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- Initialism of data position measurement.
- (competitive eating) Initialism of dogs (“hot dogs and buns”) per minute, an instantaneous rate of consumption of HDBs (“hot dogs and buns”).
- Initialism of damp-proof membrane.
- (politics) Initialism of deputy prime minister.
- (video games) Initialism of damage per minute.
- (medicine, post-nominal letters) Initialism of doctor of podiatric medicine.
- (military) Initialism of disruptive pattern material.
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- (navigation) Initialism of estimated position.
- (Anglicanism) Initialism of evening prayer.
- (automotive) Initialism of extreme pressure, an indicator used in lubricant additives.
- (motor racing) Abbreviation of electric prix; ePrix; from electric grand prix.
- Initialism of executive producer.
- (music) Initialism of extended play (“a vinyl record (or recording on other media, such as a CD) that is shorter than an LP but longer than a single”).
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- (statistics) Initialism of measured variable.
- Initialism of music video.
- Initialism of motor vehicle.
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of mitral valve.
- (nautical) Initialism of motor vessel.
- (nautical) Initialism of merchant vessel.
- (agriculture) Initialism of modern variety.
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical ventilation.
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- Initialism of Overall Position.
- (music industry) Abbreviation of original publishing.
- (initialism) Abbreviation of opening credits.
- (initialism) Abbreviation of opening theme.
- (slang) Initialism of other person's; a cigarette cadged from someone.
- (theater) Initialism of opposite prompt; stage right.
- (military, law enforcement) Initialism of observation post.
- Abbreviation of outpatient.
- (Internet) Initialism of original post.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of organophosphate.
- (Internet) Initialism of original poster; the person who started a thread.
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- (mathematics) A system of coordinates using such measurements to indicate position.
- (mathematics) The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.
- (mathematics) The coordinates of a point in three-dimensional space, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin, the angle measured from the z-axis to a line joining the point to the origin, and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to this line.
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- Initialism of dynamic positioning.
- Initialism of data processing.
- (baseball, softball) Initialism of double play.
- Initialism of display port.
- (chemistry) Initialism of degree of polymerization.
- (motor racing) Abbreviation of Daytona prototype.
- (computing) Initialism of developer preview.
- (film) Initialism of director of photography.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of determiner phrase.
- (nuclear physics) Initialism of decay product.
- (slang) Initialism of dickpic.
- (slang) Initialism of double penetration.
- Initialism of display picture.
- Initialism of displaced person.
- (computer science) Initialism of dynamic programming.
- Initialism of delusional parasitosis.
- a person forced to flee from home or country
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- (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
- (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
- (mathematical analysis, differential geometry, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
- (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
- (analytic geometry, topology, countable) The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
- (countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
- (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
- (education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
- (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
- (LGBTQ) Ellipsis of sexual orientation.
- (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
- (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
- a course introducing a new situation or environment
- an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
- the act of orienting
- a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
- position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
- a predisposition in favor of something
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- The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
- (mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
- The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
- (informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.
- The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
- (mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
- (slang) A person dismissed as unimportant.
- (finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
- The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
- (military, usually capitalized) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
- A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
- the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
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- (meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
- (linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
- (meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
- (postpositive) Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories
- of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
- having no measurable or otherwise determinable value
- indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration
- indicating an initial point or origin
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- (statistics) Initialism of individual participant data.
- (medicine) Initialism of inpatient department.
- Initialism of integrated passive device.
- (medicine) Initialism of idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
- Initialism of initial professional development.
- (anatomy) Initialism of interpupillary distance.
- (game theory) Initialism of iterated prisoner's dilemma.
- (construction) Initialism of integrated project delivery.
- (medicine) Initialism of impulsive personality disorder.
- (astronautics) Initialism of integrated powerhead demonstrator.
- (medicine) Initialism of invasive pneumococcal disease.
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- (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
- A nervous action; a tic.
- (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
- (chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
- (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
- small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- a small irregular movement
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- Initialism of performance measurement system.
- Initialism of performance monitoring system.
- Initialism of performance management system.
- Initialism of project management system.
- (computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.
- Initialism of planned maintenance system.
- Initialism of Phelan-McDermid syndrome.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.
- a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation
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- Initialism of Housing Ombudsman Service.
- Initialism of Hampshire Ornithological Society.
- Initialism of Head of the Schuylkill.
- Initialism of Hands On Sacramento.
- Initialism of Hekscher-Ohlin-Samuelson.
- Initialism of Horizon Open Systems.
- Initialism of Health Outcomes Survey.
- Initialism of Haverfordwest Operatic Society.
- Initialism of Home Ownership Scheme.
- Initialism of Hornbeck Offshore Services.
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- physical position in relation to the surroundings
- the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
- a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web
- A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- (Internet) A website.
- (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
- The posture or position of a thing.
- The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
- Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
- A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
- A part of the body which has been operated on.
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- physical position in relation to the surroundings
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a job in an organization
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
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- a system that uses coordinates to establish position
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- (physics) A set of axes which enable an observer to measure the position and motion of all bodies in some system relative to the reference frame.
- A set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated.
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- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
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- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
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- (sports) Initialism of performance director.
- Initialism of positive deviance.
- (Ireland, politics, historical) Initialism of Progressive Democrat.
- Initialism of peritoneal dialysis.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of pupillary distance.
- (pathology) Initialism of personality disorder.
- Initialism of pole dance.
- (chiefly South Korea) Initialism of producer director.
- Initialism of professional development.
- Initialism of process deviation.
- (law) Initialism of public defender.
- Initialism of program director.
- (pathology) Initialism of Parkinson’s disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of panic disorder.
- Initialism of public domain.
- Initialism of penile duplication.
- (electronics) Initialism of phase detector.
- (electronics) Initialism of power delivery.
- (electricity) Initialism of partial discharge.
- (U.S. military) Abbreviation of period (full stop) punctuation mark, used in communication systems without punctuation (e.g., telegrams).
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police department.
- Initialism of prosecutorial discretion.
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- Initialism of common data rate.
- (electronics) Initialism of current divider rule or current division rule.
- (telephony) Initialism of call detail record: a computer record representing a unit of traffic handled by a telephone exchange.
- (programming) Initialism of content of decrement of register; cdr.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of cup-to-disc ratio.
- (video games) Initialism of cooldown reduction.
- (military) Abbreviation of commander.
- Initialism of carbon dioxide removal.
- (finance) Initialism of Canadian depositary receipt.
- Committee for the Defense of the Revolution
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- (digital image processing) To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
- (civil engineering, chiefly India) To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To readmit involuntarily into a mental hospital.
- (surveying) To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
- (civil engineering) To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
- (education) To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
- (medicine) To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
- To replace a worn section of tire with new tread.
- To redivide into new sections.
- To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.
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- A determination of location.
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
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- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- make infertile
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
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- At (a relative spatial position).
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- At or in (a geographical location or position).
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Serving as a member of.
- Under the influence of (a drug, or something that is causing drug-like effects).
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- (snooker) In a position of being able to pot (a given ball).
- (also often 'upon') Arrived or coming into the presence of.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At (an instant or cusp).
- Aboard (a mode of transport, especially public transport, or transport that one sits astride or uses while standing).
- Expressing figurative placement, burden, or attachment.
- At (a certain position within a sequence).
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything By means of; with.
- Covering.
- (mathematics) Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for the specified set V and some integer n.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- (mathematics, uncommon) Divided by.
- (especially Ireland) Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- (UK) At (a certain value or level).
- With verbs describing an action of pushing, pulling, pressing, etc., designates the thing to which force is applied.
- (also often 'upon') At the time of (and often because of).
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) Without.
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Because of; upon the basis of (something not yet confirmed as true).
- (informal) In the possession of.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- (philosophy, logic) According to, from the standpoint of; (expressing what must follow, whether accepted or not, if a given premise or system is assumed true).
- (UK, especially in sports reporting) At (a given time after the start of something).
- Near; adjacent to; alongside; just off.
- Paid for by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- (especially when numbers of combatants or competitors are specified) Against; in opposition to.
