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noun
noun
- something that is remembered
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- an electronic memory device
- the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
- (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.
- The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
- (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
- Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
- (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated
- A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
- (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
noun
- recall or remembrance
- The ability to remember things.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- your intention; what you intend to do
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
verb
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively
- call to arms; of military personnel
- bring forward for consideration
- (transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
- (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- (transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- summon to return
- cause to be returned
- go back to something earlier
- bring to mind
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
- (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
noun
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- the act of removing an official by petition
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- recapture the past; indulge in memories
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
- show appreciation to
- exercise, or have the power of, memory
- mention favorably, as in prayer
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
- To not forget (to do something required)
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member.
- To convey greetings from.
- (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- run after, pick up, and bring to the master
- go for and bring back
- get or find back; recover the use of
- (transitive) To remember or recall something.
- (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- (transitive) To salvage something
- (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
- (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
- (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
- (transitive) To regain or get back something.
- (transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- expect, believe, or suppose
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
noun
- The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance.
- That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- something recalled to the mind
- Process of collecting again.
- The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.
- (Catholicism) A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
verb
- To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
- (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep in one's mind
- hold back within
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
noun
- The ability to recall past events; recollection.
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- (Christianity) The remembrance and celebration of God’s works by the liturgy of the church.
- (epistemology, Platonism) The recollection of innate knowledge acquired before birth, according to Plato’s theory of epistemology.
- (rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one’s authority.
- (medicine) A patient's account of their medical history.
- the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient
verb
- cause someone to remember the past
- take back what one has said
- move text to the previous line; in printing
- resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
- bring back to the point of departure
- regain possession of something
- Culturally so.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to remember some past event or time.
- (transitive) To resume a relationship with (someone).
- Physically so.
- (transitive) To return (something) to a vendor for a refund.
- (transitive) To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
noun
verb
noun
adj
- good at remembering
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- involving substantial risk
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
adv
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
verb
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
noun
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- Memory; what is retained in the mind.
- the power of retaining liquid
- the act of retaining something
- (law) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
- The act of retaining or something retained.
- (insurance) The portion of a potential damage that must be paid for by the holder of an insurance policy.
- The act or power of remembering things.
- (medicine) The length of time a patient remains in treatment.
- (medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces.
noun
- (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- (in libraries) An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- (computing) Clipping of memory page.
- A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- (Internet) A web page.
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- a boy who is employed to run errands
- one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
verb
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
- work as a page
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
adj
noun
noun
noun
- something that is remembered
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- an electronic memory device
- the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered
- the area of cognitive psychology that studies memory processes
- (uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later, usually at will.
- The time within which past events can be or are remembered.
- (computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
- Synonym of pelmanism (“memory card game”).
- (attributive, of a material) Which returns to its original shape when heated
- A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism.
- (zoology, collective, rare) A term of venery for a social group of elephants, normally called a herd.
noun
- recall or remembrance
- The ability to remember things.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- your intention; what you intend to do
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
verb
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
noun
verb
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- summon to return
- cause to be returned
- go back to something earlier
- bring to mind
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
- (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
noun
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- the act of removing an official by petition
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
noun
- The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance.
- That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- something recalled to the mind
- Process of collecting again.
- The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the act of recalling to memory.
- (Catholicism) A spiritual retreat, especially one that is short.
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
noun
- The ability to recall past events; recollection.
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- (Christianity) The remembrance and celebration of God’s works by the liturgy of the church.
- (epistemology, Platonism) The recollection of innate knowledge acquired before birth, according to Plato’s theory of epistemology.
- (rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one’s authority.
- (medicine) A patient's account of their medical history.
- the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient
noun
verb
noun
noun
- the power of retaining and recalling past experience
- Memory; what is retained in the mind.
- the power of retaining liquid
- the act of retaining something
- (law) The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
- The act of retaining or something retained.
- (insurance) The portion of a potential damage that must be paid for by the holder of an insurance policy.
- The act or power of remembering things.
- (medicine) The length of time a patient remains in treatment.
- (medicine) The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces.
noun
- (figurative) A collective memory; noteworthy event; memorable episode.
- (typography) The type set up for printing a page.
- (in libraries) An employee whose main purpose is to replace materials that have either been checked out or otherwise moved, back to their shelves.
- A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- (computing) A block of contiguous memory of a fixed length.
- (British) A youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households.
- (entomology) Any one of several species of colorful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- (computing) A screenful of text and possibly other content; especially, the digital simulation of one side of a paper leaf.
- (historical) A serving boy; a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, often as a position of honor and education.
- (computing) Clipping of memory page.
- A contrivance, such as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
- (Internet) A web page.
- One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
- (US, Canada) A boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
- One side of a paper leaf in a bound document.
- a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings
- a boy who is employed to run errands
- one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood
verb
- (transitive) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
- (transitive) To attend (someone) as a page.
- (transitive) To furnish with folios.
- (intransitive, often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication.
- (transitive) To call (somebody) using a public address system to find them.
- work as a page
- number the pages of a book or manuscript
- contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system
verb
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively
- call to arms; of military personnel
- bring forward for consideration
- (transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
- (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- (transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- summon to return
- cause to be returned
- go back to something earlier
- bring to mind
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
- (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
noun
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- the act of removing an official by petition
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- recapture the past; indulge in memories
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
- show appreciation to
- exercise, or have the power of, memory
- mention favorably, as in prayer
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
- To not forget (to do something required)
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member.
- To convey greetings from.
- (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- run after, pick up, and bring to the master
- go for and bring back
- get or find back; recover the use of
- (transitive) To remember or recall something.
- (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- (transitive) To salvage something
- (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
- (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
- (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
- (transitive) To regain or get back something.
- (transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- expect, believe, or suppose
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
verb
- To keep (something) in the mind; to recall, to remember.
- To hold (something) secure; to prevent (something) from becoming detached or separated.
- To keep in control or possession; to continue having.
- To keep (someone) in one's pay or service; also, (chiefly historical) to maintain (someone) as a dependent or follower.
- (chiefly law) To employ (someone, especially a lawyer) by paying a retainer (“fee one pays to reserve another person's time for services”); specifically, to engage (a barrister) by making an initial payment to secure their services if needed.
- Of a thing: to hold or keep (something) inside it; to contain.
- Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
- To have the ability to keep something in the mind; to use the memory.
- To keep (something) in place or use, instead of removing or abolishing it; to preserve.
- (education) To hold back (a pupil) instead of allowing them to advance to the next class or year; to keep back.
- (medicine) Of a body or body organ: to hold back tissue or a substance.
- (reflexive) To control or restrain (oneself); to exercise self-control over (oneself).
- (medicine) To hold back (tissue or a substance, especially urine) in the body or a body organ.
- To keep (something) in control or possession; to continue having (something); to keep back.
- (Christianity) To declare (a sin) not forgiven.
- To engage or hire (someone), especially temporarily.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep in one's mind
- hold back within
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
verb
- cause someone to remember the past
- take back what one has said
- move text to the previous line; in printing
- resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
- bring back to the point of departure
- regain possession of something
- Culturally so.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to remember some past event or time.
- (transitive) To resume a relationship with (someone).
- Physically so.
- (transitive) To return (something) to a vendor for a refund.
- (transitive) To retract or withdraw (an earlier statement).
adj
- good at remembering
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- involving substantial risk
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
adv
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
verb
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.