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noun
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
adj
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
verb
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
- turn blue
noun
adj
- of or relating to the sky
- relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
- of heaven or the spirit
- Extremely good, pleasant, or blissful; heavenly.
- Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
- Synonym of heavenly: of or related to Heaven and the divine.
- (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
noun
adj
- of or relating to the sky
- relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
- of or belonging to heaven or god
- Synonym of celestial: of or pertaining to the heavens, the sky regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
- Of or pertaining to the heaven believed in by many religions.
- (figurative) Strongly or sublimely beautiful or pleasurable.
- Of or pertaining to the kingdom of God.
adv
adv
adj
noun
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
prep
adj
- (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
- Aloft.
- (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice; (often specifically) shaken with ice and then strained into a coupe for serving, leaving the ice behind.
- Awake and out of bed.
- (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
- (computing) Functional; working.
- (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Next in a sequence.
- Facing upwards.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Raised; lifted.
- (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
- In a good mood.
- (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
- Well-informed; current.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Built, constructed.
- (slang) Erect.
- On or at a physically higher level.
- (predicative only) Finished, to an end
- (by extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- (predicative only) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Standing; upright.
- out of bed
- (used of computers) operating properly
- extending or moving toward a higher place
- open
- getting higher or more vigorous
- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
- used up
- (usually followed by ‘on’ or ‘for’) in readiness
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
- (figuratively) To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- (rail transport) Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- To one's possession or consideration.
- To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
- To an upright or erect position.
- (sailing) Against the wind or current.
- (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
- Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.
- To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- From one's possession or consideration.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- to a more central or a more northerly place
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
- to a higher intensity
- to a later time
- nearer to the speaker
noun
prep
- (vulgar slang) Of a person: having sex with.
- Toward the top of.
- From south to north of.
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
verb
- (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
- (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
- (intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
- (transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
- (transitive, poetic or in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
- raise
adj
noun
noun
- the outline of objects seen against the sky
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- (databases) Ellipsis of skyline operator.
- A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
- The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
- The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
- (journalism) A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.
verb
noun
- natural objects visible in the sky
- (religion, chiefly Christianity) The recreated, angel-like body that people will have in heaven.
- An astronomical object.
- A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies.
noun
- the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
- a cast that falls beyond the intended spot
- a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling
- gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
- (mining) A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.
- A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
adj
verb
- make overcast or cloudy
- sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
- sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next
- (transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
- (transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.
noun
- A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
- The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
- A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
- An ornate tent.
- (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
- (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
- A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
- (heraldry) An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
- (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
- A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
- (cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
- A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
- large and often sumptuous tent
verb
adj
noun
- the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
- (historical) The highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to be a region of pure light and fire or else composed of ether, and sometimes seen as the dwelling-place of God or other divine beings; the highest celestial sphere according to ancient and medieval astronomy.
noun
verb
adj
noun
- The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.
- (also Lancashire) The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.
- (religion) The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.
- the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
adj
noun
- Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
- (heraldry) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
- (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
- Lapis lazuli.
- (countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
- Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
- a light shade of blue
verb
adj
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- (with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
- of or characteristic of low rank or importance
- having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
- falling short of some prescribed norm
- of low or inferior quality
- lower than a given reference point
- written or printed below and to one side of another character
noun
adv
adj
- slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
- happy and excited and energetic
- greater than normal in quantity or amount
- (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like ‘knee-high’)
- standing above others in quality or position
- (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
- used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency
- (sports such as soccer) Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
- (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
- (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
- Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
- (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
- (of a body of water) With tall waves.
- Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
- (of an opinion or practice, obsolete outside set phrases) Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
- Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
- Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
- (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
- (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
- (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
- (with on or about) Keen, enthused.
- Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
- (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.
- Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
- (informal) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
- Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
- Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
- Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
- Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- Most exalted; foremost.
- (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
noun
- a lofty level or position or degree
- a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed
- an air mass of higher than normal pressure
- a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
- a high place
- a state of sustained elation
- a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics
- (countable) A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
- (countable, card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
- (countable, meteorology, informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
- (countable and uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of high school.
- (countable) A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
- The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- (countable) A drug that gives such a high.
noun
- A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
- The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
- (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
- A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
- Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”).
- (uncountable, chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
- (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
- the rays of the sun
- a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
- any star around which a planetary system revolves
name
verb
- (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
- (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
- (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
- (transitive) To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
- expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
- expose one's body to the sun
noun
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.
- make lower or quieter
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- set lower
noun
- The air in a particular place.
- A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (figuratively) The conditions (such as music, illumination etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
- The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.
- (television, film, uncountable) Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
- the mass of air surrounding the Earth
- a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- the weather or climate at some place
- a particular environment or surrounding influence
noun
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
adj
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
verb
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
- turn blue
noun
noun
- the outline of objects seen against the sky
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- (databases) Ellipsis of skyline operator.
- A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
- The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
- The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
- (journalism) A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.
verb
noun
- natural objects visible in the sky
- (religion, chiefly Christianity) The recreated, angel-like body that people will have in heaven.
- An astronomical object.
- A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies.
noun
- the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds
- a cast that falls beyond the intended spot
- a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling
- gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover
- (mining) A place where one roadway crosses another, specifically where an airway was built across the top of another airway for ventilation purposes.
- A cloud covering all of the sky from horizon to horizon.
adj
verb
- make overcast or cloudy
- sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches
- sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next
- (transitive) To cover with cloud; to overshadow; to darken.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
- (transitive) To make gloomy; to depress.
noun
- A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
- The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
- A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
- An ornate tent.
- (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
- (military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
- A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
- (heraldry) An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
- (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
- A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
- (cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
- A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
- large and often sumptuous tent
verb
noun
verb
adj
noun
- The upper atmosphere occupied by clouds, flying birds, etc.
- (also Lancashire) The sky which appears to an observer on the Earth as a dome in which celestial bodies are visible; the firmament.
- (religion) The place above the Earth where God or other deities live; heaven.
- the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
noun
- A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
- The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
- (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- The light and heat which are received from the Sun; sunshine or sunlight.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
- A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
- Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”).
- (uncountable, chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
- (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
- the rays of the sun
- a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
- any star around which a planetary system revolves
name
verb
- (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
- (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
- (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
- (transitive) To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
- expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the sun
- expose one's body to the sun
noun
verb
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.
- make lower or quieter
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- set lower
noun
- The air in a particular place.
- A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (figuratively) The conditions (such as music, illumination etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
- The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.
- (television, film, uncountable) Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
- the mass of air surrounding the Earth
- a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- the weather or climate at some place
- a particular environment or surrounding influence
adv
adj
noun
- (transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
- (computing) Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
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adv
adj
- slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana)
- happy and excited and energetic
- greater than normal in quantity or amount
- (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like ‘knee-high’)
- standing above others in quality or position
- (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted
- used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency
- (sports such as soccer) Positioned up the field, towards the opposing team's goal.
- (poker) Having the highest rank in a straight, flush or straight flush.
- (acoustics) Acute or shrill in pitch, due to being of greater frequency, i.e. produced by more rapid vibrations (wave oscillations).
- Elevated in mood; marked by great merriment, excitement, etc.
- (of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.
- (of a body of water) With tall waves.
- Remote (to the north or south) from the equator; situated at (or constituting) a latitude which is expressed by a large number.
- (of an opinion or practice, obsolete outside set phrases) Extreme, excessive; now specifically very traditionalist and conservative.
- Large, great (in amount or quantity, value, force, energy, etc).
- Very elevated; extending or being far above a base; tall; lofty.
- Having a large or comparatively larger concentration of (a substance, which is often but not always linked by "in" when predicative).
- Consummate; advanced (e.g. in development) to the utmost extent or culmination, or possessing a quality in its supreme degree, at its zenith.
- (of a card or hand) Winning; able to take a trick, win a round, etc.
- (phonetics) Made with some part of the tongue positioned high in the mouth, relatively close to the palate.
- (of a lifestyle) Luxurious; rich.
- (with on or about) Keen, enthused.
- Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
- (baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.
- Of great importance and consequence: grave (if negative) or solemn (if positive).
- (informal) Intoxicated; under the influence of a mood-altering drug, formerly usually alcohol, but now (from the mid-20th century) usually not alcohol but rather marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
- Advanced in complexity (and hence potentially abstract and/or difficult to comprehend).
- Pertaining to (or, especially of a language: spoken in) in an area which is at a greater elevation, for example more mountainous, than other regions.
- Lofty, often to the point of arrogant, haughty, boastful, proud.
- Elevated in status, esteem, or prestige, or in importance or development; exalted in rank, station, or character.
- Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.
- Most exalted; foremost.
- (nautical, of a sailing ship) Near, in its direction of travel, to the (direction of the) wind.
noun
- a lofty level or position or degree
- a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed
- an air mass of higher than normal pressure
- a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
- a high place
- a state of sustained elation
- a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics
- (countable) A high point or position, literally (as, an elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven) or figuratively (as, a point of success or achievement; a time when things are at their best, greatest, most numerous, maximum, etc).
- (countable, card games) The highest card dealt or drawn.
- (countable, meteorology, informal) A large area of elevated atmospheric pressure; an anticyclone.
- (countable and uncountable, informal) Ellipsis of high school.
- (countable) A period of euphoria, from excitement or from an intake of drugs.
- The maximum atmospheric temperature recorded at a particular location, especially during one 24-hour period.
- (countable) A drug that gives such a high.
adj
- of or relating to the sky
- relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
- of heaven or the spirit
- Extremely good, pleasant, or blissful; heavenly.
- Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
- Synonym of heavenly: of or related to Heaven and the divine.
- (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
noun
adj
- of or relating to the sky
- relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
- of or belonging to heaven or god
- Synonym of celestial: of or pertaining to the heavens, the sky regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
- Of or pertaining to the heaven believed in by many religions.
- (figurative) Strongly or sublimely beautiful or pleasurable.
- Of or pertaining to the kingdom of God.
adv
adj
- (of the sun or moon) Above the horizon, in the sky.
- Aloft.
- (US, bartending) Chilled and served without ice; (often specifically) shaken with ice and then strained into a coupe for serving, leaving the ice behind.
- Awake and out of bed.
- (horse-racing) Riding the horse; mounted.
- (computing) Functional; working.
- (usually in the phrase up for) Willing; ready.
- Fitted or fixed at a high or relatively high position, especially on a wall or ceiling.
- Next in a sequence.
- Facing upwards.
- Headed or designated to go upward (as an escalator, stairway, elevator etc.) or toward (as a run-up).
- Ahead; leading; winning.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the higher-ranking pair in a two pair.
- Raised; lifted.
- (slang, graffiti) well-known; renowned
- In a good mood.
- (of a railway line or train) Traveling towards a major terminus.
- Well-informed; current.
- Larger; greater in quantity, volume, value etc.
- Built, constructed.
- (slang) Erect.
- On or at a physically higher level.
- (predicative only) Finished, to an end
- (by extension) Available to view or use; made public; posted.
- (predicative only) Happening; new; of concern. See also what's up, what's up with.
- Indicating a larger or higher quantity.
- Standing; upright.
- out of bed
- (used of computers) operating properly
- extending or moving toward a higher place
- open
- getting higher or more vigorous
- being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
- used up
- (usually followed by ‘on’ or ‘for’) in readiness
adv
- Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- (cricket) Relatively close to the batsman.
- (figuratively) To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.
- To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.
- (rail transport) Towards the principal terminus, towards milepost zero.
- To one's possession or consideration.
- To the north (as north is at the top of typical maps).
- To an upright or erect position.
- (sailing) Against the wind or current.
- (Cartesian graph) In a positive vertical direction.
- Towards the source of a river, against the direction of flow.
- To or towards what is considered the top of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically higher.
- Aside or away, so as no longer to be present or in use.
- From one's possession or consideration.
- Towards or at a central place, or any place that is visualised as 'up' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- (intensifier) Used as an aspect marker to indicate a completed action or state; thoroughly, completely.
- (US, bartending) Without additional ice.
- To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, etc.; usually followed by to or with.
- to a more central or a more northerly place
- spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position
- to a higher intensity
- to a later time
- nearer to the speaker
noun
prep
- (vulgar slang) Of a person: having sex with.
- Toward the top of.
- From south to north of.
- From the mouth towards the source of (a river or waterway).
- Further along (in any direction).
- (colloquial) At (a given place, especially one imagined to be higher or more distant from a central location).
- Toward the center, source, or main point of reference; toward the end at which something is attached.
verb
- (computing, slang, transitive) To upload.
- (transitive, colloquial) To promote.
- (intransitive, often in combination with another verb) To rise to a standing position; hence, by extension, to act suddenly; see also up and.
- (transitive, colloquial) To increase the level or amount of.
- (transitive, poetic or in certain phrases) To physically raise or lift.
- raise
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noun
adj
noun
- the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
- (historical) The highest heaven, supposed by the ancients to be a region of pure light and fire or else composed of ether, and sometimes seen as the dwelling-place of God or other divine beings; the highest celestial sphere according to ancient and medieval astronomy.
adj
noun
- Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
- (heraldry) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
- (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
- Lapis lazuli.
- (countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
- Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
- a light shade of blue
verb
adj
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- (with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
- of or characteristic of low rank or importance
- having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
- falling short of some prescribed norm
- of low or inferior quality
- lower than a given reference point
- written or printed below and to one side of another character