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- A numeric character.
- Any text character.
- (music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.
- (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
- Someone or something of no importance.
- A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
- (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
- Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
- A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
- A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- a secret method of writing
- a message written in a secret code
- a person of no influence
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
verb
noun
- character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
- (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
- something used to tie or bind
- the act of tying or binding things together
- (countable) A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
- (countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- (uncountable) The act of tying or binding something.
- (countable) A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
- (countable, music) A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
- A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
- A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.
- The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
- (music) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
- Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.
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- a star-shaped character * used in printing
- any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night
- an actor who plays a principal role
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem
- the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub
- a performer who receives prominent billing
- (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- (astronomy) A very massive ball of plasma with strong enough gravity to have ongoing fusion of hydrogen or heavier elements in its core. In strict technical usage, the Sun is included.
- A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
- Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.
- (networking, figurative in origin) A network topology with multiple computers individually merging to one central switch, thus free of risk of collisions. A single point of failure can occur if the switch experiences corruption.
- (Jamaica, MLE, African-American Vernacular, by extension) A friend, a mate, a pal.
- A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
- An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
- (acting) An actor in a leading role.
- (figurative) (Someone's) success or fame.
- A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
- (astrology, typically in the plural) A planet thought to influence one's fate; (figuratively) fate or luck.
- (printing) An asterisk (*) or comparable symbol (e.g., ★, ☆, ✶, ✦, ✧, ✷, ✪, ⭐) inspired by a celestial star.
- A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour in a military. Now often used metonymically for military rankings.
adj
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- mark with an asterisk
- feature as the star
- be the star in a performance
- (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
- (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
- (intransitive) To shine like a star.
- (transitive) To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
- (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
noun
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
verb
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
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- a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
- Handwriting that leans to the left.
- (surfing) The hand towards the back of the board.
- The back of the hand: the reverse side (dorsal side) of the human hand or other primate hand.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) The standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
- (tennis and other, racquet sports) A stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
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- Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
- (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having a slanted or oblique direction.
- Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.
- having an oblique or slanted direction
- connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
noun
- (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
- (typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
- (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
noun
adj
- of or characteristic of low rank or importance
- having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
- falling short of some prescribed norm
- of low or inferior quality
- lower than a given reference point
- written or printed below and to one side of another character
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- (with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
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- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
- a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
- the words of something written
- the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
- a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
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- (computing) A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
- (linguistics) A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme.
- (divination of the Taixuanjing) a sequence of two lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice.
- (graph theory) A directed graph.
- two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: ‘sh’ in ‘shoe’)
noun
- a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- the head of a religious community
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
- (Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
adj
- having a higher rank
- of or characteristic of high rank or importance
- (often followed by ‘to’) above being affected or influenced by
- of high or superior quality or performance
- written or printed above and to one side of another character
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) not subject to or influenced by
- having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit
- Of high standard or quality.
- Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
- (astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
- (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
- (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
- (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
- (botany) (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
- (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
- (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- Greater in size or power.
- (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
- (typography) Printed in superscript.
- Located above or out; higher in position.
- Higher in rank, status, or quality.
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adj
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- a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
- (cryptozoology) Initialism of alien big cat.
- (automotive) Initialism of active body control.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of accelerated blood clearance.
- (pharmacology) Abbreviation of abacavir.
- Initialism of Australian-born Chinese.
- (climbing) Initialism of advance base camp.
- (US, regional) Ellipsis of ABC store.
- (immunology, medicine) Initialism of antigen-binding capacity.
- (sometimes derogatory) Initialism of American-born Chinese.
- (object-oriented programming) Initialism of abstract base class.
- (pathology) Initialism of aneurysmal bone cyst.
- (psychology) Initialism of affect, behavior, and cognition.
- (computing, typography) A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.
- (computing) Initialism of artificial bee colony.
- (Christianity, informal) Initialism of Archbishop of Canterbury.
- (poker) A straightforward, uniform playing style, often focusing on betting for value, folding weak hands, and avoiding bluffing.
- (US) Initialism of alcoholic beverage control.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of ATP-binding cassette.
- (business management) Initialism of activity-based costing.
- (electrical engineering) Initialism of absorbing boundary condition.
- (law, finance) Initialism of assignment for the benefit of creditors.
- (UK, rail transport) A British alphabetized guidebook listing trains and their stations.
- (mnemonic, emergency medicine) Initialism of airway, breathing and circulation, the essential steps in the immediate assessment and treatment of critically ill or injured patients.
- (uncountable, countable, usually plural in Canada, US) The English alphabet.
- The fundamentals of any subject.
- (immunology) Initialism of age-associated B cell.
- (psychology) Initialism of adventure-based counseling.
- (pathology) Initialism of adenoid basal cell carcinoma.
- (computing) Initialism of Atanasoff-Berry computer.
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- (aviation) Initialism of Advance Booking Charter.
- (historical, radio, television) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
- (historical, radio) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Company.
- (UK, now historical) Initialism of Aerated Bread Company, which ran a network of shops and cafeterias.
- (television) Initialism of American Broadcasting Company, an American commercial broadcast television network founded in 1943.
- Initialism of Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul, satellite cities around the city of São Paulo that form the most important industrial area in Brazil.
- (computer languages) An imperative general-purpose programming language, intended for teaching or prototyping.
- (finance) Initialism of Agricultural Bank of China.
- (publishing) Initialism of Audit Bureau of Circulations.
- (Christianity) Initialism of Anglican Book Centre, the publishing house and bookshop of the Anglican Church of Canada until 2013.
- (historical, bowling) Initialism of American Bowling Congress.
- (radio, television) Initialism of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
- (radio, television) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- (US, rail transport) Initialism of Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad.
- (historical, basketball) Initialism of Asian Basketball Confederation.
- Initialism of American Book Center, an English-language bookstore in Amsterdam founded in 1972.
- (often attributively) Initialism of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the three most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America.
phrase
- (medicine) Initialism of abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, a sex education policy developed in response to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
- (Canadian politics) Initialism of anything but Conservative.
- (wine) Initialism of anything but Chardonnay, a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous.
- (electronics, electric vehicles, automotive) Initialism of always be charging, a recommendation to remember to charge or be left without use by a low battery at an inopportune time.
noun
- a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
- the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- The simplest rudiments; elements.
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- (Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
- (dialectal, nonstandard, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
- (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
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noun
- (computing) The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.
- (typography) On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return.
- (broadcasting) A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.
- the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed on the next line
verb
noun
- printed characters
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
- (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
- a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper
- all of the tokens of the same symbol
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- (obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
- (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations.
- (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
- (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
- An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
- (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
- Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
- (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
- (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- (medicine) A blood group.
verb
- write by means of a keyboard with types
- identify as belonging to a certain type
- To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- To categorize into types.
- To put text on paper using a typewriter.
- To determine the blood type of.
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
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- the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
- a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
- (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
- (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
- (uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
noun
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
verb
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To remove the stem from.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
noun
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- (informal) The design of any text.
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- bowl for baptismal water
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noun
- A numeric character.
- Any text character.
- (music, slang) A hip-hop jam session.
- (slang) The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
- Someone or something of no importance.
- A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
- (music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
- Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.
- A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.
- A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- a secret method of writing
- a message written in a secret code
- a person of no influence
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
verb
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- character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone
- (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)
- something used to tie or bind
- the act of tying or binding things together
- (countable) A piece used to hold a reed to the mouthpiece on woodwind instruments.
- (countable, typography) A character that visually combines multiple letters, such as æ, œ, ß or ij; also logotype. Sometimes called a typographic ligature.
- (uncountable) The act of tying or binding something.
- (countable) A cord or similar thing used to tie something; especially the thread used in surgery to close a vessel or duct.
- (countable, music) A group of notes played as a phrase, or the curved line that indicates such a phrase.
- A thread or wire used to remove tumours, etc.
- A spell or charm that induces sexual impotence.
- The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness.
- (music) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
- Any binding, uniting, or restraining principle or agency.
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- a star-shaped character * used in printing
- any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night
- an actor who plays a principal role
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem
- the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub
- a performer who receives prominent billing
- (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- (astronomy) A very massive ball of plasma with strong enough gravity to have ongoing fusion of hydrogen or heavier elements in its core. In strict technical usage, the Sun is included.
- A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
- Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.
