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noun
- The act or process of rendering fertile.
- making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
- The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.
- The act of applying fertilizer to soil.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become fertile and fruitful.
- (transitive) To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
- (intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.
- (intransitive) To become thick or thicker.
- (transitive) To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).
- make fat or plump
verb
adj
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
- A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
noun
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
noun
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
- (uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
- (countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- The average number of births per woman within a population.
noun
- The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
- That with which anything is impregnated.
- The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
- (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- material with which something is impregnated
verb
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
noun
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
adj
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- yielding positive results
- having the ability to produce or originate
- marked by great fruitfulness
adj
- Fertile; productive.
- (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bulbous; rotund.
- Alternative form of phat.
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- Bountiful.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Thick; large.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- lucrative
- having an (over)abundance of flesh
- marked by great fruitfulness
- having a relatively large diameter
- containing or composed of fat
noun
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- A fop or dandy.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- excess bodily weight
verb
verb
- Of land, soil, etc.: to become fertile; also, of plants: to grow lush.
- (often passive voice) Followed by on: to eat greedily; to glut.
- (figurative) To gloat at; to revel in.
- To furnish (something) with battens (noun etymology 2 sense 1).
- To become better; to improve in condition; especially of animals, by feeding; to fatten up.
- (figurative) Followed by on: to prosper or thrive, especially at the expense of others.
- (chiefly nautical) Chiefly followed by down: to fasten or secure (a hatch, opening, etc.) using battens (noun etymology 2 sense 2.2).
- (figurative) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving.
- secure with battens
- furnish with battens
noun
- (carpentry, construction) A plank or strip of wood, or several of such strips arranged side by side, used in construction to hold members of a structure together, to provide a fixing point, to strengthen, or to prevent warping.
- (nautical) A long, narrow strip, originally of wood but now also of fibreglass, metal, etc., used for various purposes aboard a ship; especially one attached to a mast or spar for protection, one holding down the edge of a tarpaulin covering a hatch to prevent water from entering the hatch, one inserted in a pocket sewn on a sail to keep it flat, or one from which a hammock is suspended.
- (weaving) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
- A strip of wood holding a number of lamps; especially (theater), one used for illuminating a stage; (by extension, also attributive) a long bar, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system and used to support curtains, scenery, etc.
- a strip fixed to something to hold it firm
- stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber
verb
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- bear seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- remove the seeds from
- inoculate with microorganisms
- go to seed; shed seeds
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
noun
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (US slang) A child.
- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (cryptography, computing) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (video games) (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
noun
- A sowing of seed; the act of inseminating.
- The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).
- the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.)
- the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female
noun
- making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
- the act of applying a bandage
- a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
- the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
- a cloth covering for a wound or sore
- processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
- savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type
- The activity of getting dressed.
- (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
- Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
- (Maine) Manure that's applied to one's garden.
- The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
- An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
- (cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
- Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
- (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
- (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
- work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
conj
noun
- A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
- A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
- The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
- (chiefly British) A cash register.
- glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
- A vetch; a tare.
- (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
- unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- a treasury for government funds
- a strongbox for holding cash
prep
adj
- Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
- (botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
- Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- intellectually productive
verb
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
noun
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- the normal time between successive generations
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- a coming into being
- the production of heat or electricity
- group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- a multiplicative increase
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
- The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
- (countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The process of computing the sum of an addition with one and the same number a specified number of times (i.e. 4 times 5 = [0 +] 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20) or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
verb
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- lay eggs
adj
noun
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
noun
- (botany) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
- (botany) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
- the bearing of fruit
- organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
adj
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- capable of reproducing
- marked by great fruitfulness
- intellectually productive
noun
- the act or process of producing something
- The act of being produced.
- (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
- the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services
- an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated
- (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law
- a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television
- (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
- The presentation of a theatrical work.
- The act of producing, making or creating something.
- (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
- The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
- (Scots law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
- An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
- The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
- (linguistics) Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
- (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
- The total amount produced.
noun
- The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
- Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
- Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
- Light tillage: turning or stirring the soil, especially for weed control.
- socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners
- the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
- the process of fostering the growth of something
verb
- (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- To move toward the listener.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- (intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- To move toward an unstated agent.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
- (intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.
- (transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.
- (copulative, figuratively) To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- (with an infinitive) To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
- To move toward the speaker.
- (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- (with an infinitive) To do something by chance or unintentionally.
- (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To have a certain social background.
- (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
- (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
- (intransitive) To arrive.
- proceed or get along
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- to be the product or result
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- be found or available
- exist or occur in a certain point in a series
- extend or reach
- cover a certain distance
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- happen as a result
- have a certain priority
- come under, be classified or included
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- be received
- come forth
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- add up in number or quantity
- experience orgasm
- be a native of
noun
prep
adj
- being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
- characteristic of a man
- for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
- Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
- Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
- (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
- (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
- Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
- (of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
noun
- a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
- an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
- An animal of the sex that has testes.
- A bacterium which has the F factor.
- A plant of the masculine sex.
- A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
- A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
adj
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- growing profusely
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
noun
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
verb
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
noun
verb
noun
- the cultivation of soil for raising crops
- arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
- The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- Land cultivated in this way.
- The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.
noun
- The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
- supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
verb
- (transitive) To plant a crop.
- (transitive) To place inside.
- (transitive) To fill in on a form or questionnaire; to use as an answer on a form or questionnaire.
- (transitive) To contribute.
- (transitive) To declare or make official
- (intransitive) To apply, request, or submit.
- (transitive) To install or deliver.
- (transitive) To make (a telephone call).
- (transitive, ditransitive) To imprison or place in a prison cell.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To injure the body of (someone).
- keep or lay aside for future use
- place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing
- to insert between other elements
- make an application as for a job or funding
- set up for use
- break into a conversation
verb
- produce or yield flowers
- (cooking) To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
- (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
- (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- (cooking) To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
- (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
- (cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- (intransitive, cooking, of chocolate) To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
noun
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the organic process of bearing flowers
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- a powdery deposit on a surface
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- the best time of youth
- The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
- A natural protective coating on an eggshell.
- The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
- (Philippines, fandom slang, usually in the plural) A fan of Filipino girl group BINI.
- A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
- (video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
- Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
- (countable, uncountable) An algal bloom.
- (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
- (collective) Flowers.
- (television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
- (collective) A group of ladybugs.
- (cooking) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
- The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
- A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- (mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
- (figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
- Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
verb
noun
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
- (figurative) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
- The state or season of producing such flowers.
- The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
verb
noun
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.
- A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
- The best examples or representatives of a group.
- The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
- (rare, especially crosswording) Something that flows, such as a river.
- A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
- (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
- (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- (uncountable, usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
- (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Credit, recognition.
- The best state of things; the prime.
- A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
noun
- The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.
- (linguistics) The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, such as the derivational affixes -ness and -ity; the degree to which such formation happens.
- The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency.
- The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
- (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time
- the quality of being productive or having the power to produce
verb
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- prepare for crops
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- yield crops
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- cut short
noun
- A short haircut.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- (figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
- The act of cropping.
- The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
- (slang, in the plural) Marijuana.
- (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- the stock or handle of a whip
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- the output of something in a season
noun
- The act or process of rendering fertile.
- making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
- The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.
- The act of applying fertilizer to soil.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
noun
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
noun
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
- (uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
- (countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- The average number of births per woman within a population.
noun
- The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
- That with which anything is impregnated.
- The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
- (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- material with which something is impregnated
noun
- A sowing of seed; the act of inseminating.
- The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).
- the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.)
- the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female
noun
- making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure
- the act of applying a bandage
- a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
- the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes
- a cloth covering for a wound or sore
- processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather
- savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type
- The activity of getting dressed.
- (medicine) Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy.
- Gum, starch, etc., used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
- (Maine) Manure that's applied to one's garden.
- The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.
- An ornamental finish, such as a moulding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling.
- (cooking) A sauce, especially a cold one for salads.
- Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc.
verb
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- the normal time between successive generations
- all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- a coming into being
- the production of heat or electricity
- group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent
- (now US, dialectal) Race, family; breed.
- A group of people born in a specific range of years and whose members can relate culturally to one another.
- (geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
- (cellular automata) A single iteration of a cellular automaton rule on a pattern.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.
- A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.
- (television) A copy of a recording made from an earlier copy.
- A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.
- The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.
- The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- a multiplicative increase
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
- The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
- (countable, arithmetic) A calculation involving multiplication.
- (uncountable, arithmetic) The process of computing the sum of an addition with one and the same number a specified number of times (i.e. 4 times 5 = [0 +] 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20) or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
noun
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
noun
- (botany) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
- (botany) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
- the bearing of fruit
- organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
noun
- the act or process of producing something
- The act of being produced.
