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adv
noun
- (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.
- work done in addition to regular working hours
- (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
- (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
- A period of time longer than scheduled.
- playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
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verb
noun
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- (mineralogy) The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
- (sports) The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- (geology) An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- (mechanical engineering) A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
verb
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
- (mechanical engineering) To overshoot when changing gears.
- (sports) To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- (horticulture) To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- (economics) To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
noun
- the time period during which you are at work
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working)
- The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
- a point or period in time
- time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
- the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
- the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
- a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance
- an era of existence or influence
- the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis
- a period of opportunity
- A period of contention of a day or less.
- (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
- A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.
- The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
- The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
- (astronomy) The rotational period of a planet.
- The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
- A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
- A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
- An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
verb
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
noun
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
adj
noun
- (chiefly US) Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek. The five workdays in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends).
- (chiefly US) That part of a day in which work is done.
- a day on which work is done
- the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage
noun
- Time spent visibly at one's workplace to satisfy expectations about one's working hours, even if this is unneeded or unproductive.
- work time spent at the location of or in the presence of other people
- Time spent in visual communication with another party (as opposed to communication over the phone, via e-mail, instant messaging, etc.).
- (broadcasting) The time during which the presenter's head is shown on screen.
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verb
noun
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- one who is playfully mischievous
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
verb
- do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
- (informal, intransitive) To attempt to do something with a piece of equipment without understanding how it works.
- (transitive) To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person).
- (informal, intransitive) To do random unplanned work or spend time idly
- (informal, intransitive, British, Australia) To be playful; full of fun and high spirits; to treat a situation unseriously.
verb
noun
- a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln
- One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
- The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
- One who pots meats or other eatables.
- The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
- One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
- One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
verb
noun
- the iron normally used on the putting green
- a golfer who is putting
- One who puts or places.
- (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
- A shot-putter.
- (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
- (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
verb
noun
- formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living
- small mackerel found nearly worldwide
- a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts
- Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
- (informal) An act of repair or invention.
- An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
- (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
- A razor-billed auk, a bird of species (Alca torda).
- Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
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- (television, in the plural) Hours worked outside of normal working hours, for which additional money is paid.
- (photography) A period shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.
- (television) In Japanese television, the period between 7 and 9 pm, the equivalent of the American prime time.
- (medicine) The first sixty minutes after sustaining major traumatic injury, during which there is the highest likelihood that prompt medical treatment will prevent death.
noun
- A regularly scheduled period of work, being the first one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually during the day; often the first of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), and often from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; sometimes the first of two, and sometimes with other time values.
- A group of workers who work during this time slot.
noun
- A regularly scheduled period of work, being the second one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually in the afternoon through evening; often the second of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), and often from 4:00 p.m. to midnight; sometimes the second of two, and sometimes with other time values.
- A group of workers who work during this time slot.
adj
- Busy or employed.
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Greatly interested.
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- built against or attached to a wall
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- pledged to be married
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- having services contracted for
verb
noun
- any workplace where people are very busy
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a hairdo resembling a beehive
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
- (cricket) A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
- (nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive.
- A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
- A particular style of hat.
verb
verb
- work a second job, usually after hours
- (Ireland, historical) To make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.
- Of a thing: to perform a secondary function substantially different from a supposed primary function.
- (informal) To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon.
- (originally US, informal) To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night.
- To engage in an activity other than what one is known for.
- (transitive, Ireland, historical, passive voice) (Of a tenant farmer) to be attacked for not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.
noun
- the light of the Moon
- (countable, informal) Chiefly in to do a moonlight: short for moonlight flit (“an act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night”).
- (uncountable, also attributive) The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
noun
- Overtime hours in the television or film industry, when additional money is paid.
- (education) Unstructured time when schoolchildren are allowed to choose their own activities as a reward for good behavior.
- A period of ease, happiness, virtue, or flourishing.
- The optimal time for accomplishing a specific task.
- The Japanese analog to American prime time.
- The first sixty minutes after a traumatic injury.
- The time of day near sunrise or sunset.
adj
- Employed irregularly.
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- (of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.
- Happening by chance.
- (of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.
- Careless.
