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noun
- Duty; responsibility.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
verb
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- furnish
- create and charge with a task or function
- (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
- (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
- (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
- (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
- (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
verb
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- demand payment
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- move quickly and violently
- direct into a position for use
- make an accusatory claim
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- instruct or command with authority
- fill or load to capacity
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- place a heraldic bearing on
- saturate
- file a formal charge against
- enter a certain amount as a charge
- (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To impute or ascribe.
- (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
- (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
noun
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the price charged for some article or service
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- request for payment of a debt
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- a person committed to your care
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- A load or burden; cargo.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An instruction.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- (property law) A mortgage.
noun
- A responsibility, onus.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- Theme, core idea.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A heavy load.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
verb
noun
- A position of responsibility.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
- (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
- (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- (Christianity) Last rites.
- (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- (UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:
- (Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- (UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
- (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
- (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
- place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- an administrative unit of government
- professional or clerical workers in an office
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a job in an organization
- a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
verb
noun
verb
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
noun
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion.
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to someone’s possession or supervision.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable. [from 18th c.]
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
- the proper sphere or extent of your activities
- a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
noun
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
noun
- some duty that is essential and urgent
- a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- a verb in the imperative mood.
- (countable, grammar) A verb in the imperative mood.
- (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
adj
verb
- discharge one's duties
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
- be suitable for theatrical performance
- (transitive) To feign.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
noun
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a manifestation of insincerity
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
adv
verb
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- put a saddle on
- load or burden; encumber
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
noun
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- (construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- (broadcasting) A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
- (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
noun
- a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
- an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
- the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
- the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- An assigned task.
- (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- (law) A document that effects this transfer.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- (LGBTQ) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
noun
- responsibility to someone or for some activity
- The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
- An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
- An acceptance of good faith of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
- (military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping an accurate record of property, documents, or funds.
adj
- failing in what duty requires
- guilty of a misdeed
- past due; not paid at the scheduled time
- Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
- Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
- Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
noun
adj
- failing in what duty requires
- worn and broken down by hard use
- in deplorable condition
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants
- Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
- (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
- (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
- (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
- (figurative) Adrift, lost.
noun
- a person without a home, job, or property
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
- (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
- (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
- (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
noun
- Initialism of heavy duty.
- Initialism of high density.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of homeodomain.
- (television) Initialism of high definition (“1280×720 pixels”).
- (pathology) Initialism of Hodgkin's disease.
- (computing) Initialism of hard disc, hard disk, or hard drive.
- (medicine) Initialism of hemodialysis.
- (pathology) Initialism of Hansen's disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of Huntington's disease.
name
name
noun
noun
- (US, military) Initialism of area of responsibility.
- (music, radio format, US, uncountable) Initialism of album-oriented radio.
- (music, uncountable) Initialism of album-oriented rock.
- (US, military, nautical) Initialism of auxiliary replenishment oiler.
- Initialism of address of record.
- (syntax) Initialism of adjective ordering restrictions.
- (music, uncountable) Initialism of adult-oriented rock.
prep_phrase
noun
- a rightful concern or responsibility
- the volume of commercial activity
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
- the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- customers collectively
- business concerns collectively
- an immediate objective
- (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
- (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
- (slang, British, with the) Something very good; top quality.
- (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
- (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
- (slang, uncountable) The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
- (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
- (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
- (Los Angeles, informal, with the) Hollywood, the entertainment industry.
- (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
- (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
- (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
- (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
- (Australian Aboriginal) Matters.
- (acting, theater) Ellipsis of stage business (“aspect of acting”).
- (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
- (countable) A particular situation or activity.
- (slang) Disruptive shenanigans.
- (countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
- (slang, with the) Prostitution.
adj
noun
- the state of being legally obliged and responsible
- an obligation to pay money to another party
- the quality of being something that holds you back
- (informal, mildly derogatory) A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
- An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
- The condition of being susceptible to something.
- A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; a person or action that exposes others to greater risk.
