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- involving disadvantage or harm
- having a negative charge
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- less than zero
- (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
- (slang) COVID-19 negative.
- (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
- (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
- (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
- (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
- (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.
- (slang) HIV negative.
- (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
noun
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
- (mathematics) A negative quantity.
- (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
- (law) A right of veto.
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
verb
intj
noun
- the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
- (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
- a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
- the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
adj
- involving advantage or good
- Positive, or involving advantage.
- on the positive side or higher end of a scale
- Being positive rather than negative or zero.
- (physics) Electrically positive.
- (postpostitive, informal) And more.
- (postpositive, somewhat informal) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
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- To improve.
- (psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- (optometry) To increase a correction.
- (homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- (often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.
- (informal) To add; to subject to addition.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- (sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
adj
- involving advantage or good
- impossible to deny or disprove
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- (chemistry) electropositive
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Optimistic.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
noun
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
noun
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
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- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
adv
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
- in financial comfort
- favorably; with approval
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’)
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- with prudence or propriety
- with great or especially intimate knowledge
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
- to a great extent or degree
- (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- (degree) To a significant degree.
- (degree, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
- (manner) Completely, fully.
adj
noun
- an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
- an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- an abundant source
- (figurative) A source of supply.
- (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A well drink.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- (graphical user interface) The region of an interface that contains tabs.
- (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
- (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
- (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
verb
intj
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.
- Used as a hedge.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
- Used as a discourse marker.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Expressing reluctance to say something.
- (Ireland) Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
noun
- a detriment or sacrifice
- money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
- amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
- The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
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- the disadvantage that results from losing something
- a state of extreme poverty
- act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
- (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.
- (uncountable) The state of being deprived; lack.
- The act of deposing or divesting of some dignity; in particular the taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
noun
- the disadvantage that results from losing something
- the act of losing someone or something
- the experience of losing a loved one
- gradual decline in amount or activity
- something that is lost
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
- euphemistic expressions for death
- military personnel lost by death or capture
- (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
- (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
- (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
- (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
- (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
- (countable) The death of a person or animal.
- (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
- (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
verb
noun
- A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
- (abbreviation) A political conservative.
- Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”).
- (business, marketing) Abbreviation of consolidation: only used in naming.
- (informal) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
- (informal) The conversion of part of a building.
- (informal) An organized gathering, such as a convention, conference, or congress.
- (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- an argument opposed to a proposal
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
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- be set at a disadvantage
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- withdraw, as from reality
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to keep or maintain (of a state)
- fail to win
- fail to get or obtain
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- (transitive) Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
- (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
- (transitive) To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- (transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- (transitive) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
- (transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- (transitive) To shed (weight).
- (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
noun
verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- undergo or suffer
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- be in pain
- be given to
- get worse in quality
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- undergo or be subjected to
- (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- (intransitive) To become worse.
- (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- (intransitive) To feel pain.
adv
- at a disadvantage
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
adj
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
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- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
- (heraldry) A cottise.
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
verb
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
- be priced at
- require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
adv
- in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage
- to a severe or serious degree
- evilly or wickedly
- without skill or in a displeasing manner
- very much; strongly
- unfavorably or with disapproval
- with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display
- (‘ill’ is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- with great intensity (‘bad’ is a nonstandard variant for ‘badly’)
- in a disobedient or naughty way
- Very much; to a great degree.
- In a bad manner.
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- a basket usually with a cover
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- (US) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper).
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
- (UK) A gift basket.
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noun
- (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
- advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
- (sports) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
- A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
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- An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
- (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
- (informal) A crazy person.
- The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
- Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
- A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
- (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
- The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
- (derogatory, figurative) An effeminate man.
- an amount of a product
- the consequence of some effort or action
- the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
verb
noun
- An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).
- (slang, historical) A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- A professional sportsman.
- A person who supports a concept or principle.
- (colloquial) Professional.
- an argument in favor of a proposal
- an athlete who plays for pay
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- To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation).
- To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand.
- (computer science, of a hacker or malware) To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.
- To hold in custody or use for any advantage.
verb
- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- To rob or mug (someone).
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended
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noun
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- Emotional or figurative hurt.
- Physical injury; hurt; damage.
