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noun
- The imagining of something without evidence.
- A trace, or slight indication.
- The condition of being suspected.
- Uncertainty, doubt.
- The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
- an impression that something might be the case
- the state of being suspected
- doubt about someone's honesty
- being of a suspicious nature
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- (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
- (mathematics, countable) An imaginary number.
- Imagination; fancy.
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
adj
- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
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- Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
- Optimal; being the best possibility.
- Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
- Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
- Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
- (mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas
- conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
- constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception
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- (algebra) A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
- (algebra, order theory, lattice theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
- A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
- (algebra, Lie theory) A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
- (algebra, ring theory) A two-sided ideal; a subset of a ring which is closed under both left and right multiplication by elements of the ring.
- (set theory) A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
- the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
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- (idiomatic, of a false belief, delusion, etc.) Within one's imagination; without basis in reality.
- (idiomatic, mathematics, of performing a calculation) Mentally.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, one's, head.
- (idiomatic, of information, a plan, etc.) Within one's intellect, memory, or mind.
- (idiomatic) Anxious due to overthinking an issue.
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- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
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- form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
- (intransitive) To use one's imagination.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
- (transitive, Internet slang, rhetorical, sarcastic) Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
- (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
- (transitive) To assume; to suppose.
- (transitive) To conjecture; to guess.
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- A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
- (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
- A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
- A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
- An invented story, theory, or concept.
- A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
- a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
noun
- A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
- (metonymic) A religious or spiritual belief system.
- An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
- A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
- complete confidence in a person or plan etc
- a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person
- an institution to express belief in a divine power
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- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- A statue or idol.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a standard or typical example
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- an iconic mental representation
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
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- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
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- Lacking in reality or substance.
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- (linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
- taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
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- Something imaginary or lacking substance.
- An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity.
- Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.
- An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted.
- a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality
adj
- not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
- Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.
- lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
- lacking material form or substance; unreal
- contrived by art rather than nature
- (informal) very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
noun
- The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
- Imitation work.
- Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
- Images in general, or en masse.
- The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
- (figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
- the ability to form mental images of things or events
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- That which comes from one's imagination.
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
noun
- someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- One who forms theories; a theorist.
- One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
- (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
- (rugby) Synonym of field goal.
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- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
- (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
- (mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
- (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
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- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
- (programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.
- (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
- The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
- A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
- (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
- The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
- A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
noun
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
verb
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
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- Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
- Light-hearted; vivacious
- Consisting of air.
- (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
- Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
- Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
- Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
- (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
- Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- open to or abounding in fresh air
noun
- Lack of reality or real existence.
- the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact
- (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
- Unpractical character; visionariness.
- (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
- ineptitude in dealing with reality.
- the quality possessed by something that is unreal
noun
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- The object of inclination or liking.
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- Love or amorous attachment.
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- A whim.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- The imagination.
- a predisposition to like something
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
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- (British) Would like; have a desire for.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- (British, informal) To be sexually, aesthetically or romantically attracted to.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
verb
- perceive what is not there; have illusions
- (artificial intelligence, of a model) To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data.
- (ambitransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.
noun
- Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
- the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
- The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
- Creativity; resourcefulness.
- A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
- the ability to form mental images of things or events
- the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
noun
- The imagining of something without evidence.
- A trace, or slight indication.
- The condition of being suspected.
- Uncertainty, doubt.
- The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
- an impression that something might be the case
- the state of being suspected
- doubt about someone's honesty
- being of a suspicious nature
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- A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
- (uncountable) Such stories as a genre.
- A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
- A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
- An invented story, theory, or concept.
- A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
- a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
noun
- A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
- (metonymic) A religious or spiritual belief system.
- An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
- A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
- complete confidence in a person or plan etc
- a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person
- an institution to express belief in a divine power
noun
- A mental picture of something not real or not present.
- A statue or idol.
- (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.)
- (mathematics) The value a function maps some argument to.
- A file on a computer containing a single frame; an image file.
- A visual or other representation of the external form of something in art.
- (mathematics) The subset of the codomain of a function comprising those elements that are the image of some element of its domain.
- (radio) A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency.
- A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others.
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a standard or typical example
- the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- an iconic mental representation
- (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
verb
adj
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- Something imaginary or lacking substance.
- An imaginary magic dust or powder supposedly able to give one charisma or other positive qualities; hence, charisma or glamour, especially that possessed by a celebrity.
- Small fragments of dustlike material found in space; specifically, a type of cosmic dust that formed from cooling gases ejected from presolar stars, which was then incorporated into the cloud from which the Solar System condensed.
- An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted.
- a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality
noun
- The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
- Imitation work.
- Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.
- Images in general, or en masse.
- The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects.
- (figuratively) Unreal show; imitation; appearance.
- the ability to form mental images of things or events
noun
- someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- One who forms theories; a theorist.
- One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
- (business, finance) One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
- (rugby) Synonym of field goal.
verb
noun
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
noun
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
- (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
- (mathematics, linguistics) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally proven.
- (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
verb
noun
- a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)
- continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
- a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence
- an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits
- (programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.
- (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
- The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
- A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
- (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
- The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
- A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
noun
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
verb
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
adj
noun
- Lack of reality or real existence.
- the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact
- (countable) That which has no reality or real existence; something unreal or imaginary
- Unpractical character; visionariness.
- (uncountable) The state of being unreal.
- ineptitude in dealing with reality.
- the quality possessed by something that is unreal
noun
- An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
- A bite-sized sponge cake, with a layer of cream, covered in icing.
- A diamond with a distinctive colour.
- The object of inclination or liking.
- The enthusiasts of such a pursuit.
- Any sport or hobby pursued by a group.
- In the game of jacks, a style of play involving additional actions (contrasted with plainsies).
- Love or amorous attachment.
- An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- A whim.
- That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value.
- The imagination.
- a predisposition to like something
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination
adj
adv
verb
- (British) Would like; have a desire for.
- (transitive) To breed (animals) as a hobby.
- (British, informal) To be sexually, aesthetically or romantically attracted to.
- To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.
- To form a conception of; to portray in the mind.
- (formal) To appreciate without jealousy or greed.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
verb
- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
noun
noun
- Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
- the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses
- The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
- Creativity; resourcefulness.
- A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.
- the ability to form mental images of things or events
- the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems
verb
adj
noun
verb
- form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case
- (intransitive) To use one's imagination.
- expect, believe, or suppose
- (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind, often something false.
- (transitive, Internet slang, rhetorical, sarcastic) Used to mock an idea by suggesting that it is ridiculous or ill thought through.
- (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
- (transitive) To assume; to suppose.
- (transitive) To conjecture; to guess.
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- To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
- To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
- To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
- (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
- expect, believe, or suppose
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation
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- That which comes from one's imagination.
- A fantastical design.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
- something many people believe that is false
- imagination unrestricted by reality
- fiction with a large amount of imagination in it
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- perceive what is not there; have illusions
- (artificial intelligence, of a model) To produce information that is not supported by the model's training data.
- (ambitransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.
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- (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1
- (mathematics, countable) An imaginary number.
- Imagination; fancy.
- (sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
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- not based on fact; existing only in the imagination
- not based on fact or investigation
- indulging in or influenced by fancy
- being of the nature of a notion or concept
- Speculative, theoretical, not the result of research.
- (finance) Used to indicate an estimate or a reference amount
- (Maine) Stubborn.
- (informal) Full of ideas or imaginings.
- Of, containing, or being a notion; mental or imaginary.
- (linguistics) Having descriptive value as opposed to a syntactic category.
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- Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
- Optimal; being the best possibility.
- Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
- Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
- Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
- (mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas
- conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal
- constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception
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- (algebra) A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
- (algebra, order theory, lattice theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
- A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
- (algebra, Lie theory) A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
- (algebra, ring theory) A two-sided ideal; a subset of a ring which is closed under both left and right multiplication by elements of the ring.
- (set theory) A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
- the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
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- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
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- Lacking in reality or substance.
- As used by Carl Jung, the innate worldview orientation of the introverted personality types.
- Resulting from or pertaining to personal mindsets or experience, arising from perceptive mental conditions within the brain and not necessarily or directly from external stimuli.
- Pertaining to subjects as opposed to objects (A subject is one who perceives or is aware; an object is the thing perceived or the thing that the subject is aware of.)
- (linguistics, grammar) Describing conjugation of a verb that indicates only the subject (agent), not indicating the object (patient) of the action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- (philosophy, psychology) Experienced by a person mentally and not directly verifiable by others.
- Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
- of a mental act performed entirely within the mind
- taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias
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- not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
- Not real or substantial; having no actual presence in reality; lacking the characteristics of reality.
- lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
- lacking material form or substance; unreal
- contrived by art rather than nature
- (informal) very impressive; amazing; unbelievable; incredible; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.
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- Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
- Light-hearted; vivacious
- Consisting of air.
- (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
- Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
- Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
- Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
- (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
- Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- open to or abounding in fresh air