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noun
- range of jurisdiction or influence
- the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) A racetrack, hippodrome.
- (uncountable, countable) A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
- (uncountable, by extension) A person's domain or sphere of influence.
- (uncountable, slang) A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
- (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- (uncountable, specifically) A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) The sport of racing horses.
- (countable) A block of peat used as fuel.
verb
- cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
- (business) To cancel a project or product.
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
- (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
noun
- the jurisdiction of a justiciar
- formerly a high judicial officer
- (historical) A judge or justice.
- (historical) Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
- (Scotland, countable, chiefly historical) A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.
- (historical) A justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
- (historical) A magistrate.
- (Christianity, theology) A believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
- (historical) A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
- (originally Scotland, uncountable) The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc.
adj
adj
- (law) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
- Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
- Adequate for the purpose.
- (geology) Resistant to deformation or flow.
- (biology, medicine, of an organ, tissue, or system) Functionally in order; functioning adequately.
- (biology, of a cell wall) Permeable to foreign DNA.
- adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional
- properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
- legally qualified or sufficient
adj
- Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.
- (US, UK, euphemistic, offensive) Of an inhabitant or resident: black; African-American.
- Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.
- Living in a city or town.
- relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
- located in or characteristic of a city or city life
noun
- in law; the territory within which power can be exercised
- The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
- The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.
- The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
- (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law
- The power or right to exercise authority.
- The power or right to perform some action as part of applying the law.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.
- (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
- (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- exercise authority over; as of nations
- direct or strongly influence the behavior of
adj
- Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
- Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
- (anatomy) Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.
- (historical) (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
- Synonym of palatial.
- relating to or lying near the palate
- of or relating to a palace
- of or relating to a count palatine and the palatine's royal prerogatives
noun
- (historical) Ellipsis of county palatine.
- (historical) A fur cape or stole worn by women, which covers the neck and shoulders.
- (in the plural, historical) The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine bone.
- Ellipsis of count palatine, a feudal lord or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
- A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
- (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
- any of various important officials in ancient Rome
- either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
prep_phrase
noun
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the tenure of a president
- the act of meting out justice according to the law
- the act of administering medication
- (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
- (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
- (uncountable, business) Management.
- (countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
- (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
- (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
- (uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
noun
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- The state of being governed.
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
- The group of people who make up an administrative body.
- (management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
- The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
noun
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
- (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed
- the study of government of states and other political units
- Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government.
- (grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents.
- The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
- In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.
- The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
- (uncountable) The management or control of a system.
- (debating) The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
- The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
noun
- (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
- (graph theory) A closed trail.
- The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
- The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
- The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
- The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
- Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
- That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
- (theater) A set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
- The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
- A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
- (motor racing) A track on which a race is held; a racetrack
- (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
- A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
- A single completion of all of the exercises in a circuit training regime.
- (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
- a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
- an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to
- a racetrack for automobile races
- (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals
- the boundary line encompassing an area or object
- movement once around a course
- an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow
verb
prefix
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of judgment.
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- The act of judging.
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
noun
- (countable, law, politics) the legal authority to deal with a matter.
- (countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task or skill.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
- (linguistics) The system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language, as opposed to its actual use in concrete situations (performance), cf. linguistic competence.
- (geology) The degree to which a rock is resistant to deformation or flow.
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
noun
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
verb
prep
adv
- (law) Done in the appropriate place within a jurisdiction for the documented act.
- (in quotations/citations) Used parenthetically to supply information which is not given in the portion of text being quoted, but is clearly given by its context, such as for quoted pronouns with unquoted antecedents.
- Namely, to wit, as follows.
adj
- Instituted by authority.
- Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
- Arising from the practice of an institution.
- Elementary; rudimentary.
- organized as or forming an institution
- relating to or constituting or involving an institution
- characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative
noun
- A client that is an organization rather than an individual.
- (sociology) A person whose sense of self is based on institutionalized values and standards, as opposed to their tastes and impulses.
- A community where the majority of inhabitants work at an institution (as opposed to industry or trade), or one such inhabitant.
- An institutionalized person.
- (politics) A Chilean senator who is appointed by the president for a term of eight years.
noun
- The legal wherewithal to act.
- (uncountable) A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
- (now limited to Scotland dialects) Physical power.
- (countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
- the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
noun
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- the collection of rules imposed by authority
- the force of policemen and officers
- legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
verb
noun
- by the sanction or authority of
- a person's reputation
- a well-known or notable person
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- family based on male descent
- a language unit by which a person or thing is known
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A reputation.
- (computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
- (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An authority; a behalf.
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- A person (or legal person).
verb
- determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- charge with a function; charge to be
- mention and identify by name
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make reference to
- create and charge with a task or function
- (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.
- (ditransitive) To give a name to.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.
- (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
adj
- of or relating to jurisprudence
- Having its basis in the law.
- established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
- allowed by official rules
- having legal efficacy or force
- relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
- Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.
- Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language.
- (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
- (Philippines) Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 13 inches (216 × 330 mm).
- Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful.
- Relating to the law or to lawyers.
- (Canada, US) Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm).
noun
- (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company or organization.
- (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.
- (countable, informal, US) One who immigrated lawfully.
- (uncountable, Canada, US) A paper sheet or document measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm).
noun
- Initialism of Resident Magistrate.
- Initialism of Routemaster, a type of London bus.
- Abbreviation of room; often visible on moving boxes.
- (military) Initialism of radio material.
- (religion) Initialism of religious movement.
- Initialism of rural municipality.
- Initialism of regional municipality.
- (typography) Initialism of right margin.
- Initialism of ring modulation.
- (historical) Initialism of reichsmark.
- (historical) Initialism of Roman month.
- (Mormonism) Initialism of returned missionary.
name
verb
noun
- State of having legal force.
- (Christianity, theology) The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
- The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
- the quality of having legal force or effectiveness
- the quality of being valid and rigorous
noun
- The office or authority of a judge; jurisdiction.
- Judges collectively; a court or group of courts; the judiciary.
- The administration of justice by judges and courts; judicial process.
- the position of judge
- an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
- the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government
- the act of meting out justice according to the law
noun
- The location of a governing body.
- Something to be sat upon.
- (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
- (aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.
- Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
- The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
- The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
- A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
- The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
- (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
- (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
- (law, England and Wales) One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.
- (historical) Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
- The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
- The starting point of a fire.
- A place in which to sit.
- a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
- a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
- any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)
- the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- furniture that is designed for sitting on
- the cloth covering for the buttocks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body
verb
- (transitive) To provide with a place to sit.
- (transitive) To assign the seats of.
- To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- (transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.
- (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
- (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- place in or on a seat
- put a seat on a chair
- provide with seats
- be able to seat
- place or attach firmly in or on a base
- place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
noun
- The place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation.
- A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
- The study of classification systems and nomenclature.
- The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
- the science of systematic classification
noun
- the authority of a state to govern another state
- government free from external control
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun
- the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- Dung; compost; manure.
- (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
- (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- Country or territory.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
verb
- make soiled, filthy, or dirty
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
noun
- range of jurisdiction or influence
- the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) A racetrack, hippodrome.
- (uncountable, countable) A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
- (uncountable, by extension) A person's domain or sphere of influence.
- (uncountable, slang) A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
- (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- (uncountable, specifically) A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) The sport of racing horses.
- (countable) A block of peat used as fuel.
verb
- cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
- (business) To cancel a project or product.
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
- (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
noun
- the jurisdiction of a justiciar
- formerly a high judicial officer
- (historical) A judge or justice.
- (historical) Various equivalent medieval offices elsewhere in Europe.
- (Scotland, countable, chiefly historical) A judgeship: a judge's jurisdiction, power, or office.
- (historical) A justiciar: a high-ranking judicial officer of medieval England or Scotland.
- (historical) A magistrate.
- (Christianity, theology) A believer in the doctrine (or heresy) that adherence to religious law redeems mankind before God.
- (historical) A Chief Justiciar: the highest political and judicial officer of the Kingdom of England in the 12th and 13th centuries.
- (originally Scotland, uncountable) The judiciary: a collective term for the court system or the body of judges, justices etc.
adj
noun
- in law; the territory within which power can be exercised
- The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
- The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.
- The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
- (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law
- The power or right to exercise authority.
- The power or right to perform some action as part of applying the law.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.
- (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
- (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- exercise authority over; as of nations
- direct or strongly influence the behavior of
noun
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the tenure of a president
- the act of meting out justice according to the law
- the act of administering medication
- (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
- (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
- (uncountable, business) Management.
- (countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
- (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
- (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
- (uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
noun
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- The state of being governed.
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
- The group of people who make up an administrative body.
- (management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
- The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
noun
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
- (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed
- the study of government of states and other political units
- Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government.
- (grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents.
- The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
- In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.
- The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
- (uncountable) The management or control of a system.
- (debating) The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
- The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
noun
- (law) The jurisdiction of certain judges within a state or country, whether itinerant or not.
- (graph theory) A closed trail.
- The space enclosed within a circle, or within limits.
- The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution
- (law) Abbreviation of circuit court.
- The counties at the fringes of the empire, usually with a non-Chinese population, from the Han to the Western Jin.
- The circumference of, or distance around, any space; the measure of a line around an area.
- Major provincial divisions from the Yuan to early Republican China.
- That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
- (theater) A set of theaters among which the same acts circulate; especially common in the heyday of vaudeville.
- The 10 or so major provinces of the empire from the Tang to the early Yuan.
- A chain of cinemas/movie theaters.
- (motor racing) A track on which a race is held; a racetrack
- (electricity) Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- (Methodism) The basic grouping of local Methodist churches.
- A regular or appointed trip from place to place as part of one's job
- A single completion of all of the exercises in a circuit training regime.
- (Scientology) A thought that unconsciously goes round and round in a person's mind and controls that person.
- a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
- an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to
- a racetrack for automobile races
- (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals
- the boundary line encompassing an area or object
- movement once around a course
- an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow
verb
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of judgment.
noun
- (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it
- the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
- the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision
- an opinion formed by judging something
- the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event
- the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions
- (law) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely.
- The act of judging.
- (theology) The final award; the last sentence.
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
noun
- (countable, law, politics) the legal authority to deal with a matter.
- (countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task or skill.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
- (linguistics) The system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language, as opposed to its actual use in concrete situations (performance), cf. linguistic competence.
- (geology) The degree to which a rock is resistant to deformation or flow.
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
noun
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- the act of preventing
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- a heating element in an electric fire
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.
- (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- (programming, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, slightly less than atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- The counter of such premises.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
verb
prep
noun
- The legal wherewithal to act.
- (uncountable) A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
- (now limited to Scotland dialects) Physical power.
- (countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
- the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
noun
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- the collection of rules imposed by authority
- the force of policemen and officers
- legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
verb
noun
- by the sanction or authority of
- a person's reputation
- a well-known or notable person
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- family based on male descent
- a language unit by which a person or thing is known
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A reputation.
- (computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
- (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An authority; a behalf.
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- A person (or legal person).
verb
- determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- charge with a function; charge to be
- mention and identify by name
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make reference to
- create and charge with a task or function
- (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.
- (ditransitive) To give a name to.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.
- (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
noun
- Initialism of Resident Magistrate.
- Initialism of Routemaster, a type of London bus.
- Abbreviation of room; often visible on moving boxes.
- (military) Initialism of radio material.
- (religion) Initialism of religious movement.
- Initialism of rural municipality.
- Initialism of regional municipality.
- (typography) Initialism of right margin.
- Initialism of ring modulation.
- (historical) Initialism of reichsmark.
- (historical) Initialism of Roman month.
- (Mormonism) Initialism of returned missionary.
name
verb
noun
- State of having legal force.
- (Christianity, theology) The genuinity, as distinguished from the efficacity or the regularity, of a sacrament as a result of some formal dispositions being fulfilled.
- The state of being valid, authentic or genuine.
- A quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure reflects the underlying construct, that is, whether it measures what it purports to measure (see reliability).
- the quality of having legal force or effectiveness
- the quality of being valid and rigorous
noun
- The office or authority of a judge; jurisdiction.
- Judges collectively; a court or group of courts; the judiciary.
- The administration of justice by judges and courts; judicial process.
- the position of judge
- an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business
- the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government
- the act of meting out justice according to the law
noun
- The location of a governing body.
- Something to be sat upon.
- (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
- (aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.
- Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
- The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
- The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
- A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
- The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
- (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
- (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
- (law, England and Wales) One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.
- (historical) Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
- The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
- The starting point of a fire.
- A place in which to sit.
- a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
- a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
- any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)
- the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- furniture that is designed for sitting on
- the cloth covering for the buttocks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body
verb
- (transitive) To provide with a place to sit.
- (transitive) To assign the seats of.
- To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- (transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.
- (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
- (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- place in or on a seat
- put a seat on a chair
- provide with seats
- be able to seat
- place or attach firmly in or on a base
- place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
noun
- The place where legal provisions stand as relevant for their interpretation.
- A branch of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of Christian beliefs. It comprises dogmatics, ethics and philosophy of religion.
- The study of classification systems and nomenclature.
- The classification system of a branch of science, especially the classification of organisms in biology.
- the science of systematic classification
noun
- the authority of a state to govern another state
- government free from external control
- royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
- (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
- (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
- Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
- (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.
- Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun
- the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- anything regarded as making something unclean
- Dung; compost; manure.
- (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
- (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- Country or territory.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
- (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
- A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
- That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
- A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
verb
- make soiled, filthy, or dirty
- (transitive) To make dirty.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
- (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
adv
- (law) Done in the appropriate place within a jurisdiction for the documented act.
- (in quotations/citations) Used parenthetically to supply information which is not given in the portion of text being quoted, but is clearly given by its context, such as for quoted pronouns with unquoted antecedents.
- Namely, to wit, as follows.
adj
- (law) Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
- Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
- Adequate for the purpose.
- (geology) Resistant to deformation or flow.
- (biology, medicine, of an organ, tissue, or system) Functionally in order; functioning adequately.
- (biology, of a cell wall) Permeable to foreign DNA.
- adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional
- properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient
- legally qualified or sufficient
adj
- Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.
- (US, UK, euphemistic, offensive) Of an inhabitant or resident: black; African-American.
- Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.
- Living in a city or town.
- relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
- located in or characteristic of a city or city life
adj
- Subject to palatine authority. (of a territory)
- Of or relating to a palace especially of a Roman or Holy Roman Emperor.
- (anatomy) Of or relating to the palate or to a palatine bone.
- (historical) (of an official or feudal lord) Having local authority and possessing royal privileges that elsewhere belongs only to a sovereign.
- Synonym of palatial.
- relating to or lying near the palate
- of or relating to a palace
- of or relating to a count palatine and the palatine's royal prerogatives
noun
- (historical) Ellipsis of county palatine.
- (historical) A fur cape or stole worn by women, which covers the neck and shoulders.
- (in the plural, historical) The Roman soldiers of the imperial palace.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine bone.
- Ellipsis of count palatine, a feudal lord or a bishop possessing palatine powers.
- A palace official, especially in an imperial palace.
- (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands
- any of various important officials in ancient Rome
- either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
adj
- Instituted by authority.
- Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
- Arising from the practice of an institution.
- Elementary; rudimentary.
- organized as or forming an institution
- relating to or constituting or involving an institution
- characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative
noun
- A client that is an organization rather than an individual.
- (sociology) A person whose sense of self is based on institutionalized values and standards, as opposed to their tastes and impulses.
- A community where the majority of inhabitants work at an institution (as opposed to industry or trade), or one such inhabitant.
- An institutionalized person.
- (politics) A Chilean senator who is appointed by the president for a term of eight years.
adj
- of or relating to jurisprudence
- Having its basis in the law.
- established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
- allowed by official rules
- having legal efficacy or force
- relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
- Being established, permitted, required or prescribed by law.
- Following the rules or syntax of a system, such as a game or a programming language.
- (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
- (Philippines) Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 13 inches (216 × 330 mm).
- Permitting the use and/or sale of cannabis; in which cannabis is lawful.
- Relating to the law or to lawyers.
- (Canada, US) Of paper or document layouts, measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm).
noun
- (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company or organization.
- (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.
- (countable, informal, US) One who immigrated lawfully.
- (uncountable, Canada, US) A paper sheet or document measuring 8+¹⁄₂ × 14 inches (216 × 356 mm).