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- Initialism of playoff.
- (business) Initialism of purchase order.
- Initialism of post office.
- (military) Initialism of petty officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of probation officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police officer.
- Initialism of principal officer.
- an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
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- (countable) Initialism of team final.
- (countable, information science) Initialism of term frequency.
- (countable, LGBTQ) Initialism of trans female.
- (uncountable, paraphilia, furry fandom) Initialism of transformation.
- (uncountable, Philippines) Initialism of talent fee.
- (countable) Initialism of teaching fellow.
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- (informal) A semifinal.
- (slang, finance) Semiconductor companies or positions in the stock market.
- (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
- (colloquial, mining) An intermediate in the production of end-use goods.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
- (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
- one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle
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- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
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- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
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- (gymnastics) Initialism of start value (before score deductions).
- Initialism of sexual violence.
- (military) Initialism of selective volunteer.
- (nautical) sailboat; Initialism of sailing vessel.
- (physiology) Initialism of stroke volume.
- (baseball) Abbreviation of saves.
- (control theory) Initialism of setpoint variable.
- (nautical) steamship; Initialism of steam vessel.
- Abbreviation of stop valve.
- (genetics) Initialism of structural variant.
- (business) Initialism of shareholder value.
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- (sports) Initialism of games played.
- (grand strategy video games) Initialism of great power.
- (slang) Initialism of general principle.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) Initialism of gold piece.
- (Internet) Initialism of grandparent poster; the person two levels up in a nested conversation thread.
- (countable, astronomy) Abbreviation of green pea galaxy.
- (countable, healthcare) Initialism of general practitioner.
- (uncountable, slang) Initialism of general public.
- (uncountable, software, artificial intelligence) Initialism of genetic programming.
- (countable) Initialism of guinea pig.
- a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses
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- (US, informal, sports) The act of a team making the postseason playoffs but losing the very first game played in it.
- A family in which the parents decide to have only one child.
- (informal, idiomatic) Something that is completed or accomplished only once, never to be done again.
- (slang, basketball) A basketball player who plays college basketball for a single year and then declares for the NBA draft.
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- (sports) Initialism of Cup Record.
- (sports) Initialism of Championship Record.
- (sports) Initialism of Competition Record.
- (medicine) Initialism of computed radiography.
- (sports) Initialism of Circuit Record.
- (Philippines) Initialism of comfort room (“bathroom; restroom; washroom; water closet”).
- Initialism of county road.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete response.
- (India) Initialism of class representative.
- (sports) Initialism of Commonwealth Record.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete remission.
- (sports) Initialism of championship record or competition record.
- Initialism of community resolution.
- (physiology) Initialism of conditioned reflex.
- (US politics, law) Initialism of continuing resolution.
- (linguistics) Initialism of clarification request.
- Initialism of country route.
- (sports) Initialism of Course Record.
- (nutrition) Initialism of caloric restriction.
- (accounting) Credit.
- (psychology) Initialism of conditioned response.
- Initialism of consciousness-raising.
- (sports) Initialism of Canadian Record.
- (computing) Initialism of carriage return.
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- (of a sports match) To begin.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.
- (basketball) To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents.
- (transitive and intransitive, painting) To use a particular brush technique for producing a flawless surface on a wet coat of paint.
- give insider information or advise to
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- (sports) A preliminary competition in which successful competitors gain entry into, and/or a favourable starting position in, a subsequent competition.
- An examination that must be taken in order to qualify.
- verbal noun of qualify
- A qualification or added condition.
- the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
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- (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points for.
- (linguistics) Initialism of phonological form.
- Abbreviation of power failure; displayed by some household appliances after a power outage.
- (basketball) Initialism of power forward.
- (physics) Initialism of peak flow.
- Initialism of pilot flying, a pilot currently in control of the flight trajectory of the aircraft, as opposed to pilot monitoring.
- (basketball) Initialism of personal foul.
- (psychology) Initialism of psychometric function.
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol fighter.
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- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
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- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
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- A quarterfinal.
- One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
- (farriery) The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
- (now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- (in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
- Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
- (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- (now chiefly historical) A fourth part of a hundredweight.
- A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
- (often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
- (Chester, historical) A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
- Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
- (now chiefly finance) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
- The back and sides of the upper of a shoe, extending around the wearer's heel to meet the vamp.
- (now historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- (heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A region or place.
- (sports) One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
- (time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
- (Canada, US) A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
- piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
- clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
- an unspecified person
- one of four equal parts
- the rear part of a ship
- one of four periods into which the school year is divided
- a fourth part of a year; three months
- a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
- (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- one of the four major division of the compass
- a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
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- (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
- (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
- (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- (transitive) To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
- (transitive) To quartersaw.
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to their extremities, so as to execute them
- divide into quarters
- provide housing for (military personnel)
- divide by four; divide into quarters
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- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
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- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
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- (sports) The first game played in a competition.
- (fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
- (cricket) A batsman or bowler who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
- (theater) The first act in a variety show or concert.
- A person who opens something.
- (baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.
- (metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
- (card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
- (sports) The first goal or point scored.
- A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
- (colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
- (in combination) An establishment that opens.
- (card games) The player who starts the betting.
- the first event in a series
- a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)
- a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
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- (idiomatic, sports) The early part of a competition’s offseason, where many roster and staff changes are made based on the outcome of the season just concluded.
- (sports) The time of year when contract negotiations start, trades, and competitors change affiliations, frequently starting at mid-season or just before the start of free-agency, and extending to the start of the next season.
- (idiomatic) A period of time, as during a holiday season or a political campaign, in which the behavior of an individual or group tends to become uncharacteristically frivolous, mirthful, or eccentric.
- (idiomatic, journalism) A period, usually during the summertime, when news media tend to place increased emphasis on reporting light-hearted, offbeat, or bizarre stories.
- a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news
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- (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points against.
- Initialism of public accountant.
- (law) Initialism of public act.
- Initialism of precision agriculture.
- (medicine) Initialism of physician associate.
- Initialism of personal appearance (when a celebrity visits a public event).
- (Manitoba, Saskatchewan) Initialism of Parental Accompaniment.
- Initialism of Peano arithmetic.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyamide.
- (medicine) Initialism of physician assistant.
- Initialism of personal assistant.
- (chemistry) Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
- Initialism of public address.
- Initialism of production assistant.
- Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”).
- (anatomy) Initialism of pulmonary artery.
- Initialism of power amplifier.
- an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas
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- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algonquian (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc).
- Abbreviation of Papua: a province of Indonesia.
- (postal) Abbreviation of Pennsylvania: a state of the United States.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Athabaskan.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algic (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian).
- Initialism of Prince Albert: a city in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Abbreviation of Pará: a state of Brazil.
- Initialism of Palestinian Authority.
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- (by extension) The lowest such number that assures a team a playoff berth.
- The sum of one and the wins by one team and losses by an opponent necessary for the team to ensure the opponent cannot catch it in the standings by the end of the regular season. In Major League Baseball, with a regular season of 162 games, the magic number M is calculated as M = 163 − W₁ − L₂, in which W₁ is the leading team's current win total, and L₂ is the opponent's current loss total. A magic number of 0 indicates that the trailing team cannot catch the leading team.
- A number which is manually entered into source code, rather than defined somewhere as a named constant; especially one which is arbitrary or lacks explanation.
- (nuclear physics) The number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill the major quantum shells, and thus produce exceptionally stable nuclei: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 and 126.
- A hash code, such as those used by some webmail servers to keep track of sessions.
- A number or pattern in a binary file that identifies the filetype.
- A sentinel value which cannot occur in normal use, typically used as a placeholder (e.g. a fictitious date such as 2000-02-32).
- the atomic number of an extra stable strongly bound atomic nucleus: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 or 126
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- (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications
- an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
- the act of testing something
- the act of undergoing testing
- trying something to find out about it
- (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law
- The testing of a product or procedure.
- (grammar) The trial number.
- (ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
- (law) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
- An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
- (medicine, sciences, research) A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
- A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
- An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
- (UK) An internal examination set by Eton College.
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- (sports) A minor-league prospect.
- (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
- Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
- (finance) Alternative form of futures.
