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adj
- absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
- Necessary.
- Very important; of high importance.
- basic and fundamental
- of the greatest importance
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
- (biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
- (geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
- Having the nature of essence; not physical.
- (medicine) Idiopathic.
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Really existing; existent.
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- (generic, singular) A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.
- (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
- (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
- (generic, plural) A collection of essential component ideas that are often grouped together to serve as the foundational basis of a complex idea.
- the lowest tone of a harmonic series
- any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business
adj
- Extremely important; essential.
- Forming a constituent part of something else.
- Having the power or authority to appoint someone to office.
- (biochemistry) Of an enzyme: continuously produced at a constant rate.
- Having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something.
- constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
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- (countable, grammar) A verb in the imperative mood.
- (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
- a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- a verb in the imperative mood.
- some duty that is essential and urgent
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- Most important; essential.
- Having a substance; actually existing.
- Not imaginary; real; actual; true; veritable.
- Satisfying; having sufficient substance to be nourishing or filling.
- Corporeal; material; firm.
- Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy.
- Large in size, quantity, or value; ample; significant.
- Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- providing abundant nourishment
- of considerable importance, size, or worth
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
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- Extremely important.
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
- (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
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- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- Very important.
- performing an essential function in the living body
- full of spirit; full of life
- manifesting or characteristic of life
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- Relating to or characteristic of life.
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- Lively, having vitality
- Containing life; living.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
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- (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
- (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- (countable) An object designed to open and close a lock.
- (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- (slang) A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- (masonry) A keystone.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- Any of various tools comparable to a wrench (spanner) or driver, or, in some cases, also called a wrench or driver.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
- Alternative form of quay.
- A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- (rail transport) A wooden wedge, driven sideways between a bullhead rail and a cast-iron chair, to keep the rail securely in position.
- (Australian rules football) A key position player (a tall forward or defender).
- One of a string of small islands.
- (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
- (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- something crucial for explaining
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
- a list of answers to a test
- pitch of the voice
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
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- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To provide an arch with a keystone.
- (advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- Clipping of chromakey.
- vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- regulate the musical pitch of
- provide with a key
- harmonize with or adjust to
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- Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
- Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
- (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
- (astrology) Being one of the signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, associated with initiation, creation, and force.
- Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal’s cassock).
- serving as an essential component
- being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order
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- (now historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
- (Roman Catholicism) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope, equal to the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope.
- Ellipsis of cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
- Ellipsis of cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
- (grammar) Ellipsis of cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
- (mathematics) Ellipsis of cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)
- A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
- Any of various species of New-World passerine songbird in the genus Cardinalis, or in the family Cardinalidae more generally, or of similar appearance and once considered to be related to the former; so called because of their red plumage. (See Wikipedia article for taxonomical information.)
- a variable color averaging a vivid red
- crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
- (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
- the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
noun
- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- the condition of being essential or indispensable
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- anything indispensable
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
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- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
- (transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
- force somebody to do something
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- commit in order to fulfill an obligation
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- a necessary or essential thing
- grape juice before or during fermentation
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Alternative spelling of musth.
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- (intransitive) To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
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- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
- (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
- (television) A superimposed caption or image.
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supervisor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
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- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
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- The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
- Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
- Physical matter; material.
- Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
- A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
- (theology, philosophy) Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.
- Drugs (illegal narcotics)
- material of a particular kind or constitution
- the idea that is intended
- considerable capital (wealth or income)
- the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
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- (degree) absolutely, positively.
- absolutely; altogether; really
- (used for emphasis) absolutely
- (manner) Foolishly; stupidly.
- (focus) Merely; solely.
- Frankly.
- (manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety
- (manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.
- in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment
- and nothing more
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- Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
- (slang, especially Jamaica, Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
- of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
- of the greatest importance
- having crucial relevance
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- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
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- Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
- the condition of being essential or indispensable
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
- anything indispensable
- (law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
- (law, in the plural) Indispensable requirements (of life).
- Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
- The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
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- a necessary or essential thing
- grape juice before or during fermentation
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Alternative spelling of musth.
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- (intransitive) To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
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- The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
- Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
- Physical matter; material.
- Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
- A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
- (theology, philosophy) Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.
- Drugs (illegal narcotics)
- material of a particular kind or constitution
- the idea that is intended
- considerable capital (wealth or income)
- the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
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- absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
- Necessary.
- Very important; of high importance.
- basic and fundamental
- of the greatest importance
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
- (biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
- (geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
- Having the nature of essence; not physical.
- (medicine) Idiopathic.
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Really existing; existent.
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- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
- (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
- (television) A superimposed caption or image.
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supervisor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
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- (degree) absolutely, positively.
- absolutely; altogether; really
- (used for emphasis) absolutely
- (manner) Foolishly; stupidly.
- (focus) Merely; solely.
- Frankly.
- (manner) Plainly; without art or subtlety
- (manner) In a simple way or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; alone.
- in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment
- and nothing more
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- (informal, Australian Aboriginal, Ireland, Newfoundland) Excellent, awesome, cool.
- Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
- (informal) Very boring.
- Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
- Causing death; lethal.
- causing or capable of causing death
- extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom
- exceedingly harmful
- involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death
- (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
- of an instrument of certain death
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- absolutely necessary; vitally necessary
- Necessary.
- Very important; of high importance.
- basic and fundamental
- of the greatest importance
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc
- (biology) Necessary for survival but not synthesized by the organism, thus needing to be ingested.
- (geometry) Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
- Having the nature of essence; not physical.
- (medicine) Idiopathic.
- Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
- Really existing; existent.
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- (generic, singular) A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.
- (physics) The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
- (music) The lowest partial of a complex tone.
- (generic, plural) A collection of essential component ideas that are often grouped together to serve as the foundational basis of a complex idea.
- the lowest tone of a harmonic series
- any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business
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- Extremely important; essential.
- Forming a constituent part of something else.
- Having the power or authority to appoint someone to office.
- (biochemistry) Of an enzyme: continuously produced at a constant rate.
- Having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something.
- constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
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- (countable, grammar) A verb in the imperative mood.
- (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
- a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- a verb in the imperative mood.
- some duty that is essential and urgent
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- Most important; essential.
- Having a substance; actually existing.
- Not imaginary; real; actual; true; veritable.
- Satisfying; having sufficient substance to be nourishing or filling.
- Corporeal; material; firm.
- Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy.
- Large in size, quantity, or value; ample; significant.
- Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- providing abundant nourishment
- of considerable importance, size, or worth
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
- of good quality and condition; solidly built
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- Extremely important.
- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- (medicine, by extension) In such a condition.
- Inclined to find fault or criticize.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
- Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
- (physics) Of a temperature that is equal to the temperature of the critical point of a substance, i.e. the temperature above which the substance cannot be liquefied.
- (textual criticism) Employing or related to textual criticism, particularly through a stemmatological comparison of all extant texts and reconstruction of the original.
- (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition could worsen; or, a patient condition that requires urgent treatment in an intensive care or critical care medical facility.
- (physics) Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- (botany) Needing great discrimination to be correctly classified; easily confused.
- Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
- at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- characterized by careful evaluation and judgment
- of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
- being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
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- urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- Very important.
- performing an essential function in the living body
- full of spirit; full of life
- manifesting or characteristic of life
- Relating to the recording of life events.
- Necessary to continued existence.
- Relating to or characteristic of life.
- Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
- Lively, having vitality
- Containing life; living.
- Invigorating or life-giving.
- Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
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- (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
- (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- (countable) An object designed to open and close a lock.
- (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- (slang) A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- (masonry) A keystone.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- Any of various tools comparable to a wrench (spanner) or driver, or, in some cases, also called a wrench or driver.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
- Alternative form of quay.
- A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- (rail transport) A wooden wedge, driven sideways between a bullhead rail and a cast-iron chair, to keep the rail securely in position.
- (Australian rules football) A key position player (a tall forward or defender).
- One of a string of small islands.
- (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
- (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- something crucial for explaining
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
- a list of answers to a test
- pitch of the voice
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
verb
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To provide an arch with a keystone.
- (advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- Clipping of chromakey.
- vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- regulate the musical pitch of
- provide with a key
- harmonize with or adjust to
adj
- Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.
- Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
- (nautical) Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).
- (astrology) Being one of the signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, associated with initiation, creation, and force.
- Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal’s cassock).
- serving as an essential component
- being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order
noun
- (now historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.
- (Roman Catholicism) One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope, equal to the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope.
- Ellipsis of cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi), a freshwater fish.
- Ellipsis of cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis), a flowering plant.
- (grammar) Ellipsis of cardinal numeral, a word used to represent a cardinal number.
- (mathematics) Ellipsis of cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)
- A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)
- Any of various species of New-World passerine songbird in the genus Cardinalis, or in the family Cardinalidae more generally, or of similar appearance and once considered to be related to the former; so called because of their red plumage. (See Wikipedia article for taxonomical information.)
- a variable color averaging a vivid red
- crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
- (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
- the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To commit (money, for example) in order to fulfill an obligation.
- (transitive) To bind, compel, constrain, or oblige by a social, legal, or moral tie.
- (transitive, Canada, US, Scotland) To cause to be grateful or indebted; to oblige.
- force somebody to do something
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- commit in order to fulfill an obligation
adj
noun
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
adj
- Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
- (slang, especially Jamaica, Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
- of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
- of the greatest importance
- having crucial relevance