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noun
- the force of policemen and officers
- a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- the collection of rules imposed by authority
- legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
verb
noun
- the force of policemen and officers
- (law enforcement) A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
- (Canada, US and historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- (figuratively, usually ironic and mildly derogatory) People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- (usually plural only) The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- (military, slang) Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
- (UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
verb
noun
- a temporary police force
- (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
- (US) A search party.
- (US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang.
- (colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.
- A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
noun
- an officer in a police force
- a commissioned military officer
- an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
- A person who manages or executes the plans and directives of another, more senior person; a manager to their director.
- (military, US) A commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration whose rank is above that of ensign and below lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A naval officer whose rank is above that of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander.
- (military, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A naval commissioned officer who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
- The second-in-command (2IC) of a group.
- (military, US) In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.
- (military, US, navy) A naval officer whose rank is above that of ensign in the United States Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A commissioned officer in the British Army and Royal Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant"; however, "second lieutenant" is to specify that the officer is not yet a full lieutenant.
adj
noun
- (UK) local policing team
- (medicine, occupations) Abbreviation of licensed physical therapist
- (psychiatry, occupations) Abbreviation of licensed psychiatric technician
- (computing, security, occupations) Abbreviation of licensed penetration tester
- (dentistry) Abbreviation of laser periodontal therapy
- (telecommunications) Abbreviation of low-power transceiver
- (Australia) listed property trust
- (computing, telecommunications) Abbreviation of printer port
- (Internet slang, Reddit) Initialism of life pro tip.
- Initialism of low-pressure turbine
- (astronomy) Initialism of long-period transient
- (finance) loss portfolio transfer
- (by extension) Abbreviation of printer
noun
- A police officer assigned to keep tabs on other members of the police.
- (US, railways) A device for throwing the track temporarily to one side for carrying out repairs, etc.
- A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
- an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
- a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
noun
- a member of a police force
- someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
- a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel
- any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
- A respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer.
- An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
- One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
- One who holds a public office.
- (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
verb
noun
- holding by the police
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- (with ‘in’) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
- The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
- The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
- Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
- (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police department.
- (sports) Initialism of performance director.
- Initialism of positive deviance.
- (Ireland, politics, historical) Initialism of Progressive Democrat.
- Initialism of peritoneal dialysis.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of pupillary distance.
- (pathology) Initialism of personality disorder.
- Initialism of pole dance.
- (chiefly South Korea) Initialism of producer director.
- Initialism of professional development.
- Initialism of process deviation.
- (law) Initialism of public defender.
- Initialism of program director.
- (pathology) Initialism of Parkinson’s disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of panic disorder.
- Initialism of public domain.
- Initialism of penile duplication.
- (electronics) Initialism of phase detector.
- (electronics) Initialism of power delivery.
- (electricity) Initialism of partial discharge.
- (U.S. military) Abbreviation of period (full stop) punctuation mark, used in communication systems without punctuation (e.g., telegrams).
- Initialism of prosecutorial discretion.
name
phrase
noun
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
name
noun
- (medicine) Initialism of myofascial pain syndrome.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of mucopolysaccharidosis.
- (aeronautics) Initialism of main propulsion system (of the Space Shuttle).
- (education) Initialism of Master of Professional Studies.
- (business) Initialism of master production schedule.
- Initialism of muscle protein synthesis.
- (chemistry) Abbreviation of methylacetylene propadiene, stabilized stabilized methylacetylene-propadiene mixture.
- a widely distributed system of free and fixed macrophages derived from bone marrow
noun
- a team of policemen working under the military platoon system
- a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity
- a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant
- (military) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
- A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
- (education, historical) A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.
- A subdivision of a fire company, led by a captain or lieutenant.
verb
- (sports) To specialize in a particular position or playing style.
- Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.
- (baseball) To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police officer.
- (business) Initialism of purchase order.
- Initialism of playoff.
- Initialism of post office.
- (military) Initialism of petty officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of probation officer.
- Initialism of principal officer.
- an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
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adv
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of state police.
- (law enforcement) Abbreviation of superintendent.
- (horse racing) Initialism of starting price.
- Initialism of state park.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of substance P.
- Initialism of selling price.