- (computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
- The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
- The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
- Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
- a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
- bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
- the time yet to come
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- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (US slang) A child.
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (cryptography, computing) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (video games) (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
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- (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- bear seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- remove the seeds from
- inoculate with microorganisms
- go to seed; shed seeds
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
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- (sports) Initialism of goals against.
- Initialism of general admission
- (netball) Initialism of goal attack.
- Initialism of granuloma annulare.
- (chiefly software) Initialism of general availability.
- (politics) Initialism of global affairs.
- (aviation) Initialism of general aviation.
- Initialism of geographic atrophy.
- (software) Initialism of genetic algorithm.
- (wiki jargon) Initialism of good article.
- the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare
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- Abbreviation of airfield lighting.
- (informal) The game of Australian rules football.
- (computing theory) Initialism of abstract family of languages.
- (automotive) Initialism of adaptive front light.
- a federation of North American labor unions that merged with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955
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- (American football) Initialism of automatic qualifier, referring to the NCAA Division I FBS conferences whose champions receive automatic bids to the Bowl Championship Series.
- Initialism of accomplishment quotient.
- Initialism of autism quotient (“the score one receives on a self-administered test created in 2001 by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen to test for autism or Asperger's syndrome”).
- Initialism of achievement quotient.
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- (sports) Initialism of position (prefixed to a number) (indicates the placing of a competitor in (starting, during, after) a competition).
- (chemistry) Initialism of para- (prefixed as part of a chemical's name) (In isomeric benzene derivatives, having the two substituents in opposite (1,4) positions (compare ortho- and meta-)).
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- Initialism of baseball.
- (US, navy) Abbreviation of battleship.
- Initialism of ball bearing.
- (gymnastics) Abbreviation of balance beam.
- (computing) Initialism of bulletin board.
- Initialism of BlackBerry.
- (baseball) A walk; the statistic reporting the number of "bases on balls".
- (electronics) Initialism of baseband.
- A type of pellet that can be shot from a BB gun.
- (cycling) Initialism of bottom bracket.
- Initialism of basketball.
- a small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun
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- (sports) Initialism of lower bracket.
- (American football) Initialism of linebacker.
- (military) Initialism of local board.
- (microbiology) Initialism of lysogeny broth; (loosely) any of several similar formulations: Luria broth, Lennox broth, life broth or Luria–Bertani medium.
- (soccer) Initialism of left back.
- Alternative form of lb: Abbreviation of pound (“unit of weight”).
- (pathology) Initialism of Lewy body.
- Initialism of ladyboy.
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- one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals
- (sports) One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
- (general) A competition that narrows a field of contestants (quarterfinalists) to a set of semifinalists, for a subsequent final.
noun
- any final competition to determine a championship
- A short piece of underscore played during a scene transition in a stage musical, usually reprising a song from the preceding scene.
- (UK) A short series of games to select the last team to be promoted (to elevate to a higher league).
- (US) A short series of games to select a league champion.
- A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
noun
- Initialism of competition best or championship best.
- Initialism of continental breakfast.
- (British military) Initialism of confined to barracks.
- (soccer) Initialism of centre-back, a defensive position.
- Abbreviation of citizens' band radio.
- (textiles, sewing) Initialism of center back, a line marking the center on the back side of a piece of clothing.
- (cytology) Initialism of Cajal body.
- Abbreviation of Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
- (Singapore) Initialism of circuit breaker.
- (American football, Gaelic football, hurling) Initialism of cornerback.
- (military, historical) The United States Navy hull classification symbol for a large cruiser.
- (speedrunning) Initialism of cruise boost.
- (physics) Initialism of centre of buoyancy.
- Initialism of conduction band.
- (Singapore, Malaysia) Initialism of cheebai.
- Initialism of citizens' band.
- (military) Initialism of construction battalion.
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- Initialism of playoff.
- (business) Initialism of purchase order.
- Initialism of post office.
- (military) Initialism of petty officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of probation officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police officer.
- Initialism of principal officer.
- an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
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- (countable) Initialism of team final.
- (countable, information science) Initialism of term frequency.
- (countable, LGBTQ) Initialism of trans female.
- (uncountable, paraphilia, furry fandom) Initialism of transformation.
