Palabras en English para 'The state of being insistent.'
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adj
- Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
- (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
- Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
- repetitive and persistent
- demanding attention
verb
- (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
- (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
- (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- (transitive) To press onward or forward.
- (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
- push for something
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
noun
verb
- (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
- (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
- (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
- (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- (ambitransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
- (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
- join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding
- wield vigorously
- use diligently
- apply oneself diligently
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- travel a route regularly
noun
- (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
- A layer of material.
- (colloquial) Clipping of plywood.
- A bent; a direction.
- A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
- one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
- (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood
noun
- Urgent insistence.
- The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
- The application of pressure by a press or other means.
- A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
- A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
- The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
- A metal or plastic part made with a press.
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
adj
verb
adj
- severe and unremitting in making demands
- requiring precise accuracy
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
- Of an action, task, etc., requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
- Of a person or organization, characterized by exaction.
- Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
verb
adj
noun
- the rear part of a ship
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- The hinder part of anything.
- A bird, the black tern, seabird.
- (nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
- (figurative) The post of management or direction.
verb
adj
- severe and unremitting in making demands
- (of rules) stringently enforced
- characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
- incapable of compromise or flexibility
- rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
- (set theory, order theory) Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
- Tense; not relaxed.
- (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
- Strained; drawn close; tight.
- Severe in discipline.
- Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
- Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
- Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
verb
noun
- Insistence, pressure, urge.
- the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
- The quality or condition of being urgent.
- (medicine) A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.
- an urgent situation calling for prompt action
- pressing importance requiring speedy action
- insistent solicitation and entreaty
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To contend.
- (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
- (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
- (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
- to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- invade in great numbers
- seize the position of and defeat
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- run beyond or past
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
noun
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
- An instance of overrunning.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- The amount by which something overruns.
- too much production or more than expected
adj
- (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
- (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
- of metal e.g.
- used of the back and knees; stooped
- fixed in your purpose
noun
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- An inclination or talent.
- Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
- Old dried stalks of grasses.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- a special way of doing something
- grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
verb
verb
adj
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
adv
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
- desire strongly or persistently
- have a desire for something or someone who is not present
- have affection for; feel tenderness for
- (transitive) Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.
- (intransitive) Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.
- Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.
- (specifically) To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
- To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
- Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
- To make (cheese) from curdled milk.
noun
verb
noun
adj
- consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
- impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
- having the hardness of a diamond
- Made of adamant (“an unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness”).
- Incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; impenetrable, unbreakable.
- Of a person: refusing to change one's mind; obstinate, stubborn.
- (chiefly mineralogy) Like diamond in lustre; bright, lustrous, shiny; also, of a lustre: like that of a mineral with a high refractive index such as diamond.
- Difficult to defeat or prevail over; unshakable, unyielding.
noun
verb
- Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
- Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)
- Could naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
- Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
- Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
- Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
- Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
intj
noun
verb
- remind or urge constantly
- worry persistently
- bother persistently with trivial complaints
- To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
- To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
- (ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
noun
verb
- (intransitive, with on) To approach in a determined manner.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down.
- (transitive) To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.
- (intransitive) To exert downward pressure on one's abdomen, as in giving birth, forcing out feces, and some similar bodily maneuvers.
- (intransitive) To intensify one's efforts.
- (nautical) To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward.
- exert a force with a heavy weight
- exert a force or cause a strain upon
- exert full strength
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- pay special attention to
- contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery
verb
- (intransitive) To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
noun
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Alternative spelling of musth.
- grape juice before or during fermentation
- a necessary or essential thing
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
adj
noun
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
noun
noun
verb
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- (transitive, figurative) To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- (slang, MTE, MLE) To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
- (intransitive, India, Singapore) To arrive at a particular destination.
- (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- (transitive, of a missile) To strike or touch.
- (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- (transitive) To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- (transitive, by extension) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- (transitive, figurative) To make contact with.
