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noun
- A section.
- (climbing) An area of a crag, consisting of various routes
- (geometry) A portion of a sphere or ball defined by a conical boundary with apex at the center of the sphere.
- (motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
- (engineering) A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
- (military) One of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier.
- A field of economic activity.
- (aviation) In the schedule for an aircraft and its crew, the period starting with preparation of the plane before loading at one airport and ending with deplaning at the next.
- (micronationalism) A community or subculture within the wider intermicronational community.
- (geometry) Part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector.
- (science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
- (military) An area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible.
- (computer hardware) A fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium.
- (calculation) An instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
- the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
- a social group that forms part of the society or the economy
- measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
- a portion of a military position
- a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
- a particular aspect of life or activity
adj
- Relating to a section.
- Separating into sections.
- consisting of or divided into sections
- Relating to conflict between areas.
- related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
- relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
noun
- (music) A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
- An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
- (sports) A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
- (aviation) A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
- a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
noun
- A section of a document.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
noun
- A defined part of a section.
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- (law) A subpart of a legal document such as law.
- (taxonomy, botany) A taxonomic rank below section and above species.
- (taxonomy, zoology) An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
verb
noun
- an intermediate part or section
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
- the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- A centre, midpoint.
- The part between the beginning and the end.
- (politics) the center of the political spectrum.
- (grammar) The middle voice.
- (cricket) The middle stump.
- The central part of a human body; the waist.
adj
- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
- of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
- between an earlier and a later period of time
- equally distant from the extremes
- Central.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.
- Located in the middle; in between.
verb
noun
- Main section.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (countable) The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- (countable) Any physical object or material thing.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- (countable) A corpse.
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the central message of a communication
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- the external structure of a vehicle
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- the main mass of a thing
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
verb
noun
- a final part or section
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
adv
adj
- (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).
- (music) Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Stooping; bent over.
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- twice as great or many
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- large enough for two
noun
- (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- (cricket) The achievement of 1000 runs and 100 wickets taken in a single season.
- (Christianity) A double feast.
- (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- (programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
- (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- (rowing) A boat for two scullers.
- (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”).
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- (music) A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- (darts) A hit on this ring.
- (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- (baseball) A two-base hit.
- (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
- (billiards, snooker) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
verb
- (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- (intransitive) To serve a second role or have a second purpose. [with as]
- (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- (theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- (transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.
- (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (transitive, often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- (espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.
- (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- (ambitransitive, sometimes with "for") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- (card games, intransitive) To double down.
- (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- (transitive) To multiply by two.
- (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- increase twofold
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make or do or perform again
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
noun
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- a journey usually by ship
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- the act of passing something to another person
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- An incident or episode.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- The advance of time.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- Part of a path or journey.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
adj
verb
prefix
noun
- A slice, section or portion.
- (pensions) A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules.
- (finance) One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities.
- (insurance) A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments.
- a portion of something (especially money)
verb
noun
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- an area composed of subdivided lots
- (Philippines) A gated community located within a barangay.
- (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
- (countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
- (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.
- (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
verb
noun
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
- (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
- (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- (computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
- (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- the distance or interval between two points
- the complete duration of something
- two items of the same kind
verb
- (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
- (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
- (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
- (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
- (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
prep
- Through or around all the parts of.
- While doing an activity involving (something), especially while consuming.
- (informal, for 'over at/in/on') At or near (a location seen as 'across' from the speaker's location).
- Indicating relative status, authority, or power
- Across, from one side to the other.
- Expressing causation: due to, as the result of.
- Above, implying superiority after a contest; in spite of; notwithstanding.
- To a greater degree than.
- On the other side of.
- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
- In a position of having overcome (a problem or issue); past; finished with; from one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
- Across (something) and then downwards.
- (mathematics) Divided by.
- Concerning or regarding.
- Above; higher than; further up than.
- (poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.
- (music, more common in speech) Separates the primary chord of a slash chord from the bass note
- During or throughout (a time period).
- More than (a given value, amount, limit etc.); beyond; past; exceeding.
- On top of; in such a way as to cover.
- (in certain collocations) As compared to.
- Across, so as to pass above.
- Through or via (a particular transmission medium).
adj
- (professional wrestling slang) Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.
- (informal) Visiting one's home or other location.
- (botany) Of a flower: wilting or withering.
- Having surmounted an obstacle.
- Surplus to requirements.
- Finished; ended; concluded.
- (informal, of an ongoing situation) Hopeless; irrecoverable.
- (informal) Having an excess in a particular respect.
- having come or been brought to a conclusion
adv
- Beyond or in excess of what is correct or expected.
- Up one side of something, across, and then down the other side.