- At or during the date or day of.
- (mathematics) Having as identical domain and codomain.
- (nautical) In the direction of (some part of one's vessel), to within 45 degrees.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Indicating a means of subsistence or sustenance.
- (mathematics) Generated by.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- (informal, chiefly in set phrases) Ellipsis of I swear on: on my life, on God, on everything, etc.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- With verbs describing an action of hitting, rubbing, scratching, binding against, etc., designates the thing impacted or contacted.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
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- (euphemistic) Menstruating.
- (chiefly UK, informal, chiefly in the negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
- (snooker, postpositive) Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
- (informal) Of a person, used to express agreement to or acceptance of a proposal or challenge made by that person; most commonly with subject "you" (see you're on).
- (acting, drama, roleplaying games) Acting in character.
- (chiefly in the negative) Possible; capable of being successfully carried out.
- Fitted; covering or being worn.
- (cricket) Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- (informal, of a person) Performative or funny in a wearying manner.
- (e.g. of points in a game) Available; remaining.
- (postpositive) Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- in operation or operational
- (of events) planned or scheduled
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- (infrequent in the US) Later.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
- (snooker) Of a ball, into a pottable position.
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action), onwards.
- To an operating state.
- indicates continuity or persistence or concentration
- in a state required for something to function or be effective
- with a forward motion
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- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary
- (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
- something that serves to indicate or suggest
- (rare) A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- (finance) A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
- A discovery made; information.
- An act of pointing out or indicating.
- A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; the problem that warrants and prompts the use of a diagnostic test, imaging mode, or treatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure).
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- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
- The extent of what one has read.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
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- act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
- ascent by or as if by a ladder
- (mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
- The act of one who scales or climbs.
- The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
- The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
- The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
- The removing of the scales of fish.
- The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.
- The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
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- (construction) Initialism of setting-out point.
- Initialism of sex on or over the phone.
- (Internet) Initialism of same-origin policy.
- (manufacturing) Initialism of start of production.
- Initialism of standard operating procedure.
- Initialism of sum of parts.
- (Internet, countable) Initialism of super operator (“an IRC user with special privileges”).
- Initialism of system/systems of provision.
- (Internet slang) Initialism of semen on picture.
- a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely
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- position or manner in which something is situated
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A liar; a dishonest person.
- An animal's lair.
- (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
- (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
- (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
- A manner of lying; relative position.
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- have a place in relation to something else
- assume a reclining position
- be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
- tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
- be and remain in a particular state or condition
- originate (in)
- be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
- (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
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- of or relating to or determined by position
- (programming) An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its position in the invocation code, rather than on its name; compare with named.
- (chess) Based on long-term strategy, on gaining and exploiting small advantages, and on analyzing the larger position, rather than calculating more immediate tactics.
- (economics) Having or pertaining to a value that is a function of its social desirability, as opposed to its utility.
- Relating to the position of something.
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- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- To occupy a place.
- (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- To pass or spend (time).
- (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
- (rare and regional, chiefly in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- To remain undisturbed in a certain state or situation.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
- To take a period of time.
- (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
- (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
- (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- (now usually literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- To occur, to take place.
- Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
- (colloquial, humorous) To have (a condition, especially a mental or physical disability).
- Used to indicate that a predicate nominal applies to the subject.
- (dynamic / lexical be, especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
- (African-American Vernacular, Caribbean, Ireland, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- (with since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere
- spend or use time
- have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
- form or compose
- be priced at
- have an existence, be extant
- have life, be alive
- be identical to; be someone or something
- be identical or equivalent to
- represent, as of a character on stage
- to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted — used only in infinitive form
noun
noun
- (surveying) Initialism of total station.
- (neurology) Initialism of Tourette syndrome.
- (nautical) Initialism of turbine ship, a ship powered by a gas turbine or steam turbine engine.
- (in ISO standards) Initialism of technical standard.
- Abbreviation of transcript.
- Initialism of telesync.
- (meteorology) Initialism of tropical storm.
- Abbreviation of transsexual.
- Initialism of technical specification.
- (colloquial) Initialism of tough shit.
