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verb
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- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
verb
noun
- (databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- (diplomacy) Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
- (sociology) A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
- (economics) Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
- (operations) Normalized production.
- (politics) Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
- Standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
- Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.
- (statistics) The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
- the imposition of standards or regulations
name
noun
- (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
- (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- (online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
- (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
- The plant chard.
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
verb
noun
- (databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
- The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
- The state or quality of being or existence.
- A spirit, ghost, or the like.
- (science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
- that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
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noun
verb
noun
- (mining) A partition in a coal mine, made from wood or from canvas sheeting coated in tar.
- (historical) A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.
- a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine
verb
noun
noun
- (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
- Something which is real.
- An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
- Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
- (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
- Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
- Something actual as opposed to invented.
- a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened
- a concept whose truth can be proved
- a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred
- an event known to have happened or something known to have existed
intj
verb
- (computing, RAID) To change the manner in which data is laid out across multiple disks.
- To redivide (land).
- To mark with stripes again or differently.
- To change the lane markings or other markings on a road, runway or other path; to repaint existing pavement traffic markings.
- (automotive) To change the space markings in a parking lot.
verb
- partition off into compartments
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
noun
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
verb
- To separate in order to store.
- (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
- (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- set apart from others
- keep away from others
- requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
- undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
noun
noun
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
noun
- (uncountable, databases) Initialism of Database Management System.
- (uncountable, telephony, rare) Initialism of Donors Message Service.
- (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of DiMethyl Sulfide.
- (countable, military) Initialism of Destroyer MineSweeper.
- (uncountable, telephony) Initialism of Digital Multiplex System.
- (uncountable, automotive) Initialism of Driver Monitoring System.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of Document Management System.
- (uncountable, geometry) Initialism of Degree-Minute-Second (a method of writing angles).
- (uncountable, material science) Initialism of Dynamic Mechanical Spectroscopy.
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- (databases) Initialism of database.
- (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined benefits.
- (US, military) Initialism of depot brigade.
- (television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.
- (American football, Canadian football) Initialism of defensive back.
- (cricket) Initialism of dot ball.
- Initialism of diplomatic bag.
- Initialism of dirty book: a pornographic publication.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of dead body.
name
- (fandom slang) Abbreviation of Dragon Ball.
- (in place name histories) Initialism of Domesday Book.
- (stock ticker symbol) Initialism of Deutsche Bank.
- (classics) Abbreviation of Inscription of Darius at Bisutun.
- (rail transport) Initialism of Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). Previously used by its predecessor, Deutsche Bundesbahn.
verb
- determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science)
- divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
- set (printed matter) into a specific format
- To create or edit the layout of a document.
- Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
- (computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.
noun
- the general appearance of a publication
- the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing)
- (by extension) The form of presentation of something.
- (radio) The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.
- The layout of a publication or document.
- (computing) A file type.
noun
- (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- (motor racing, slang) The start/finish line.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a kind or category
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
verb
adj
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
adv
noun
- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
noun
- (computing) Initialism of binary space partitioning.
- Initialism of blatant self-promotion.
- (finance) Initialism of bank settlement plan, a reporting system used by travel companies to pay airlines.
- (computing) Initialism of board support package (“device driver”).
- (plumbing) Initialism of British Standard Pipe.
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verb
noun
- (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- (physics) A ground state of a quantum field or of local spacetime, or more abstractly the lowest-energy state of a system.
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
- (string theory) A description of spacetime resulting from a particular compactification of spatial dimensions.
- (colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
- an empty area or space
- the absence of matter
- a region that is devoid of matter
- an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
noun
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- a passage selected from a larger work
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
noun
- (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
- An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).
- (Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.
- (logic) A formula in the metalanguage of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
- (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
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noun
noun
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
verb
noun
- (databases) In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- (diplomacy) Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
- (sociology) A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
- (economics) Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
- (operations) Normalized production.
- (politics) Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
- Standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
- Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.
- (statistics) The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
- the imposition of standards or regulations
name
noun
- (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
- (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- (online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
- (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
- The plant chard.
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
- a broken piece of a brittle artifact
verb
noun
- (databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
- The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
- The state or quality of being or existence.
- A spirit, ghost, or the like.
- (science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
- that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
noun
- (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
- Something which is real.
- An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts.
- Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
- (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.
- Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
- Something actual as opposed to invented.
- a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened
- a concept whose truth can be proved
- a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred
- an event known to have happened or something known to have existed
intj
noun
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
verb
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- be unable to remember
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
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- (uncountable, databases) Initialism of Database Management System.
- (uncountable, telephony, rare) Initialism of Donors Message Service.
- (uncountable, organic chemistry) Initialism of DiMethyl Sulfide.
- (countable, military) Initialism of Destroyer MineSweeper.
- (uncountable, telephony) Initialism of Digital Multiplex System.
- (uncountable, automotive) Initialism of Driver Monitoring System.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of Document Management System.
- (uncountable, geometry) Initialism of Degree-Minute-Second (a method of writing angles).
- (uncountable, material science) Initialism of Dynamic Mechanical Spectroscopy.
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- (databases) Initialism of database.
- (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined benefits.
- (US, military) Initialism of depot brigade.
- (television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.
- (American football, Canadian football) Initialism of defensive back.
- (cricket) Initialism of dot ball.
- Initialism of diplomatic bag.
- Initialism of dirty book: a pornographic publication.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of dead body.
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- (fandom slang) Abbreviation of Dragon Ball.
- (in place name histories) Initialism of Domesday Book.
- (stock ticker symbol) Initialism of Deutsche Bank.
- (classics) Abbreviation of Inscription of Darius at Bisutun.
- (rail transport) Initialism of Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). Previously used by its predecessor, Deutsche Bundesbahn.
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- (computing) A portion of data distributed across several separate physical disks for the sake of redundancy.
- (in the plural) The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.
- A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
- (weaving) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
- (motor racing, slang) The start/finish line.
- A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
- A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
- Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
- A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
- (informal) Distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.
- a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a kind or category
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
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- (computing) Initialism of binary space partitioning.
- Initialism of blatant self-promotion.
- (finance) Initialism of bank settlement plan, a reporting system used by travel companies to pay airlines.
- (computing) Initialism of board support package (“device driver”).
- (plumbing) Initialism of British Standard Pipe.
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- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- a passage selected from a larger work
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
noun
- (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
- An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).
- (Christianity) A monastic habit in the Greek Orthodox Church.
- (logic) A formula in the metalanguage of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.
- (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as XML schemas for XML files.
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
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- (mining) A partition in a coal mine, made from wood or from canvas sheeting coated in tar.
- (historical) A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.
- a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine
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- (computing, RAID) To change the manner in which data is laid out across multiple disks.
- To redivide (land).
- To mark with stripes again or differently.
- To change the lane markings or other markings on a road, runway or other path; to repaint existing pavement traffic markings.
- (automotive) To change the space markings in a parking lot.
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- partition off into compartments
- move rhythmically
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- place or shut up in a pound
- hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
- shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
- move heavily or clumsily
- strike or drive against with a heavy impact
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.
- (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.
- To advance heavily with measured steps.
- (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.
- (slang, UK regional, transitive) To wager a pound on.
- To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
- (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.
- (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
- (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.
- (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.
noun
- the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters
- 16 ounces avoirdupois
- a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy
- the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters
- a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec
- a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs
- a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)
- the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
- the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents
- the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters
- formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- Ellipsis of pound force.
- Ellipsis of pound weight.
- (UK) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc.
- A hard blow.
- A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.
- Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
- (informal) Various non-English units of currency not officially called pounds.
- Ellipsis of pound mass.
- A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.
- A unit of weight in various measurement systems.
- A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
- A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.
- (metonymic) The people who work for the pound.
- A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.
- (Newfoundland) A division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine.
- Various non-English units of measure.
- Any of various units of currency used in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Nigeria, Israel, and South Africa.
- The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.
- (US) The symbol #.
- (informal, non-scientific) Ellipsis of pound-force.
verb
- To separate in order to store.
- (intransitive) To withdraw; to retire.
- To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
- (transitive, US, politics, law) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
- (law) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
- To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
- (chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
- (international law) To seize and hold enemy property.
- To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
- To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- set apart from others
- keep away from others
- requisition forcibly, as of enemy property
- undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
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- determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science)
- divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data
- set (printed matter) into a specific format
- To create or edit the layout of a document.
- Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
- (computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.
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- the general appearance of a publication
- the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing)
- (by extension) The form of presentation of something.
- (radio) The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.
- The layout of a publication or document.
- (computing) A file type.
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- (physics) A spacetime having tensors of zero magnitude.
- (physics) A ground state of a quantum field or of local spacetime, or more abstractly the lowest-energy state of a system.
- A region of space that contains no matter.
- The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, such as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.
- An emptiness in life created by a loss of a person who was close, or of an occupation.
- (string theory) A description of spacetime resulting from a particular compactification of spatial dimensions.
- (colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") Ellipsis of vacuum cleaner.
- An exercise in which one draws their abdomen towards the spine.
- an empty area or space
- the absence of matter
- a region that is devoid of matter
- an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction
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- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
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- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)