- The likelihood of something happening.
- (accounting) Any kind of debt recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
noun
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- (law) A bail bond.
- (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- (law) A document constituting evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- A peasant; churl.
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- (by ellipsis) Bond paper.
- (often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- (Scotland) A mortgage.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- (uncountable) The state of being stored in a bonded warehouse
- a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
- the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
- a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal
- a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents
- a connection that fastens things together
- an electrical force linking atoms
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
adj
verb
- (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
- (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- issue bonds on
- bring together in a common cause or emotion
- stick to firmly
- create social or emotional ties
adj
- necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
- currently holding an office
- lying or leaning on something else
- (zoology) Of a body part such as a hair, spine, or wing: bent downwards or otherwise positioned so that it, or part of it, rests on or touches something else; specifically (ornithology), of the hind toe of a bird: fully resting on a support.
- (poetic) Hanging or leaning over.
- Oppressive, pressuring.
- Being the current holder of an office or a title; specifically (Christianity, obsolete), of an ecclesiastical benefice.
- Followed by on or upon: imposed on one as an obligation, especially due to one's office or position.
- (botany) Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
noun
noun
- That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
- Right; just title or claim.
- (in the plural) A membership fee.
- Deserved acknowledgment.
- that which is deserved or owed
- a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)
adj
- On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.
- Owed or owing.
- Appropriate.
- Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
- Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
- Scheduled; expected.
- owed and payable immediately or on demand
- suitable to or expected in the circumstances
- scheduled to arrive
- capable of being assigned or credited to
adv
adj
- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
- (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely.
- Subject; susceptible; prone.
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
- (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- subject to legal action
- held legally responsible
verb
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- lay eggs
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
adj
noun
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
noun
- An implicit obligation or duty held by another in someone's view.
- The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
- (statistics, colloquial) The arithmetic mean.
- (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
- (statistics) The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
- The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
- The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
- That which is expected or looked for.
- belief about (or mental picture of) the future
- the feeling that something is about to happen
- anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
- the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
adj
- (of a job or position) Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- (postpositive, followed by "for") Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- (followed by "to") Answerable to (a superior).
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- (postpositive, followed by "for") Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
- having an acceptable credit rating
- being the agent or cause
noun
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- (specifically) A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty.
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults
- an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
- (transitive) To acknowledge.
- (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (transitive) To recognise.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
- (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- have ownership or possession of
adj
- Not shared.
- Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
- belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
noun
verb
- To take on a position, duty or form.
- To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate.
- To receive, adopt (a person).
- To adopt (an idea or cause).
- To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
- take up someone's soul into heaven
- put clothing on one's body
- make a pretence of
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- occupy or take on
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
verb
noun
- an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.)
- someone who supports or champions something
- A senior member of a twelve step or similar program chosen to guide an initiate and form a partnership with them.
- A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
- A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
noun
- Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
- The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- the quality of being faithful
verb
- be liable or accountable
- react to a stimulus or command
- understand the meaning of
- give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)
- give the correct answer or solution to
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of
- respond to a signal
- match or correspond
- react verbally
- (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
- (ambitransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- (ambitransitive) To make a reply or response to.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- (ambitransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
- (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
noun
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the speech act of replying to a question
- the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
- a nonverbal reaction
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- A solution to a problem.
- (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
- (after a possessive, with to) Someone or something that fills a similar role or position.
- A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
noun
- the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
- the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
- the storage of assets in a protected area
- the responsibility of a guardian
- (US) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
noun
- Duty; responsibility.
- A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
- (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
- A section of a document.
- (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
- A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
- A distinct element of something larger.
- Share, especially of a profit.
- Position or role (especially in a play).
- A group inside a larger group.
- (US) A room in a public building, especially a courtroom.
- A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
- (music) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
- Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
- 3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
- (colloquial, euphemistic) A private part; genitalia.
- A fraction of a whole.
