Palabras en English para 'discuss lightly'
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verb
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- discuss lightly
- be around; be alive or active
- treat badly; abuse
- To abuse or mistreat; to bully; to be rough with.
- (usually in the present continuous) To wander loose; to float around; to hang around; to exist; to remain unexploited or unused.
- (of an idea or proposal) To discuss informally; to consider or distribute.
noun
verb
- (transitive, informal) To discuss.
- To have a team's first batter of the inning come to bat for a second time (after all of the others in the batting line-up have batted). (See the usage note below.)
- (intransitive, informal) To waste time; to idle or loaf.
- (intransitive, baseball) To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.
- (intransitive, informal) To flit quickly from place to place.
verb
- discuss or mention
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talk, about.
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- (idiomatic, colloquial, imperative) Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
- (idiomatic, colloquial, usually in the present progressive) Used to draw attention to the speaker's approval or affirmation of someone or something.
noun
- Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
- (electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
- A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
- Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
- (biology) The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
- the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling
verb
noun
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- (uncountable) News; tidings.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
- (computing) With regards to Intel or Intel-compatible hardware and/or in the context of Windows programming, a group of exactly 16 bits regardless of the actual processor capabilities; a fossilized unit referring to the small word size of historical CPUs.
- (meiosis) A minor reprimand.
- (in the plural) See words.
- (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- (semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- an exchange of views on some topic
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- a promise
- information about recent and important events
- a verbal command for action
- a unit of language that native speakers can identify
- a string of bits stored in computer memory
- a brief statement
intj
verb
verb
- speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
- (transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
prep_phrase
noun
- discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- a speech that is open to the public
- idle gossip or rumor
- an exchange of ideas via conversation
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- A lecture.
verb
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- express in speech
- use language
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- deliver a lecture or talk
- reveal information
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
verb
- To discuss or debate.
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
- (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
- (West Country) To take root and begin to grow.
- To bring up as a subject for debate.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.
- think about carefully; weigh
adj
- (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
- (Canada, US) Having no practical consequence or relevance.
- open to argument or debate
- of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)
noun
- A moot court.
- (Australia) The vagina.
- (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- (Scotland, Northern England, rustic) Talk.
- (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- (Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
- (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
- a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
adj
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
- (crosswording) An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
- (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
- (linguistics) Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- (film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- (grammar) The stem of a word.
verb
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
- (Internet) Discussion thread.
- Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
- (computing) A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
noun
- an informal conversation
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- birds having a chattering call
- songbirds having a chattering call
intj
verb
noun
- (countable, uncountable, informal, by extension, mineralogy) Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
- (chemistry) A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
- (countable) A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.
- (slang) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
- (slang) thiopental (sodium pentothal)
- (countable, informal) A soap opera.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
- money offered as a bribe
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verb
verb
noun
verb
- speak with spotty or superficial knowledge
- work with in an amateurish manner
- to talk foolishly
- To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.
- To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.
- (by extension, US) To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
- (US) To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
noun
noun
- Discussion or deliberation.
- (UK, metonymic) A local authority.
- (Christianity) Short for church council
- A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
- a meeting of people for consultation
- a body serving in an administrative capacity
- (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine
noun
- A conversation or dialogue.
- formal conversation
- A written discourse.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
verb
noun
- an informal conversation
- (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
- (informal) An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion.
- (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism.
- A casual conversation; a chat.
prep
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- At or in (a geographical location or position).
- At (a relative spatial position).
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Serving as a member of.
- Under the influence of (a drug, or something that is causing drug-like effects).
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- (snooker) In a position of being able to pot (a given ball).
- (also often 'upon') Arrived or coming into the presence of.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At (an instant or cusp).
- Aboard (a mode of transport, especially public transport, or transport that one sits astride or uses while standing).
- Expressing figurative placement, burden, or attachment.
- At (a certain position within a sequence).
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything By means of; with.
- Covering.
- (mathematics) Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for the specified set V and some integer n.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- (mathematics, uncommon) Divided by.
- (especially Ireland) Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- (UK) At (a certain value or level).
- With verbs describing an action of pushing, pulling, pressing, etc., designates the thing to which force is applied.
- (also often 'upon') At the time of (and often because of).
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without.
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Because of; upon the basis of (something not yet confirmed as true).
- (informal) In the possession of.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- (philosophy, logic) According to, from the standpoint of; (expressing what must follow, whether accepted or not, if a given premise or system is assumed true).
- (UK, especially in sports reporting) At (a given time after the start of something).
- Near; adjacent to; alongside; just off.
- Paid for by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- (especially when numbers of combatants or competitors are specified) Against; in opposition to.
- At or during the date or day of.
- (mathematics) Having as identical domain and codomain.
- (nautical) In the direction of (some part of one's vessel), to within 45 degrees.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Indicating a means of subsistence or sustenance.
- (mathematics) Generated by.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- (informal, chiefly in set phrases) Ellipsis of I swear on: on my life, on God, on everything, etc.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- With verbs describing an action of hitting, rubbing, scratching, binding against, etc., designates the thing impacted or contacted.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
adj
- (euphemistic) Menstruating.
- (chiefly UK, informal, chiefly in the negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
- (snooker, postpositive) Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
- (informal) Of a person, used to express agreement to or acceptance of a proposal or challenge made by that person; most commonly with subject "you" (see you're on).
- (acting, drama, roleplaying games) Acting in character.
- (chiefly in the negative) Possible; capable of being successfully carried out.
- Fitted; covering or being worn.
- (cricket) Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- (informal, of a person) Performative or funny in a wearying manner.
- (e.g. of points in a game) Available; remaining.
- (postpositive) Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- in operation or operational
- (of events) planned or scheduled
adv
- (infrequent in the US) Later.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
- (snooker) Of a ball, into a pottable position.
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action), onwards.
- To an operating state.
- indicates continuity or persistence or concentration
- in a state required for something to function or be effective
- with a forward motion
noun
verb
adv
- Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation.
- Gravely; deeply; very much.
- Used to call back to a previous point, in disbelief or for emphasis.
- (informal) In an extreme or major way; majorly.
- (manner) In a serious or literal manner.
- to a severe or serious degree
- in a serious manner
noun
- light informal conversation for social occasions
- a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
- a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
- (now only historical) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of one's child or godchild, or the parent of one's godchild.
- (computing) Communication done using a gossip protocol.
- (uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially about someone not present.
- (uncountable) A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
- (uncountable) Idle conversation in general.
- (countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.
verb
- wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.
- (intransitive, computing) To communicate using a gossip protocol.
noun
- Tone, as of a conversation.
- (colloquial, music) A tenor saxophone.
- That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
- The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.
- A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
- (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
- (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
- (law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
- (music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
- Stamp; character; nature.
- an adult male with a tenor voice
- the pitch range of the highest male voice
- the adult male singing voice above baritone
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
adj
noun
- (loosely) The topic itself.
- (derogatory, especially in phrases such as 'on/off one's soapbox') A figurative means of talking repeatedly or at length about one's opinions on one's pet topic.
- (figuratively, often pejorative) A platform or outlet, such as a media platform, that a person uses to express his or her opinions.
- (literally) A crate for packing soap.
- A soapbox car.
- A small platform, being or resembling a literal soapbox, on which a person stands in order to give an impromptu speech or espouse his or her views.
- a crate for packing soap
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
verb
adj
noun
noun
- a discussion that provides additional information
- developing in intricate and painstaking detail
- the result of improving something
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
- (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.
- The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order
- The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
noun
- Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
- (electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
- A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
- Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
- (biology) The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
- the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling
verb
noun
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- (uncountable) News; tidings.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
- (computing) With regards to Intel or Intel-compatible hardware and/or in the context of Windows programming, a group of exactly 16 bits regardless of the actual processor capabilities; a fossilized unit referring to the small word size of historical CPUs.
- (meiosis) A minor reprimand.
- (in the plural) See words.
- (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- (semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
- an exchange of views on some topic
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- a promise
- information about recent and important events
- a verbal command for action
- a unit of language that native speakers can identify
- a string of bits stored in computer memory
- a brief statement
intj
verb
noun
- discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- a speech that is open to the public
- idle gossip or rumor
- an exchange of ideas via conversation
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- A lecture.
verb
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- express in speech
- use language
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- deliver a lecture or talk
- reveal information
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
adj
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
verb
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
- (crosswording) An additional puzzle within the crossword, typically involving a set of non-standard clues or answers.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- (music) The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- (linguistics) Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
- (linguistics) Topic, what is generally being talked about.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
- (linguistics) Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- (film, television, video games) A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- (grammar) The stem of a word.
verb
noun
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- some situation or event that is thought about
- (music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
- (Internet) Discussion thread.
- Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
- (computing) A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
adj
noun
- Discussion or deliberation.
- (UK, metonymic) A local authority.
- (Christianity) Short for church council
- A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
- a meeting of people for consultation
- a body serving in an administrative capacity
- (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine
noun
- A conversation or dialogue.
- formal conversation
- A written discourse.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
verb
verb
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
noun
- an informal conversation
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- birds having a chattering call
- songbirds having a chattering call
intj
noun
- an informal conversation
- (psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
- (informal) An assertion, statement, or text generated by a generative AI that is presented by that AI as if it were true but is in fact a made-up, false notion.
- (psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true, especially in someone with dementia or with encephalopathy from advanced alcoholism.
- A casual conversation; a chat.
noun
- light informal conversation for social occasions
- a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
- a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people
- (now only historical) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of one's child or godchild, or the parent of one's godchild.
- (computing) Communication done using a gossip protocol.
- (uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially about someone not present.
- (uncountable) A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
- (uncountable) Idle conversation in general.
- (countable) Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business.
verb
- wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- (intransitive) To talk idly.
- (intransitive) To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information.
- (intransitive, computing) To communicate using a gossip protocol.
noun
- Tone, as of a conversation.
- (colloquial, music) A tenor saxophone.
- That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
- The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.
- A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
- (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
- (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
- (law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
- (music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
- Stamp; character; nature.
- an adult male with a tenor voice
- the pitch range of the highest male voice
- the adult male singing voice above baritone
- the general meaning or substance of an utterance
- a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
adj
noun
- (loosely) The topic itself.
- (derogatory, especially in phrases such as 'on/off one's soapbox') A figurative means of talking repeatedly or at length about one's opinions on one's pet topic.
- (figuratively, often pejorative) A platform or outlet, such as a media platform, that a person uses to express his or her opinions.
- (literally) A crate for packing soap.
- A soapbox car.
- A small platform, being or resembling a literal soapbox, on which a person stands in order to give an impromptu speech or espouse his or her views.
- a crate for packing soap
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
verb
noun
- a discussion that provides additional information
- developing in intricate and painstaking detail
- the result of improving something
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- (electronics) The process of taking a parsed tree of an abstract integrated circuit definition in a language such as Verilog and creating a hierarchy of module instances that ends with primitive (atomic) gates and statements.
- (psychology) The level of processing of a message or argument.
- The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order
- The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
- (computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further down in the hierarchy.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- discuss lightly
- be around; be alive or active
- treat badly; abuse
- To abuse or mistreat; to bully; to be rough with.
- (usually in the present continuous) To wander loose; to float around; to hang around; to exist; to remain unexploited or unused.
- (of an idea or proposal) To discuss informally; to consider or distribute.
noun
verb
- (transitive, informal) To discuss.
- To have a team's first batter of the inning come to bat for a second time (after all of the others in the batting line-up have batted). (See the usage note below.)
- (intransitive, informal) To waste time; to idle or loaf.
- (intransitive, baseball) To have each of a team's batting line-up positions complete an at-bat in the same half-inning.
- (intransitive, informal) To flit quickly from place to place.
verb
- discuss or mention
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talk, about.
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- (idiomatic, colloquial, imperative) Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
- (idiomatic, colloquial, usually in the present progressive) Used to draw attention to the speaker's approval or affirmation of someone or something.
verb
- speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- (transitive) To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.
- (transitive, law) To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.
verb
- To discuss or debate.
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- (US) To make or declare irrelevant.
- (West Country) To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
- (West Country) To take root and begin to grow.
- To bring up as a subject for debate.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To say, utter, also insinuate.
- think about carefully; weigh
adj
- (Canada, US, chiefly law) Being an exercise of thought; academic.
- (current in UK, rare in the US) Subject to discussion (originally at a moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
- (Canada, US) Having no practical consequence or relevance.
- open to argument or debate
- of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)
noun
- A moot court.
- (Australia) The vagina.
- (historical) An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- (Scotland, Northern England) A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- (Scotland, Northern England, rustic) Talk.
- (West Country) The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- (Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
- (shipbuilding) A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- (paganism) A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- (scouting) A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting two weeks.
- a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
verb
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
noun
- an informal conversation
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- birds having a chattering call
- songbirds having a chattering call
intj
noun
- discussion; (‘talk about’ is a less formal alternative for ‘discussion of’)
- A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- a speech that is open to the public
- idle gossip or rumor
- an exchange of ideas via conversation
- the act of giving a talk to an audience
- (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
- A customary conversation in which parent(s) explain sexual intercourse to their child.
- (uncountable) Gossip; rumour.
- (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- (usually in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- (US) A customary conversation in which the parent(s) of a black child explain the racism and violence they may face, especially when interacting with police, and strategies to manage it.
- A lecture.
verb
- (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.
- express in speech
- use language
- exchange thoughts; talk with
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- deliver a lecture or talk
- reveal information
- (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
- (transitive) To speak (a certain language).
- (intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.
- (transitive) To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- (transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- (informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
verb
noun
- (countable, uncountable, informal, by extension, mineralogy) Some other substance, often a detergent or another surfactant, able to mix with both oil and water, used for cleaning.
- (chemistry) A metallic salt derived from a fatty acid, commonly used in cleaning products.
- (countable) A solid masonry unit or brick reduced in depth or height from standard dimensions.
- (slang) Money, specially when used as a bribe.
- (slang) thiopental (sodium pentothal)
- (countable, informal) A soap opera.
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
- money offered as a bribe
noun
- Conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion.
- (electronics) Undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits.
- A traditional Chinese comedic performance in the form of a dialogue.
- Communication between parties who have extremely different perspectives.
- (biology) The situation where one or more components of a signal transduction pathway affect another pathway.
- the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling
verb
verb
noun
verb
- speak with spotty or superficial knowledge
- work with in an amateurish manner
- to talk foolishly
- To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.
- To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.
- (by extension, US) To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
- (US) To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
noun
adv
- Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation.
- Gravely; deeply; very much.
- Used to call back to a previous point, in disbelief or for emphasis.
- (informal) In an extreme or major way; majorly.
- (manner) In a serious or literal manner.
- to a severe or serious degree
- in a serious manner