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adj
noun
- The act of giving birth to twins.
- The act of producing twins.
- (transport) The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
- (crystallography) The formation of twin crystals.
- (paraphilia) A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
- The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).
verb
noun
- one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
- One of a group of three, particularly
- (music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
- A constructed gem consisting of a thin slice of natural opal sandwiched between a clear glass or quartz top and a synthetic or stone backing that enhances the colour of the opal.
- (physics) A triquark.
- (physics) A quantum state with three allowed projections for the spin.
noun
- either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a duplicate copy
- (US) A twin size mattress; or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A friendly term of address, typically for men.
- (crystallography) A twin crystal.
adj
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give birth to twins
- grow as twins
- duplicate or match
- (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
- (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
- (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
- (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
- (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
- (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
verb
- become pregnant; undergo conception
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- have the idea for
- (transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
- (ambitransitive with of, ditransitive) To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.
- (ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).
- (transitive) To understand (someone).
noun
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
verb
- To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up.
- (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
- To yield or result in.
- To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
- (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed, or multiplied.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside (a person or a bodily orifice of same); to creampie.
- (transitive, often with to or with) To arrange the mating of (specific animals).
- (transitive) To keep (animals) and have (them) reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.
- (of animals) To mate.
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- To propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- call forth
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
- cause to procreate (animals)
noun
adj
- producing offspring of only one sex, exhibiting monogeny
- of or relating to monogenesis or to monogenism
- (mathematics, of a semigroup) generated by a set containing only a single element
- (mathematics, of a function) having a single derivative at a point
- (genetics) regulated by a single gene
- of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes
noun
noun
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
adj
verb
noun
- one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- (music) The E string of a violin.
- (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
- (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
- (music) An interval of one fifth.
- (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
noun
- one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
- a set of five similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- A cycle adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.
- A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four.
noun
- the process of generating offspring
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
- copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
- the act of making copies
- (computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.
- A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.
- The act of making copies.
- The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.
verb
- make pregnant
- (printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.
- (British) To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
- (racket sports, intransitive) To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.
- (slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.
- (bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
- (colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
verb
adj
- carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
- rich in significance or implication
- filled with or attended with
- (sometimes proscribed) Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
- (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- (comparable) Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
- (poetic) Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
noun
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- call forth
- (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
- (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
- (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
- (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
verb
noun
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- produce (energy)
- produce, create
- give or supply
- (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
- (transitive) To procreate, beget.
- (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
adj
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- irritate
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
noun
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- Lineage.
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- care for like a mother
- (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
- (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
- (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
- (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
noun
- a term of address for a mother superior
- a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
- a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for an elderly woman
- a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
- A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
- (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
- (figuratively) A female ancestor.
- A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
- A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
- A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
- (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
- (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
- (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- (Stan Twitter, originally drag slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
- (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
- A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
- Alternative form of moth-er.
- (figuratively) A source or origin.
verb
noun
- male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
- the founder of a family
- a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority
- (fantasy) The vampire who turned another person.
- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
noun
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
verb
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
noun
- one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg
- a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
- (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
- A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
- Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
- A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
- A unit of energy equivalent to a quadrillion BTU (10¹⁵ BTU).
- (informal) A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.
- (skating) A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
- (informal) A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
- (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- (electronics, telecommunications) A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.
- (informal) A quadcopter.
- (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
- A skate with four wheels.
- (radio) A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.
- (poker slang, attributive) Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).
- A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
- (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
- (informal) A quadriplegic person.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
- (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
- (intransitive) To ride a quad bike.
- (typography, letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
noun
- one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- (music) A tuplet of four notes.
- A cycle for carrying four riders, arranged so that all the riders can assist in the propulsion.
- One of a group of four, particularly one of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
- A sequence of four elements.
noun
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
verb
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
adj
verb
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- combine by multiplication
- combine or increase by multiplication
- make multiple copies of
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
- (intransitive) To grow in number.
- (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).
- (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
- (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
- (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
adv
noun
verb
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- make a copy or equivalent of
- repeat after memorization
- recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.
- (transitive) To bring something to mind; to recall.
- (transitive) To produce an image or copy of.
- (transitive) To produce again; to recreate.
- (transitive or intransitive, biology) To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- the normal time between successive generations
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- a coming into being
- the production of heat or electricity
- group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- a multiplicative increase
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
- The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
- (countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The process of computing the sum of an addition with one and the same number a specified number of times (i.e. 4 times 5 = [0 +] 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20) or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
noun
- The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
- That with which anything is impregnated.