- the effort contributed by a person in bringing about a result
- a portion of a natural object
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- something determined in relation to something that includes it
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- that which concerns a person with regard to a particular role or situation
- something less than the whole of a human artifact
- an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- the extended spatial location of something
- a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions
- an item that is an instance of some type
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated.
- (intransitive) To leave the company of.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- (transitive) To divide in two.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To cut hair with a parting.
- (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
- force, take, or pull apart
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- depart for someplace
- move or break apart
noun
- A responsibility, onus.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- Theme, core idea.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A heavy load.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
verb
noun
- A position of responsibility.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
- (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
- (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- (Christianity) Last rites.
- (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- (UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office:
- (Protestantism) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- (UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
- (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
- (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
- place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- an administrative unit of government
- professional or clerical workers in an office
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
- a job in an organization
- a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
verb
noun
noun
- A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
- The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion.
- The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to someone’s possession or supervision.
- The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable. [from 18th c.]
- The state of being liable, culpable, or responsible for something in particular.
- the proper sphere or extent of your activities
- a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
noun
- the responsibility to do something
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A task.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
verb
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
verb
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- demand payment
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- move quickly and violently
- direct into a position for use
- make an accusatory claim
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- instruct or command with authority
- fill or load to capacity
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- place a heraldic bearing on
- saturate
- file a formal charge against
- enter a certain amount as a charge
- (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To impute or ascribe.
- (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
- (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
noun
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the price charged for some article or service
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- request for payment of a debt
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- a person committed to your care
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- A load or burden; cargo.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An instruction.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- (property law) A mortgage.
noun
- some duty that is essential and urgent
- a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- a verb in the imperative mood.
- (countable, grammar) A verb in the imperative mood.
- (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
adj
noun
- a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
- an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
- the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
- the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- An assigned task.
- (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- (law) A document that effects this transfer.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- (LGBTQ) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
noun
- responsibility to someone or for some activity
- The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
- An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
- An acceptance of good faith of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
- (military) The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping an accurate record of property, documents, or funds.
noun
- Initialism of heavy duty.
- Initialism of high density.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of homeodomain.
- (television) Initialism of high definition (“1280×720 pixels”).
- (pathology) Initialism of Hodgkin's disease.
- (computing) Initialism of hard disc, hard disk, or hard drive.
- (medicine) Initialism of hemodialysis.
- (pathology) Initialism of Hansen's disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of Huntington's disease.
name
noun
noun
- (US, military) Initialism of area of responsibility.
- (music, radio format, US, uncountable) Initialism of album-oriented radio.
- (music, uncountable) Initialism of album-oriented rock.
- (US, military, nautical) Initialism of auxiliary replenishment oiler.
- Initialism of address of record.
- (syntax) Initialism of adjective ordering restrictions.
- (music, uncountable) Initialism of adult-oriented rock.
prep_phrase
noun
- a rightful concern or responsibility
- the volume of commercial activity
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect
- the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- customers collectively
- business concerns collectively
- an immediate objective
- (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
- (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
- (slang, British, with the) Something very good; top quality.
- (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
- (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and coach.
- (slang, uncountable) The act of defecation, or the excrement itself, particularly that of a non-human animal.
- (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
- (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
- (Los Angeles, informal, with the) Hollywood, the entertainment industry.
- (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
- (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
- (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
- (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
- (Australian Aboriginal) Matters.
- (acting, theater) Ellipsis of stage business (“aspect of acting”).
- (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
- (countable) A particular situation or activity.
- (slang) Disruptive shenanigans.
- (countable) Any activity or objective needing to be dealt with; especially, one of a financial or legal matter.
- (slang, with the) Prostitution.
adj
noun
- the state of being legally obliged and responsible
- an obligation to pay money to another party
- the quality of being something that holds you back
- (informal, mildly derogatory) A person on a team that is more of a hindrance than a help.
- An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.
- The condition of being susceptible to something.
- A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; a person or action that exposes others to greater risk.
- The likelihood of something happening.
