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verb
- contract
- exhibit the strength of
- bend a joint
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- (transitive, slang) To boast or brag about; to flaunt (something).
- (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
- (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
- (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
- (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.
- (intransitive, slang) To flaunt one's superiority; to show off.
noun
- the act of flexing
- (countable) An act of flexing.
- (uncountable, chiefly UK, Ireland) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
- (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
- (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
- (countable) A flexible insulated electrical cord.
- (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
- (countable, slang) An act or instance of flaunting something; a boast or brag; something considered impressive.
noun
- An agreement or contract.
- A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
- A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- a small and economical car
verb
adj
- (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.
- Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
- closely and firmly united or packed together
- briefly giving the gist of something
- having a short and solid form or stature
noun
adj
- bound by contract
- bound by an oath
- confined in the bowels
- headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’
- covered or wrapped with a bandage
- (usually followed by ‘to’) governed by fate
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
- confined by bonds
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place.
- (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- Unable to move in certain conditions.
- (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
noun
- the greatest possible degree of something
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- a line determining the limits of an area
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- A sizeable jump, great leap.
- (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
verb
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- (transitive) To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
- (transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of.
- simple past and past participle of bind
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
- (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
intj
contraction
verb
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- compress or concentrate
- cause to be smaller
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- squeeze or press together
- engage by written agreement
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- become smaller or draw together
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- (transitive) To enter into a contract with (someone or something).
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
- (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
- (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- To betroth; to affiance.
noun
- a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
- (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks they bid
- (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
- (law) The document containing such an agreement.
- (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
- (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
verb
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- promise to do or accomplish
- accept as a challenge
- accept as a charge
- enter upon an activity or enterprise
- (transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
- (British, informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.
- (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
noun
noun
- A document containing or certifying this contract.
- A contract of insurance.
- written contract or certificate of insurance
- Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
- (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
- A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body.
- A document describing such a policy.
- A number pool lottery
- a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
- a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government
verb
noun
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
- (sexology, uncommon) Of a man, to be able to initiate or fulfill an act of sexual intercourse.
- (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- (transitive) To do (something); to execute.
- (ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- carry out or perform an action
- perform a function
- get (something) done
- give a performance (of something)
verb
- (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
- (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- protect by insurance
- make certain of
- take out insurance for
noun
- The document containing such a contract or deed.
- The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
- An open pasture or common.
- (computing) The temporary assignment of an IP address to a networked device.
- An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
- The period of such an interest.
- (formal, law) An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
- a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
- property that is leased or rented out or let
- the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
verb
- (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- (computing, transitive) To accept such an assignment of (an IP address).
- (transitive) To gather.
- (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.
- (computing, transitive) To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).
- (transitive, informal) To hold a lease as a tenant; to rent.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.
- (ambitransitive, UK dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
- (transitive) To glean.
- (transitive, formal, law) To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
- grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
- let for money
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- engage for service under a term of contract
noun
- (law) a party to a contract
- someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
- the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
- a bodily organ that contracts
- A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.
- A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.
- A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.
- A person or company that builds or improves buildings or structures.
adj
noun
- (accounting) A charge for a service that is applied through a contract with another provider.
- (government) A contract specifying details of the relationship with another country or body
- A contractualized employee; One who is hired as a temporary worker, especially one who is hired for a single project.
noun
- The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
- Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
- (botany) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
- (chess) A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.
- a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement
- an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
- (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record
noun
- A deed (legal contract).
- The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
- A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
- A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- (UK, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
- A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
- a contract to hire or lease transportation
- a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation
adj
verb
- (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
- (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
- (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
- grant a charter to
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- engage for service under a term of contract
noun
- An informal contract; a mutual agreement.
- A reconciliation of differences.
- (countable) Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.
- (uncountable) Sympathy.
- (uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
- (countable) Opinion, judgement, or outlook.
- the cognitive condition of someone who understands
- an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
- the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
adj
verb
noun
- That which confines or contracts.
- A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.
- a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
- a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
- a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
verb
- To form on a cramp.
- (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
- (transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
- (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
- secure with a cramp
- suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- affect with or as if with a cramp
noun
- (law) The offer by a party of what they have in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
- A scheme or design.
- The terms or conditions proposed.
- The act of asking someone to be one's spouse; an offer of marriage.
- The document on which such a thing is written.
- an offer of marriage
- the act of making a proposal
- something proposed (such as a plan or assumption)
adj
- having services contracted for
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- built against or attached to a wall
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- pledged to be married
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (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)
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Greatly interested.
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Busy or employed.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
- (transitive) To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- establish a conditioned response
- apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny
- put into a better state
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
noun
- A state or quality.
- A requirement.
- (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A particular state of being.
- a state at a particular time
- an illness, disease, or other medical problem
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
- the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases ‘in condition’ or ‘in shape’ or ‘out of condition’ or ‘out of shape’)
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
- the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
- a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
noun
- a contract in which you agree to purchase all your requirements of a particular sort from one party
- (law) An agreement in which in which one party agrees to supply as much of a good or service as is required by the other party, and in exchange the other party expressly or implicitly promises that it will obtain its goods or services exclusively from the first party.
noun
- a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
- An indentation; a recess.
- (law) A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
- (law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
- (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
verb
noun
- a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition
- (informal) The money or assets so held.
- (law) A contractual arrangement whereby money or assets are held in trust by an independent agent by the agreement of the parties, which can only be released to the relevant party once certain contractual conditions have been fulfilled.
verb
adj
noun
- (sewing) A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment.
- (chemistry) The action or result of making two or more molecules stick together.
- The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
- An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.
- (programming) The interface of a library with a programming language other than one it is written in.
- (programming) The association of a named item with an element of a program.
- the act of applying a bandage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration
- one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall
- the capacity to attract and hold something
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- (intransitive) To use sign language.
- (transitive) To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- (transitive or reflexive) To write (one's name) as a signature.
- (transitive) To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- (intransitive) To communicate using a gesture or signal.
- (transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- (transitive) To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- (intransitive) To write one's signature.
- (transitive) To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- (transitive) To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- (reflexive) To cross oneself.
- To determine the sign of
- (transitive) More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- (transitive) To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- (transitive) To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
- be engaged by a written agreement
- place signs, as along a road
- engage by written agreement
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
noun
- (Canada, US, Australia, uncountable) Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- (astrology) An astrological sign.
- (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
- An omen.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- (countable, uncountable) A visible fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (uncountable) Sign language in general.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- a public display of a message
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
adj
noun
- an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
- a message that makes a pledge
- the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
- the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
- Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- State of being pledged or engaged.
- The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
- Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
- Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
- Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
noun
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
- a limited period of time
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
adj
verb
noun
- Initialism of letter of contract.
- Line of Control
- (medicine) Initialism of loss of consciousness; also LoC.
- (space flight) Initialism of loss of crew.
- Initialism of lab on a chip.
- (programming) Initialism of lines of code.
- (finance, banking) Initialism of line of credit; also LoC.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of localizer.
- (aviation) Initialism of loss of control.
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of level of consciousness; also LoC.
name
verb
- To close someone's contract by paying him or her a sum of money, the terms of which are often stated in the contract itself.
- (transitive) to purchase the ownership of a company
- (transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money.
- (transitive, idiomatic) to purchase the entire stock or extent of something
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
noun
- An agreement or contract.
- A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
- A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- a small and economical car
verb
adj
- (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.
- Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
- closely and firmly united or packed together
- briefly giving the gist of something
- having a short and solid form or stature
noun
noun
- A document containing or certifying this contract.
- A contract of insurance.
- written contract or certificate of insurance
- Wise, advantageous, or politic conduct; prudence, formerly also with connotations of craftiness.
- (Scotland, now chiefly in the plural) The grounds of a large country house.
- A principle of behaviour, conduct which an entity (government, organization, etc.) applies or seeks to follow, especially as formally expressed by an authoritative body.
- A document describing such a policy.
- A number pool lottery
- a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
- a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The document containing such a contract or deed.
- The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
- An open pasture or common.
- (computing) The temporary assignment of an IP address to a networked device.
- An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
- The period of such an interest.
- (formal, law) An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
- a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment
- property that is leased or rented out or let
- the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
verb
- (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
- (computing, transitive) To accept such an assignment of (an IP address).
- (transitive) To gather.
- (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.
- (computing, transitive) To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).
- (transitive, informal) To hold a lease as a tenant; to rent.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.
- (ambitransitive, UK dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.
- (transitive) To glean.
- (transitive, formal, law) To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
- grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
- let for money
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- engage for service under a term of contract
noun
- (law) a party to a contract
- someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
- the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
- a bodily organ that contracts
- A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.
- A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.
- A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.
- A person or company that builds or improves buildings or structures.
noun
- The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
- Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
- (botany) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
- (chess) A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.
- a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement
- an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
- (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record
noun
- A deed (legal contract).
- The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
- A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
- A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
- A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
- (UK, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
- A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
- a contract to hire or lease transportation
- a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation
adj
verb
- (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
- (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.
- (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
- grant a charter to
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
- engage for service under a term of contract
noun
- An informal contract; a mutual agreement.
- A reconciliation of differences.
- (countable) Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.
- (uncountable) Sympathy.
- (uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
- (countable) Opinion, judgement, or outlook.
- the cognitive condition of someone who understands
- an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
- the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
adj
verb
noun
- That which confines or contracts.
- A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.
- a clamp for holding pieces of wood together while they are glued
- a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles; used to hold masonry together
- a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
verb
- To form on a cramp.
- (transitive) To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
- (intransitive) (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
- To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
- (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
- (transitive, figurative) To prohibit movement or expression of.
- (transitive) To affect with cramps or spasms.
- secure with a cramp
- suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle
- prevent the progress or free movement of
- affect with or as if with a cramp
noun
- (law) The offer by a party of what they have in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
- A scheme or design.
- The terms or conditions proposed.
- The act of asking someone to be one's spouse; an offer of marriage.
- The document on which such a thing is written.
- an offer of marriage
- the act of making a proposal
- something proposed (such as a plan or assumption)
noun
- a contract in which you agree to purchase all your requirements of a particular sort from one party
- (law) An agreement in which in which one party agrees to supply as much of a good or service as is required by the other party, and in exchange the other party expressly or implicitly promises that it will obtain its goods or services exclusively from the first party.
noun
- a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
- a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
- the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
- An indentation; a recess.
- (law) A contract relating to lending (typically for issuing a bond), a real estate transaction, or a bankruptcy that imposes additional conditions on one or both parties.
- (law, often in the plural) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying either of the above contracts.
- (law) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
verb
noun
- a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition
- (informal) The money or assets so held.
- (law) A contractual arrangement whereby money or assets are held in trust by an independent agent by the agreement of the parties, which can only be released to the relevant party once certain contractual conditions have been fulfilled.
verb
noun
- an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
- a message that makes a pledge
- the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
- the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
- Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- State of being pledged or engaged.
- The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
- Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
- Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
- Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
noun
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
- a limited period of time
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
adj
verb
noun
- Initialism of letter of contract.
- Line of Control
- (medicine) Initialism of loss of consciousness; also LoC.
- (space flight) Initialism of loss of crew.
- Initialism of lab on a chip.
- (programming) Initialism of lines of code.
- (finance, banking) Initialism of line of credit; also LoC.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of localizer.
- (aviation) Initialism of loss of control.
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of level of consciousness; also LoC.
name
verb
- contract
- exhibit the strength of
- bend a joint
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- (transitive, slang) To boast or brag about; to flaunt (something).
- (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
- (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
- (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
- (transitive, chiefly physics or biomechanics) To bend something.
- (intransitive, slang) To flaunt one's superiority; to show off.
noun
- the act of flexing
- (countable) An act of flexing.
- (uncountable, chiefly UK, Ireland) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
- (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
- (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
- (countable) A flexible insulated electrical cord.
- (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
- (countable, slang) An act or instance of flaunting something; a boast or brag; something considered impressive.
verb
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- compress or concentrate
- cause to be smaller
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- squeeze or press together
- engage by written agreement
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- become smaller or draw together
- make or become more narrow or restricted
- (transitive) To enter into a contract with (someone or something).
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
- (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
- (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- To betroth; to affiance.
noun
- a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
- (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks they bid
- (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
- (law) The document containing such an agreement.
- (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
- (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
verb
- enter into a contractual arrangement
- promise to do or accomplish
- accept as a challenge
- accept as a charge
- enter upon an activity or enterprise
- (transitive) To take upon oneself; to start, to embark on (a specific task etc.).
- (British, informal) To pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside rather than on the side closest to oncoming traffic.
- (intransitive) To commit oneself (to an obligation, activity etc.).
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
- (sexology, uncommon) Of a man, to be able to initiate or fulfill an act of sexual intercourse.
- (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- (transitive) To do (something); to execute.
- (ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- carry out or perform an action
- perform a function
- get (something) done
- give a performance (of something)
verb
- (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
- (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- protect by insurance
- make certain of
- take out insurance for
verb
- (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
- (transitive) To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- establish a conditioned response
- apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny
- put into a better state
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
noun
- A state or quality.
- A requirement.
- (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A particular state of being.
- a state at a particular time
- an illness, disease, or other medical problem
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
- the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases ‘in condition’ or ‘in shape’ or ‘out of condition’ or ‘out of shape’)
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
- the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
- a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
verb
- (intransitive) To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- (intransitive) To use sign language.
- (transitive) To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- (transitive or reflexive) To write (one's name) as a signature.
- (transitive) To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- (intransitive) To communicate using a gesture or signal.
- (transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- (transitive) To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- (intransitive) To write one's signature.
- (transitive) To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- (transitive) To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- (reflexive) To cross oneself.
- To determine the sign of
- (transitive) More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- (transitive) To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- (transitive) To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
- be engaged by a written agreement
- place signs, as along a road
- engage by written agreement
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
noun
- (Canada, US, Australia, uncountable) Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- (astrology) An astrological sign.
- (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
- An omen.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- (countable, uncountable) A visible fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (uncountable) Sign language in general.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- a public display of a message
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
adj
noun
- An agreement or contract.
- A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
- A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- a small and economical car
verb
adj
- (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.
- Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
- closely and firmly united or packed together
- briefly giving the gist of something
- having a short and solid form or stature
verb
- To close someone's contract by paying him or her a sum of money, the terms of which are often stated in the contract itself.
- (transitive) to purchase the ownership of a company
- (transitive) To gain release for (a person) from military service by payment of money.
- (transitive, idiomatic) to purchase the entire stock or extent of something
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
noun
verb
adj
- bound by contract
- bound by an oath
- confined in the bowels
- headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in ‘college-bound students’
- covered or wrapped with a bandage
- (usually followed by ‘to’) governed by fate
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
- confined by bonds
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
- Confined or restricted to a certain place.
- (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
- (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
- Unable to move in certain conditions.
- (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
noun
- the greatest possible degree of something
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- a line determining the limits of an area
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
- A sizeable jump, great leap.
- (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
- (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
verb
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- spring back; spring away from an impact
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- form the boundary of; be contiguous to
- (transitive) To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
- (transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of.
- simple past and past participle of bind
- (transitive) To cause to leap.
- (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
adj
noun
- (accounting) A charge for a service that is applied through a contract with another provider.
- (government) A contract specifying details of the relationship with another country or body
- A contractualized employee; One who is hired as a temporary worker, especially one who is hired for a single project.
adj
- having services contracted for
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- built against or attached to a wall
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- pledged to be married
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (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)
- (architecture, of a column) attached to a wall or sunk into it halfway
- (of gears or cogs) in contact and in operation
- Having agreed to marry a particular person (one's fiancé or fiancée) or each other.
- Synonym of engagé (“passionately committed to a cause”).
- Greatly interested.
- (military) being attacked or attacking
- (medicine, of a foetus) Having the widest part of its presenting part, usually the head, enter the pelvic brim or inlet.
- Busy or employed.
- (British) (of a telephone) Already involved in a telephone call when a third party calls.
verb
adj
noun
- (sewing) A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment.
- (chemistry) The action or result of making two or more molecules stick together.
- The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
- An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.
- (programming) The interface of a library with a programming language other than one it is written in.
- (programming) The association of a named item with an element of a program.
- the act of applying a bandage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration
- one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall
- the capacity to attract and hold something