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noun
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- come into existence, originate
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (figuratively) A source or origin.
- A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
- (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
- (figuratively) A female ancestor.
- A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
- A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
- A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
- (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
- (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
- (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- (Stan Twitter, originally drag slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
- (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
- A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
- Alternative form of moth-er.
- a term of address for a mother superior
- a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
- a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for an elderly woman
- a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
verb
- (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
- (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
- (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
- (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
- care for like a mother
- make (offspring) by reproduction
verb
noun
- a facility where something is available
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
- a person who supplies information
- A reporter's informant.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (computing) Source code.
- (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
noun
- (figuratively) Origin; founding.
- Place of origin; place to which a species is native.
- (also with capital initial) A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.
- (astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
- The quality of being native or innate.
- (also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
- (Christianity, also with capital initial) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist.
- the event of being born
noun
- (figurative) That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of font (“a set of glyphs of unified design, usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters belonging to one typeface, style, and weight; a typeface; a family of typefaces”).
- a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
verb
noun
- The source or origin of something.
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- A surrogate parent.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
verb
noun
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- An original faculty or endowment.
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
- (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- Misspelling of principal.
- A chemical compound within plant or animal tissue that is characteristic of it and more or less peculiar to it, such that it defines the character of that tissue from a human viewpoint (as for example nicotine in tobacco).
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- a basic truth or law or assumption
- (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)
- a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
- a rule or standard especially of good behavior
- rule of personal conduct
- a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
verb
noun
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- That from which a thing is derived.
verb
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To take an academic degree.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.
- (law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- follow a procedure or take a course
- continue talking
- follow a certain course
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
adj
- pertaining to or referring to origin
- Of or relating to origin (genesis).
- of or relating to the science of genetics
- occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- of or relating to or produced by or being a gene
- (linguistics) Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
- (theology) Based on a shared membership in a religious family.
- Caused by genes.
- (genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
verb
noun
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the act of starting something
- the first part or section of something
- the event consisting of the start of something
adj
verb
verb
- originate (in)
- come back to
- exist or be situated within
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
- (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated. [with on ‘a particular thought, idea, etc.’]
- (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
- (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
noun
- (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
- (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
verb
- originate (in)
- have a place in relation to something else
- assume a reclining position
- be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
- tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
- be and remain in a particular state or condition
- be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
- (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
noun
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- position or manner in which something is situated
- An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A liar; a dishonest person.
- An animal's lair.
- (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
- (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
- (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
- A manner of lying; relative position.
noun
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
adj
noun
- the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
- an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- The beginning of something.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
prep
- Used to indicate source or provenance.
- Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
- Indicating exclusion.
- Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
- With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
- Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
- Indicating differentiation.
- Indicating removal or separation.
- (MLE) Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being.
- Indicating a starting point in time.
- (mathematics, chiefly British, not in formal use) Denoting a subtraction operation.
- Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
- Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
- Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
adj
- Originating externally.
- (medicine, surgery) Of a procedure: involving the entry of an instrument into part of the body.
- Intrusive on one's privacy, rights, sphere of activity, etc.
- Of or pertaining to invasion; offensive.
- (pathology) Of a carcinoma or other abnormal growth: that invades healthy tissue, especially rapidly.
- (biology) Of an animal or plant: that grows (especially uncontrollably) in environments which do not harbour natural enemies, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
- (military, also figuratively) That invades a foreign country using military force; also, militarily aggressive.
- gradually intrusive without right or permission
- marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue
- involving invasion or aggressive attack
- relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision
noun
noun
- (figurative) The creator or cause of anything.
- (US copyright law) The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship.
- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
verb
noun
- (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
- A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
- (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
- (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
verb
adj
- derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
- previously used or owned by another
- (of cigarette or cigar smoke) Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
- (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
- (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
adv
noun
suffix
verb
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To remove the stem from.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
noun
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
noun
- (figuratively) The underlying cause or basis of something.
- A layer that lies underneath another.
- (linguistics) A substrate.
- a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- any stratum or layer lying underneath another
- an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
adj
- derived or originating externally
- (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
- (biology, dermatology, uncommon) Related to the exogen growth phase.
- (databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
- (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
- (biology) Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
noun
- Place or source of origin.
- where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
- (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
- (art) The history of ownership of a work of art.
- (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
- (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
- (of a person) Background; history; place of origin.
verb
adj
- arising from or going to the root or source
- of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
- (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
- markedly new or introducing radical change
- especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
- (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
- Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome.
