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noun
- Something small and unimportant.
- A tenuous connection.
- A distant kinship.
- (by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
- A small portion
- The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
- fabric forming the tail of a shirt
- a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article
noun
- Anything inconsequential or superficial.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, euphemistic) A fart.
- (New England) Marshmallow creme.
- (informal, slang) A cloth diaper.
- Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
- (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
- (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
- (UK, roleplaying games) A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
- (LGBTQ) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
- something of little value or significance
- any light downy material
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
verb
- (transitive) To make something fluffy.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
- (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
- (transitive, slang, by extension) To bring to a state of excitement.
- (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
- (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
- (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
- (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To break wind, to fart.
- erect or fluff up
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
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- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- (rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- (cricket) A faint edge.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
- (hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
- branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
verb
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- (transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- (transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- (transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- (snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- (transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
- (ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- (intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- (transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
- (snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- turn the oar, while rowing
- grow feathers
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- cover or fit with feathers
- join tongue and groove, in carpentry
noun
- something of small importance
- (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
- a detail that is considered insignificant
- A particular kind of pewter.
- (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- (figurative) A very small amount (of something).
- (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
verb
- consider not very seriously
- act frivolously
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- (transitive) To squander or waste.
- (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
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adj
- Of two or more animals or plants with the same name: the smaller or smallest.
- Chiefly used with abstract nouns: less than all others in extent or size; littlest, smallest.
- the superlative of ‘little’ that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by ‘the’; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
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- To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.
- To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.
- (by extension, US) To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
- (US) To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- speak with spotty or superficial knowledge
- work with in an amateurish manner
- to talk foolishly
noun
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- a wound made by cutting
- a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- a share of something
- a thin flat piece cut off of some object
- a spatula for spreading paint or ink
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
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- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
- make a clean cut through
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
- hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
- cut into slices
noun
- The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.
- (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
- (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
- A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
- (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.
- seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as ‘oats’)
- annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: ‘oats’)
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noun
- (figurative) Any small amount, a little bit.
- An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
- (cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
- A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
- Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
- A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.
- A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
- large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
- a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
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- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- (Canada, usually attributive) An age group division in hockey for nine- to eleven-year-olds.
- (philosophy) In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
- (historical) The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
- (programming, Microsoft Windows) An integer representing a particular string.
- (now generally regarded figuratively) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
- A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
- (mathematics) A non-zero member of a partially ordered set that has only zero below it (assuming that the poset has a least element, its "zero").
- (chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
- A very small amount; a whit.
- (programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
- (mathematics, set theory) An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.
- (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
noun
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
- A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
- A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are embedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.
noun
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound
- (chemistry) The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
- A tiny amount.
noun
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
- a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
- (grammar) A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- A little bit.
- (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
noun
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- a very small spot
- a slight but appreciable amount
- A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
- A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
- A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
verb
noun
- A small thick piece of anything.
- A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
- (nautical) A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing.
- A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
- (nautical) A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
- (nautical, slang) The penis.
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noun
- (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
- (colloquial, chiefly in phrases with a verb + "the goody out of") That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
- (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
- (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
- (informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”).
- An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
- something considered choice to eat
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noun
- (rare) Singular of trivia; anything of little importance.
- (education, historical) The lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
- (zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
- (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
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- Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- (informal, derogatory, usually of a woman or girl) Consenting readily to sex.
- Requiring little skill or effort.
- Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
- Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
- less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
- in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
- posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- affording comfort
- not strict
- not hurried or forced
- having little impact
- readily exploited or tricked
- affording pleasure
- obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
- marked by moderate steepness
- free from worry or anxiety
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- A small amount of something.
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
- (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- Ellipsis of bit part.
- A portion of something.
- A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- (historical) A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
- (historical) A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- Synonym of microbitcoin.
- (historical, US and Canada) A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a small fragment
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- an instance of some kind
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- an indefinitely short time
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noun
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
- A small, round spot.
- (computing) Clipping of dotfile
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- a very small circular shape
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- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
- mark with a dot
- distribute loosely
- scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
- make a dot or dots
noun
- The smallest amount; a whit or jot.
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
- (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- (golf) A low shot, usually played at short range around and onto a green, intended to travel a short distance through the air and roll the remainder of the way towards the hole.
- (tennis) A light shot with a downward slice, usually played from close to the net.
- A medallion.
- (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
- (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
- (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- (billiards) A very light shot that hits the cue ball so softly that it barely moves an object ball into a pocket without the cue ball going in as well.
- (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- (sports such as soccer) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- the act of chipping something
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
verb
- (UK, slang, intransitive) To leave.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To use a chisel.