- (pathology) Initialism of Turner syndrome.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of this shit.
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name
noun
name
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- (engineering) Initialism of true position.
- (linguistics) Initialism of tense phrase.
- (physiology) Initialism of threshold potential.
- (anatomy) Initialism of transverse process.
- Initialism of true positive.
- (medicine) Initialism of trigger point.
- (mathematics) Initialism of transportation problem.
- (networking) Initialism of termination point.
- (baseball) Initialism of triple play.
- (military) Initialism of torpedo boat.
- Initialism of textile paper.
- (colloquial) Initialism of toilet paper.
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- Initialism of data position measurement.
- (competitive eating) Initialism of dogs (“hot dogs and buns”) per minute, an instantaneous rate of consumption of HDBs (“hot dogs and buns”).
- Initialism of damp-proof membrane.
- (politics) Initialism of deputy prime minister.
- (video games) Initialism of damage per minute.
- (medicine, post-nominal letters) Initialism of doctor of podiatric medicine.
- (military) Initialism of disruptive pattern material.
noun
- (navigation) Initialism of estimated position.
- (Anglicanism) Initialism of evening prayer.
- (automotive) Initialism of extreme pressure, an indicator used in lubricant additives.
- (motor racing) Abbreviation of electric prix; ePrix; from electric grand prix.
- Initialism of executive producer.
- (music) Initialism of extended play (“a vinyl record (or recording on other media, such as a CD) that is shorter than an LP but longer than a single”).
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noun
- (statistics) Initialism of measured variable.
- Initialism of music video.
- Initialism of motor vehicle.
- (anatomy, medicine) Initialism of mitral valve.
- (nautical) Initialism of motor vessel.
- (nautical) Initialism of merchant vessel.
- (agriculture) Initialism of modern variety.
- (medicine) Initialism of mechanical ventilation.
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noun
- Initialism of Overall Position.
- (music industry) Abbreviation of original publishing.
- (initialism) Abbreviation of opening credits.
- (initialism) Abbreviation of opening theme.
- (slang) Initialism of other person's; a cigarette cadged from someone.
- (theater) Initialism of opposite prompt; stage right.
- (military, law enforcement) Initialism of observation post.
- Abbreviation of outpatient.
- (Internet) Initialism of original post.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of organophosphate.
- (Internet) Initialism of original poster; the person who started a thread.
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name
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- (mathematics) A system of coordinates using such measurements to indicate position.
- (mathematics) The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.
- (mathematics) The coordinates of a point in three-dimensional space, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin, the angle measured from the z-axis to a line joining the point to the origin, and the angle measured counterclockwise from the x-axis to this line.
noun
- Initialism of dynamic positioning.
- Initialism of data processing.
- (baseball, softball) Initialism of double play.
- Initialism of display port.
- (chemistry) Initialism of degree of polymerization.
- (motor racing) Abbreviation of Daytona prototype.
- (computing) Initialism of developer preview.
- (film) Initialism of director of photography.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of determiner phrase.
- (nuclear physics) Initialism of decay product.
- (slang) Initialism of dickpic.
- (slang) Initialism of double penetration.
- Initialism of display picture.
- Initialism of displaced person.
- (computer science) Initialism of dynamic programming.
- Initialism of delusional parasitosis.
- a person forced to flee from home or country
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- (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
- (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
- (mathematical analysis, differential geometry, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively" oriented on a real vector space.
- (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
- (analytic geometry, topology, countable) The designation of a parametrised curve as "positively" or "negatively" oriented; the analogous description of a surface or hypersurface.
- (countable) The ability to orient, or the process of so doing.
- (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
- (education) Events to orient new students at a school; events to help new students become familiar with a school.
- (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with the altar at the east end.
- (LGBTQ) Ellipsis of sexual orientation.
- (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
- (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
- a course introducing a new situation or environment
- an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
- the act of orienting
- a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
- position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
- a predisposition in favor of something
noun
- The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
- (mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
- The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
- (informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.
- The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
- (mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
- (slang) A person dismissed as unimportant.
