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adj
- (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
- (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
- (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
- undeveloped but potentially useful
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- (transitive, figuratively) To render dormant.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize.
- (transitive) To help (someone) to bed; put to bed.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to sleep.
- (informal) To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.
- help someone go to bed
- kill gently, as with an injection
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- (figurative) One that is ineffectual.
- (historical) Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.
- (in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate.
- A castrated man.
- a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
noun
- (figurative) Something lacking substance.
- Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
- (by extension) Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.
- A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
- any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
- any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
noun
- (figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- (pathology) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
- (science fiction, uncountable) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
- an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
- inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
adj
- (figurative) Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
- (US, military) Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
- Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
- Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
- (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
- (figurative) Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
- Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
- incapable of reproducing
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
- free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
noun
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
verb
noun
- (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
- (uncountable, usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near-vacuum of outer space.
- (uncountable, loosely) The substance of the atmosphere on a planet other than Earth.
- (uncountable) The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
- A breeze; a gentle wind.
- The substance of the atmosphere seen as an agency of freshness.
- (historical, philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- (countable, uncountable) An air conditioning system.
- (uncountable, snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) The state of being briefly airborne during a jump.
- A feeling or sense.
- A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
- (music) A melody or song, especially a solo; an aria.
- (uncountable) Publicity.
- (historical, medicine) A local environment or atmosphere, in the context of its effects on behavior, health, weather, etc.
- (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
- A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.
- a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- the mass of air surrounding the Earth
- medium for radio and television broadcasting
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- the region above the ground
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- a slight wind (usually refreshing)
- travel via aircraft
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood
verb
- Pronunciation spelling of are.
- (transitive) To make public (an opinion, concern, issue, secret, differences, etc); to present to public view (and sometimes discussion).
- (transitive) To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
- (transitive, British, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).
- (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
- (transitive) To let fresh air into (a room or a building), to ventilate.
- (intransitive) To be broadcast.
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
- expose to warm or heated air, so as to dry
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
- be broadcast
- make public
- expose to fresh air
adj
- (informal) Nonoperational; not functioning.
- (informal, medicine) Nonoperative; not using or requiring surgical treatment.
- (informal, LGBTQ, of a transgender or transsexual person) Having chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
- (informal) Nonoperating; not directly involved in the mechanical operation of trains.
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- (intransitive) To do nothing. To be inactive in a situation.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to continue to support despite things being bad.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To wait in expectation of some event; to be ready.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To remain loyal or faithful to.
- be loyal to
- not act or do anything
- be available or ready for a certain function or service
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- (archaeology) A large rectangular monolith lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright stones, the flankers; found in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
- A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.
noun
- a disposition to remain inactive or inert
- (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
- (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
- (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
- (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
adj
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
verb
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (figurative) To render ineffective.
- (transitive) To remove the narcotine from.
- (figurative) To waken; to make aware.
- To deprive (an addict) of a narcotic drug until there is no longer a physical addiction.
- (by extension) To denature; to alter so as to cancel an intoxicating, addictive, or disagreeable effect.
- To administer a stimulant to (a person or animal under the influence of a narcotic) in order to counteract the effects of a narcotic drug.
- (by extension) To remove the issue of narcotics from (a relationship)
- To remove reliance on narcotics from (an organization)
verb
- (intransitive) To become empty.
- (transitive) to remove or eject (from), especially forcibly.
- (transitive) To be victorious in gambling against (someone); to financially ruin (someone).
- (transitive) To completely empty.
- (transitive) To rob or steal from (someone).
- (intransitive) To leave quickly.
- move out and leave nothing behind
- empty completely
- clear out the chest and lungs
verb
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
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noun
- A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
- Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
- (cellular automata) A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
- (informal, slang) A catloaf.
- (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.
- a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
- a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (transitive) To make aware of something.
- stop sleeping
adj
adj
- Lacking expression; vacant.
- Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
- Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
- Not having a precise meaning.
- Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
- Not sharply outlined; hazy.
- not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- not clearly expressed or understood
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noun
- (figuratively) Any form of useless, dried up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
- An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
- The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
- The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
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- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- be asleep
noun
- The hibernation of animals.
- (botany) A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
- (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
- (informal, metonymic) A night.
- (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
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adj
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- (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
- Representing the sound of vomiting.
- An expression of mild frustration.
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noun
- (slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
- A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- (by extension) Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.
- (uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A human head.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
- any of various types of cabbage
- informal terms for money
- any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
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adv
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- (nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
- To a reversed order, direction, or condition; half round; in (or to, or from) the opposite direction.
- On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- in the area or vicinity
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- all around or on all sides
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
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- (figurative) On or near (one's person); attached as an attribute to; in the makeup of, or at the command of.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- (with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Concerned or occupied with; engaged in; intent on.
- On one’s person; nearby the person.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
- (transitive, chemistry) To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral.
- make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- make chemically neutral
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- make incapable of military action
noun
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
verb
- (intransitive) To become void.
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- for time to move forward
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- let slip
- end, at least for a long time
- go back to bad behavior
noun
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- An interval of time between events.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- a failure to maintain a higher state
adj
- (figurative) Lacking in vigour; anemic, feeble.
- (horticulture) Of a plant: intentionally grown in the dark.
- (chiefly botany, horticulture) Of a plant or part of a plant: pale and weak because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight.
- (by extension) Of an animal or person: having an ashen or pale appearance; also, haggard or thin; physically weak.
- (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
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adj
- (figuratively) Plain, dull, lifeless.
- Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
- Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
- of or relating to monochromatism
- (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength
- having or appearing to have only one color
adj
- (by extension) That passively defines a thing by describing what is not characteristic of it.
- (theology) Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
- of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as ‘God is unknowable’)
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- (informal, idiomatic) To engage in a futile activity.
- (slang, idiomatic, derogatory, dismissal) To go away; get lost; go to hell; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless.
- (informal, idiomatic) To engage in a simple, useless activity that anyone would reasonably know how to perform.
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- (no longer productive) Neglectfully: prefixed to verbs with the sense of abstaining from or neglecting.
- (rare) Outside, out.
- (no longer productive) Destructively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of destruction or pain.
- (no longer productive) Thoroughly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of thoroughly, all over.
- (no longer productive) Intensively
- (no longer productive) Very: intensifying adjectives.
- (no longer productive) Wrongly: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wrongly, amorally.
- Alternative form of fore-.
- (no longer productive) Excluding: prefixed to verbs to give the sense of prohibition or exclusion.
- (no longer productive) Making: prefixed to verbs to indicate the subject takes the character of the verb.
- (no longer productive) Forth: prefixed to verbs to indicate a direction of 'away', 'off', 'forth'.
- (no longer productive) Exhausting: prefixed to verbs with the sense of wearing or exhausting one's self.
- (no longer productive) Excessively: prefixed to verbs with the sense of doing so in excessive or overwhelm.
verb
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
noun
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
noun
- (figurative) One that is ineffectual.
- (historical) Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.
- (in translations of ancient texts) A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate.
- A castrated man.
- a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction
noun
- (figurative) Something lacking substance.
- Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
- (by extension) Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.
- A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
- any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
- any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
noun
- (figurative) Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- (pathology) A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
- (science fiction, uncountable) A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
- an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
- inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
noun
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
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- (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
- (uncountable, usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near-vacuum of outer space.
- (uncountable, loosely) The substance of the atmosphere on a planet other than Earth.
- (uncountable) The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
- A breeze; a gentle wind.
- The substance of the atmosphere seen as an agency of freshness.
- (historical, philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- (countable, uncountable) An air conditioning system.
- (uncountable, snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) The state of being briefly airborne during a jump.
- A feeling or sense.
- A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
- (music) A melody or song, especially a solo; an aria.
- (uncountable) Publicity.
- (historical, medicine) A local environment or atmosphere, in the context of its effects on behavior, health, weather, etc.
- (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
- A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.
- a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- the mass of air surrounding the Earth
- medium for radio and television broadcasting
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
- the region above the ground
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- a slight wind (usually refreshing)
- travel via aircraft
- once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour blood
verb
- Pronunciation spelling of are.
- (transitive) To make public (an opinion, concern, issue, secret, differences, etc); to present to public view (and sometimes discussion).
- (transitive) To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
- (transitive, British, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).
- (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
- (transitive) To let fresh air into (a room or a building), to ventilate.
- (intransitive) To be broadcast.
- expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
- expose to warm or heated air, so as to dry
- broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
- be broadcast
- make public
- expose to fresh air
noun
- a disposition to remain inactive or inert
- (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
- (medicine) Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
- (figuratively) In a person, unwillingness to take action.
- (physics, uncountable or countable) The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
noun
- (figuratively) Any form of useless, dried up, and subsequently worthless exterior of something.
- An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
- The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.
- The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- outer membranous covering of some fruits or seeds
verb
noun
- the state of being not yet evident or active
- (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
- the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it
- Concealment; the state of being latent; the state of being hidden.
- A stage in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of the psychosexual development of children where children become asexual until their sexual desires come back at puberty.
- (artificial intelligence) The time delay between a request for data or action and the beginning of the response or execution, often measured to assess system performance.
- Dormancy; the state of being inactive.
- (electronics) A delay, an interval between the initiation of something and the occurrence.
- (medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To render dormant.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill an animal painlessly, often with an injection; to euthanize.
- (transitive) To help (someone) to bed; put to bed.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to sleep.
- (informal) To give a general anesthetic prior to surgery.
- help someone go to bed
- kill gently, as with an injection
verb
- (intransitive) To do nothing. To be inactive in a situation.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To support; to continue to support despite things being bad.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To wait in expectation of some event; to be ready.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To remain loyal or faithful to.
- be loyal to
- not act or do anything
- be available or ready for a certain function or service
verb
- (figurative) To render ineffective.
- (transitive) To remove the narcotine from.
- (figurative) To waken; to make aware.
- To deprive (an addict) of a narcotic drug until there is no longer a physical addiction.
- (by extension) To denature; to alter so as to cancel an intoxicating, addictive, or disagreeable effect.
- To administer a stimulant to (a person or animal under the influence of a narcotic) in order to counteract the effects of a narcotic drug.
- (by extension) To remove the issue of narcotics from (a relationship)
- To remove reliance on narcotics from (an organization)
verb
- (intransitive) To become empty.
- (transitive) to remove or eject (from), especially forcibly.
- (transitive) To be victorious in gambling against (someone); to financially ruin (someone).
- (transitive) To completely empty.
- (transitive) To rob or steal from (someone).
- (intransitive) To leave quickly.
- move out and leave nothing behind
- empty completely
- clear out the chest and lungs
verb
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
noun
verb
noun
- A solid block of soap, from which standard bar soap is cut.
- Any solid block of food, such as meat or sugar.
- (cellular automata) A particular still life configuration with seven living cells.
- (informal, slang) A catloaf.
- (also loaf of bread) A block of bread after baking.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Ellipsis of loaf of bread: the brain or the head.
- a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape
- a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To come out of a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (transitive) To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping.
- (transitive) To excite or to stir up something latent.
- (intransitive) To become conscious after having slept.
- (transitive, figurative) To rouse from a state of inaction or dormancy.
- (transitive) To make aware of something.
- stop sleeping
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- be asleep
noun
- The hibernation of animals.
- (botany) A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
- (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
- (informal, metonymic) A night.
- (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
verb
adj
intj
- (When spoken repeatedly, often three times in succession: blah blah blah!) Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
- Representing the sound of vomiting.
- An expression of mild frustration.
noun
verb
noun
- (slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
- A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- (by extension) Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.
- (uncountable, vegetable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A human head.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
- any of various types of cabbage
- informal terms for money
- any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
noun
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
verb
verb
noun
verb
intj
adj
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
verb
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
- (transitive, chemistry) To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral.
- make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- make chemically neutral
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- make incapable of military action
verb
- (intransitive) To become void.
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- for time to move forward
- drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- let slip
- end, at least for a long time
- go back to bad behavior
noun
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- An interval of time between events.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- a break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- a failure to maintain a higher state
verb
- (informal, idiomatic) To engage in a futile activity.
- (slang, idiomatic, derogatory, dismissal) To go away; get lost; go to hell; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless.
- (informal, idiomatic) To engage in a simple, useless activity that anyone would reasonably know how to perform.
verb
- (intransitive) To lie dormant.
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To lean, lie, or lay.
- (intransitive) To come to a pause or an end; end.
- (no object, with complement) To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- (intransitive) To sleep; slumber.
- (intransitive) To stay, remain, be situated, or belong to.
- (intransitive) To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- (intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- (intransitive) To rely or depend on.
- (intransitive) To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- (transitive, reflexive, copulative) To put into a state of rest.
- (intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- have a place in relation to something else
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- not move; be in a resting position
- sit, as on a branch
- give a rest to
- be at rest
- be inactive, refrain from acting
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
noun
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- (uncountable) That which remains.
- (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- (snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- (euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death. Also, death itself: "Not alone, not alone would I go to my rest in the heart of the love..." -- George William Russell ("Love")
- (music, countable) A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- (countable) Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- (uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- (physics, uncountable) Absence of motion.
- (UK, finance) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- (countable) Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- (uncountable, of an object or concept) A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- (music, countable) A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- (poetry) A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- a state of inaction
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- a support on which things can be put
- a pause for relaxation
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
adv
- Indicating unproductive or unstructured activity.
- From one place or position to another in succession; indicating repeated movement or activity.
- Here and there; around; in one place and another; up and down.
- (nautical) To the opposite tack: see go about.
- To a reversed order, direction, or condition; half round; in (or to, or from) the opposite direction.
- On all sides, or in every or any direction from a point; around.
- Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost.
- Near; in the vicinity.
- in the area or vicinity
- in or to a reversed position or direction
- all around or on all sides
- in rotation or succession
- (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
- used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
- (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
adj
prep
- (figurative) On or near (one's person); attached as an attribute to; in the makeup of, or at the command of.
- In a circle around; all round; on every side of; on the outside of; around.
- Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.
- (with 'to' and verb infinitive) See about to.
- Within or in the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place.
- Concerned or occupied with; engaged in; intent on.
- On one’s person; nearby the person.
- Concerning; with regard to; on account of; on the subject of.
verb
adj
- (figurative) Inactive; undeveloped.
- (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
- (of agricultural land) Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
- left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
- undeveloped but potentially useful
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verb
adj
noun
adj
- (figurative) Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
- (US, military) Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
- Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
- Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
- (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
- (figurative) Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
- Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
- incapable of reproducing
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
- free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
adj
- (informal) Nonoperational; not functioning.
- (informal, medicine) Nonoperative; not using or requiring surgical treatment.
- (informal, LGBTQ, of a transgender or transsexual person) Having chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
- (informal) Nonoperating; not directly involved in the mechanical operation of trains.
noun
adj
noun
- (archaeology) A large rectangular monolith lying on its side, typically flanked by two large upright stones, the flankers; found in recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the counties of Cork and Kerry in south-west of Ireland.
- A bicycle or tricycle that places the rider in a reclined posture.
adj
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
verb
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
noun
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
adj
- Lacking expression; vacant.
- Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
- Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious.
- Not having a precise meaning.
- Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely.
- Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms.
- Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight.
- Not sharply outlined; hazy.
- not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- not clearly expressed or understood
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verb
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noun
verb
adj
- (figurative) Lacking in vigour; anemic, feeble.
- (horticulture) Of a plant: intentionally grown in the dark.
- (chiefly botany, horticulture) Of a plant or part of a plant: pale and weak because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight.
- (by extension) Of an animal or person: having an ashen or pale appearance; also, haggard or thin; physically weak.
- (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light
verb
adj
- (figuratively) Plain, dull, lifeless.
- Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
- Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
- of or relating to monochromatism
- (of light or other electromagnetic radiation) having only one wavelength
- having or appearing to have only one color
adj
- (by extension) That passively defines a thing by describing what is not characteristic of it.
- (theology) Pertaining to knowledge of God obtained through negation rather than positive assertions.
- of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as ‘God is unknowable’)