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noun
- The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- number of people in a particular group
- More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. (Generally used adjectivally.)
- The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
- By extension, one slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.
noun
- a meeting devoted to a particular activity
- a meeting for execution of a group's functions
- the time during which a school holds classes
- a meeting of spiritualists
- (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
- (Presbyterianism) The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
- (music) Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
- (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
- (education) An academic term; semester; school year.
- (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
- An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
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noun
noun
- Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
- (India, euphemistic) A donation made to an educational institution to obtain admission.
- A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
- A head tax.
- a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person
noun
- A meeting or gathering.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- (diplomacy) an international agreement
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- a large formal assembly
- the act of convening
- something regarded as a normative example
verb
- be in session
- be located or situated somewhere
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- work or act as a baby-sitter
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- take a seat
- serve in a specific professional capacity
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside
- (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
- To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
- (government, law) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
- (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
- (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
- (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
- To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
- To be adjusted; to fit.
- To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
- (US, ambitransitive) To babysit.
- (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
- (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
- To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
noun
noun
- the number of people that are present
- A tally or listing of the persons present.
- the frequency with which a person is present
- the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)
- Maid service.
- The frequency with which one has been present for a regular activity or set of events.
- The act of attending; the state of being present; presence.
noun
- An assembly or meeting.
- (ecclesiastical) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
- An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
- The act of calling or assembling by summons.
- (collective) A flock of eagles.
- a group gathered in response to a summons
- the act of convoking
noun
- (history, countable) A specific session of such an assembly.
- (history, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.
noun
- (countable) A short meeting throughout which participants remain standing (to encourage brevity).
- (uncountable) A performance of stand-up comedy; jokes delivered standing on a stage
- (countable) A news broadcast delivered by an announcer who is filmed standing near the scene of the event.
- (countable) A comedian who performs on stage.
- (countable) A free-standing photographic print or promotional item; a standee.
adj
noun
- (countable) A demonstration.
- (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A project or presentation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural exhibition.
- (military, slang) A battle; local conflict.
- Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
- (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- (countable) A movie.
- (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- (countable) An exhibition of items.
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment
- something intended to communicate a particular impression
verb
- (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
- (intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.
- (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- (transitive) To guide or escort.
- (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
- (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give expression to
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- give evidence of, as of records
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- be or become visible or noticeable
- finish third or better in a horse or dog race
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- make visible or noticeable
- provide evidence for
- take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
noun
- (countable) A conversation.
- (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
- (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
- (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
- (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
- (Internet, uncountable) Lengthy, often heated debate over controversial subject matter, particularly within fandom and activist spaces. Sometimes rendered as a proper noun with the definite article (i.e. "the Discourse").
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
verb
- (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
- To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
- carry on a conversation
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- talk at length and formally about a topic
noun
- (informal) A meeting.
- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
- a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
verb
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To come together in conflict.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- collect in one place
- undergo or suffer
- experience as a reaction
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- come together
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- be adjacent or come together
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- get to know; get acquainted with
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
adj
noun
- A coming together; a meeting.
- (now especially) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
- (India) A Christian school.
- A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
- A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
- The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
noun
- (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
- a group of people who work together
- (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
- (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
- (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
- (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
- an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
- the act of forming or establishing something
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business
noun
- a person who is present and participates in a meeting
- an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.
- That which accompanies or follows.
- A servant or valet.
- (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.
adj
noun
- a person who is present and participates in a meeting
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- someone who listens attentively
- (metaphysics) The subject; one who experiences.
- An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
- An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
noun
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a manifestation of insincerity
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
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verb
- (transitive) To feign.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
- be suitable for theatrical performance
noun
- A meeting or date.
- An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
- A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
- (astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex
- a meeting planned at a certain time and place
- a place where people meet
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verb
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- (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- (uncountable) Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- (grammar) An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- (uncountable) Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
- (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- (countable) A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
- the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
- words making up the dialogue of a play
- the exchange of spoken words
- a lengthy rebuke
- (language) communication by word of mouth
- something spoken
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
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noun
adj
- Having two sides.
- (of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
- (anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family (bilateral linearity).
- Involving both sides equally.
- Having bilateral symmetry.
- affecting or undertaken by two parties
- having identical parts on each side of an axis
- having two sides or parts
noun
- The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
- (minced oath, slang) Cunt (the taboo swear word)
- (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
- A countdown.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
- (law) A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
- The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
- The male ruler of a county.
- A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
- the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
- a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl
- the total number counted
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verb
- (intransitive, figurative, passive-like) To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
- (intransitive, figurative, passive-like) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
- (transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
- (intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.
- (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
- (transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
- (transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
- have a certain value or carry a certain weight
- have weight; have import, carry weight
- have faith or confidence in
- put into a group
- name or recite the numbers in ascending order
- determine the number or amount of
- take account of
- include as if by counting
- show consideration for; take into account
noun
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- (countable) Something heard; a report or piece of news.
- (uncountable) The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- the act of hearing attentively
- an opportunity to state your case and be heard
- (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
- a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken
- the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
- the range within which a voice can be heard
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verb
noun
- A meeting place.
- (physiology) The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range.
- (mathematics) The process or property of approaching some limiting value; typically of an infinite series.
- The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT.
- (economics) The hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes tend to grow faster than richer economies.
- (meteorology) A zone where two prevailing wind flows meet and interact, resulting in distinctive weather conditions.
- The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
- (biology) The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution.
- The act of moving toward union or uniformity.
- the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit
- the act of converging (coming closer)
- the occurrence of two or more things coming together
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
noun
- A tally.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
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noun
- formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action
- outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- the act of appearing in public view
- the event of coming into sight
- a mental representation
- (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
- (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
- A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
- (law) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
- The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
- The way something looks; personal presence
- Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
noun
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
- preserve of crushed fruit
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
noun
- Count, tally.
- (cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
- An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
- (historical) A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
- a periodic count of the population
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noun
- (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
- Allotment; lottery.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
- A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
- any collection in its entirety
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
noun
- the people who are present in a room
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- space for movement
- opportunity for
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
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noun
- (countable) A karaoke session.
- (uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.
- (countable) A karaoke parlour.
- (exercise) An exercise in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other while walking sideways to stretch various parts of the lower body and core.
- singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs)
verb
noun
- the person who convenes a meeting
- a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance
- the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands
- a social or business visitor
- someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice
- an investor who buys a call option
- the person initiating a telephone call
- A visitor.
- (dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
- (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
- (telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.
- (programming) A function that calls another (the callee).
- A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
adj
noun
- (countable, law) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.
- (countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
- (uncountable) High society.
- (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
- (countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
- (uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
- the state of being with someone
- the fashionable elite
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
noun
- (countable) An act of preparing something to begin.
- (programming) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
- (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
noun
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- A point in time.
- One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
- (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- The date palm.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- the specified day of the month
- the present
verb
- (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- go on a date with
- stamp with a date
- assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- provide with a dateline; mark with a date
noun
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
- A group of people or things.
- (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
- (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
- (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- the social act of assembling
- a group of persons together in one place
adj
verb
noun
- The act of counting how many people are present in a group.
- number of people in a particular group
- More generally, a consideration of a company's appropriate staffing level based on some larger context. (Generally used adjectivally.)
- The number of people present in a group or employed by a company.
- By extension, one slot in a workgroup, filled or to be filled by one person.
noun
- a meeting devoted to a particular activity
- a meeting for execution of a group's functions
- the time during which a school holds classes
- a meeting of spiritualists
- (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
- (Presbyterianism) The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
- (music) Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
- (beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
- (education) An academic term; semester; school year.
- (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
- An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
verb
noun
noun
- Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
- (India, euphemistic) A donation made to an educational institution to obtain admission.
- A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
- A head tax.
- a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person
noun
- A meeting or gathering.
- The convening of a formal meeting.
- (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
- A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
- A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
- A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
- (diplomacy) an international agreement
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- a large formal assembly
- the act of convening
- something regarded as a normative example
noun
- the number of people that are present
- A tally or listing of the persons present.
- the frequency with which a person is present
- the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)
- Maid service.
- The frequency with which one has been present for a regular activity or set of events.
- The act of attending; the state of being present; presence.
noun
- An assembly or meeting.
- (ecclesiastical) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
- An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
- The act of calling or assembling by summons.
- (collective) A flock of eagles.
- a group gathered in response to a summons
- the act of convoking
noun
- (history, countable) A specific session of such an assembly.
- (history, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.
noun
- (countable) A short meeting throughout which participants remain standing (to encourage brevity).
- (uncountable) A performance of stand-up comedy; jokes delivered standing on a stage
- (countable) A news broadcast delivered by an announcer who is filmed standing near the scene of the event.
- (countable) A comedian who performs on stage.
- (countable) A free-standing photographic print or promotional item; a standee.
adj
noun
- (countable) A demonstration.
- (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A project or presentation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural exhibition.
- (military, slang) A battle; local conflict.
- Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
- (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- (countable) A movie.
- (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- (countable) An exhibition of items.
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment
- something intended to communicate a particular impression
verb
- (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
- (intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.
- (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- (transitive) To guide or escort.
- (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
- (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give expression to
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- give evidence of, as of records
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- be or become visible or noticeable
- finish third or better in a horse or dog race
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- make visible or noticeable
- provide evidence for
- take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
noun
- (countable) A conversation.
- (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
- (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
- (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
- (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
- (Internet, uncountable) Lengthy, often heated debate over controversial subject matter, particularly within fandom and activist spaces. Sometimes rendered as a proper noun with the definite article (i.e. "the Discourse").
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
verb
- (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
- To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
- carry on a conversation
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- talk at length and formally about a topic
noun
- (informal) A meeting.
- (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- (hunting) A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- (sports) A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
- a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
verb
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
- (sports) To play a match.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To come together in conflict.
- (transitive) To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- (intransitive) To balance or come out correct.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- collect in one place
- undergo or suffer
- experience as a reaction
- meet by design; be present at the arrival of
- come together
- be in direct physical contact with; make contact
- be adjacent or come together
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- get together socially or for a specific purpose
- get to know; get acquainted with
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
adj
noun
- A coming together; a meeting.
- (now especially) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
- (India) A Christian school.
- A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
- A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
- The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
noun
- (countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.
- a group of people who work together
- (countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.
- (baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.
- (uncountable) The quality of being organized.
- (uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.
- an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
- the act of forming or establishing something
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business
noun
- a person who is present and participates in a meeting
- an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.
- That which accompanies or follows.
- A servant or valet.
- (law) One who owes a duty or service to another.
adj
noun
- a person who is present and participates in a meeting
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- someone who listens attentively
- (metaphysics) The subject; one who experiences.
- An attendee; one who attends a course, meeting, school, etc.
- An attendant; one who attends to someone or something.
noun
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a manifestation of insincerity
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
adv
verb
- (transitive) To feign.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
- be suitable for theatrical performance
noun
- A meeting or date.
- An agreement to meet at a certain place and time.
- A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
- (astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
- (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
- a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex
- a meeting planned at a certain time and place
- a place where people meet
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- (uncountable) Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- (grammar) An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- (uncountable) Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
- (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- (countable) A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
- the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
- words making up the dialogue of a play
- the exchange of spoken words
- a lengthy rebuke
- (language) communication by word of mouth
- something spoken
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
verb
noun
adj
- Having two sides.
- (of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
- (anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family (bilateral linearity).
- Involving both sides equally.
- Having bilateral symmetry.
- affecting or undertaken by two parties
- having identical parts on each side of an axis
- having two sides or parts
noun
- The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
- (minced oath, slang) Cunt (the taboo swear word)
- (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
- A countdown.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
- (law) A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
- The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
- The male ruler of a county.
- A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
- the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
- a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl
- the total number counted
adj
verb
- (intransitive, figurative, passive-like) To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
- (intransitive, figurative, passive-like) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
- (transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
- (intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.
- (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
- (transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
- (transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
- have a certain value or carry a certain weight
- have weight; have import, carry weight
- have faith or confidence in
- put into a group
- name or recite the numbers in ascending order
- determine the number or amount of
- take account of
- include as if by counting
- show consideration for; take into account
noun
- (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
- (countable) Something heard; a report or piece of news.
- (uncountable) The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
- (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
- (countable) The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
- (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
- the act of hearing attentively
- an opportunity to state your case and be heard
- (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence
- a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken
- the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
- the range within which a voice can be heard
adj
verb
noun
- A meeting place.
- (physiology) The coordinated focusing of the eyes, especially at short range.
- (mathematics) The process or property of approaching some limiting value; typically of an infinite series.
- The intersection of three electron beams for red, green and blue onto a single pixel in a CRT.
- (economics) The hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes tend to grow faster than richer economies.
- (meteorology) A zone where two prevailing wind flows meet and interact, resulting in distinctive weather conditions.
- The merging of distinct technologies, industries, or devices into a unified whole.
- (biology) The evolution of similar structures or traits in unrelated species in similar environments; convergent evolution.
- The act of moving toward union or uniformity.
- the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit
- the act of converging (coming closer)
- the occurrence of two or more things coming together
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
noun
- A tally.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
verb
noun
- formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action
- outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- the act of appearing in public view
- the event of coming into sight
- a mental representation
- (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
- The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
- (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed to the underlying reality
- A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
- (law) An instance of someone coming into a court of law to be part of a trial, lawsuit or other proceeding, either in person or represented by an attorney or such like; a court appearance
- The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
- The way something looks; personal presence
- Apparent likeness; the way which something or someone appears to others.
noun
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
- preserve of crushed fruit
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
noun
- Count, tally.
- (cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
- An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
- (historical) A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
- a periodic count of the population
verb
noun
- (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
- Allotment; lottery.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
- A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- a parcel of land having fixed boundaries
- any collection in its entirety
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
noun
- the people who are present in a room
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- space for movement
- opportunity for
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
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- (countable) A karaoke session.
- (uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.
- (countable) A karaoke parlour.
- (exercise) An exercise in which the feet are alternately placed in front of each other while walking sideways to stretch various parts of the lower body and core.
- singing popular songs accompanied by a recording of an orchestra (usually in bars or nightclubs)
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- the person who convenes a meeting
- a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance
- the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands
- a social or business visitor
- someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice
- an investor who buys a call option
- the person initiating a telephone call
- A visitor.
- (dance) The person who directs dancers in certain dances, such as American line dances and square dances.
- (bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
- (telephony) The person who makes a telephone call.
- (programming) A function that calls another (the callee).
- A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
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- (countable, law) A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.
- (countable) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
- (uncountable) High society.
- (countable) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
- (countable) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
- (uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
- the state of being with someone
- the fashionable elite
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
noun
- (countable) An act of preparing something to begin.
- (programming) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
- (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
- (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
noun
- A pre-arranged meeting.
- A point in time.
- One's companion for social activities or occasions, especially a romantic partner.
- The addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (especially the day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, executed, or made.
- A specific day in time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place; a given point of time.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The anus.
- (rare) An assigned end; a conclusion.
- A romantic meeting or outing with a lover or potential lover, or the person so met.
- The date palm.
- The fruit of the date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft, sweet pulp and enclosing a hard kernel.
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- the specified day of the month
- the present
verb
- (ambitransitive) To make or become old, especially in such a way as to fall out of fashion, become less appealing or attractive, etc.
- (transitive) To determine the age of something.
- (transitive) To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution.
- (intransitive, with from) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned.
- (transitive) To take (someone) on a date, or a series of dates.
- (transitive) To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of.
- (transitive, by extension) To have a steady relationship with; to be romantically involved with.
- (reciprocal, by extension) To have a steady relationship with each other; to be romantically involved with each other.
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- go on a date with
- stamp with a date
- assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of
- provide with a dateline; mark with a date
noun
- A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
- A charitable contribution; a collection.
- A group of people or things.
- (uncountable) The collection of produce, items, goods, etc.; the practice of collecting food from nature.
- (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
- (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- the social act of assembling
- a group of persons together in one place
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- be in session
- be located or situated somewhere
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- work or act as a baby-sitter
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- take a seat
- serve in a specific professional capacity
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside
- (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
- To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
- (government, law) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
- (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
- (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
- (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
- (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
- To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
- To be adjusted; to fit.
- To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
- (US, ambitransitive) To babysit.
- (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
- (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
- To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.