- (networking, figurative in origin) A network topology with multiple computers individually merging to one central switch, thus free of risk of collisions. A single point of failure can occur if the switch experiences corruption.
- (Jamaica, MLE, African-American Vernacular, by extension) A friend, a mate, a pal.
- A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
- An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
- (acting) An actor in a leading role.
- (figurative) (Someone's) success or fame.
- A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
- (astrology, typically in the plural) A planet thought to influence one's fate; (figuratively) fate or luck.
- (printing) An asterisk (*) or comparable symbol (e.g., ★, ☆, ✶, ✦, ✧, ✷, ✪, ⭐) inspired by a celestial star.
- A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour in a military. Now often used metonymically for military rankings.
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- mark with an asterisk
- feature as the star
- be the star in a performance
- (transitive) To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
- (intransitive) To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
- (intransitive) To shine like a star.
- (transitive) To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
- (transitive) To mark with a star or asterisk.
noun
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- a tubular wind instrument
verb
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
noun
adj
- of or characteristic of low rank or importance
- having an orbit between the sun and the Earth's orbit
- falling short of some prescribed norm
- of low or inferior quality
- lower than a given reference point
- written or printed below and to one side of another character
- Of low rank, standard or quality.
- (zoology) Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
- (astronomy) Below the horizon.
- (economics) Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
- (typography) Printed in subscript.
- (botany) Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
- (anatomy) Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
- (botany) On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
- (with to) Lower in rank, status, or quality.
- (law) (of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
- (astronomy) Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
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- A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
- A book, tome or other set of writings.
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
- A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
- (computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- (printing) A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
- (by extension) Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
- a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
- the words of something written
- the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.)
- a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
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noun
- (computing) A two-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
- (linguistics) A pair of letters, especially a pair representing a single phoneme.
- (divination of the Taixuanjing) a sequence of two lines, each of which may be unbroken, broken once, or broken twice.
- (graph theory) A directed graph.
- two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: ‘sh’ in ‘shoe’)
noun
- a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
- one of greater rank or station or quality
- the head of a religious community
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
- (Scots law, historical) One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.
- The senior person in a monastic community.
- (printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
adj
- having a higher rank
- of or characteristic of high rank or importance
- (often followed by ‘to’) above being affected or influenced by
- of high or superior quality or performance
- written or printed above and to one side of another character
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) not subject to or influenced by
- having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit
- Of high standard or quality.
- Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
- (astronomy, of a planet in the Solar System) Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.
- (anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
- (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
- (taxonomy) More comprehensive.
- (botany) (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.
- (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
- (botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- Greater in size or power.
- (botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
- (typography) Printed in superscript.
- Located above or out; higher in position.
- Higher in rank, status, or quality.
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adj
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- a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
- (cryptozoology) Initialism of alien big cat.
- (automotive) Initialism of active body control.
- (pharmacology) Initialism of accelerated blood clearance.
- (pharmacology) Abbreviation of abacavir.
- Initialism of Australian-born Chinese.
- (climbing) Initialism of advance base camp.
- (US, regional) Ellipsis of ABC store.
- (immunology, medicine) Initialism of antigen-binding capacity.
- (sometimes derogatory) Initialism of American-born Chinese.
- (object-oriented programming) Initialism of abstract base class.
- (pathology) Initialism of aneurysmal bone cyst.
- (psychology) Initialism of affect, behavior, and cognition.
- (computing, typography) A keyboard layout in which all keys are arranged in alphabetical order in English.
- (computing) Initialism of artificial bee colony.
- (Christianity, informal) Initialism of Archbishop of Canterbury.
- (poker) A straightforward, uniform playing style, often focusing on betting for value, folding weak hands, and avoiding bluffing.
- (US) Initialism of alcoholic beverage control.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of ATP-binding cassette.
- (business management) Initialism of activity-based costing.
- (electrical engineering) Initialism of absorbing boundary condition.
- (law, finance) Initialism of assignment for the benefit of creditors.
- (UK, rail transport) A British alphabetized guidebook listing trains and their stations.
- (mnemonic, emergency medicine) Initialism of airway, breathing and circulation, the essential steps in the immediate assessment and treatment of critically ill or injured patients.
- (uncountable, countable, usually plural in Canada, US) The English alphabet.
- The fundamentals of any subject.
- (immunology) Initialism of age-associated B cell.
- (psychology) Initialism of adventure-based counseling.
- (pathology) Initialism of adenoid basal cell carcinoma.
- (computing) Initialism of Atanasoff-Berry computer.
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- (aviation) Initialism of Advance Booking Charter.
- (historical, radio, television) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Commission.
- (historical, radio) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Company.
- (UK, now historical) Initialism of Aerated Bread Company, which ran a network of shops and cafeterias.
- (television) Initialism of American Broadcasting Company, an American commercial broadcast television network founded in 1943.
- Initialism of Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo and São Caetano do Sul, satellite cities around the city of São Paulo that form the most important industrial area in Brazil.
- (computer languages) An imperative general-purpose programming language, intended for teaching or prototyping.
- (finance) Initialism of Agricultural Bank of China.
- (publishing) Initialism of Audit Bureau of Circulations.
- (Christianity) Initialism of Anglican Book Centre, the publishing house and bookshop of the Anglican Church of Canada until 2013.
- (historical, bowling) Initialism of American Bowling Congress.
- (radio, television) Initialism of Asahi Broadcasting Corporation.
- (radio, television) Initialism of Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- (US, rail transport) Initialism of Atlanta, Birmingham and Coast Railroad.
- (historical, basketball) Initialism of Asian Basketball Confederation.
- Initialism of American Book Center, an English-language bookstore in Amsterdam founded in 1972.
- (often attributively) Initialism of Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the three most powerful and wealthiest countries in South America.
phrase
- (medicine) Initialism of abstinence, be faithful, use a condom, a sex education policy developed in response to the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
- (Canadian politics) Initialism of anything but Conservative.
- (wine) Initialism of anything but Chardonnay, a backlash against Chardonnay wine, seen as ubiquitous.
- (electronics, electric vehicles, automotive) Initialism of always be charging, a recommendation to remember to charge or be left without use by a low battery at an inopportune time.
noun
- a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language
- the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- The simplest rudiments; elements.
- The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- A writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and vowel phonemes. (Contrast e.g. abjad.)
- (Internet slang, politics) An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
- (dialectal, nonstandard, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
- (computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
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- (computing) The character (0x0a in ASCII) which advances the paper by one line in a teletype or printer, or moves the cursor to the next line on a display.
- (typography) On a typewriter, the action of the carriage roller to push the page up one or more lines, often simultaneously with executing a carriage return.
- (broadcasting) A signal that contains the content about to be broadcast on radio or television.
- the operation that prepares for the next character to be printed or displayed on the next line
verb
noun
- printed characters
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
- (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
- a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end; produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper
- all of the tokens of the same symbol
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- (obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
- (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations.
- (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
- (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
- An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
- (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
- Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
- (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
- (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
- (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
- (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
- (medicine) A blood group.
verb
- write by means of a keyboard with types
- identify as belonging to a certain type
- To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
- To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
- To categorize into types.
- To put text on paper using a typewriter.
- To determine the blood type of.
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
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noun
- the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
- a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
- (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
- (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
- (uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
noun
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
verb
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To remove the stem from.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
noun
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- (computing, typography, metonymic) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
- (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- (informal) The design of any text.
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- bowl for baptismal water
verb
Nessuna parola corrispondente trovata. Prova una descrizione più ampia.
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- a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke
- Handwriting that leans to the left.
- (surfing) The hand towards the back of the board.
- The back of the hand: the reverse side (dorsal side) of the human hand or other primate hand.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) The standard throw; a throw during which the disc begins on the off-hand side and travels across the chest to be released from the opposite side.
- (tennis and other, racquet sports) A stroke made across the chest from the off-hand side to the racquet hand side; a stroke during which the back of the hand faces the shot.
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- Having slanted or oblique lines or markings.
- (geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
- Having a slanted or oblique direction.
- Of or related to the cater-corner (diagonally opposite) legs of a quadruped, whether the front left and back right or front right and back left.
- having an oblique or slanted direction
- connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
noun
- (geometry) A line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
- (typography, uncommon) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
- (geometry) A line or plane at an oblique angle to another.
- (fashion) A line or cut across a fabric at an oblique angle to its sides.
- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard