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- define
- make plain and comprehensible
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
- (transitive) To give the reason for, justification for, or cause of.
- (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
- (transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
noun
- A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (semantics, lexicography) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
- a natural appreciation or ability
- sound practical judgment
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a general conscious awareness
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adj
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noun
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- a limited period of time
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
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adj
noun
- something that refers; a term that refers to another term
- the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate
- something referred to; the object of a reference
- That which is referenced.
- (semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes: what it refers to.
adj
noun
- A term used to characterize a person or thing.
- (taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.
- (mythology) A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.
- A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
- One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
- An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- descriptive word or phrase
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- By what means.
- (interrogative, degree) To what degree or extent.
- At what price, for what amount (of money).
- By what title or what name.
- (exclamative) Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.
- In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
- (relative, nonstandard, modifying a word like way or manner) In which.
- With what meaning or effect.
- (fused relative) In the manner in which.
- With overtones of why, for what reason.
- (fused relative) In any manner in which; in whatever way; however.
- (interrogative) In what state or condition.
- (interrogative) In what manner:
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intj
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noun
- (slang) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
- (US, business) A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale.
- (printing) A job press or platen press.
- (professional wrestling slang) A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
- (theater) An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.
- (British, finance) A market maker on the stock exchange; a stockjobber.
- An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
- someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
adj
- (by extension) That which actively defines a thing by describing what is characteristic of it.
- (theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than in terms of what God is not (apophatic).
- of or relating to the religious belief that God can be known to humans positively or affirmatively
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adv
noun
- The English term or expression for some thing or idea.
- A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.
- (uncountable, Canada, US) Alternative form of english.
- (uncountable) Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.
- (in the plural) The people of England, e.g., Englishmen and Englishwomen.
- The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.
- (Amish, in the plural) The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
- Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
- the people of England
- an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
- the discipline that studies the English language and literature
adj
- (Amish) Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
- Of or pertaining to England.
- Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
- Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
- English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
- (film, television) Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.
- of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people
- of or relating to the English language
name
- A male or female given name.
- An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
- An unincorporated community in Brazoria County, Texas.
- A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.
- An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Kentucky.
- English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
- An unincorporated community in Red River County, Texas.
- A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
- The language that developed in England and is now spoken in the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and many other parts of the world.
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adj
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
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verb
noun
- a shortened form of a word or phrase
- shortening something by omitting parts of it
- (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- The process of abbreviating.
- (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
noun
- A specific form or variation of something.
- (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
- An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
- (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
- A translation from one language to another.
- (music) An instrumental in sound system culture.
- (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- something a little different from others of the same type
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
- manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)
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verb
article
- Someone or something like; similar to; used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
- Used before a numeral.
- One; used before score, dozen, hundred, thousand, million, etc.
- An unspecified example of (something); the indefinite article.
- The same; one and the same. Used in phrases such as of a kind, birds of a feather, etc.
- Used in some adverbial phrases denoting the degree or extent of an action, such as a little, a bit, a lot, etc.
- One; someone named; used before a person's name, suggesting that the speaker knows little about the person other than the name.
- Any; every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope.
- Used before an adjective modifying a person's name, typically used to emphasize that person's current condition or emotional state.
- Any; used with a negative to indicate not a single one.
- Used in some phrases denoting quantity, such as a few, a good many, a couple, a little, a bit, etc.
- Used before an adjective that modifies a noun (singular or plural) delimited by a numeral.
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- A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (semantics, lexicography) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
- a natural appreciation or ability
- sound practical judgment
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a general conscious awareness
verb
noun
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- a limited period of time
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
- (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- (computing, informal) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- One whose employment has been terminated
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- (art) A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the usual duration of gestation for the given species (for example, nine months in humans); (metonymic) the end of this duration: the timepoint at which birth usually happens (for example, in humans, approximately 40 weeks from conception), defining the due date.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- Relations among people.
verb
adj
noun
- something that refers; a term that refers to another term
- the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate
- something referred to; the object of a reference
- That which is referenced.
- (semantics) The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes: what it refers to.
adj
noun
- A term used to characterize a person or thing.
- (taxonomy) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.
- (mythology) A term used as a qualifier of the name of a deity in order to designate said deity in a particular aspect or role.
- A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
- One of many formulaic words or phrases used in the Iliad and Odyssey to characterize a person, a group of people, or a thing.
- An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- descriptive word or phrase
verb
noun
- (slang) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something the name of which one cannot recall).
- (US, business) A type of intermediary in the apparel industry, as well as others, who buys excess merchandise from brand owners and manufacturers, and sells to retailers at prices that are 20-70% below wholesale.
- (printing) A job press or platen press.
- (professional wrestling slang) A performer whose primary role is to lose to established talent.
- (theater) An actor temporarily employed for a specific role, often in a touring company.
- (British, finance) A market maker on the stock exchange; a stockjobber.
- An intermediary who buys and sells merchandise.
- someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
noun
- The English term or expression for some thing or idea.
- A clear and readily understandable expression of some idea in English.
- (uncountable, Canada, US) Alternative form of english.
- (uncountable) Facility with the English language, ability to employ English correctly and idiomatically.
- (in the plural) The people of England, e.g., Englishmen and Englishwomen.
- The English text or phrasing of some spoken or written communication.
- (Amish, in the plural) The non-Amish, people outside the Amish faith and community.
- Synonym of language arts, the class dedicated to improving primary and secondary school students' mastery of English and the material taught in such classes.
- the people of England
- an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
- the discipline that studies the English language and literature
adj
- (Amish) Non-Amish, so named for speaking English rather than a variety of German.
- Of or pertaining to England.
- Of or pertaining to the people of England (e.g. Englishmen and Englishwomen).
- Of or pertaining to the avoirdupois system of measure.
- English-language; of or pertaining to the language, descended from Anglo-Saxon, which developed in England.
- (film, television) Denoting a vertical orientation of the barn doors on a camera.
- of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people
- of or relating to the English language
name
- A male or female given name.
- An English surname originally denoting a non-Celtic or non-Danish person in Britain.
- An unincorporated community in Brazoria County, Texas.
- A town, the county seat of Crawford County, Indiana; named for Indiana statesman William Hayden English.
- An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Kentucky.
- English language, literature, composition as a subject of study
- An unincorporated community in Red River County, Texas.
- A variety, dialect, or idiolect of spoken and or written English.
- The language that developed in England and is now spoken in the British Isles, the Commonwealth of Nations, North America, and many other parts of the world.
noun
- a shortened form of a word or phrase
- shortening something by omitting parts of it
- (mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.
- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- The process of abbreviating.
- (music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- (music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- (biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
noun
- A specific form or variation of something.
- (medicine) A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See anteversion and retroversion.
- An account or description from a particular point of view, especially as contrasted with another account.
- (ophthalmology) An eye movement involving both eyes moving synchronously and symmetrically in the same direction.
- A translation from one language to another.
- (music) An instrumental in sound system culture.
- (computing) A particular revision (of software, firmware, CPU, etc.).
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- something a little different from others of the same type
- a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
- an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
- manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)
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noun
verb
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- define
- make plain and comprehensible
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
- (transitive) To give the reason for, justification for, or cause of.
- (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
- (transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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adv
- By what means.
- (interrogative, degree) To what degree or extent.
- At what price, for what amount (of money).
- By what title or what name.
- (exclamative) Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.
- In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc.
- (relative, nonstandard, modifying a word like way or manner) In which.
- With what meaning or effect.
- (fused relative) In the manner in which.
- With overtones of why, for what reason.
- (fused relative) In any manner in which; in whatever way; however.
- (interrogative) In what state or condition.
- (interrogative) In what manner:
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intj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- (by extension) That which actively defines a thing by describing what is characteristic of it.
- (theology) Pertaining to the expression of God in terms of what God is, rather than in terms of what God is not (apophatic).
- of or relating to the religious belief that God can be known to humans positively or affirmatively
adj
noun
adj
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.