- (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense
- to extend as far as
- to exert much effort or energy
- to gain with effort
- be in or establish communication with
- reach a goal
- place into the hands or custody of
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
noun
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- (Japanese mahjong, pachinko) Alternative form of riichi.
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- (nautical) A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- (nautical) The distance traversed between tacks.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- the limit of capability
- the limits within which something can be effective
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
verb
- be persistent, refuse to stop
- hold the phone line open
- fix to; attach
- To weigh down or oppress.
- To keep; to store something for someone.
- To pay close attention to, or regard with (possibly obsequious) admiration.
- (chiefly imperative) To wait a moment.
- To hold, grasp, or grip.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, on.
- To depend upon.
- To persevere.
- To continually believe in something; to have faith in.
verb
- be persistent, refuse to stop
- retain possession of
- hold the phone line open
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- hold firmly
- To grasp or grip firmly.
- (idiomatic) To retain an advantage.
- (idiomatic) Wait a short while.
- (idiomatic) To persist.
- (idiomatic) To keep; to store something for someone.
- (idiomatic) To remain loyal.
noun
- Urgent insistence.
- The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
- The application of pressure by a press or other means.
- A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
- A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
- The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
- A metal or plastic part made with a press.
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
adj
verb
noun
- Insistence, pressure, urge.
- the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
- The quality or condition of being urgent.
- (medicine) A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.
- an urgent situation calling for prompt action
- pressing importance requiring speedy action
- insistent solicitation and entreaty
noun
verb
noun
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
- (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
- (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- (transitive) To press onward or forward.
- (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
- push for something
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
noun
verb
- (transitive) To press upon; to urge persistently.
- (intransitive) To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
- (transitive) To work at (something) diligently.
- (transitive) To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- (ambitransitive, transport) To travel over (a route) regularly.
- (transitive) To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
- join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding
- wield vigorously
- use diligently
- apply oneself diligently
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- travel a route regularly
noun
- (artificial intelligence, combinatorial game theory) In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A condition, a state.
- A layer of material.
- (colloquial) Clipping of plywood.
- A bent; a direction.
- A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
- one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
- (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To contend.
- (transitive) To call into question; to oppose.
- (transitive) To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.
- (law) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law.
- to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- invade in great numbers
- seize the position of and defeat
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- run beyond or past
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
noun
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
- An instance of overrunning.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- The amount by which something overruns.
- too much production or more than expected
verb
adj
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
adv
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
- desire strongly or persistently
- have a desire for something or someone who is not present
- have affection for; feel tenderness for
- (transitive) Often followed by out: to perform (music) which conveys or say (words) which express strong desire or longing.
- (intransitive) Of music, words, etc.: to express strong desire or longing.
- Of cheese: to be made from curdled milk.
- (specifically) To long for something in the past with melancholy or nostalgia.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To have a strong desire for something or to do something; to long for or to do something.
- To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.
- Of milk: to curdle, especially in the cheesemaking process.
- To make (cheese) from curdled milk.
noun
verb
noun
verb
- Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
- Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)
- Could naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
- Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
- Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
- Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
- Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
intj
noun
verb
- remind or urge constantly
- worry persistently
- bother persistently with trivial complaints
- To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
- To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
- (ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
noun
verb
- (intransitive, with on) To approach in a determined manner.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, down.
- (transitive) To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome.
- (intransitive) To exert downward pressure on one's abdomen, as in giving birth, forcing out feces, and some similar bodily maneuvers.
- (intransitive) To intensify one's efforts.
- (nautical) To steer away from the wind; to approach from windward.
- exert a force with a heavy weight
- exert a force or cause a strain upon
- exert full strength
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- pay special attention to
- contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery
verb
- (intransitive) To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
noun
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Alternative spelling of musth.
- grape juice before or during fermentation
- a necessary or essential thing
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
adj
noun
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
verb
- To strain after something; to make (sometimes futile or pretentious) efforts.
- (transitive, figurative) To connect with (someone) on an emotional level, making them receptive of (one); to get through to (someone).
- (transitive) To arrive at (a place) by effort of any kind.