- (Scientology) Initialism of suppressive person.
- (firearms) Initialism of soft point.
- (US, military, navy) Initialism of shore patrol.
- (computing) Initialism of service pack.
- (highways) Abbreviation of spur.
- Initialism of slow play.
- (music industry) Abbreviation of sub-publishing.
- (ice skating) Initialism of short program.
- (Hong Kong) Initialism of sex partner.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Initialism of skill point, special point, spirit point, or spell point; synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements.
name
noun
- (law enforcement) Reinforcements.
- An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.
- A reserve or substitute.
- (music) Accompaniment.
- (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed.
- Corroboration.
- Any support or extra help.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- the act of providing approval and support
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage
- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
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verb
name
noun
- (philosophy) Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle.
- (medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure.
- (cosmology, epistemology) Initialism of participatory anthropic principle.
- (organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
- (medicine) Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase.
- (networking) Initialism of password authentication protocol.
- (by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle.
verb
noun
- a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
- a smallest army unit
- a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
- (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- (firefighting) Ellipsis of squad truck.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
verb
noun
- a policeman in charge of a precinct
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- the leader of a group of people
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- (aviation) A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- The head boy of a school.
- A chief or leader.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
verb
noun
- a state police officer
- a soldier in a motorized army unit
- a mounted police officer
- a soldier mounted on horseback
- (military) A cavalry horse; a charger.
- (Australia, law enforcement) A mounted policeman.
- (figurative, colloquial) Misspelling of trouper (“one who stoically endures adversity”) .
- (military) A soldier of private rank in cavalry or armor.
- (military) A soldier.
- (British, nautical, military) A troopship.
- (US, law enforcement) Ellipsis of state trooper.
verb
noun
noun
- the force of policemen and officers
- a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- the collection of rules imposed by authority
- legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
- the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
verb
noun
- the force of policemen and officers
- (law enforcement) A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
- (Canada, US and historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- (figuratively, usually ironic and mildly derogatory) People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- (usually plural only) The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- (military, slang) Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
- (UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
verb
noun
- a temporary police force
- (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
- (US) A search party.
- (US, Jamaica, slang) A criminal gang.
- (colloquial) A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.
- A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
noun
- an officer in a police force
- a commissioned military officer
- an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
- an assistant with power to act when their superior is absent
- A person who manages or executes the plans and directives of another, more senior person; a manager to their director.
- (military, US) A commissioned officer in the United States Coast Guard, Public Health Service, or National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration whose rank is above that of ensign and below lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A naval officer whose rank is above that of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander.
- (military, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A naval commissioned officer who holds the rank above sub-lieutenant and below lieutenant commander.
- The second-in-command (2IC) of a group.
- (military, US) In the US Army, Air Force and Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant" or as the complete forms of the ranks.
- (military, US, navy) A naval officer whose rank is above that of ensign in the United States Navy and below that of a lieutenant commander. There are two ranks of lieutenant: lieutenant junior grade and lieutenant.
- (military, UK) A commissioned officer in the British Army and Royal Marines, holding the rank above second lieutenant and below captain. Both ranks may be referred to as "lieutenant"; however, "second lieutenant" is to specify that the officer is not yet a full lieutenant.
adj
noun
- (UK) local policing team
- (medicine, occupations) Abbreviation of licensed physical therapist
- (psychiatry, occupations) Abbreviation of licensed psychiatric technician
- (computing, security, occupations) Abbreviation of licensed penetration tester
- (dentistry) Abbreviation of laser periodontal therapy
- (telecommunications) Abbreviation of low-power transceiver
- (Australia) listed property trust
- (computing, telecommunications) Abbreviation of printer port
- (Internet slang, Reddit) Initialism of life pro tip.
- Initialism of low-pressure turbine
- (astronomy) Initialism of long-period transient
- (finance) loss portfolio transfer
- (by extension) Abbreviation of printer
noun
- A police officer assigned to keep tabs on other members of the police.
- (US, railways) A device for throwing the track temporarily to one side for carrying out repairs, etc.
- A child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
- an undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
- a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
noun
- a member of a police force
- someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
- a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel
- any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command
- A respectful term of address for an officer, especially a police officer.
- An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
- One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
- One who holds a public office.
- (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
verb
noun
- holding by the police
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- (with ‘in’) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child
- The state of being imprisoned or detained, usually pending a trial.
- The legal right to take care of something or somebody, especially children.
- Temporary possession or care of somebody else's property.
- (Roman Catholicism) An area under the jurisdiction of a custos within the Order of Friars Minor.
noun
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police department.
- (sports) Initialism of performance director.
- Initialism of positive deviance.
- (Ireland, politics, historical) Initialism of Progressive Democrat.
- Initialism of peritoneal dialysis.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of pupillary distance.
- (pathology) Initialism of personality disorder.
- Initialism of pole dance.
- (chiefly South Korea) Initialism of producer director.
- Initialism of professional development.
- Initialism of process deviation.
- (law) Initialism of public defender.
- Initialism of program director.
- (pathology) Initialism of Parkinson’s disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of panic disorder.
- Initialism of public domain.
- Initialism of penile duplication.
- (electronics) Initialism of phase detector.
- (electronics) Initialism of power delivery.
- (electricity) Initialism of partial discharge.
- (U.S. military) Abbreviation of period (full stop) punctuation mark, used in communication systems without punctuation (e.g., telegrams).
- Initialism of prosecutorial discretion.
name
phrase
noun
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
verb
- divide into segments
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
noun
- a team of policemen working under the military platoon system
- a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity
- a military unit that is a subdivision of a company; usually has a headquarters and two or more squads; usually commanded by a lieutenant
- (military) A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
- A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
- (education, historical) A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.
- A subdivision of a fire company, led by a captain or lieutenant.
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- (sports) To specialize in a particular position or playing style.
- Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.
- (baseball) To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher
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- (law enforcement) Initialism of police officer.
- (business) Initialism of purchase order.
- Initialism of playoff.
- Initialism of post office.
- (military) Initialism of petty officer.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of probation officer.
- Initialism of principal officer.
- an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
- a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
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- (law enforcement) Initialism of state police.
- (law enforcement) Abbreviation of superintendent.
- (horse racing) Initialism of starting price.
- Initialism of state park.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of substance P.
- Initialism of selling price.
- (Scientology) Initialism of suppressive person.
- (firearms) Initialism of soft point.
- (US, military, navy) Initialism of shore patrol.
- (computing) Initialism of service pack.
- (highways) Abbreviation of spur.
- Initialism of slow play.
- (music industry) Abbreviation of sub-publishing.
- (ice skating) Initialism of short program.
- (Hong Kong) Initialism of sex partner.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Initialism of skill point, special point, spirit point, or spell point; synonym of or alternative to MP/magic points, especially for games that lack magic or fantasy elements.
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- (law enforcement) Reinforcements.
- An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.
- A reserve or substitute.
- (music) Accompaniment.
- (computing) A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is damaged or destroyed.
- Corroboration.
- Any support or extra help.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- the act of providing approval and support
- an accumulation caused by clogging or a stoppage
- (computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
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- a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
- a smallest army unit
- a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
- (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- (firefighting) Ellipsis of squad truck.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
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- a policeman in charge of a precinct
- a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- the leader of a group of people
- the pilot in charge of an airship
- an officer holding a rank below a major but above a lieutenant
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- A maître d', a headwaiter.
- The leader of a group of workers.
- The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
- One of the athletes on a sports team who is designated to make decisions, and is allowed to speak for his team with a referee or official.
- An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
- (aviation) A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
- The head boy of a school.
- A chief or leader.
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a commander and junior to a rear admiral (lower half). A captain is equal in grade or rank to a United States Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force colonel.
- (Southern US) An honorific title given to a prominent person. See colonel.
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- a state police officer
- a soldier in a motorized army unit
- a mounted police officer
- a soldier mounted on horseback
- (military) A cavalry horse; a charger.
- (Australia, law enforcement) A mounted policeman.
- (figurative, colloquial) Misspelling of trouper (“one who stoically endures adversity”) .
- (military) A soldier of private rank in cavalry or armor.
- (military) A soldier.
- (British, nautical, military) A troopship.
- (US, law enforcement) Ellipsis of state trooper.
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Nessuna parola corrispondente trovata. Prova una descrizione più ampia.