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noun
- (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
- (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
- (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
- A position of responsibility.
- (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- (Christianity) Last rites.
- (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- (UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:
- (Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- (UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
- (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
- place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- an administrative unit of government
- professional or clerical workers in an office
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a job in an organization
- a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
verb
verb
- attend religious services
- show devotion to (a deity)
- love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
- To touch, fondle, or kiss in an intensely sensual way.
- (intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.
- (transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
- (transitive) To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
noun
- a feeling of profound love and admiration
- the activity of worshipping
- (music, slang) The fact of an artist's music heavily drawing influence from some other artist's work in a way that appears too obvious or unapologetic; a piece of music that does that.
- (Christianity, especially Catholicism) The adoration (or latria) owed to God alone, as greater than the hyperveneration / hyper-veneration (or hyperdulia) that is given to Saint Mary only and the veneration (or dulia) accorded to all other Roman Catholic saints.
- The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
- (by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.
- The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
- (also by extension) Ardent love.
- (chiefly British) Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates.
- An object of worship.
noun
- a local church community
- the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
- (US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish; a similar subdivision in Ireland.
verb
noun
- (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- (historical) In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
- (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
- A ground transportation depot.
- (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- (computing) A device communicating over a network; a host.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- (biology) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- A military base.
- (US) A gas station, service station.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- Standing; rank; position.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A place where some object is provided.
- (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
- the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station
- a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
- proper or designated social situation
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
verb
noun
- (Christianity, by extension) The main kind of church service, in some denominations.
- (medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
- (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
- A musical setting of parts of the mass.
- A large quantity; a sum.
- (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
- Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
- A quantity of matter cohering so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size.
- (pharmacology) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills.
- A large body of individuals, especially persons.
- The principal part; the main body.
- (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
- (in the plural) The lower classes of persons.
- (physics) A measure of the inertia of a mass of matter, one of four fundamental properties of matter. SI unit of mass: kilogram.
- a body of matter without definite shape
- the common people generally
- an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
- the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adj
verb
noun
- a place for public (especially Christian) worship
- one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
- the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church
- a service conducted in a house of worship
- Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
- (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
- (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
- (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
- (countable, Christianity) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
- (informal) Any religious group or place of worship; a temple.
- (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
verb
intj
noun
verb
noun
- (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- 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.
- 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
- participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (e.g. Catholic and Orthodox)
- In Roman Catholicism, the theological principle which governs whether it is permissible for a Roman Catholic to partake of the Eucharist in a non-Catholic service, and vice versa
- communion (association) between people or groups
- The participation, together, in Holy Communion of people from different denominations
noun
- (Christianity) A religious service held by Moravians, Methodists and some other group, in imitation of such gatherings, characterised by partaking in a simple meal.
- (figurative, now chiefly Canada, US) Any banquet or gathering to promote goodwill among the participants.
- (Christianity, historical) A symbolic communal meal held by early Christians in commemoration of the eucharist.
- a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship
- a social gathering intended to create goodwill among the participants
noun
- (Quakerism) A religious service held by a monthly meeting.
- (Quakerism) The basic unit of administration in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), which typically meets for services weekly, and holds a business meeting once a month.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monthly, meeting.
noun
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- the act of congregating
- an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
- A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
- A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
- (UK, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
- A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
- Any large gathering of people.
- A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
- The act of congregating or collecting together.
noun
adj
- steadfast in affection or allegiance
- marked by fidelity to an original
- not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend
- (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- (ring theory) Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
- Having faith.
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- Consistent with reality.
noun
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
verb
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
noun
- A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
- 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 private chapel or prayer room.
- (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)
prefix
name
noun
noun
- (Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
- The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
- Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
- A ministration
- The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
- (Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
- religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)
- building where the business of a government ministry is transacted
- the work of a minister of religion
- a government department under the direction of a minister of state
noun
- (by extension) A Christian religious service in which this sacrament is enacted.
- (Christianity) A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper of Christ, with the physical forms of bread and usually wine which are believed by certain denominations to become Christ himself or to host his spiritual presence.
- The substances received during this sacrament, namely the bread and wine, seen as Christ’s body and blood.
- a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
noun
adj
adv
noun
- (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
- (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
- (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
- A position of responsibility.
- (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- (Christianity) Last rites.
- (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- (UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:
- (Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- (UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
- (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
- place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- an administrative unit of government
- professional or clerical workers in an office
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a job in an organization
- a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
verb
noun
- a local church community
- the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
- (US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish; a similar subdivision in Ireland.
verb
noun
- (Christianity) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
- (historical) In British India, the place where the English officials of a district, or the officers of a garrison (not in a fortress) reside.
- (Christianity) The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
- A place used for broadcasting radio or television; the broadcasting entity itself.
- A ground transportation depot.
- (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
- (computing) A device communicating over a network; a host.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
- Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
- A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
- (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
- (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
- (biology) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
- (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
- (Christianity) Any of the Stations of the Cross.
- A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
- (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
- A military base.
- (US) A gas station, service station.
- A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
- Standing; rank; position.
- An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
- A place where some object is provided.
- (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty
- the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station
- a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose
- proper or designated social situation
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
verb
noun
- (Christianity, by extension) The main kind of church service, in some denominations.
- (medicine) A palpable or visible abnormal globular structure; a tumor.
- (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
- A musical setting of parts of the mass.
- A large quantity; a sum.
- (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
- (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially in the form of muscle hypertrophy.
- Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
- A quantity of matter cohering so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size.
- (pharmacology) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills.
- A large body of individuals, especially persons.
- The principal part; the main body.
- (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
- (in the plural) The lower classes of persons.
- (physics) A measure of the inertia of a mass of matter, one of four fundamental properties of matter. SI unit of mass: kilogram.
- a body of matter without definite shape
- the common people generally
- an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
- the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
adj
verb
noun
- a place for public (especially Christian) worship
- one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
- the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church
- a service conducted in a house of worship
- Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
- (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
- (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
- (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
- (countable, Christianity) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
- (informal) Any religious group or place of worship; a temple.
- (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
verb
intj
noun
verb
noun
- (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- 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.
- 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
- participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (e.g. Catholic and Orthodox)
- In Roman Catholicism, the theological principle which governs whether it is permissible for a Roman Catholic to partake of the Eucharist in a non-Catholic service, and vice versa
- communion (association) between people or groups
- The participation, together, in Holy Communion of people from different denominations
noun
- (Christianity) A religious service held by Moravians, Methodists and some other group, in imitation of such gatherings, characterised by partaking in a simple meal.
- (figurative, now chiefly Canada, US) Any banquet or gathering to promote goodwill among the participants.
- (Christianity, historical) A symbolic communal meal held by early Christians in commemoration of the eucharist.
- a religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship
- a social gathering intended to create goodwill among the participants
noun
- (Quakerism) A religious service held by a monthly meeting.
- (Quakerism) The basic unit of administration in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), which typically meets for services weekly, and holds a business meeting once a month.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monthly, meeting.
noun
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- the act of congregating
- an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
- A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
- A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
- (UK, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
- A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
- Any large gathering of people.
- A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
- The act of congregating or collecting together.
noun
adj
- steadfast in affection or allegiance
- marked by fidelity to an original
- not having sexual relations with anyone except your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend
- (mathematics) Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
- Reliable; worthy of trust.
- Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
- (ring theory) Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
- Having faith.
- Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
- Consistent with reality.
noun
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
verb
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
noun
- A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
- 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 private chapel or prayer room.
- (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
- (Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.
- The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.
- Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity
- A ministration
- The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)
- (Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.
- religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)
- building where the business of a government ministry is transacted
- the work of a minister of religion
- a government department under the direction of a minister of state
noun
- (by extension) A Christian religious service in which this sacrament is enacted.
- (Christianity) A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper of Christ, with the physical forms of bread and usually wine which are believed by certain denominations to become Christ himself or to host his spiritual presence.
- The substances received during this sacrament, namely the bread and wine, seen as Christ’s body and blood.
- a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
noun
adj
adv
verb
- attend religious services
- show devotion to (a deity)
- love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol
- To touch, fondle, or kiss in an intensely sensual way.
- (intransitive) To participate in religious ceremonies.
- (transitive) To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
- (transitive) To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.
noun
- a feeling of profound love and admiration
- the activity of worshipping
- (music, slang) The fact of an artist's music heavily drawing influence from some other artist's work in a way that appears too obvious or unapologetic; a piece of music that does that.
- (Christianity, especially Catholicism) The adoration (or latria) owed to God alone, as greater than the hyperveneration / hyper-veneration (or hyperdulia) that is given to Saint Mary only and the veneration (or dulia) accorded to all other Roman Catholic saints.
- The religious ceremonies that express this devotion.
- (by extension) Voluntary, utter submission; voluntary, utter deference.
- The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.
- (also by extension) Ardent love.
- (chiefly British) Used as a title or term of address for various officials, including magistrates.
- An object of worship.
noun
- a local church community
- the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
- (US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish; a similar subdivision in Ireland.
verb
noun
- a place for public (especially Christian) worship
- one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
- the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church
- a service conducted in a house of worship
- Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
- (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
- (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
- (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
- (countable, Christianity) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
- (informal) Any religious group or place of worship; a temple.
- (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.