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noun
adj
- Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
- (linguistic morphology) Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
- (education) Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
- Capable of forming something.
- (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
- capable of forming new cells and tissues
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
noun
- natural process that causes something to form
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [from 18th c.]
- an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
- creation by mental activity
- the act of forming or establishing something
- (geology) the geological features of the earth
- the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
- a particular spatial arrangement
- (category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- (geology) A layer of rock of common origin. [from 19th c.]
- (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- Something possessing structure or form. [from 17th c.]
- (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from 18th c.]
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
- The act of assembling a group or structure. [from 14th c.]
- (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
noun
- the process of generating offspring
- The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
- the act of making copies
- (computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.
- A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.
- The act of making copies.
noun
- the process of fostering the growth of something
- socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners
- the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
- Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
- Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
- Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
- Light tillage: turning or stirring the soil, especially for weed control.
verb
- To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
- To change, to transform.
- To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
- To change or transform (something).
- Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- (biology) Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- undergo development or evolution
- work out
- gain through experience
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- the normal time between successive generations
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- a coming into being
- the production of heat or electricity
- group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- a multiplicative increase
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
- The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
- (countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The process of computing the sum of an addition with one and the same number a specified number of times (i.e. 4 times 5 = [0 +] 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20) or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
noun
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- (botany) propagation by cuttings
- (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
- playing a pipe or the bagpipes
adj
verb
adv
noun
- (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
- Anything made, formed or produced; product.
- The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
- (horology) A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
verb
- (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
- (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
- To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- produce naturally
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- create or produce in a mechanical way
noun
- The act of hatching.
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- (Scotland) A bedstead.
- (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- (slang) A gullet.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- A trapdoor.
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
- a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- the production of young from an egg
verb
- emerge from the eggs
- (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
- (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
- devise or invent
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- sit on (eggs)
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- call forth
- (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
- (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
- (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
- (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
verb
noun
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- produce (energy)
- produce, create
- give or supply
- (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
- (transitive) To procreate, beget.
- (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
adj
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- irritate
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
noun
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- Lineage.
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- care for like a mother
- (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
- (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
- (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
- (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
noun
- a term of address for a mother superior
- a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
- a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for an elderly woman
- a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
- A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
- (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
- (figuratively) A female ancestor.
- A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
- A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
- A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
- (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
- (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
- (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- (Stan Twitter, originally drag slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
- (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
- A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
- Alternative form of moth-er.
- (figuratively) A source or origin.
verb
noun
- male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
- the founder of a family
- a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority
- (fantasy) The vampire who turned another person.
- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
noun
- The act or process of rendering fertile.
- The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.
- The act of applying fertilizer to soil.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
noun
- the discovery and description of the course of development of something
- the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- A regular path or track; a course.
- The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
- A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
- The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
verb
noun
- The act of being produced.
- (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
- The presentation of a theatrical work.
- The act of producing, making or creating something.
- (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
- The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
- (Scots law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
- An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
- The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
- (linguistics) Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
- (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
- The total amount produced.
- the act or process of producing something
- (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
- the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services
- an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated
- (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law
- a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television
noun
- (biology) The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.
- (biology, evolution) The evolutionary process by which one taxonomic group (species, genus, variety, etc.) becomes distinct from another, or acquires distinct features; the result of such a process: distinctness.
- The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
- (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
- The process of developing distinct components.
- the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function
- (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
- a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes
noun
- Process of growth or development.
- The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
- an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something
- (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something
- the act that results in something coming to be
verb
adj
noun
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
verb
noun
- (zoology) The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.
- (art, drawing, drafting) A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
- Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.
- (zoology) A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- the production of young from an egg
verb
noun
- something that produces
- someone who manufactures something
- someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)
- (UK, Ireland, slang) An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven (in the UK) or ten (in Ireland) days to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.
- One who produces an artistic production, such as an album, a theater production, a film, a TV program, a video game, and so on.
- (biology) An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
- (economics) An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
noun
adj
- Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
- (linguistic morphology) Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
- (education) Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
- Capable of forming something.
- (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
- capable of forming new cells and tissues
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
noun
- natural process that causes something to form
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [from 18th c.]
- an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
- creation by mental activity
- the act of forming or establishing something
- (geology) the geological features of the earth
- the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
- a particular spatial arrangement
- (category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- (geology) A layer of rock of common origin. [from 19th c.]
- (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- Something possessing structure or form. [from 17th c.]
- (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from 18th c.]
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
- The act of assembling a group or structure. [from 14th c.]
- (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
noun
- the process of generating offspring
- The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
- the act of making copies
- (computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.
- A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.
- The act of making copies.
noun
- the process of fostering the growth of something
- socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners
- the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
- Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
- Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
- Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
- Light tillage: turning or stirring the soil, especially for weed control.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- the normal time between successive generations
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- a coming into being
- the production of heat or electricity
- group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- a multiplicative increase
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
- The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
- (countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The process of computing the sum of an addition with one and the same number a specified number of times (i.e. 4 times 5 = [0 +] 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20) or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
noun
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- (cooking) Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- The sound of musical pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- (sewing) An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- (botany) propagation by cuttings
- (botany) A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a thin strip of covered cord used to edge hems
- playing a pipe or the bagpipes
adj
verb
adv
noun
- (figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.
- Anything made, formed or produced; product.
- The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
- (horology) A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.
- the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
- the organized action of making of goods and services for sale
verb
- (transitive) To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
- (derogatory) To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
- To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
- concoct something artificial or untrue
- produce naturally
- put together out of artificial or natural components or parts
- create or produce in a mechanical way
noun
- The act of hatching.
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- (Scotland) A bedstead.
- (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- (slang) A gullet.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- A trapdoor.
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
- a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- the production of young from an egg
verb
- emerge from the eggs
- (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
- (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
- devise or invent
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- sit on (eggs)
noun
- The act or process of rendering fertile.
- The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.
- The act of applying fertilizer to soil.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
noun
- the discovery and description of the course of development of something
- the act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- A regular path or track; a course.
- The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
- A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
- The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
verb
noun
- The act of being produced.
- (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
- The presentation of a theatrical work.
- The act of producing, making or creating something.
- (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
- The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
- (Scots law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
- An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
- The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
- (linguistics) Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
- (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
- The total amount produced.
- the act or process of producing something
- (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
- the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services
- an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated
- (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law
- a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television
noun
- (biology) The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.
- (biology, evolution) The evolutionary process by which one taxonomic group (species, genus, variety, etc.) becomes distinct from another, or acquires distinct features; the result of such a process: distinctness.
- The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
- (geology) The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
- The process of developing distinct components.
- the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function
- (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function
- a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes
noun
- Process of growth or development.
- The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
- an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something
- (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something
- the act that results in something coming to be
verb
noun
- (zoology) The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.
- (art, drawing, drafting) A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
- Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.
- (zoology) A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- the production of young from an egg
verb
noun
- something that produces
- someone who manufactures something
- someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)
- (UK, Ireland, slang) An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven (in the UK) or ten (in Ireland) days to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.
- One who produces an artistic production, such as an album, a theater production, a film, a TV program, a video game, and so on.
- (biology) An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
- (economics) An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
verb
- To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
- To change, to transform.
- To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
- To change or transform (something).
- Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- (biology) Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- undergo development or evolution
- work out
- gain through experience
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- call forth
- (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
- (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
- (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
- (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
verb
noun
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- produce (energy)
- produce, create
- give or supply
- (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
- (transitive) To procreate, beget.
- (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
adj
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- irritate
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
noun
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- Lineage.
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- care for like a mother
- (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
- (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
- (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
- (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
noun
- a term of address for a mother superior
- a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
- a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for an elderly woman
- a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
- A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
- (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
- (figuratively) A female ancestor.
- A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
- A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
- A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
- (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
- (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
- (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- (Stan Twitter, originally drag slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
- (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
- A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
- Alternative form of moth-er.
- (figuratively) A source or origin.
verb
noun
- male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
- the founder of a family
- a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority
- (fantasy) The vampire who turned another person.
- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
noun
- The act of hatching.
- A floodgate; a sluice gate.
- (Scotland) A bedstead.
- (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
- (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
- (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
- (slang) A gullet.
- An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
- A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
- (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
- A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
- (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
- A trapdoor.
- (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
- A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
- shading consisting of multiple crossing lines
- a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open
- a movable barrier covering a hatchway
- the production of young from an egg
verb
- emerge from the eggs
- (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
- (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
- (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
- (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (crosshatch).
- (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
- (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
- devise or invent
- draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper
- inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating
- sit on (eggs)
noun
adj
- Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
- (linguistic morphology) Pertaining to the formation of words; specifically, of an affix: forming words through inflection.
- (education) Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
- Capable of forming something.
- (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
- capable of forming new cells and tissues
- forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning
adj
noun
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.