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- (countable) Spontaneous behaviour.
- (uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous.
- (biology) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigour and refreshment.
- (biology) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
- the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint
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noun
adj
- Occurring by chance.
- Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
- (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
- Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
- not of prime or central importance
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
noun
adj
- Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
- often improvised or impromptu
- (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
- (networking) Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
- For a particular purpose.
- for or concerned with one specific purpose
adv
noun
- That which is improvised; an impromptu.
- The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
- The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
- Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
- a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
- a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
- an unplanned expedient
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- By chance; unexpectedly; as the result of an unrelated series of events.
- As the result of some undesigned, unintended, unrelated, natural, or random occurrence; as the unexpected and unforeseen result of formerly unrelated factors.
- Accidentally; unintentionally; without meaning to; as the result of an event not expected, aided, or willingly planned.
adj
adj
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- (music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
- (philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
- (geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
- not of prime or central importance
noun
- (music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
- (painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature
adj
- Arising from a momentary impulse.
- Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
- Sudden, without warning.
- Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- said or done without having been planned or written in advance
- happening or arising without apparent external cause
verb
- utter impulsively
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
- (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
noun
verb
- utter impulsively
- eject semen
- (transitive, rare) To sexually stimulate (someone) so that they eject fluid from the urethra.
- (transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
- (specifically, transitive and intransitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.
- (biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
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adj
- Happening by chance.
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- (of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.
- (of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.
- Employed irregularly.
- Careless.
- not showing effort or strain
- marked by blithe unconcern
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- natural and unstudied
- appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
- occurring on a temporary or irregular basis
noun
- (fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is doing a particular type of job temporarily, not as a lifetime career.
- (in the plural) Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- (UK, historical) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- (video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.
- (UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
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- Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.
- (UK, slang) Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected; odd, strange, bizarre.
- (statistics) Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.
- (computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
- (informal) Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified.
- (informal) Of a person: characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
- (informal) Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.
- (informal) Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.
- lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
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verb
adj
- allowing for a spontaneous response
- without fixed limits or restrictions
- allowing for future changes or revisions
- (poker) Of a straight draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.
- Adaptable to change.
- Unrestricted by definite limits.
- Permitting a spontaneous or unstructured response.
noun
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
- sympathetic compatibility
- concurrence of opinion
- a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
verb
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- allow to have
- go together
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noun
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- a risk involving danger
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
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adj
- exceedingly sudden and unexpected
- dangerously steep
- surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
- Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
- Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
- Curt in manner.
- Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
- (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
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verb
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- (figuratively) Something decided by chance.
- A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
- players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
- something that is regarded as a chance event
noun
- anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
- an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury
- (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- (uncountable) Chance; random chance.
- (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- (derogatory or humorous) A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- (transport) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
- Any chance event.
- (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
adj
noun
- anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
- any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
- a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- a single complete movement
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
- a light touch with the hands
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club
- a light touch
- a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush
- (by extension) The rower nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rhythm for the other rowers; the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- (by extension) A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- (swimming) A movement of the arms and legs which propels a swimmer through the water; a specific combination of such movements, constituting a swimming style.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- (linguistics, calligraphy, typography) A line making up a written character.
- (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- (chiefly US) A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- (technology) A single movement or thrust of a reciprocating device (such as a piston or connecting rod); the length of this movement.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- (turn-based games) A masterful or effective action.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- (computing) In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water: either the cycle of movement as a whole, or the propelling phase (as opposed to the return); the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- (medicine) A sudden interruption of blood supply to the brain, causing minor to major brain damage and possible death.
- (squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- The hitting of a bell or similar by the clapper or hammer of a clock; the sound thereof; the time when this occurs.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- An individual social interaction whereby one gives another attention or recognition.
- (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
verb
- touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions
- treat gingerly or carefully
- row at a particular rate
- strike a ball with a smooth blow
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- (poetic, rare) Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
- (agriculture) To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- (swimming) To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- (by extension, chiefly US, politics) To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- (ball games) To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- (also figuratively) To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- (swimming) To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- (rare) To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- (especially psychoanalysis) To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- (medicine) Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- (by extension, vulgar, uncommon, intransitive) To masturbate.
noun
- (countable) Spontaneous behaviour.
- (uncountable) The quality of being spontaneous.
- (biology) The tendency to activity of muscular tissue, including the voluntary muscles, when in a state of healthful vigour and refreshment.
- (biology) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or checked by the environment.
- the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint
noun
- That which is improvised; an impromptu.
- The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
- The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
- Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
- a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)
- a performance given extempore without planning or preparation
- an unplanned expedient
noun
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
- sympathetic compatibility
- concurrence of opinion
- a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
verb
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- allow to have
- go together
noun
- (figuratively) Something decided by chance.
- A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
- players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
- something that is regarded as a chance event
noun
- anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
- an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury
- (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- (uncountable) Chance; random chance.
- (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- (derogatory or humorous) A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- (transport) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
- Any chance event.
- (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
- (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
adj
noun
- anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
- any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
- a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- a single complete movement
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
- a light touch with the hands
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club
- a light touch
- a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush
- (by extension) The rower nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rhythm for the other rowers; the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- (sciences) An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- (by extension) A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- (swimming) A movement of the arms and legs which propels a swimmer through the water; a specific combination of such movements, constituting a swimming style.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single movement of a paintbrush, chisel, pen, pencil, or similar implement; a line or mark made by such an implement.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- (linguistics, calligraphy, typography) A line making up a written character.
- (cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- (chiefly US) A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- (technology) A single movement or thrust of a reciprocating device (such as a piston or connecting rod); the length of this movement.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- (turn-based games) A masterful or effective action.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- (golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- (computing) In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water: either the cycle of movement as a whole, or the propelling phase (as opposed to the return); the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- (medicine) A sudden interruption of blood supply to the brain, causing minor to major brain damage and possible death.
- (squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- The hitting of a bell or similar by the clapper or hammer of a clock; the sound thereof; the time when this occurs.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- An individual social interaction whereby one gives another attention or recognition.
- (tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
verb
- touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions
- treat gingerly or carefully
- row at a particular rate
- strike a ball with a smooth blow
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- (poetic, rare) Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
- (agriculture) To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- (swimming) To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- (by extension, chiefly US, politics) To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- (ball games) To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- (also figuratively) To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- (masonry) To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- (swimming) To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- (rare) To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- (especially psychoanalysis) To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- (medicine) Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- (by extension, vulgar, uncommon, intransitive) To masturbate.
verb
- utter impulsively
- commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
- make one's way clumsily or blindly
- (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
- (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
- (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move.
- (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost].
- (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
noun
verb
- utter impulsively
- eject semen
- (transitive, rare) To sexually stimulate (someone) so that they eject fluid from the urethra.
- (transitive) To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.
- (specifically, transitive and intransitive) Of a human being or other mammal: to forcibly eject from the urethra in response to sexual stimulation, in a male, semen; and, in a female, vaginal fluid.
- (biology, transitive) To eject or suddenly throw fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
noun
adv
- By chance; unexpectedly; as the result of an unrelated series of events.
- As the result of some undesigned, unintended, unrelated, natural, or random occurrence; as the unexpected and unforeseen result of formerly unrelated factors.
- Accidentally; unintentionally; without meaning to; as the result of an event not expected, aided, or willingly planned.
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adv
adj
noun
adj
- Occurring by chance.
- Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
- (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
- Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
- not of prime or central importance
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
noun
adj
- Created on the spur of the moment; impromptu.
- often improvised or impromptu
- (sciences, of a hypothesis) Postulated solely to save a theory from being falsified, without making any new predictions.
- (networking) Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
- For a particular purpose.
- for or concerned with one specific purpose
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adj
adv
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verb
adj
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- (music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
- (philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
- (geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
- not of prime or central importance
noun
- (music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
- (painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature
adj
- Arising from a momentary impulse.
- Controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things.
- Sudden, without warning.
- Said or done without prior planning or prior writing.
- Proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint.
- Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
- Produced without being planted or without human cultivation or labor.
- Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
- said or done without having been planned or written in advance
- happening or arising without apparent external cause
adj
- Happening by chance.
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- (of clothing or utensils) Designed for informal or everyday use.
- (of behavior, usage, or milieu) Informal; relaxed.
- Employed irregularly.
- Careless.
- not showing effort or strain
- marked by blithe unconcern
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
- natural and unstudied
- appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions
- without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand
- occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility
- occurring on a temporary or irregular basis
noun
- (fandom slang) A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is doing a particular type of job temporarily, not as a lifetime career.
- (in the plural) Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- (UK, historical) One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he or she does not belong; a vagrant in the casual ward.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- (video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.
- (UK, historical) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
adj
- Occurring for no particular reason; haphazard, unpredictable.
- (UK, slang) Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected; odd, strange, bizarre.
- (statistics) Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.
- (computing) Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
- (informal) Selected for no particular reason; arbitrary; unspecified.
- (informal) Of a person: characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
- (informal) Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.
- (informal) Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.
- lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
noun
verb
adj
- allowing for a spontaneous response
- without fixed limits or restrictions
- allowing for future changes or revisions
- (poker) Of a straight draw, made up of four consecutive cards, thus able to be completed by either of two ranks of card.
- Adaptable to change.
- Unrestricted by definite limits.
- Permitting a spontaneous or unstructured response.
adj
noun
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- a risk involving danger
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
verb
adj
- exceedingly sudden and unexpected
- dangerously steep
- surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
- Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
- Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
- Curt in manner.
- Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
- (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.