- (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
- (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
- Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
- (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
- (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
noun
- a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
- a person who has radical ideas or opinions
- (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
- (organic chemistry) A free radical.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
- (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or √, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xⁿ ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
- A person with radical opinions.
- (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
- (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
- (historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
- (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
- (historical, 19th-century Britain, politics) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
- (linguistics) In Celtic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
noun
- (figuratively) Someone who originates something.
- (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
- A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
- A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- (figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
- A founder.
- an ancestor in the direct line
noun
- The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
- (medicine, uncountable) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
- The study of causes or causation.
- (medicine, countable) A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease (but see pathology § Usage notes).
- the cause of a disease
- the philosophical study of causation
particle
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
- A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
adj
- Sole, only.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
- In agreement.
- Whole, entire.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- The same.
- (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
- being a single entity made by combining separate components
- eminent beyond or above comparison
- indefinite in time or position
- of the same kind or quality
- used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
- having the indivisible character of a unit
det
noun
- A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
- (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- (US) A one-dollar bill.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !, used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The digit or figure 1.
- (followed by for) A person with a tendency to do something.
- (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- An alcoholic drink, especially a pint or can of beer.
- a single person or thing
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
num
- (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
pron
- (Singlish, less common) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
- (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
- (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
verb
adj
- indicating an initial point or origin
- of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
- having no measurable or otherwise determinable value
- indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration
- (meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
- (linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
- (meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
- (postpositive) Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories
noun
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
- the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
- (mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
- The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
- (informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.
- The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
- The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
- (mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
- (slang) A person dismissed as unimportant.
- (finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
- The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
- (military, usually capitalized) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
- A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
verb
det
num
verb
- originate or come into being
- result or issue
- rise to one's feet
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- get up and out of bed
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- (intransitive) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
- (intransitive) To come up from a lower to a higher position.
- (intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
verb
- originate or come into being
- result or issue
- come up, of celestial bodies
- be mentioned
- start running, functioning, or operating
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- come to the surface
- gather or bring together
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- move upward
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To appear (before a judge or court).
- (intransitive) To come towards; to approach.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To do well or be successful.
- (intransitive) To reach in height.
- (UK, Oxford University, intransitive) To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
- (intransitive) To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status.
- (intransitive) To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To happen or occur.
- (British, slang, intransitive) To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon).
- (intransitive) To draw near in time.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To grow up; to experience a childhood.
- (intransitive) To approach a time or scheduled event.
noun
noun
- (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
- (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
- a moral or mental distortion
- yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
- a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
verb
- (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- (ambitransitive, science fiction, video games) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
- (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
- (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
noun
- (figurative) A basis or foundation.
- (countable, uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock found at some depth below the ground surface.
- (Internet slang, self-harm) The bones.
- principles from which other truths can be derived
- solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil
verb
noun
- (figurative) A basis or foundation.
- A fountainhead; a source.
- A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
- (gymnastics) A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
- the source of water from which a stream arises
verb
noun
- (figurative, by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop.
- (agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
- a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
- root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots
noun
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- come into existence, originate
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (figuratively) A source or origin.
- A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
- (rail transport) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
- (figuratively) A female ancestor.
- A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
- A pregnant female; mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
- A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
- (figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
- (euphemistic, mildly vulgar, slang) Motherfucker.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of a culture of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
- (figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- (Stan Twitter, originally drag slang) A person who is admired, respected, or looked up to within a particular fandom or community; see also: serve cunt
- (euphemistic, colloquial) A striking example. (Appears as "mother of a(n) __".)
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
- A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
- Alternative form of moth-er.
- a term of address for a mother superior
- a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)
- a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
- a term of address for an elderly woman
- a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation
verb
- (intransitive, of an alcohol) To develop mother.
- (transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
- (transitive) To cause to contain mother (“that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar”).
- (chiefly transitive) To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. (Compare father.)
- care for like a mother
- make (offspring) by reproduction
noun
- (figuratively) Origin; founding.
- Place of origin; place to which a species is native.
- (also with capital initial) A set of figurines used to create a nativity scene.
- (astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
- The quality of being native or innate.
- (also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
- (Christianity, also with capital initial) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas Day; the festival celebrating the birth of the Virgin Mary or the birth of Saint John the Baptist.
- the event of being born
noun
- (figurative) That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of font (“a set of glyphs of unified design, usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters belonging to one typeface, style, and weight; a typeface; a family of typefaces”).
- a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
verb
noun
- The source or origin of something.
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- A surrogate parent.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
verb
noun
- A source, or origin; that from which anything proceeds; fundamental substance or energy; primordial substance; ultimate element, or cause.
- A fundamental essence, particularly one producing a given quality.
- An original faculty or endowment.
- A fundamental assumption or guiding belief.
- (sometimes pluralized) Moral rule or aspect.
- (physics) A rule or law of nature, or the basic idea on how the laws of nature are applied.
- Misspelling of principal.
- A chemical compound within plant or animal tissue that is characteristic of it and more or less peculiar to it, such that it defines the character of that tissue from a human viewpoint (as for example nicotine in tobacco).
- A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem.
- a basic truth or law or assumption
- (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)
- a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system
- a rule or standard especially of good behavior
- rule of personal conduct
- a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct
verb
noun
- the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- (descriptive linguistics) the process whereby new words are formed from existing words or bases by affixation
- drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body
- inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
- a line of reasoning that shows how a conclusion follows logically from accepted propositions
- (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
- the act of deriving something or obtaining something from a source or origin
- drawing off water from its main channel as for irrigation
- (mathematics) A formal proof: a sequence of statements, each of which is logically entailed by those preceding (with respect to some collection of rules of inference), the initial statements being taken as axioms.
- (grammar) Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- The process of deriving one thing from another, especially in logic; a deduction.
- That which is derived; a derivative; the result of a deduction.
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- (mathematics, differential algebra) An algebraic generalization of the derivative operator (from its natural setting in the ring of real-valued functions) to a general associative algebra over a field. Formally, (given an algebra A over a field K) a K-linear endomorphism that satisfies Leibnitz's Law.
- Any of several generalizations of this notion: a Hasse–Schmidt derivation, a graded derivation, etc.
- (medicine, historical) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
- (genealogy, linguistics) The act of tracing origin or descent; an instance thereof (for example, an etymology).
- (mathematics, calculus) The process of application of the derivative operator to a function, yielding another function called the derived function of the first.
- That from which a thing is derived.
noun
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the act of starting something
- the first part or section of something
- the event consisting of the start of something
adj
verb
noun
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
adj
noun
- the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived
- an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
- (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
- (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
- The beginning of something.
- (in the plural) Ancestry.
- The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
noun
- (figurative) The creator or cause of anything.
- (US copyright law) The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship.
- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
verb
noun
- (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.
- A pathogen: a pathogenic microorganism, such as a bacterium or virus.
- (biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.
- (mathematics) An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
- The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ.
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
verb
noun
- (figuratively) The underlying cause or basis of something.
- A layer that lies underneath another.
- (linguistics) A substrate.
- a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- any stratum or layer lying underneath another
- an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
noun
- Place or source of origin.
- where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
- (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage notes below.
- (art) The history of ownership of a work of art.
- (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were used to compute a final piece of data (process provenance).
- (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance).
- (of a person) Background; history; place of origin.
verb
noun
- (figuratively) Someone who originates something.
- (biology) An ancestral form of a species.
- A person from whom one or more people (dynasty, tribe, nation…) are descended.
- A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- (figuratively) A predecessor of something, especially if also a precursor or model.
- A founder.
- an ancestor in the direct line
noun
- The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
- (medicine, uncountable) The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
- The study of causes or causation.
- (medicine, countable) A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease (but see pathology § Usage notes).
- the cause of a disease
- the philosophical study of causation
noun
- (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
- (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
- a moral or mental distortion
- yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
- a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
verb
- (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- (ambitransitive, science fiction, video games) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
- (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
- (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
noun
- (figurative) A basis or foundation.
- (countable, uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock found at some depth below the ground surface.
- (Internet slang, self-harm) The bones.
- principles from which other truths can be derived
- solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil
verb
noun
- (figurative) A basis or foundation.
- A fountainhead; a source.
- A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
- (gymnastics) A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
- the source of water from which a stream arises
verb
noun
- (figurative, by extension) The necessary basis for something to develop.
- (agriculture) A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture.
- a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
- root or part of a root used for plant propagation; especially that part of a grafted plant that supplies the roots
verb
noun
- a facility where something is available
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
- a person who supplies information
- A reporter's informant.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (computing) Source code.
- (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
verb
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To take an academic degree.
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.
- (law) To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- follow a procedure or take a course
- continue talking
- follow a certain course
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
verb
verb
- originate (in)
- come back to
- exist or be situated within
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- (intransitive, engineering) To be in a given state.
- (intransitive) To linger (on); to remain fixated. [with on ‘a particular thought, idea, etc.’]