- That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
- Detriment; misfortune.
noun
- an advantage to the benefit of someone or something
- an inclination to approve
- an act of gracious kindness
- a feeling of favorable regard
- souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
- The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
- Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
- (law) Partiality; bias
- A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
- (historical) A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
- A small gift; a party favor.
- Goodwill; benevolent regard.
verb
- bestow a privilege upon
- promote over another
- treat gently or carefully
- consider as the favorite
- To look upon fondly; to prefer.
- To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
- (in dialects, including Southern US and Cajun) To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
- To treat or use (something) gently
- To use more often.
- To encourage, conduce to
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verb
noun
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- an obstacle on a golf course
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
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noun
- An advantage; help or aid from something.
- (insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
- An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
- Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
- something that aids or promotes well-being
- financial assistance in time of need
- a performance to raise money for a charitable cause
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- a state of danger involving risk
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
- the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
- (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
- (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
- (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
- (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
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verb
- (transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (intransitive) To begin moving away.
- (nautical) To turn away from the wind.
- (intransitive) To start out.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
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- involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness
- (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose
- not encouraging or approving or pleasing
- Serving to hinder or oppose; adverse, disadvantageous, inconducive, unsuitable.
- Of a belief, state of mind, etc.: not favourable; disapproving.
- Of wind or weather: causing delay or obstacles; not conducive to travel or work; inclement.
- Not auspicious; ill-boding.
verb
- (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
- (cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
- (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
- (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
- kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
- place a bet on
- tie or fasten to a stake
- mark with a stake
- put at risk
noun
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
- the money risked on a gamble
verb
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
- ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- To cause the loss of.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- To demand ownership of.
noun
- a demand
- demand for something as rightful or due
- an established or recognized right
- an informal right to something
- an assertion that something is true or factual
- an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
- (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- A demand of ownership made for something.
noun
- the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
- (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
- a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
- the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
adj
noun
prep
verb
noun
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
conj
prep
verb
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
noun
- a detriment or sacrifice
- money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer
- amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures)
- A spending or consuming, often a disbursement of funds.
- The elimination or consumption of something, sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to the thing eliminated.
verb
noun
noun
- the disadvantage that results from losing something
- a state of extreme poverty
- act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
- (countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving.
- (uncountable) The state of being deprived; lack.
- The act of deposing or divesting of some dignity; in particular the taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
noun
- the disadvantage that results from losing something
- the act of losing someone or something
- the experience of losing a loved one
- gradual decline in amount or activity
- something that is lost
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
- euphemistic expressions for death
- military personnel lost by death or capture
- (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
- (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
- (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
- (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
- (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
- (countable) The death of a person or animal.
- (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
- (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
verb
noun
- A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
- (abbreviation) A political conservative.
- Alternative form of conn (“navigational direction of a ship”).
- (business, marketing) Abbreviation of consolidation: only used in naming.
- (informal) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
- (informal) The conversion of part of a building.
- (informal) An organized gathering, such as a convention, conference, or congress.
- (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
- a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
- an argument opposed to a proposal
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
adj
verb
adv
noun
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
- (heraldry) A cottise.
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
verb
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
- be priced at
- require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
noun
- An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
- (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
- (informal) A crazy person.
- The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
- Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
- A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
- (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
- The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
- (derogatory, figurative) An effeminate man.
- an amount of a product
- the consequence of some effort or action
- the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
verb
noun
- An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).
- (slang, historical) A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- A professional sportsman.
- A person who supports a concept or principle.
- (colloquial) Professional.
- an argument in favor of a proposal
- an athlete who plays for pay
adj
prep
adv
noun
- an advantage to the benefit of someone or something
- an inclination to approve
- an act of gracious kindness
- a feeling of favorable regard
- souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
- The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
- Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
- (law) Partiality; bias
- A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
- (historical) A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
- A small gift; a party favor.
- Goodwill; benevolent regard.
verb
- bestow a privilege upon
- promote over another
- treat gently or carefully
- consider as the favorite
- To look upon fondly; to prefer.
- To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
- (in dialects, including Southern US and Cajun) To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
- To treat or use (something) gently
- To use more often.
- To encourage, conduce to
noun
verb
noun
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
- an obstacle on a golf course
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
verb
noun
- An advantage; help or aid from something.
- (insurance) A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.
- An event, such as a theatrical performance, given to raise funds for some cause.
- Intended audience (as for the benefit of).
- something that aids or promotes well-being
- financial assistance in time of need
- a performance to raise money for a charitable cause
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- a state of danger involving risk
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
verb
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
- the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
- (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
- (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
- (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
- (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
verb
verb
noun
- (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
- advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
- (sports) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
- A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- withdraw, as from reality
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to keep or maintain (of a state)
- fail to win
- fail to get or obtain
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- (transitive) To be unable to follow or trace (somebody or something) any longer.
- (transitive) Of a clock, to run slower than expected.
- (transitive) To be deprived of (some right or privileged access to something).
- (transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).
- (transitive) To fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss.
- (transitive) To become a defeated competitor in (a game, competition, trial, etc).
- (transitive) To cease exhibiting; to overcome (a behavior or emotion).
- (transitive) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from.
- (transitive, informal) To shed, remove, discard, or eliminate.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to be unable to follow or trace one any longer.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) the loss of something; to deprive of.
- (transitive) To pay or owe (some wager) due from an unsuccessful bet or gamble.
- (transitive) To cease to have (something) in one's possession or capability.
- (transitive) To have (an organ) removed from one's body, especially by accident.
- (transitive) To shed (weight).
- (intransitive) To be defeated (in a game, competition, contest, etc.)
noun
verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- undergo or suffer
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- be in pain
- be given to
- get worse in quality
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- undergo or be subjected to
- (transitive) To endure, undergo.
- (intransitive) To become worse.
- (intransitive) To undergo hardship.
- (intransitive) To feel pain.
verb
noun
- a basket usually with a cover
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- (US) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper).
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
- (UK) A gift basket.
verb
noun
- (sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.
- advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
- (sports) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
- A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- To seek advantage in a situation by threatening the well-being or success of (a person or thing not directly involved in the situation).
- To have possession or custody of (a person) as security for performance against a treaty, a pledge, or a demand, especially now an extra-legal demand.
- (computer science, of a hacker or malware) To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.
- To hold in custody or use for any advantage.
verb
- To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
- To rob or mug (someone).
- (transitive) To put up to hang.
- To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- (intransitive, figurative) To stop talking.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- interrupt a telephone conversation
- put a telephone receiver back in its cradle
- cause to be hanging or suspended
verb
noun
- the act of damaging something or someone
- any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- Emotional or figurative hurt.
- Physical injury; hurt; damage.
- That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
- Detriment; misfortune.
verb
- (transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (intransitive) To begin moving away.
- (nautical) To turn away from the wind.
- (intransitive) To start out.
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent
- the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred
- (banking, finance) A borrower (such as a mortgage-holder or person with a credit card).
- (uncountable) The probability of a negative outcome to a decision or event.
- (countable) A thing (from the perspective of how likely or unlikely it is to cause an adverse effect).
- (insurance) A type of adverse event covered under an insurance policy.
- (uncountable) The magnitude of possible loss consequent to a decision or event.
- (insurance) An entity insured by an insurer.
- (uncountable, economics, business and engineering) The potential negative effect of an event, determined by multiplying the likelihood of the event occurring with its magnitude should it occur.
- (finance) A financial product (typically an investment).
- (countable) A possible adverse event or outcome.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
- (transitive) To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
- (cryptocurrencies) To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
- (transitive) To pierce or wound with a stake.
- (transitive) To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
- kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole
- place a bet on
- tie or fasten to a stake
- mark with a stake
- put at risk
noun
- A share or interest in a business or a given situation.
- (Mormonism) A territorial division comprising all the Mormons (typically several thousand) in a geographical area.
- A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, as used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching hole in or cutting a work piece, or for specific forming techniques etc.
- A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.
- (with definite article) The piece of timber to which a person condemned to death was affixed to be burned.
- A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
- That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.
- (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something
- instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning
- a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground
- the money risked on a gamble
verb
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
- ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- To cause the loss of.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- To demand ownership of.
noun
- a demand
- demand for something as rightful or due
- an established or recognized right
- an informal right to something
- an assertion that something is true or factual
- an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
- (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- A demand of ownership made for something.
noun
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
- a state of danger involving risk
- A situation of serious and immediate danger.
- Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
- (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
verb
adv
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
- in financial comfort
- favorably; with approval
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (‘good’ is a nonstandard dialectal variant for ‘well’)
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- with prudence or propriety
- with great or especially intimate knowledge
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
- to a great extent or degree
- (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- (degree) To a significant degree.
- (degree, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
- (manner) Completely, fully.
adj
noun
- an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
- an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- an abundant source
- (figurative) A source of supply.
- (nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A well drink.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- (video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- (graphical user interface) The region of an interface that contains tabs.
- (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
- (metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
- (biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- (architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
verb
intj
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.
- Used as a hedge.
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
- Used as a discourse marker.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Expressing reluctance to say something.
- (Ireland) Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
adv
- at a disadvantage
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
adj
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
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adv
- in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage
- to a severe or serious degree
- evilly or wickedly
- without skill or in a displeasing manner
- very much; strongly
- unfavorably or with disapproval
- with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display
- (‘ill’ is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well
- with great intensity (‘bad’ is a nonstandard variant for ‘badly’)
- in a disobedient or naughty way
- Very much; to a great degree.
- In a bad manner.
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adj
- involving disadvantage or harm
- having a negative charge
- not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition
- expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial
- having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
- designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive
- characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features
- less than zero
- (New Age jargon, derogatory) Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted.
- Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed.
- Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
- (often used pejoratively) Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things.
- Not positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
- (slang) COVID-19 negative.
- (medicine) Of a test result: not positive, not detected.
- (chemistry) Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
- (linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.
- (hyperbolic) No, not any, zero.
- (mathematics) Of a number: less than zero.
- (slang) HIV negative.
- (physics) Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles
- (weather) Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit.
noun
- a reply of denial
- a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed
- (mathematics) A negative quantity.
- (logic) A statement that something didn’t happen or doesn’t exist.
- (law) A right of veto.
- Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto
- An unfavorable point or characteristic.
- (photography) An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
- (weightlifting) A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
- (grammar) A word that indicates negation.
- The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
verb
intj
adj
- involving advantage or good
- Positive, or involving advantage.
- on the positive side or higher end of a scale
- Being positive rather than negative or zero.
- (physics) Electrically positive.
- (postpostitive, informal) And more.
- (postpositive, somewhat informal) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
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conj
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verb
- To improve.
- (psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- (optometry) To increase a correction.
- (homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- (often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.
- (informal) To add; to subject to addition.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- (sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
adj
- involving advantage or good
- impossible to deny or disprove
- characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.
- greater than zero
- formally laid down or imposed
- reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion
- indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen
- marked by excessive confidence
- of or relating to positivism
- having a positive charge
- persuaded of; very sure
- (photography) Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
- Confirmed, straight-up.
- (chemistry) electropositive
- Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
- Included, present, characterized by affirmation.
- (slang) HIV positive.
- (mathematics, of a number) Greater than zero.
- Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
- (grammar) Describing a verb that is not negated, especially in languages which have distinct positive and negative verb forms, e.g., Finnish.
- Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
- Fully assured in opinion.
- (law) Formally laid down.
- Stated definitively and without qualification.
- (mathematics, of a number, sometimes) Greater than or equal to zero.
- Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
- Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations.
- Optimistic.
- (New Age jargon) Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable.
- (grammar) Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
- Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
- (chiefly philosophy) Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
- (physics) Having more protons than electrons.
- (chemistry) basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
- Overconfident, dogmatic.
noun
- a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
- the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution
- Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
- A positive result of a test.
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
- (photography) A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, not their opposites or complements.
- A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
- A favourable point or characteristic.
- (grammar) A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
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- involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness
- (of winds or weather) tending to hinder or oppose
- not encouraging or approving or pleasing
- Serving to hinder or oppose; adverse, disadvantageous, inconducive, unsuitable.
- Of a belief, state of mind, etc.: not favourable; disapproving.
- Of wind or weather: causing delay or obstacles; not conducive to travel or work; inclement.
- Not auspicious; ill-boding.