- The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
- (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- material with which something is impregnated
adj
- not bearing offspring
- completely wanting or lacking
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
- (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
- Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
- (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
- (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
- Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
- (with of) Devoid, lacking.
noun
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- (usually in the plural) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
noun
- a female human offspring
- One’s female offspring.
- (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
- (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
- (by extension) A female character of a creator.
- A daughter language.
- (informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
- A female descendant.
noun
- a female human offspring
- a young female
- a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
- a friendly informal reference to a grown woman
- a youthful female person
- A female child.
- (informal) A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of.
- (sometimes offensive, see usage note) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
- (especially with a possessive) A female friend.
- One's girlfriend.
- (colloquial) A term of address to a female (see usage notes)
- (somewhat childish, as a modifier) A female (tree, gene, etc).
- (card games, slang, uncommon) A queen (the playing card).
- One's daughter.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Cocaine, especially in powder form.
- A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.
- A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
verb
noun
- one of three offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- One of a group of three siblings born at the same time to the same mother.
- One of a group of three, particularly
- (music) A group of three notes played or written where two notes would ordinarily be; a form of tuplet.
- A constructed gem consisting of a thin slice of natural opal sandwiched between a clear glass or quartz top and a synthetic or stone backing that enhances the colour of the opal.
- (physics) A triquark.
- (physics) A quantum state with three allowed projections for the spin.
noun
- either of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a duplicate copy
- (US) A twin size mattress; or a bed designed for such a mattress.
- Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
- A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
- Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.
- (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A friendly term of address, typically for men.
- (crystallography) A twin crystal.
adj
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give birth to twins
- grow as twins
- duplicate or match
- (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.
- (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
- (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
- (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
- (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
- (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
noun
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
noun
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
adj
verb
noun
- one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- (card games) In piquet, a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
- (music) The E string of a violin.
- (fencing) quinte; the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
- (firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
- (music) An interval of one fifth.
- (US, informal) a quin or quintuplet.
noun
- one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
- a set of five similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- A cycle adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.
- A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four.
noun
- the process of generating offspring
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
- copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
- the act of making copies
- (computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.
- A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.
- The act of making copies.
- The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.
noun
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
verb
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
noun
- one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a muscle of the thigh that extends the leg
- a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings
- (printing) a block of type without a raised letter; used for spacing between words or sentences
- (informal) Quadruplex videotape.
- A poster advertising a cinematic film release, measuring forty by thirty inches, four times the area of crown paper.
- Clipping of quadruplet (“a set of four; one of a set of four”).
- A serving of four shots of espresso; (attributive) containing four shots of espresso.
- A unit of energy equivalent to a quadrillion BTU (10¹⁵ BTU).
- (informal) A quadruplet, one of four babies born during the same birth.
- (skating) A quadruple, a jump with four revolutions in the air.
- (informal) A quadrupel beer.
- (informal) A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
- (Mormonism) The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- (electronics, telecommunications) A group of four insulated wires twisted together to form two circuits of two wires each.
- (informal) A quadcopter.
- (informal) The quadriceps muscle.
- A skate with four wheels.
- (radio) A quad antenna, a directional radio antenna consisting of multiple loop antennas.
- (poker slang, attributive) Of or relating to quads (four of a kind).
- A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
- (chess) A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- (informal, computer graphics) A quadrilateral.
- (informal) A quadriplegic person.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
- (typography, phototypesetting and digital typesetting, transitive, intransitive) To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
- (intransitive) To ride a quad bike.
- (typography, letterpress typography, transitive, intransitive) To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
noun
- one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- a set of four similar things considered as a unit
- the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- (music) A tuplet of four notes.
- A cycle for carrying four riders, arranged so that all the riders can assist in the propulsion.
- One of a group of four, particularly one of four babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
- A sequence of four elements.
noun
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
- (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.
- (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
- (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
- (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- (uncountable) Fuller's earth, clay pellets, wood chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals.
- (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
- (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
verb
- strew
- give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
- (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
- (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
adj
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- the normal time between successive generations
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- a coming into being
- the production of heat or electricity
- group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- a multiplicative increase
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
- The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
- (countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The process of computing the sum of an addition with one and the same number a specified number of times (i.e. 4 times 5 = [0 +] 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20) or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
noun
- The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
- That with which anything is impregnated.
- The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
- (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- material with which something is impregnated
noun
- a female human offspring
- One’s female offspring.
- (physics) A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
- (syntax, of a parse tree) A descendant.
- (by extension) A female character of a creator.
- A daughter language.
- (informal, uncommon, sometimes derogatory) A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
- A female descendant.
noun
- a female human offspring
- a young female
- a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
- a friendly informal reference to a grown woman
- a youthful female person
- A female child.
- (informal) A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of.
- (sometimes offensive, see usage note) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
- (especially with a possessive) A female friend.
- One's girlfriend.
- (colloquial) A term of address to a female (see usage notes)
- (somewhat childish, as a modifier) A female (tree, gene, etc).
- (card games, slang, uncommon) A queen (the playing card).
- One's daughter.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Cocaine, especially in powder form.
- A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.
- A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
verb
verb
- become pregnant; undergo conception
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- have the idea for
- (transitive) To develop; to form in the mind; to imagine.
- (ambitransitive with of, ditransitive) To imagine (as); to have a conception of; to form a representation of.
- (ambitransitive) To have a child; to become pregnant (with).
- (transitive) To understand (someone).
verb
- To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
- (sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up.
- (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
- To yield or result in.
- To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
- (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed, or multiplied.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside (a person or a bodily orifice of same); to creampie.
- (transitive, often with to or with) To arrange the mating of (specific animals).
- (transitive) To keep (animals) and have (them) reproduce in a way that improves the next generation's qualities.
- (of animals) To mate.
- To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- To propagate or grow (plants) in an effort to give (them) certain qualities.
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- call forth
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
- cause to procreate (animals)
noun
verb
- make pregnant
- (printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.
- (British) To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
- (racket sports, intransitive) To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.
- (slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.
- (bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
- (colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
verb
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- call forth
- (transitive) To give existence to, to produce (living creatures).
- (critical theory) To endow with gender; to create gender or enhance the importance of gender.
- (transitive) To bring into existence (a situation, quality, result etc.); to give rise to, cause, create.
- (intransitive) To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced.
verb
noun
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- produce (energy)
- produce, create
- give or supply
- (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
- (transitive, mathematics) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.
- (transitive) To procreate, beget.
- (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
adj
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- achieve a point or goal
- suffer from the receipt of
- evoke an emotional response
- irritate
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- take vengeance on or get even
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- perceive by hearing
- give certain properties to something
- overcome or destroy
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- attract and fix
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- go or come after and bring or take back
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- purchase
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach and board
- reach by calculation
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (impersonal, informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To getter.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (copulative, rather informal, followed by an adjective) To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
noun
- a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- (informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- (UK, Ireland, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”).
- Lineage.
- (Internet slang) A message or post on an online platform, particularly imageboards, with a unique identifier deemed special or rare, usually due to patterns in the ID.
verb
- make (offspring) by reproduction
- care for like a mother
- (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
- (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
- (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
- (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
noun
- a term of address for a mother superior
- a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
- a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for an elderly woman
- a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
- A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
- (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
- (figuratively) A female ancestor.
- A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
- A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
- A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
- (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
- (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
- (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- (Stan Twitter, originally drag slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
- (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
- A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
- Alternative form of moth-er.
- (figuratively) A source or origin.
verb
noun
- male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
- the founder of a family
- a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority
- (fantasy) The vampire who turned another person.
- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
verb
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- combine by multiplication
- combine or increase by multiplication
- make multiple copies of
- have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
- (intransitive) To grow in number.
- (transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
- (transitive, arithmetic, with by) To perform multiplication on (a number).
- (transitive, rare) To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
- (intransitive) To breed or propagate.
- (intransitive, arithmetic) To perform multiplication.
adv
noun
verb
- have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
- make a copy or equivalent of
- repeat after memorization
- recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.
- (transitive) To bring something to mind; to recall.
- (transitive) To produce an image or copy of.
- (transitive) To produce again; to recreate.
- (transitive or intransitive, biology) To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
adj
noun
- The act of giving birth to twins.
- The act of producing twins.
- (transport) The conversion of a road into a dual carriageway.
- (crystallography) The formation of twin crystals.
- (paraphilia) A type of identity transformation where a subject transforms into a copy or clone of someone else.
- The pairing of similar objects (such as towns).
verb
adj
- producing offspring of only one sex, exhibiting monogeny
- of or relating to monogenesis or to monogenism
- (mathematics, of a semigroup) generated by a set containing only a single element
- (mathematics, of a function) having a single derivative at a point
- (genetics) regulated by a single gene
- of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes
noun
adj
- carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life
- rich in significance or implication
- filled with or attended with
- (sometimes proscribed) Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
- (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- (comparable) Meaningful, having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
- (poetic) Fecund, fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
noun
noun
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
adj
verb
adj
- not bearing offspring
- completely wanting or lacking
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
- (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
- Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
- (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
- (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
- Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
- (with of) Devoid, lacking.
noun
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- (usually in the plural) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.