- (intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
- (intransitive) To abide; to remain; to continue.
noun
- (engineering) A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
- (automotive) In a petrol engine, the period of time the ignition points are closed to let current flow through the ignition coil in between each spark. This is measured as an angle in degrees around the camshaft in the distributor which controls the points, for example in a 4-cylinder engine it might be 55° (spark at 90° intervals, points closed for 55° between each).
- (engineering) A brief pause in the motion of part of a mechanism to allow an operation to be completed.
- (electrical engineering) A planned delay in a timed control program.
verb
- originate (in)
- have a place in relation to something else
- assume a reclining position
- be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position
- tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive
- be and remain in a particular state or condition
- be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
- (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
- Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
- To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
- (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
- Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
- (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
- Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
- (intransitive, copulative) To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
noun
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- position or manner in which something is situated
- An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
- (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
- A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A liar; a dishonest person.
- An animal's lair.
- (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
- (disc golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
- (by extension) Anything that misleads or disappoints.
- A manner of lying; relative position.
verb
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To remove the stem from.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
noun
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
verb
- originate or come into being
- result or issue
- rise to one's feet
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- get up and out of bed
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- (intransitive) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself.
- (intransitive) To come up from a lower to a higher position.
- (intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
verb
- originate or come into being
- result or issue
- come up, of celestial bodies
- be mentioned
- start running, functioning, or operating
- bring forth, usually something desirable
- come to the surface
- gather or bring together
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- move upward
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To appear (before a judge or court).
- (intransitive) To come towards; to approach.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To do well or be successful.
- (intransitive) To reach in height.
- (UK, Oxford University, intransitive) To arrive at the university. (Compare go down, send down.)
- (intransitive) To be revealed to have a certain value, quality, or status.
- (intransitive) To come to attention and present oneself; to arrive or appear.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, up.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To happen or occur.
- (British, slang, intransitive) To begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, of a heavenly body) To rise (above the horizon).
- (intransitive) To draw near in time.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To grow up; to experience a childhood.
- (intransitive) To approach a time or scheduled event.
noun
noun
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- come into existence, originate
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
adj
- pertaining to or referring to origin
- Of or relating to origin (genesis).
- of or relating to the science of genetics
- occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
- of or relating to or produced by or being a gene
- (linguistics) Based on shared membership in a linguistic family.
- (theology) Based on a shared membership in a religious family.
- Caused by genes.
- (genetics) Relating to genetics or genes.
adj
- Originating externally.
- (medicine, surgery) Of a procedure: involving the entry of an instrument into part of the body.
- Intrusive on one's privacy, rights, sphere of activity, etc.
- Of or pertaining to invasion; offensive.
- (pathology) Of a carcinoma or other abnormal growth: that invades healthy tissue, especially rapidly.
- (biology) Of an animal or plant: that grows (especially uncontrollably) in environments which do not harbour natural enemies, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
- (military, also figuratively) That invades a foreign country using military force; also, militarily aggressive.
- gradually intrusive without right or permission
- marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue
- involving invasion or aggressive attack
- relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision
noun
adj
- derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand
- previously used or owned by another
- (of cigarette or cigar smoke) Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
- (of goods) Not new; previously owned and used by another.
- (of a dealer) Dealing in such merchandise.
- (figurative) Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
adv
noun
noun
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
adj
adj
- derived or originating externally
- (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
- (biology, dermatology, uncommon) Related to the exogen growth phase.
- (databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
- (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
- (biology) Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
adj
- arising from or going to the root or source
- of or relating to or constituting a linguistic root
- (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm
- markedly new or introducing radical change
- especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
- (mathematics) Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
- Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
- Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
- (slang) Excellent; awesome.
- (chemistry, not comparable) Involving free radicals.
- (lexicography, not comparable) Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
- Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
- (phonology, phonetics, not comparable, of a sound) Produced using the root of the tongue.
- (botany, not comparable) Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
noun
- a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule
- (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity
- a person who has radical ideas or opinions
- (linguistics) In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
- (organic chemistry) A free radical.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
- (algebra, commutative algebra, ring theory, of an ideal) Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or √, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xⁿ ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
- A person with radical opinions.
- (number theory) The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
- (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
- (historical, early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
- (linguistics) In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring) Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
- (historical, 19th-century Britain, politics) A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a module) The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
- (linguistics) In Celtic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
adj
- indicating an initial point or origin
- of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
- having no measurable or otherwise determinable value
- indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration
- (meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
- (linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
- (meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
- (postpositive) Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories
noun
- a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
- the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
- (mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
- The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
- (informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.
- The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
- The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
- (mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
- (slang) A person dismissed as unimportant.
- (finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
- The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
- (military, usually capitalized) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
- A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.