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- violating accepted standards or rules
- Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- obtained illegally or by improper means
- contaminated with infecting organisms
- expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
- unethical or dishonest
- vile; despicable
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- unpleasantly stormy
- Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
- Of food, covered in an array of indulgent toppings.
- Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
- (computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- (slang) Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
- (cellular automata) Producing much ash.
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- Of an audio recording: containing unwanted noise.
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
- Out of tune.
- (aviation) Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
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noun
adj
- violating accepted standards or rules
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- offensively malodorous
- especially of a ship's lines etc
- (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- characterized by obscenity
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
noun
- an act that violates the rules of a sport
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
verb
- make unclean
- hit a foul ball
- commit a foul; break the rules
- become or cause to become obstructed
- make impure
- spot, stain, or pollute
- become soiled and dirty
- (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- To come into contact or collide with.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obstruct, block, or otherwise interfere with (something), for example by clogging (a drain, gun barrel, chimney, etc) or by being in the way of (a gunshot, etc).
noun
- failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
- A rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.
- a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
- lack of harmony or correspondence
- unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
- (geology) A type of unconformity in which a nonsedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.
- A refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or practice of a state religion, especially refusal by other Protestants to conform to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England; the principles or practice of nonconformists; nonconformists as a class.
noun
- An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
- (slang) An insult, especially a severe one.
- (euphemistic) Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.
- the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
- a disrespectful act
- an act that disregards an agreement or a right
- a crime less serious than a felony
- entry to another's property without right or permission
adj
- 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.
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- contrary to or forbidden by law
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verb
verb
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
- violate the sacred character of a place or language
- destroy
- (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- (transitive) To rape.
noun
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- the collection of rules imposed by authority
- the force of policemen and officers
- legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
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noun
- behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
- retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
- an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
- marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
- The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
noun
- behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
- (countable) A violation of rules.
- an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern
- irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis
- not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
- (uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
- (euphemistic) Irregular bowel movement (e.g. diarrhea or constipation).
- (countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary.
- (countable) An instance of being irregular.
noun
- (uncountable) Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior.
- (uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger.
- (countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
- (countable) A complaint or annoyance.
- (countable, human resources) A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace.
- (countable) Something which causes grief.
- a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
- an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice
- a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action
noun
- compliance with formal rules
- a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies
- a requirement of etiquette or custom
- A customary ritual without substance, real consequence, or unique meaning.
- (countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.
- (uncountable) The state of being formal.
- Something said or done as a matter of form.
noun
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- (mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
- An act of complying.
- (uncountable) The state of being compliant.
- (uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- (medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
- (uncountable, business) The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
noun
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing
- Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.
- The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
- The state of being conformed; agreement
- (physical chemistry) The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a covalent bond which remains unbroken.
noun
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- orthodoxy in thoughts and belief
- correspondence in form or appearance
- concurrence of opinion
- hardened conventionality
- The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
- A point of resemblance; a similarity.
- The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
- The state of things being similar or identical.
noun
- conformity with rules or standards
- the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation
- the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it
- (business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
- (accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
- (nonstandard) Equality
- (law) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
- Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
- (poker) A player's expected share of the pot.
- (law, England) The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
- (law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
- (law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
noun
- rules governing socially acceptable behavior
- The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.
- A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.
- The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
adj
- prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
- Forbidden by established rules.
- (chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
- (philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
- (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.
- Contrary to, forbidden, or not authorized by law, especially criminal law.
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- code of correct conduct
- (by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
- (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data
- forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state
- (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
- (sciences) The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
- The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
- (medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
- (now chiefly historical) The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it.
- The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
- The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.
- (sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment.
- (object-oriented programming) In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.
- (Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
- (international law) An amendment to an official treaty.
noun
- someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
- Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
- A noctuid moth (Lithophane lamda).
- Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
- A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
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- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- An enforced compliance or control.
- (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- training to improve strength or self-control
- the act of disciplining
- the trait of being well behaved
- a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
- a branch of knowledge
verb
- (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
- (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
- (transitive) To impose order on someone.
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
verb
- ensure observance of laws and rules
- give or convey physically
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- coat, cover or smear a surface with
- be applicable to; as to an analysis
- apply oneself to
- ask (for something)
- avail oneself to
- refer (a word or name) to a person or thing
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- (transitive, usually reflexive) To address oneself; to refer.
- (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant.
- (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relevant.
- (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
- (reflexive) To work diligently and attentively.
- (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
- (transitive) To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently or with attention.
- (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
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- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
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noun
- A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.
- (algebra) An element of the image of some (generalized) norm, the element then said to be from the norm in question, or from the structure which gave rise to the norm.
- (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
- if v ne 0 then ‖v‖ ne 0;
- That which is normal or typical.
- given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;
- given two vectors v,w, ‖v+w‖<‖v‖+‖w‖ (the triangle inequality).
- (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
- (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
- a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
- a statistic describing the location of a distribution
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noun
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
- (UK) A tax rate set by such an order; the tax thus collected.
- (UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- rule of personal conduct
- a doctrine that is taught
verb
verb
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- make an opening or gap in
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
noun
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
verb
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- cause to feel resentment or indignation
- hurt the feelings of
- (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
- (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
- (transitive or with "against") To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
- (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
- (intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.
- (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
verb
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
- (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
- (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
- (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
adj
- conforming with accepted standards
- unimaginative and conformist
- rigidly formal or bound by convention
- following accepted customs and proprieties
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
- (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
- in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
- Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
- Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
- (agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
- (bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
- (weaponry) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
- Ordinary, commonplace.
noun
adj
- conforming with accepted standards
- shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt
- brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established
- introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
- settled securely and unconditionally
- Of any social or economic entity: part of the establishment (“groups with socioeconomic power”).
- Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
- (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
- Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
verb
noun
verb
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
noun
- the imposition of standards or regulations
- (diplomacy) Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
- (sociology) A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
- (economics) Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
- (operations) Normalized production.
- (politics) Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
- (databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- Standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
- Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.
- (statistics) The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
name
noun
- the imposition of standards or regulations
- the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
- the condition in which a standard has been successfully established
- The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
- The process of establishing a standard.
noun
- refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
- organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
- (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
- (countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.
- (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
verb
- break the law
- make excessive use of
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- enter unlawfully on someone's property
- (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
- (transitive, law, especially New Zealand) To subject [someone] to a trespass notice, formally notifying them that they are prohibited from entry to a property, such that any current or future presence there will constitute trespass, (especially) criminal trespass
- (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
noun
noun
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
noun
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- An affront, injury, or insult.
- A crime or sin.
- (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.
- The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
- (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.
noun
- an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure
- category name
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)
- a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
- a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type
- A flourish after a signature.
- (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
- Red ochre.
- A statement of intent.
- (education) A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
- A title of a category or a class.
- (education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
- An established rule or custom; a guideline.
- A heading in a book highlighted in red.
verb
adj
noun
- failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior
- A rejection of, or failure to conform to, a practice, standard, rule, or law.
- a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs
- lack of harmony or correspondence
- unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
- (geology) A type of unconformity in which a nonsedimentary rock intrudes in sedimentary layers.
- A refusal to conform to the doctrine, discipline, or practice of a state religion, especially refusal by other Protestants to conform to the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England; the principles or practice of nonconformists; nonconformists as a class.
noun
- An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
- (slang) An insult, especially a severe one.
- (euphemistic) Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.
- the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
- a disrespectful act
- an act that disregards an agreement or a right
- a crime less serious than a felony
- entry to another's property without right or permission
noun
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- the collection of rules imposed by authority
- the force of policemen and officers
- legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
verb
noun
- behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
- retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
- an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
- marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
- The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
noun
- behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
- (countable) A violation of rules.
- an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern
- irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis
- not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
- (uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.
- (euphemistic) Irregular bowel movement (e.g. diarrhea or constipation).
- (countable) An object or event that is not regular or ordinary.
- (countable) An instance of being irregular.
noun
- (uncountable) Violation of regulations or objectionable behavior.
