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- (uncountable) Associating, or coming together in a union; (countable) an instance of this.
- (US, Congregationalism, specifically) A voluntary, permanent council made up of representatives of neighbouring Congregational churches for mutual advice and co-operation in ecclesiastical matters; also, a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
- (countable, politics) A power-sharing arrangement over territory entered into by competing groups.
- (countable, ecology) A subdivision of an association, made up chiefly of organisms of a single species.
- (uncountable) Intimate companionship or fellowship; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable, Christianity) A confederation of Christian churches or organizations.
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- (countable) A group composed of more than one entity.
- (countable) A group of many entities: a large number.
- (countable) A number or part of a whole which is greater than any other number or part, but not necessarily a majority.
- (countable) A state of being numerous.
- (psychology) Synonym of multiplicity (“the condition whereby a person displays or experiences multiple distinct personalities or selves in one body”).
- (countable) A margin by which a number exceeds another number, especially of votes.
- (countable) A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.
- (of spouses) Polygamy.
- (ecclesiastical) The holding of multiple benefices.
- (uncountable) The state of being plural.
- the state of being plural
- a large indefinite quantity
- (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less than half of the votes)
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- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
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- (countable, uncountable) Arrangement in a bundle or collection.
- (uncountable, historical) An old custom in Wales, New England, and elsewhere for sweethearts to sleep on the same bed without undressing.
- the act of binding something into a bundle
- a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing
- the act of shoving hastily
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- (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
- (Philippines) A gated community located within a barangay.
- (countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
- (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.
- (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
- the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- an area composed of subdivided lots
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- (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
- (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- the relation of comprising something
- any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
- the act of including
- the state of being included
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- (countable) Such a specific grouping.
- (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
- (mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
- (linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
- (computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- a grouping of words in a sentence
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- (countable, uncountable) An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.
- (uncountable) The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.
- (uncountable) Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.
- (uncountable) Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.
- (countable, uncountable) An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.
- (uncountable) A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.
- (uncountable) Sexual reproduction involving different species.
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- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
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- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
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- (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- (uncountable, also figurative) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
- (inheritance law, uncountable) Increase of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.
- (uncountable, also figurative) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
- A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
- (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- (property law, uncountable) Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.
- (astrophysics) The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
- (geology) The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
- (countable, chiefly figurative) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- something contributing to growth or increase
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- (countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
- (countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species; the system of such categories, which can differ by organism or by taxonomic branch.
- (countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina/vulva.
- (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
- (countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
- (uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
- either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided
- the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
- all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses
- activities associated with sexual intercourse
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- (countable, uncountable) A method or way of organizing or planning.
- (multiplicity) A set of alters of a person, or the multiple (“an individual with multiple personalities”) who contains them.
- A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
- (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
- (politics) A socioeconomic formation.
- (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
- (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
- (derogatory, preceded by the, often capitalized) The mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
- (astronomy) A system in which two or more objects are bound to each other by gravity.
- (roleplaying games) A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game.
- (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
- (philosophy) A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.
- an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
- a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
- a procedure or process for obtaining an objective
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- a complex of methods or rules governing behavior
- the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole
- instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
- (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
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- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
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- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- cause to flee
- defeat disastrously
- dig with the snout
- make a groove in
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- (countable, uncountable) An item's composition.
- (countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
- (finance) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.
- (education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
- (manufacturing) Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
- cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
- the way in which someone or something is composed
- an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event
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- (countable, mathematics) An assignment of complex numbers to each element of a group, in particular a finite abelian group. More precisely, a group homomorphism into the group of units of a field (usually ℂ).
- (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
- (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene.
- (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown.
- (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- (countable) A being involved in the action of a story; a persona.
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- good repute
- an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
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- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
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- (uncountable) Detailed categorization, or itemization or listing, of the components of a thing; (countable) an instance of this.
- (film, television, countable) A detailed description of a forthcoming project or screenplay which identifies all the required elements, such as the cast, costumes, equipment, props, and special effects.
- Synonym of percussion break (“a percussion-focused segment of a song, chosen by a hip-hop DJ to manipulate through cutting, mixing, and other techniques in order to create rhythmic music”).
- (music) A piece of music played for such a dance, especially a rapid bluegrass tune featuring a five-string banjo.
- (rugby union, countable and uncountable with the) The short period of open play immediately after a tackle and before and during the ensuing ruck.
- (originally and chiefly New Zealand, countable, chiefly attributive) An act of splitting logs of wood using a large saw in a sawmill; also, the saw used; or (rare) the building in which the process is carried out.
- (physics, uncountable) The sudden (and usually damaging) transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator; (countable) an instance of this; also, the minimum voltage at which this occurs.
- (countable) A failure in a relationship; a failure or loss of organization in a system.
- (chemistry, uncountable) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) Something, such as a vehicle, that has experienced a mechanical failure.
- A part of a piece of music or a song which differs from the other parts in that it features improvisation or is stripped down (for example, played by fewer instruments or a solo performer).
- (uncountable) (Sudden) worsening of physical health or (more commonly) mental stability, resulting in an inability to carry on normal activities; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
- (veterinary medicine, uncountable) Injury to a horse's leg causing lameness; (countable) an instance of this.
- A section of a song, typical in hardcore music and related styles (such as metalcore, grindcore, and deathcore), characterized by a lower tempo and greater heaviness and intensity of sound.
- a cessation of normal operation
- the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
- an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
- a mental or physical breakdown
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- (uncountable) Changing of a thing from one form to another; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Changing of the key in a piece of music; also, the effect achieved by this as an element of harmony; (countable) an instance of this.
- (biology, uncountable) Variation in the activity or form of a cell in response to changes in the environment; (countable) an instance of this.
- (art, uncountable) Variation (especially softening or toning down) of brightness, form, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Modification or regulation of something to achieve an appropriate measure or proportion; (countable) an instance of this.
- (engineering, physics, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: modification of an electromagnetic wave or other oscillating carrier wave to apply a signal to it; (countable) an instance of this; also, the extent to which such a wave is modified; and the modified wave or signal.
- (typography, uncountable) The quality of a typeface of having contrasting, thick and thin parts of the strokes; stroke-width variation.
- (uncountable) Variation of the intensity, pitch, and tone of the sound of a musical instrument or voice; inflection; (countable) an instance of this.
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
- rise and fall of the voice pitch
- the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
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- Of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant.
- (rare) Having or seeming to have very little substance; insubstantial, slight.
- (chiefly law) Especially of evidence; chiefly followed by to: not associated in any way that is important or useful to the context being discussed; irrelevant.
- Having no matter or substance; incorporeal.
- Of the nature of the soul or spirit; spiritual.
- of no importance or relevance especially to a law case
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- not consisting of matter
- (often followed by ‘to’) lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other
- without material form or substance
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- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- Parentage.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
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- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
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- (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence.
- (often used in apposition) An event affecting an aircraft, usually a plane crash.
- An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
- A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
- a public disturbance
- a single distinct event
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- (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
- (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- (mathematics) In a relation of incidence
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
- falling or striking of light rays on something
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
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- (countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
- (countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
- (uncountable) The strategy of putting related inventory items together.
- (countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
- (uncountable, UK) The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level.
- (countable) A group of related items.
- (countable) A taxonomic grouping at the family level.
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- (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
- (uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
- Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
- (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
- a relationship less intimate than friendship
- a person with whom you are acquainted
- personal knowledge or information about someone or something
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- (uncountable, countable) The process of becoming generic; an instance of it.
- (countable) An instance of this act or process; a generic name thus created.
- (uncountable, law) With respect to a trademark, the act or process of becoming so widely identified as a reference for a type of product as to cease representing a particular brand or manufacturer of that type of product.
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- (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- (music, uncountable) The manner in which a note is attacked.
- (uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
- (phonetics) The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- (anatomy) Such a joint in an animalian body, as for example between bones or between exoskeleton segments.
- (education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible
- the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
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- (countable) Congruence with polyvalency.
- (uncountable, music) A quality of music that is played in more than one harmonic function in the same key.
- (countable) The state of being polyvalent.
- (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism
- (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two
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- (uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
- (countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
- (countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
- the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list)
- something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
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- (uncountable) An agreement in a design or plan; a union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; an accordance in a scheme; harmony; a simultaneous action.
- (countable) A musical performance, usually public, in which several performers or instruments take part.
- (uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
- a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging
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- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- A particular method for performing a task.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
- a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
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- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- the act or process of dividing
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
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- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
- The amount of material contained.
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.
- the amount that can be contained
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
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- (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
- (uncountable) The state of being contained.
- (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
- (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.
- (uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
- a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
- (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
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- (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
- (sociology) A group of people sharing some common cultural, political, or social interest, but not necessarily having any interactions with each other.
- (uncountable) Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or people generally; the open.
- (often public relations) Often preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic.
- (non-native speakers' English, neologism) An internet publication.
- (informal) Ellipsis of public house or (dated) public bar (“an inn, a pub: the more basic bar in a public house, as contrasted with the lounge bar or saloon bar which has more comfortable seats, personalized service, etc.”).
- Preceded by a possessive determiner such as my, your, or their: a group of people who support a particular person, especially a performer, a writer, etc.; an audience, a following.
- people in general considered as a whole
- a body of people sharing some common interest
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- (business) Of a company: having shares of stock traded publicly, for example, through a stock market.
- Pertaining to a person in the capacity in which they deal with other people on a formal or official basis, as opposed to a personal or private capacity; official, professional.
- (UK, education, chiefly historical) In some older universities in the United Kingdom: open or pertaining to the whole university, as opposed to a constituent college or an individual staff member or student.
- (not comparable, by extension, object-oriented programming) Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.
- Open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.
- Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country.
- Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.
- Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization.
- not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole
- affecting the people or community as a whole
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- (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
- (countable) Proper or equal share.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
- (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
- The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
- (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
- the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
- balance among the parts of something
- the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- magnitude or extent
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- (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
- (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
- the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
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- (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
- Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
- (comparable) Pluralistic.
- (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
- composed of more than one member, set, or kind
- grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
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- (uncountable) Associating, or coming together in a union; (countable) an instance of this.
- (US, Congregationalism, specifically) A voluntary, permanent council made up of representatives of neighbouring Congregational churches for mutual advice and co-operation in ecclesiastical matters; also, a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
- (countable, politics) A power-sharing arrangement over territory entered into by competing groups.
- (countable, ecology) A subdivision of an association, made up chiefly of organisms of a single species.
- (uncountable) Intimate companionship or fellowship; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable, Christianity) A confederation of Christian churches or organizations.
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- (countable) A group composed of more than one entity.
- (countable) A group of many entities: a large number.
- (countable) A number or part of a whole which is greater than any other number or part, but not necessarily a majority.
- (countable) A state of being numerous.
- (psychology) Synonym of multiplicity (“the condition whereby a person displays or experiences multiple distinct personalities or selves in one body”).
- (countable) A margin by which a number exceeds another number, especially of votes.
- (countable) A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.
- (of spouses) Polygamy.
- (ecclesiastical) The holding of multiple benefices.
- (uncountable) The state of being plural.
- the state of being plural
- a large indefinite quantity
- (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less than half of the votes)
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- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
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- (countable, uncountable) Arrangement in a bundle or collection.
- (uncountable, historical) An old custom in Wales, New England, and elsewhere for sweethearts to sleep on the same bed without undressing.
- the act of binding something into a bundle
- a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing
- the act of shoving hastily
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- (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
- (Philippines) A gated community located within a barangay.
- (countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
- (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.
- (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
- the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided
- a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- an area composed of subdivided lots
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- (uncountable) The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- (countable) An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- (countable, mineralogy) Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- (cytology) A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- (histology) An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
- (countable) Anything foreign that is included in a material.
- (mathematics) A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- the relation of comprising something
- any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases)
- the act of including
- the state of being included
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- (countable) Such a specific grouping.
- (uncountable) The grouping or juxtaposition of things, especially words or sounds.
- (mathematics) A method of finding an approximate solution of an ordinary differential equation L[y]=0 by determining coefficients in an expansion y(x)=y_0(x)+∑ₗ₌₀^qαₗy_l(x) so as to make L[y] vanish at prescribed points; the expansion with the coefficients thus found is the sought approximation.
- (linguistics, translation studies) A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance (i.e., the statistically significant placement of particular words in a language), often representing an established name for, or idiomatic way of conveying, a particular semantic concept.
- (computing) A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, at a minimum of cost and complexity.
- the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
- a grouping of words in a sentence
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- (countable, uncountable) An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.
- (uncountable) The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.
- (uncountable) Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.
- (uncountable) Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.
- (countable, uncountable) An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.
- (uncountable) A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.
- (uncountable) Sexual reproduction involving different species.
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- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
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- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
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- (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- (uncountable, also figurative) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
- (inheritance law, uncountable) Increase of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.
- (uncountable, also figurative) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
- A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
- (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- (property law, uncountable) Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.
- (astrophysics) The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
- (geology) The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
- (countable, chiefly figurative) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- something contributing to growth or increase
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- (countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
- (countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species; the system of such categories, which can differ by organism or by taxonomic branch.
- (countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina/vulva.
- (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
- (countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
- (uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
- either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided
- the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
- all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses
- activities associated with sexual intercourse
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- (countable, uncountable) A method or way of organizing or planning.
- (multiplicity) A set of alters of a person, or the multiple (“an individual with multiple personalities”) who contains them.
- A group or set of related things that operate together as a complex whole.
- (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
- (politics) A socioeconomic formation.
- (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
- (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
- (derogatory, preceded by the, often capitalized) The mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
- (astronomy) A system in which two or more objects are bound to each other by gravity.
- (roleplaying games) A set of rules for a tabletop roleplaying game.
- (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
- (philosophy) A comprehensive and logically organized set of propositions or philosophical beliefs.
- an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
- a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
- a procedure or process for obtaining an objective
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- a complex of methods or rules governing behavior
- the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole
- instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
- (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
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- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
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- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
- cause to flee
- defeat disastrously
- dig with the snout
- make a groove in
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- (countable, uncountable) An item's composition.
- (countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
- (finance) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.
- (education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
- (manufacturing) Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
- cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
- the way in which someone or something is composed
- an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event
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- (countable, mathematics) An assignment of complex numbers to each element of a group, in particular a finite abelian group. More precisely, a group homomorphism into the group of units of a field (usually ℂ).
- (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
- (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
- (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
- (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene.
- (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown.
- (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.
- (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
- (countable) A being involved in the action of a story; a persona.
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- good repute
- an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story)
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes
- the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
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- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
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- (uncountable) Detailed categorization, or itemization or listing, of the components of a thing; (countable) an instance of this.
- (film, television, countable) A detailed description of a forthcoming project or screenplay which identifies all the required elements, such as the cast, costumes, equipment, props, and special effects.
- Synonym of percussion break (“a percussion-focused segment of a song, chosen by a hip-hop DJ to manipulate through cutting, mixing, and other techniques in order to create rhythmic music”).
- (music) A piece of music played for such a dance, especially a rapid bluegrass tune featuring a five-string banjo.
- (rugby union, countable and uncountable with the) The short period of open play immediately after a tackle and before and during the ensuing ruck.
- (originally and chiefly New Zealand, countable, chiefly attributive) An act of splitting logs of wood using a large saw in a sawmill; also, the saw used; or (rare) the building in which the process is carried out.
- (physics, uncountable) The sudden (and usually damaging) transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator; (countable) an instance of this; also, the minimum voltage at which this occurs.
- (countable) A failure in a relationship; a failure or loss of organization in a system.
- (chemistry, uncountable) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) Something, such as a vehicle, that has experienced a mechanical failure.
- A part of a piece of music or a song which differs from the other parts in that it features improvisation or is stripped down (for example, played by fewer instruments or a solo performer).
- (uncountable) (Sudden) worsening of physical health or (more commonly) mental stability, resulting in an inability to carry on normal activities; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
- (veterinary medicine, uncountable) Injury to a horse's leg causing lameness; (countable) an instance of this.
- A section of a song, typical in hardcore music and related styles (such as metalcore, grindcore, and deathcore), characterized by a lower tempo and greater heaviness and intensity of sound.
- a cessation of normal operation
- the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance
- an analysis into mutually exclusive categories
- a mental or physical breakdown
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- (uncountable) Changing of a thing from one form to another; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Changing of the key in a piece of music; also, the effect achieved by this as an element of harmony; (countable) an instance of this.
- (biology, uncountable) Variation in the activity or form of a cell in response to changes in the environment; (countable) an instance of this.
- (art, uncountable) Variation (especially softening or toning down) of brightness, form, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Modification or regulation of something to achieve an appropriate measure or proportion; (countable) an instance of this.
- (engineering, physics, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: modification of an electromagnetic wave or other oscillating carrier wave to apply a signal to it; (countable) an instance of this; also, the extent to which such a wave is modified; and the modified wave or signal.
- (typography, uncountable) The quality of a typeface of having contrasting, thick and thin parts of the strokes; stroke-width variation.
- (uncountable) Variation of the intensity, pitch, and tone of the sound of a musical instrument or voice; inflection; (countable) an instance of this.
- (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
- a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
- rise and fall of the voice pitch
- the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
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- Of no importance; inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant.
- (rare) Having or seeming to have very little substance; insubstantial, slight.
- (chiefly law) Especially of evidence; chiefly followed by to: not associated in any way that is important or useful to the context being discussed; irrelevant.
- Having no matter or substance; incorporeal.
- Of the nature of the soul or spirit; spiritual.
- of no importance or relevance especially to a law case
- not pertinent to the matter under consideration
- not consisting of matter
- (often followed by ‘to’) lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other
- without material form or substance
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- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- Parentage.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
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- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
noun
- (countable, uncountable) An event or occurrence.
- (often used in apposition) An event affecting an aircraft, usually a plane crash.
- An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.
- A (relatively minor) event that is incidental to, or related to others.
- a public disturbance
- a single distinct event
adj
- (law) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
- (physics, of a stream of particles or radiation) Falling on or striking a surface.
- Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
- Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
- (mathematics) In a relation of incidence
- Arising as the result of an event, inherent.
- falling or striking of light rays on something
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
noun
- (countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
- (countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
- (uncountable) The strategy of putting related inventory items together.
- (countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
- (uncountable, UK) The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level.
- (countable) A group of related items.
- (countable) A taxonomic grouping at the family level.
noun
- (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
- (uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
- Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
- (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
- a relationship less intimate than friendship
- a person with whom you are acquainted
- personal knowledge or information about someone or something
noun
- (uncountable, countable) The process of becoming generic; an instance of it.
- (countable) An instance of this act or process; a generic name thus created.
- (uncountable, law) With respect to a trademark, the act or process of becoming so widely identified as a reference for a type of product as to cease representing a particular brand or manufacturer of that type of product.
noun
- (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- (music, uncountable) The manner in which a note is attacked.
- (uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
- (phonetics) The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- (anatomy) Such a joint in an animalian body, as for example between bones or between exoskeleton segments.
- (education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible
- the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
noun
- (countable) Congruence with polyvalency.
- (uncountable, music) A quality of music that is played in more than one harmonic function in the same key.
- (countable) The state of being polyvalent.
- (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism
- (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
- (countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
- (countable, uncountable, computing) Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
- the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list)
- something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
noun
- (uncountable) An agreement in a design or plan; a union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; an accordance in a scheme; harmony; a simultaneous action.
- (countable) A musical performance, usually public, in which several performers or instruments take part.
- (uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
- a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging
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noun
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- A particular method for performing a task.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
- a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
noun
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- the act or process of dividing
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
noun
- (uncountable) That which is contained.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a polynomial with coefficients in a GCD domain) The greatest common divisor of the coefficients; (of a polynomial with coefficients in an integral domain) the common factor of the coefficients which, when removed, leaves the adjusted coefficients with no common factor that is noninvertible.
- The amount of material contained.
- Satisfaction, contentment; pleasure.
- (UK, House of Lords) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote.
- That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
- (Internet, colloquial) The potential of creative work for a content creator.
- (UK, House of Lords, by metonymy) A member who votes in assent.
- Subject matter; semantic information (or a portion or body thereof); that which is contained in writing, speech, video, etc.
- (mathematics) The n-dimensional space contained by an n-dimensional polytope (called volume in the case of a polyhedron and area in the case of a polygon); length, area or volume, generalized to an arbitrary number of dimensions.
- (by extension, uncountable) One or more creative works.
- the amount that can be contained
- (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
- the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
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- (uncountable, countable) The state of containing.
- (uncountable) The state of being contained.
- (countable) A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
- (countable, mathematics) An inclusion.
- (uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
- a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
- the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
- (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
noun
- (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
- (sociology) A group of people sharing some common cultural, political, or social interest, but not necessarily having any interactions with each other.
- (uncountable) Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or people generally; the open.
- (often public relations) Often preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic.
- (non-native speakers' English, neologism) An internet publication.
- (informal) Ellipsis of public house or (dated) public bar (“an inn, a pub: the more basic bar in a public house, as contrasted with the lounge bar or saloon bar which has more comfortable seats, personalized service, etc.”).
- Preceded by a possessive determiner such as my, your, or their: a group of people who support a particular person, especially a performer, a writer, etc.; an audience, a following.
- people in general considered as a whole
- a body of people sharing some common interest
adj
- (business) Of a company: having shares of stock traded publicly, for example, through a stock market.
- Pertaining to a person in the capacity in which they deal with other people on a formal or official basis, as opposed to a personal or private capacity; official, professional.
- (UK, education, chiefly historical) In some older universities in the United Kingdom: open or pertaining to the whole university, as opposed to a constituent college or an individual staff member or student.
- (not comparable, by extension, object-oriented programming) Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.
- Open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.
- Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country.
- Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.
- Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization.
- not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole
- affecting the people or community as a whole
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- (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
- (countable) Proper or equal share.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
- (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
- The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
- (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
- the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
- balance among the parts of something
- the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- magnitude or extent
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noun
- (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
- (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
- the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
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- (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
- Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
- (comparable) Pluralistic.
- (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
- composed of more than one member, set, or kind
- grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units