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adj
- Officious; meddling.
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a meddler who tends to butt in
- (derogatory) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.
- (telecommunications) A robust portable one-piece telephone instrument with clips, used by technicians and lines staff for testing telephone circuits or making a temporary connection to a telephone line.
noun
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
- (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
- (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
noun
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- (linguistics) A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- (American football) blocking a player's path with your body
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
verb
verb
- intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- (US, Canada, in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
- (intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
- (intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
noun
- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
- (rail transport) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
- A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
- An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
verb
adj
noun
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
- (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
- (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
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verb
noun
noun
- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
- means of maintenance of a family or group
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- (law) A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- (law) Child support.
- (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
- (software engineering, attributive) Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
- (Philippines, medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
noun
- An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
- (slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
- (computing) Synonym of backscatter.
- (rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
- (firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
- misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
verb
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
noun
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
verb
- interfere in someone else's activity
- make a break in
- terminate or end
- destroy the peace or tranquility of
- (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
noun
noun
- That which is gained by such unlawful intrusion.
- (law) An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
- An intrusion upon another's possessions or rights; infringement.
- An entry into a place or area that was previously uncommon; an advance beyond former borders; intrusion; incursion.
- any entry into an area not previously occupied
- influencing strongly
- entry to another's property without right or permission
noun
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
- the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
- The usage of psychological influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome.
- The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.
- The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
noun
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- the act of using
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
- what something is used for
- a particular service
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- (Christianity) A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- (uncountable) The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
- The act of using.
- (uncountable, followed by of) Usefulness, benefit.
- A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
verb
- use up (resources or materials)
- take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- habitually do something or be in a certain state or place (use only in the past tense)
- avail oneself to
- seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- (transitive, with gender pronouns as object) To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
- (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
- (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- (transitive) To exploit.
- (transitive) To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
- (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing.
- (intransitive, archaic or literary except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
noun
- One who intrudes and takes over.
- (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
- One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
- One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
- (ecology) A species that establishes itself in a new area.
- someone who helps to found a colony
verb
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
noun
verb
noun
- The act of intervening or mediating between two parties.
- A prayer to God on behalf of another person; especially, such a prayer offered by a heavenly saint on behalf of a mere mortal who has prayed to the saint for such help.
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- a prayer to God on behalf of another person
verb
- influence or control shrewdly or deviously
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- hold something in one's hands and move it
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
- (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
- (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
- (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
verb
- influence or control shrewdly or deviously
- (intransitive, idiomatic, often with “the” or a possessive adjective (such as “his”) before “strings”, pull one's strings) To control a person, organization, or situation by operating behind the scenes, as a puppeteer controls a marionette.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To manipulate a situation, especially by asking favours of others; to use one's influence with others to attain a desired goal.
verb
- influence by corruption
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- reach or gain access to
- To persuade by intimidation; to tamper with; to corrupt.
- To manage to gain access to.
- To begin working on or dealing with.
- (slang, US) To contact someone.
- To mean, signify, imply.
- (slang, UK) To tease (someone).
- To understand or ascertain by investigation.
- To attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother.
noun
- a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage
- something acquired by purchase
- the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
- the acquisition of something for payment
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and (in nautical terminology) the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- (climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
verb
- obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
noun
- one having power to influence another
- the effect of one thing (or person) on another
- a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do
- causing something without any direct or apparent effort
- a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc
- An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
- A person or thing exerting such power or action.
- The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
- (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
- (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
verb
- shape or influence; give direction to
- induce into action by using one's charm
- have and exert influence or effect
- (transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
- (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
noun
- a harmful or corrupting agency
- a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
- (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
- A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).
- (uncountable) A quantity of such infectious agents, considered en masse.
- A species thereof.
- (figurative) Any malicious or dangerous entity that spreads from one place or person to another.
- (occasionally proscribed) An individual particle thereof: synonym of virion.
- (computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.
- (informal, metonymic) A disease caused by such an infectious agent; a viral illness.
- (computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.
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noun
verb
noun
- a meddler who tends to butt in
- (derogatory) One who is prone to butt in, interrupt, or get involved where they are not welcome; a busybody.
- (telecommunications) A robust portable one-piece telephone instrument with clips, used by technicians and lines staff for testing telephone circuits or making a temporary connection to a telephone line.
noun
- The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
- (medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
- (US, law) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
- An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
- (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
- care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
noun
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- (linguistics) A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- (American football) blocking a player's path with your body
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
verb
noun
- the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
- means of maintenance of a family or group
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
- court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated
- Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
- Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service.
- (law) A tort and (in some jurisdictions) an offence committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
- (law) Child support.
- (law, UK) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
- (biology) The natural process which keeps an organism alive.
- (software engineering, attributive) Software updates that fix bugs and improve stability rather than adding new features.
- (Philippines, medicine, colloquial) Ellipsis of maintenance medicine.
noun
- An unintended adverse result, especially of covert political action.
- (slang) The act of shotgunning (inhaling from a pipe etc. and exhaling into another smoker's mouth).