- (uncountable) Feelings of being wronged; outrage; resentment, bitterness or anger.
- (countable) A wrong or hardship suffered, which is the grounds of a complaint.
- (countable) A complaint or annoyance.
- (countable, human resources) A formal complaint, especially in the context of a unionized workplace.
- (countable) Something which causes grief.
- a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
- an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice
- a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action
noun
- compliance with formal rules
- a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies
- a requirement of etiquette or custom
- A customary ritual without substance, real consequence, or unique meaning.
- (countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.
- (uncountable) The state of being formal.
- Something said or done as a matter of form.
noun
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
- the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
- (mechanics) A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
- An act of complying.
- (uncountable) The state of being compliant.
- (uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- (medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
- (uncountable, business) The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
noun
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing
- Structure, the arrangement of parts of some thing; form; arrangement.
- The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.
- The state of being conformed; agreement
- (physical chemistry) The spatial arrangement of a group of atoms in a molecule as a result of rotation about a covalent bond which remains unbroken.
noun
- acting according to certain accepted standards
- orthodoxy in thoughts and belief
- correspondence in form or appearance
- concurrence of opinion
- hardened conventionality
- The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
- A point of resemblance; a similarity.
- The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
- The state of things being similar or identical.
noun
- conformity with rules or standards
- the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation
- the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it
- (business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
- (accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
- (nonstandard) Equality
- (law) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
- Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
- (poker) A player's expected share of the pot.
- (law, England) The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
- (law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
- (law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
noun
- rules governing socially acceptable behavior
- The manners or decent behaviour to be observed in social or professional life; conventional decorum; the ceremonial code of polite society.
- A label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail.
- The customary behavior of members of a profession, business, law, or sports team towards each other.
noun
- code of correct conduct
- (by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
- (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data
- forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state
- (computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
- (sciences) The precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
- The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
- (medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
- (now chiefly historical) The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it.
- The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
- The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.
- (sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment.
- (object-oriented programming) In some programming languages, a data type declaring a set of members that must be implemented by a class or other data type.
- (Roman Catholicism) The introduction of a liturgical preface, immediately following the Sursum corda dialogue.
- (international law) An amendment to an official treaty.
noun
- someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
- Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
- A noctuid moth (Lithophane lamda).
- Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
- A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
adj
noun
adj
noun
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- An enforced compliance or control.
- (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- training to improve strength or self-control
- the act of disciplining
- the trait of being well behaved
- a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
- a branch of knowledge
verb
- (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
- (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
- (transitive) To impose order on someone.
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
noun
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
verb
noun
- A rule that is imposed by regulations and/or socially enforced by members of a community.
- (algebra) An element of the image of some (generalized) norm, the element then said to be from the norm in question, or from the structure which gave rise to the norm.
- (mathematics) Any of several generalizations of the above: a field norm, ideal norm, etc.
- if v ne 0 then ‖v‖ ne 0;
- That which is normal or typical.
- given a scalar k, ‖kv‖=|k|·‖v‖, where |k| is the absolute value of k;
- given two vectors v,w, ‖v+w‖<‖v‖+‖w‖ (the triangle inequality).
- (philosophy, computer science) A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
- (chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.
- a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
- a statistic describing the location of a distribution
verb
noun
- A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
- (UK) A tax rate set by such an order; the tax thus collected.
- (UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
- (law) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
- rule of personal conduct
- a doctrine that is taught
verb
noun
verb
- To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off.
- To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
- To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
- To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
- Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line
- (transitive, slang) To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub.
- To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate.
- To bend; to incline; to give way.
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
noun
- the imposition of standards or regulations
- (diplomacy) Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
- (sociology) A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
- (economics) Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
- (operations) Normalized production.
- (politics) Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
- (databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- Standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
- Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.
- (statistics) The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
name
noun
- the imposition of standards or regulations
- the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
- the condition in which a standard has been successfully established
- The process of complying (or evaluate by comparing) with a standard.
- The process of establishing a standard.
noun
- refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
- organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
- (uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.
