition
- expect, believe, or suppose
- to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
- require as a necessary antecedent or precondition
- take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand
- (transitive) To theorize or hypothesize.
- (transitive) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
- (transitive) To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
verb
- imply or suggest
- kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion
- proceed or get along
- succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available
- try to establish
- have sexual intercourse with
- write all the required information onto a form
- make out and issue
- detect with the senses
- distinguish by sight or hearing
- (transitive, intransitive) To represent; to make (something) appear to be true.
- (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To make an (often temporary) home.
- (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To embrace and kiss passionately.
- (transitive) To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque). [with to ‘a given recipient, payee’]
- (now chiefly US, regional, intransitive) To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.).
- (slang, originally US, intransitive, nonstandard, rare) To engage in heavy petting or sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To discern; to manage to see, hear etc.
- (slang, chiefly US, intransitive) To get along with (someone).
noun
- Something that is posited; a postulate.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
- (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
- (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
verb
verb
- To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
- To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
- To make a premise.
- furnish with a preface or introduction
- take something as preexisting and given
- set forth beforehand, often as an explanation
noun
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
- (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
- (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
verb
- (transitive) To assume; to suppose.
- (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
- (transitive, Internet slang, rhetorical, sarcastic) Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
- (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
- (intransitive) To use one's imagination.
- (transitive) To conjecture; to guess.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
noun
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- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- (music) To embellish.
- (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
- (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
- (chiefly US) To come to understand.
- (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- understand
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- be or play a part of or in
- judge to be probable
noun
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A shape.
- A number, an amount.
- (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
- (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A numeral.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A figure of speech.
- (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
- a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- a well-known or notable person
- a decorative or artistic work
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
- an amount of money expressed numerically
- the impression produced by a person
- one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
- a model of a bodily form (especially of a person)
verb
- (transitive) To take as a premise; to assume for the sake of argument.
- (transitive) To assume or suggest to be true (without proof); to take for granted, to suppose.
- (intransitive) To impose (on) for one's advantage; to be presumptuous; to take advantage (of); to take liberties (with) [with on or upon].
- (transitive) To be so presumptuous as (to do something) without proper authority or permission [with to (+ infinitive)].
- take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
- constitute reasonable evidence for
- take liberties or act with too much confidence
verb
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
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- postulate positively and assertively
- state categorically
- insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
- To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
- (reflexive) To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
- (programming) To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
- To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
- (electronics) To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
noun
verb
- postulate positively and assertively
- be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
- beg persistently and urgently
- (sometimes with (that + subjunctive) or intransitive, with on or upon) To demand continually that something happen or be done; to reiterate a demand despite requests to abandon it.
- (with (that + indicative) or intransitive, with on or upon) To hold up a claim emphatically.
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noun
- A bet; a stake; a pledge.
- The subject of a bet.
- Agent noun of wage; one who wages.
- (law) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event.
- (law) An offer to make oath.
- the act of gambling
- the money risked on a gamble
verb
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
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adj
- (followed by the preposition to) Having a predilection for something.
- (botany) Subordinate.
- Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
- (crosswording, of a clue) Having a wordplay element, but no definition.
- (computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
- Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
- (mathematics) Of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential.
- (followed by ‘of’ or ‘to’) having a strong preference or liking for
- being or affecting only a part; not total
- constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety
- showing favoritism
noun
- (dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
- (bodybuilding) The condition of not exhausting the amplitude during the repetition of an exercise.
- (forensics) An incomplete fingerprint
- (furry fandom) A fursuit that does not fully cover the wearer's body.
- (programming, Internet) A fragment of a template containing markup.
- (mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables while holding the other variables constant.
- (music) Any of the sine waves which make up a complex tone; often an overtone or harmonic of the fundamental.
- the derivative of a function of two or more variables with respect to a single variable while the other variables are considered to be constant
- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
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- implied by or inferred from actions or statements
- not made to sound
- expressed without speech
- failing to speak or communicate etc. when expected to
- unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
- having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility
- marked by absence of sound
- Keeping at rest; inactive; calm; undisturbed.
- (technology) With the sound turned off; usually on silent or in silent mode.
- Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
- Undiagnosed or undetected because of an absence of symptoms.
- Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
- (technology) Without audio capability.
- Hidden, unseen.
- Of an edit or change to a text, not explicitly acknowledged.
- (pronunciation) Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent.
- Having no effect; not operating; inefficient.
- (genetics) Not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence.
- Of distilled spirit: having no flavour or odour.
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- implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something
- being without doubt or reserve
- Suggested indirectly, without being directly expressed.
- Contained in the essential nature of something but not openly shown.
- Having no reservations or doubts; unquestioning or unconditional; usually said of faith or trust.
adj
- Based on presumption or conjecture; inferred, likely, presumed.
- (often law) Chiefly in presumptive evidence: providing a reasonable basis for a certain presumption or conclusion to be drawn.
- Often postpositive, as in heir presumptive: of an heir or heiress: presumed to be entitled to inherit unless someone with a superior entitlement is born.
- Synonym of presumptuous (“making unwarranted presumptions or assumptions, often out of arrogance or excessive self-confidence, and thus exceeding what is appropriate or right”).
- (embryology) Of a cell or tissue: which has yet to differentiate, but is presumed to develop into a particular body part.
- affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance
- having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance
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- Of an assertion, etc.: assuming or suggesting the existence of something.
- Of or relating to existentialism (“a philosophical movement emphasizing the uniqueness of each human existence in freely making its self-defining choices”).
- Of or relating to existence.
- (linguistics) Relating to part of a clause that indicates existence (for example, there is).
- Concerning the very existence of something, especially with regard to evading extinction.
- of or as conceived by existentialism
- derived from experience or the experience of existence
- relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence)