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noun
- a means of enforcement
- something resembling the tooth of an animal
- toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
- one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
- hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- (algebraic geometry) An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
- (figurative) Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
- (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
- A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
- (zoology) A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
- Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
- (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
- A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
- A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
verb
noun
- An enforced compliance or control.
- the act of disciplining
- (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- training to improve strength or self-control
- the trait of being well behaved
- a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
- a branch of knowledge
verb
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
- (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
- (transitive) To impose order on someone.
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
verb
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- 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.
- (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
- the act of disciplining
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- treatment of a specific defect
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- something substituted for an error
- An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
- (procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted
- (chiefly in the plural) Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
- The act of correcting.
- A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index.
- A substitution for an error or mistake.
noun
- The act of binding; restriction; obligation.
- (medicine) A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.
- (law, Scotland, historical) An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. (The lands were said to be astricted to the mill.)
verb
- impose or inflict forcefully
- fasten or fix with a clamp
- (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
- (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
- (transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
noun
- a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
- (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
- (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
- A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
- A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
- (agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
- A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
- (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
noun
- the act of compelling by force of authority
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- using force to cause something to occur
- (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
- (law, uncountable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
noun
noun
- The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
- Observation or the act of watching.
- Reverence; homage.
- That which is to be observed.
- (religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.
- The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
- conformity with law or custom or practice etc.
- the act of observing; taking a patient look
- the act of noticing or paying attention
- a formal event performed on a special occasion
noun
- A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
- The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- (countable) Reason for being obliged to, that is, grateful for, something.
- (law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
- a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor
- the state of being obligated to do or pay something
- a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
- a written promise to repay a debt
noun
- compulsory force or threat
- (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
- Constraint by threat.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- make right or correct
- adjust for
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- censure severely
- make reparations or amends for
- fall in value
- treat a defect
- (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
- (transitive) To discipline; to punish.
- (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
- (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
adj
adv
intj
noun
verb
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
- (transitive) To fix (a problem).
- (transitive) To arrange.
- (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
- (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
- (transitive, British, slang) To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them.
verb
- (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
- (intransitive, formal) To begin (a regular activity or job); to undertake; to take up. [with on or upon]
- (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
- (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
- (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
- (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
- (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
- To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
- (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
- (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
- set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
- become a participant; be involved in
- to come or go into
- put or introduce into something
- take on duties or office
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
- be or play a part of or in
- come on stage
- register formally as a participant or member
noun
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the quality of being inhibited
- (chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
- (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
- The act of inhibiting.
- (Philippines, law) A recusal.
- (law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- refusal to approve or assent to
- a decree that prohibits something
- A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
- A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
noun
- the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
- the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
- (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
- a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
noun
- the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
- A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
- (figuratively) Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
- A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
- The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.
noun
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a unit that is part of some military service
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (of a law) having legal validity
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
verb
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
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.
verb
noun
- A sacrament in some Christian churches that involves penitence (remorse plus restitution via prayer).
- Any instrument of self-punishment.
- A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
- remorse for your past conduct
verb
- (intransitive) To inculcate rigid rules.
- (transitive) To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions.
- (transitive) To say in the manner of a sermon or lecture.
- (intransitive) To speak in the manner of a sermon; to preach; to propagate one's morality or opinions with speech.
- speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
noun
- by the sanction or authority of
- a person's reputation
- a well-known or notable person
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- family based on male descent
- a language unit by which a person or thing is known
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A reputation.
- (computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
- (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An authority; a behalf.
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- A person (or legal person).
verb
- determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- charge with a function; charge to be
- mention and identify by name
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make reference to
- create and charge with a task or function
- (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.
- (ditransitive) To give a name to.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.
- (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
adj
- (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law
- of or relating to or functioning as an adjective
noun
verb
noun
noun
- The act of perpetrating an offence.
- The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
- The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
- The act of entrusting something to someone.
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- the act of committing a crime
adj
noun
- a means of enforcement
- something resembling the tooth of an animal
- toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
- one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
- hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- (algebraic geometry) An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
- (figurative) Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
- (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
- A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
- (zoology) A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
- Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
- (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
- A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
- A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
verb
noun
- An enforced compliance or control.
- the act of disciplining
- (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- training to improve strength or self-control
- the trait of being well behaved
- a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
- a branch of knowledge
verb
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
- (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
- (transitive) To impose order on someone.
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
noun
- the act of disciplining
- a rebuke for making a mistake
- a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- treatment of a specific defect
- a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- something substituted for an error
- An amount or quantity of something added or subtracted so as to correct.
- (procedure word, military) a station's indication that previous information was incorrect and will continue with correct information from the last correct transmitted
- (chiefly in the plural) Punishment that is intended to rehabilitate an offender.
- The act of correcting.
- A decline in a stock market price after a period of rises. Often operationally defined as a market value drop of 10% or more on some specific stock market index.
- A substitution for an error or mistake.
noun
- The act of binding; restriction; obligation.
- (medicine) A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.
- (law, Scotland, historical) An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. (The lands were said to be astricted to the mill.)
noun
- the act of compelling by force of authority
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- using force to cause something to occur
- (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
- (law, uncountable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
noun
noun
- The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
- Observation or the act of watching.
- Reverence; homage.
- That which is to be observed.
- (religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.
- The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
- conformity with law or custom or practice etc.
- the act of observing; taking a patient look
- the act of noticing or paying attention
- a formal event performed on a special occasion
noun
- A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
- The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- (countable) Reason for being obliged to, that is, grateful for, something.
- (law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
- a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor
- the state of being obligated to do or pay something
- a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply
- the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
- a written promise to repay a debt
noun
- compulsory force or threat
- (law) Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
- Constraint by threat.
verb
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part
- (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
- the quality of being inhibited
- (chemistry, biochemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
- (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
- The act of inhibiting.
- (Philippines, law) A recusal.
- (law) A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
noun
- the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
- An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
- the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
- a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
- refusal to approve or assent to
- a decree that prohibits something
- A period of time when specific socially disapproved consumables are considered controlled substances.
- A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
noun
- the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
- the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition
- (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game
- a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
- A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
- (soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
- (ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
- A legal sentence.
- (finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
- A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
noun
- the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty
- A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
- (figuratively) Any harsh treatment or experience; rough handling.
- A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution.
- The act (action) or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction, typically by an authority or a person in authority (for example: a parent or teacher), especially when disappointed or dissatisfied with the behavior or actions of a child, student, or someone else being looked after.
noun
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a unit that is part of some military service
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (of a law) having legal validity
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
verb
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
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
- by the sanction or authority of
- a person's reputation
- a well-known or notable person
- a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- family based on male descent
- a language unit by which a person or thing is known
- An abusive or insulting epithet.
- Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
- A reputation.
- (computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
- (UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
- An authority; a behalf.
- Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
- Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.
- A person (or legal person).
verb
- determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- charge with a function; charge to be
- mention and identify by name
- give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- make reference to
- create and charge with a task or function
- (transitive, of a person) To disclose the name of.
- (ditransitive) To give a name to.
- (transitive) To designate for a role.
- (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
- (transitive) To mention, specify.
- (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.
- (transitive, Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
noun
noun
- The act of perpetrating an offence.
- The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
- The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
- The act of entrusting something to someone.
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- the act of committing a crime
adj
verb
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- 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.
- (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
- impose or inflict forcefully
- fasten or fix with a clamp
- (transitive) To hold or grip tightly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
- (transitive) To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
- (transitive) To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
noun
- a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
- (medicine) An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
- (electronics) An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
- A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
- A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
- (agriculture) A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
- A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
- (UK) A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
noun
- An enforced compliance or control.
- the act of disciplining
- (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
- training to improve strength or self-control
- the trait of being well behaved
- a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
- a branch of knowledge
verb
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
- (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
- (transitive) To impose order on someone.
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
verb
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- make right or correct
- adjust for
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- censure severely
- make reparations or amends for
- fall in value
- treat a defect
- (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
- (transitive) To discipline; to punish.
- (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
- (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
adj
adv
intj
noun
verb
- punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
- arrange or order by classes or categories
- (UK, slang) To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally.
- (transitive) To fix (a problem).
- (transitive) To arrange.
- (transitive) To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.
- (transitive) To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.
- (transitive, British, slang) To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble, often by physically attacking them.
verb
- (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
- (intransitive, formal) To begin (a regular activity or job); to undertake; to take up. [with on or upon]
- (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
- (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
- (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
- (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
- (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
- (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
- To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
- To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
- (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
- (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
- set out on (an enterprise or subject of study)
- become a participant; be involved in
- to come or go into
- put or introduce into something
- take on duties or office
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
- be or play a part of or in
- come on stage
- register formally as a participant or member
noun
verb
noun
- A sacrament in some Christian churches that involves penitence (remorse plus restitution via prayer).
- Any instrument of self-punishment.
- A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act.
- voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
- a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution
- remorse for your past conduct
verb
- (intransitive) To inculcate rigid rules.
- (transitive) To preach a sermon to (somebody); to give (somebody) instruction or admonishment on the basis of one's morality or opinions.
- (transitive) To say in the manner of a sermon or lecture.
- (intransitive) To speak in the manner of a sermon; to preach; to propagate one's morality or opinions with speech.
- speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements
adj
noun
adj
- (law) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.
- (grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law
- of or relating to or functioning as an adjective