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noun
- logical and methodical reasoning
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- A proposition arrived at by such thought.
- Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
- Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
noun
verb
- conclude by reasoning; in logic
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- believe to be the case
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- draw from specific cases for more general cases
- (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
- (transitive, often proscribed) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply.
adj
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
- derived or capable of being derived by inference
- based on interpretation; not directly expressed
- Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.
adj
verb
noun
- a system of reasoning
- the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
- (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
- (countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
- (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
- (countable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
- (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
- (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
- (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
- the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations
- reasoned and reasonable judgment
verb
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rationalize.
verb
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- To make something rational or more rational.
- (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
- To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.
- To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
suffix
verb
- think logically
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- present reasons and arguments
- (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
- (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
- (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
- (ambitransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
noun
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- A wall plate.
- An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
- That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
- (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- A motive for an action or a determination.
- (logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.
adj
- of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion
- inducing or influencing; leading on
- arising from inductance
- (logic) Of, or relating to logical induction, by generalizing a universal claim or principle from the observed particular instances.
- (physics) Of, relating to, or arising from inductance.
- Influencing; tending to induce or cause.
- Introductory or preparatory.
adj
- logically deductive
- characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
- (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
- refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
- being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
- (mathematics, philosophy) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.
- Relating to the form or structure of something.
- Official.
- Ceremonial or traditional.
- Relating to formation.
- In accordance with established forms.
- Organized; well-structured and planned.
- Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
- (especially sciences, mathematics, linguistics) In accordance with a methodological framework with well-defined rules or laws; rigorous.
noun
adj
- Using analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic.
- Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts
- using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole — intellectual or substantial — into its elemental parts or basic principles)
- of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
adj
- logically valid
- in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay
- in excellent physical condition
- free from moral defect
- vigorous or severe
- complete; thorough
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- financially secure and safe
- having legal efficacy or force
- exercising or showing good judgment
- Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
- (of sleep) Quiet and deep.
- Heavy; laid on with force.
- (British, Ireland, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
- Complete, solid, or secure.
- Healthy.
- (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
noun
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- the subjective sensation of hearing something
- mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- a large ocean inlet or deep bay
- the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
- the audible part of a transmitted signal
- the sudden occurrence of an audible event
- (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
- (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
- A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
- (phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
- Noise without meaning; empty noise.
- (medicine) A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
- The air bladder of a fish.
- Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
- A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
verb
- appear in a certain way
- cause to sound
- announce by means of a sound
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- give off a certain sound or sounds
- measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
- make a certain noise or sound
- (intransitive) To produce a sound.
- (intransitive) Of a whale, to dive downwards.
- (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
- (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
- To fathom or test; to ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
- (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
- To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
- (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
- (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
adv
intj
noun
- (computing) Initialism of case-based reasoning.
- (astrophysics) Initialism of cosmic background radiation.
- (computing) Initialism of constant bitrate.
- (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
name
adj
- following a correct or logical method
- in keeping with the facts
- not homosexual
- (of hair) having no waves or curls
- neatly arranged; not disorderly
- rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- free from curves or angles
- without evasion or compromise
- no longer coiled
- erect in posture
- (of an alcoholic drink) without water
- having no deviations
- successive (without a break)
- characterized by honesty and fairness
- accurately fitted; level
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- (telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.
- (informal, of people, reciprocal) On good terms.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- (colloquial) Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
- Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- (colloquial) Heterosexual.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
- (informal, of a person) OK, all right, fine; in a good state or situation.
- (fashion) Not plus size; thin.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- (colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- (rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
- (sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Serious rather than comedic.
- (slang, sex work) Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
noun
- a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- (colloquial) A heterosexual.
- A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
- (poker) Five cards in sequence.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
adv
- without deviation
- in a straight line; in a direct course
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
verb
noun
- A logical deduction.
- The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the fungus Claviceps purpurea which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs, consisting of convulsive and gangrenous symptoms.
- The use of ergot-infested grain to poison animals.
- The plant disease caused by ergot.
- poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products; characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms; in severe cases it can cause seizures and gangrene of the limbs
noun
- any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
- Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
- a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
- (Hegelianism, Marxism) development by way of overcoming internal contradictions
- A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
adj
noun
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
- an idea or conclusion having general application
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
noun
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
- an idea or conclusion having general application
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- (mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
- An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class.
noun
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- a formal entry into an organization or position or office
- the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time)
- An act of inducting.
- (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
- (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells.
- (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
- (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
- The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
- (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
- A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
- An act of inducing.
- (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
- (medicine) The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
noun
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a lower limit
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
adj
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
verb
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
noun
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable
- a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- (by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- The phase of a complex number.
- (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- (countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- The independent variable of a function.
- (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
noun
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
- Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
- An exchange of arguments
noun
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- acting in conformity
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- a short personal letter
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a telephone connection
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
- (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- (genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- A verse (in poetry).
- (geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, thread, or cable, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- (soccer) The goal line.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A hose, tube, or pipe, of any size.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.
- (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- (informal) A portion or serving of a powdery recreational drug, especially cocaine, formed into a line on a flat surface in preparation for snorting.
- (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
- (advertising) Ellipsis of agate line (one fourteenth of an inch).
- One twelfth of an inch.
- (especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- A clothesline.
- (automotive) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- (music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- Direction, path.
- (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; a railroad line, railway line, Elizabeth Line etc.
verb
- fill plentifully
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- cover the interior of
- mark with lines
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
- (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- (transitive) To form a line along.
- (rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- (transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
noun
- (logic) An argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.
- The investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.
- (philosophy) The belief that the world consists of separate entities that follow certain rules or universal forces.
- (linguistics) The belief that grammar is not arbitrary, but follows rules and patterns.
adj
- involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
- based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
- (linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
- Presumed without analysis.
- (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
- Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
adv
verb
- To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.
- derive by reason
- To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
- To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
noun
- The capability for rational thought.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
noun
- the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
- a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
- One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
- A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
adj
noun
- deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
- (logic) An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion.
noun
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- That from which a thing is derived.
verb
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- obtain
- develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
- obtain from a particular source
- (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
- (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
- (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
- (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
- (transitive, mathematics, proscribed) To differentiate (a function).
- To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
adj
- (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
- (especially law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
- Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
- Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
- Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
- derived from or composed of matter
- directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
- concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
- having material or physical form or substance
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
- concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
noun
- (rare) The materiel of an army.
- The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
- (usually plural) Apparatus for doing or making something.
- (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
- Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
- Fabric, which can be made into a garments, curtains, etc; especially, woven fabric (cloth).
- A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
- (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
- (sometimes collective, preceded by a qualifying word) A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- a person judged suitable for admission or employment
- things needed for doing or making something
noun
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- the act of making up your mind about something
- an intuitive assumption
- the act of ending something
- the last section of a communication
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- a final settlement
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- event whose occurrence ends something
- arrangement; settlement.
- (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
- (law) The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
- The outcome or result of a process or act.
noun
- logical and methodical reasoning
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- A proposition arrived at by such thought.
- Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
- Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- a system of reasoning
- the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
- (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
- (countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
- (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
- (countable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
- (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
- (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
- (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
- the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations
- reasoned and reasonable judgment
noun
- (computing) Initialism of case-based reasoning.
- (astrophysics) Initialism of cosmic background radiation.
- (computing) Initialism of constant bitrate.
- (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
name
noun
- A logical deduction.
- The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the fungus Claviceps purpurea which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs, consisting of convulsive and gangrenous symptoms.
- The use of ergot-infested grain to poison animals.
- The plant disease caused by ergot.
- poisoning by ingestion of ergot-infected grain products; characterized by thirst and diarrhea and nausea and cramping and vomiting and abnormal cardiac rhythms; in severe cases it can cause seizures and gangrene of the limbs
noun
- any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
- Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
- a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
- (Hegelianism, Marxism) development by way of overcoming internal contradictions
- A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
adj
noun
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
- an idea or conclusion having general application
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
noun
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.
- an idea or conclusion having general application
- (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
- the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- (mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
- The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
- An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.
- An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class.
noun
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
- an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current
- an act that sets in motion some course of events
- a formal entry into an organization or position or office
- the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time)
- An act of inducting.
- (mathematics) A method of proof of a theorem by first proving it for a specific case (often an integer; usually 0 or 1) and showing that, if it is true for one case then it must be true for the next.
- (embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells.
- (logic) Derivation of general principles from specific instances.
- (mechanical engineering) The delivery of air to the cylinders of an internal combustion piston engine.
- The process of showing a newcomer around a place where they will work or study.
- (theater) Use of rumors to twist and complicate the plot of a play or to narrate in a way that does not have to state truth nor fact within the play.
- A formal ceremony in which a person is appointed to an office or into military service.
- An act of inducing.
- (physics) Generation of an electric current by a varying magnetic field.
- (medicine) The process of inducing labour for the childbirth process.
noun
- The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
- (electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
- (architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
- (group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
- (topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
- (heraldry) The lowest third of a shield (or field), or an ordinary occupying this space, the champagne. (Compare terrace.)
