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verb
- To consist of certain text.
- interpret something that is written or printed
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- simple past and past participle of read
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- make sense of a language
- be a student of a certain subject
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- to hear and understand
noun
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- something that is read
noun
adj
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
verb
noun
- A written discourse.
- A conversation or dialogue.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
- formal conversation
verb
noun
- Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
- An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
- (information science) An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
- (computing) A file that contains text.
- anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
- a written account of ownership or obligation
- writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
- (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
verb
noun
- a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- someone who appends or joins one thing to another
- (in the plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
- (computing theory) A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
- A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
- That which is pointed like a tag.
- (slang) The penis.
- A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
- The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
noun
- the words of something written
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- 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.
- (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.
verb
adj
- (writing) Inserted in the flow of a text.
- (computing, of source code) Of a different language than the outer enclosing code.
- (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; straight.
- Consisting of parts arranged in a single line.
- (web design, Cascading Style Sheets) Of a style: inserted in the style attribute of an HTML element instead of in a separate stylesheet.
noun
- The process of interpreting written language.
- The extent of what one has read.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
verb
noun
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- One who puts a head on something.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- (programming) Clipping of header file.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a headlong jump (or fall)
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
verb
noun
- matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- speech intended for reproduction in writing
- (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.
- (countable, uncountable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
- (countable, uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
- (countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
adv
prep_phrase
adj
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Word for word.
- Of or relating to words.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- communicated in the form of 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
noun
- the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication
- availability in printed form
- a visible indication made on a surface
- a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
- a picture or design printed from an engraving
- a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
- a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
- A visible impression on a surface.
- (finance) A datum.
- A pattern or design.
- A footprint.
- (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
- (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
- (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
- (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
- (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
- (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
- A fingerprint.
- (countable) A newspaper.
- Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
- (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
verb
- write as if with print; not cursive
- make into a print
- put into print
- reproduce by printing
- (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
- (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
- (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
- (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
- To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
- (finance, ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.
- (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
- (intransitive, slang) To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
- (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
- (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
adj
noun
- Any text that continues on from another text.
- (by restriction) Synonym of postquel; a narrative work that follows-on and is set after an prior existing work.
- (Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
- (narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
- (mathematics) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
- something that follows something else
- a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
noun
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- the line that appears to bound an object
verb
- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- (transitive) To summarize.
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- trace the shape of
adv
verb
noun
name
noun
- (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
- (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- (countable) Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
- A surface shine or luster.
- (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
- (lexicography) A definition or explanation of a word sense.
- (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the property of being smooth and shiny
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
- (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
- (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
- (intransitive) To become shiny.
- (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
- provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
- provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
adj
- based on interpretation; not directly expressed
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
- derived or capable of being derived by inference
- Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.
adj
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
verb
- (figuratively) To write.
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
adj
- (of a text) Capable of being read in more than one way.
- Of or relating to polyphony.
- (music) Having two or more independent but harmonic melodies.
- (of an electronic device) Able to play more than one musical note at the same time.
- having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together
- of or relating to or characterized by polyphony
- having two or more phonetic values
noun
- an interpretation of a text or action
- 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
- the act of constructing something
- 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.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
noun
- an interpretation of a text or action
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a circular segment of a curve
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- the act of winding or twisting
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
adj
- relating to or consisting of or derived from documents
- (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event
- (of a film, book, etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
- Of, related to, or based on documents.
- Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.
noun
noun
adj
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
verb
noun
- A written discourse.
- A conversation or dialogue.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
- formal conversation
verb
noun
- Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
- An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
- (information science) An object conveying information by whatever means, capable of being indexed alongside other similar objects.
- (computing) A file that contains text.
- anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
- a written account of ownership or obligation
- writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
- (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters
verb
noun
- a computer program that attaches labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- someone who assigns labels to the grammatical constituents of textual matter
- someone who appends or joins one thing to another
- (in the plural) Sheets of tin or other plate which run below the gauge.
- (computing theory) A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to songs in a music collection.
- A person who writes graffiti using a specific mark
- That which is pointed like a tag.
- (slang) The penis.
- A device for removing taglocks from sheep.
- The player who tries to catch others in the game of tag.
noun
- the words of something written
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- 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.
- (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.
verb
noun
- The process of interpreting written language.
- The extent of what one has read.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
verb
noun
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- One who puts a head on something.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- (programming) Clipping of header file.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a headlong jump (or fall)
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
verb
noun
- matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage
- an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- speech intended for reproduction in writing
- (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.
- (countable, uncountable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
- (countable, uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
- (countable) The act of ordering or commanding.
noun
- the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication
- availability in printed form
- a visible indication made on a surface
- a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
- a picture or design printed from an engraving
- a printed picture produced from a photographic negative
- a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
- A visible impression on a surface.
- (finance) A datum.
- A pattern or design.
- A footprint.
- (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
- (film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
- (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
- (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
- (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
- (architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
- A fingerprint.
- (countable) A newspaper.
- Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
- (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
verb
- write as if with print; not cursive
- make into a print
- put into print
- reproduce by printing
- (transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
- (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
- (computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
- (transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
- To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
- (finance, ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.
- (transitive) To fingerprint (a person).
- (intransitive, slang) To inadequately conceal a weapon such that its outline or imprint is visible on the person wearing it.
- (transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
- (transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine.
adj
noun
- Any text that continues on from another text.
- (by restriction) Synonym of postquel; a narrative work that follows-on and is set after an prior existing work.
- (Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
- (narratology) A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.
- (mathematics) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
- something that follows something else
- a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it
noun
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- the line that appears to bound an object
verb
- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- (transitive) To summarize.
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- trace the shape of
noun
name
noun
- (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
- (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- (countable) Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
- A surface shine or luster.
- (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
- (lexicography) A definition or explanation of a word sense.
- (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the property of being smooth and shiny
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
- (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
- (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
- (intransitive) To become shiny.
- (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
- provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
- provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
noun
- an interpretation of a text or action
- 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
- the act of constructing something
- 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.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
noun
- an interpretation of a text or action
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a circular segment of a curve
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- the act of winding or twisting
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
verb
- To consist of certain text.
- interpret something that is written or printed
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- simple past and past participle of read
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- make sense of a language
- be a student of a certain subject
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- to hear and understand
noun
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- something that is read
verb
- (figuratively) To write.
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
adv
prep_phrase
adv
verb
adj
- (writing) Inserted in the flow of a text.
- (computing, of source code) Of a different language than the outer enclosing code.
- (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; straight.
- Consisting of parts arranged in a single line.
- (web design, Cascading Style Sheets) Of a style: inserted in the style attribute of an HTML element instead of in a separate stylesheet.
adj
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Word for word.
- Of or relating to words.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- communicated in the form of 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
- based on interpretation; not directly expressed
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
- derived or capable of being derived by inference
- Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.
adj
- Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
- (of writing or speaking) Straightforward; matter-of-fact; lacking the feeling or elegance of poetry.
- (main usage, usually of writing or speaking but also figurative) Overly plain, simple or commonplace, to the point of being boring.
- lacking wit or imagination
- not fanciful or imaginative
- not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
adj
- (of a text) Capable of being read in more than one way.
- Of or relating to polyphony.
- (music) Having two or more independent but harmonic melodies.
- (of an electronic device) Able to play more than one musical note at the same time.
- having two or more independent but harmonically related melodic parts sounding together
- of or relating to or characterized by polyphony
- having two or more phonetic values
adj
- relating to or consisting of or derived from documents
- (of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event
- (of a film, book, etc) Presented objectively without the insertion of fictional matter.
- Of, related to, or based on documents.
- Which serves to document (record or illustrate) a subject.