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noun
- A surrogate parent.
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- The source or origin of something.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
verb
noun
- The act of giving birth to twins.
- The act of producing twins.
- (transport) The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
- (crystallography) The formation of twin crystals.
- (paraphilia) A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
- The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).
adj
verb
noun
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- Childbirth in which the mother conceived the child through artificial insemination.
- Childbirth in which the offspring is said to have been conceived without sexual intercourse.
- (biology) A birth (or vegetal reproduction) after spontaneous, unfertilized gamete-development in a virginal mother, parthenogenesis.
- Any similar birth of a deity.
- (Christianity, theology) (often capitalized and used absolutely: the Virgin Birth) The miraculous birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary.
- human conception without fertilization by a man
verb
- To give birth to.
- To free from or disburden of anything.
- (intransitive, transitive, informal) To produce what is expected or required.
- To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
- To set free from restraint or danger.
- To discover; to show.
- To assist in the birth of.
- To bring or transport something to its destination.
- (medicine) To administer a drug.
- To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.
- free from harm or evil
- to surrender someone or something to another
- carry out or perform
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
- hand over to the authorities of another country
- deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
- bring to a destination, make a delivery
- cause to be born
- save from sins
- relinquish possession or control over
- pass down
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
- (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
- (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
- (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
- (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
- (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give birth to twins
- grow as twins
- duplicate or match
adj
noun
- (US) A twin size mattress; or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A friendly term of address, typically for men.
- (crystallography) A twin crystal.
- either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a duplicate copy
noun
- the womb
- a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle)
- (botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.
- A broad, shallow concavity, notably of a bone.
- One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems.
- (zootomy) The undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod.
- A woman with offspring.
adj
noun
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
- (figuratively) Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
- (US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
verb
- (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
- (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
- (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- terminate before completion
- terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
- cease development, die, and be aborted
noun
- (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
- (computing) The function used to abort a process.
- (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed
noun
- an unborn child; a human fetus
- a very young mammal
- a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)
- an immature childish person
- a project of personal concern to someone
- Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See :Category:Baby animals for more.
- A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address e.g. one's girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse.
- A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.
- A person who is immature, infantile, or feeble.
- (informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.
- The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.
- A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
- (often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.
- A concept or creation endeared by its creator.
- A very young human, even if not yet born.
- An affectionate term for anything.
- A pet project or responsibility.
verb
adj
noun
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A bastard file.
- (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
intj
noun
adj
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- contrary to or forbidden by law
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
verb
verb
- make infertile
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- A determination of location.
verb
- make infertile
- make free from bacteria
- (transitive) To deprive of the ability to procreate.
- (transitive, astronomy) To render a planet like Earth permanently uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, causing their complete extinction.
- (transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.
- (transitive) To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
- (transitive) To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material.
noun
- A surrogate parent.
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- The source or origin of something.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
verb
noun
- The act of giving birth to twins.
- The act of producing twins.
- (transport) The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
- (crystallography) The formation of twin crystals.
- (paraphilia) A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
- The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).
adj
verb
noun
- an unwanted pregnancy
- a source of difficulty
- an event causing distress or pain
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- an effort that is inconvenient
- an angry disturbance
- Violent or turbulent occurrence or event; unrest, disturbance.
- Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
- Health problems, ailment, generally of some particular part of the body.
- A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
- Difficulty in doing something.
- (mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
- Objectionable feature of something or someone; problem, drawback, weakness, failing, or shortcoming.
- A person liable to place others or themselves in such a situation.
- The state of being troubled, disturbed, or distressed mentally; unease, disquiet.
- Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
- A malfunction.
- A distressing or dangerous situation.
verb
- cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
- take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- move deeply
- (transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
- (intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
- (transitive, of ailments, etc.) To physically afflict.
- (reflexive or intransitive) To take pains (to do something); to bother.
- (transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
noun
- Childbirth in which the mother conceived the child through artificial insemination.
- Childbirth in which the offspring is said to have been conceived without sexual intercourse.
- (biology) A birth (or vegetal reproduction) after spontaneous, unfertilized gamete-development in a virginal mother, parthenogenesis.
- Any similar birth of a deity.
- (Christianity, theology) (often capitalized and used absolutely: the Virgin Birth) The miraculous birth of Christ from the Virgin Mary.
- human conception without fertilization by a man
noun
- the womb
- a speaker who expresses or gives vent to a personal opinion or grievance
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- a bulging body part (as the belly of a muscle)
- (botany) The swollen basal portion of an archegonium in which an egg develops.
- A broad, shallow concavity, notably of a bone.
- One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems.
- (zootomy) The undersurface of the abdomen of an arthropod.
- A woman with offspring.
noun
- an unborn child; a human fetus
- a very young mammal
- a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young)
- an immature childish person
- a project of personal concern to someone
- Any very young animal, especially a vertebrate; many species have specific names for their babies, such as kittens for the babies of cats, puppies for the babies of dogs, and chicks for the babies of birds. See :Category:Baby animals for more.
- A person's romantic partner; a term of endearment used to refer to or address e.g. one's girlfriend, boyfriend, or spouse.
- A person who is new to or inexperienced in something.
- A person who is immature, infantile, or feeble.
- (informal) A form of address to a person considered to be attractive.
- The lastborn of a family; the youngest sibling, irrespective of age.
- A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
- (often attributive) One who is new to an identity or community.
- A concept or creation endeared by its creator.
- A very young human, even if not yet born.
- An affectionate term for anything.
- A pet project or responsibility.
verb
adj
noun
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A bastard file.
- (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
adj
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
intj
noun
adj
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- contrary to or forbidden by law
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
verb
verb
- To give birth to.
- To free from or disburden of anything.
- (intransitive, transitive, informal) To produce what is expected or required.
- To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
- To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
- (formal, with "of") To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
- To set free from restraint or danger.
- To discover; to show.
- To assist in the birth of.
- To bring or transport something to its destination.
- (medicine) To administer a drug.
- To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.
- free from harm or evil
- to surrender someone or something to another
- carry out or perform
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
- hand over to the authorities of another country
- deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)
- bring to a destination, make a delivery
- cause to be born
- save from sins
- relinquish possession or control over
- pass down
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
- (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
- (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
- (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
- (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
- (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give birth to twins
- grow as twins
- duplicate or match
adj
noun
- (US) A twin size mattress; or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A friendly term of address, typically for men.
- (crystallography) A twin crystal.
- either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a duplicate copy
verb
- (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
- (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
- (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- terminate before completion
- terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
- cease development, die, and be aborted
noun
- (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
- (computing) The function used to abort a process.
- (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed
verb
- make infertile
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- A determination of location.
verb
- make infertile
- make free from bacteria
- (transitive) To deprive of the ability to procreate.
- (transitive, astronomy) To render a planet like Earth permanently uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, causing their complete extinction.
- (transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.
- (transitive) To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
- (transitive) To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material.
adj
noun
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
- (figuratively) Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
- (US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
noun
- The act of giving birth to twins.
- The act of producing twins.
- (transport) The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
- (crystallography) The formation of twin crystals.
- (paraphilia) A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
- The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).