- (uncountable, Philippines) Initialism of talent fee.
- (countable) Initialism of teaching fellow.
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- (informal) A semifinal.
- (slang, finance) Semiconductor companies or positions in the stock market.
- (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
- (colloquial, mining) An intermediate in the production of end-use goods.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
- (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
- one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle
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- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
verb
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
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- (gymnastics) Initialism of start value (before score deductions).
- Initialism of sexual violence.
- (military) Initialism of selective volunteer.
- (nautical) sailboat; Initialism of sailing vessel.
- (physiology) Initialism of stroke volume.
- (baseball) Abbreviation of saves.
- (control theory) Initialism of setpoint variable.
- (nautical) steamship; Initialism of steam vessel.
- Abbreviation of stop valve.
- (genetics) Initialism of structural variant.
- (business) Initialism of shareholder value.
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- (sports) Initialism of games played.
- (grand strategy video games) Initialism of great power.
- (slang) Initialism of general principle.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) Initialism of gold piece.
- (Internet) Initialism of grandparent poster; the person two levels up in a nested conversation thread.
- (countable, astronomy) Abbreviation of green pea galaxy.
- (countable, healthcare) Initialism of general practitioner.
- (uncountable, slang) Initialism of general public.
- (uncountable, software, artificial intelligence) Initialism of genetic programming.
- (countable) Initialism of guinea pig.
- a physician who is not a specialist but treats all illnesses
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- (US, informal, sports) The act of a team making the postseason playoffs but losing the very first game played in it.
- A family in which the parents decide to have only one child.
- (informal, idiomatic) Something that is completed or accomplished only once, never to be done again.
- (slang, basketball) A basketball player who plays college basketball for a single year and then declares for the NBA draft.
noun
- (sports) Initialism of Cup Record.
- (sports) Initialism of Championship Record.
- (sports) Initialism of Competition Record.
- (medicine) Initialism of computed radiography.
- (sports) Initialism of Circuit Record.
- (Philippines) Initialism of comfort room (“bathroom; restroom; washroom; water closet”).
- Initialism of county road.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete response.
- (India) Initialism of class representative.
- (sports) Initialism of Commonwealth Record.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete remission.
- (sports) Initialism of championship record or competition record.
- Initialism of community resolution.
- (physiology) Initialism of conditioned reflex.
- (US politics, law) Initialism of continuing resolution.
- (linguistics) Initialism of clarification request.
- Initialism of country route.
- (sports) Initialism of Course Record.
- (nutrition) Initialism of caloric restriction.
- (accounting) Credit.
- (psychology) Initialism of conditioned response.
- Initialism of consciousness-raising.
- (sports) Initialism of Canadian Record.
- (computing) Initialism of carriage return.
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- (sports) A preliminary competition in which successful competitors gain entry into, and/or a favourable starting position in, a subsequent competition.
- An examination that must be taken in order to qualify.
- verbal noun of qualify
- A qualification or added condition.
- the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
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- (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points for.
- (linguistics) Initialism of phonological form.
- Abbreviation of power failure; displayed by some household appliances after a power outage.
- (basketball) Initialism of power forward.
- (physics) Initialism of peak flow.
- Initialism of pilot flying, a pilot currently in control of the flight trajectory of the aircraft, as opposed to pilot monitoring.
- (basketball) Initialism of personal foul.
- (psychology) Initialism of psychometric function.
- (US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol fighter.
noun
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
- A quarterfinal.
- One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
- (farriery) The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
- (now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- (in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
- Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
- (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- (now chiefly historical) A fourth part of a hundredweight.
- A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
- (often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
- (Chester, historical) A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
- Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
- (now chiefly finance) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
- The back and sides of the upper of a shoe, extending around the wearer's heel to meet the vamp.
- (now historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- (heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A region or place.
- (sports) One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
- (time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
- (Canada, US) A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
- piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
- clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
- an unspecified person
- one of four equal parts
- the rear part of a ship
- one of four periods into which the school year is divided
- a fourth part of a year; three months
- a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
- (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- one of the four major division of the compass
- a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
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- (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
- (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
- (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- (transitive) To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
- (transitive) To quartersaw.
