Mots en English pour 'take exception to'
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verb
- take exception to
- ask for identification
- raise a formal objection in a court of law
- issue a challenge to
- (Canada, US, transitive) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- (US, transitive) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- (transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- (military, transitive) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- (transitive) To dispute (something); to contest.
- (law, transitive) To make a formal objection to a juror.
- (transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.
- (transitive) To dare (someone).
noun
- a call to engage in a contest or fight
- a demand by a sentry for a password or identification
- questioning a statement and demanding an explanation
- a demanding or stimulating situation
- a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- (US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- (sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A bid to overcome something.
- (law, rare) A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
verb
- take exception to
- have a disagreement over something
- to strive or contend about; to contest
- to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
- (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
- (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
noun
noun
verb
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conj
noun
adj
- Tending to reserve or keep; Involving the holding of something in reserve.
- Expressing reservation; indicating a qualification or doubt.
- (law) Pertaining to a form of transfer of real estate, in Spanish and South American law, where full ownership is granted to another person but where the new owner must pay the original owner an annual fee for rights to the land.
- (linguistics) Denoting an action that puts the object of the sentence into a state in which it remains.
noun
- (figurative) An exception.
- (statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
- (geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
- A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
- a person who lives away from their place of work
- an extreme deviation from the mean
adj
- Making reservation or exception.
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- characterized by thriftiness
noun
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
prep
verb
noun
- An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
- The combined cheers of a crowd.
- (by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
- (military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
- A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
- a sudden outburst of cheers
- an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs
- rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
verb
adj
adv
verb
adj
- Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- (education, of a student) Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability.
- (geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
- Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
- deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence
noun
noun
- taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument
- translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
- (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
- (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- (Internet) A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
- (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
verb
verb
- (rare) To object or take exception to (something).
- (law) To submit a demurrer (“motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).
- Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.
- enter a demurrer
- object to
noun
noun
- An act of exempting.
- an act exempting someone
- A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
- Freedom from a defect or weakness.
- The state of being exempt; immunity.
- a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of their status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)
- immunity from an obligation or duty
noun
- an exemption from some rule or obligation
- The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
- the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
- a share that has been dispensed or distributed
- A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
- That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
- (Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
- The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
- The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
noun
- The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization
- That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
- (law) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
- (usually followed by to or against) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
- (programming) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
- a deliberate act of omission
- grounds for adverse criticism
adj
- relating to the ablative case
- tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
- (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
- (engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
- (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
- (medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
noun
noun
- an act exempting someone
- the quality of being unaffected by something
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the state of not being susceptible
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
verb
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
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conj
noun
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
verb
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- bring into safety
verb
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
noun
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
noun
- (regulation, law) Initialism of time-limited exception
- (Philippines, education) Initialism of technology and livelihood education.
- (programming) Initialism of time limit exceeded; One of the verdicts used in programming contests to show that the submitted code has failed.
- (meteorology, aviation) Initialism of transient luminous event.
- (astronautics) Initialism of two-line element or three-line element.
verb
noun
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- a disagreement or argument about something important
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
- A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
noun
- The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing allowance.
- (law, politics) A power a higher level authority has to disallow particular legislation of the lower level jurisdiction; such as a federal government disallowing state/provincial legislation, or the British monarch disallowing colonial legislation.
adj
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
- A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- (of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
- (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.
- not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
- not divided or shared with others
- excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority
noun
verb
- include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.
prep
- Indicating exclusion.
- Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
- With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
- Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
- Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
- Indicating differentiation.
- Indicating removal or separation.
- (MLE) Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being.
- Indicating a starting point in time.
- Used to indicate source or provenance.
- (mathematics, chiefly British, not in formal use) Denoting a subtraction operation.
- Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
- Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
- Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
verb
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
- (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
- To waste away.
- (intransitive, slang) Clipping of masturbate.
- (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- To deprive of.
- soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments
- flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons
- moderate or restrain; lessen the force of
noun
verb
- rule against
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- ride (a horse) too hard
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
noun
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- A royalty.
verb
- rule against
- (transitive) To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
- (transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.
- (transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
- (transitive) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
verb
noun
- the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force)
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force; usurpation.
- (sports) A throw that goes too far.
- (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
noun
noun
adj
- Tending to reserve or keep; Involving the holding of something in reserve.
- Expressing reservation; indicating a qualification or doubt.
- (law) Pertaining to a form of transfer of real estate, in Spanish and South American law, where full ownership is granted to another person but where the new owner must pay the original owner an annual fee for rights to the land.
- (linguistics) Denoting an action that puts the object of the sentence into a state in which it remains.
noun
- (figurative) An exception.
- (statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
- (geology) A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
- A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
- a person who lives away from their place of work
- an extreme deviation from the mean
noun
- An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
- The combined cheers of a crowd.
- (by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
- (military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
- A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
- a sudden outburst of cheers
- an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs
- rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
verb
noun
- taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument
- translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
- brief description accompanying an illustration
- A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
- (cinematography, television) A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
- (typography) The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
- (Internet) A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
- (law) The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
verb
adj
- Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- (education, of a student) Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability.
- (geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
- Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
- deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence
noun
verb
- (rare) To object or take exception to (something).
- (law) To submit a demurrer (“motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).
- Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.
- enter a demurrer
- object to
noun
noun
- An act of exempting.
- an act exempting someone
- A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
- Freedom from a defect or weakness.
- The state of being exempt; immunity.
- a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of their status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)
- immunity from an obligation or duty
noun
- an exemption from some rule or obligation
- The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
- the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
- a share that has been dispensed or distributed
- A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
- That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
- (Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
- The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
- The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
noun
- The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization
- That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
- (law) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
- (usually followed by to or against) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
- (programming) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
- a deliberate act of omission
- grounds for adverse criticism
noun
- an act exempting someone
- the quality of being unaffected by something
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the state of not being susceptible
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
noun
- (regulation, law) Initialism of time-limited exception
- (Philippines, education) Initialism of technology and livelihood education.
- (programming) Initialism of time limit exceeded; One of the verdicts used in programming contests to show that the submitted code has failed.
- (meteorology, aviation) Initialism of transient luminous event.
- (astronautics) Initialism of two-line element or three-line element.
noun
- The action of not allowing, or of withdrawing allowance.
- (law, politics) A power a higher level authority has to disallow particular legislation of the lower level jurisdiction; such as a federal government disallowing state/provincial legislation, or the British monarch disallowing colonial legislation.
verb
- take exception to
- ask for identification
- raise a formal objection in a court of law
- issue a challenge to
- (Canada, US, transitive) To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To call something into question or dispute.
- (US, transitive) To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- (transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- (military, transitive) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- (transitive) To dispute (something); to contest.
- (law, transitive) To make a formal objection to a juror.
- (transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.
- (transitive) To dare (someone).
noun
- a call to engage in a contest or fight
- a demand by a sentry for a password or identification
- questioning a statement and demanding an explanation
- a demanding or stimulating situation
- a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- (hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- (US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- (sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A bid to overcome something.
- (law, rare) A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
verb
- take exception to
- have a disagreement over something
- to strive or contend about; to contest
- to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of
- (intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.
- (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss
noun
verb
prep
conj
verb
- (rare) To object or take exception to (something).
- (law) To submit a demurrer (“motion by a party to a legal action for the immediate or summary judgment of the court on the question of whether, assuming the truth of the matter alleged by the opposite party, it is sufficient in law to sustain the action or defence, and hence whether the party bringing the motion is required to answer or proceed further”).
- Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be reluctant; to balk, to take exception.
- enter a demurrer
- object to
noun
verb
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
adj
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
noun
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
verb
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
noun
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
verb
noun
- opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- an incompatibility of dates or events
- a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests
- a disagreement or argument about something important
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
- A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
verb
- include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.
verb
- To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- (transitive) To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
- (intransitive) To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To cut off, remove, take away.
- To waste away.
- (intransitive, slang) Clipping of masturbate.
- (transitive) To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
- (transitive) To reduce the force of something; to abate.
- To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- To deprive of.
- soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments
- flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons
- moderate or restrain; lessen the force of
noun
verb
- rule against
- prevail over
- counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- ride (a horse) too hard
- (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
- (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
noun
- a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
- (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- A royalty.
verb
- rule against
- (transitive) To nullify a previous ruling by a higher power.
- (transitive, law) To dismiss or throw out (a protest or objection) at a court.
- (transitive) To rule or determine in a contrary way; to decide against; to abrogate or alter.
- (transitive) To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.
verb
noun
- the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force)
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force; usurpation.
- (sports) A throw that goes too far.
- (cricket) A run scored by the batting side when a fielder throws the ball back to the infield, whence it continues to the opposite outfield.
adj
- Making reservation or exception.
- Preserving; rescuing.
- (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
- (in compounds) Relating to making a saving.
- Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
- Thrifty; frugal.
- bringing about salvation or redemption from sin
- characterized by thriftiness
noun
- A reduction in cost or expenditure.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
- (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
- an act of economizing; reduction in cost
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the activity of protecting something from loss or danger
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verb
adj
adv
verb
adj
- Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
- (education, of a student) Requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability.
- (geometry) Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
- Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.
- surpassing what is common or usual or expected
- far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
- deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence
noun
adj
- relating to the ablative case
- tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature
- (geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
- (engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
- (grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
- (medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
noun
adj
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
- A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- (of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
- (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only.
- not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective
- not divided or shared with others
- excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority