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verb
- increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
- change from one form or medium into another
- change in outward structure or looks
- change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
- change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
- convert (one form of energy) to another
- subject to a mathematical transformation
- (transitive, mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
- (transitive) To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
- (transitive, genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
- (intransitive) To undergo a transformation; to change in appearance or character.
- (transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.
- (transitive, electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
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- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- a large stout nail
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
- (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
- (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- (Anglicanism) An excessively high church Anglican.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
- (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
- A sort of very large nail.
- (virology) a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- Spike lavender.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
verb
- secure with spikes
- stand in the way of
- manifest a sharp increase
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
- To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To increase sharply.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
- (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To fix on a spike.
- (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
noun
- (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- (genetics) The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
- The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
- (organic chemistry) A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).
- (translation studies) A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- (electronics) Gain.
- (physics) The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
noun
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- a quantity that is added
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- The thing or things gained.
verb
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- increase or develop
- obtain
- increase (one's body weight)
- win something through one's efforts
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- rise in rate or price
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- derive a benefit from
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- (transitive) To reach.
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- an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage
- (fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Transformer.
- (machine learning) A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.
- (electrical engineering) A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately.
- Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.
verb
- (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
- (MLE) To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- (metalworking, construction) To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
- (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
- (US, military slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
- (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
- (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- move quickly and violently
- to strive with determination
- resist
noun
- (US, slang) One hundred.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
- (finance) One million dollars.
- (US, military slang, WWI–WWII) Lowest rank; a private.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Clipping of buckshot.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
- The sound made by a chicken.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- (Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
- (Scotland) The beech tree.
- (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
- (informal, rare) A euro.
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
- a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
noun
- (electricity) A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination.
- (figurative, uncommon) A moment or period where something is weakened, diminished or less effective.
- (Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong) A blackout, regardless of time of day.
- A temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision.
- A power outage during the day; distinguished from a blackout, which occurs at night.
- (firefighting) A temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions.
- darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
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- (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- (US, naval, often attributive) A deployment in large numbers at short notice.
- (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
- (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- a sudden forceful flow
- a large sea wave
- a sudden or abrupt strong increase
verb
- (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
- To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
- (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.
- (intransitive, aviation, of a jet engine) To experience a momentary reversal of airflow through the compressor section due to disruption of intake airflow.
- see one's performance improve
- rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
- rise or move forward
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- rise rapidly
noun
- a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere
- (physics) A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
- (bodybuilding, slang, uncountable) Clipping of Anavar.
- (statistics) Abbreviation of variance.
- (programming) Abbreviation of variable.
noun
- the conversion of alternating current to direct current
- determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve
- (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
- (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
- (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
- (astrology) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
- (geometry) The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3.
- The action or process of rectifying.
- (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
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- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
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- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- number needed to make up a whole force
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
verb
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
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- An increase.
- (especially US, taxation) A phenomenon whereby the growth in market value of an asset or investment is not taxed under certain circumstances, generally involving buying and holding until the buyer's death, followed by inheritance.
- (exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.
- the act of increasing something
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- (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
- (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
- (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
- (translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- increase the volume of
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
- exaggerate or make bigger
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- (electricity) Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).
- Initialism of air corps.
- Initialism of aviation cadet.
- Initialism of athletic club.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of armor class.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of adenylyl cyclase.
- (prison) Initialism of administrative custody.
- (autism, psychology) singular of ACs (“autistics and cousins”).
- (US, military) Initialism of Auxiliary Collier (a naval coal transport that travels with the fleet to provide coal for coal-powered warships).
- (set theory) Initialism of axiom of choice.
- Initialism of access control.
- Initialism of army corps.
- (medicine) Initialism of adjuvant chemotherapy.
- (Australia) Companion of the Order of Australia.
- (electricity, informal, by extension) supply of electric energy via a public electricity grid
- Initialism of author's correction.
- (geography) Initialism of autonomous county.
- Initialism of aircraftman.
- (Anglicanism) Anglo-Catholic.
- (finance) Initialism of account current.
- (anatomy) Initialism of anterior chamber.
- (music, radio) Initialism of adult contemporary (a radio format).
- Initialism of air conditioning.
- (chemistry) Initialism of ammonium chloride.
- Initialism of area code.
- Initialism of automobile club.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of assistant commissioner, a police rank used in London's Metropolitan Police.