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to their extremities, so as to execute them
- divide into quarters
- provide housing for (military personnel)
- divide by four; divide into quarters
noun
- (sports) The first game played in a competition.
- (fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
- (cricket) A batsman or bowler who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
- (theater) The first act in a variety show or concert.
- A person who opens something.
- (baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.
- (metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
- (card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
- (sports) The first goal or point scored.
- A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
- (colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
- (in combination) An establishment that opens.
- (card games) The player who starts the betting.
- the first event in a series
- a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)
- a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
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- (idiomatic, sports) The early part of a competition’s offseason, where many roster and staff changes are made based on the outcome of the season just concluded.
- (sports) The time of year when contract negotiations start, trades, and competitors change affiliations, frequently starting at mid-season or just before the start of free-agency, and extending to the start of the next season.
- (idiomatic) A period of time, as during a holiday season or a political campaign, in which the behavior of an individual or group tends to become uncharacteristically frivolous, mirthful, or eccentric.
- (idiomatic, journalism) A period, usually during the summertime, when news media tend to place increased emphasis on reporting light-hearted, offbeat, or bizarre stories.
- a time usually late summer characterized by exaggerated news stories about frivolous matters for want of real news
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- (American football, fantasy football) Initialism of points against.
- Initialism of public accountant.
- (law) Initialism of public act.
- Initialism of precision agriculture.
- (medicine) Initialism of physician associate.
- Initialism of personal appearance (when a celebrity visits a public event).
- (Manitoba, Saskatchewan) Initialism of Parental Accompaniment.
- Initialism of Peano arithmetic.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyamide.
- (medicine) Initialism of physician assistant.
- Initialism of personal assistant.
- (chemistry) Initialism of pyrrolizidine alkaloid.
- Initialism of public address.
- Initialism of production assistant.
- Initialism of Prince Albert (“genital piercing”).
- (anatomy) Initialism of pulmonary artery.
- Initialism of power amplifier.
- an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas
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- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algonquian (sometimes abbreviated PAn to distinguish it from Proto-Algic, but usually just abbreviated PA with Proto-Algic being abbreviated PAc).
- Abbreviation of Papua: a province of Indonesia.
- (postal) Abbreviation of Pennsylvania: a state of the United States.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Athabaskan.
- (linguistics) Initialism of Proto-Algic (sometimes abbreviated PAc to distinguish it from Proto-Algonquian).
- Initialism of Prince Albert: a city in Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Abbreviation of Pará: a state of Brazil.
- Initialism of Palestinian Authority.
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- (by extension) The lowest such number that assures a team a playoff berth.
- The sum of one and the wins by one team and losses by an opponent necessary for the team to ensure the opponent cannot catch it in the standings by the end of the regular season. In Major League Baseball, with a regular season of 162 games, the magic number M is calculated as M = 163 − W₁ − L₂, in which W₁ is the leading team's current win total, and L₂ is the opponent's current loss total. A magic number of 0 indicates that the trailing team cannot catch the leading team.
- A number which is manually entered into source code, rather than defined somewhere as a named constant; especially one which is arbitrary or lacks explanation.
- (nuclear physics) The number of neutrons or protons in nuclei which are required to fill the major quantum shells, and thus produce exceptionally stable nuclei: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 and 126.
- A hash code, such as those used by some webmail servers to keep track of sessions.
- A number or pattern in a binary file that identifies the filetype.
- A sentinel value which cannot occur in normal use, typically used as a placeholder (e.g. a fictitious date such as 2000-02-32).
- the atomic number of an extra stable strongly bound atomic nucleus: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 or 126
noun
- (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications
- an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
- the act of testing something
- the act of undergoing testing
- trying something to find out about it
- (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law
- The testing of a product or procedure.
- (grammar) The trial number.
- (ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
- (law) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
- An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
- (medicine, sciences, research) A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
- A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
- An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
- (UK) An internal examination set by Eton College.
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- (sports) A minor-league prospect.
- (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
- Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
- (finance) Alternative form of futures.
- (computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
- The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
- The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
- Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
- a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future
- bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
- the time yet to come
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- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (US slang) A child.
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (cryptography, computing) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (video games) (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
verb
- (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- bear seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- remove the seeds from
- inoculate with microorganisms
- go to seed; shed seeds
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
noun
- (sports) Initialism of goals against.
- Initialism of general admission
- (netball) Initialism of goal attack.
- Initialism of granuloma annulare.
- (chiefly software) Initialism of general availability.
- (politics) Initialism of global affairs.
- (aviation) Initialism of general aviation.
- Initialism of geographic atrophy.
- (software) Initialism of genetic algorithm.
- (wiki jargon) Initialism of good article.
- the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare
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- (American football) Initialism of automatic qualifier, referring to the NCAA Division I FBS conferences whose champions receive automatic bids to the Bowl Championship Series.
- Initialism of accomplishment quotient.
- Initialism of autism quotient (“the score one receives on a self-administered test created in 2001 by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen to test for autism or Asperger's syndrome”).
- Initialism of achievement quotient.
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- Initialism of baseball.
- (US, navy) Abbreviation of battleship.
- Initialism of ball bearing.
- (gymnastics) Abbreviation of balance beam.
- (computing) Initialism of bulletin board.
- Initialism of BlackBerry.
- (baseball) A walk; the statistic reporting the number of "bases on balls".
- (electronics) Initialism of baseband.
- A type of pellet that can be shot from a BB gun.
- (cycling) Initialism of bottom bracket.
- Initialism of basketball.
- a small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun
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- (sports) Initialism of lower bracket.
- (American football) Initialism of linebacker.
- (military) Initialism of local board.
- (microbiology) Initialism of lysogeny broth; (loosely) any of several similar formulations: Luria broth, Lennox broth, life broth or Luria–Bertani medium.
- (soccer) Initialism of left back.
- Alternative form of lb: Abbreviation of pound (“unit of weight”).
- (pathology) Initialism of Lewy body.
- Initialism of ladyboy.
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- one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals
- (sports) One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
- (general) A competition that narrows a field of contestants (quarterfinalists) to a set of semifinalists, for a subsequent final.
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- any final competition to determine a championship
- A short piece of underscore played during a scene transition in a stage musical, usually reprising a song from the preceding scene.
- (UK) A short series of games to select the last team to be promoted (to elevate to a higher league).
- (US) A short series of games to select a league champion.
- A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
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- Initialism of competition best or championship best.
- Initialism of continental breakfast.
- (British military) Initialism of confined to barracks.
- (soccer) Initialism of centre-back, a defensive position.
- Abbreviation of citizens' band radio.
- (textiles, sewing) Initialism of center back, a line marking the center on the back side of a piece of clothing.
- (cytology) Initialism of Cajal body.
- Abbreviation of Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
- (Singapore) Initialism of circuit breaker.
- (American football, Gaelic football, hurling) Initialism of cornerback.
- (military, historical) The United States Navy hull classification symbol for a large cruiser.
- (speedrunning) Initialism of cruise boost.
- (physics) Initialism of centre of buoyancy.
- Initialism of conduction band.
- (Singapore, Malaysia) Initialism of cheebai.
- Initialism of citizens' band.
- (military) Initialism of construction battalion.
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- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
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- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
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- (of a sports match) To begin.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To alert or inform (someone), especially confidentially.
- (basketball) To put the ball in play by throwing it up between two opponents.
- (transitive and intransitive, painting) To use a particular brush technique for producing a flawless surface on a wet coat of paint.
- give insider information or advise to
verb
- play in the starting lineup
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- get off the ground
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- bulge outward
- begin or set in motion
- depart for someplace
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- get going or set in motion
- bring into being
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To begin one's menstrual cycle.
- To set in motion.
- To begin.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
- (intransitive) To jerk, jump up, flinch, or draw back in surprise.
- (transitive, nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- (transitive, sports) To put into play.
- (intransitive) To awaken suddenly.
- (transitive) To disturb and set in motion; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee.
- (ergative, of an object) To come loose, to break free of a firmly set position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- (intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
noun
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the beginning of anything
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- An instance of starting.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- (horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
- Alternative letter-case form of Start (“a typical button for video games, originally used to start a game, now also often to pause or choose an option”)
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
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- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
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- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).