- So as to reverse up/down orientation, or otherwise change orientation by rotating.
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- On top of something, or so as to cover something.
- (often in compounds) To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.
- Overnight (throughout the night).
- Across from one side of something to the other.
- Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
- Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
- Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
- So as to pass above.
- (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
- So as to fold towards or onto itself.
- From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
- See also individual entries for phrasal verbs: go over, hand over, run over, take over, win over, etc.
- So as to reverse or exchange position(s).
- Used for rhetorical effect to reinforce that something was done the stated number of times.
- Across something, such as an edge, and then downwards.
- To a future time.
- beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position
- at or to a point across intervening space etc.
- throughout a period of time
- over the entire area
- throughout an area
intj
noun
- (gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
- (informal) Something having an excess of a particular property.
- Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
- (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
- (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
prefix
- across, through, throughout
- adjacent, next to
- avoiding or avoidant
- resembling
- around, surrounding
- incorrect
- (organic chemistry) In isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in opposite (1,4) positions (compare ortho- and meta-)
- abnormal
- above, over
- opposite of, on the far side of
- near
- beyond
- disability sport
- false
- between
- beside, alongside
- unrecognized, unauthorized, or unsanctioned
- parachute
- related or pertaining to
- affecting or concerning lower body
noun
- An inner part.
- A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
- (UK politics) One who supports remaining in the European Union.
- (South Africa) A duvet, excluding the cover.
- (military, firearms) The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
- (cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
adj
- Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
- Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
- Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
- Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
- Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
- Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
- located inward
- confined to an exclusive group
- located or occurring within or closer to a center
- exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence
- innermost or essential
- inside or closer to the inside of the body
noun
- a section of something that is long and narrow
- the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
- size of the gap between two places
- continuance in time
- the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- Duration.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
- (slang) A penis.
adj
noun
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
- (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- (architecture) A cella.
- (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- any small compartment
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
verb
noun
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
- the limb of an animal used for food
- a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
- (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- one of the supports for a piece of furniture
- a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
- (electricity) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
- (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
- Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”).
- (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
- A stage of a journey, race etc.
- (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
- (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
- (geometry) One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.
- In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
- (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
- Alternative spelling of leg..
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
- (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- (gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).
- (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
- (figurative) Something that supports.
- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
- (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
- (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
- An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
adj
verb
noun
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
- the theater as a profession (usually ‘the stage’)
- a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
- a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
- (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
- (cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.
- (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
- (metonymic, uncountable, with "the") The profession of an actor.
- (Canada, Quebec) An internship.
- A phase.
- (video games) A level; one of the areas making up the game.
- A floor or storey of a house.
verb
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
- (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- (intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.
- (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
- (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
- (astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
- (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
- (intransitive, Canada, US) To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.
verb
- cover the interior of
- fill plentifully
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- mark with lines
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
- (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- (transitive) To form a line along.
- (rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- (transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
noun
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- acting in conformity
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- a short personal letter
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a telephone connection
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
- (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- (genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- A verse (in poetry).
- (geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, thread, or cable, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- (soccer) The goal line.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A hose, tube, or pipe, of any size.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.
- (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- (informal) A portion or serving of a powdery recreational drug, especially cocaine, formed into a line on a flat surface in preparation for snorting.
- (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
- (advertising) Ellipsis of agate line (one fourteenth of an inch).
- One twelfth of an inch.
- (especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- A clothesline.
- (automotive) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- (music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- Direction, path.
- (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; a railroad line, railway line, Elizabeth Line etc.
prep
- Throughout.
- From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
- Spanning.
- At or near the far end of (a space).
- So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
- In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
- On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
- To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
adv
noun
verb
noun
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A bishop's council.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- A chapter house
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
- a series of related events forming an episode
- a local branch of some fraternity or association
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life
noun
- a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text
- metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth
- A screw with a cross-shaped indentation for gripping and turning, as opposed to a flathead.
- (journalism) Large text, like a headline but typically drawn from the article, placed partway through the article to break it up visually.
- (musical notation) A note with an x-shaped notehead, indicating a non-tonal sound such as a drumbeat or a rapped syllable.
- (mechanical engineering) A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine.
verb
- contain as a part
- have as a necessary feature
- connect closely and often incriminatingly
- make complex or intricate or complicated
- require as useful, just, or proper
- occupy or engage the interest of
- engage as a participant
- (figuratively) To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation.
- To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.
- To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
- (specifically, also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship.
- (specifically) To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply.
verb
noun
- (medicine) A sheath that surrounds a limb and which is used under a cast.
- (fishing) An optional wrap that goes under the guide wrap on a fishing rod.
- (sewing) The portion of a garment that is overlapped by another portion, such as the hidden part of a wrap skirt or the edge that holds buttons which is hidden when a garment is buttoned up.
- (medicine) A lightweight foam that is applied to the skin to reduce irritation before wrapping with supportive tape.
- An undergarment that consists of a cloth wrapped around the body.
noun
- A section.
- (climbing) An area of a crag, consisting of various routes
- (geometry) A portion of a sphere or ball defined by a conical boundary with apex at the center of the sphere.
- (motor racing) A fixed, continuous section of the track, such that sectors do not overlap but all sectors make up the whole track.
- (engineering) A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
- (military) One of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier.
- A field of economic activity.
- (aviation) In the schedule for an aircraft and its crew, the period starting with preparation of the plane before loading at one airport and ending with deplaning at the next.
- (micronationalism) A community or subculture within the wider intermicronational community.
- (geometry) Part of a circle, extending to the center; circular sector.
- (science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
- (military) An area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible.
- (computer hardware) A fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium.
- (calculation) An instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
- the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
- a social group that forms part of the society or the economy
- measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
- a portion of a military position
- a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
- a particular aspect of life or activity
noun
- A section of a document.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- Duty; responsibility.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
noun
- A defined part of a section.
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- (law) A subpart of a legal document such as law.
- (taxonomy, botany) A taxonomic rank below section and above species.
- (taxonomy, zoology) An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
verb
noun
- an intermediate part or section
- the middle area of the human torso (usually in front)
- the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- A centre, midpoint.
- The part between the beginning and the end.
- (politics) the center of the political spectrum.
- (grammar) The middle voice.
- (cricket) The middle stump.
- The central part of a human body; the waist.
adj
- being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
- of a stage in the development of a language or literature between earlier and later stages
- between an earlier and a later period of time
- equally distant from the extremes
- Central.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.
- Located in the middle; in between.
verb
noun
- Main section.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (countable) The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- (countable) Any physical object or material thing.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- (countable) A corpse.
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the central message of a communication
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- the external structure of a vehicle
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- the main mass of a thing
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
verb
noun
- a final part or section
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- a journey usually by ship
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- the act of passing something to another person
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- An incident or episode.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- The advance of time.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- Part of a path or journey.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
adj
verb
noun
- A slice, section or portion.
- (pensions) A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules.
- (finance) One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities.
- (insurance) A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments.
- a portion of something (especially money)
verb
noun
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- an area composed of subdivided lots
- (Philippines) A gated community located within a barangay.
- (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
- (countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
- (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.
- (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
verb
noun
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
- (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
- (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- (computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
- (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- the distance or interval between two points
- the complete duration of something
- two items of the same kind
verb
- (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
- (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
- (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
- (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
- (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
noun
- An inner part.
- A forward who plays in or near the center of the field.
- (UK politics) One who supports remaining in the European Union.
- (South Africa) A duvet, excluding the cover.
- (military, firearms) The 2nd circle on a target, between the bull (or bull's eye) and magpie.
- (cricket) A thin glove worn inside batting gloves or wicket-keeping gloves.
adj
- Inside or closer to the inside of the body.
- Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.
- Of mind or spirit, relating to the mind or spirit, to spiritual or mental processes, mental, spiritual, relating to somebody's private feelings or happening in somebody's mind, existing as an often repressed part of one's psychological makeup.
- Close to the centre, located near or closer to center.
- Not obvious, private, not expressed, not apparent, hidden, less apparent, deeper, obscure; innermost or essential; needing to be examined closely or thought about in order to be seen or understood.
- Privileged, more or most privileged, more or most influential, intimate, exclusive, more important, more intimate, private, secret, confined to an exclusive group, exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence being near a center especially of influence.
- located inward
- confined to an exclusive group
- located or occurring within or closer to a center
- exclusive to a center; especially a center of influence
- innermost or essential
- inside or closer to the inside of the body
noun
- a section of something that is long and narrow
- the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
- size of the gap between two places
- continuance in time
- the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- Duration.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
- (slang) A penis.
noun
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
- (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- (architecture) A cella.
- (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- any small compartment
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
verb
noun
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
- the limb of an animal used for food
- a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
- (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- one of the supports for a piece of furniture
- a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
- (electricity) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
- (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
- Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”).
- (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
- A stage of a journey, race etc.
- (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
- (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
- (geometry) One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.
- In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
- (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
- Alternative spelling of leg..
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
- (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- (gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).
- (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
- (figurative) Something that supports.
- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
- (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
- (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
- An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
adj
verb
noun
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
- the theater as a profession (usually ‘the stage’)
- a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
- a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
- (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
- (cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.
- (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
- (metonymic, uncountable, with "the") The profession of an actor.
- (Canada, Quebec) An internship.
- A phase.
- (video games) A level; one of the areas making up the game.
- A floor or storey of a house.
verb
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
- (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- (intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.
- (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
- (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
- (astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
- (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
- (intransitive, Canada, US) To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.
noun
- a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text
- metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth
- A screw with a cross-shaped indentation for gripping and turning, as opposed to a flathead.
- (journalism) Large text, like a headline but typically drawn from the article, placed partway through the article to break it up visually.
- (musical notation) A note with an x-shaped notehead, indicating a non-tonal sound such as a drumbeat or a rapped syllable.
- (mechanical engineering) A metal beam that connects a piston to a connecting rod in an engine.
noun
- A defined part of a section.
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- (law) A subpart of a legal document such as law.
- (taxonomy, botany) A taxonomic rank below section and above species.
- (taxonomy, zoology) An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
verb
verb
- cover the interior of
- fill plentifully
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- mark with lines
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
- (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- (transitive) To form a line along.
- (rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- (transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
noun
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- acting in conformity
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- a short personal letter
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a telephone connection
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
- (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- (genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- A verse (in poetry).
- (geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, thread, or cable, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- (soccer) The goal line.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A hose, tube, or pipe, of any size.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.
- (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- (informal) A portion or serving of a powdery recreational drug, especially cocaine, formed into a line on a flat surface in preparation for snorting.
- (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
- (advertising) Ellipsis of agate line (one fourteenth of an inch).
- One twelfth of an inch.
- (especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- A clothesline.
- (automotive) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- (music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- Direction, path.
- (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; a railroad line, railway line, Elizabeth Line etc.
verb
noun
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A bishop's council.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- A chapter house
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
- a series of related events forming an episode
- a local branch of some fraternity or association
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life
verb
- contain as a part
- have as a necessary feature
- connect closely and often incriminatingly
- make complex or intricate or complicated
- require as useful, just, or proper
- occupy or engage the interest of
- engage as a participant
- (figuratively) To entangle, intertwine, or mingle (something with one or more other things, or several things together); especially, to entangle (someone or something) in a confusing or troublesome situation.
- To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include.
- To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.
- (specifically, also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to engage (someone or oneself) in an emotional or sexual relationship.
- (specifically) To include (something) as a logical or natural, or necessary component, or consequence or effect of something else; to entail, to imply.
verb
noun
- (medicine) A sheath that surrounds a limb and which is used under a cast.
- (fishing) An optional wrap that goes under the guide wrap on a fishing rod.
- (sewing) The portion of a garment that is overlapped by another portion, such as the hidden part of a wrap skirt or the edge that holds buttons which is hidden when a garment is buttoned up.
- (medicine) A lightweight foam that is applied to the skin to reduce irritation before wrapping with supportive tape.
- An undergarment that consists of a cloth wrapped around the body.
adv
adj
- (music) Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Designed for two (people, cars, etc.).
- (music) Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Stooping; bent over.
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- twice as great or many
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- large enough for two
noun
- (music) Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- (cricket) The achievement of 1000 runs and 100 wickets taken in a single season.
- (Christianity) A double feast.
- (dominoes) A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- (soccer) Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- (darts) The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- (programming) A double-precision floating-point number.
- (historical) A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- (rowing) A boat for two scullers.
- (bridge) A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”).
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- (music) A secondary instrument with which a musician is skilled.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- (darts) A hit on this ring.
- (sports) The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (sports, chiefly swimming and track) The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- (baseball) A two-base hit.
- (historical, Guernsey) A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
- (billiards, snooker) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
verb
- (music, intransitive, usually followed by "on") To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- (intransitive) To serve a second role or have a second purpose. [with as]
- (intransitive) To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- (theater) To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- (transitive) To fold over so as to make two folds.
- (radio, informal, of a station) To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- (military) To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- (nautical) To sail around (a headland or other point).
- (transitive) To repeat exactly; copy.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (transitive, often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- (espionage, intransitive) To operate as a double agent.
- (transitive) To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- (music) To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- (ambitransitive, sometimes with "for") To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- (card games, intransitive) To double down.
- (bridge) To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- (intransitive) To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- (transitive) To multiply by two.
- (baseball) To get a two-base hit.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
- (intransitive) To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- hit a two-base hit
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- increase twofold
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make or do or perform again
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
adj
- Relating to a section.
- Separating into sections.
- consisting of or divided into sections
- Relating to conflict between areas.
- related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people
- relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane)
noun
- (music) A band sectional, in which one section of a band or orchestra practices separately.
- An item of furniture composed of modular sections; usually specifically a sectional sofa.
- (sports) A tournament or match held at the section level, typically between the regionals and the championships.
- (aviation) A sectional chart, a type of map used for navigation in the air.
- a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together