- (aviation) Initialism of absolute ceiling.
- an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally
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- of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle
- (electricity) Of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents that have the same frequency but differ in phase.
- (physics) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of multiple phases of matter
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- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
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- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
- the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts
- (electricity) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.
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- (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
- (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time.
- (physics) The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds), but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
- (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- (UK) Ellipsis of jiffy bag, a padded envelope.
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
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- (electricity) The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.
- (fluid mechanics) The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.
- The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of engine displacement.
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- (psychology) The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.
- (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
- act of removing from office or employment
- the act of uniform movement
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
- act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
- to move something from its natural environment
verb
- amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit
- get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate
- restore strength
- reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- be formed or shaped anew
- undergo regeneration
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- form or produce anew
- replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue
- (intransitive) To become reconstructed.
- (transitive) To revitalize.
- (transitive) To construct or create anew, especially in an improved manner.
- (intransitive) To undergo a spiritual rebirth.
- (transitive, biology) To replace lost or damaged tissue.
- (intransitive) Of a water softener: to flush out the minerals extracted from the water supply.
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- (electronics) the time required for the current or voltage in a circuit to rise or fall exponentially through approximately 63 per cent of its amplitude
- the ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms
- (mathematics) A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function:
- (physics) The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value.
- For radioactivity: the decay constant.
noun
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
- a large stout nail
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
- (slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
- (theater) A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
- (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
- (Anglicanism) An excessively high church Anglican.
- A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
- A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
- (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
- (software engineering, XP) A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
- (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
- (music, lutherie) Synonym of endpin.
- A sort of very large nail.
- (virology) a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.
- A sharp peak in a graph.
- An ear of corn or grain.
- Spike lavender.
- (informal, chiefly in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
- (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
- A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
verb
- secure with spikes
- stand in the way of
- manifest a sharp increase
- bring forth a spike or spikes
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- pierce with a sharp stake or point
- To add alcohol or a drug into a drink, especially if covertly.
- To add a small amount of one substance to another.
- To increase sharply.
- (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
- (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.
- (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
- (figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
- To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
- To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
- To set or furnish with spikes.
- To fix on a spike.
- (American football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
noun
- (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail
- (genetics) The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
- The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
- (organic chemistry) A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).
- (translation studies) A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- (electronics) Gain.
- (physics) The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
noun
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- a quantity that is added
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- The thing or things gained.
verb
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- increase or develop
- obtain
- increase (one's body weight)
- win something through one's efforts
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- rise in rate or price
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- derive a benefit from
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- (transitive) To reach.
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- an electrical device by which alternating current of one voltage is changed to another voltage
- (fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Transformer.
- (machine learning) A neural network architecture composed of layers of attention which takes sequences of tokens (representing text, images, audio, or other modalities) as input.
- (electrical engineering) A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between different voltage levels, which allows the most appropriate voltages for power generation, transmission and distribution to be chosen separately.
- Something that transforms, changing its own or another thing's shape.
noun
- (electricity) A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination.
- (figurative, uncommon) A moment or period where something is weakened, diminished or less effective.
- (Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong) A blackout, regardless of time of day.
- A temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision.
- A power outage during the day; distinguished from a blackout, which occurs at night.
- (firefighting) A temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions.
- darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
noun
- (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- (US, naval, often attributive) A deployment in large numbers at short notice.
- (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
- (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- a sudden forceful flow
- a large sea wave
- a sudden or abrupt strong increase
verb
- (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
- To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
- (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.
- (intransitive, aviation, of a jet engine) To experience a momentary reversal of airflow through the compressor section due to disruption of intake airflow.
- see one's performance improve
- rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
- rise or move forward
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- rise rapidly
noun
- a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere
- (physics) A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
- (bodybuilding, slang, uncountable) Clipping of Anavar.
- (statistics) Abbreviation of variance.
- (programming) Abbreviation of variable.
noun
- the conversion of alternating current to direct current
- determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve
- (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
- (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
- (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
- (astrology) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
- (geometry) The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3.
- The action or process of rectifying.
- (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
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- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
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- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- number needed to make up a whole force
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
verb
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
noun
- (electricity) Initialism of alternating current (often used to indicate an alternating potential rather than a current).
- Initialism of air corps.
