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noun
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
- (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- (architecture) A cella.
- (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- any small compartment
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
verb
noun
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- small area set off by walls for special use
- small individual study area in a library
- A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
- (UK, Australia) A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
- A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
noun
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
- (now especially) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
- (India) A Christian school.
- A coming together; a meeting.
- A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
- A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
- The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
noun
- The church of a monastery.
- a church associated with a monastery or convent
- A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
- a monastery ruled by an abbot
- a convent ruled by an abbess
- The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
- (British English) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
noun
noun
noun
- residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- (figuratively) The monastic life.
- a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
- such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
- such an arcade in a monastery;
verb
- surround with a cloister, as of a garden
- surround with a cloister
- seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
- (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- (transitive) To protect or isolate.
- (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
noun
- A private chapel or prayer room.
- Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
- The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
- A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
- (specifically) A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
- addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
noun
- A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
- a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
- A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
- An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
- in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
noun
name
noun
- A small chapel or shrine.
- A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- (botany) A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
- A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
- A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
- A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
- (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
- A garland or circlet for the head.
- Alternative form of chapelet.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
noun
- building reserved for the officiating clergy
- A section of a church reserved for the clergy, containing the altar.
- The district (jurisdiction) of those presbyters.
- A body of elders in the early Christian church.
- The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
- Presbyters collectively; the body of presbyters of a congregation.
noun
- a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)
- a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
- (uncountable) The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life.
- (countable) A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill.
noun
- A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
- A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
- A dormitory town.
- a large sleeping room containing several beds
- a college or university building containing living quarters for students
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
verb
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- a small private room for study or prayer
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a toilet in Britain
- a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
- (US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
- (slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case.
- The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.
verb
adj
noun
- area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
- The space around the altar in a church or cathedral, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.
- (broadly) The entire end of the church in which the altar stands, including the apse and the ambulatory.
- (precisely) A certain central portion of that end of the church, excluding the apse and the ambulatory.
noun
- area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
- a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept
- a shelter from danger or hardship
- A state of being protected, asylum.
- A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
- The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.
- An area set aside for protection.
noun
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
- a series of related events forming an episode
- a local branch of some fraternity or association
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A bishop's council.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- A chapter house
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
verb
noun
- (chiefly historical) An Islamic convent.
- (historical) The duty of some men to serve at such posts.
- (chiefly historical, especially Islam) A border or frontier guardpost.
- (Islam, figurative) The duty of all Muslims to defend and/or retake Islamic lands.
- (Islam) A Sufi monastery.
- (chiefly historical) A caravanserai or inn in, converted from, or resembling such a guardpost.
noun
- A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
- (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
- (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- A printing office.
- (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
- a place of worship that has its own altar
- a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar
adj
verb
noun
- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game
- (US, military slang) A military prison or its enclosing stockade.
- An enclosed area used to hold bulls.
- (figurative) A place for someone or something to get ready.
- (baseball) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game.
- An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort.
- (baseball) The relief pitchers of a team collectively.
noun
- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- (Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
- A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
- A concentration camp.
prefix
noun
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
- (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- (architecture) A cella.
- (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- any small compartment
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
verb
noun
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- small area set off by walls for special use
- small individual study area in a library
- A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
- (UK, Australia) A small enclosure in a public toilet for individual use.
- A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
noun
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
- (now especially) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
- (India) A Christian school.
- A coming together; a meeting.
- A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
- A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
- The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
noun
- The church of a monastery.
- a church associated with a monastery or convent
- A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
- a monastery ruled by an abbot
- a convent ruled by an abbess
- The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess.
- (British English) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.
noun
noun
noun
- residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- (figuratively) The monastic life.
- a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)
- such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
- such an arcade in a monastery;
verb
- surround with a cloister, as of a garden
- surround with a cloister
- seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
- (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- (transitive) To protect or isolate.
- (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
noun
- A private chapel or prayer room.
- Eloquence; the quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
- The art of public speaking, especially in a formal, expressive, or forceful manner.
- A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
- (specifically) A Catholic church belonging to the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.
- addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)
noun
- A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
- a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
- A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
- An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
- in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
noun
name
noun
- A small chapel or shrine.
- A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- (botany) A series of spores or other objects arranged like beads on a string.
- A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- (Catholicism) A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
- A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
- A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
- (specifically) The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
- A garland or circlet for the head.
- Alternative form of chapelet.
- flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
noun
- building reserved for the officiating clergy
- A section of a church reserved for the clergy, containing the altar.
- The district (jurisdiction) of those presbyters.
- A body of elders in the early Christian church.
- The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
- Presbyters collectively; the body of presbyters of a congregation.
noun
- a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order)
- a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
- (uncountable) The provision of palliative care for terminally ill patients, either at a specialized facility or at a residence, and support for the family, typically refraining from taking extraordinary measures to prolong life.
- (countable) A specialized facility or organization offering palliative care for the terminally ill.
noun
- A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
- A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
- A dormitory town.
- a large sleeping room containing several beds
- a college or university building containing living quarters for students
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
verb
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- a small private room for study or prayer
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- a toilet in Britain
- a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
- (US, Philippines) One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
- A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- (heraldry) An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- (figuratively) A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.
- (slang, uncommon) Clipping of closet case.
- The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.
verb
adj
noun
- area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
- The space around the altar in a church or cathedral, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.
- (broadly) The entire end of the church in which the altar stands, including the apse and the ambulatory.
- (precisely) A certain central portion of that end of the church, excluding the apse and the ambulatory.
noun
- area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
- a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept
- a shelter from danger or hardship
- A state of being protected, asylum.
- A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
- The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.
- An area set aside for protection.
noun
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
- a series of related events forming an episode
- a local branch of some fraternity or association
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A bishop's council.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- A chapter house
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
verb
noun
- (chiefly historical) An Islamic convent.
- (historical) The duty of some men to serve at such posts.
- (chiefly historical, especially Islam) A border or frontier guardpost.
- (Islam, figurative) The duty of all Muslims to defend and/or retake Islamic lands.
- (Islam) A Sufi monastery.
- (chiefly historical) A caravanserai or inn in, converted from, or resembling such a guardpost.
noun
- A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
- (UK) A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
- (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- A printing office.
- (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
- a place of worship that has its own altar
- a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar
adj
verb
noun
- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game
- (US, military slang) A military prison or its enclosing stockade.
- An enclosed area used to hold bulls.
- (figurative) A place for someone or something to get ready.
- (baseball) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game.
- An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort.
- (baseball) The relief pitchers of a team collectively.
noun
- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- (Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
- A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
- A concentration camp.
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