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verb
noun
- (rhetoric, imprecise) The final term of a rhetorical climax.
- (now often) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly:
- (euphemistic) The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
- (narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
- (originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
- (ecology) The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
- the most severe stage of a disease
- the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
- arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
- the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
- the decisive moment in a novel or play
noun
- (by extension) The highest point of something; a climax.
- The period between low tide and the next high tide of the sea as the water flows toward the shore
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
noun
- The end or conclusion of something.
- The final procedure in a house sale, when documents are signed and recorded.
- (mathematics) In morphology, the erosion of the dilation of a set.
- The act by which something is closed.
- the last section of a communication
- the act of closing something
- a concluding action
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- termination of operations
adj
verb
noun
- The end or conclusion of something.
- The punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
- (television) A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.
- (baseball) The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
- (British) A humorous attempt to fool somebody; a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
adj
adj
verb
- (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
- end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- (intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
- (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
- (US, military, of an offensive, etc) To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
- bring to a head or to the highest point
- reach the highest or most decisive point
- reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- rise to, or form, a summit
adj
noun
- A completion or culmination of something.
- A success in the face of little or no opposition.
- (specifically, also attributively) An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.
- (literally, also attributively) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
- (board games, rare) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
noun
- A failed or reverse climax, particularly:
- (narratology) An unsatisfying resolution to a narrative, usually owing to a deus ex machina or similarly trivial resolution of the main conflict.
- (rhetoric) An abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintentional) from the dignity of the idea which the speaker or writer appeared to be aiming for.
- a disappointing decline after a previous rise
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- occurring at the time of death
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.
noun
- the end or completion of something
- (figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.
- an amount of time
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
- The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.
- The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- (euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
- A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
- (mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
- (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
- A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
- (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
- A length of time.
- (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
- (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
adj
intj
verb
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- conclusive in a process or progression
- not to be altered or undone
- (linguistics) Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.
- Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
- Last; ultimate.
- Conclusive; decisive.
- (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
noun
- the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament
- an examination administered at the end of an academic term
- (Oxbridge slang) A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
- (phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
- (music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- (sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
verb
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Fatal; resulting in death.
noun
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- either extremity of something that has length
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
verb
noun
- A climax; the best time in a given period.
- (grammar) · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used for a medium pause like a semicolon ; the Ancient Greek punctuation mark used for the end of a sentence like a full stop, then for a medium pause like a semicolon).
- (climbing) The point of the highest elevation in a given area.
- the most enjoyable part of a given experience
noun
intj
verb
noun
- An end or conclusion.
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
verb
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
punct
noun
- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
- (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
- (figurative) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- (sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ᵂᵖ
- (programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
- (comics) The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- (politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
- (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- (food packaging industry) The element of packaging that closes a container.
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- termination of operations
- the act of blocking
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
verb
verb
- (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
- (intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
- to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
- be disgorged
- overflow with a certain feeling
adj
- being at a peak or culminating point
- lacking subtlety; obvious
- not detailed or specific
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
- broad in scope or content
- very large in expanse or scope
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- Wide in extent or scope.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
noun
- slang term for a woman
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
adj
- being at a peak or culminating point
- filled to satisfaction with food or drink
- constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
- having the normally expected amount
- complete in extent or degree and in every particular
- having ample fabric
- (of sound) having marked deepness and body
- (of clothing) Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
- Having depth and body; rich.
- Total, entire.
- (of physical features) Plump, round.
- (chiefly Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
- (category theory, of a functor between locally small categories) Surjective as a map of morphisms
- Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
- Filled with emotions.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
- (category theory, of a subcategory S of C) Including all morphisms. Formally: Such that for every pairs of objects (X, Y) in S, the hom-sets operatorname Hom_S(X,Y) and operatorname Hom_C(X,Y) are equal.
- Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
- (informal, with "of") Replete, abounding with.
- (informal, of hands, chiefly in the plural) Carrying as much as possible.
- Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
- (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- (of the moon) Having its entire face illuminated.
noun
- the time when the Moon is fully illuminated
- (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
- (gymnastics) A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
- Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
- (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
adv
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
- (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
- (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.
- (music) a gradual increase in loudness
adv
verb
adj
noun
- The end or final point of something.
- The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
- a place where something ends or is complete
- either end of a railroad or bus route
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- the ultimate goal for which something is done
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
noun
- (countable) Chiefly followed by of: a sudden outburst of violent activity or feeling; also, the most severe part of an activity or incident; the climax.
- (uncountable, rare) Disastrous or sudden change.
- (countable, chiefly geology) A violent occurrence of a natural phenomenon, such as an earthquake, thunderstorm, or volcanic eruption; specifically (volcanology), the most explosive event during a series of volcanic eruptions.
- (countable, medicine) A period (especially one of several recurring periods) during the course of an illness when symptoms worsen; a sudden attack of a disease symptom, such as a bout of coughing or a seizure.
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
adj
noun
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- (transitive) To conclude.
- (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- (intransitive) To issue or result.
- (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
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noun
- The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.
- the act of bringing to completion or fruition
- The achievement of perfection.
- Termination; the end (as of the world or of life); an end or resulting state.
- The first act of sexual intercourse in a relationship, particularly the first such act following marriage.
- (law) The date at which the mortgagor becomes contractually obligated to the mortgagee in a real estate transaction.
- the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse
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verb
noun
noun
- (figuratively) The highest or most developed point, or most splendid stage, of something; culmination, peak, zenith.
- In full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.
- (mathematics) A line passing through the poles of any sphere; a notional line on the surface of a curved or round body (in particular, an eyeball).
- The place on the celestial meridian where it is crossed by the sun or a star at its highest point.
- (also geography) In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude.
- A ring or half-ring with markings in which an artificial globe is installed and may spin.
- (figuratively, specifically) Chiefly followed by of: the middle period of someone's life, when they are at their full abilities or strength; one's prime.
- (acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine) Any of the pathways on the body along which chi or qi (life force) is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed; especially, one of twelve such pathways associated with organs of the body.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator
adj
verb
verb
- result or end
- bulge outward
- come out of
- be issued or published
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- make oneself visible; take action
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
- drop out
- break out
- To make a debut in a new field; to start off a career or reputation.
- (intransitive) To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time.
- (intransitive) To begin with something.
- (intransitive) To emerge from or reach the end of an era, event or process.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
- To protest or go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers.
- (idiomatic, informal) To come out of the closet.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
- (intransitive, slang) To join a church; to convert to a religion.
- (copulative) To end up or result; to turn out to be.
- (intransitive, of a stain) To be removed.
- (intransitive) To be discovered; to be revealed.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- To originate in; to derive from; to be taken from out of or to have arrived from.
- To express one's opinion openly.
verb
- result or end
- come and gather for a public event
- prove to be in the result or end
- turn outward
- be shown or be found to be
- get up and out of bed
- bring forth
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- put out or expel from a place
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
- (intransitive) To leave a road.
- (sex, transitive, prison slang) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- (transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device.
- (intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well.
- (transitive) To put (cattle) out to pasture.
- (sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result.
- (intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
- (transitive) To convince to vote
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make.
- (transitive) To empty for inspection.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
- (intransitive, colloquial) To get out of bed; get up.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up.
noun
- The end for which something is done, is made or exists.
- Resolution; determination.
- (Sense of having a) meaning for existing or doing something.
- Function, role.
- the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
- what something is used for
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
verb
noun
- The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).
- The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
- (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.
- (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.
- A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
- Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
- the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
verb
- come to an end (of an event)
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
noun
- A series of events leading to a result or product.
- (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- (biology) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- (anatomy) An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.
- A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
- (manufacturing) The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
- (computing) An executable task or program.
- a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
verb
- (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
- (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
- (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
- To walk in a procession, especially in a liturgical context.
