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noun
- The act of replacing something.
- A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
- The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person who follows next in order
- someone who takes the place of another person
- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
noun
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
verb
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
verb
- To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- (psychology) To repress.
- To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
- (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- To put out of place; to disarrange.
- cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
- take the place of or have precedence over
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- cause to move, usually with force or pressure
noun
- The action of reverting something.
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- (Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- turning in the opposite direction
- (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or their heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- returning to a former state
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, to overturn.
- (intransitive, technical) To come off or out of a seat.
- To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a political one; to dethrone.
- (transitive) To dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback.
- To upset the composure of (someone); to astound, to shock, to unsettle.
- dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse
- remove from political office
noun
- The act of removing something.
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- degree of figurative distance or separation
verb
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
noun
- The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
- Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
- (in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
- Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
- (countable) An instance of reworking.
verb
noun
- The act of repairing something.
- A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
- The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- The result of repairing something.
- The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
- a formal way of referring to the condition of something
- the act of putting something in working order again
- a frequently visited place
verb
- To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
- To transfer oneself to another place.
- To pair again.
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give new life or energy to
- move, travel, or proceed toward some place
- make amends for; pay compensation for
- set straight or right
noun
verb
verb
- To be replaced by another person, such as in a shift change.
- To replace another person or take another person's place, such as in a shift change at a workplace.
- (transitive) To affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.
- (transitive, sports) To touch a contestant or player in order to do something, such as to remove a runner from play in baseball or to replace a wrestler with a teammate in tag-team wrestling.
noun
- the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
- The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
- getting something back again
- some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
- a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
- the state of being restored to its former good condition
- The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
- (countable) The result of such a process, such as a dental restoration (a dental prosthesis).
- The return of a socioeconomic formation in the role of the dominant mode of production.
- (theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
noun
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- the murder of a competitor
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
verb
- (transitive) To replace.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
- (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
- (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- (intransitive) To become something different.
- (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
- (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it), especially to put a clean diaper on (someone).
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- change clothes; put on different clothes
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
- become deeper in tone
- remove or replace the coverings of
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- give to, and receive from, one another
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- the action of changing something
- (uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
- (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
- (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- (countable) A replacement.
- (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
- a thing that is different
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
- a different or fresh set of clothes
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
- coins of small denomination regarded collectively
- the result of alteration or modification
- the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
verb
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To trim.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
adj
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- Corporal punishment by use of a switch (twig or twigs).
- Back-and-forth movement of an animal's tail, etc.
- The movement of a locomotive from one track to another.
- The transference of an investment from one fund to another.
- (computing, networking) The process of transferring data packets from one device to another in a network, or from one network to another.
- Change from one product or service provider to another.
verb
noun
- Something that rectifies.
- (nautical) An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship.
- (artificial neural networks) The activation function f(x)= max (0,x), where x is the input to a neuron.
- A device that converts alternating current into direct current; often a diode.
- electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current
- a person who corrects or sets right
noun
- A substitution.
- (marketing) A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- (music) A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- (mathematics) An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
noun
- a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone
- a person who follows next in order
- a person who inherits some title or office
- A person who inherits a title or office.
- A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
- (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
- The next heir in order or succession.
verb
- (transitive) To restore or replace.
- (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
- (transitive) To postpone.
- (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
- diminish or abate
- send (money) in payment
- forgive
- release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- hold back to a later time
- refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
noun
- (law) A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
- (chiefly British) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
- the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
noun
- the act of rewriting something
- something that has been written again
- a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- A duplicate copy of a legal document.
- (historical law) A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate.
- A rewriting, a document copied or written again.
- (canon law) An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- the act of rewriting something
- something that has been written again
- the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
- The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
- (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
- (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To replace with something better.
- (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
- (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
- (intransitive, transitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.
- (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
- give better travel conditions to
- get better travel conditions
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- rate higher; raise in value or esteem
- to improve what was old or outdated
adv
noun
- An upward grade or slope.
- An improvement.
- An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
- a reservation that is improved
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)
noun
- The act of fixing.
- The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
- (law) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.
- A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
- (genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
- In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
- The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
- (ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location.
- (orthopaedics) process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
- A sexual fetish or turn-on.
- The state of being fixed or fixated.
- (cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
- the activity of fastening something firmly in position
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
noun
- the act of restoring something to its original state
- a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- getting something back again
- That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
- The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
- A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
- (law) A process of compensation for losses.
- (medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
noun
verb
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
noun
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
- (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- A substitute or replacement.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
noun
- the act of improving something
- a condition superior to an earlier condition
- a change for the better; progress in development
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance
- Something which is improved
- (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
noun
- The act of resorbing.
- The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
- (medicine) The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material.
- the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation
noun
- The action or process of rectifying.
- (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
- (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
- (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
- (astrology) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
- (geometry) The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3.
- (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
- determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve
- (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- the conversion of alternating current to direct current
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fit out or supply again (with something).
- (transitive) To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
- (intransitive, nautical) To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again.
- (transitive) To fit again; to put back into its place.
- fit out again
noun
- The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
- (television, film) A backdrop.
- (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
- The mounting of a horse or other animal.
- Support, especially financial.
- A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
- the act of providing approval and support
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
adj
verb
noun
- The act of replacing something.
- A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.
- The removal of an edge of crystal, by one plane or more.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- filling again by supplying what has been used up
- a person who follows next in order
- someone who takes the place of another person
- the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another
noun
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- a mutual expression of views (especially an unpleasant one)
- (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value
- chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another
- (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes
- a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
- (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop
- a workplace for buying and selling; open only to members
- the act of giving something in return for something received
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
- (usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- (telephony) A central office.
- A conversation.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
- (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- A place for conducting trading.
- (telephony) The portion of a telephone number that represents (or formerly represented) a central office.
- (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
verb
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- give to, and receive from, one another
- hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent
- (transitive) To trade or barter.
- (transitive, figurative) To mutually direct at each other.
- (law, England and Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
- (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
noun
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
verb
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
noun
- The action of reverting something.
- The fact of being turned the reverse way.
- (property law) The right of succeeding to an estate, or to another possession.
- The action of returning to a former condition or practice.
- The action of turning something the reverse way.
- (genetics) The return of a genetic characteristic after a period of suppression.
- (Islam, usually proscribed) The act of conversion to Islam, due to the belief that all people are born Muslim.
- The right of succeeding to an office after the death or retirement of the holder.
- (property law) An estate which has been returned in this manner.
- A sum payable on a person's death.
- (property law) The return of an estate to the donor or grantor after expiry of the grant.
- a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
- turning in the opposite direction
- (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)
- (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or their heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)
- returning to a former state
- a failure to maintain a higher state
noun
- The act of removing something.
- (cooking, now chiefly historical) A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.
- (British) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
- The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
- (figurative, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
- A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
- (figurative, by extension) State of mind allowing for a certain degree of objectivity in evaluating things.
- Distance in time or space; interval.
- degree of figurative distance or separation
verb
- (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- To dismiss or discharge from office.
- (transitive) To murder.
- (transitive) To move from one place to another, especially to take away.
- (transitive) To delete.
- (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes
- remove from a position or an office
- dispose of
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- stay away or leave
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- get rid of something abstract
- cause to leave
noun
- The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
- Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
- (in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
- Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
- (countable) An instance of reworking.
verb
noun
- The act of repairing something.
- A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
- The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
- The result of repairing something.
- The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
- a formal way of referring to the condition of something
- the act of putting something in working order again
- a frequently visited place
verb
- To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
- To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
- To transfer oneself to another place.
- To pair again.
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- give new life or energy to
- move, travel, or proceed toward some place
- make amends for; pay compensation for
- set straight or right
noun
verb
noun
- the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state
- The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
- getting something back again
- some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed
- a model that represents the landscape of a former geological age or that represents and extinct animal etc.
- the state of being restored to its former good condition
- The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
- (countable) The result of such a process, such as a dental restoration (a dental prosthesis).
- The return of a socioeconomic formation in the role of the dominant mode of production.
- (theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
noun
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- the murder of a competitor
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
verb
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To trim.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
adj
noun
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- Corporal punishment by use of a switch (twig or twigs).
- Back-and-forth movement of an animal's tail, etc.
- The movement of a locomotive from one track to another.
- The transference of an investment from one fund to another.
- (computing, networking) The process of transferring data packets from one device to another in a network, or from one network to another.
- Change from one product or service provider to another.
verb
noun
- Something that rectifies.
- (nautical) An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship.
- (artificial neural networks) The activation function f(x)= max (0,x), where x is the input to a neuron.
- A device that converts alternating current into direct current; often a diode.
- electrical device that transforms alternating into direct current
- a person who corrects or sets right
verb
- (transitive) To replace.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
- (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
- (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- (intransitive) To become something different.
- (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
- (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it), especially to put a clean diaper on (someone).
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- change clothes; put on different clothes
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
- become deeper in tone
- remove or replace the coverings of
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- give to, and receive from, one another
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- the action of changing something
- (uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
- (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
- (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- (countable) A replacement.
- (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
- a thing that is different
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
- a different or fresh set of clothes
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
- coins of small denomination regarded collectively
- the result of alteration or modification
- the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
noun
- A substitution.
- (marketing) A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- (music) A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- (mathematics) An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
noun
- a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone
- a person who follows next in order
- a person who inherits some title or office
- A person who inherits a title or office.
- A person or thing that immediately follows another in holding an office or title.
- (arithmetic, set theory) The integer, ordinal number or cardinal number immediately following another.
- The next heir in order or succession.
noun
- the act of rewriting something
- something that has been written again
- a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)
- A duplicate copy of a legal document.
- (historical law) A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate.
- A rewriting, a document copied or written again.
- (canon law) An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- the act of rewriting something
- something that has been written again
- the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) The action or process of reviewing something previously learned, especially one′s notes in preparation for a test or examination.
- The action or process of reviewing, editing and amending.
- (countable) A story corrected or expanded by a writer commissioned by the original author.
- (countable) A changed edition, or new version; a modification.
verb
noun
- The act of fixing.
- The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
- (law) Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.
- A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
- (genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
- In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
- The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
- (ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location.
- (orthopaedics) process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
- A sexual fetish or turn-on.
- The state of being fixed or fixated.
- (cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
- the activity of fastening something firmly in position
- an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
noun
- the act of restoring something to its original state
- a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- getting something back again
- That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
- The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
- A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
- (law) A process of compensation for losses.
- (medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
noun
verb
- To tear up (a plant, etc.) by the roots, or as if by the roots; to extirpate, to root up.
- (intransitive, reflexive) Of oneself or someone: to move away from a familiar environment (for example, to live elsewhere).
- (figuratively) To destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- (transitive) Of a pig or other animal: to dig up (something in the ground) using the snout; to rummage for (something) in the ground; to grub up, to root, to rout.
- (figuratively) To remove (someone or something) from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
- pull up by or as if by the roots
- move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- destroy completely, as if down to the roots
noun
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- (linguistics) The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
- (chemistry, especially organic chemistry) The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
- A substitute or replacement.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:
noun
- the act of improving something
- a condition superior to an earlier condition
- a change for the better; progress in development
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance
- Something which is improved
- (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
noun
- The act of resorbing.
- The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
- (medicine) The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material.
- the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation
noun
- The action or process of rectifying.
- (astronomy) The adjustment of a globe preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem.
- (geometry) The determination of a straight line whose length is equal to a portion of a curve.
- (politics, historical) Any of a number of Chinese and Filipino communist purges. See rectification movement.
- (astrology) A procedure that attempts to determine a person's time of birth based on events in their life.
- (geometry) The truncation of a polyhedron by replacing each vertex with a face that passes though the midpoint of each edge connected to the vertex; an analogous procedure on a polytope of dimension higher than 3.
- (chemistry, chemical engineering) Purification of a substance through repeated or continuous distillation.
- determination of the length of a curve; finding a straight line equal in length to a given curve
- (chemistry) the process of refinement or purification of a substance by distillation
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- the conversion of alternating current to direct current
noun
verb
- (transitive) To fit out or supply again (with something).
- (transitive) To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
- (intransitive, nautical) To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again.
- (transitive) To fit again; to put back into its place.
- fit out again
noun
- The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
- (television, film) A backdrop.
- (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
- The mounting of a horse or other animal.
- Support, especially financial.
- A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
- the act of providing approval and support
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
adj
verb
verb
- To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
- To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
- (psychology) To repress.
- To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
- (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
- To put out of place; to disarrange.
- cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense
- take the place of or have precedence over
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- cause to move, usually with force or pressure
verb
- To cause (something) to be removed or replaced in its role; to displace, to overturn.
- (intransitive, technical) To come off or out of a seat.
- To remove (someone) from an office or position, especially a political one; to dethrone.
- (transitive) To dislodge or remove (someone) from a seat, especially on horseback.
- To upset the composure of (someone); to astound, to shock, to unsettle.
- dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse
- remove from political office
verb
- To be replaced by another person, such as in a shift change.
- To replace another person or take another person's place, such as in a shift change at a workplace.
- (transitive) To affix a label to (potentially dangerous machinery) to indicate why it has been shut down. To avoid accidents, only the person who affixed the label is authorized to remove it and restart the machinery.
- (transitive, sports) To touch a contestant or player in order to do something, such as to remove a runner from play in baseball or to replace a wrestler with a teammate in tag-team wrestling.
verb
- (transitive) To replace.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something into something else.
- (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
- (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
- (intransitive) To become something different.
- (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.)
- (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it), especially to put a clean diaper on (someone).
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- change clothes; put on different clothes
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
- become deeper in tone
- remove or replace the coverings of
- change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- give to, and receive from, one another
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- the action of changing something
- (uncountable) An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money.
- (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
- (countable, uncountable) The process of becoming different.
- (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
- (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
- (countable) A replacement.
- (baseball) A change-up pitch.
- (uncountable) Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase.
- a thing that is different
- an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
- a different or fresh set of clothes
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
- coins of small denomination regarded collectively
- the result of alteration or modification
- the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
verb
- (transitive) To restore or replace.
- (transitive) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; to cancel.
- (transitive) To postpone.
- (transitive) To transmit or send (e.g. money in payment); to supply.
- (transitive) To refer (something or someone) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
- (transitive) To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
- (transitive) To forgive, pardon (a wrong, offence, etc.).
- diminish or abate
- send (money) in payment
- forgive
- release from (claims, debts, or taxes)
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- hold back to a later time
- refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
noun
- (law) A communication from a superior court to a subordinate court.
- (chiefly British) Terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.
- the topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
- (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
verb
- (transitive) To replace with something better.
- (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
- (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
- (intransitive, transitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher version number or marketed under a more recent product name.
- (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
- give better travel conditions to
- get better travel conditions
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- rate higher; raise in value or esteem
- to improve what was old or outdated
adv
noun
- An upward grade or slope.
- An improvement.
- An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
- a reservation that is improved
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)
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