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noun
verb
- (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
- (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
- cut or eliminate
- wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
- remove or make invisible
verb
- To subtract or diminish something.
- To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person.
- To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
- (of a person) To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.
- (of a person) To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.
- To remove something and put it in a different place.
- To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.
- take from a person or place
- take out or remove
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- take away a part from; diminish
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
- get rid of something abstract
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
noun
prep
adj
- (computing) Of an algorithm for converting or compressing data, reducing the amount of information in data.
- (electricity) Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.
- (telecommunications) Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
- characterized by or causing dissipation of energy
verb
- (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- (software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
- (automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound
- make a crushing noise
noun
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- (slang) A shortage.
- A critical moment or event.
- (music) Moderate distortion.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- (software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- (cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- (chiefly US) The symbol #.
- the act of crushing
- a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
- the sound of something crunching
verb
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- fill with gas or air
- exaggerate or make bigger
verb
- (transitive) To subtract.
- (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- (of a plant, etc.) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- (transitive) To avail oneself of; to exploit.
- (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- (transitive) To experience or feel.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- (reflexive) To go.
- (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
- (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
- (transitive) To assume (a form).
- (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- (transitive) To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
- (transitive) To exact.
- (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
- (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).
- (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- (of ink, dye, etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- (transitive) To seize or capture.
- (transitive) To participate in.
- (transitive) To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- (transitive) To perform (a role).
- (transitive) To receive into some relationship.
- (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
- (transitive) To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
- (transitive) To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
- (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
- (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
- (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- (transitive) To have sex with.
- (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.
- Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.
- (transitive) To go or move into.
- (transitive) To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
- (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- (transitive) To remove.
- (transitive) To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- (transitive) To deal with.
- (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- (transitive, Greece, Cyprus, informal) To buy.
- (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
- (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
- (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- admit into a group or community
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take somebody somewhere
- experience or feel or submit to
- develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation
- receive or obtain regularly
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- proceed along in a vehicle
- be a student of a certain subject
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- get into one's hands, take physically
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- be designed to hold or take
- take into one's possession
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- require (time or space)
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- obtain by winning
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- occupy or take on
- require as useful, just, or proper
- buy, select
- head into a specified direction
- make a film or photograph of something
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- receive willingly something given or offered
- carry out
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- engage for service under a term of contract
- conquer by force
- have sex with; archaic use
- be capable of holding or containing
noun
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings.
- (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- The or an act of taking.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
- the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
verb
- (transitive, computing) To remove data.
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
- (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
- (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- put (an animal) to death
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
verb
- (computing, transitive) To decompress (data).
- (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.
- (transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
- (linguistics, intransitive, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- (figurative, transitive) To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
- remove from its packing
verb
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
- (transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- (transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- (transitive) To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place.
- (intransitive) To become deflated.
- (slang) To belch or flatulate
- (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
- become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air
- collapse by releasing contained air or gas
- produce deflation in
- reduce or lessen the size or importance of
- reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices
- release contained air or gas from
noun
adj
- capable of being reduced
- (mathematics, of an integer) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
- Capable of being reduced.
- (mathematics, of a polynomial) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x²-1.
- (topology, of a manifold) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
noun
verb
- (transitive) To remove (markings or information).
- (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
- (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.
- (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
- (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
- (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
- (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
- remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
- wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
- remove from memory or existence
noun
- (programming) Array decay.
- (physics) Radioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus.
- Deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
- Continuous decrease of a quantity.
- (biology) Rot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.
- (physics) Particle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle.
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- the organic phenomenon of rotting
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying
verb
- (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- (intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- (intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- (programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- (intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- fall into decay or ruin
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- undergo decay or decomposition
adj
verb
noun
noun
- (computing, uncountable) An autosuggest feature.
- (psychology, uncountable) The practice of suggesting thoughts to oneself, as in autohypnosis.
- (psychology, countable) An instance of suggesting a thought to oneself.
- a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s
noun
verb
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
- (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
- (computing, programming, PHP) The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
- (transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
- (politics, by extension) To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.
- burst inward
noun
- A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.
- (roofing) Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings.
- (surfing) Maneuver where the surfer turns and surfs back towards where the wave is breaking.
- (soccer) An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- An inversion feature of a rollercoaster, similar to a corkscrew but with the second half reversed.
- a reduction in quantity or rate
verb
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
noun
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
noun
- a machine for performing calculations automatically
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
- (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
- cut or eliminate
- wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
- remove or make invisible
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To remove (markings or information).
- (transitive, baseball) To remove a runner from the bases via a double play or pick off play
- (transitive, slang) To kill; assassinate.
- (transitive) To disregard (a group, an orientation, etc.); to prevent from having an active role in society.
- (transitive) To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite.
- (transitive) To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize.
- (intransitive) To be erased (have markings removed, have information removed, or be cleared of information).
- remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
- wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
- remove from memory or existence
noun
- (programming) Array decay.
- (physics) Radioactive decay; decomposition of an atom or its nucleus.
- Deterioration of condition; loss of status, quality, strength, or fortune.
- Continuous decrease of a quantity.
- (biology) Rot; any processes or result of organic matter being gradually decomposed, especially by microbial action.
- (physics) Particle decay; decomposition of a sub-atomic particle.
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
- the organic phenomenon of rotting
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- the process of gradually becoming inferior
- an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying
verb
- (transitive) To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- (intransitive, electronics, of storage media or the data on them) To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- (intransitive, computing, of software) To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- (intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, of a quantum system) To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- (intransitive, of organic material) To rot, to go bad.
- (programming, intransitive) Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- (intransitive, physics, of a satellite's orbit) To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
- (intransitive, transitive, physics, chemistry, of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- fall into decay or ruin
- lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current
- undergo decay or decomposition
noun
noun
- (computing, uncountable) An autosuggest feature.
- (psychology, uncountable) The practice of suggesting thoughts to oneself, as in autohypnosis.
- (psychology, countable) An instance of suggesting a thought to oneself.
- a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s
noun
noun
- A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.
- (roofing) Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings.
- (surfing) Maneuver where the surfer turns and surfs back towards where the wave is breaking.
- (soccer) An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.
- An inversion feature of a rollercoaster, similar to a corkscrew but with the second half reversed.
- a reduction in quantity or rate
noun
- a machine for performing calculations automatically
- an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
verb
verb
- To subtract or diminish something.
- To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person.
- To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
- (of a person) To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.
- (of a person) To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.
- To remove something and put it in a different place.
- To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.
- take from a person or place
- take out or remove
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- take away a part from; diminish
- remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state
- get rid of something abstract
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
noun
prep
verb
- (computing, transitive) To compress (data) using a particular algorithm, so that it can be restored by decrunching.
- To emit a grinding or crunching noise.
- (software engineering, slang, transitive) To make employees work overtime in order to meet a deadline in the development of a project.
- (automotive, transitive) To cause the gears to emit a crunching sound by releasing the clutch before the gears are properly synchronised.
- (slang) To calculate or otherwise process (e.g. to crunch numbers: to perform mathematical calculations). Presumably from the sound made by mechanical calculators.
- To crush something, especially food, with a noisy crackling sound.
- To be crushed with a noisy crackling sound.
- To grind or press with violence and noise.
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound
- make a crushing noise
noun
- A problem that leads to a crisis.
- (exercise) A form of abdominal exercise, based on a sit-up but in which the lower back remains in contact with the floor.
- (slang) A shortage.
- A critical moment or event.
- (music) Moderate distortion.
- A dessert consisting of a crunchy topping with fruit underneath.
- (software engineering, slang) The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.
- A noisy crackling sound; the sound usually associated with crunching.
- (cooking, generally in the plural) A small piece created by crushing; a piece of material with a friable or crunchy texture.
- (chiefly US) The symbol #.
- the act of crushing
- a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources)
- the sound of something crunching
verb
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- fill with gas or air
- exaggerate or make bigger
verb
- (transitive) To subtract.
- (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- (of a plant, etc.) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- (transitive) To avail oneself of; to exploit.
- (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- (transitive) To experience or feel.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- (reflexive) To go.
- (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
- (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
- (transitive) To assume (a form).
- (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- (transitive) To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
- (transitive) To exact.
- (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
- (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).
- (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- (of ink, dye, etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- (transitive) To seize or capture.
- (transitive) To participate in.
- (transitive) To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- (transitive) To perform (a role).
- (transitive) To receive into some relationship.
- (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
- (transitive) To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
- (transitive) To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
- (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
- (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
- (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- (transitive) To have sex with.
- (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.
- Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.
- (transitive) To go or move into.
- (transitive) To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
- (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- (transitive) To remove.
- (transitive) To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- (transitive) To deal with.
- (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- (transitive, Greece, Cyprus, informal) To buy.
- (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
- (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
- (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
- admit into a group or community
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take somebody somewhere
- experience or feel or submit to
- develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation
- receive or obtain regularly
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- proceed along in a vehicle
- be a student of a certain subject
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- get into one's hands, take physically
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- be designed to hold or take
- take into one's possession
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- require (time or space)
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- obtain by winning
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- occupy or take on
- require as useful, just, or proper
- buy, select
- head into a specified direction
- make a film or photograph of something
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- receive willingly something given or offered
- carry out
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- engage for service under a term of contract
- conquer by force
- have sex with; archaic use
- be capable of holding or containing
noun
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings.
- (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- The or an act of taking.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
- the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
verb
- (transitive, computing) To remove data.
- (transitive, informal) To utterly defeat; to crush.
- (transitive, slang) To eat food quickly, hungrily or completely.
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (ambitransitive) To damage beyond use or repair; to damage (something) to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
- (transitive, US, slang) To sing a song extremely poorly.
- (transitive, bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust completely and thus recreate or build up.
- (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
- (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- put (an animal) to death
- defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- destroy completely; damage irreparably
- do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
verb
- (computing, transitive) To decompress (data).
- (intransitive) To empty containers that had been packed.
- (transitive) To remove from a package or container, particularly with respect to items that had previously been arranged closely and securely in a pack.
- (linguistics, intransitive, of a segment such as a vowel) To undergo separation of its features into distinct segments.
- (figurative, transitive) To analyze a concept or a text; to explain.
- remove from its packing
verb
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
- (transitive) To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- (transitive, economics) To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- (transitive) To let (someone) down, disappoint them, or put them in their place.
- (intransitive) To become deflated.
- (slang) To belch or flatulate
- (transitive) To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre.
- become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air
- collapse by releasing contained air or gas
- produce deflation in
- reduce or lessen the size or importance of
- reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices
- release contained air or gas from
verb
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data) with a particular algorithm.
- (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently.
- (computing, programming, PHP) The opposite of explode, array to string conversion.
- (transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
- (politics, by extension) To suddenly lose support in all areas of a campaign simultaneously.
- burst inward
verb
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
noun
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
adj
- (computing) Of an algorithm for converting or compressing data, reducing the amount of information in data.
- (electricity) Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.
- (telecommunications) Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
- characterized by or causing dissipation of energy
adj
- capable of being reduced
- (mathematics, of an integer) Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
- Capable of being reduced.
- (mathematics, of a polynomial) Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x²-1.
- (topology, of a manifold) Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.