- The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
- (cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
- A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
- (chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds that turn red litmus blue and react with acids to form salts.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of base leg.
- A site, structure, or both, usually durable and often permanent, for housing military personnel and materiel.
- (botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
- (topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
- (mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
- (military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
- (biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
- (historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of armour skirt, of mail or plate, imitating the preceding civilian skirt.
- A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
- (slang, uncountable) freebase cocaine
- (cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
- (geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
- (linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
- (politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
- Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
- (baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
- (mathematics) Synonym of radix.
- A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
- A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
- Alternative form of BASE.
- (now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
- (Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
- A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
- lowest support of a structure
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the bottom or lowest part
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- a support or foundation
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- a lower limit
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
adj
- Not classical or correct.
- Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
- Low in place or position.
- Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
- (law) Relating to feudal land tenure held by a tenant from a lord in exchange for services that are seen as unworthy for noblemen to perform, such as villeinage.
- (of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- of low birth or station (‘base’ is archaic in this sense)
- illegitimate
- serving as or forming a base
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- debased; not genuine
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
verb
- (transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
- (slang) To freebase.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
- (transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- use as a basis for; found on
noun
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value determines the dependent variable
- a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement
- (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program
- (by extension, humorous or euphemistic) Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- The phase of a complex number.
- (logic, philosophy) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- (countable) A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- (countable) A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- (also astronomy) A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- (countable) An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- The independent variable of a function.
- (countable, linguistics) Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- (countable, also figuratively) A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
noun
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal
- The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
- Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
- An exchange of arguments
noun
- a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
- a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- a pipe used to transport liquids or gases
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a commercial organization serving as a common carrier
- text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen
- a formation of people or things one beside another
- a fortified position (especially one marking the most forward position of troops)
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress
- a particular kind of product or merchandise
- a mark that is long relative to its width
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- the maximum credit that a customer is allowed
- mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it
- a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent
- a single frequency (or very narrow band) of radiation in a spectrum
- space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- acting in conformity
- in games or sports; a mark indicating positions or bounds of the playing area
- a short personal letter
- something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible
- a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point
- a formation of people or things one behind another
- a telephone connection
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A procession, either physical or conceptual, which results from the application or effect of a given rationale or other controlling principles of belief, opinion, practice, or phenomenon.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- The longer fiber(s) of flax.
- (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
- (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- (genetics) A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- A verse (in poetry).
- (geography, 'the line' or 'equinoctial line') The equator.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, thread, or cable, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude:
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- (soccer) The goal line.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
- (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A hose, tube, or pipe, of any size.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- (military, nautical) Ellipsis of line of battle.
- (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- (informal) A portion or serving of a powdery recreational drug, especially cocaine, formed into a line on a flat surface in preparation for snorting.
- (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.
- (advertising) Ellipsis of agate line (one fourteenth of an inch).
- One twelfth of an inch.
- (especially military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- A clothesline.
- (automotive) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- (music) A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- Direction, path.
- (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; a railroad line, railway line, Elizabeth Line etc.
verb
- fill plentifully
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- cover the interior of
- mark with lines
- reinforce with fabric
- be in line with; form a line along
- (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- (transitive) To form a line along.
- (rail transport) To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- (transitive) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
noun
- (logic) An argument from cause to effect; an a priori argument.
- The investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.
- (philosophy) The belief that the world consists of separate entities that follow certain rules or universal forces.
- (linguistics) The belief that grammar is not arbitrary, but follows rules and patterns.
noun
- The capability for rational thought.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
noun
- the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
- a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
- One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
- A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
adj
noun
- deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises
- (logic) An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion.
noun
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- That from which a thing is derived.
noun
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- the act of making up your mind about something
- an intuitive assumption
- the act of ending something
- the last section of a communication
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- a final settlement
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- event whose occurrence ends something
- arrangement; settlement.
- (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
- (law) The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
- The outcome or result of a process or act.
verb
- conclude by reasoning; in logic
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- believe to be the case
- guess correctly; solve by guessing
- draw from specific cases for more general cases
- (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.
- (transitive, often proscribed) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply.
adj
verb
noun
- a system of reasoning
- the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
- (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
- (countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
- (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
- (countable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
- (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
- (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
- (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
- the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations
- reasoned and reasonable judgment
verb
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rationalize.
verb
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- To make something rational or more rational.
- (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
- To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.
- To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
verb
- think logically
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- present reasons and arguments
- (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
- (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
- (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
- (ambitransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
noun
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- A wall plate.
- An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
- That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
- (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- A motive for an action or a determination.
- (logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.
verb
- To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.
- derive by reason
- To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
- To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
verb
- reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- (transitive, logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- obtain
- develop or evolve from a latent or potential state
- obtain from a particular source
- (transitive, linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
- (transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
- (transitive, chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
- (intransitive) To originate or stem (from).
- (transitive, mathematics, proscribed) To differentiate (a function).
- To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
adj
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
- derived or capable of being derived by inference
- based on interpretation; not directly expressed
- Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.
adj
verb
noun
- a system of reasoning
- the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
- (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
- (countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
- (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
- (countable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
- (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
- (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
- (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
- the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations
- reasoned and reasonable judgment
adj
- of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion
- inducing or influencing; leading on
- arising from inductance
- (logic) Of, or relating to logical induction, by generalizing a universal claim or principle from the observed particular instances.
- (physics) Of, relating to, or arising from inductance.
- Influencing; tending to induce or cause.
- Introductory or preparatory.
adj
- logically deductive
- characteristic of or befitting a person in authority
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
- (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms
- refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court
- being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
- (mathematics, philosophy) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.
- Relating to the form or structure of something.
- Official.
- Ceremonial or traditional.
- Relating to formation.
- In accordance with established forms.
- Organized; well-structured and planned.
- Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
- (especially sciences, mathematics, linguistics) In accordance with a methodological framework with well-defined rules or laws; rigorous.
noun
adj
- Using analytic reasoning as opposed to synthetic.
- Of or pertaining to analysis; resolving into elements or constituent parts
- using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole — intellectual or substantial — into its elemental parts or basic principles)
- of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience
adj
- logically valid
- in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay
- in excellent physical condition
- free from moral defect
- vigorous or severe
- complete; thorough
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- financially secure and safe
- having legal efficacy or force
- exercising or showing good judgment
- Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
- (of sleep) Quiet and deep.
- Heavy; laid on with force.
- (British, Ireland, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
- Complete, solid, or secure.
- Healthy.
- (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
noun
- (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- the subjective sensation of hearing something
- mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- a large ocean inlet or deep bay
- the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause
- the audible part of a transmitted signal
- the sudden occurrence of an audible event
- (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
- (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean.
- A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
- (phonetics) A segment as a part of spoken language, the smallest unit of spoken language, a speech sound.
- Noise without meaning; empty noise.
- (medicine) A long, thin probe for sounding or dilating body cavities or canals such as the urethra; a sonde.
- The air bladder of a fish.
- Earshot, distance within which a certain noise may be heard.
- A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
verb
- appear in a certain way
- cause to sound
- announce by means of a sound
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
- give off a certain sound or sounds
- measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
- make a certain noise or sound
- (intransitive) To produce a sound.
- (intransitive) Of a whale, to dive downwards.
- (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
- (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
- To fathom or test; to ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
- (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
- (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area of law, or as likely to result in a particular kind of legal remedy.
- To ascertain, or to try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try; to test; to probe.
- (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
- (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
adv
intj
adj
- following a correct or logical method
- in keeping with the facts
- not homosexual
- (of hair) having no waves or curls
- neatly arranged; not disorderly
- rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- free from curves or angles
- without evasion or compromise
- no longer coiled
- erect in posture
- (of an alcoholic drink) without water
- having no deviations
- successive (without a break)
- characterized by honesty and fairness
- accurately fitted; level
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- (telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.
- (informal, of people, reciprocal) On good terms.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- (colloquial) Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
- Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- (colloquial) Heterosexual.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
- (informal, of a person) OK, all right, fine; in a good state or situation.
- (fashion) Not plus size; thin.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- (colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- (rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
- (sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Serious rather than comedic.
- (slang, sex work) Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
noun
- a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- (colloquial) A heterosexual.
- A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
- (poker) Five cards in sequence.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
adv
- without deviation
- in a straight line; in a direct course
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
verb
adj
- involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
- based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
- (linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
- Presumed without analysis.
- (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
- Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
adv
adj
- (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
- (especially law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
- Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
- Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
- Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
- derived from or composed of matter
- directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
- concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
- having material or physical form or substance
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
- concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
noun
- (rare) The materiel of an army.
- The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
- (usually plural) Apparatus for doing or making something.
- (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
- Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
- Fabric, which can be made into a garments, curtains, etc; especially, woven fabric (cloth).
- A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
- (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
- (sometimes collective, preceded by a qualifying word) A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- a person judged suitable for admission or employment
- things needed for doing or making something