- not showing effort or strain
- marked by blithe unconcern
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- natural and unstudied
- appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
- occurring on a temporary or irregular basis
noun
- (fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is doing a particular type of job temporarily, not as a lifetime career.
- (in the plural) Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- (UK, historical) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- (video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.
- (UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
adj
- not engaged in full-time work
- lacking activity; lying idle or unused
- lacking in energy or will
- not exerting influence or change
- not in physical motion
- (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
- (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- (military) not involved in military operations
- not active physically or mentally
- Not functioning or operating; broken down
- (chemistry) Relatively inert.
- Retired from duty or service.
- (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.
- Not active, temporarily or permanently.
- Not engaging in physical activity.
noun
noun
- the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty
- the act of departing politely
- permission to do something
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- (Scrabble) The tiles remaining on a player's rack after his or her turn.
- (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
verb
- be survived by after one's death
- move out of or depart from
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- have left or have as a remainder
- leave or give by will after one's death
- go away from a place
- leave behind unintentionally
- put into the care or protection of someone
- produce as a result or residue
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.
- (transitive) To let be or do without interference.
- (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
- (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To die (the object denotes those affected by the death).
- To depart; to separate from.
- (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
- (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
adv
noun
- (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.
- work done in addition to regular working hours
- (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
- (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
- A period of time longer than scheduled.
- playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
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verb
noun
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- (mineralogy) The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
- (sports) The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- (geology) An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- (mechanical engineering) A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
verb
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
- (mechanical engineering) To overshoot when changing gears.
- (sports) To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- (horticulture) To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- (economics) To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
noun
- the time period during which you are at work
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working)
- The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
- a point or period in time
- time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
- the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
- the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
- a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance
- an era of existence or influence
- the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis
- a period of opportunity
- A period of contention of a day or less.
- (informal or meteorology) A 24-hour period beginning at 6am or sunrise.
- A period of time between two set times which mark the beginning and the end of day in a calendar, such as from midnight to the following midnight or (Judaism) from nightfall to the following nightfall.
- The time when the Sun is above the horizon and it lights the sky.
- The time taken for the Earth to make a full rotation about its axis with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal day or stellar day.
- (astronomy) The rotational period of a planet.
- The time taken for the Sun to seem to be in the same place in the sky twice; a solar day.
- A period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
- A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time; era.
- An observance lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
verb
noun
- Time spent visibly at one's workplace to satisfy expectations about one's working hours, even if this is unneeded or unproductive.
- work time spent at the location of or in the presence of other people
- Time spent in visual communication with another party (as opposed to communication over the phone, via e-mail, instant messaging, etc.).
- (broadcasting) The time during which the presenter's head is shown on screen.
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- (television, in the plural) Hours worked outside of normal working hours, for which additional money is paid.
- (photography) A period shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.
- (television) In Japanese television, the period between 7 and 9 pm, the equivalent of the American prime time.
- (medicine) The first sixty minutes after sustaining major traumatic injury, during which there is the highest likelihood that prompt medical treatment will prevent death.
noun
- A regularly scheduled period of work, being the first one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually during the day; often the first of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), and often from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; sometimes the first of two, and sometimes with other time values.
- A group of workers who work during this time slot.
noun
- A regularly scheduled period of work, being the second one in the standard working day of any particular company: usually in the afternoon through evening; often the second of three (with 24/3 = 8 hours long), and often from 4:00 p.m. to midnight; sometimes the second of two, and sometimes with other time values.
- A group of workers who work during this time slot.
noun
- any workplace where people are very busy
- a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
- a hairdo resembling a beehive
- a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
- Such a home prepared by the bees themselves, in which some species of honey bees live and raise their young.
- (figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.
- A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.
- A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life pattern with a rounded appearance.
- (cricket) A diagram showing where balls have passed the batter, used in analysis.
- (nonstandard, New Zealand) Alternative form of Beehive.
- A man-made structure in which honey bees are kept so that humans can harvest their honey.
- A particular style of hat.
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- Overtime hours in the television or film industry, when additional money is paid.
- (education) Unstructured time when schoolchildren are allowed to choose their own activities as a reward for good behavior.
- A period of ease, happiness, virtue, or flourishing.
- The optimal time for accomplishing a specific task.