- (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale
- the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services
- an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
- the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated
- (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law
- a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television
- (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
- The presentation of a theatrical work.
- The act of producing, making or creating something.
- (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
- The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
- (Scots law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
- An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
- The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
- (linguistics) Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.
- (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
- The total amount produced.
noun
- The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
- Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
- Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
- Light tillage: turning or stirring the soil, especially for weed control.
- socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners
- the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
- the process of fostering the growth of something
noun
verb
noun
- the cultivation of soil for raising crops
- arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
- The cultivation of arable land by plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- Land cultivated in this way.
- The act or process of soil disturbance as a part of farming; especially, types of disturbance requiring draft animals or machinery for power.
noun
- The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
- supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
noun
- The state of being productive, fertile, or efficient.
- (linguistics) The ability to form new words using established patterns and discrete linguistic elements, such as the derivational affixes -ness and -ity; the degree to which such formation happens.
- The rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers; those workers' degree of efficiency.
- The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
- (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time
- the quality of being productive or having the power to produce
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To become fertile and fruitful.
- (transitive) To make (soil) fertile and fruitful.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.
- (intransitive, of a person or animal) To become fat or fatter.
- (intransitive) To become thick or thicker.
- (transitive) To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money).
- make fat or plump
verb
adj
noun
- A contest, a struggle.
- (military) Clipping of battle buddy.
- A one-on-one competition in rapping or breakdance.
- (military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
- an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)
- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- an energetic attempt to achieve something
verb
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
noun
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
verb
- Of land, soil, etc.: to become fertile; also, of plants: to grow lush.
- (often passive voice) Followed by on: to eat greedily; to glut.
- (figurative) To gloat at; to revel in.
- To furnish (something) with battens (noun etymology 2 sense 1).
- To become better; to improve in condition; especially of animals, by feeding; to fatten up.
- (figurative) Followed by on: to prosper or thrive, especially at the expense of others.
- (chiefly nautical) Chiefly followed by down: to fasten or secure (a hatch, opening, etc.) using battens (noun etymology 2 sense 2.2).
- (figurative) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving.
- secure with battens
- furnish with battens
noun
- (carpentry, construction) A plank or strip of wood, or several of such strips arranged side by side, used in construction to hold members of a structure together, to provide a fixing point, to strengthen, or to prevent warping.
- (nautical) A long, narrow strip, originally of wood but now also of fibreglass, metal, etc., used for various purposes aboard a ship; especially one attached to a mast or spar for protection, one holding down the edge of a tarpaulin covering a hatch to prevent water from entering the hatch, one inserted in a pocket sewn on a sail to keep it flat, or one from which a hammock is suspended.
- (weaving) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
- A strip of wood holding a number of lamps; especially (theater), one used for illuminating a stage; (by extension, also attributive) a long bar, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system and used to support curtains, scenery, etc.
- a strip fixed to something to hold it firm
- stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber
verb
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
- bear seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- remove the seeds from
- inoculate with microorganisms
- go to seed; shed seeds
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
noun
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (US slang) A child.
- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (cryptography, computing) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (video games) (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
verb
- (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
- (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
- (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
- work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
conj
noun
- A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
- A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
- The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
- (chiefly British) A cash register.
- glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
- A vetch; a tare.
- (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
- unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- a treasury for government funds
- a strongbox for holding cash
prep
verb
- (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
- (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
- (intransitive) To get pregnant.
- (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- (transitive) To grip or entangle.
- (transitive) To travel by means of.
- (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- (transitive) To be hit by something.
- (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
- (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- (transitive, of fire) To spread or be conveyed to.
- (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
- (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
- (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
- (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To notice.
- (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- (transitive) To charm or entrance.
- (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or influence.
- (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- reach in time
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- to hook or entangle
- suffer from the receipt of
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- attract; cause to be enamored
- perceive by hearing
- be struck or affected by
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- come down with
- be the catcher
- attract and fix
- detect a blunder or misstep
- start burning
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- become aware of
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- check oneself during an action
- spread or be communicated
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- see or watch
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- take in and retain
noun
- (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
- (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
- (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
- (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
- (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
- (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the quantity that was caught
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
verb
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- lay eggs
adj
noun
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
verb
- (intransitive, of grain) To germinate.
- To move toward the listener.
- To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).
- (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
- (intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
- To move toward an unstated agent.
- To have been brought up by or employed by.
- (intransitive, of milk) To become butter by being churned.
- (transitive, informal) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of.
- (copulative, figuratively) To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- To move toward the object that is the focus of the sentence.
- (with an infinitive) To begin (to have an opinion or feeling).
- To move toward the speaker.
- (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
- (figuratively, with to) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
- (with an infinitive) To do something by chance or unintentionally.
- (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
- To have a certain social background.
- (intransitive) To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting.
- To be or have been a resident or native.
- (intransitive) To move nearer to the point of perspective.
- (in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move toward the agent or subject of the main clause.
- (intransitive) To arrive.
- proceed or get along
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- to be the product or result
- to measure up to in kind or quality
- be found or available
- exist or occur in a certain point in a series
- extend or reach
- cover a certain distance
- come to one's mind; suggest itself
- happen as a result
- have a certain priority
- come under, be classified or included
- move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- be received
- come forth
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position
- come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- add up in number or quantity
- experience orgasm
- be a native of
noun
prep
verb
- (transitive) To plant a crop.
- (transitive) To place inside.
- (transitive) To fill in on a form or questionnaire; to use as an answer on a form or questionnaire.
- (transitive) To contribute.
- (transitive) To declare or make official
- (intransitive) To apply, request, or submit.
- (transitive) To install or deliver.
- (transitive) To make (a telephone call).
- (transitive, ditransitive) To imprison or place in a prison cell.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To injure the body of (someone).
- keep or lay aside for future use
- place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing
- to insert between other elements
- make an application as for a job or funding
- set up for use
- break into a conversation
verb
- produce or yield flowers
- (cooking) To hydrate ingredients (such as gelatin or yeast) before using them.
- (transitive) To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To spread; to slowly expand like a field of flowers that blossom in fits and spurts.
- (transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- (cooking) To let carbon dioxide to escape from coffee in order to improve the taste.
- (intransitive) Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
- (cooking) To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- (intransitive, cooking, of chocolate) To develop a layer of bloom (white, spotty areas of cocoa butter) due to repeated warming and cooling.
noun
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the organic process of bearing flowers
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- a powdery deposit on a surface
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- the best time of youth
- The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
- A natural protective coating on an eggshell.
- The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
- (Philippines, fandom slang, usually in the plural) A fan of Filipino girl group BINI.
- A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
- (video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
- Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
- (countable, uncountable) An algal bloom.
- (uncountable) The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
- (collective) Flowers.
- (television) An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
- (collective) A group of ladybugs.
- (cooking) A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
- The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
- A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- (mineralogy) A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
- (figuratively) A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
- Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
verb
noun
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; (collectively) a mass of such flowers.
- (figurative) A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.
- The state or season of producing such flowers.
- The colour of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs.
verb
noun
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
- reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- (uncountable, slang) Cannabis.
- A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
- The best examples or representatives of a group.
- The stem of a flowering plant with the blossom or blossoms attached, used for decoration, as a gift, etc.
- (rare, especially crosswording) Something that flows, such as a river.
- A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
- (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
- A delicate, fragile, or oversensitive person.
- (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
- (uncountable, usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
- (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.
- (figurative, chiefly in the plural) Credit, recognition.
- The best state of things; the prime.
- A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
verb
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- prepare for crops
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- yield crops
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- cut short
noun
- A short haircut.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- (figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
- The act of cropping.
- The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
- (slang, in the plural) Marijuana.
- (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- the stock or handle of a whip
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- the output of something in a season
adj
- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- (set theory) A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- (medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- (linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- (medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly)
- yielding positive results
- having the ability to produce or originate
- marked by great fruitfulness
adj
- Fertile; productive.
- (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- Bulbous; rotund.
- Alternative form of phat.
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
- Bountiful.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- Thick; large.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- lucrative
- having an (over)abundance of flesh
- marked by great fruitfulness
- having a relatively large diameter
- containing or composed of fat
noun
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- A fop or dandy.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
- excess bodily weight
verb
adj
- Fertile; producing offspring or fruit in abundance, applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.
- (botany) Of a flower: from which another flower is produced.
- Similarly producing results or performing deeds in abundance.
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- intellectually productive
adj
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
- capable of reproducing
- marked by great fruitfulness
- intellectually productive
adj
- being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
- characteristic of a man
- for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
- Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex.
- Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)
- (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
- (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
- Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
- (of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
noun
- a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
- an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
- An animal of the sex that has testes.
- A bacterium which has the F factor.
- A plant of the masculine sex.
- A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
- A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
adj
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- growing profusely
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
noun
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
verb
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.