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noun
- (countable) An instance of this.
- (also attributive, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by in or on: the state each year during which a male animal (usually a camel or an elephant) exhibits increased aggressiveness and sexual activity due to a high level of testosterone.
- an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear
noun
- (countable) An expedient.
- (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
- (uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
- the quality of being suited to the end in view
noun
- (countable) A particular instance of identifying something.
- A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
- (strictly) The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).
- The state of being identified.
- A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
- (broadly, often) The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity (proving or confirming it); identifying and authenticating viewed as a unitary concept in cognition.
- evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
- the act of designating or identifying something
- the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established
- the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
- the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
noun
- (countable) A tidbit of something valuable.
- (countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.
- (Australia, slang, countable) An item that is typically old and of dubious quality or poor condition.
- (countable) A small piece of tasty food, a tidbit.
- (uncountable) A type of boot polish.
- (countable, slang) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
- (countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.
- (slang, countable) A person with no arms or legs; a basket case.
- (countable) A chicken nugget.
- (computing theory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.
- a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
verb
noun
- (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
- (countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
- (uncountable) The act of notifying.
- a request for payment
- an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
- informing by words
noun
- (countable) A group of related items.
- (countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
- (countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
- (uncountable) The strategy of putting related inventory items together.
- (countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
- (uncountable, UK) The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level.
- (countable) A taxonomic grouping at the family level.
noun
- (countable) A thing that is external relative to something else.
- (uncountable) The state of being external or externalized.
- (economics, countable) An impact, positive or negative, on any party not involved in a given economic transaction or act.
- the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior
noun
- (countable) A thing that reinforces.
- (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
- A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.
- (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
- (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- a device designed to provide additional strength
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
noun
- (countable) Something which has developed.
- (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
- (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
- (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
noun
- (countable) A sample.
- (statistics) The analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random.
- (signal processing) The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form.
- (music) The electronic splicing of pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition, especially as part of hip-hop or electronic dance music.
- The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample.
- measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
- items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
- (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
verb
noun
- (countable) A miscellaneous object or thing; a thingy.
- (countable) Something that is not up to acceptable standards; something of low quality.
- (uncountable, music) Alternative form of rinky-tink (“a tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk”).
- An amateur or someone who is underqualified.
- Someone who operates unethically; specifically, a small-time conman or crook.
adj
noun
- (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
- (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
- (countable) A magician’s trick.
- an erroneous mental representation
- something many people believe that is false
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
noun
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (countable) An experience.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
intj
verb
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
verb
- (transitive) To count something.
- (intransitive) To correspond or agree. [with with]
- (transitive) To mathematically calculate a numeric result.
- (transitive) To record something by making marks.
- (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
- (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
- (intransitive) To keep score.
- determine the sum of
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- keep score, as in games
- gain points in a game
intj
noun
- Abbreviation of tally stick.
- A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
- A tally shop.
- A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
- (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
- (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
- a bill for an amount due
- the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
noun
- (countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else.
- (countable, biology) An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.
- (chemistry) A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
adj
- Not relating to, or pre-dating, digital technology such as computers and the Internet; relating to real life.
- (of a device or system) In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial).
- of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
noun
- (countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else.
- (countable, biology) An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.
- (chemistry) Alternative spelling of analog (“A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.”)
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
adj
noun
- (countable) A piece of this.
- (uncountable) The stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
- (uncountable) Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
- The rock dove.
- (Australia, colloquial) A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
- (UK, Ireland, mildly vulgar) Any trifling amount, a bugger, a damn, a jot.
- (UK, Ireland, slang, mildly derogatory, formerly considered vulgar) A person; often qualified with an adjective.
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
- an informal term for a youth or man
adj
intj
verb
noun
- (countable) A particular aspect, feature or detail of something.
- (uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
- Good will; favor.
- (uncountable) Good opinion, honor, or admiration.
- (uncountable) An attitude of consideration or high regard.
- behavior intended to please your parents
- a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard
- (usually preceded by ‘in’) a detail or point
- courteous regard for people's feelings
- the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)
- an attitude of admiration or esteem
- a feeling of friendship and esteem
intj
verb
- To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
- To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.
- (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
- To have respect for.
- To abide by an agreement.
- show respect towards
- regard highly; think much of
noun
- (countable) A representation.
- (uncountable) The act of depicting.
- (countable) A drawing or painting.
- (countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.
- a graphic or vivid verbal description
- a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
- a representation by picture or portraiture
- representation by drawing or painting etc
noun
- (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
- (countable) An order or command.
- (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
- (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
- (in the plural) A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
- (law, in the plural) The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- the profession of a teacher
- a message describing how something is to be done
noun
- (countable) An instance of this phenomenon.
- (optics, uncountable) A phenomenon where light, instead of passing into a medium of a lower refractive index and refracting away from the normal, is completely reflected by the boundary between the two media because it approaches at an angle greater than or equal to the critical angle.
noun
- (countable) A series of items or events.
- (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
- (figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- (oil industry) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (using the mud pumps) and torque (using the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- (collective) A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- A slightly elevated (long, thin) peat ridge in a bog.
- (carpentry) A board supporting steps
- (countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- (countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- (architecture, masonry) A stringcourse.
- (music, metonymic, countable) A stringed instrument.
- (countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- (historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- (music) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- (billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- (billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
- (sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- (billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- (slang) Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”).
- (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- (countable, physics) A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
- a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
- (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
- a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
- a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket
- a lightweight cord
- stringed instruments that are played with a bow
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
verb
- (intransitive, billiards) To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- (transitive) To put strings on (something).
- (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
- (birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- add as if on a string
- stretch out or arrange like a string
- provide with strings
- thread on or as if on a string
- string together; tie or fasten with a string
- remove the stringy parts of
- move or come along
noun
- (countable) A particular situation or activity.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
- a rightful concern or responsibility
- business concerns collectively
- an immediate objective
adj
noun
- (countable) Something that is perpetual.
- (countable, finance) An annuity in which the periodic payments begin on a fixed date and continue indefinitely.
- (countable, law) A limitation intended to be unalterable and of indefinite duration; a disposition of property which attempts to make it inalienable beyond certain limits fixed or conceived as being fixed by the general law.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being perpetual; endless duration; uninterrupted existence.
- the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless)
adj
- Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
- (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
- (grammar, of a noun) Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
- (mathematics, of a set) Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- that can be counted
noun
noun
- (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
- (countable) Proper or equal share.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
- (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
- The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
- (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
- the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
- balance among the parts of something
- the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- magnitude or extent
verb
num
noun
noun
- (countable) An amount of something supplied.
- (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- (in the plural) Provisions.
- (economics) The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- (uncountable) The act of supplying.
- the activity of supplying or providing something
- offering goods and services for sale
- an amount of something available for use
adv
verb
- (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- give something useful or necessary to
- state or say further
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
noun
- (countable, figuratively) A situation.
- (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
- The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
- Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
- the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation
adj
verb
- To rain; to storm.
- (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
- (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
- (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
- To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
- (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
- To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.
- To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- sail to the windward of
- cause to slope
- face and withstand with courage
- change under the action or influence of the weather
noun
- (figuratively, countable) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
- (UK, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, uncountable) Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Any form of rugby.
- (US military slang, countable) The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
- (chiefly New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) rugby league.
- (Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, southern New South Wales, uncountable) Australian rules football.
- (other parts of, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, uncountable) rugby union.
- (US, uncountable) American football: a game played on a field 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
- (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
- (uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
- (Ireland, uncountable) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
- the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football
- any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
verb
noun
- (countable) Something that is regarded as meaningless.
- (usually uncountable, politics) The rejection of non-proven or non-rationalized assertions in the social and political spheres of society.
- (countable, uncountable, philosophy) A doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life; in particular, the view that nothing in the world actually exists.
- (uncountable, Russia, politics, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Nihilism (“a Russian movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change”).
- (usually uncountable) The rejection of, or opposition to, religious beliefs, (inherent or objective) moral principles, legal rules, etc., often due to the view that life is meaningless (sense 1).
- (uncountable, psychiatry) A delusion that oneself or the world, or parts thereof, have ceased to exist.
- (usually uncountable) The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning.
- complete denial of all established authority and institutions
- the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal
- a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
noun
- (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
- (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
- The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory).
- The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events.
- The aggregate of past events.
- (uncountable) A historically significant event.
- (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.
- (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
- (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- a record or narrative description of past events
- all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
- the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
- the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
- the aggregate of past events
noun
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
adj
noun
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
- preserve of crushed fruit
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
noun
- (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
- (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
- (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
- the state of being unsure of something
- being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
noun
- (countable) An instance of this.
- (also attributive, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by in or on: the state each year during which a male animal (usually a camel or an elephant) exhibits increased aggressiveness and sexual activity due to a high level of testosterone.
- an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear
noun
- (countable) An expedient.
- (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
- (uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
- the quality of being suited to the end in view
noun
- (countable) A particular instance of identifying something.
- A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
- (strictly) The act of identifying (i.e., which one, which thing).
- The state of being identified.
- A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
- (broadly, often) The combination of identifying (which one, which thing) and validating the identity (proving or confirming it); identifying and authenticating viewed as a unitary concept in cognition.
- evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing
- the act of designating or identifying something
- the condition of having the identity (of a person or object) established
- the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
- the attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)
noun
- (countable) A tidbit of something valuable.
- (countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.
- (Australia, slang, countable) An item that is typically old and of dubious quality or poor condition.
- (countable) A small piece of tasty food, a tidbit.
- (uncountable) A type of boot polish.
- (countable, slang) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
- (countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.
- (slang, countable) A person with no arms or legs; a basket case.
- (countable) A chicken nugget.
- (computing theory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.
- a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
verb
noun
- (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
- (countable, computing) A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
- (uncountable) The act of notifying.
- a request for payment
- an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative
- informing by words
noun
- (countable) A group of related items.
- (countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
- (countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
- (uncountable) The strategy of putting related inventory items together.
- (countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
- (uncountable, UK) The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level.
- (countable) A taxonomic grouping at the family level.
noun
- (countable) A thing that is external relative to something else.
- (uncountable) The state of being external or externalized.
- (economics, countable) An impact, positive or negative, on any party not involved in a given economic transaction or act.
- the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior
noun
- (countable) A thing that reinforces.
- (uncountable) The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
- A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.
- (in the plural) Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
- (uncountable, behavioral psychology) The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
- information that makes more forcible or convincing
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- a device designed to provide additional strength
- (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
- an act performed to strengthen approved behavior
noun
- (countable) Something which has developed.
- (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
- (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
- (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
noun
- (countable) A sample.
- (statistics) The analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random.
- (signal processing) The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form.
- (music) The electronic splicing of pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition, especially as part of hip-hop or electronic dance music.
- The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample.
- measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
- items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population
- (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study
verb
noun
- (countable) A miscellaneous object or thing; a thingy.
- (countable) Something that is not up to acceptable standards; something of low quality.
- (uncountable, music) Alternative form of rinky-tink (“a tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk”).
- An amateur or someone who is underqualified.
- Someone who operates unethically; specifically, a small-time conman or crook.
adj
noun
- (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
- (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
- (countable) A magician’s trick.
- an erroneous mental representation
- something many people believe that is false
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
noun
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- (countable) An experience.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- (uncountable) The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.
- (uncountable with possessive) A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- (only in singular, sports and figuratively) Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability of duration.
- (UK, in public houses) Closing time.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- (uncountable) The duration of time of a given day that has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- (uncountable) Tempo; a measured rate of movement.
- (uncountable) Rhythmical division, meter.
- (physics, uncountable, reductionist definition) The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- (physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- (music, uncountable) The measured duration of sounds.
- (jazz) (uncountable) A straight rhythmic pattern, free from fills, breaks and other embellishments.
- (countable) A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- (countable) An era; (articulated, sometimes in the plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of a long time.
- (countable) A ratio of comparison (see also usage notes and prepositional sense at 'times').
- (with possessives) The end of someone’s life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- (uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- (physics, uncountable) Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
- The hour of childbirth.
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- a suitable moment
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
intj
verb
- To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
- (transitive) To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of something.
- (transitive) To choose when something commences or its duration.
- To measure, as in music or harmony.
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
noun
- (countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else.
- (countable, biology) An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.
- (chemistry) A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
adj
- Not relating to, or pre-dating, digital technology such as computers and the Internet; relating to real life.
- (of a device or system) In which the value of a data item (such as time) is represented by a continuous(ly) variable physical quantity that can be measured (such as the shadow of a sundial).
- of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
noun
- (countable) Something that bears an analogy to something else.
- (countable, biology) An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin.
- (chemistry) Alternative spelling of analog (“A structural derivative of a parent compound that differs from it by only one or a few atoms or substituent groups; (usually, especially) such a molecule that retains most of the same chemical properties.”)
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
adj
noun
- (countable) A piece of this.
- (uncountable) The stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
- (uncountable) Turf grown and cut specifically for the establishment of lawns.
- The rock dove.
- (Australia, colloquial) A damper (bread) which has failed to rise, remaining a flat lump.
- (UK, Ireland, mildly vulgar) Any trifling amount, a bugger, a damn, a jot.
- (UK, Ireland, slang, mildly derogatory, formerly considered vulgar) A person; often qualified with an adjective.
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
- an informal term for a youth or man
adj
intj
verb
noun
- (countable) A particular aspect, feature or detail of something.
- (uncountable, always plural) Polite greetings, often offered as condolences after a death.
- Good will; favor.
- (uncountable) Good opinion, honor, or admiration.
- (uncountable) An attitude of consideration or high regard.
- behavior intended to please your parents
- a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard
- (usually preceded by ‘in’) a detail or point
- courteous regard for people's feelings
- the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)
- an attitude of admiration or esteem
- a feeling of friendship and esteem
intj
verb
- To take notice of; to regard as worthy of special consideration; to heed.
- To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.
- (transitive, dated except in "respecting") To relate to; to be concerned with.
- To have respect for.
- To abide by an agreement.
- show respect towards
- regard highly; think much of
noun
- (countable) A representation.
- (uncountable) The act of depicting.
- (countable) A drawing or painting.
- (countable) A lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual.
- a graphic or vivid verbal description
- a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects
- a representation by picture or portraiture
- representation by drawing or painting etc
noun
- (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
- (countable) An order or command.
- (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
- (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
- (in the plural) A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
- (law, in the plural) The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
- the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
- (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
- the profession of a teacher
- a message describing how something is to be done
noun
- (countable) An instance of this phenomenon.
- (optics, uncountable) A phenomenon where light, instead of passing into a medium of a lower refractive index and refracting away from the normal, is completely reflected by the boundary between the two media because it approaches at an angle greater than or equal to the critical angle.
noun
- (countable) A series of items or events.
- (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
- (figurative, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- (oil industry) A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (using the mud pumps) and torque (using the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- (collective) A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- A slightly elevated (long, thin) peat ridge in a bog.
- (carpentry) A board supporting steps
- (countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- (countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- (architecture, masonry) A stringcourse.
- (music, metonymic, countable) A stringed instrument.
- (countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- (historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- (music) A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- (billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- (billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
- (sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- (billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- (slang) Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”).
- (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- (countable, physics) A tiny one-dimensional string-like entity, the main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
- a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
- (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
- a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
- a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket
- a lightweight cord
- stringed instruments that are played with a bow
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
verb
- (intransitive, billiards) To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- (transitive) To put strings on (something).
- (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
- (birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- add as if on a string
- stretch out or arrange like a string
- provide with strings
- thread on or as if on a string
- string together; tie or fasten with a string
- remove the stringy parts of
- move or come along
noun
- (countable) A particular situation or activity.
- (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.
- (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.
- 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
- a rightful concern or responsibility
- business concerns collectively
- an immediate objective
adj
noun
- (countable) Something that is perpetual.
- (countable, finance) An annuity in which the periodic payments begin on a fixed date and continue indefinitely.
- (countable, law) A limitation intended to be unalterable and of indefinite duration; a disposition of property which attempts to make it inalienable beyond certain limits fixed or conceived as being fixed by the general law.
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being perpetual; endless duration; uninterrupted existence.
- the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless)
noun
- (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.
- (countable) Proper or equal share.
- (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.
- (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
- The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
- (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
- the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree
- balance among the parts of something
- the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)
- magnitude or extent
verb
noun
- (countable) An amount of something supplied.
- (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- (in the plural) Provisions.
- (economics) The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- (uncountable) The act of supplying.
- the activity of supplying or providing something
- offering goods and services for sale
- an amount of something available for use
adv
verb
- (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- give something useful or necessary to
- state or say further
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
noun
- (countable, figuratively) A situation.
- (nautical) The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.
- The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.
- Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
- the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation
adj
verb
- To rain; to storm.
- (falconry) To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.
- (nautical) To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.
- (by extension) To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.
- To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.
- (nautical) To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.
- To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.
- To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.
- sail to the windward of
- cause to slope
- face and withstand with courage
- change under the action or influence of the weather
noun
- (figuratively, countable) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
- (UK, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, uncountable) Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Any form of rugby.
- (US military slang, countable) The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
- (chiefly New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) rugby league.
- (Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, southern New South Wales, uncountable) Australian rules football.
- (other parts of, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, uncountable) rugby union.
- (US, uncountable) American football: a game played on a field 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
- (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
- (uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
- (Ireland, uncountable) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
- the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football
- any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
verb
noun
- (countable) Something that is regarded as meaningless.
- (usually uncountable, politics) The rejection of non-proven or non-rationalized assertions in the social and political spheres of society.
- (countable, uncountable, philosophy) A doctrine grounded on the negation of one or more meaningful aspects of life; in particular, the view that nothing in the world actually exists.
- (uncountable, Russia, politics, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Nihilism (“a Russian movement of the 1860s that rejected all authority and promoted the use of violence for political change”).
- (usually uncountable) The rejection of, or opposition to, religious beliefs, (inherent or objective) moral principles, legal rules, etc., often due to the view that life is meaningless (sense 1).
- (uncountable, psychiatry) A delusion that oneself or the world, or parts thereof, have ceased to exist.
- (usually uncountable) The view that all endeavours are devoid of objective meaning.
- complete denial of all established authority and institutions
- the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal
- a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
noun
- (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
- (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
- The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory).
- The empirical study of past events, as distinct from literature, myth, or scripture; the assessment of notable events.
- The aggregate of past events.
- (uncountable) A historically significant event.
- (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.
- (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
- (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- a record or narrative description of past events
- all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
- the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
- the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
- the aggregate of past events
noun
- (countable, by extension) The chief or most important thing.
- (countable) An uppercase letter.
- (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as tools and bulldozers (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
- (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
- (uncountable, politics) The capitalist class; investors considered collectively with respect to their societal (economic, political, cultural, etc.) influence.
- (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
- (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
- (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
- (uncountable, business, finance, insurance, economics) Money and wealth: the means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
- wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
- assets available for use in the production of further assets
- a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
- a seat of government
adj
noun
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb.
- (slang) Something enjoyable; a delightful situation or outcome.
- (slang) Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (countable) A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (countable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (UK, slang) Luck.
- (countable, climbing) Any of several manoeuvres requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Australia) The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (Canada, slang) Balls, bollocks, courage, machismo.
- (less common in the US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts
- preserve of crushed fruit
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- a dense crowd of people
- deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
verb
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- (basketball) To dunk.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To render something unable to move.
- (colloquial) To be of high quality (especially for music).
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- crush or bruise
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- get stuck and immobilized
- push down forcibly
- press tightly together or cram
- crowd or pack to capacity
noun
- (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
- (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
- (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
- the state of being unsure of something
- being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
verb
- (transitive) To count something.
- (intransitive) To correspond or agree. [with with]
- (transitive) To mathematically calculate a numeric result.
- (transitive) To record something by making marks.
- (transitive) To make things correspond or agree with each other.
- (nautical) To check off, as parcels of freight going inboard or outboard.
- (intransitive) To keep score.
- determine the sum of
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- keep score, as in games
- gain points in a game
intj
noun
- Abbreviation of tally stick.
- A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a score or tally in a game.
- A tally shop.
- A ribbon on a sailor's cap bearing the name of the ship or the (part of) the navy to which they belong.
- (by extension) Any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book, especially one kept in duplicate.
- (by extension) One of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.
- a bill for an amount due
- the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
adj
- Capable of being counted; having a quantity.
- (mathematics, of a set) Countably infinite; having a bijection with the natural numbers.
- (grammar, of a noun) Freely usable with the indefinite article and with numbers.
- (mathematics, of a set) Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- that can be counted