- The Japanese analog to American prime time.
- The first sixty minutes after a traumatic injury.
- The time of day near sunrise or sunset.
noun
- the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty
- the act of departing politely
- permission to do something
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- (Scrabble) The tiles remaining on a player's rack after his or her turn.
- (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
verb
- be survived by after one's death
- move out of or depart from
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- have left or have as a remainder
- leave or give by will after one's death
- go away from a place
- leave behind unintentionally
- put into the care or protection of someone
- produce as a result or residue
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.
- (transitive) To let be or do without interference.
- (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
- (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To die (the object denotes those affected by the death).
- To depart; to separate from.
- (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
- (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
noun
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
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noun
- any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
- one who is playfully mischievous
- (derogatory) Synonym of uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.
- A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.
- (loosely, sometimes proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids; any monkey or ape.
- (historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- (slang, vulgar, uncommon) A penis.
- (cladistically) Any simian, including humans.
- (slang, derogatory) Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
- (slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
- (strictly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
- (dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.
- (slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.
- (blackjack) Synonym of face card.
- The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.
- (slang) Synonym of five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or (US, dated) 500 dollars.
- (derogatory) Synonym of idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.
- (slang, nautical) The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.
- (informal, sometimes offensive) A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
- (slang, highly derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.
- (slang, usually derogatory) A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
- (slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.
verb
- do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
- (informal, intransitive) To attempt to do something with a piece of equipment without understanding how it works.
- (transitive) To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person).
- (informal, intransitive) To do random unplanned work or spend time idly
- (informal, intransitive, British, Australia) To be playful; full of fun and high spirits; to treat a situation unseriously.
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noun
- a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln
- One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
- The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
- One who pots meats or other eatables.
- The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
- One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
- One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
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noun
- the iron normally used on the putting green
- a golfer who is putting
- One who puts or places.
- (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
- A shot-putter.
- (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
- (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
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noun
- formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living
- small mackerel found nearly worldwide
- a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts
- Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
- (informal) An act of repair or invention.
- An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
- (usually with "little") A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
- A razor-billed auk, a bird of species (Alca torda).
- Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
verb
- work a second job, usually after hours
- (Ireland, historical) To make a night-time attack on a tenant farmer not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.
- Of a thing: to perform a secondary function substantially different from a supposed primary function.
- (informal) To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon.
- (originally US, informal) To do work for pay (sometimes illegally, secretly, or without paying income tax on the earnings) which is in addition to a main job, often in the evening or at night.
- To engage in an activity other than what one is known for.
- (transitive, Ireland, historical, passive voice) (Of a tenant farmer) to be attacked for not supporting the policies of the Irish National Land League.
noun
- the light of the Moon
- (countable, informal) Chiefly in to do a moonlight: short for moonlight flit (“an act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night”).
- (uncountable, also attributive) The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
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noun
- (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.
- work done in addition to regular working hours
- (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
- (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.
- A period of time longer than scheduled.
- playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie
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- (chiefly US) Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek. The five workdays in many countries are usually Monday to Friday (and are defined as such in official and legal usage even though many people work on weekends).
- (chiefly US) That part of a day in which work is done.
- a day on which work is done
- the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage
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adj
- Busy or employed.
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Greatly interested.
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- built against or attached to a wall
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- pledged to be married
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- having services contracted for
verb
adj
- Employed irregularly.
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- (of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.
- Happening by chance.
- (of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.
- Careless.
- not showing effort or strain
- marked by blithe unconcern
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- natural and unstudied
- appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
- occurring on a temporary or irregular basis
noun
- (fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is doing a particular type of job temporarily, not as a lifetime career.
- (in the plural) Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- (UK, historical) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- (video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.
- (UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
adj
- not engaged in full-time work
- lacking activity; lying idle or unused
- lacking in energy or will
- not exerting influence or change
- not in physical motion
- (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly
- (chemistry) not participating in a chemical reaction; chemically inert
- (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct
- (military) not involved in military operations
- not active physically or mentally
- Not functioning or operating; broken down
- (chemistry) Relatively inert.
- Retired from duty or service.
- (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.
- Not active, temporarily or permanently.
- Not engaging in physical activity.