- (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- deal with in a routine way
- shape, form, or improve a material
- perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- march in a procession
noun
- the act of ending something
- the act of making up your mind about something
- an intuitive assumption
- the last section of a communication
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- a final settlement
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- event whose occurrence ends something
- arrangement; settlement.
- (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
- (law) The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
- The outcome or result of a process or act.
noun
- the act of ending something
- the last section of a communication
- the point in time at which something ends
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- event whose occurrence ends something
- The last part of something.
- A termination or conclusion.
- (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
verb
noun
- the act of ending something
- a place where something ends or is complete
- a coming to an end of a contract period
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- something that results
- An outcome or result.
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
- The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
- (grammar) The last part of a word.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- (medicine) An induced abortion.
noun
- The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
- (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
- (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
- (law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
- (computing) Synonym of autocomplete.
- (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
- a concluding action
- (American football) a successful forward pass in football
noun
- (by extension) The highest point of something; a climax.
- The period between low tide and the next high tide of the sea as the water flows toward the shore
- the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
noun
- The end or conclusion of something.
- The final procedure in a house sale, when documents are signed and recorded.
- (mathematics) In morphology, the erosion of the dilation of a set.
- The act by which something is closed.
- the last section of a communication
- the act of closing something
- a concluding action
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- termination of operations
adj
verb
noun
- The end or conclusion of something.
- The punch line of a joke or comedy routine.
- (television) A circular hand gesture, supposed to represent the winding on of film, used to signal to a performer to finish quickly.
- (baseball) The phase of making a pitch where the pitcher moves his or her arm backwards before throwing the ball.
- (British) A humorous attempt to fool somebody; a practical joke in which the victim is encouraged to believe something untrue.
adj
noun
- A completion or culmination of something.
- A success in the face of little or no opposition.
- (specifically, also attributively) An act or the ceremony of formally investing a sovereign or the sovereign's consort with a crown and other insignia of royalty, on or shortly after their accession to the sovereignty.
- (literally, also attributively) An act of investing with a crown; a crowning.
- (board games, rare) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.
- the ceremony of installing a new monarch
noun
- A failed or reverse climax, particularly:
- (narratology) An unsatisfying resolution to a narrative, usually owing to a deus ex machina or similarly trivial resolution of the main conflict.
- (rhetoric) An abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintentional) from the dignity of the idea which the speaker or writer appeared to be aiming for.
- a disappointing decline after a previous rise
- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- occurring at the time of death
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.
noun
- the end or completion of something
- (figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.
- an amount of time
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
- The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.
- The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- (euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
- A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
- (mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
- (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
- A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
- (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
- A length of time.
- (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
- (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
adj
intj
verb
noun
- A climax; the best time in a given period.
- (grammar) · or · (the Greek punctuation mark used for a medium pause like a semicolon ; the Ancient Greek punctuation mark used for the end of a sentence like a full stop, then for a medium pause like a semicolon).
- (climbing) The point of the highest elevation in a given area.
- the most enjoyable part of a given experience
noun
intj
verb
noun
- An end or conclusion.
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
verb
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
punct
noun
- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
- (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
- (figurative) A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- (sociology) The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others based on various criteria. ᵂᵖ
- (programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
- (comics) The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- (politics) A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
- (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- (food packaging industry) The element of packaging that closes a container.
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- termination of operations
- the act of blocking
- a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
- a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
- (music) An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
- (figuratively, nonstandard) The climax of a gradual increase.
- (music) a gradual increase in loudness
adv
verb
adj
noun
- The end or final point of something.
- The end point of a transportation system, or the town or city in which it is located.
- a place where something ends or is complete
- either end of a railroad or bus route
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- the ultimate goal for which something is done
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
noun
- (countable) Chiefly followed by of: a sudden outburst of violent activity or feeling; also, the most severe part of an activity or incident; the climax.
- (uncountable, rare) Disastrous or sudden change.
- (countable, chiefly geology) A violent occurrence of a natural phenomenon, such as an earthquake, thunderstorm, or volcanic eruption; specifically (volcanology), the most explosive event during a series of volcanic eruptions.
- (countable, medicine) A period (especially one of several recurring periods) during the course of an illness when symptoms worsen; a sudden attack of a disease symptom, such as a bout of coughing or a seizure.
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
verb
noun
- (rhetoric, imprecise) The final term of a rhetorical climax.
- (now often) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly:
- (euphemistic) The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
- (narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
- (originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
- (ecology) The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
- the most severe stage of a disease
- the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
- arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
- the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
- the decisive moment in a novel or play
noun
- The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; the state of being completed; completion.
- the act of bringing to completion or fruition
- The achievement of perfection.
- Termination; the end (as of the world or of life); an end or resulting state.
- The first act of sexual intercourse in a relationship, particularly the first such act following marriage.
- (law) The date at which the mortgagor becomes contractually obligated to the mortgagee in a real estate transaction.
- the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse
noun
verb
noun
noun
- (figuratively) The highest or most developed point, or most splendid stage, of something; culmination, peak, zenith.
- In full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.
- (mathematics) A line passing through the poles of any sphere; a notional line on the surface of a curved or round body (in particular, an eyeball).
- The place on the celestial meridian where it is crossed by the sun or a star at its highest point.
- (also geography) In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude.
- A ring or half-ring with markings in which an artificial globe is installed and may spin.
- (figuratively, specifically) Chiefly followed by of: the middle period of someone's life, when they are at their full abilities or strength; one's prime.
- (acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine) Any of the pathways on the body along which chi or qi (life force) is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed; especially, one of twelve such pathways associated with organs of the body.
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator
adj
verb
noun
- The end for which something is done, is made or exists.
- Resolution; determination.
- (Sense of having a) meaning for existing or doing something.
- Function, role.
- the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose
- what something is used for
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
verb
noun
- The best moment or highest point in the development of something, for example of a life or career; the apex, culmination, or climax (of a development).
- The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
- (psychology) The latent entity that mediates between a person's psyche and their thoughts. The id, ego and superego in Freudian Psychology are examples of this.
- (loosely) Release from earthly life, ascension to heaven; death.
- A glorified example or ideal; the apex or pinnacle (of a concept or belief).
- Glorification, exaltation; crediting someone or something with extraordinary power or status.
- the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
noun
- A series of events leading to a result or product.
- (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- (biology) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- (anatomy) An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.
- A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
- (manufacturing) The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
- (computing) An executable task or program.
- a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
verb
- (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
- (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
- (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
- To walk in a procession, especially in a liturgical context.
- (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- deal with in a routine way
- shape, form, or improve a material
- perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- march in a procession
noun
- the act of ending something
- the act of making up your mind about something
- an intuitive assumption
- the last section of a communication
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- a final settlement
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
- event whose occurrence ends something
- arrangement; settlement.
- (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
- A decision reached after careful thought.
- The end, finish, close or last part of something.
- (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.
- (law) The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
- The outcome or result of a process or act.
noun
- the act of ending something
- the last section of a communication
- the point in time at which something ends
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- event whose occurrence ends something
- The last part of something.
- A termination or conclusion.
- (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
verb
noun
- the act of ending something
- a place where something ends or is complete
- a coming to an end of a contract period
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- something that results
- An outcome or result.
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
- The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
- (grammar) The last part of a word.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- (medicine) An induced abortion.
noun
- The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
- (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
- (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
- (law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
- (computing) Synonym of autocomplete.
- (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
- a concluding action
- (American football) a successful forward pass in football
verb
noun
- (rhetoric, imprecise) The final term of a rhetorical climax.
- (now often) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly:
- (euphemistic) The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
- (narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
- (originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
- (ecology) The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
- the most severe stage of a disease
- the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
- arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
- the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
- the decisive moment in a novel or play
verb
- (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
- end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- (intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
- (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
- (US, military, of an offensive, etc) To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
- bring to a head or to the highest point
- reach the highest or most decisive point
- reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- rise to, or form, a summit
adj
verb
- (intransitive) (of a bad emotion, situation, etc.) to reach a climax
- (intransitive) (of an infectious disease) to spread from one species of animal to another and particularly to humans
- to enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow
- be disgorged
- overflow with a certain feeling
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
verb
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- (transitive) To conclude.
- (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- (intransitive) To issue or result.
- (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
adj
verb
- result or end
- bulge outward
- come out of
- be issued or published
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- make oneself visible; take action
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
- drop out
- break out
- To make a debut in a new field; to start off a career or reputation.
- (intransitive) To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time.
- (intransitive) To begin with something.
- (intransitive) To emerge from or reach the end of an era, event or process.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
- To protest or go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers.
- (idiomatic, informal) To come out of the closet.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
- (intransitive, slang) To join a church; to convert to a religion.
- (copulative) To end up or result; to turn out to be.
- (intransitive, of a stain) To be removed.
- (intransitive) To be discovered; to be revealed.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- To originate in; to derive from; to be taken from out of or to have arrived from.
- To express one's opinion openly.
verb
- result or end
- come and gather for a public event
- prove to be in the result or end
- turn outward
- be shown or be found to be
- get up and out of bed
- bring forth
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- put out or expel from a place
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
- (intransitive) To leave a road.
- (sex, transitive, prison slang) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- (transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device.
- (intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well.
- (transitive) To put (cattle) out to pasture.
- (sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result.
- (intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
- (transitive) To convince to vote
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make.
- (transitive) To empty for inspection.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
- (intransitive, colloquial) To get out of bed; get up.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up.
verb
- come to an end (of an event)
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
noun
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
verb
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
punct
noun
- An end or conclusion.
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
adj
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- occurring at the time of death
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- conclusive in a process or progression
- not to be altered or undone
- (linguistics) Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.
- Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
- Last; ultimate.
- Conclusive; decisive.
- (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
noun
- the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament
- an examination administered at the end of an academic term
- (Oxbridge slang) A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
- (phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
- (music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- (sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
verb
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- Fatal; resulting in death.
noun
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- either extremity of something that has length
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
verb
adj
- being at a peak or culminating point
- lacking subtlety; obvious
- not detailed or specific
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
- broad in scope or content
- very large in expanse or scope
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- Wide in extent or scope.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
noun
- slang term for a woman
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
adj
- being at a peak or culminating point
- filled to satisfaction with food or drink
- constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
- containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
- having the normally expected amount
- complete in extent or degree and in every particular
- having ample fabric
- (of sound) having marked deepness and body
- (of clothing) Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
- Having depth and body; rich.
- Total, entire.
- (of physical features) Plump, round.
- (chiefly Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
- (category theory, of a functor between locally small categories) Surjective as a map of morphisms
- Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
- Filled with emotions.
- (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
- (category theory, of a subcategory S of C) Including all morphisms. Formally: Such that for every pairs of objects (X, Y) in S, the hom-sets operatorname Hom_S(X,Y) and operatorname Hom_C(X,Y) are equal.
- Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
- (informal, with "of") Replete, abounding with.
- (informal, of hands, chiefly in the plural) Carrying as much as possible.
- Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
- (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- (of the moon) Having its entire face illuminated.
noun
- the time when the Moon is fully illuminated
- (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
- (gymnastics) A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
- Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
- (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
adv
verb
noun
- The end or conclusion of something.
- The final procedure in a house sale, when documents are signed and recorded.
- (mathematics) In morphology, the erosion of the dilation of a set.
- The act by which something is closed.
- the last section of a communication
- the act of closing something
- a concluding action
- approaching a particular destination; a coming closer; a narrowing of a gap
- termination of operations