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noun
adj
- Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
- (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
- Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
- Regular or usual.
- commonly used or practiced; usual
adj
- (grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that is habitual and ongoing.
- (of a person) Who performs a specified action or course of action repeatedly or regularly.
- Published or produced in installments.
- Having to do with or arranged in a series.
- in regular succession without gaps
- pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series
- pertaining to or composed in serial technique
- of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations
noun
- (UK) A unit of police officers equipped with shields to tackle a riot.
- A publication issued in successive parts, often numbered and with no predetermined end.
- A literary or dramatic work, such as a radio or television programme, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end.
- (computing, slang) A serial number, esp. one required to activate software.
- a serialized set of programs
- a periodical that appears at scheduled times
verb
noun
- Customary or habitual usage.
- Use.
- The interest paid on a borrowed sum, usury.
- The length of time permitted for the payment of a bill of exchange.
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- accepted or habitual practice
- the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
noun
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
- knowledge of how something is usually done
- the exercise of a profession
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- translating an idea into action
verb
adj
noun
adj
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- Word for word.
- Of or relating to words.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- communicated in the form of words
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- relating to or having facility in the use of words
- of or relating to or formed from words in general
noun
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
- (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
verb
verb
- (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
- (now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
- (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
- (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
- (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
- (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
- (auxiliary) To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation.
- (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
- (transitive) To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
- determine by choice
- decree or ordain
- leave or give by will after one's death
noun
- (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
- One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
- One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
- The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
- Firmness of purpose, fixity of intent
- a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
- the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
- a fixed and persistent intent or purpose
verb
- To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- (transitive, with gender pronouns as object) To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
- (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
- (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- (transitive) To exploit.
- (transitive) To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
- (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing.
- (intransitive, archaic or literary except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
- use up (resources or materials)
- take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- habitually do something or be in a certain state or place (use only in the past tense)
- avail oneself to
- seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
noun
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- (Christianity) A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- (uncountable) The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
- The act of using.
- (uncountable, followed by of) Usefulness, benefit.
- A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- the act of using
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
- what something is used for
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
- a particular service
verb
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To make use of; to employ.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- learn by repetition
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
noun
noun
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
verb
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
adj
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action.
- Not perfect,
- (botany) Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- not perfect; defective or inadequate
noun
verb
noun
- (grammar, linguistics) An act or instance of referring back to the subject of a sentence, or of having an object equal to the subject.
- (British) Uncommon spelling of reflection.
- a likeness in which left and right are reversed
- the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)
- the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
- a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
- a remark expressing careful consideration
- the ability to reflect beams or rays
- expression without words
noun
- (grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.
- A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
- Alternative form of patti (“Punjab residential subdivision”).
- a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I
noun
adj
- (ecclesiastical law) Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that a patron has the right to present.
- Presenting, or able to represent, an idea in the mind.
- (grammar) Serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.
- (metaphysics, psychology) Of or pertaining to a presentation (“an image formed in the mind after an object is perceived”).
noun
- (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
- The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- (fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
- (figurative) A dull routine.
- (zoology) Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.
- A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
- a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
verb
- (slang, intransitive) To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
- (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
- (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To make a furrow.
- be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
noun
- One's customary method of acting; habit.
- Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything.
- Sort; kind; style.
- Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
- Good, polite behaviour.
- The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
- Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing.
- (in combination, rare) Something involving or requiring the specified number of men or people.
- A certain degree or measure.
- how something is done or how it happens
- a way of acting or behaving
- a kind
verb
adj
noun
prep
- In certain phrases, used to indicate the manner in which something happens or is done.
- In a state of.
- (Ireland, stressed pronunciation) Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
- Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
- Present or taking place during (an event).
- Indicating action bearing upon something, especially continued or repeated action.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, especially finance and law) (also as at; before dates) On (a particular date).
- Attending (an educational institution).
- Indicates a means or method.
- Also used in various other idiomatic combinations: at a pinch, at all, at fault, at pains, at risk, at that, etc.; see the individual entries.
- Indicates a specific speed or rate that is maintained by something.
- In response or reaction to.
- Working for (a company) or in (a place or situation).
- In the direction of; towards; (often implied to be in a hostile or careless manner).
- (used for skills (including in activities) or areas of knowledge) On the subject of; regarding.
- Occupied in (activity).
- Indicating distance or direction relative to the speaker.
- Indicating time of occurrence, especially an instant of time, or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker’s perspective.
- Denotes a price.
- Subject to.
- In, near, or in the general vicinity of (a particular place).
noun
verb
noun
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- number needed to make up a whole force
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb
- (Cornwall) To do something habitually or customarily.
- (intransitive) To have its proper place.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.
- (intransitive, set theory) (followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol ∈ means belongs to.
- (of a person) To be accepted in a group.
- (followed by to) To be a part of a group.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of.
- be owned by; be in the possession of
- be rightly classified in a class or category
- be suitable or acceptable
- be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place)
- be in the right place or situation
- be a part or adjunct
prep
adj
- (figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
- Having roots, or a certain type of roots.
- (mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.
- (slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
- (computing, not comparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, damaged, non-functional.
- Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
- (figuratively, usually with "in") Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
- absolutely still
verb
noun
- The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
- (psychology) The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
noun
- A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- (synecdochic, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- The clapper of a bell.
- (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- (metonymic) A language.
- (music) A reed.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- (flags) The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- a manner of speaking
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
verb
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
- (transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
adj
- (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- Without intervening space; continued.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
- (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
- continuing in time or space without interruption
noun
- (grammar) The act or process of conjugating a verb.
- (grammar, sometimes proscribed) The inflection of nouns or other words besides verbs; a declension.
- (mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; a complex conjugation.
- (grammar) The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.
- (mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg⁻¹, where g and x are elements of a group; an inner automorphism.
- (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs categorized into distinct classes based on the specific inflectional patterns they exhibit.
- The coming together of things; a union.
- (law) Sexual relations within marriage.
- (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds.
- (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.
- the state of being joined together
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
- the inflection of verbs
verb
- (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
- (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
- (transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
- (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
- (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- lend flavor to
- make healthy
noun
- (Canada, US, Australia, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
- (video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- (Evangelical Christianity) A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
- A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
- (video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.
- A period of the year when something particular happens.
- (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
- a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
- a recurrent time marked by major holidays
- one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
noun
- An established habit or custom.
- (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
- An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
- The previous version.
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
- an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
- (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
adj
verb
noun
- (grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
- The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
- (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached)
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- (grammar) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
- (astrology) That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
- (semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
- (logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
- (music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
- The fact of being modal.
- (law) The quality of being limited by a condition.
- (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
- (sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).
- Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
- (theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
- a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular sense
adj
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something
noun
verb
noun
adj
- Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
- (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
- Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
- Regular or usual.
- commonly used or practiced; usual
noun
- Customary or habitual usage.
- Use.
- The interest paid on a borrowed sum, usury.
- The length of time permitted for the payment of a bill of exchange.
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- accepted or habitual practice
- the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
noun
- A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.
- Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
- Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
- (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
- (mathematics) An easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
- An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.
- The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
- Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.
- (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
- (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
- knowledge of how something is usually done
- the exercise of a profession
- a customary way of operation or behavior
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- translating an idea into action
verb
noun
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
verb
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
noun
- (grammar, linguistics) An act or instance of referring back to the subject of a sentence, or of having an object equal to the subject.
- (British) Uncommon spelling of reflection.
- a likeness in which left and right are reversed
- the image of something as reflected by a mirror (or other reflective material)
- the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface
- a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
- a remark expressing careful consideration
- the ability to reflect beams or rays
- expression without words
noun
- (grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.
- A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
- Alternative form of patti (“Punjab residential subdivision”).
- a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I
noun
adj
- (ecclesiastical law) Of a benefice, or the advowsons, tithes, etc., associated with a benefice: that a patron has the right to present.
- Presenting, or able to represent, an idea in the mind.
- (grammar) Serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor.
- (metaphysics, psychology) Of or pertaining to a presentation (“an image formed in the mind after an object is perceived”).
noun
- (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
- The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- (fandom slang, countable, uncountable) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
- (figurative) A dull routine.
- (zoology) Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.
- A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
- a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
- applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
verb
- (slang, intransitive) To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.
- (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
- (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To make a furrow.
- be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
noun
- One's customary method of acting; habit.
- Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything.
- Sort; kind; style.
- Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
- Good, polite behaviour.
- The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
- Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing.
- (in combination, rare) Something involving or requiring the specified number of men or people.
- A certain degree or measure.
- how something is done or how it happens
- a way of acting or behaving
- a kind
verb
noun
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- number needed to make up a whole force
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
noun
- The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
- (psychology) The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
noun
- A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- (synecdochic, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- The clapper of a bell.
- (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- (metonymic) A language.
- (music) A reed.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- (flags) The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- a manner of speaking
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
verb
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
- (transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
noun
- (grammar) The act or process of conjugating a verb.
- (grammar, sometimes proscribed) The inflection of nouns or other words besides verbs; a declension.
- (mathematics) A function which negates the non-real part of a complex or hypercomplex number; a complex conjugation.
- (grammar) The product of that act: the conjugated forms of a verb, collected into a list or recitation.
- (mathematics) A mapping sending x to gxg⁻¹, where g and x are elements of a group; an inner automorphism.
- (grammar) In some languages, one of several classifications of verbs categorized into distinct classes based on the specific inflectional patterns they exhibit.
- The coming together of things; a union.
- (law) Sexual relations within marriage.
- (chemistry) A system of delocalized orbitals consisting of alternating single bonds and double bonds.
- (biology) The temporary fusion of organisms, especially as part of sexual reproduction.
- the state of being joined together
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the complete set of inflected forms of a verb
- the inflection of verbs
noun
- An established habit or custom.
- (law) A decided case which is cited or used as an example to justify a judgment in a subsequent case.
- An act in the past which may be used as an example to help decide the outcome of similar instances in the future.
- The previous version.
- a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws
- an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
- (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
- a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
adj
verb
noun
- (grammar) A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
- The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
- (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached)
verb
noun
- (grammar) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
- (astrology) That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
- (semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
- (logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
- (music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
- The fact of being modal.
- (law) The quality of being limited by a condition.
- (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
- (sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).
- Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
- (theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
- a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
- a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
- verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- a particular sense
verb
- (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
- (now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
- (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
- (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
- (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
- (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
- (auxiliary) To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation.
- (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
- (transitive) To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
- determine by choice
- decree or ordain
- leave or give by will after one's death
noun
- (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
- One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
- One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
- The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
- Firmness of purpose, fixity of intent
- a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
- the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
- a fixed and persistent intent or purpose
verb
- To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- (transitive, with gender pronouns as object) To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
- (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
- (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
- (transitive) To exploit.
- (transitive) To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
- (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing.
- (intransitive, archaic or literary except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
- use up (resources or materials)
- take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- habitually do something or be in a certain state or place (use only in the past tense)
- avail oneself to
- seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
noun
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- (Christianity) A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- (uncountable) The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
- The act of using.
- (uncountable, followed by of) Usefulness, benefit.
- A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- the act of using
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
- what something is used for
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
- a particular service
verb
- (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
- To make use of; to employ.
- (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.
- (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
- (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- learn by repetition
- engage in a rehearsal (of)
noun
verb
- (Cornwall) To do something habitually or customarily.
- (intransitive) To have its proper place.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.
- (intransitive, set theory) (followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol ∈ means belongs to.
- (of a person) To be accepted in a group.
- (followed by to) To be a part of a group.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of.
- be owned by; be in the possession of
- be rightly classified in a class or category
- be suitable or acceptable
- be a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (of a group, organization, or place)
- be in the right place or situation
- be a part or adjunct
prep
verb
- (transitive) To habituate, accustom, or inure (someone or something) to a particular use, purpose, or circumstance.
- (transitive) To mingle: to moderate, temper, or qualify by admixture.
- (transitive, by extension) To prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices.
- (intransitive) To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
- (intransitive) To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance.
- (transitive) To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- lend flavor to
- make healthy
noun
- (Canada, US, Australia, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
- (video games) The full set of downloadable content for a game, which can be purchased with a season pass.
- (Evangelical Christianity) A period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular emotion of situation.
- A period of the year in which a place is most busy or frequented for business, amusement, etc.
- (video games) A fixed period of time in a massively multiplayer online game in which new content (themes, rules, modes, etc.) becomes available, sometimes replacing earlier content.
- A period of the year when something particular happens.
- (cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
- Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter
- a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
- a recurrent time marked by major holidays
- one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
adj
- (grammar) Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that is habitual and ongoing.
- (of a person) Who performs a specified action or course of action repeatedly or regularly.
- Published or produced in installments.
- Having to do with or arranged in a series.
- in regular succession without gaps
- pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series
- pertaining to or composed in serial technique
- of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations
noun
- (UK) A unit of police officers equipped with shields to tackle a riot.
- A publication issued in successive parts, often numbered and with no predetermined end.
- A literary or dramatic work, such as a radio or television programme, published in installments, often numbered and without a specified end.
- (computing, slang) A serial number, esp. one required to activate software.
- a serialized set of programs
- a periodical that appears at scheduled times
verb
noun
adj
- Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.
- (grammar) Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
- Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
- Regular or usual.
- commonly used or practiced; usual
adj
noun
adj
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- Word for word.
- Of or relating to words.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- communicated in the form of words
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- relating to or having facility in the use of words
- of or relating to or formed from words in general
noun
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
- (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
verb
adj
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action.
- Not perfect,
- (botany) Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- not perfect; defective or inadequate
noun
verb
adj
noun
adj
- (figuratively) Ingrained, as through repeated use; entrenched; habitual or instinctive.
- Having roots, or a certain type of roots.
- (mathematics, graph theory, of a tree or graph) Having a root.
- (slang) In trouble or in strife, screwed.
- (computing, not comparable) Having a root (superuser) account that has been compromised.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, damaged, non-functional.
- Fixed in one position; immobile; unable to move.
- (figuratively, usually with "in") Having a basic or fundamental connection (to a thing); based, originating (from).
- absolutely still
verb
adj
- (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- Without intervening space; continued.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
- (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
- continuing in time or space without interruption
adj
- (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive.
- (chemistry, of a dye) Not needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.
- (military, of a rank or appointment) Actually and legally held, as distinct from an acting, temporary or honorary rank or appointment.
- Of the essence or essential element of a thing.
- Depending on itself; independent.
- Having substance; enduring; solid; firm; substantial.
- (law) Applying to essential legal principles and rules of right.
- (by extension) Constituting the substance of content rather than its style, and thus always nontrivial.
- being on topic and prompting thought
- defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established
- of or relating to the real nature or essential elements of something