- (transitive, dialectal) To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
- (transitive, sports such as soccer) To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
- (transitive, automotive) To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- (UK, transitive, often with "in") To contribute.
- (intransitive) To become chipped.
- (transitive, billiards) To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
- (transitive) To break small pieces from.
- (transitive, sports) To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
- (also to chip at) To make fun of.
- (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
- (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
- (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- play a chip shot
- form by chipping
- cut a nick into
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- break a small piece off from
noun
- A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
- (graffiti slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
- (euphemistic) Ellipsis of sex toy.
- Ellipsis of toy dog.
- (slang, MLE) A gun.
- A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
- Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
- any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets
- a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier)
- a device regarded as providing amusement
- an artifact designed to be played with
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
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- (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
- (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
- (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
noun
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- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
- (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- (astronomy) A secondary circle.
- (aviation) A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- Ellipsis of secondary colour.
- (astronomy) A satellite.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- (military) The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
- (education) A secondary school.
- (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
- coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
- the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
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- (manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
- (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
- (education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- Of less than primary importance.
- (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
- (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.
- (taxonomy, not comparable) Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
- (geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- (geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
- (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- inferior in rank or status
- not of major importance
- belonging to a lower class or rank
- depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
- being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
noun
- anything generally known to everyone
- That which is known by most people, and thus cannot reasonably be contested.
- (logic, game theory) A special kind of knowledge for a group of agents, such that when all the agents in a group G know p, they all know that they know p, they all know that they all know that they know p, and so on ad infinitum.
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- A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
- (countable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
- (countable) A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
- (uncountable, now dialectal) Anxiety, distress.
- (uncountable) The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- (uncountable) The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
- the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
- the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
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- (countable) Any physical object or material thing.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- Main section.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (countable) The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- (countable) A corpse.
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the central message of a communication
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- the external structure of a vehicle
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- the main mass of a thing
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
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- (informal) Anything; thing(s) of unspecified kind, or no matter what kind; sometimes used to indicate that the speaker does not care about options.
- (interrogative) What ever; emphasised form of 'what', used to ask which thing, event, circumstance, etc.
- (fused relative) Anything that; all that.
- Regardless of anything that.
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- Little or small in size.
- (informal) Inclined to cause frustration or annoyance to others out of spite over minor grievances; extremely vindictive.
- Having little or no importance.
- Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.
- (historical) Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.
- Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.
- inferior in rank or status
- contemptibly narrow in outlook
- (informal) small and of little importance
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- (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
- A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
- (colloquial, often as a term of endearment) A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.
- A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
- A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
- any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
- a slight but appreciable amount
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- Anything that is normal or standard.
- (Singapore) Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- A member of the armed forces or police force.
- A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
- A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
- (television) A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
- a soldier in the regular army
- a dependable follower (especially in party politics)
- a regular patron
- a garment size for persons of average height and weight
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- Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
- (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
- (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
- (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
- (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
- (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
- (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
- Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
- (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
- (crystallography) Isometric.
- (algebraic geometry, not comparable, of a scheme) Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
- (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
- (commutative algebra, not comparable, of a local ring) Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
- officially full-time
- in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
- regularly scheduled for fixed times
- symmetrically arranged
- conforming to a standard or pattern
- (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
- not constipated
- in accord with regular practice or procedure
- relating to a person who does something regularly
- not deviating from what is normal
- often used as intensifiers
- occurring at fixed intervals
- (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
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- Insignificantly small.
- (taxonomy) Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- Existing in name only.
- (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- (engineering) According to plan or design.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation
- existing in name only
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
- pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun
- relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
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- (UK, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
- (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
- (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
- a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb
noun
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
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- (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- limit in quality or quantity
- subsist on a meager allowance
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- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- (informal) A pinball machine.
- (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- A cataract of the eye.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- (informal, in the plural) A leg.
- (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.
- (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
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- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- (backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
- (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
- (bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
- (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- Alternative form of peen.
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- (chess) immobilize a piece
- pierce with a pin
- attach or fasten with pins
noun
- Something small and unimportant.
- A tenuous connection.
- A distant kinship.
- (by extension) The tail-end or periphery of something.
- A small portion
- The single or split (then rather plural) bottom part of a shirt, below the waist, especially in the back, which, when not tucked into trousers or other vestment, hangs over the wearer's tail-end, like a tail.
- fabric forming the tail of a shirt
- a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article
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- Anything inconsequential or superficial.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, euphemistic) A fart.
- (New England) Marshmallow creme.
- (informal, slang) A cloth diaper.
- Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers.
- (fandom slang) Fan fiction, or part of a fan fiction, which is sweet and feel-good in tone, usually involving romance.
- (informal) A lapse or mistake, especially a mistake in an actor's lines.
- (UK, roleplaying games) A form of roleplaying which is inconsequential and not related to the plot; often used in the context of (but not limited to) filling time.
- (LGBTQ) A passive partner in a lesbian relationship.
- something of little value or significance
- any light downy material
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
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- (transitive) To make something fluffy.
- (transitive, slang) To arouse (a male pornographic actor) before filming.
- (informal, transitive, intransitive, of an actor or announcer) To make a mistake in one's lines.
- (transitive, slang, by extension) To bring to a state of excitement.
- (intransitive) To move lightly like fluff.
- (intransitive) To become fluffy, puff up.
- (informal, transitive) To do incorrectly, for example mishit, miskick, miscue etc.
- (intransitive, Australia, euphemistic) To break wind, to fart.
- erect or fluff up
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
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- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- (rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways or rotationally but permit motion lengthwise.
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- (cricket) A faint edge.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
- (hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls
- branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds
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- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- (transitive) To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- (transitive) To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- (transitive) To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- (snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- (transitive) To tread, as a cockerel.
- (ambitransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- (intransitive) Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- (transitive) To move softly, like a feather.
- (snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- turn the oar, while rowing
- grow feathers
- turn the paddle; in canoeing
- cover or fit with feathers
- join tongue and groove, in carpentry
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- something of small importance
- (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
- a detail that is considered insignificant
- A particular kind of pewter.
- (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- (figurative) A very small amount (of something).
- (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
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- consider not very seriously
- act frivolously
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- (transitive) To squander or waste.
- (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
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- To speak (a language or words) with only a superficial knowledge of it.
- To approach or study (something, such as a subject) superficially; to dabble in.
- (by extension, US) To hit (someone or something) with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- To have a slight, superficial knowledge of something; to dabble.
- (US) To hit with a liquid; to splash, to spatter.
- speak with spotty or superficial knowledge
- work with in an amateurish manner
- to talk foolishly
noun
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- a wound made by cutting
- a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- a share of something
- a thin flat piece cut off of some object
- a spatula for spreading paint or ink
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
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- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
- make a clean cut through
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
- hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
- cut into slices
noun
- The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.
- (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa.
- (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena.
- A simple musical pipe made of oat-straw.
- (usually as plural) The seeds of the oat, a grain, harvested as a food crop and for animal feed.
- seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as ‘oats’)
- annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: ‘oats’)
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- (figurative) Any small amount, a little bit.
- An avoirdupois ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₆ of an avoirdupois pound, or 28.349523125 grams.
- (cryptozoology) Synonym of onza, a particularly aggressive cougar or jaguarundi in Mexican folklore.
- A British imperial fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₂₀ of an imperial pint, 1.733871 cubic inches or 28.4130625 millilitres.
- Synonym of snow leopard, Panthera uncia.
- A US fluid ounce, with a volume of ¹⁄₁₆ of a US pint, 1.804688 cubic inches or 29.5735295625 millilitres.
- A troy ounce, weighing ¹⁄₁₂ of a troy pound, or 480 grains, or 31.1034768 grams.
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound
- large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur
- a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams
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- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- (Canada, usually attributive) An age group division in hockey for nine- to eleven-year-olds.
- (philosophy) In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
- (historical) The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second.
- (programming, Microsoft Windows) An integer representing a particular string.
- (now generally regarded figuratively) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something.
- A mote of dust in a sunbeam.
- (mathematics) A non-zero member of a partially ordered set that has only zero below it (assuming that the poset has a least element, its "zero").
- (chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
- A very small amount; a whit.
- (programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value.
- (mathematics, set theory) An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement.
- (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter.
noun
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets
- A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
- A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are embedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.
noun
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound
- (chemistry) The smallest particle of a specific element or compound that retains the chemical properties of that element or compound; two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
- A tiny amount.
noun
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions
- a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs
- (grammar) A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- (linguistics) A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- (physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- A little bit.
- (Christianity) In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
noun
- (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything
- a very small spot
- a slight but appreciable amount
- A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
- The fat of the hippopotamus.
- A very small amount; a particle; a whit.
- A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.
- Fat; lard; fat meat.
- (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
- The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
verb
noun
- A small thick piece of anything.
- A plug of oakum for the vent of a gun.
- (nautical) A pointed tool without any sharp edges, used in weaving or knotwork to tighten and form up weaves or complex knots; used in sailing ships to open the strands of a rope before splicing.