- Initialism of aviation cadet.
- Initialism of athletic club.
- (roleplaying games) Initialism of armor class.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of adenylyl cyclase.
- (prison) Initialism of administrative custody.
- (autism, psychology) singular of ACs (“autistics and cousins”).
- (US, military) Initialism of Auxiliary Collier (a naval coal transport that travels with the fleet to provide coal for coal-powered warships).
- (set theory) Initialism of axiom of choice.
- Initialism of access control.
- Initialism of army corps.
- (medicine) Initialism of adjuvant chemotherapy.
- (Australia) Companion of the Order of Australia.
- (electricity, informal, by extension) supply of electric energy via a public electricity grid
- Initialism of author's correction.
- (geography) Initialism of autonomous county.
- Initialism of aircraftman.
- (Anglicanism) Anglo-Catholic.
- (finance) Initialism of account current.
- (anatomy) Initialism of anterior chamber.
- (music, radio) Initialism of adult contemporary (a radio format).
- Initialism of air conditioning.
- (chemistry) Initialism of ammonium chloride.
- Initialism of area code.
- Initialism of automobile club.
- (UK, law enforcement) Initialism of assistant commissioner, a police rank used in London's Metropolitan Police.
- (aviation) Initialism of absolute ceiling.
- an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally
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- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
- (physics) The gravitational potential: the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational field, also known as the Newtonian potential or the gravitoelectric field.
- (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified location in the presence of a force field, for example to bring a unit positive electric charge from an infinite distance to a specified point against an electric field.
- A currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
- (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
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- the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
- the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts
- (electricity) The difference in electrostatic potential between two points in space, especially between live and neutral conductors or the earth.
noun
- (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
- (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time.
- (physics) The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds), but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
- (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- (UK) Ellipsis of jiffy bag, a padded envelope.
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
noun
- (electricity) The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.
- (fluid mechanics) The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.
- The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of engine displacement.
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- (physics) A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- (psychology) The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.
- (fencing) Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- (grammar) The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
- act of removing from office or employment
- the act of uniform movement
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
- act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
- to move something from its natural environment
noun
- (electronics) the time required for the current or voltage in a circuit to rise or fall exponentially through approximately 63 per cent of its amplitude
- the ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms
- (mathematics) A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function:
- (physics) The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value.
- For radioactivity: the decay constant.
verb
- increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
- change from one form or medium into another
- change in outward structure or looks
- change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
- change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
- convert (one form of energy) to another
- subject to a mathematical transformation
- (transitive, mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
- (transitive) To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
- (transitive, genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
- (intransitive) To undergo a transformation; to change in appearance or character.
- (transitive) To change greatly the appearance or form of.
- (transitive, electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
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- (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
- (MLE) To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- (metalworking, construction) To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
- (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
- (US, military slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
- (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
- (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- move quickly and violently
- to strive with determination
- resist
noun
- (US, slang) One hundred.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
- (finance) One million dollars.
- (US, military slang, WWI–WWII) Lowest rank; a private.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Clipping of buckshot.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
- The sound made by a chicken.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- (Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
- (Scotland) The beech tree.
- (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
- (informal, rare) A euro.
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
- a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
verb
- (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
- (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
- (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
- (translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
- increase the volume of
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
- exaggerate or make bigger
verb
- amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit
- get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate
- restore strength
- reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- be formed or shaped anew
- undergo regeneration
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- form or produce anew
- replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue
- (intransitive) To become reconstructed.
- (transitive) To revitalize.
- (transitive) To construct or create anew, especially in an improved manner.
- (intransitive) To undergo a spiritual rebirth.
- (transitive, biology) To replace lost or damaged tissue.
- (intransitive) Of a water softener: to flush out the minerals extracted from the water supply.
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- An increase.
- (especially US, taxation) A phenomenon whereby the growth in market value of an asset or investment is not taxed under certain circumstances, generally involving buying and holding until the buyer's death, followed by inheritance.
- (exercise) A workout movement wherein one leg stands on an elevated surface and lifts in the concentric part the rest of the body up onto it to target – depending on angle and starting distance of the other leg and weights applied by the arms – the femoral and gluteal muscles variously.
- the act of increasing something
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- of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle
- (electricity) Of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents that have the same frequency but differ in phase.
- (physics) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of multiple phases of matter