- (finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
- The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
- (military, usually capitalized) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
- A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
- the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
adj
- (meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
- (linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
- (meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
- (postpositive) Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories
- of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
- having no measurable or otherwise determinable value
- indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration
- indicating an initial point or origin
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- (statistics) Initialism of individual participant data.
- (medicine) Initialism of inpatient department.
- Initialism of integrated passive device.
- (medicine) Initialism of idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
- Initialism of initial professional development.
- (anatomy) Initialism of interpupillary distance.
- (game theory) Initialism of iterated prisoner's dilemma.
- (construction) Initialism of integrated project delivery.
- (medicine) Initialism of impulsive personality disorder.
- (astronautics) Initialism of integrated powerhead demonstrator.
- (medicine) Initialism of invasive pneumococcal disease.
noun
- (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
- A nervous action; a tic.
- (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
- (chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
- (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
- small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- a small irregular movement
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name
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- Initialism of performance measurement system.
- Initialism of performance monitoring system.
- Initialism of performance management system.
- Initialism of project management system.
- (computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.
- Initialism of planned maintenance system.
- Initialism of Phelan-McDermid syndrome.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.
- a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation
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name
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- Initialism of Housing Ombudsman Service.
- Initialism of Hampshire Ornithological Society.
- Initialism of Head of the Schuylkill.
- Initialism of Hands On Sacramento.
- Initialism of Hekscher-Ohlin-Samuelson.
- Initialism of Horizon Open Systems.
- Initialism of Health Outcomes Survey.
- Initialism of Haverfordwest Operatic Society.
- Initialism of Home Ownership Scheme.
- Initialism of Hornbeck Offshore Services.
noun
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
- the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
- a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web
- A computer installation, particularly one associated with an intranet or internet service or telecommunications.
- (Internet) A website.
- (category theory) A category together with a choice of Grothendieck topology.
- The posture or position of a thing.
- The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position
- Region of a protein, a piece of DNA or RNA where chemical reactions take place.
- A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation
- A part of the body which has been operated on.
verb
noun
- physical position in relation to the surroundings
- a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
- a job in an organization
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
- (slang) An outfit, garment, or look.
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- (US, film industry) An individual movie theater.
- Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
- A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.
- The place in which something is situated; a location.
- (UK) A position of employment; a post.
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
noun
- a system that uses coordinates to establish position
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- (physics) A set of axes which enable an observer to measure the position and motion of all bodies in some system relative to the reference frame.
- A set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated.
noun
- Initialism of common data rate.
- (electronics) Initialism of current divider rule or current division rule.
- (telephony) Initialism of call detail record: a computer record representing a unit of traffic handled by a telephone exchange.
- (programming) Initialism of content of decrement of register; cdr.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of cup-to-disc ratio.
- (video games) Initialism of cooldown reduction.
- (military) Abbreviation of commander.
- Initialism of carbon dioxide removal.
- (finance) Initialism of Canadian depositary receipt.
- Committee for the Defense of the Revolution
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verb
- (digital image processing) To estimate a camera projection matrix from known position data and image entities.
- (civil engineering, chiefly India) To remove material from the surface of a road in order to achieve a uniform thickness.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To readmit involuntarily into a mental hospital.
- (surveying) To determine positions using compass bearings based on three or more known positions.
- (civil engineering) To deepen or widen a river or other natural watercourse for flood control, land drainage, or navigation.
- (education) To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.
- (medicine) To excise part or all of a tissue or organ.
- To replace a worn section of tire with new tread.
- To redivide into new sections.
- To thinly slice a specimen as part of its preparation, such as when preparing a microscope slide.
noun
- A determination of location.
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
verb
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- make infertile
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
noun
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary
- (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
- something that serves to indicate or suggest
- (rare) A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- (finance) A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
- A discovery made; information.
- An act of pointing out or indicating.
- A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; the problem that warrants and prompts the use of a diagnostic test, imaging mode, or treatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure).
noun
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
- The extent of what one has read.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
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noun
- act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
- ascent by or as if by a ladder
- (mathematics, physics) The expression of the terms of an equation using powers of nondimensional quantities.
- The act of one who scales or climbs.
- The measurement of dimensions using a scale.
- The formation of a layer of scale on a surface.
- The process of adjusting raw measurement data to fit an expected distribution, such fitting examination results to a normal distribution.
- The removing of the scales of fish.
- The process of adjusting sights to a ship's guns.
- The removal of a layer of scale from a surface.
verb
noun
- (construction) Initialism of setting-out point.
- Initialism of sex on or over the phone.
- (Internet) Initialism of same-origin policy.
- (manufacturing) Initialism of start of production.
- Initialism of standard operating procedure.
- Initialism of sum of parts.
- (Internet, countable) Initialism of super operator (“an IRC user with special privileges”).
- Initialism of system/systems of provision.
- (Internet slang) Initialism of semen on picture.
- a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely
name
noun
- position or manner in which something is situated
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A liar; a dishonest person.
- An animal's lair.
- (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
- (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
- (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
- A manner of lying; relative position.
verb
- have a place in relation to something else
- assume a reclining position
- be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
- tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
- be and remain in a particular state or condition
- originate (in)
- be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
- (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
noun
adv
name
noun
- (surveying) Initialism of total station.
- (neurology) Initialism of Tourette syndrome.
- (nautical) Initialism of turbine ship, a ship powered by a gas turbine or steam turbine engine.
- (in ISO standards) Initialism of technical standard.
- Abbreviation of transcript.
- Initialism of telesync.
- (meteorology) Initialism of tropical storm.
- Abbreviation of transsexual.
- Initialism of technical specification.
- (colloquial) Initialism of tough shit.
- (pathology) Initialism of Turner syndrome.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of this shit.
adj
name
noun
name
noun
- (engineering) Initialism of true position.
- (linguistics) Initialism of tense phrase.
- (physiology) Initialism of threshold potential.
- (anatomy) Initialism of transverse process.
- Initialism of true positive.
- (medicine) Initialism of trigger point.
- (mathematics) Initialism of transportation problem.
- (networking) Initialism of termination point.
- (baseball) Initialism of triple play.
- (military) Initialism of torpedo boat.
- Initialism of textile paper.
- (colloquial) Initialism of toilet paper.
verb
noun
name
verb
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
noun
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
noun
- (data visualization) A random positioning of data points to avoid visual overlap.
- A nervous action; a tic.
- (computing) A program or routine that performs jitting; a just-in-time compiler.
- (chiefly in the plural, often with "the") A state of nervousness.
- (telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
- small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources
- a small irregular movement
verb
verb
- Used to link a subject to a measurement.
- To occupy a place.
- (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
- To pass or spend (time).
- (formal) Used with to-infinitives of verbs to express intent, obligation, appropriateness, or relative future occurrence.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective or prepositional phrase.
- (rare and regional, chiefly in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses: a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place) and a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
- (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
- To remain undisturbed in a certain state or situation.
- Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
- Used with past participles of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect aspect.
- To take a period of time.
- (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate ambient conditions such as weather, light, noise or air quality.
- (with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
- Used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent.
- (in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
- (auxiliary) Used with past participles of verbs to form the passive voice.
- (now usually literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
- To occur, to take place.
- Used with present participles of verbs to form the continuous aspect.
- (colloquial, humorous) To have (a condition, especially a mental or physical disability).
- Used to indicate that a predicate nominal applies to the subject.
- (dynamic / lexical be, especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
- (African-American Vernacular, Caribbean, Ireland, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
- (with since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere
- spend or use time
- have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
- form or compose
- be priced at
- have an existence, be extant
- have life, be alive
- be identical to; be someone or something
- be identical or equivalent to
- represent, as of a character on stage
- to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted — used only in infinitive form
noun
adj
- of or relating to or determined by position
- (programming) An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its position in the invocation code, rather than on its name; compare with named.
- (chess) Based on long-term strategy, on gaining and exploiting small advantages, and on analyzing the larger position, rather than calculating more immediate tactics.
- (economics) Having or pertaining to a value that is a function of its social desirability, as opposed to its utility.
- Relating to the position of something.