- A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
- (nautical) A square bar of wood or iron, with a shoulder at one end, to support the weight of the topmast (on a ship).
- (nautical, slang) The penis.
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noun
- (informal) Any small, usually free, item.
- (colloquial, chiefly in phrases with a verb + "the goody out of") That which is good, the good part of something, which one desires to extract or use up.
- (Ireland) Pudding made by boiling bread in milk with sugar and spices.
- (informal) A small amount of something good to eat.
- (informal) Alternative form of goodie (“hero, good character in a story”).
- An American fish, the lafayette or spot.
- something considered choice to eat
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noun
- (rare) Singular of trivia; anything of little importance.
- (education, historical) The lower division of the liberal arts in a medieval university; grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
- (zoology) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively.
- (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence
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noun
- A small amount of something.
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
- (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- Ellipsis of bit part.
- A portion of something.
- A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- (historical) A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
- (historical) A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- Synonym of microbitcoin.
- (historical, US and Canada) A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a small fragment
- the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press
- piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding
- an instance of some kind
- a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
- the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers
- an indefinitely short time
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noun
- Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
- (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
- (MLE, slang, rare) confinement facility
- A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- (MLE) Clipping of dotty (“shotgun”).
- One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
- (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
- (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
- in musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
- A small, round spot.
- (computing) Clipping of dotfile
- (MLE) buckshot, projectile from a "dotty" or shotgun
- (US, Louisiana) A dowry.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- a very small circular shape
prep
verb
- (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
- (colloquial) To punch (a person).
- To mark by means of dots or small spots.
- To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
- (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
- mark with a dot
- distribute loosely
- scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
- make a dot or dots
noun
- The smallest amount; a whit or jot.
- (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, especially in the plural) A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, a crisp; occasionally a similar fried slice of another vegetable or dried fruit.
- (New Zealand, northern) A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- (golf) A low shot, usually played at short range around and onto a green, intended to travel a short distance through the air and roll the remainder of the way towards the hole.
- (tennis) A light shot with a downward slice, usually played from close to the net.
- A medallion.
- (nautical) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- (electronics) A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical or biochemical devices.
- (electronics) A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- (games, gambling) A token used in place of cash.
- (historical) Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- (billiards) A very light shot that hits the cue ball so softly that it barely moves an object ball into a pocket without the cue ball going in as well.
- (curling) A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- (sports such as soccer) A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- (cooking) A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
- electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
- a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling
- the act of chipping something
- a piece of dried bovine dung
- (golf) a low running approach shot
- a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
verb
- (UK, slang, intransitive) To leave.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To use a chisel.
- (transitive, dialectal) To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
- (transitive, sports such as soccer) To beat (an opposing player) by use of a chip shot, such as by looping the ball over the head of the opposing goalkeeper.
- (transitive, automotive) To upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- (UK, transitive, often with "in") To contribute.
- (intransitive) To become chipped.
- (transitive, billiards) To move (a ball) a relatively short distance by means of an oblique contact.
- (transitive) To break small pieces from.
- (transitive, sports) To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
- (also to chip at) To make fun of.
- (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
- (intransitive, card games, often with "in") To ante (up).
- (transitive, informal) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- play a chip shot
- form by chipping
- cut a nick into
- break off (a piece from a whole)
- break a small piece off from
noun
- A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
- (graffiti slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
- (euphemistic) Ellipsis of sex toy.
- Ellipsis of toy dog.
- (slang, MLE) A gun.
- A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
- Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
- any of several breeds of very small dogs kept purely as pets
- a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier)
- a device regarded as providing amusement
- an artifact designed to be played with
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
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- (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
- (intransitive) To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
- (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
noun
noun
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
- (electronics) An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- (astronomy) A secondary circle.
- (aviation) A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- Ellipsis of secondary colour.
- (astronomy) A satellite.
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- (military) The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
- (education) A secondary school.
- (finance) An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- (American football, Canadian football) The defensive backs.
- coil such that current is induced in it by passing a current through the primary coil
- the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen
adj
- (manufacturing) Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
- (of a color) Formed by mixing primary colors.
- (education) Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- Of less than primary importance.
- (anatomy) Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
- (organic chemistry) Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.
- (taxonomy, not comparable) Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
- (geology) Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- (geology) Developed by pressure or other causes.
- (medicine) Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- inferior in rank or status
- not of major importance
- belonging to a lower class or rank
- depending on or incidental to what is original or primary
- being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate
noun
- anything generally known to everyone
- That which is known by most people, and thus cannot reasonably be contested.