- (computing) Synonym of backscatter.
- (rail transport) On a steam locomotive, the reversal of exhaust gases when the regulator is closed without using the blower.
- (firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
- misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service
- the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired
- Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge.
noun
- That which is gained by such unlawful intrusion.
- (law) An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
- An intrusion upon another's possessions or rights; infringement.
- An entry into a place or area that was previously uncommon; an advance beyond former borders; intrusion; incursion.
- any entry into an area not previously occupied
- influencing strongly
- entry to another's property without right or permission
noun
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
- the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means
- The usage of psychological influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome.
- The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.
- The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
noun
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- the act of using
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
- what something is used for
- a particular service
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- (Christianity) A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- (uncountable) The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
- The act of using.
- (uncountable, followed by of) Usefulness, benefit.
- A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
verb
- use up (resources or materials)
- take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- habitually do something or be in a certain state or place (use only in the past tense)
- avail oneself to
- seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- (transitive, with gender pronouns as object) To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
- (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
- (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- (transitive) To exploit.
- (transitive) To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
- (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing.
- (intransitive, archaic or literary except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
noun
- One who intrudes and takes over.
- (derogatory, neologism) A white person.
- One who establishes a colony; one who joins a colony or is born and raised there.
- One who makes a group or place into a colony; one who establishes a colonial relationship.
- (ecology) A species that establishes itself in a new area.
- someone who helps to found a colony
noun
verb
noun
- The act of intervening or mediating between two parties.
- A prayer to God on behalf of another person; especially, such a prayer offered by a heavenly saint on behalf of a mere mortal who has prayed to the saint for such help.
- the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)
- a prayer to God on behalf of another person
noun
- a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage
- something acquired by purchase
- the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
- the acquisition of something for payment
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and (in nautical terminology) the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- (climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
verb
- obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
noun
- one having power to influence another
- the effect of one thing (or person) on another
- a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do
- causing something without any direct or apparent effort
- a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc
- An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
- A person or thing exerting such power or action.
- The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.
- (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
- (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
verb
- shape or influence; give direction to
- induce into action by using one's charm
- have and exert influence or effect
- (transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.
- (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
noun
- a harmful or corrupting agency
- a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer
- (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein
- A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).
- (uncountable) A quantity of such infectious agents, considered en masse.
- A species thereof.
- (figurative) Any malicious or dangerous entity that spreads from one place or person to another.
- (occasionally proscribed) An individual particle thereof: synonym of virion.
- (computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.
- (informal, metonymic) A disease caused by such an infectious agent; a viral illness.
- (computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.
verb
verb
- intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
- play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
- (US, Canada, in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
- (intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
- (intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
noun
- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
- (rail transport) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
- A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
- An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
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verb
noun
- The act of interfering with something, or something that interferes.
- (US, law) In United States patent law, an inter partes proceeding to determine the priority issues of multiple patent applications; a priority contest.
- (chess) The interruption of the line between an attacked piece and its defender by sacrificially interposing a piece.
- (physics) An effect caused by the superposition of two systems of waves.
- A distortion on a broadcast signal due to atmospheric or other effects.
- (sports) The illegal obstruction of an opponent in some ball games.
- (linguistics) A negative or inappropriate language transfer.
- electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication
- (American football) blocking a player's path with your body
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding
- a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
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verb
adj
noun
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
- (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
- (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
- (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
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noun
verb
- (intransitive) To interfere.
- To make soiled by ejaculating.
- (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.
- (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- To make soiled by defecating.
- (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- (transitive) To supply with a mess.
- make a mess of or create disorder in
- eat in a mess hall
noun
- (collective) A group of iguanas.
- (cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
- (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
- A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
- a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
- (figuratively) a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
- A building or room in which mess is eaten.
- (India) a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.
- (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- (colloquial) a large quantity or number
- (euphemistic) excrement.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- soft semiliquid food
- a state of confusion and disorderliness
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
verb
- interfere in someone else's activity
- make a break in
- terminate or end
- destroy the peace or tranquility of
- (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
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verb
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- influence or control shrewdly or deviously
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed
- manipulate in a fraudulent manner
- hold something in one's hands and move it
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
- (transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
- (transitive) To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
- (transitive) To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
- (transitive) To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
verb
- influence or control shrewdly or deviously
- (intransitive, idiomatic, often with “the” or a possessive adjective (such as “his”) before “strings”, pull one's strings) To control a person, organization, or situation by operating behind the scenes, as a puppeteer controls a marionette.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To manipulate a situation, especially by asking favours of others; to use one's influence with others to attain a desired goal.
verb
- influence by corruption
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- reach or gain access to
- To persuade by intimidation; to tamper with; to corrupt.
- To manage to gain access to.
- To begin working on or dealing with.
- (slang, US) To contact someone.
- To mean, signify, imply.
- (slang, UK) To tease (someone).
- To understand or ascertain by investigation.
- To attack verbally or physically; to annoy, bother.
adj
- Officious; meddling.
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- crowded with or characterized by much activity