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noun
- a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
- (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- (logic) A formula with no free variables.
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
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- Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
- consisting of or containing string or strings
- (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
- (birdwatching) Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
- (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
- (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- lean and sinewy
noun
- A string.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A street.
- (informal) Synonym of track.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- (formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
verb
- (baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- bring to the ground
- drive (a vessel) ashore
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- (physics, string theory) One of Multiple simultaneously vibrating strings.
- (programming, data structures) A data structure that represents multiple text strings.
- (CAD) A component of a model representing multiple parallel strings or lines.
- A musical instrument designed to have multiple strings played simultaneously.
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- the words of something written
- a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
- the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
- a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
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- Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.
- (computing) A string of text having some special function or purpose.
- (in teaching or training polite words to children) One of the words please, thank you, or hello.
- (by extension) Any word that is considered very significant in a certain situation or context.
noun
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The trade of building structures.
- The manner in which something is built.
- The process of constructing.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of constructing something
noun
- A word or sequence of words that almost reads the same forwards and backwards.
- A stretch of DNA, consisting of an odd number of base pairs, of which the nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand except for the central nucleotide, which is necessarily different.
noun
- A word of four syllables.
- (mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.
- A group or set of four people or things.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
adj
- Of or relating to words.
- Word for word.
- communicated in the form of words
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- relating to or having facility in the use of words
- of or relating to or formed from words in general
noun
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
- (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
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- (poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.
- The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
- (informal, also attributively) A disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.
- (Ancient Rome, historical) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
- (biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
- (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
- (informal, also attributively) A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2.
- (architecture) The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.
- (virology) A fringe of large, bulbous surface projections on coronaviruses, formed by viral spike peplomers, creating an appearance reminiscent of the solar corona.
- A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.
- (pathology) A manifestation of secondary syphilis, consisting of papular lesions along the hairline, often bordering the scalp in the manner of a crown.
- A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.
- A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.
- The main body of the test of an echinoid, consisting of ambulacral and interambulacral areas.
- (mineralogy) A mineral zone, consisting of one or more minerals, which surrounds another mineral or lies at the interface of two minerals, typically in a radial arrangement; a reaction rim.
- (also geology) An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.
- The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
- (electricity) A luminous appearance caused by corona discharge, often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages.
- The external (supragingival) portion of the tooth, covered by enamel; the crown.
- The crown of a crinoid, consisting of a cuplike central body (theca) and a set of arms.
- An annular ciliated organ on the head of rotifers, used for locomotion and sweeping food into the mouth.
- (botany) A ring or set of appendages of adaxial tissue arising from the corolla or the outer edge of the stamens, present in some plants (Narcissus, Passiflora, etc.); a paraperigonium or paracorolla.
- (meteorology) A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals.
- a long cigar with blunt ends
- an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
- (anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape
- a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020
- the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse
- one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object
- (botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower
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noun
- something spoken
- 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
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- (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.
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noun
- a grouping of words in a sentence
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- (mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
- (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
- (countable) Such a specific grouping.
- (linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
- (computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.
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- a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
- (uncountable, figurative) Something in broad circulation or use.
- (card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
- (informal, cryptocurrencies) Ellipsis of cryptocoin; a cryptocurrency.
- A small circular slice of food.
- A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
- A corner or external angle.
- (figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
- (uncountable, slang, UK, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.
- (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
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- of or relating to words
- of or relating to dictionaries
- (linguistics) Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
- (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.
- (chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
- (linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
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- (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
- Decaying matter.
- (chiefly in compounds) Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
- The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
verb
- (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
- break down
- become physically weaker
noun
- a humorous play on words
- (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”).
- A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
- (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
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noun
- a statement that represents something in words
- sort or variety
- the act of describing something
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.
- (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- (linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
verb
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
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- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
noun
- a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language
- (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- (logic) A formula with no free variables.
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied. In modern writing, when using e.g. the Latin, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets, typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation.
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar.
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- A string.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A street.
- (informal) Synonym of track.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- (formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
verb
- (baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- bring to the ground
- drive (a vessel) ashore
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- the words of something written
- a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
- the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
- a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
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- Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.
- (computing) A string of text having some special function or purpose.
- (in teaching or training polite words to children) One of the words please, thank you, or hello.
