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- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
- serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
- the action of following in order
- several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
- a following of one thing after another in time
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- (transitive) To arrange (something) in an order.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
- (transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
- arrange in a sequence
- determine the order of constituents in
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- A set of items presented together.
- (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- A pickaxe or mattock.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
- (slang, India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
- (zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- (UK, Eton College) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
- a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
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- (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
- (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- (ambitransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
- publicize or announce by placards
- demand payment
- advertise especially by posters or placards
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- consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four
- coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude
- Of a mathematical expression containing e.g. x⁴.
- Of fourth rank or order.
- (inorganic chemistry) Composed of four elements.
- Relating to or in number base four.
- (organic chemistry) quaternary ammonium.
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- the set of ordered pairs of two given sets
- (set theory, of two sets X and Y) The set of all possible ordered pairs of elements, the being first from X, the second from Y, written X×Y. Formally, the set (x,y);|;x∈X;and;y∈Y.
- (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the set-theoretic sense, especially one which shares the geometrical intuition outlined above, i.e. one such that the product can be thought of as an object in its own right and not just as a set of pairs.
- (geometry, of an m-dimensional space X and an n-dimensional space Y) An (m+n)-dimensional space, formally composed of all possible ordered pairs of points from X and Y, but thought of as an independent (m+n)-dimensional space (in the sense that if, e.g. X and Y are vector spaces, the elements of X×Y are thought of as (m+n)-tuples instead of ordered pairs) and written X×Y.
- (databases) All possible combinations of rows between all of the tables listed.
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- the set of ordered pairs of two given sets
- (set theory) The set of all possible tuples whose elements are elements of given, separately specified, sets.
- (topology) A topological space analogously formed from two or more (up to an infinite number of) topological spaces.
- (group theory) Such a set of tuples formed from two or more groups, forming another group whose group operation is the component-wise application of the original group operations and of which the original groups are normal subgroups.
- (category theory) A high-level generalization of the preceding that applies to objects in an arbitrary category and produces a new object constructable by morphisms from each of the original objects.
- (ring theory) Such a set of tuples formed from two or more rings, forming another ring whose operations arise from the component-wise application of the corresponding original ring operations.
- (mathematics) Any of a number of mathematical objects analogously derived from a given ordered set of objects.
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- the set of ordered pairs of two given sets
- a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances
- a quantity obtained by multiplication
- items for sale to the individual consumer
- a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction
- an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
- A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
- Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
- (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
- (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
- The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
- (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
- (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
- (cosmetics, uncountable) Ellipsis of beauty product: any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. Often specifically a preparation used to hold one's hair in a desired arrangement.
- Anything that is produced; a result.
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- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together
- A collection or mass.
- (geology, volcanology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
- (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
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- form into one cluster
- (ambitransitive) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
- (geography) To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).
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- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- a car that is old and unreliable
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
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- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
- structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
- a small natural hill
- (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
- a large amount of something.
- (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
- A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
- An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
- A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
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- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
verb
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
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- A set; all required for an outfit.
- A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- (African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
- A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- (mining) Alternative form of gangue.
- A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
- A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- (US) A chain gang.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
- (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A term of address for any other person or group of people.
- A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
- an association of criminals
- tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
- an informal body of friends
- an organized group of workmen
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- the set of elements common to two or more sets
- (set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
- a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
- the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)
- a point where lines intersect
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
- (geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
- Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
- (sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.https://web.archive.org/web/20120214131704/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
- The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- (category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.
noun
- (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- (usually in the plural) A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- A place or state of being that a person or object is best suited to.
- (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
- (in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- (astronomy) An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- (mathematics) One of the entries of a matrix.
- (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A small part of the whole.
- (in the plural only) The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- an abstract part of something
- one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
- a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
- the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
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- (set theory, of a set) The number of elements a given set contains.
- (religion) The status of being cardinalitial
- (type theory) The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type.
- (data modeling, databases) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.
- (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping)
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- An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
- A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
- an omnibus box
- (philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
- an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
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- A person who is three years old.
- (basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.
- The digit/figure 3.
- Anything measuring three units, as length.
- The playing card featuring three pips.
- Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips
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- A group of six objects.
- (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first, third and fifth notes.
- (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with an accent only on the first note.
- One of a group of six persons or animals born from the same mother during the same birth.
- (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first and fourth notes; a double triplet.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
noun
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- (computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.
- (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
- An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
- (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
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- be or become joined or united or linked
- come into the company of
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization
- cause to become joined or linked
- make contact or come together
- (transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
- (transitive) To come into the company of.
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
- (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
- (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
- To unite in marriage.
- (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- (transitive) To become a member of.
noun
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a quantity of money
- the whole amount
- the final aggregate
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A quantity of money.
- (rare or literary) The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
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- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
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- A set or group with ten elements.
- (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
- (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
- (countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
- (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity.
- (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
- (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face
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- (mathematics) Of sets: to have some elements in common.
- (genetics) To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- (art) An illusion of depth is created when one object partially covers another.
- To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
- extend over and cover a part of
- coincide partially or wholly
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- Something that overlaps or is overlapped.
- (insurance, pensions) The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
- (rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
- the property of partial coincidence in time
- a flap that lies over another part
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
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- A grouping of a number of similar things.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- (writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays.
- (computing) The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
- (demography) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
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- A collection of things that have been arranged.
- The act of arranging.
- An agreement.
- The manner of being arranged.
- (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.
- A particular way in which items are organized.
- (often in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.
- the thing arranged or agreed to
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- the spatial property of the way in which something is placed
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
- a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments
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- A group of twelve items.
- (military slang, by ellipsis of twelve o'clock) Front (front side of something, position in front of something).
- A twelve-bore gun.
- (law, colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
- (slang) The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
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- (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
- (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- (uncountable, gay slang) The gay community.
- A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
- A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
- (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
- An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- a person having kinship with another or others
- a social unit living together
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- primary social group; parents and children
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
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- A group of four things.
- (chemistry) A tetravalent atom or radical.
- (biology) A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
- (music) A chord comprised of four notes; a tetrachord.
- (cartography) A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres.
- (mathematics) A group of four basis vectors for a four-dimensional manifold in differential geometry.
- (biology) Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
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- A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:
- Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
- (history) A period of ten days, particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
- (electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
- A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
- (physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
- (Roman Catholicism) A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.
- (electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
- a period of 10 years
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
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- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- (psychology) A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
- (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- (linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination compounds in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- (mathematics) A complex number.
- A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- A network of interconnected systems.
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
- a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
- (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
adj
- (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
- (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- difficult to analyze or understand
- complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
verb
noun
- A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
- The inhabitants of a residential area.
- An approximate amount.
- Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
- The quality of physical proximity.
- (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
- Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
- The residential area near one's home.
- A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
- (cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
- A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
- (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
- a surrounding or nearby region
- people living near one another
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
- an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
noun
- A group of things arranged by category.
- The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
- the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
- the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
- a group of people or things arranged by class or category
noun
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- The leather made from such hide.
- sleep
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- the basic unit of money in Laos
verb
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
- (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
- be asleep
noun
- A collection or number of different things.
- A specific variation of something.
- (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
- A deviation or difference.
- (radio, television, theater) Ellipsis of variety performance or variety show (“a type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.”).
- (linguistics) A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect.
- (radio, television, theater) The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.
- (algebraic geometry) Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).
- (botany, taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.
- In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
- The quality of being varied; diversity.
- (philately) A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced.
- (biology, loosely) An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar.
- (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- noticeable heterogeneity
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
noun
- An arrangement of items in a line.
- The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
- (astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
- (artificial intelligence) The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.
- (roleplaying games) One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take.
- An alliance of factions.
- (bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
- (transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
- ground plan of a canal or road
- an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
num
noun
- (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
- (basketball, countable) A power forward.
- (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- The shell itself.
- The crew rowing in a four boat.
- A person who is four years old.
- Four o'clock.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips
adj
noun
- An array of similar things.
- (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
- (music) A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
- (chess) Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- (originally and sometimes still, strictly) Such a device that has multiple cells.
- (law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
- The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
- (metonymic, informal, uncountable) The energy stored in such a device.
- (electricity, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
- (military, countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
- Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
noun
- (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
- The act of relating a story.
- (set theory) A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- (databases) A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
- (often collocated: sexual relation, often in the plural) The act of intercourse.
- A member of one's extended family; a relative.
- sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
- (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- a person related by blood or marriage
- an act of narration
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
- (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
adj
- composed of more than one member, set, or kind
- grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
- (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
- Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
- (comparable) Pluralistic.
- (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
noun
- the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
- (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
- (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
noun
noun
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
- serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
- the action of following in order
- several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
- a following of one thing after another in time
verb
- (transitive) To arrange (something) in an order.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
- (transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
- arrange in a sequence
- determine the order of constituents in
noun
- A set of items presented together.
- (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- A pickaxe or mattock.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
- (slang, India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
- (zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- (UK, Eton College) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
- a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
- (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
- (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- (ambitransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
- publicize or announce by placards
- demand payment
- advertise especially by posters or placards
noun
noun
noun
- the set of ordered pairs of two given sets
- (set theory, of two sets X and Y) The set of all possible ordered pairs of elements, the being first from X, the second from Y, written X×Y. Formally, the set (x,y);|;x∈X;and;y∈Y.
- (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the set-theoretic sense, especially one which shares the geometrical intuition outlined above, i.e. one such that the product can be thought of as an object in its own right and not just as a set of pairs.
- (geometry, of an m-dimensional space X and an n-dimensional space Y) An (m+n)-dimensional space, formally composed of all possible ordered pairs of points from X and Y, but thought of as an independent (m+n)-dimensional space (in the sense that if, e.g. X and Y are vector spaces, the elements of X×Y are thought of as (m+n)-tuples instead of ordered pairs) and written X×Y.
- (databases) All possible combinations of rows between all of the tables listed.
noun
- the set of ordered pairs of two given sets
- (set theory) The set of all possible tuples whose elements are elements of given, separately specified, sets.
- (topology) A topological space analogously formed from two or more (up to an infinite number of) topological spaces.
- (group theory) Such a set of tuples formed from two or more groups, forming another group whose group operation is the component-wise application of the original group operations and of which the original groups are normal subgroups.
- (category theory) A high-level generalization of the preceding that applies to objects in an arbitrary category and produces a new object constructable by morphisms from each of the original objects.
- (ring theory) Such a set of tuples formed from two or more rings, forming another ring whose operations arise from the component-wise application of the corresponding original ring operations.
- (mathematics) Any of a number of mathematical objects analogously derived from a given ordered set of objects.
noun
- the set of ordered pairs of two given sets
- a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances
- a quantity obtained by multiplication
- items for sale to the individual consumer
- a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction
- an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
- A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
- Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
- (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
- (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
- The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
- (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
- (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
- (cosmetics, uncountable) Ellipsis of beauty product: any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. Often specifically a preparation used to hold one's hair in a desired arrangement.
- Anything that is produced; a result.
noun
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together
- A collection or mass.
- (geology, volcanology) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
- (meteorology) An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
adj
verb
- form into one cluster
- (ambitransitive) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
- (geography) To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).
noun
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- a car that is old and unreliable
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
verb
adv
noun
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
- structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
- a small natural hill
- (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
- a large amount of something.
- (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
- A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
- An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
- A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
verb
noun
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
verb
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
noun
- A set; all required for an outfit.
- A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- (African-American Vernacular, used in the vocative) A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.
- A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- (mining) Alternative form of gangue.
- A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
- A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- (US) A chain gang.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
- (electrics) A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- (electrics) A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- (by extension, Internet slang) A term of address for any other person or group of people.
- A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
- an association of criminals
- tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together
- an informal body of friends
- an organized group of workmen
verb
noun
- the set of elements common to two or more sets
- (set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
- a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
- the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)
- a point where lines intersect
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
- (geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
- Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
- (sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.https://web.archive.org/web/20120214131704/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
- The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- (category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.
noun
- (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- (usually in the plural) A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- A place or state of being that a person or object is best suited to.
- (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
- (in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- (astronomy) An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- (mathematics) One of the entries of a matrix.
- (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A small part of the whole.
- (in the plural only) The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- an abstract part of something
- one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
- a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
- the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
noun
- (set theory, of a set) The number of elements a given set contains.
- (religion) The status of being cardinalitial
- (type theory) The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type.
- (data modeling, databases) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.
- (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping)
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adj
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- A group of six objects.
- (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first, third and fifth notes.
- (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with an accent only on the first note.
- One of a group of six persons or animals born from the same mother during the same birth.
- (music, proscribed) A group of six notes played in the time of four, with accents on the first and fourth notes; a double triplet.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
noun
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- (computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.
- (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
- An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
- (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
verb
- be or become joined or united or linked
- come into the company of
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization
- cause to become joined or linked
- make contact or come together
- (transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
- (transitive) To come into the company of.
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
- (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
- (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
- To unite in marriage.
- (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- (transitive) To become a member of.
noun
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a quantity of money
- the whole amount
- the final aggregate
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A quantity of money.
- (rare or literary) The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
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noun
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
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- A set or group with ten elements.
- (countable, US, slang) A perfect specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
- (countable) A denomination of currency, such as a banknote, with a value of ten units.
- (countable, rowing) The act of rowing ten strokes flat out.
- (countable, US, slang) A high level of intensity.
- (in the plural) An inexact quantity, typically understood to be between 20 and 100.
- (countable, card games) A card in a given suit with a value of ten.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face
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adj
noun
- A grouping of a number of similar things.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
- (writing) A prewriting technique consisting of writing ideas down on a sheet of paper around a central idea within a circle, with the related ideas radially joined to the circle using rays.
- (computing) The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
- (demography) The grouping of a population based on ethnicity, economics or religion.
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verb
noun
- A collection of things that have been arranged.
- The act of arranging.
- An agreement.
- The manner of being arranged.
- (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.
- A particular way in which items are organized.
- (often in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.
- the thing arranged or agreed to
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- the spatial property of the way in which something is placed
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
- a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments
noun
- A group of twelve items.
- (military slang, by ellipsis of twelve o'clock) Front (front side of something, position in front of something).
- A twelve-bore gun.
- (law, colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
- (slang) The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
num
adj
noun
- (set theory, countable) A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
- (uncountable) Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
- (music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
- (uncountable, gay slang) The gay community.
- A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
- A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
- (linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
- Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
- A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
- (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
- (uncountable) Members of one's family collectively.
- An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
- a person having kinship with another or others
- a social unit living together
- people descended from a common ancestor
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- primary social group; parents and children
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
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noun
- A group of four things.
- (chemistry) A tetravalent atom or radical.
- (biology) A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
- (music) A chord comprised of four notes; a tetrachord.
- (cartography) A unit of land area of two by two (that is, four) square kilometres.
- (mathematics) A group of four basis vectors for a four-dimensional manifold in differential geometry.
- (biology) Two pairs of sister chromatids (a dyad pair) aligned in a certain way and often on the equatorial plane during the meiosis process.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
noun
- A group, set, or series of ten , particularly:
- Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns.
- (history) A period of ten days, particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars.
- (electronics) A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits.
- A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
- (physics, engineering) The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1.
- (Roman Catholicism) A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer.
- (electronics) A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance.
- a period of 10 years
- the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
noun
- An assemblage of related things; a collection.
- (psychology) A group of emotionally charged ideas or mental factors, unconsciously associated by the individual with a particular subject, arising from repressed instincts, fears, or desires and often resulting in mental abnormality.
- (taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.
- (linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.
- A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
- An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
- (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination compounds in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.
- (mathematics) A complex number.
- A fixed mental tendency or obsession.
- A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.
- A network of interconnected systems.
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated
- a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
- (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
adj
- (mathematics, algebra) Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.
- Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
- (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a function) Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
- Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
- (mathematics, of a number) Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.
- difficult to analyze or understand
- complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts
verb
noun
- A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
- The inhabitants of a residential area.
- An approximate amount.
- Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
- The quality of physical proximity.
- (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
- Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
- The residential area near one's home.
- A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
- (cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
- A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
- (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
- a surrounding or nearby region
- people living near one another
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
- an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
noun
- A group of things arranged by category.
- The process of sorting or arranging things into categories or classes.
- the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
- the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
- a group of people or things arranged by class or category
noun
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- The leather made from such hide.
- sleep
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- the basic unit of money in Laos
verb
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
- (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
- be asleep
noun
- A collection or number of different things.
- A specific variation of something.
- (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
- A deviation or difference.
- (radio, television, theater) Ellipsis of variety performance or variety show (“a type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.”).
- (linguistics) A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect.
- (radio, television, theater) The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.
- (algebraic geometry) Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).
- (botany, taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.
- In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
- The quality of being varied; diversity.
- (philately) A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced.
- (biology, loosely) An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar.
- (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- noticeable heterogeneity
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
noun
- An arrangement of items in a line.
- The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
- (astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
- (artificial intelligence) The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.
- (roleplaying games) One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take.
- An alliance of factions.
- (bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
- (transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
- ground plan of a canal or road
- an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
noun
- An array of similar things.
- (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
- (music) A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
- (chess) Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- (originally and sometimes still, strictly) Such a device that has multiple cells.
- (law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
- The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
- (metonymic, informal, uncountable) The energy stored in such a device.
- (electricity, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
- (military, countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
- Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
noun
- (set theory) A set of ordered tuples.
- The manner in which two things may be associated.
- (mathematics) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.
- (chiefly in the plural) A relationship; the manner in which and tone with which people or states, etc. interact.
- The act of relating a story.
- (set theory) A set of ordered pairs; a binary relation.
- (category theory) A subobject of a product of objects.
- (databases) A set of tuples, implemented as a table in a relational database.
- (often collocated: sexual relation, often in the plural) The act of intercourse.
- A member of one's extended family; a relative.
- sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur
- (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- a person related by blood or marriage
- an act of narration
- an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
- (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups
verb
- (mathematics) Of sets: to have some elements in common.
- (genetics) To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- (art) An illusion of depth is created when one object partially covers another.
- To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
- extend over and cover a part of
- coincide partially or wholly
noun
- Something that overlaps or is overlapped.
- (insurance, pensions) The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
- (rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
- the property of partial coincidence in time
- a flap that lies over another part
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
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adj
- consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four
- coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude
- Of a mathematical expression containing e.g. x⁴.
- Of fourth rank or order.
- (inorganic chemistry) Composed of four elements.
- Relating to or in number base four.
- (organic chemistry) quaternary ammonium.
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adj
adj
noun
- An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
- A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
- an omnibus box
- (philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
- an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
verb
adj
- composed of more than one member, set, or kind
- grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
- (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
- Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
- (comparable) Pluralistic.
- (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
noun
- the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
- (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
- (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.