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noun
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- One who or that which guts.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
- (British) A drainage channel.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- a tool for gutting fish
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
verb
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
- provide with gutters
- flow in small streams
- wear or cut gutters into
- burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
noun
adj
- Ranking first.
- Providing guidance or direction.
- Occurring in advance; preceding.
- greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
- having the leading position or higher score in a contest
- indicating the most important performer or role
- going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way
verb
noun
- (computing, typography) A unit of vertical spacing, typically corresponding to the height of an ordinary line of text.
- (cricket) The V-shaped joint between the lower end of the handle and the blade of the bat.
- The name of the Latin script letter V/v.
- Something with the shape of the letter V.
- (cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played.
- A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.
verb
noun
- (computing, printing, uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
- (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
- A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
- A sociological aspect of a physical area.
- A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc.
- The pictorial aspect of a country.
- A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
- A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
- an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
- an extensive mental viewpoint
- painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery
- a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
verb
noun
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
- a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg
- a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings
- one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
- A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
- Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
- A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
- A unit of energy equivalent to a quadrillion BTU (10¹⁵ BTU).
- (informal) A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.
- (skating) A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
- (informal) A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
- (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- (electronics, telecommunications) A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.
- (informal) A quadcopter.
- (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
- A skate with four wheels.
- (radio) A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.
- (poker slang, attributive) Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).
- A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
- (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
- (informal) A quadriplegic person.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
- (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
- (intransitive) To ride a quad bike.
- (typography, letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
noun
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
- a blank area
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
- the interval between two times
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
- an area reserved for some particular purpose
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- A physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
- A gap; an empty place.
- A specific (specified) period of time.
- (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
- Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
- (countable, figuratively) A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
- The distance between objects.
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
- A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
- (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- (countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries; (architecture) such a space inside or outside a building, often with a specified use.
verb
- place at intervals
- (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
- (transitive, science fiction) To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- (transitive) To set some distance apart.
- To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
noun
- (computing) Initialism of non-printing character.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Initialism of non-player character.
- (medicine) Initialism of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
- (medicine) Initialism of Niemann-Pick disease type C.
- (Internet slang, figuratively) A person with no ability to think for themselves; a sheeple (originally referring to opponents of US President Donald Trump).
- (Singapore) Initialism of neighbourhood police center.
- (medicine, chiefly attributive) Initialism of no patient care.
- an agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems
name
- (Nigeria) Initialism of Northern People's Congress.
- (US) Initialism of National Physique Committee.
- (Philippine politics) Initialism of Nationalist People's Coalition.
- (Philippines) Initialism of National Privacy Commission.
- (US) Initialism of National Petroleum Council.
- (Philippines) Initialism of National Power Corporation.
- (China) Initialism of National People's Congress.
- (New Zealand) Initialism of National Provincial Championship.
- (sports) Initialism of National Paralympic Committee.
verb
noun
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
adj
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
noun
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A white pigment.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
verb
verb
- (journalism, printing) To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
- To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.
- (Lincolnshire, Scotland) To recover from (an illness).
- (rare) To translate (a text).
- To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.
- To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.
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verb
noun
- (computer graphics) Initialism of constructive solid geometry.
- (military, nautical, aviation) Initialism of carrier surface group.
- (military, nautical, aviation) Abbreviation of carrier surface assertion group.
- Initialism of coal seam gas.
- (military, nautical, aviation) Initialism of carrier strike group.
adv
- (topology) Of a covering space of finite degree.
- By computer or in cyberspace.
- Almost but not quite.
- (algebra) Of a subgroup of finite index.
- In essence or functionally, but not in fact, formally, or technically.
- in essence or effect but not in fact
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
adj
- (computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
- (card games) Not a trump.
- Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
- Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
- Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
- Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
- Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
- Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
- (of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
- Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
- Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- lacking patterns especially in color
- not elaborate or elaborated; simple
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- not mixed with extraneous elements
- free from any effort to soften to disguise
adv
noun
- (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
- A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
- An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
- extensive tract of level open land
verb
noun
- (typography, computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
- (Geordie and Mackem) A cigarette.
- (British Army, military slang) A fast march or run with full kit.
- (informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
- A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
- (slang) An ear.