- (logic, game theory) A special kind of knowledge for a group of agents, such that when all the agents in a group G know p, they all know that they know p, they all know that they all know that they know p, and so on ad infinitum.
noun
- A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
- (countable) A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
- (countable) A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
- (uncountable, now dialectal) Anxiety, distress.
- (uncountable) The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
- (uncountable) The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
- the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
- the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
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noun
- (countable) Any physical object or material thing.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- Main section.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (countable) The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- (countable) A corpse.
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the central message of a communication
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- the external structure of a vehicle
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- the main mass of a thing
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
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- (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
- A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
- Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
- (colloquial, often as a term of endearment) A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.
- A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
- A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
- any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
- a slight but appreciable amount
verb
noun
- Anything that is normal or standard.
- (Singapore) Synonym of regular serviceman; a member of the Singapore Armed Forces, Police Force or Civil Defence Force who has signed on, i.e., chosen to work full-time beyond their required length of national service.
- A frequent customer, client or business partner.
- (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
- A member of the armed forces or police force.
- A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.
- A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
- A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
- A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
- A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
- (television) A character who appears in every episode of a TV series; a member of the regular cast.
- a soldier in the regular army
- a dependable follower (especially in party politics)
- a regular patron
- a garment size for persons of average height and weight
adj
- Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
- (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
- (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size
- (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
- (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular).
- (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
- (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
- Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
- (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
- Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
- (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
- (crystallography) Isometric.
- (algebraic geometry, not comparable, of a scheme) Such that the local ring at every point is regular.
- (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the general rules of a given language.
- Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
- (commutative algebra, not comparable, of a local ring) Noetherian and such that the minimal number of generators of the maximal ideal is equal to the Krull dimension of the ring.
- officially full-time
- in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
- regularly scheduled for fixed times
- symmetrically arranged
- conforming to a standard or pattern
- (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces
- not constipated
- in accord with regular practice or procedure
- relating to a person who does something regularly
- not deviating from what is normal
- often used as intensifiers
- occurring at fixed intervals
- (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula
noun
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
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verb
- (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- limit in quality or quantity
- subsist on a meager allowance
noun
noun
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- (informal) A pinball machine.
- (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- A cataract of the eye.
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- (informal, in the plural) A leg.
- (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.
- (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
verb
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
- (backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
- (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
- (bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
- (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- Alternative form of peen.
- to hold fast or prevent from moving
- (chess) immobilize a piece
- pierce with a pin
- attach or fasten with pins
adv
adj
- Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
- (informal, derogatory, usually of a woman or girl) Consenting readily to sex.
- Requiring little skill or effort.
- Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
- Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
- (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
- less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
- in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich
- posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- affording comfort
- not strict
- not hurried or forced
- having little impact
- readily exploited or tricked
- affording pleasure
- obtained with little effort or sacrifice, often obtained illegally
- marked by moderate steepness
- free from worry or anxiety
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- Little or small in size.
- (informal) Inclined to cause frustration or annoyance to others out of spite over minor grievances; extremely vindictive.
- Having little or no importance.
- Of persons or their behaviour: marked by or reflective of undesirably limited interests, sympathies, or views; begrudging, selfish, small-minded; also, preoccupied with subjects having little or no importance and not mindful of broader concerns.
- (historical) Of or relating to the lowest grade or level of school; junior, primary.
- Secondary in importance or rank; minor, subordinate.
- inferior in rank or status
- contemptibly narrow in outlook
- (informal) small and of little importance
noun
adj
- Insignificantly small.
- (taxonomy) Of a species, the species name without consideration of whether it is a junior synonym or in reality consists of more than one biological species.
- Assigned to or bearing a person's name.
- Existing in name only.
- (statistics, of a variable) Having values whose order is insignificant.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the rate of interest or return without adjustment for compounding or inflation.
- (philosophy) Of or relating to nominalism.
- Of, resembling, relating to, or consisting of a name or names.
- (economics) Without adjustment to remove the effects of inflation.
- (grammar) Of or relating to a noun or word group that functions as a noun.
- (engineering) According to plan or design.
- (finance) Of, relating to, or being the amount or face value of a sum of money or a stock certificate, for example, and not the purchasing power or market value.
- Of or relating to the presumed or approximate value, rather than the actual value.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation
- existing in name only
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
- pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun
- relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
- named; bearing the name of a specific person
noun
- (UK, police jargon) A person listed in the Police National Computer database as having been convicted, cautioned or recently arrested.
- (grammar) A noun or word group that functions as part of a noun phrase.
- A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
- (grammar) A part of speech that shares features with nouns and adjectives. (Depending on the language, it may comprise nouns, adjectives, possibly numerals, pronouns, and participles.)
- a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb