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verb
- administer Communion; in church
- receive Communion, in the Catholic church
- (transitive, Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
- transfer to another
- transmit information
- transmit thoughts or feelings
- join or connect
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- (intransitive, Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- (intransitive) To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].
- (transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- (intransitive) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
verb
- receive Communion, in the Catholic church
- communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity
- To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
- (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
- (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.
noun
- a body of people or families living together and sharing everything
- the smallest administrative district of several European countries
- A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
- A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
- (historical) A self-governing city or league of citizens.
noun
- a clergyman ministering to some institution
- A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
- A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.
noun
- A service of Holy Communion.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
- (waitstaff, metonymic) A group of diners at a given table or tables.
- A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
- (metonymic) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- (poker, metonymic) The lineup of players at a given table.
- (roleplaying games, metonymic) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
- a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
- flat tableland with steep edges
- food or meals in general
- a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
- a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
- a set of data arranged in rows and columns
verb
- To put on a table.
- (metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- (poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
- (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
- hold back to a later time
- arrange or enter in tabular form
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adj
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- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- (finance) Ellipsis of call option.
- (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
- A decision or judgement.
- (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A cry or shout.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- a demand
- a brief social visit
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a request
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
verb
- (transitive) To declare in advance.
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To scold.
- (transitive) To predict.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To stop at a station or port.
- (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
- (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
- (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
- (passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
- (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- (billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- (transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- (intransitive) To cry or shout.
- (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- make a stop in a harbour
- consider or regard as being
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- order, request, or command to come
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- present for redemption before maturation
- utter a sudden loud cry
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- indicate a decision in regard to
- pay a brief visit
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- demand payment of (a loan)
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- order or request or give a command for
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
noun
- (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
- (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
- A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
- In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
noun
- A representative of the clergy in convocation.
- (British, law) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
- A procurator or manager for another.
- (UK) An official at any of several older universities.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
- someone who supervises (an examination)
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- (Christianity) A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.
- A waitress or waiter.
- (computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
- A tray for dishes.
- (tennis, volleyball) The player who serves the ball.
- A spoon for serving food.
- (computing) A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
- (social media) A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- (court games) the player who serves to start a point
- utensil used in serving food or drink
- a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
noun
- (Christianity) The role of ordained clergy in the celebration of the Eucharist in some denominations.
- (British, India, historical) One of the three original provinces of British India.
- The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the president.
- The office or role of president.
- The time during which one is president; a president's term of office.
- (Mormonism) A supreme local council made up of three persons; (usually capitalized; also First Presidency) the highest authority.
- the office and function of president
- the tenure of a president
noun
- The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
- (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
- (nuclear physics) A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
- (UK) Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
- (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
- (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
- Someone who moderates.
- The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
- (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
- An arbitrator or mediator.
- A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
- A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
- in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly
- someone who presides over a forum or debate
- someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence
- any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors
noun
- a member of the Episcopal church
- (now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of episcopalian.
- An adherent of an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
adj
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church
- (somewhat nonstandard) Of or relating to Anglicanism or an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
- (now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of episcopalian.
noun
- (Christianity) Holy Communion; the Eucharist.
- (Roman Catholicism) A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Catholic Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.
- A joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.
- A denomination; a high-level organised subgrouping of Christianity (now especially in Anglican Communion)
- (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites
- sharing thoughts and feelings
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- being or having the nature of a god
- resulting from divine providence
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
- appropriate to or befitting a god
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
- emanating from God
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
verb
- search by divining, as if with a rod
- perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
- (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- To render divine; to deify.
noun
- A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
- Alternative spelling of qanun.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- Alternative spelling of cannon (“a carom in billiards”).
- (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- (chiefly fandom slang, uncountable) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe; (metonymic) these sources' content.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- (cooking) Alternative form of cannon (“rolled and filleted loin of meat”).
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
- a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts
- a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
- a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church
- a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
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- someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
- (Christianity) An altar server.
- (Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
- An attendant, assistant, or follower.
noun
- In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
- (Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
- In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
noun
- Participation in Holy Communion.
- An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
- A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
- (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".
- The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
- A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
- The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
- (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
- (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
- the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
- something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
- a connection allowing access between persons or places
noun
- (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
- (bridge) A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.
- The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
- Allurement; enticement.
- (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
- a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something
- a tempting allurement
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- a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders
- a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion
- (Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
- A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
- A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
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- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
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- earlier in time
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
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- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the act of ceding back
- a small concavity
- the act of becoming more distant
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
- The act of ceding something back.
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
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- (by extension) A Christian religious service in which this sacrament is enacted.
- (Christianity) A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper of Christ, with the physical forms of bread and usually wine which are believed by certain denominations to become Christ himself or to host his spiritual presence.
- The substances received during this sacrament, namely the bread and wine, seen as Christ’s body and blood.
- a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
noun
- a clergyman ministering to some institution
- A member of a religious body who is (often, although not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to provide pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.
- A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.
noun
- A service of Holy Communion.
- A supply of food or entertainment.
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts.
- A group of people at a table, for example, for a meal, meeting or game.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- A wide, flat obstacle for a horse to jump over.
- (waitstaff, metonymic) A group of diners at a given table or tables.
- A flat gravestone supported on pillars.
- (metonymic) A booth or display at an event such as an exposition or fair.
- (computing, chiefly databases) A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
- The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond.
- (poker, metonymic) The lineup of players at a given table.
- (roleplaying games, metonymic) A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign.
- (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- (sports) A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period.
- a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
- flat tableland with steep edges
- food or meals in general
- a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it
- a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game
- a set of data arranged in rows and columns
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- To put on a table.
- (metonymic) To represent a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
- (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- (poker, colloquial) To show one's cards face-up, especially during showdown.
- To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
- (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
- (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
- hold back to a later time
- arrange or enter in tabular form
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- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- (finance) Ellipsis of call option.
- (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
- A decision or judgement.
- (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A cry or shout.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- a demand
- a brief social visit
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a request
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
verb
- (transitive) To declare in advance.
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To scold.
- (transitive) To predict.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To stop at a station or port.
- (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
- (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
- (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
- (passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
- (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- (billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- (transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- (intransitive) To cry or shout.
- (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- make a stop in a harbour
- consider or regard as being
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- order, request, or command to come
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- present for redemption before maturation
- utter a sudden loud cry
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- indicate a decision in regard to
- pay a brief visit
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- demand payment of (a loan)
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- order or request or give a command for
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
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- (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
- (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
- A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
- In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
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- A representative of the clergy in convocation.
- (British, law) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
- A procurator or manager for another.
- (UK) An official at any of several older universities.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
- someone who supervises (an examination)
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- (Christianity) A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.
- A waitress or waiter.
- (computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
- A tray for dishes.
- (tennis, volleyball) The player who serves the ball.
- A spoon for serving food.
- (computing) A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
- (social media) A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- (court games) the player who serves to start a point
- utensil used in serving food or drink
- a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
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- (Christianity) The role of ordained clergy in the celebration of the Eucharist in some denominations.
- (British, India, historical) One of the three original provinces of British India.
- The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the president.
- The office or role of president.
- The time during which one is president; a president's term of office.
- (Mormonism) A supreme local council made up of three persons; (usually capitalized; also First Presidency) the highest authority.
- the office and function of president
- the tenure of a president
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- The person who presides over a synod of a Presbyterian church.
- (Ireland) At the University of Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
- (nuclear physics) A substance (often water or graphite) used to decrease the speed of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increase likelihood of fission.
- (UK) Someone who supervises and monitors the setting and marking of examinations by different people to ensure consistency of standards.
- (UK) An examiner at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
- (historical) A kind of lamp in which the flow of the oil to the wick is regulated.
- Someone who moderates.
- The chair or president of a meeting, etc.
- (Internet) A person who enforces the rules of a discussion forum by deleting posts, banning users, etc.
- An arbitrator or mediator.
- A mechanical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
- A device used to deaden some of the noise from a firearm, although not to the same extent as a suppressor or silencer.
- in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly
- someone who presides over a forum or debate
- someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence
- any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors
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- a member of the Episcopal church
- (now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of episcopalian.
- An adherent of an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
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- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Episcopal church
- (somewhat nonstandard) Of or relating to Anglicanism or an Anglican church, especially the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or the Anglican churches in the Philippines, western Asia, South Sudan, the Horn of Africa, and most of north Africa.
- (now uncommon) Alternative letter-case form of episcopalian.
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- (Christianity) Holy Communion; the Eucharist.
- (Roman Catholicism) A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Catholic Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.
- A joining together of minds or spirits; a mental connection.
- A denomination; a high-level organised subgrouping of Christianity (now especially in Anglican Communion)
- (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites
- sharing thoughts and feelings
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- being or having the nature of a god
- resulting from divine providence
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
- appropriate to or befitting a god
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
- emanating from God
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
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- search by divining, as if with a rod
- perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
- (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- To render divine; to deify.
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- A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
- Alternative spelling of qanun.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- Alternative spelling of cannon (“a carom in billiards”).
- (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- (chiefly fandom slang, uncountable) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe; (metonymic) these sources' content.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- (cooking) Alternative form of cannon (“rolled and filleted loin of meat”).
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
- a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts
- a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
- a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church
- a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
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- someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches
- (Christianity) An altar server.
- (Christianity) One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic Church, being ordained to carry the wine, water and lights at Mass.
- An attendant, assistant, or follower.
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- In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
- (Scotland) An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
- In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
- In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
- A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy, uncommon) A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
- a person authorized to conduct religious worship
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- Participation in Holy Communion.
- An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
- A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
- (rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".
- The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
- A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
- The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
- (anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
- (uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
- the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
- something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
- a connection allowing access between persons or places
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- (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
- (bridge) A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.
- The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
- Allurement; enticement.
- (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
- a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something
- a tempting allurement
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- a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders
- a person who performs religious duties and ceremonies in a non-Christian religion
- (Mormonism) The highest office in the Aaronic priesthood.
- A blunt tool, used for quickly stunning and killing fish.
- A religious clergyman (clergywoman, clergyperson) who is trained to perform services or sacrifices at a church or temple.
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- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- (by extension) In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- (Canada, US, law enforcement, chiefly in the plural) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- (Bayesian statistics) A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
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- earlier in time
- More important or significant.
- (Bayesian statistics) Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
- Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
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- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the act of ceding back
- a small concavity
- the act of becoming more distant
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
- The act of ceding something back.
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
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- (by extension) A Christian religious service in which this sacrament is enacted.
- (Christianity) A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper of Christ, with the physical forms of bread and usually wine which are believed by certain denominations to become Christ himself or to host his spiritual presence.
- The substances received during this sacrament, namely the bread and wine, seen as Christ’s body and blood.
- a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
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- administer Communion; in church
- receive Communion, in the Catholic church
- (transitive, Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
- transfer to another
- transmit information
- transmit thoughts or feelings
- join or connect
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- (intransitive, Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- (intransitive) To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].
- (transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- (intransitive) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
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- receive Communion, in the Catholic church
- communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity
- To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
- (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
- (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.
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- a body of people or families living together and sharing everything
- the smallest administrative district of several European countries
- A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
- A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
- (historical) A self-governing city or league of citizens.