- (colloquial, publishing) A tabloid newspaper.
- (graphical user interface) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
- (informal, theater) A tableau curtain.
- (informal, chiefly Canada, US) A restaurant bill.
- (by extension) The cost or bill for anything.
- (informal, chiefly Canada, US) Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate.
- (by extension, graphical user interface) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
- (Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.
- A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
- the bill in a restaurant
- a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it
- sensationalist journalism
- the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
- a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
verb
adj
- (typography, of a block of type) Not justified; having an uneven vertical margin.
- Rough; shaggy; rugged.
- (computing) Of a data structure: having uneven levels.
- (music) Performed in a syncopated manner, especially in ragtime.
- Wearing tattered clothes.
- Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise
- Faulty; lacking in skill, reliability, or organization.
- In tatters, having the texture broken.
- Having rough edges; jagged or uneven
- worn out from stress or strain
- being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
- having an irregular outline
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verb
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- (computing) Initialism of binary space partitioning.
- Initialism of blatant self-promotion.
- (finance) Initialism of bank settlement plan, a reporting system used by travel companies to pay airlines.
- (computing) Initialism of board support package (“device driver”).
- (plumbing) Initialism of British Standard Pipe.
name
noun
- (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
- A love interest; a paramour.
- The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
- (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.
- (taxonomy) Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
- Any romantic relationship.
- A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
- A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
- (geology) Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
- A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
- (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
- (computing) A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.
- Any passionate love for something.
- a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
- a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
- (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
- (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
- the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule
- inherent resemblance between persons or things
- (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts
adj
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
noun
- (computer science, uncountable) A contiguous collection of one or more characters that each represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.
- (business) Free time seen as an opportunity for gainful activity.
- White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
noun
- an empty area or space
- the absence of matter
- a region that is devoid of matter
- an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
- (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- (physics) A ground state of a quantum field or of local spacetime, or more abstractly the lowest-energy state of a system.
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
- (string theory) A description of spacetime resulting from a particular compactification of spatial dimensions.
- (colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
verb
noun
- an empty area or space
- the state of nonexistence
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- (medicine, urology) An instance of urination.
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
adj
- lacking any legal or binding force
- containing nothing
- (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
verb
- clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- declare invalid
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- excrete or discharge from the body
- (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
noun
- (typography) A consistent adjustment of space between individual letters; letterspacing.
- (electricity) The synchronization of two or more signals.
- (electricity) The formation of conductive paths on the surface of an insulating material due to electrical discharges.
- The act or process by which something is tracked.
- (education) The division of pupils into separately taught groups by perceived ability level.
- the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind
verb
noun
- (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
- One who rives or splits.
- A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
- (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
- a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
verb
noun
- (mathematics) The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.
- (biology) The contraction of the contractile vesicles in certain algae, plasmodia, and zoospores.
- (prosody) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
- (physiology) The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
- the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery
noun
- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a perceptual structure
- an ability to perform well
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a mold for setting concrete
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a body of students who are taught together
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- (geometry) A quantic.
- (UK) Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
- (UK, education) A class or year of school pupils.
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- (philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- The den or home of a hare.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
verb
- develop into a distinctive entity
- assume a form or shape
- create (as an entity)
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- to compose or represent
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give shape or form to
- (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- (intransitive) To take shape.
- (electricity, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
noun
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- produce as a result or residue
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
noun
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- One who or that which guts.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
- (British) A drainage channel.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- a tool for gutting fish
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
verb
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
- provide with gutters
- flow in small streams
- wear or cut gutters into
- burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
noun
adj
- Ranking first.
- Providing guidance or direction.
- Occurring in advance; preceding.
- greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
- having the leading position or higher score in a contest
- indicating the most important performer or role
- going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way
verb
noun
- (computing, typography) A unit of vertical spacing, typically corresponding to the height of an ordinary line of text.
- (cricket) The V-shaped joint between the lower end of the handle and the blade of the bat.
- The name of the Latin script letter V/v.
- Something with the shape of the letter V.
- (cricket) The arc of the field, forward of the batsman, from cover to midwicket, in which drives are played.
- A polyamorous relationship between three people, in which one person has two partners who are not themselves romantically or sexually involved.
verb
noun
- (computing, printing, uncountable) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
- (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
- A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
- A sociological aspect of a physical area.
- A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc.
- The pictorial aspect of a country.
- A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
- A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
- an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view
- an extensive mental viewpoint
- painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery
- a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery
verb
noun
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
- a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg
- a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings
- one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
- A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
- Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
- A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
- A unit of energy equivalent to a quadrillion BTU (10¹⁵ BTU).
- (informal) A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.
- (skating) A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
- (informal) A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
- (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- (electronics, telecommunications) A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.
- (informal) A quadcopter.
- (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
- A skate with four wheels.
- (radio) A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.
- (poker slang, attributive) Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).
- A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
- (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
- (informal) A quadriplegic person.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
- (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
- (intransitive) To ride a quad bike.
- (typography, letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
noun
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
- a blank area
- an empty area (usually bounded in some way between things)
- the interval between two times
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff
- an area reserved for some particular purpose
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
- The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- A physical extent in all directions, seen as an attribute of the universe (now usually considered as a part of space-time), or a mathematical model of this.
- A gap in text between words, lines etc., or a digital character used to create such a gap.
- A gap; an empty place.
- A specific (specified) period of time.
- (music) A position on the staff or stave bounded by lines.
- Anything analogous to a physical space in which one can interact, such as an online chat room.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of metal type used to separate words, cast lower than other type so as not to take ink, especially one that is narrower than one en (compare quad).
- (countable, figuratively) A field, area, or sphere of activity or endeavour.
- The physical and psychological area one needs within which to live or operate; personal freedom.
- The distance between objects.
- An undefined period of time (without qualifier, especially a short period); a while.
- A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something).
- (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
- (countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space).
- A (chiefly empty) area or volume with set limits or boundaries; (architecture) such a space inside or outside a building, often with a specified use.
verb
- place at intervals
- (intransitive, science fiction) To travel into and through outer space.
- (transitive, science fiction) To kill (someone) by ejection into outer space, usually without a space suit.
- To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
- (transitive) To set some distance apart.
- To space out (become distracted, lose focus).
noun
- (computing) Initialism of non-printing character.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Initialism of non-player character.
- (medicine) Initialism of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
- (medicine) Initialism of Niemann-Pick disease type C.
- (Internet slang, figuratively) A person with no ability to think for themselves; a sheeple (originally referring to opponents of US President Donald Trump).
- (Singapore) Initialism of neighbourhood police center.
- (medicine, chiefly attributive) Initialism of no patient care.
- an agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems
name
- (Nigeria) Initialism of Northern People's Congress.
- (US) Initialism of National Physique Committee.
- (Philippine politics) Initialism of Nationalist People's Coalition.
- (Philippines) Initialism of National Privacy Commission.
- (US) Initialism of National Petroleum Council.
- (Philippines) Initialism of National Power Corporation.
- (China) Initialism of National People's Congress.
- (New Zealand) Initialism of National Provincial Championship.
- (sports) Initialism of National Paralympic Committee.
verb
noun
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
noun
verb
noun
- (computer graphics) Initialism of constructive solid geometry.
- (military, nautical, aviation) Initialism of carrier surface group.
- (military, nautical, aviation) Abbreviation of carrier surface assertion group.
- Initialism of coal seam gas.
- (military, nautical, aviation) Initialism of carrier strike group.
noun
- (typography, computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
- (Geordie and Mackem) A cigarette.
- (British Army, military slang) A fast march or run with full kit.
- (informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
- A form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, commonly used for stringed instruments.
- (slang) An ear.
- (colloquial, publishing) A tabloid newspaper.
- (graphical user interface) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
- (informal, theater) A tableau curtain.
- (informal, chiefly Canada, US) A restaurant bill.
- (by extension) The cost or bill for anything.
- (informal, chiefly Canada, US) Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate.
- (by extension, graphical user interface) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
- (Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.
- A small flap or strip of material attached to or inserted into something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
- the bill in a restaurant
- a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it
- sensationalist journalism
- the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
- a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet
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- (computing) Initialism of binary space partitioning.
- Initialism of blatant self-promotion.
- (finance) Initialism of bank settlement plan, a reporting system used by travel companies to pay airlines.