- (accounting) Any kind of debt recorded on the right-hand side of a balance sheet.
noun
- Moral or political duty or obligation.
- (finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
- (law) A bail bond.
- (railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
- (law) A document constituting evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
- Any constraining or cementing force or material.
- (construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
- A peasant; churl.
- An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
- (by ellipsis) Bond paper.
- (often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.
- A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
- (chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
- (Scotland) A mortgage.
- A binding agreement, a covenant.
- A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
- (uncountable) The state of being stored in a bonded warehouse
- a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
- the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition
- a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal
- a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents
- a connection that fastens things together
- an electrical force linking atoms
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
adj
verb
- (transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- (transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
- (transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
- (transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
- (transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
- (transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
- To bail out by means of a bail bond.
- (transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
- To form a friendship or emotional connection.
- issue bonds on
- bring together in a common cause or emotion
- stick to firmly
- create social or emotional ties
noun
- That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
- Right; just title or claim.
- (in the plural) A membership fee.
- Deserved acknowledgment.
- that which is deserved or owed
- a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)
adj
- On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.
- Owed or owing.
- Appropriate.
- Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
- Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
- Scheduled; expected.
- owed and payable immediately or on demand
- suitable to or expected in the circumstances
- scheduled to arrive
- capable of being assigned or credited to
adv
noun
- An implicit obligation or duty held by another in someone's view.
- The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
- (statistics, colloquial) The arithmetic mean.
- (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
- (statistics) The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
- The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
- The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
- That which is expected or looked for.
- belief about (or mental picture of) the future
- the feeling that something is about to happen
- anticipating with confidence of fulfillment
- the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values
noun
verb
noun
- Faithfulness to one's moral or civic duties.
- Loyalty to one's spouse or partner, including abstention from cheating or extramarital affairs.
- The degree to which a system accurately reproduces an input.
- Accuracy, or exact correspondence to some given quality or fact.
- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- the quality of being faithful
noun
- the responsibility of a guardian or keeper
- the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
- the storage of assets in a protected area
- the responsibility of a guardian
- (US) not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
verb
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- furnish
- create and charge with a task or function
- (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
- (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
- (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
- (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
- (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
verb
- assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
- To assign a duty or responsibility to; to order.
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence
- demand payment
- lie down on command, of hunting dogs
- pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt
- cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- move quickly and violently
- direct into a position for use
- make an accusatory claim
- attribute responsibility to
- set or ask for a certain price
- to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle
- instruct or command with authority
- fill or load to capacity
- energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge
- blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against
- provide (a device) with something necessary
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- place a heraldic bearing on
- saturate
- file a formal charge against
- enter a certain amount as a charge
- (transitive, chiefly US) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
- (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To impute or ascribe.
- (transitive, property law) To mortgage (a property).
- (transitive) To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- (transitive) To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
- (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- (transitive, criminal law, law enforcement) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
- (intransitive, of a battery or a device containing a battery) To replenish energy.
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- (transitive) To cause to take on an electric charge.
- (ambitransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
noun
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the price charged for some article or service
- a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something
- an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence
- the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons
- request for payment of a debt
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense
- financial liabilities (such as a tax)
- (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object
- a special assignment that is given to a person or group
- a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time
- an impetuous rush toward someone or something
- a person committed to your care
- attention and management implying responsibility for safety
- A load or burden; cargo.
- (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An instruction.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- (firearms) A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- (military) An attack in which combatants rush towards an enemy in an attempt to engage in close combat.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- (electromagnetism, chemistry, physics, countable, uncountable) An electric charge.
- (by extension) A measured amount of explosive.
- (property law) A mortgage.
verb
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
verb
- discharge one's duties
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
- be suitable for theatrical performance
- (transitive) To feign.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
noun
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a manifestation of insincerity
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- The process of doing something.
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
adv
noun
- A responsibility, onus.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- Theme, core idea.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A heavy load.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
verb
verb
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- put a saddle on
- load or burden; encumber
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
noun
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- (construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- (broadcasting) A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
- (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
verb
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- lay eggs
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
adj
noun
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- (specifically) A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty.
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults
- an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
verb
- (transitive) To take responsibility for.
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
- (transitive) To acknowledge.
- (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
- (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain administrative access to a computer system, thereby having full access to all the files thereon (including executables).
- (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
- (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
- (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
- (transitive) To claim as one's own.
- (transitive) To recognise.
- (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow; not to deny.
- (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
- have ownership or possession of
adj
- Not shared.
- Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
- belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
noun
verb
- To take on a position, duty or form.
- To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate.
- To receive, adopt (a person).
- To adopt (an idea or cause).
- To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
- take up someone's soul into heaven
- put clothing on one's body
- make a pretence of
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- occupy or take on
- take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
verb
noun
- an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.)
- someone who supports or champions something
- A senior member of a twelve step or similar program chosen to guide an initiate and form a partnership with them.
- A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
- A person or organization with some sort of responsibility for another person or organization, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
verb
- be liable or accountable
- react to a stimulus or command
- understand the meaning of
- give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)
- give the correct answer or solution to
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of
- respond to a signal
- match or correspond
- react verbally
- (law) To file a document in response to a complaint.
- (ambitransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
- (ambitransitive) To make a reply or response to.
- To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.
- To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
- To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
- (ambitransitive) To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
- To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
- (transitive) To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
- To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
- To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
noun
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the speech act of replying to a question
- the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
- a nonverbal reaction
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- A solution to a problem.
- (law) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
- (after a possessive, with to) Someone or something that fills a similar role or position.
- A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
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adj
- failing in what duty requires
- guilty of a misdeed
- past due; not paid at the scheduled time
- Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
- Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
- Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
noun
adj
- failing in what duty requires
- worn and broken down by hard use
- in deplorable condition
- forsaken by owner or inhabitants
- Given up by the guardian or owner; abandoned, forsaken.
- (by extension) Of property: in a poor state due to abandonment or neglect; dilapidated, neglected.
- (specifically) Of a ship: abandoned at sea; of a spacecraft: abandoned in outer space.
- (chiefly US) Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
- (figurative) Adrift, lost.
noun
- a person without a home, job, or property
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- (uncountable) Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
- (uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.
- (countable, chiefly US) A person who is negligent in performing a duty.
- (countable, by extension, derogatory) A homeless or jobless person; a vagrant; also, a person who is (perceived as) negligent in their hygiene and personal affairs.
adj
- necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
- currently holding an office
- lying or leaning on something else
- (zoology) Of a body part such as a hair, spine, or wing: bent downwards or otherwise positioned so that it, or part of it, rests on or touches something else; specifically (ornithology), of the hind toe of a bird: fully resting on a support.
- (poetic) Hanging or leaning over.
- Oppressive, pressuring.
- Being the current holder of an office or a title; specifically (Christianity, obsolete), of an ecclesiastical benefice.
- Followed by on or upon: imposed on one as an obligation, especially due to one's office or position.
- (botany) Of an anther: lying on the inner side of the filament; also, of a cotyledon: having its back lying against the radicle.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: leaning, or lying, reclining, or resting, on something else.
noun
adj
- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
- (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely.
- Subject; susceptible; prone.
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
- (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- subject to legal action
- held legally responsible
adj
- (of a job or position) Involving important duties; involving a degree of personal accountability on the part of the person concerned.
- worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable
- Capable of rational conduct and thus morally accountable for one's behavior.
- (postpositive, followed by "for") Being a primary cause of a situation or action and thus able to be blamed or credited for it.
- Having good judgment in decision-making.
- (followed by "to") Answerable to (a superior).
- Able to be trusted; reliable; trustworthy.
- (postpositive, followed by "for") Having the duty of taking care of something; answerable for an act performed or for its consequences; accountable; amenable, especially legally or politically.
- having an acceptable credit rating
- being the agent or cause