- (countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.
- (countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
noun
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- British, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada standard spelling of offense.
noun
- a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
- the action of attacking an enemy
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others
- the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score
- An affront, injury, or insult.
- A crime or sin.
- (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed when in position to score; contrasted with defense.
- The state of being offended or displeased; anger; displeasure.
- (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to scoring when in position to do so; contrasted with defense.
noun
- an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure
- category name
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)
- a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
- a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type
- A flourish after a signature.
- (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
- Red ochre.
- A statement of intent.
- (education) A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
- A title of a category or a class.
- (education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
- An established rule or custom; a guideline.
- A heading in a book highlighted in red.
verb
adj
verb
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- force (someone) to have sex against their will
- destroy and strip of its possession
- violate the sacred character of a place or language
- destroy
- (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- (transitive) To rape.
verb
- ensure observance of laws and rules
- give or convey physically
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- coat, cover or smear a surface with
- be applicable to; as to an analysis
- apply oneself to
- ask (for something)
- avail oneself to
- refer (a word or name) to a person or thing
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- (transitive, usually reflexive) To address oneself; to refer.
- (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant.
- (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relevant.
- (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
- (reflexive) To work diligently and attentively.
- (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
- (transitive) To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently or with attention.
- (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" or "at" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
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noun
verb
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- make an opening or gap in
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
noun
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
verb
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- strike with disgust or revulsion
- cause to feel resentment or indignation
- hurt the feelings of
- (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
- (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
- (transitive or with "against") To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
- (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
- (intransitive) To feel or become offended; to take insult.
- (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
verb
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
- (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
- (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
- (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
verb
- break the law
- make excessive use of
- commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- enter unlawfully on someone's property
- (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
- (transitive, law, especially New Zealand) To subject [someone] to a trespass notice, formally notifying them that they are prohibited from entry to a property, such that any current or future presence there will constitute trespass, (especially) criminal trespass
- (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
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adj
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verb
adj
- violating accepted standards or rules
- Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; ‘dirty’ is often used in combination
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
- obtained illegally or by improper means
- contaminated with infecting organisms
- expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
- unethical or dishonest
- vile; despicable
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- unpleasantly stormy
- Spreading harmful radiation over a wide area.
- Of food, covered in an array of indulgent toppings.
- Of food, indulgent in an unhealthy way.
- (computing) Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- (slang) Of an alcoholic beverage, especially a cocktail or mixed drink: served with the juice of olives.
- (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
- (cellular automata) Producing much ash.
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- Of an audio recording: containing unwanted noise.
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
- Out of tune.
- (aviation) Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.
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noun
adj
- violating accepted standards or rules
- Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
- offensively malodorous
- especially of a ship's lines etc
- (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
- disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
- characterized by obscenity
- Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
- Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
- (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
- (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
- Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
- Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
- (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
- (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
noun
- an act that violates the rules of a sport
- (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
- (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
- (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
verb
- make unclean
- hit a foul ball
- commit a foul; break the rules
- become or cause to become obstructed
- make impure
- spot, stain, or pollute
- become soiled and dirty
- (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
- (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- (intransitive) To become clogged.
- (transitive) To besmirch.
- To come into contact or collide with.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obstruct, block, or otherwise interfere with (something), for example by clogging (a drain, gun barrel, chimney, etc) or by being in the way of (a gunshot, etc).
adj
- 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.
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- contrary to or forbidden by law
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verb
adj
- prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
- Forbidden by established rules.
- (chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
- (philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
- (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.
- Contrary to, forbidden, or not authorized by law, especially criminal law.
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adj
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- conforming with accepted standards
- unimaginative and conformist
- rigidly formal or bound by convention
- following accepted customs and proprieties
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
- (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
- in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
- Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
- Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
- (agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
- (bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
- (weaponry) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
- Ordinary, commonplace.
noun
adj
- conforming with accepted standards
- shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt
- brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established
- introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation
- settled securely and unconditionally
- Of any social or economic entity: part of the establishment (“groups with socioeconomic power”).
- Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
- (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
- Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.