- (computing) Initialism of board support package (“device driver”).
- (plumbing) Initialism of British Standard Pipe.
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- (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.
- A love interest; a paramour.
- The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
- (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming bonds.
- (taxonomy) Resemblances between biological populations, suggesting that they have a common origin, type or stock.
- Any romantic relationship.
- A kinsman or kinswoman of a such relationship; one who is affinal.
- A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
- (geology) Structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common origin or type.
- A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity (e.g. sister).
- (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen
- (computing) A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache misses.
- Any passionate love for something.
- a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
- a natural attraction or feeling of kinship
- (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship
- (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
- the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule
- inherent resemblance between persons or things
- (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts
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- (computer science, uncountable) A contiguous collection of one or more characters that each represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.
- (business) Free time seen as an opportunity for gainful activity.
- White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
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- an empty area or space
- the absence of matter
- a region that is devoid of matter
- an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
- (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- (physics) A ground state of a quantum field or of local spacetime, or more abstractly the lowest-energy state of a system.
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
- (string theory) A description of spacetime resulting from a particular compactification of spatial dimensions.
- (colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
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- an empty area or space
- the state of nonexistence
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- (medicine, urology) An instance of urination.
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
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- lacking any legal or binding force
- containing nothing
- (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
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- clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something
- declare invalid
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- excrete or discharge from the body
- (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb).
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
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- (journalism, printing) To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
- To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.
- (Lincolnshire, Scotland) To recover from (an illness).
- (rare) To translate (a text).
- To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.
- To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.
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- (typography) A consistent adjustment of space between individual letters; letterspacing.
- (electricity) The synchronization of two or more signals.
- (electricity) The formation of conductive paths on the surface of an insulating material due to electrical discharges.
- The act or process by which something is tracked.
- (education) The division of pupils into separately taught groups by perceived ability level.
- the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind
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- (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
- Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
- One who rives or splits.
- A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
- (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
- a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
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- (mathematics) The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.
- (biology) The contraction of the contractile vesicles in certain algae, plasmodia, and zoospores.
- (prosody) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
- (physiology) The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
- the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery
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- a printed document with spaces in which to write
- a particular mode in which something is manifested
- the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a perceptual structure
- an ability to perform well
- (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- a mold for setting concrete
- the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- a life-size dummy used to display clothes
- a body of students who are taught together
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- (geometry) A quantic.
- (UK) Past history (in a given area); a habit of doing something.
- (UK, education) A class or year of school pupils.
- (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
- (philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
- The den or home of a hare.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
verb
- develop into a distinctive entity
- assume a form or shape
- create (as an entity)
- establish or impress firmly in the mind
- to compose or represent
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give shape or form to
- (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- (intransitive) To take shape.
- (electricity, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
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- (journalism, printing) To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
- To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.
- (Lincolnshire, Scotland) To recover from (an illness).
- (rare) To translate (a text).
- To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.
- To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.
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- (topology) Of a covering space of finite degree.
- By computer or in cyberspace.
- Almost but not quite.
- (algebra) Of a subgroup of finite index.
- In essence or functionally, but not in fact, formally, or technically.
- in essence or effect but not in fact
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
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- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
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- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A white pigment.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
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- (journalism, printing) To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.
- To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.
- (Lincolnshire, Scotland) To recover from (an illness).
- (rare) To translate (a text).
- To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.
- To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.
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- (computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
- (card games) Not a trump.
- Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
- Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
- Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
- Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
- Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
- Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
- (of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
- Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
- Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- lacking patterns especially in color
- not elaborate or elaborated; simple
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- not mixed with extraneous elements
- free from any effort to soften to disguise
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- (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
- A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
- An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
- extensive tract of level open land
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- (typography, of a block of type) Not justified; having an uneven vertical margin.
- Rough; shaggy; rugged.
- (computing) Of a data structure: having uneven levels.
- (music) Performed in a syncopated manner, especially in ragtime.
- Wearing tattered clothes.
- Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise
- Faulty; lacking in skill, reliability, or organization.
- In tatters, having the texture broken.
- Having rough edges; jagged or uneven
- worn out from stress or strain
- being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
- having an irregular outline
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- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning