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noun
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- the line that appears to bound an object
verb
- (transitive) To summarize.
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- trace the shape of
noun
adj
- briefly giving the gist of something
- performed speedily and without formality
- (law) Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.
- Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
- Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
noun
- a brief statement
- an exchange of views on some topic
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- a promise
- information about recent and important events
- a verbal command for action
- a unit of language that native speakers can identify
- a string of bits stored in computer memory
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- (uncountable) News; tidings.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
- (computing) With regards to Intel or Intel-compatible hardware and/or in the context of Windows programming, a group of exactly 16 bits regardless of the actual processor capabilities; a fossilized unit referring to the small word size of historical CPUs.
- (meiosis) A minor reprimand.
- (in the plural) See words.
- (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- (semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
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verb
noun
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
- (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
- (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
- (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
noun
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
- a new appraisal or evaluation
- practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
- a formal or official examination
- (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
- a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
verb
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- hold a review (of troops)
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- (transitive, Philippines, sometimes Canada, US) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
noun
- (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
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adv
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noun
- a statement that represents something in words
- sort or variety
- the act of describing something
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.
- (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- (linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
noun
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A quantity of money.
- (rare or literary) The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- a quantity of money
- the whole amount
- the final aggregate
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
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- the final statement in a verbal argument
- an authoritative statement
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- (idiomatic) A concluding remark; final advice, instructions, or observation.
- (often sarcastic, often pluralized) The final statement uttered by a person before death.
- (idiomatic, often preceded by the and followed by in) The finest, highest, or ultimate representative of some class of objects.
- (idiomatic) A final decision or remark, or the right to make one.
noun
- (figurative) A decision point.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
verb
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a statement acknowledging something or someone
- the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
- A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
- A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
- The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
- (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
- (law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
- An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
- (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
- The act of acknowledging
- A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding
- an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
- The paper containing such summons or notice.
- (lexicography) A quotation with attached bibliographical details demonstrating the use of a particular lexical item in a dictionary, especially a dictionary on historical principles.
- An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.
- A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
- The act of citing a passage from a text, or from another person, using the exact words of the original text or speech and giving credit to the original by referencing.
- Enumeration; mention.
- An entry in a list of sources from which information was taken, typically following a prescribed bibliographical style; a reference.
- A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
- The passage or words quoted; a quotation.
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verb
- repeat a passage from
- refer to
- commend
- refer to for illustration or proof
- make reference to
- call in an official matter, such as to attend court
- advance evidence for
- To mention by way of explanation.
- (transitive, law) To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
- (transitive) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
- (transitive) To mention; to make mention of.
- To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- used in the phrase ‘to your credit’ in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise
- an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
- an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments
- approval
- money available for a client to borrow
- arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
- recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
- an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work
- A nominal unit of value assigned outside of a currency system.
- The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
- A source of value, distinction or honour.
- (countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
- (uncountable) Recognition, respect and admiration.
- (television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
- (accounting) An addition to certain accounts; the side of an account on which payments received are entered.
- (uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
- Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
- (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
- (science fiction) A unit of currency used in a fictional universe or timeframe.
- (countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
- (uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
- (uncountable, law, business, finance) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
verb
- have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of
- give someone credit for something
- enter as credit
- ascribe an achievement to
- (transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
- (transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
- (transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
- (transitive, accounting) To add to an account.
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- an official recognition of merit
- (Internet, plural only) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
- A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
verb
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
- (countable) A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.
- (countable) A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
- (uncountable) The act of setting a price.
- (uncountable) The act of quoting someone or something.
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- the act of referring or consulting
- an indicator that orients you generally
- a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.
- The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
- (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- (computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- (often attributive) A reference work.
- Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
- (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
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noun
- a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle
- a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements
- directions for making something
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
- a liquid food for infants
- a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
- something regarded as a normative example
- (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- (chiefly linguistics) A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpreted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention; a formulation.
- (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
- (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
- (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
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noun
- A summary or synopsis.
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a summary of your academic and work history
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).
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noun
- A written discourse.
- A conversation or dialogue.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
- formal conversation
verb
noun
- (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
- (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- (countable) Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
- A surface shine or luster.
- (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
- (lexicography) A definition or explanation of a word sense.
- (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the property of being smooth and shiny
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
- (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
- (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
- (intransitive) To become shiny.
- (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
- provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
- provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
noun
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- importance or value
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- the quality of taking advantage
- grounds
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- a short account of the news
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- (banking) A bank account.
- (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
verb
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- (intransitive) To consider that.
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
noun
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- thought that makes something comprehensible
- the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible
- The act or process of explaining.
- A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
- Something that explains or makes understandable.
noun
- a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
- A declaration or remark.
- (music) the presentation of a musical theme
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a document showing credits and debits
- a nonverbal message
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- A presentation of opinion or position.
- (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
- (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
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- A commentary or annotation of a text.
- Something that follows a crisis; a secondary crisis, especially of a disease.
- A critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
- (historical) A Roman census in Egypt related to the determination of liability for poll tax.
- (rhetoric) A quotation followed by a commentary.
noun
- A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation
- A product of defining.
- Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction.
- (programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
- (mathematics) A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation.
- (crosswording) The part of a cryptic clue which defines but does not indicate the solution.
- Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail.
- (usually with the definite article the) A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition.
- (bodybuilding) The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body.
- The act of defining; determination of the limits.
- Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits.
- The action or process of defining.
- (semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition.
- The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
- clarity of outline
- a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol
verb
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
- a brief literary description
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- (informal) An amusing person.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
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- (idiomatic) in the end, however; used in referring to something that was believed to be the case, but is not; or to an outcome that is not what was expected or predicted.
- Introduces information that supports the preceding statement.
- (idiomatic) anyway, in any case; indicates a statement is true regardless of other considerations; used to reinforce or explain a point.
noun
- The main theme of a speech, a written work, or a conference.
- the principal theme in a speech or literary work
- (music) The note on which a musical key is based; the tonic.
- A speech that sets the main theme of a conference or other gathering; a keynote speech or keynote address.
- (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
- a fundamental or central idea
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- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
verb
noun
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
adj
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
noun
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
- (authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
- A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
verb
- To consist of certain text.
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- simple past and past participle of read
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- make sense of a language
- be a student of a certain subject
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- interpret something that is written or printed
- to hear and understand
noun
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- something that is read
verb
- summarize briefly
- repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- (transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
- (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.
- (transitive, biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
noun
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- an event that results in a transformation
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- (music) A change of key.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
verb
- cause to convert or undergo a transition
- make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
noun
- Something that calls attention to or emphasizes a particular conclusion within a topic of discussion.
- (music) The lowest intensity point of a diminuendo that is followed by an increase in volume and intensity.
- The number of scored points below a specified criterion.
- A downward facing point on the underside.
adj
verb
adj
- presenting a summary or general view of a whole
- presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament
- Of or relating to a synopsis.
- (meteorology, especially of data) Obtained simultaneously over a wide area, for presenting a comprehensive and nearly instantaneous picture of the state of the atmosphere.
- (Christianity) Pertaining to the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
noun
- a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- a document containing the terms of surrender
- The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
- The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.
- An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.
- A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
noun
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- the line that appears to bound an object
verb
- (transitive) To summarize.
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- trace the shape of
noun
adj
- briefly giving the gist of something
- performed speedily and without formality
- (law) Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.
- Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
- Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.
noun
- a brief statement
- an exchange of views on some topic
- a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- a promise
- information about recent and important events
- a verbal command for action
- a unit of language that native speakers can identify
- a string of bits stored in computer memory
- An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
- A brief discussion or conversation.
- (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
- (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
- The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
- The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
- (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
- (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
- (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
- (uncountable) News; tidings.
- A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
- (computing) With regards to Intel or Intel-compatible hardware and/or in the context of Windows programming, a group of exactly 16 bits regardless of the actual processor capabilities; a fossilized unit referring to the small word size of historical CPUs.
- (meiosis) A minor reprimand.
- (in the plural) See words.
- (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
- (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
- The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
- (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
- A promise; an oath or guarantee.
- A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
- (semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
verb
intj
noun
verb
noun
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- A subsequent brief recitement or enumeration of the major points in a narrative, article, or book.
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
- emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species
- (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement)
- (music) The third major section of a musical movement written in sonata form, representing thematic material that originally appeared in the exposition section.
- (biology) The reenactment of the embryonic development in evolution of the species.
- (theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.
noun
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
- a new appraisal or evaluation
- practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
- a formal or official examination
- (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
- a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
verb
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- hold a review (of troops)
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- (transitive, Philippines, sometimes Canada, US) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
noun
- (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
verb
noun
- a statement that represents something in words
- sort or variety
- the act of describing something
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
- (linguistics) A descriptive linguistic survey.
- (taxonomy) A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- (linguistics) The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
noun
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A quantity of money.
- (rare or literary) The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- a quantity of money
- the whole amount
- the final aggregate
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
verb
det
pron
noun
- the final statement in a verbal argument
- an authoritative statement
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- (idiomatic) A concluding remark; final advice, instructions, or observation.
- (often sarcastic, often pluralized) The final statement uttered by a person before death.
- (idiomatic, often preceded by the and followed by in) The finest, highest, or ultimate representative of some class of objects.
- (idiomatic) A final decision or remark, or the right to make one.
noun
- (figurative) A decision point.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
verb
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a statement acknowledging something or someone
- the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged
- A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
- A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
- The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
- (telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
- (law) The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
- An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
- (law) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
- The act of acknowledging
- A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.)
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding
- an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement
- The paper containing such summons or notice.
- (lexicography) A quotation with attached bibliographical details demonstrating the use of a particular lexical item in a dictionary, especially a dictionary on historical principles.
- An official summons or notice given to a person to appear.
- A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
- The act of citing a passage from a text, or from another person, using the exact words of the original text or speech and giving credit to the original by referencing.
- Enumeration; mention.
- An entry in a list of sources from which information was taken, typically following a prescribed bibliographical style; a reference.
- A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
- The passage or words quoted; a quotation.
noun
verb
- repeat a passage from
- refer to
- commend
- refer to for illustration or proof
- make reference to
- call in an official matter, such as to attend court
- advance evidence for
- To mention by way of explanation.
- (transitive, law) To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
- (transitive) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
- (transitive) To mention; to make mention of.
- To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- used in the phrase ‘to your credit’ in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise
- an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
- an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments
- approval
- money available for a client to borrow
- arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services
- recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours
- an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work
- A nominal unit of value assigned outside of a currency system.
- The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
- A source of value, distinction or honour.
- (countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
- (uncountable) Recognition, respect and admiration.
- (television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
- (accounting) An addition to certain accounts; the side of an account on which payments received are entered.
- (uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
- Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
- (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
- (science fiction) A unit of currency used in a fictional universe or timeframe.
- (countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
- (uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
- (uncountable, law, business, finance) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
verb
- have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of
- give someone credit for something
- enter as credit
- ascribe an achievement to
- (transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
- (transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
- (transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
- (transitive, accounting) To add to an account.
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- an official recognition of merit
- (Internet, plural only) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
- A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
verb
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.
- a passage or expression that is quoted or cited
- a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity
- (countable) A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.
- (countable) A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
- (uncountable) The act of setting a price.
- (uncountable) The act of quoting someone or something.
noun
- a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- a remark that calls attention to something or someone
- the act of referring or consulting
- an indicator that orients you generally
- a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored
- a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability
- (UK, Ireland) A person who provides this information; a referee.
- The act of referring: a submitting for information or decision.
- A measurement one can compare (some other measurement) to.
- (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object.
- (computing) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing the data itself.
- (often attributive) A reference work.
- Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
- (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
- (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in markup languages, such as ™ for the ™ symbol.
- (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
verb
noun
- a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle
- a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements
- directions for making something
- (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems
- a liquid food for infants
- a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement
- something regarded as a normative example
- (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.
- (chiefly linguistics) A fixed phrase or set of words intended to be interpreted non-literally, typically used attitudinally or as part of convention; a formulation.
- (especially religion) A formal statement of doctrine.
- A formulation; a prescription; a mixture or solution made in a prescribed manner; the identity and quantities of ingredients of such a mixture.
- A plan or method for dealing with a problem or for achieving a result.
- (countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula, drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.
- (logic) A syntactic expression of a proposition, built up from quantifiers, logical connectives, variables, relation and operation symbols, and, depending on the type of logic, possibly other operators such as modal, temporal, deontic or epistemic ones.
- (mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
noun
- A written discourse.
- A conversation or dialogue.
- (classical studies) A collection of scripted dialogues written as a textbook, or a set of exercises, to help students to practice and improve their Latin or Ancient Greek. See: Colloquy
- (law) A discussion during a trial in which a judge ensures that the defendant understands what is taking place in the trial and what his or her rights are.
- (Christianity) A church court held by certain Reformed denominations.
- a conversation especially a formal one
- formal conversation
verb
noun
- (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
- (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- (countable) Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
- A surface shine or luster.
- (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
- (lexicography) A definition or explanation of a word sense.
- (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the property of being smooth and shiny
- an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text
- an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
verb
- (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
- (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
- (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
- (intransitive) To become shiny.
- (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
- provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing
- provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases
noun
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- importance or value
- a record or narrative description of past events
- a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services
- the quality of taking advantage
- grounds
- a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance
- a short account of the news
- the act of informing by verbal report
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
- An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
- A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
- (banking) A bank account.
- (uncountable) Profit; advantage.
- Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
- A record of events; a relation or narrative.
- Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
- (accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
- A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
verb
- keep an account of
- to give an account or representation of in words
- be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something
- furnish a justifying analysis or explanation
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
- (intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
- (transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
- (intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).
- (intransitive) To consider that.
- Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.
- (intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
noun
- a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.
- thought that makes something comprehensible
- the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible
- The act or process of explaining.
- A resolution of disputed points pursuant to discussion; a mutual clarification of disputed points; reconciliation.
- Something that explains or makes understandable.
noun
- a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
- A declaration or remark.
- (music) the presentation of a musical theme
- a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- a document showing credits and debits
- a nonverbal message
- the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
- A presentation of opinion or position.
- (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
- (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
adj
verb
noun
- A commentary or annotation of a text.
- Something that follows a crisis; a secondary crisis, especially of a disease.
- A critical or analytical study, evaluation, or summing up, especially of a medical case history.
- (historical) A Roman census in Egypt related to the determination of liability for poll tax.
- (rhetoric) A quotation followed by a commentary.
noun
- A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation
- A product of defining.
- Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction.
- (programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
- (mathematics) A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation.
- (crosswording) The part of a cryptic clue which defines but does not indicate the solution.
- Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail.
- (usually with the definite article the) A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition.
- (bodybuilding) The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body.
- The act of defining; determination of the limits.
- Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits.
- The action or process of defining.
- (semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition.
- The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
- clarity of outline
- a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol
noun
- The main theme of a speech, a written work, or a conference.
- the principal theme in a speech or literary work
- (music) The note on which a musical key is based; the tonic.
- A speech that sets the main theme of a conference or other gathering; a keynote speech or keynote address.
- (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
- a fundamental or central idea
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verb
noun
adj
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
verb
noun
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
- (art) An abstract work of art.
- (real estate) A summary title of the key points detailing a tract of land, for ownership; abstract of title.
- (medicine) A powdered solid extract of a medicinal substance mixed with lactose.
- Something that concentrates in itself the qualities of a larger item, or multiple items.
- An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
- Concentrated essence of a product.
- The theoretical way of looking at things; something that exists only in idealized form.
adj
- dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention
- existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment
- not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- Pertaining comprehensively to, or representing, a class or group of objects, as opposed to any specific object; considered apart from any application to a particular object: general, generic, nonspecific; representational.
- (object-oriented programming, of a class) Being a partial basis for subclasses rather than a complete template for objects.
- (dance) Lacking a story.
- (art, often capitalized) Free from representational qualities, in particular the non-representational styles of the 20ᵗʰ century.
- (music) Absolute.
- Insufficiently factual.
- Apart from practice or reality; vague; theoretical; impersonal; not applied.
- (grammar) As a noun, denoting a concept or intangible as opposed to an object, place, or person.
- Separately expressing a property or attribute of an object that is considered to be inherent to that object: attributive, ascriptive.
- Not concrete: conceptual, ideal.
- Difficult to understand; abstruse; hard to conceptualize.
verb
- consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically
- consider apart from a particular case or instance
- give an abstract (of)
- make off with belongings of others
- (transitive) To separate; to disengage.
- (transitive) To draw off (interest or attention).
- (intransitive, fine arts) To create abstractions.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To steal; to take away; to remove without permission.
- (transitive) To summarize; to abridge; to epitomize.
- (intransitive, rare) To perform the process of abstraction.
- (transitive) To remove; to take away; withdraw.
- (intransitive, computing) To produce an abstraction, usually by refactoring existing code. Generally used with "out".
- (transitive) To consider abstractly; to contemplate separately or by itself; to consider theoretically; to look at as a general quality.
- To conceptualize an ideal subgroup by means of the generalization of an attribute, as follows: by apprehending an attribute inherent to one individual, then separating that attribute and contemplating it by itself, then conceiving of that attribute as a general quality, then despecifying that conceived quality with respect to several or many individuals, and by then ideating a group composed of those individuals perceived to possess said quality.
- (intransitive, reflexive, literally, figuratively) To withdraw oneself; to retire.
noun
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
- (authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
- A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
noun
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- an event that results in a transformation
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- (music) A change of key.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
verb
- cause to convert or undergo a transition
- make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
verb
noun
- A summary or synopsis.
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a summary of your academic and work history
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).
noun
- Something that calls attention to or emphasizes a particular conclusion within a topic of discussion.
- (music) The lowest intensity point of a diminuendo that is followed by an increase in volume and intensity.
- The number of scored points below a specified criterion.
- A downward facing point on the underside.
adj
verb
noun
- a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- a document containing the terms of surrender
- The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
- The act of capitulating or surrendering to an enemy upon stipulated terms; the act of ceasing to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand.
- An enumeration of the main parts of a subject.
- A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
verb
noun
- A summary or synopsis.
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a summary of your academic and work history
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).
noun
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- the line that appears to bound an object
verb
- (transitive) To summarize.
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- trace the shape of
verb
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
- a brief literary description
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- (informal) An amusing person.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
adj
verb
- To consist of certain text.
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- simple past and past participle of read
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- make sense of a language
- be a student of a certain subject
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- interpret something that is written or printed
- to hear and understand
noun
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- something that is read
noun
verb
verb
- summarize briefly
- repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life
- repeat an earlier theme of a composition
- (transitive) To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
- (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.
- (transitive, biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
noun
- A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the substance.
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
- A quantity of money.
- (rare or literary) The utmost degree; the greatest or most perfect realization (of some concept).
- A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.
- (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- a quantity of money
- the whole amount
- the final aggregate
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
verb
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adv
prep_phrase
- (idiomatic) in the end, however; used in referring to something that was believed to be the case, but is not; or to an outcome that is not what was expected or predicted.
- Introduces information that supports the preceding statement.
- (idiomatic) anyway, in any case; indicates a statement is true regardless of other considerations; used to reinforce or explain a point.
adj
- presenting a summary or general view of a whole
- presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament
- Of or relating to a synopsis.
- (meteorology, especially of data) Obtained simultaneously over a wide area, for presenting a comprehensive and nearly instantaneous picture of the state of the atmosphere.
- (Christianity) Pertaining to the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.
noun
adj
- briefly giving the gist of something
- performed speedily and without formality
- (law) Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.
- Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.
- Concise, brief, or presented in a condensed form; presenting information in such a form.