- (by extension) Any word that is considered very significant in a certain situation or context.
noun
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The trade of building structures.
- The manner in which something is built.
- The process of constructing.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of constructing something
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- A word or sequence of words that almost reads the same forwards and backwards.
- A stretch of DNA, consisting of an odd number of base pairs, of which the nucleotides on one strand are in the reverse order to that of the complementary strand except for the central nucleotide, which is necessarily different.
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- A word of four syllables.
- (mathematics) A type of four-dimensional hypercomplex number consisting of a real part and three imaginary parts (real multiples of distinct, independent square roots of −1 denoted by i, j and k); commonly used in vector mathematics and as an alternative to matrix algebra in calculating the rotation of three-dimensional objects.
- A group or set of four people or things.
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
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noun
- (poetry) A series of sonnets linked together such that the last word of each is the first word of the next.
- The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun (the solar corona) or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
- (informal, also attributively) A disease caused by a coronavirus, especially COVID-19.
- (Ancient Rome, historical) A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
- (biology) Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona (sense 4.1).
- (by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.
- (informal, also attributively) A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2.
- (architecture) The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.
- (virology) A fringe of large, bulbous surface projections on coronaviruses, formed by viral spike peplomers, creating an appearance reminiscent of the solar corona.
- A long, straight-sided cigar with a blunt, rounded end.
- (pathology) A manifestation of secondary syphilis, consisting of papular lesions along the hairline, often bordering the scalp in the manner of a crown.
- A region of the skull located along the coronal suture, at the junction between the frontal bone and the two parietal bones.
- A large, round, pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.
- The main body of the test of an echinoid, consisting of ambulacral and interambulacral areas.
- (mineralogy) A mineral zone, consisting of one or more minerals, which surrounds another mineral or lies at the interface of two minerals, typically in a radial arrangement; a reaction rim.
- (also geology) An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.
- The circumference of the base of the glans penis in human males.
- (electricity) A luminous appearance caused by corona discharge, often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages.
- The external (supragingival) portion of the tooth, covered by enamel; the crown.
- The crown of a crinoid, consisting of a cuplike central body (theca) and a set of arms.
- An annular ciliated organ on the head of rotifers, used for locomotion and sweeping food into the mouth.
- (botany) A ring or set of appendages of adaxial tissue arising from the corolla or the outer edge of the stamens, present in some plants (Narcissus, Passiflora, etc.); a paraperigonium or paracorolla.
- (meteorology) A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals.
- a long cigar with blunt ends
- an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere
- (anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape
- a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020
- the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse
- one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object
- (botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower
verb
noun
- something spoken
- 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
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
- the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
- (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.
verb
noun
- a grouping of words in a sentence
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- (mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
- (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
- (countable) Such a specific grouping.
- (linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
- (computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.
noun
- (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
- Decaying matter.
- (chiefly in compounds) Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
- The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
verb
- (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
- break down
- become physically weaker
noun
- a humorous play on words
- (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”).
- A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
- (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
verb
noun
- a statement that represents something in words
- sort or variety
- the act of describing something
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.
- (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- (linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
- (uncountable, figurative) Something in broad circulation or use.
- (card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
- (informal, cryptocurrencies) Ellipsis of cryptocoin; a cryptocurrency.
- A small circular slice of food.
- A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
- A corner or external angle.
- (figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
- (uncountable, slang, UK, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.
- (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
verb
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
noun
- a humorous play on words
- (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”).
- A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
- (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
verb
adj
- Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
- consisting of or containing string or strings
- (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
- (birdwatching) Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.
- (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
- (programming, informal) Resembling or involving text strings.
- (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew
- forming viscous or glutinous threads
- lean and sinewy
adj
noun
- (physics, string theory) One of Multiple simultaneously vibrating strings.
- (programming, data structures) A data structure that represents multiple text strings.
- (CAD) A component of a model representing multiple parallel strings or lines.
- A musical instrument designed to have multiple strings played simultaneously.
adj
- Of or relating to words.
- Word for word.
- communicated in the form of words
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- relating to or having facility in the use of words
- of or relating to or formed from words in general
noun
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
- (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
verb
adj
- of or relating to words
- of or relating to dictionaries
- (linguistics) Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
- (linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.
- (chiefly computing) Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
- (linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.