- (nautical) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
- (slang, MTE, MLE) To arrive at a particular destination, especially to join someone; to meet up.
- (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
- (intransitive, India, Singapore) To arrive at a particular destination.
- (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
- (transitive, of a missile) To strike or touch.
- (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
- (transitive) To continue living until or up to (a certain age).
- (transitive, by extension) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
- (transitive, figurative) To make contact with.
- (transitive) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent.
- (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
- (intransitive) To extend in dimension, time etc.; to stretch out continuously (past, beyond, above, from etc. something).
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense
- to extend as far as
- to exert much effort or energy
- to gain with effort
- be in or establish communication with
- reach a goal
- place into the hands or custody of
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
noun
- The ability to reach or touch with the person, a limb, or something held or thrown.
- The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
- (Japanese mahjong, pachinko) Alternative form of riichi.
- An extended portion or area of land or water.
- (informal) An exaggeration; an extension beyond evidence or normal; a stretch.
- The act of stretching or extending; extension.
- Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
- The pole or rod connecting the rear axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
- (boxing) The distance a boxer's arm can extend to land a blow.
- (nautical) Any point of sail in which the wind comes from the side of a vessel, excluding close-hauled.
- (nautical) A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
- (nautical) The distance traversed between tacks.
- A level stretch of a watercourse, as between rapids in a river or locks in a canal. (examples?)
- the limit of capability
- the limits within which something can be effective
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
verb
- be persistent, refuse to stop
- hold the phone line open
- fix to; attach
- To weigh down or oppress.
- To keep; to store something for someone.
- To pay close attention to, or regard with (possibly obsequious) admiration.
- (chiefly imperative) To wait a moment.
- To hold, grasp, or grip.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, on.
- To depend upon.
- To persevere.
- To continually believe in something; to have faith in.
verb
- be persistent, refuse to stop
- retain possession of
- hold the phone line open
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- hold firmly
- To grasp or grip firmly.
- (idiomatic) To retain an advantage.
- (idiomatic) Wait a short while.
- (idiomatic) To persist.
- (idiomatic) To keep; to store something for someone.
- (idiomatic) To remain loyal.
noun
verb
adj
- Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
- (ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
- Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
- repetitive and persistent
- demanding attention
adj
- severe and unremitting in making demands
- requiring precise accuracy
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
- Of an action, task, etc., requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
- Of a person or organization, characterized by exaction.
- Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
verb
adj
noun
- the rear part of a ship
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- The hinder part of anything.
- A bird, the black tern, seabird.
- (nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
- (figurative) The post of management or direction.
verb
adj
- severe and unremitting in making demands
- (of rules) stringently enforced
- characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
- incapable of compromise or flexibility
- rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
- (set theory, order theory) Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
- Tense; not relaxed.
- (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
- Strained; drawn close; tight.
- Severe in discipline.
- Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
- Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
- Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
noun
- Urgent insistence.
- The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
- The application of pressure by a press or other means.
- A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
- A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
- The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
- A metal or plastic part made with a press.
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
- a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
adj
verb
adj
- (with on) Determined or insistent; inclined, set.
- (with about) Annoyed; out of sorts; having a bee in one's bonnet.
- (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
- (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
- (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
- (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
- (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
- (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
- of metal e.g.
- used of the back and knees; stooped
- fixed in your purpose
noun
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- An inclination or talent.
- Bentgrass (Agrostis spp.).
- Old dried stalks of grasses.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- a special way of doing something
- grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- an area of grassland unbounded by fences or hedges
verb
adj
- consisting of or having the hardness of adamant
- impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
- having the hardness of a diamond
- Made of adamant (“an unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness”).
- Incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; impenetrable, unbreakable.
- Of a person: refusing to change one's mind; obstinate, stubborn.
- (chiefly mineralogy) Like diamond in lustre; bright, lustrous, shiny; also, of a lustre: like that of a mineral with a high refractive index such as diamond.
- Difficult to defeat or prevail over; unshakable, unyielding.