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noun
- Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
- device that removes something from whatever passes through it
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
- (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
- (figurative) Self-restraint in speech.
- (social media) An appearance-altering digital image effect.
- (photography) A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
- an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
verb
- (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
- (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
- (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- (intransitive, derogatory, fandom slang) To be discouraged where a connoisseur or hardcore fan would not.
- pass through
- run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
- remove by passing through a filter
noun
- A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
- (LGBTQ slang) A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)
- Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”).
- (computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
- A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
- (Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
- (by extension) The items on a full tray.
- (computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
- an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food
verb
noun
- An electronic device for separating a signal, frequency, etc., into two or more parts.
- A physical object for dividing up a space.
- A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
- A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
- The median (US) or central reservation (UK) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
- One who or that which divides or separates.
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements
- a person who separates something into parts or groups
noun
- device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
- a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function
- the technical aspects of doing something
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
- the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
- (philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
- Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
- A mental, physical, or chemical process.
- A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
- (within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
- Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
adj
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
noun
- A mechanical component inserted into another.
- (genetics) A sequence of DNA inserted into another DNA molecule.
- A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc.
- An image inserted into text.
- (film, television) A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.
- (linguistics) An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in an utterance.
- (audio effects) A plug-in that adds an effect to an audio track.
- (childcare, informal) A diaper insert.
- (computing) A key to toggle between text insert mode and overwrite mode
- (television) A pre-recorded segment included as part of a live broadcast.
- (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film
- a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication
- (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program
- an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted
verb
noun
- A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
- A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.
- A device added to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.
- (genetics) A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.
- an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents
- a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene)
- someone who suppresses
verb
- (transitive) To disassemble, dismantle, take apart (a machine or other mechanical device).
- (transitive, figurative) To criticise harshly and in detail.
- (transitive) To separate (people or animals that are fighting).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, apart.
- (intransitive) To become separated as a result of pulling.
- (transitive, figurative) To investigate rigorously the basis of (an idea or theory).
noun
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
noun
adj
noun
- device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible
- a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
- A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
- One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.
- (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A collection of low-rank matrices which, when added to a base model, produces a fine-tuned model; a LoRA.
- Specifically, a device that permits two or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.
- Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.
- Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.
- One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.
noun
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
adj
verb
noun
- A mechanical device that connects things.
- A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- (genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
- (software compilation) The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
- (linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
- (US, politics, historical) A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
- a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
- an associative relation
- the act of linking things together
- (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go)
noun
- the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device
- the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food
- (marketing) a reduction in sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product when the same company introduces a new product
- adapting, borrowing or stealing plots, characters, themes or ideas from one story for use in another or from one medium to another
noun
- a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
- (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
- An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
- A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
- Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
noun
- a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- (sexuality) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A link between the performance of an action and the location where that action occurs or the method used to perform that action.
- The act of joining together to form a couple.
- (software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
- (electronics) A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
- A device that couples two things together.
- (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
verb
noun
- a device used by physician to press a part down or aside
- any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
- any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
- (neuroanatomy, physiology) A nerve or nerve fiber that decreases the activity or the tone of the organ or the part it innervates, such as lowering the blood pressure.
- (anatomy) Any of several muscles whose contraction pulls down a part of the body.
- An instrument used to push something out of the way during an examination.
noun
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- any artifact that resembles a button
- a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- (botany) A bud.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The calyx of an orange.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
verb
noun
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
- the act of liberating someone or something
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
- a process that liberates or discharges something
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
- euphemistic expressions for death
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
- (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
- (law) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- (software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- Discharged semen
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- (music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Orgasm.
verb
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- make (information) available for publication
- generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- part with a possession or right
- eliminate (a substance)
- release, as from one's grip
- make (assets) available
- (transitive, telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
- (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
- (transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.
- (transitive) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- (transitive, law) To let go, quit (a legal claim); to discharge or relinquish a right to (lands or buildings) by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession.
- (transitive) To discharge.
- (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
- (transitive) To free or liberate; to set free.
- (transitive) To make available to the public.
- (intransitive) To launch; to come out; to become available.
- (transitive, soccer) To set up; to provide with a goalscoring opportunity.
noun
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
verb
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
verb
- (transitive, of a device with a mainspring) To unwind.
- (intransitive) To slow, as if coming to an end; to become calmer or less busy.
- (transitive, of an object that can be raised or lowered) To lower by winding, as with a crank or windlass.
- (transitive) To shut down slowly (by degrees or in phases).
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To relax; to get rid of stress; to destress.
verb
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
- make less dense
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make less severe or strict
- cause to become loose
- become less severe or strict
- make loose or looser
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
noun
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
- The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
- (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
- (textual criticism) In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)
- (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
- A complex machine or instrument.
- (rhythmic gymnastics) Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.
- A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
- (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
- (collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.
noun
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- the way something is organized or arranged
- an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
- (hydrology) The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
- (operations) The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
- (boxing) A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.
- The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
- (computing) An installer.
- A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
- Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
verb
noun
- A portable electronic device performing similar functions.
- A small portable book, containing e.g. an appointment diary (appointment book), address book, notepad etc.
- a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.
noun
- Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate.
- A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another.
- device that removes something from whatever passes through it
- Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies.
- (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).
- (figurative) Self-restraint in speech.
- (social media) An appearance-altering digital image effect.
- (photography) A translucent object placed in the light path of a camera to remove certain wavelengths (colors), or a computer program that simulates such an effect.
- an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it
verb
- (intransitive) To ride a motorcycle between lanes on a road
- (transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate.
- (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.
- (intransitive) To move slowly or gradually; to come or go a few at a time.
- (transitive) To diffuse; to cause to be less concentrated or focused.
- (intransitive, derogatory, fandom slang) To be discouraged where a connoisseur or hardcore fan would not.
- pass through
- run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
- remove by passing through a filter
noun
- A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
- (LGBTQ slang) A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)
- Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”).
- (computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
- A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
- (Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
- (by extension) The items on a full tray.
- (computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
- an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food
verb
noun
- An electronic device for separating a signal, frequency, etc., into two or more parts.
- A physical object for dividing up a space.
- A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
- A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
- The median (US) or central reservation (UK) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
- One who or that which divides or separates.
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements
- a person who separates something into parts or groups
noun
- device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
- a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function
- the technical aspects of doing something
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
- the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
- (philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
- Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
- A mental, physical, or chemical process.
- A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
- (within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
- Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
noun
- an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- (Canada) A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- That which has not been used or expended.
- (Myanmar) assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
adj
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- thin and fit
- not taken up by scheduled activities
- kept in reserve especially for emergency use
- more than is needed, desired, or required
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- Austere, stripped down, without what is extraneous.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- (UK, informal) Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
verb
- give up what is not strictly needed
- use frugally or carefully
- refrain from harming
- save or relieve from an experience or action
- (specifically) To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- (transitive) To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- (intransitive) To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- (intransitive) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- (transitive) (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- (transitive) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- (intransitive) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- (transitive) To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
noun
- A mechanical component inserted into another.
- (genetics) A sequence of DNA inserted into another DNA molecule.
- A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc.
- An image inserted into text.
- (film, television) A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.
- (linguistics) An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in an utterance.
- (audio effects) A plug-in that adds an effect to an audio track.
- (childcare, informal) A diaper insert.
- (computing) A key to toggle between text insert mode and overwrite mode
- (television) A pre-recorded segment included as part of a live broadcast.
- (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film
- a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication
- (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program
- an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted
verb
noun
- A device which suppresses something, especially an electronic or mechanical device.
- A person who suppresses others, a tyrant.
- A device added to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the noise and flash generated by firing the weapon.
- (genetics) A gene that suppresses the effect of another through epistasis.
- an electrical device for suppressing unwanted currents
- a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene)
- someone who suppresses
noun
- A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
- A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
- Something overly artful or artificial.
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- the act of devising something
noun
adj
noun
- device that enables something to be used in a way different from that for which it was intended or makes different pieces of apparatus compatible
- a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance
- A device or application used to achieve operative compatibility between devices that otherwise are incompatible.
- One who is capable of adapting to differing situations.
- (machine learning, artificial intelligence) A collection of low-rank matrices which, when added to a base model, produces a fine-tuned model; a LoRA.
- Specifically, a device that permits two or more plugs to be used at a single electrical power point.
- Specifically, an AC adapter: a device that reduces voltage and converts AC to DC to allow a battery-powered device to use mains power.
- Specifically, a device that allows one format of plug to be used with a different format of socket.
- One who adapts a thing, e.g. a play.
noun
- a device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance
- (computing) A source control repository hosted on a remote machine, rather than locally.
- (broadcasting) An element of broadcast programming originating away from the station's or show's control room.
- Ellipsis of remote control.
adj
verb
noun
- A mechanical device that connects things.
- A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- (genetics) The property of genes of being inherited together.
- (software compilation) The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
- (linguistics) A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
- (US, politics, historical) A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
- a mechanical system of rods or springs or pivots that transmits power or motion
- an associative relation
- the act of linking things together
- (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go)
noun
- the practice of removing parts or subsystems necessary for repair from another similar device
- the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food
- (marketing) a reduction in sales volume, sales revenue, or market share of one product when the same company introduces a new product
- adapting, borrowing or stealing plots, characters, themes or ideas from one story for use in another or from one medium to another
noun
- a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
- (music) A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
- An electrical device used to transfer energy from one electric device to another, especially without a physical connection.
- A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.
- Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
noun
- a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- (sexuality) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A link between the performance of an action and the location where that action occurs or the method used to perform that action.
- The act of joining together to form a couple.
- (software engineering) The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
- (electronics) A connection between two electronic circuits such that a signal can pass between them.
- A device that couples two things together.
- (physics) The property of physical systems that they are interacting with each other
verb
noun
- a device used by physician to press a part down or aside
- any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down
- any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves
- (neuroanatomy, physiology) A nerve or nerve fiber that decreases the activity or the tone of the organ or the part it innervates, such as lowering the blood pressure.
- (anatomy) Any of several muscles whose contraction pulls down a part of the body.
- An instrument used to push something out of the way during an examination.
noun
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- an electrical switch operated by pressing
- a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action
- any of various plant parts that resemble buttons
- a female sexual organ homologous to the penis
- any artifact that resembles a button
- a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment
- a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc. to fit through buttonholes
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- (aviation) The end of a runway.
- (glassblowing) The oblate spheroidal mass of glass attaching a stem to either its bowl or foot.
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- (generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- (lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
- (poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- (curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
- (comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- (lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- (slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- (botany) A bud.
- (graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- (television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- (poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- (US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- (fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- (South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- (zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- (lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The calyx of an orange.
- (slang) The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- (clothing) A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
verb
noun
- a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
- a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
- the act of liberating someone or something
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
- a process that liberates or discharges something
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
- euphemistic expressions for death
- activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
- an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
- (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
- (law) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- (software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- Discharged semen
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
- A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
- (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- (music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- Orgasm.
verb
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- let (something) fall or spill from a container
- make (information) available for publication
- generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- part with a possession or right
- eliminate (a substance)
- release, as from one's grip
- make (assets) available
- (transitive, telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
- (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
- (transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.
- (transitive) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- (transitive, law) To let go, quit (a legal claim); to discharge or relinquish a right to (lands or buildings) by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession.
- (transitive) To discharge.
- (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
- (transitive) To free or liberate; to set free.
- (transitive) To make available to the public.
- (intransitive) To launch; to come out; to become available.
- (transitive, soccer) To set up; to provide with a goalscoring opportunity.
noun
- a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it
- a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping
- music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
- (traditional English Morris dance) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
verb
- dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions
- (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- (fishing) To fish with a jig.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To skip school or be truant.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
noun
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
- The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
- (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
- (textual criticism) In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)
- (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
- A complex machine or instrument.
- (rhythmic gymnastics) Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.
- A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
- (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
- (collective) An assortment of tools and instruments.
noun
- equipment designed to serve a specific function
- the way something is organized or arranged
- an act that incriminates someone on a false charge
- (hydrology) The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
- (operations) The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
- (boxing) A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.
- The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
- (computing) An installer.
- A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
- Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
verb
noun
- A portable electronic device performing similar functions.
- A small portable book, containing e.g. an appointment diary (appointment book), address book, notepad etc.
- a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.
verb
- (transitive) To disassemble, dismantle, take apart (a machine or other mechanical device).
- (transitive, figurative) To criticise harshly and in detail.
- (transitive) To separate (people or animals that are fighting).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, apart.
- (intransitive) To become separated as a result of pulling.
- (transitive, figurative) To investigate rigorously the basis of (an idea or theory).
verb
- (transitive, of a device with a mainspring) To unwind.
- (intransitive) To slow, as if coming to an end; to become calmer or less busy.
- (transitive, of an object that can be raised or lowered) To lower by winding, as with a crank or windlass.
- (transitive) To shut down slowly (by degrees or in phases).
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To relax; to get rid of stress; to destress.
verb
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
- make less dense
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make less severe or strict
- cause to become loose
- become less severe or strict
- make loose or looser
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
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