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- (transitive) To make capable of functioning in a given capacity.
- (transitive, zoology) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs.
- (transitive, mathematics) To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network.
- make capable
- make legally capable or qualify in law
- cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
- (transitive) To perform something specific.
- To express one's feelings through disruptive actions.
- (idiomatic) To perform a fantasy in reality.
- (idiomatic) To perform a scene from a play, a charade or an exercise.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, out.
- To express ideas or desires through actions rather than words.
- represent an incident, state, or emotion by action, especially on stage
- act out; represent or perform as if in a play
- (transitive) To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.
- (US) To supply money to work a mine.
- In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.
- (intransitive) To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- qualify for teaching at a university in Europe
- (transitive) To perform; to execute.
- (transitive) To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- (transitive) To travel in or through, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
- (dialectal) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
- (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
- (transitive, informal) To injure (one's own body part).
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
- (ambitransitive) To finish.
- (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- (transitive, with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- (transitive) To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- (ditransitive, informal) To make or provide.
- (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
- (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
- (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- (transitive, informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
- (transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- (transitive, finance) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- (DoggoLingo, used with nouns, verbs, and adjective) To perform something suggested by a following noun, verb, or adjective.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
- (modal, interrogative, informal) Should; ought to (especially in respect of a task to be repeated).
- (transitive, informal) To provide as a service.
- (ambitransitive) To suffice.
- (especially England, intransitive) To fare well; to thrive; to prosper; (of livestock) to fatten.
- (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- (transitive) To cook.
- (informal, transitive) To drive a vehicle at a certain speed, especially in regard to a speed limit.
- (transitive) To take (a drug).
- (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- proceed or get along
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- arrange attractively
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- travel or traverse (a distance)
- carry out or perform an action
- carry on or function
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- create or design, often in a certain way
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- engage in
- get (something) done
- (chiefly fossilized) Something that can or should be done.
- (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- (UK, informal) A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- (UK, slang) A homicide.
- (informal) Clipping of hairdo.
- an uproarious party
- the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
- (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
- (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
- (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
- To walk in a procession, especially in a liturgical context.
- (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- deal with in a routine way
- shape, form, or improve a material
- perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- march in a procession
- A series of events leading to a result or product.
- (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- (biology) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- (anatomy) An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.
- A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
- (manufacturing) The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
- (computing) An executable task or program.
- a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
- (transitive) To render physically possible.
- (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion; to say something one agrees on in the context of a larger disagreement or reluctance.
- (transitive) To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans.
- (transitive, MTE, MLE) To forgo bothering with, to let slide.
- (law, transitive) To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
- (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.
- (transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
- (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- To not bar or obstruct.
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- grant as a discount or in exchange
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- let have
- allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
- make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
- consent to, give permission; permit
- allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
- afford possibility
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- (transitive, in the phrase "substitute X for Y") To use X in place of Y.
- (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
- (transitive, formerly proscribed, often in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", sometimes "substitute X for Y") To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
- (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
- be a substitute
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- act as a substitute
- (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
- A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
- (economics) Abbreviation of substitute good.
- A substitute teacher.
- (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
- (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- cause to move back by force or influence
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- proceed along in a vehicle
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- (hunting) search for game
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- push, propel, or press with force
- work as a driver
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- urge forward
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- have certain properties when driven
- compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A type of public roadway.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A driveway.
- (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- the trait of being highly motivated
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a road leading up to a private house
- (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
- (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
- (transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- supply with an excess of
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
- An excess, too much.
- (British, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
- (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
- (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- Something that fills up an opening.
- That which is swallowed.
- A block used for a fulcrum.
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
- An adult or adolescent male servant. Anyone from a right-hand man (high-ranking assistant) to a low-ranking servant.
- (historical) A vassal; a subject.
- An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
- A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
- (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
- A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
- A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.
- A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
- An adult male human.
- A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
- A husband.
- (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
- (military slang) A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
- A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
- An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.
- A male lover; a boyfriend.
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
- a man who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- a male subordinate
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- A curve.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a circular segment of a curve
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become operative or available.
- (transitive) To make an open relationship or marriage, i.e., with possible additional relationships.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spread; to expand into a wider or looser position.
- (transitive) To enter upon, begin.
- (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
- (transitive, nursing) To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
- (intransitive, with 'for') To precede another as a performer at a concert or show.
- (transitive) To bring up, broach.
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To start running (a program or application, especially one with a screen-based interface).
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become receptive or susceptible (to something).
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To connect to a resource (a file, document, etc.) for viewing or editing.
- (transitive, intransitive) To unseal or uncover, or become unsealed or uncovered.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause or allow a gap to form or widen.
- (Manglish, Quebec) To turn on; to switch on.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become accessible or clear for passage by moving from a shut position.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become clear by removal of objects and obstructions, so as to allow passage, access, or visibility.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become accessible to customers, clients or visitors.
- (especially sports, transitive, intransitive) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) upwards and/or (for a right-hander) clockwise of straight.
- (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- (transitive or intransitive) To start (an event or activity) as the first performer or actor.
- (intransitive) Of an event, activity etc., to start or get underway.
- begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.
- start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning
- make the opening move
- become available
- make available
- display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer
- cause to open or to become open
- become open
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- have an opening or passage or outlet
- (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- Able to have something pass through or along it.
- (sometimes business) Not fulfilled or resolved; incomplete.
- (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; connected to as a resource.
- Not settled; not decided or determined; not withdrawn from consideration.
- Of a space, free of objects and obstructions.
- (law, of correspondence) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Of a person, not concealing their feelings, opinions, etc.; candid, ingenuous.
- (not comparable) Available for use or operation.
- Not concealed; overt.
- (electricity, of a switch or circuit breaker) In a position such that a circuit is not completed, preventing electricity from flowing.
- (music) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- (sports and games) Characterised by free-flowing play.
- (comparable, with 'to') Susceptible or vulnerable (to the stated means).
- (now regional) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- (engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) In a position allowing fluid to flow.
- (music, stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Not covered, sealed, etc.; having an opening or aperture showing what is inside.
- (graph theory, of a walk) Having different first and last vertices.
- (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- (computing, of a program or application, especially one with a screen-based interface) Running.
- (phonetics, of a syllable) Ending in a vowel; not having a coda.
- (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled upwards and/or (for a right-hander) clockwise of straight.
- (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
- (phonetics, sometimes with comparative opener) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- (comparable) Receptive.
- (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Not physically drawn together, folded or contracted.
- (not comparable) Allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
- (of a multi-word compound) Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
- (sports) Of a tournament or competition, allowing anyone to enter, especially or originally irrespective of professional or amateur status.
- (computing, education) Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Not having one end joined to the other; not forming a closed loop.
- (sometimes proscribed) Unlocked or unlatched but not physically open.
- (computing, used before "code") Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- (not comparable) Public.
- (not comparable) With open access, of open science, or both.
- Of a sandwich, etc.: composed of a single slice of bread with a topping.
- open to or in view of all
- openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness
- (set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints
- not sealed or having been unsealed
- open and observable; not secret or hidden
- not requiring union membership
- accessible to all
- without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition
- not having been filled
- not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought
- ready for business
- affording free passage or access
- used of mouth or eyes
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not defended or capable of being defended
- affording free passage or view
- with no protection or shield
- possibly accepting or permitting
- ready or willing to receive favorably
- having no protecting cover or enclosure
- affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed
- (electronics) A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
- (in the definite) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
- The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message.
- (in the definite) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
- A sports event in which anybody can compete, especially or originally irrespective of amateur or professional status.
- a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play
- information that has become public
- where the air is unconfined
- (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
- (transitive) To be suitable for.
- (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape
- (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.
- (transitive) To make ready.
- To be proper or becoming.
- (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
- (transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
- (intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
- (transitive) To equip or supply.
- (intransitive) To be in harmony.
- (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
- (transitive) To be in agreement with.
- be agreeable or acceptable to
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- make fit
- insert or adjust several objects or people
- make correspond or harmonize
- conform to some shape or size
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- Suitable; proper
- Adapted to a purpose or environment.
- In good shape; physically well.
- (British, informal, chiefly slang) Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
- physically and mentally sound or healthy
- meeting adequate standards for a purpose
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- (bridge) The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
- (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
- Conformity of elements one to another.
- (statistics) Goodness of fit.
- A sudden burst (of an activity).
- (slang) An outfit, a set of clothing.
- The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
- A seizure or convulsion.
- (advertising) Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
- A sudden outburst of emotion.
- The degree to which something fits.
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
- a display of bad temper
- the manner in which something fits
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
- (transitive) To use up.
- (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
- (transitive) To eat.
- (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- (transitive) To destroy completely.
- (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.
- destroy completely by means of consumption
- use up (resources or materials)
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- engage fully
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- spend extravagantly
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- (transitive) To restrict (an activity etc.)
- (transitive) To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to.
- (transitive) To supply with a ration; to limit (someone) to a specific allowance of something.
- distribute in rations, as in the army
- restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- measure precisely and against a standard
- adapt to a specified measurement
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
- (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- (transitive) To supply with something.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- (transitive, sports) To pass to.
- simple past and past participle of fee
- (transitive, syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
- (transitive, phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- introduce continuously
- move along, of liquids
- gratify
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- support or promote
- feed into; supply
- provide as food
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
- Something supplied continuously.
- (social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- food for domestic livestock
- (transitive) To do (something); to execute.
- (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
- (sexology, uncommon) Of a man, to be able to initiate or fulfill an act of sexual intercourse.
- (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- (ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- carry out or perform an action
- perform a function
- get (something) done
- give a performance (of something)
- (transitive) To restrict or limit.
- (transitive) To strain again.
- (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
- (transitive) To control or keep in check.
- prevent the action or expression of
- restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
- prevent (someone or something) from doing something
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- something additional of the same kind
- (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
- (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
- (ambitransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
- (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
- (intransitive) To become converted.
- (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- (ambitransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- (transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- (American football) To score extra points following a touchdown.
- cause to adopt a new or different faith
- change the nature, purpose, or function of something
- change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change
- change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
- change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone
- make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
- Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
- (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
- A person who has converted to a religion.
- A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
- a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief
- (transitive) To bring about a specific result.
- (transitive) To include in a specification.
- (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
- define clearly
- be specific about
- select something or someone for a specific purpose
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
- decide upon or fix definitely
- determine the essential quality of
- design or destine
- (transitive) To make faster or more powerful.
- (automotive) To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
- (electronics, electrics) To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.
- increase or raise
- increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
- (informal, transitive) To use (something) to the limit of its capabilities.
- (informal, intransitive) To reach the limit of one's capabilities.
- (slang, US) To relax.
- (informal, intransitive) To reach a maximum or a point at which no more growth or improvement is possible.
- (US, prison slang) To serve an entire sentence with no early parole, time off for good behavior, etc.
- reach a maximum
- Alternative form of taisch.
- A single action undertaken by a given agent.
- An objective.
- A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- (computing) A process or execution of a program.
- Any piece of work done.
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
- (transitive) To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
- (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- establish a conditioned response
- apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny
- put into a better state
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
- A state or quality.
- A requirement.
- (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A particular state of being.
- a state at a particular time
- an illness, disease, or other medical problem
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
- the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases ‘in condition’ or ‘in shape’ or ‘out of condition’ or ‘out of shape’)
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
- the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
- a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
- (transitive) To perform.
- (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- (transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
- (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
- (transitive, computing) To start, launch, or run.
- (transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
- put in effect
- carry out the legalities of
- murder in a planned fashion
- carry out or perform an action
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
- sign in the presence of witnesses
- (transitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
- (intransitive) To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
- (intransitive) To produce an effect.
- (intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
- (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
- (transitive) To bring about as an effect; to cause.
- (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- keep engaged
- perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
- handle and cause to function
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- perform as expected when applied
- perform surgery on
- (transitive, said of electronic devices, programming languages, etc.) To be designed to provide capacity for; to work or be compatible with (a part, accessory, file type, program, algorithm, etc.).
- (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented position; to give support to.
- (transitive) To provide evidence for; to lend credibility to.
- (transitive) To provide sustenance or maintenance for; to sustain in integrity or livelihood.
- (transitive) To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid:
- (transitive) To help keep from falling.
- (transitive) To play a lesser part in the same production with (a star performer).
- (transitive) To assist or be involved with, but not be responsible for.
- (transitive) To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- be a regular customer or client of
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- argue or speak in defense of
- support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- adopt as a belief
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- play a subordinate role to (another performer)
- be behind; approve of
- support materially or financially
- (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
- An accompaniment in music.
- Evidence.
- (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
- (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
- (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- (commutative algebra, of a module M over a commutative ring R) The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM
- Financial or other help.
- (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
- any device that bears the weight of another thing
- the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
- supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- aiding the cause or policy or interests of
- the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
- something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest
- the financial means whereby one lives
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- documentary validation
- (sports) A sports team.
- (informal) A business or firm.
- Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
- (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
- Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
- A set of clothing (with accessories).
- (Canada, historical) A fiscal year of the Hudson's Bay Company, or the supplies required for such a period.
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose
- any cohesive unit such as a military company
- (transitive) To apply or implement (something).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To provide (food or drinks) for free.
- (nautical) To sail towards or to arrive at (a destination).
- To provide.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To repeatedly say (particular types of thing).
- (colloquial) To blame; to shift blame onto someone or something.
- (transitive, slang) To give (money, drugs, etc.) to (someone).
- (UK) To give (something) as a gift, special treat or bonus.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To impart or explain (something) in words to (someone).
- (transitive) To cover something with a layer of (something).
- (nautical) To vigorously row (an oar) to propel a boat or ship.
- To do something excessively.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- (transitive) To provide.
- (transitive) To set (movie, show, song, etc.) to play on a screen.
- (transitive) To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
- (transitive) To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fool, kid, deceive.
- (ditransitive) To bet (money or other items) on (something).
- (transitive) To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
- (ditransitive) To play (a recording) on (a sound system).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
- (ditransitive) To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface.
- (transitive) To perform for an audience.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a role in popular media.
- (ditransitive) To assign or apply (something) to a target.
- (transitive) To play (a recording).
- (transitive) To organize a performance for an audience.
- (transitive) To gain (weight).
- add to the odometer
- prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
- put clothing on one's body
- coat, cover or smear a surface with
- add to something existing
- put on the stove or ready for cooking
- increase (one's body weight)
- fool or hoax
- carry out (performances)
- (transitive) To create.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- change the use of and make available or usable
- work out
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- become technologically advanced
- expand in the form of a series
- happen
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- generate gradually
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- (figurative, intransitive) To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity; to spool up.
- (computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place.
- (figurative, transitive) To fabricate.
- (computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate.
- (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
- (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
- (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- (ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
- (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
- (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- be the successor (of)
- to be the product or result
- keep under surveillance
- be next
- adhere to or practice
- to bring something about at a later time than
- keep to
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- come after in time, as a result
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- perform an accompaniment to
- keep informed
- to subscribe to someone's updates on social media
- to travel behind, go after, come after
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- imitate in behavior; take as a model
- to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media
- be later in time
- travel along a certain course
- grasp the meaning
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
- behave in accordance or in agreement with
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- become short or shorter
- make short or shorter
- (informal) Something said by someone with the purpose of conveying a neutral stance on a subject but unintentionally leading to that person's bias being revealed.
- A kind of survey or questionnaire in which respondents read the questions and select responses by themselves, without researcher interference.
- (transitive) To reach.
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- increase or develop
- obtain
- increase (one's body weight)
- win something through one's efforts
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- rise in rate or price
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- derive a benefit from
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- The thing or things gained.
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- a quantity that is added
- (transitive) To make (something) optimal.
- (intransitive) To become optimal.
- (transitive) To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.
- (originally intransitive) To act optimistically or as an optimist.
- act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world
- make optimal; get the most out of; use best
- modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost
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- (transitive) To make capable of functioning in a given capacity.
- (transitive, zoology) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs.
- (transitive, mathematics) To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network.
- make capable
- make legally capable or qualify in law
- cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
- (transitive) To perform something specific.
- To express one's feelings through disruptive actions.
- (idiomatic) To perform a fantasy in reality.
- (idiomatic) To perform a scene from a play, a charade or an exercise.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see act, out.
- To express ideas or desires through actions rather than words.
- represent an incident, state, or emotion by action, especially on stage
- act out; represent or perform as if in a play
- (transitive) To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.
- (US) To supply money to work a mine.
- In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.
- (intransitive) To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- qualify for teaching at a university in Europe
- (transitive) To perform; to execute.
- (transitive) To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- (transitive) To travel in or through, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
- (dialectal) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
- (intransitive) To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
- (transitive, informal) To injure (one's own body part).
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it)
- (ambitransitive) To finish.
- (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To kill.
- (transitive, with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- (transitive) To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- (ditransitive, informal) To make or provide.
- (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
- (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
- (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.
- (transitive, informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
- (transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- (transitive, finance) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- (DoggoLingo, used with nouns, verbs, and adjective) To perform something suggested by a following noun, verb, or adjective.
- A syntactic marker in negations with the indicative and imperative moods.
- A syntactic marker for emphasis with the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
- (modal, interrogative, informal) Should; ought to (especially in respect of a task to be repeated).
- (transitive, informal) To provide as a service.
- (ambitransitive) To suffice.
- (especially England, intransitive) To fare well; to thrive; to prosper; (of livestock) to fatten.
- (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- (transitive) To cook.
- (informal, transitive) To drive a vehicle at a certain speed, especially in regard to a speed limit.
- (transitive) To take (a drug).
- (pro-verb) A syntactic marker that refers back to an earlier verb and allows the speaker to avoid repeating the verb; in most dialects, not used with auxiliaries such as be, though it can be in AAVE.
- proceed or get along
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- arrange attractively
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- travel or traverse (a distance)
- carry out or perform an action
- carry on or function
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- create or design, often in a certain way
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- engage in
- get (something) done
- (chiefly fossilized) Something that can or should be done.
- (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
- (UK, informal) A party, celebration, social function; usually of moderate size and formality.
- (UK, slang) A homicide.
- (informal) Clipping of hairdo.
- an uproarious party
- the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
- (transitive) To perform a particular process on a thing.
- (transitive, law) To take legal proceedings against.
- (transitive) To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
- To walk in a procession, especially in a liturgical context.
- (transitive, photography, film) To develop photographic film.
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- deal with in a routine way
- shape, form, or improve a material
- perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- march in a procession
- A series of events leading to a result or product.
- (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- (biology) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- (anatomy) An outgrowth of tissue arising above a surface, such as might form part of a joint or the attachment point for a muscle.
- A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
- (manufacturing) The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
- (computing) An executable task or program.
- a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
- (transitive) To render physically possible.
- (transitive) To acknowledge, accept the truth of; to concede; to accede to an opinion; to say something one agrees on in the context of a larger disagreement or reluctance.
- (transitive) To make an allowance, to take into account when making plans.
- (transitive, MTE, MLE) To forgo bothering with, to let slide.
- (law, transitive) To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
- (ditransitive) To let one have as a suitable share of something.
- (transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
- (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
- To not bar or obstruct.
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- grant as a discount or in exchange
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- let have
- allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
- make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
- consent to, give permission; permit
- allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
- afford possibility
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
- (transitive, in the phrase "substitute X for Y") To use X in place of Y.
- (intransitive) To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
- (transitive, formerly proscribed, often in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y", sometimes "substitute X for Y") To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
- (transitive, sports) To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
- be a substitute
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- act as a substitute
- (historical) One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
- A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
- (economics) Abbreviation of substitute good.
- A substitute teacher.
- (sports) A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
- someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)
- a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
- (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- cause to move back by force or influence
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- proceed along in a vehicle
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- (hunting) search for game
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- push, propel, or press with force
- work as a driver
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- urge forward
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- have certain properties when driven
- compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A type of public roadway.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A driveway.
- (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- the trait of being highly motivated
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a road leading up to a private house
- (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
- (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
- (transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- supply with an excess of
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
- An excess, too much.
- (British, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
- (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
- (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- Something that fills up an opening.
- That which is swallowed.
- A block used for a fulcrum.
- the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
- A person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing.
- An adult or adolescent male servant. Anyone from a right-hand man (high-ranking assistant) to a low-ranking servant.
- (historical) A vassal; a subject.
- An adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mensch.
- A male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing.
- (anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) A member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens.
- A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste.
- A term of familiar address usually reserved for other adult males. It works both with ones whose name is known and ones whose name is unknown.
- A person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter.
- An adult male human.
- A piece or token used in board games such as backgammon.
- A husband.
- (sports) A player on whom another is playing, with the intent of limiting their attacking impact.
- (military slang) A soldier below the rank of a non-commissioned officer.
- A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
- (video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- (collective) All human males collectively: mankind.
- An adult male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a representative, etc.
- A male lover; a boyfriend.
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
- a man who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- a male subordinate
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
- (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
- (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- (transitive) To force to submit.
- (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- (transitive) To cause to change direction.
- (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- (intransitive) To submit.
- (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- change direction
- bend a joint
- form a curve
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- A curve.
- (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another, especially one accomplished by bending a string (such as on guitar).
- (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a circular segment of a curve
- curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
- movement that causes the formation of a curve
- diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become operative or available.
- (transitive) To make an open relationship or marriage, i.e., with possible additional relationships.
- (transitive, intransitive) To spread; to expand into a wider or looser position.
- (transitive) To enter upon, begin.
- (intransitive, poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
- (transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position allowing fluid to flow.
- (transitive, nursing) To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers.
- (intransitive, with 'for') To precede another as a performer at a concert or show.
- (transitive) To bring up, broach.
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To start running (a program or application, especially one with a screen-based interface).
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become receptive or susceptible (to something).
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To connect to a resource (a file, document, etc.) for viewing or editing.
- (transitive, intransitive) To unseal or uncover, or become unsealed or uncovered.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause or allow a gap to form or widen.
- (Manglish, Quebec) To turn on; to switch on.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become accessible or clear for passage by moving from a shut position.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become clear by removal of objects and obstructions, so as to allow passage, access, or visibility.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become accessible to customers, clients or visitors.
- (especially sports, transitive, intransitive) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) upwards and/or (for a right-hander) clockwise of straight.
- (intransitive, cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
- (transitive or intransitive) To start (an event or activity) as the first performer or actor.
- (intransitive) Of an event, activity etc., to start or get underway.
- begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.
- start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning
- make the opening move
- become available
- make available
- display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer
- cause to open or to become open
- become open
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- have an opening or passage or outlet
- (phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- Able to have something pass through or along it.
- (sometimes business) Not fulfilled or resolved; incomplete.
- (computing, not comparable, of a file, document, etc.) In current use; connected to as a resource.
- Not settled; not decided or determined; not withdrawn from consideration.
- Of a space, free of objects and obstructions.
- (law, of correspondence) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement.
- Of a person, not concealing their feelings, opinions, etc.; candid, ingenuous.
- (not comparable) Available for use or operation.
- Not concealed; overt.
- (electricity, of a switch or circuit breaker) In a position such that a circuit is not completed, preventing electricity from flowing.
- (music) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- (sports and games) Characterised by free-flowing play.
- (comparable, with 'to') Susceptible or vulnerable (to the stated means).
- (now regional) Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- (engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) In a position allowing fluid to flow.
- (music, stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- Not covered, sealed, etc.; having an opening or aperture showing what is inside.
- (graph theory, of a walk) Having different first and last vertices.
- (not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- (medicine) Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
- (computing, of a program or application, especially one with a screen-based interface) Running.
- (phonetics, of a syllable) Ending in a vowel; not having a coda.
- (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled upwards and/or (for a right-hander) clockwise of straight.
- (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
- (phonetics, sometimes with comparative opener) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- (comparable) Receptive.
- (mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- Not physically drawn together, folded or contracted.
- (not comparable) Allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
- (of a multi-word compound) Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot.
- (sports) Of a tournament or competition, allowing anyone to enter, especially or originally irrespective of professional or amateur status.
- (computing, education) Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Not having one end joined to the other; not forming a closed loop.
- (sometimes proscribed) Unlocked or unlatched but not physically open.
- (computing, used before "code") Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated.
- (not comparable) Public.
- (not comparable) With open access, of open science, or both.
- Of a sandwich, etc.: composed of a single slice of bread with a topping.
- open to or in view of all
- openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness
- (set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints
- not sealed or having been unsealed
- open and observable; not secret or hidden
- not requiring union membership
- accessible to all
- without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition
- not having been filled
- not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought
- ready for business
- affording free passage or access
- used of mouth or eyes
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not defended or capable of being defended
- affording free passage or view
- with no protection or shield
- possibly accepting or permitting
- ready or willing to receive favorably
- having no protecting cover or enclosure
- affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed
- (electronics) A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing.
- (in the definite) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
- The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message.
- (in the definite) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
- A sports event in which anybody can compete, especially or originally irrespective of amateur or professional status.
- a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play
- information that has become public
- where the air is unconfined
- (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
- (transitive) To be suitable for.
- (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape
- (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.
- (transitive) To make ready.
- To be proper or becoming.
- (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
- (transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
- (intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
- (transitive) To equip or supply.
- (intransitive) To be in harmony.
- (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
- (transitive) To be in agreement with.
- be agreeable or acceptable to
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- make fit
- insert or adjust several objects or people
- make correspond or harmonize
- conform to some shape or size
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- Suitable; proper
- Adapted to a purpose or environment.
- In good shape; physically well.
- (British, informal, chiefly slang) Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
- physically and mentally sound or healthy
- meeting adequate standards for a purpose
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- (bridge) The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
- (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
- Conformity of elements one to another.
- (statistics) Goodness of fit.
- A sudden burst (of an activity).
- (slang) An outfit, a set of clothing.
- The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
- A seizure or convulsion.
- (advertising) Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
- A sudden outburst of emotion.
- The degree to which something fits.
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
- a display of bad temper
- the manner in which something fits
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
- (transitive) To use up.
- (transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
- (transitive) To eat.
- (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
- (transitive) To destroy completely.
- (economics, transitive, intransitive) To trade money for good or services as an individual.
- destroy completely by means of consumption
- use up (resources or materials)
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- engage fully
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- spend extravagantly
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- (transitive) To restrict (an activity etc.)
- (transitive) To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to.
- (transitive) To supply with a ration; to limit (someone) to a specific allowance of something.
- distribute in rations, as in the army
- restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
- (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
- (transitive) To estimate.
- (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
- (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
- (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
- (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
- mix in specific proportions
- determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- rub to a uniform size
- measure precisely and against a standard
- adapt to a specified measurement
- An act of measuring.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge.
- Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
- (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
- A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
- (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
- A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
- (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
- (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
- An estimate.
- (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
- That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge.
- (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- the thickness of wire
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
- (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
- (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
- (transitive) To supply with something.
- (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
- (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
- (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- (transitive, sports) To pass to.
- simple past and past participle of fee
- (transitive, syntax, of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
- (transitive, phonology, of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
- (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
- (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
- introduce continuously
- move along, of liquids
- gratify
- take in food; used of animals only
- serve as food for; be the food for
- profit from in an exploitatory manner
- support or promote
- feed into; supply
- provide as food
- provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- give food to
- Something supplied continuously.
- (social media, often after a possessive determiner) content intended for consumption by scrolling or swiping, especially as a home page and from multiple publishers followed or algorithmically curated
- The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
- (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.
- The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
- (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.
- (syndication or aggregation): antichronological sequence of posts or articles from a single source, especially as consumable on a platform other as originally published.
- A straight man who delivers lines to the comedian during a performance.
- food for domestic livestock
- (transitive) To do (something); to execute.
- (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
- (sexology, uncommon) Of a man, to be able to initiate or fulfill an act of sexual intercourse.
- (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- (ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- carry out or perform an action
- perform a function
- get (something) done
- give a performance (of something)
- (transitive) To restrict or limit.
- (transitive) To strain again.
- (transitive) To deprive of liberty.
- (transitive) To control or keep in check.
- prevent the action or expression of
- restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult
- prevent (someone or something) from doing something
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.
- (law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate bridge.
- (uncountable) The game of duplicate Scrabble.
- A pawnbroker's ticket, which must be shown when redeeming a pledged item.
- (botany, zoology) A biological specimen that was gathered alongside another specimen and represents the same species.
- a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
- something additional of the same kind
- (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
- (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
- (ambitransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
- (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
- (intransitive) To become converted.
- (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- (ambitransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- (transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- (American football) To score extra points following a touchdown.
- cause to adopt a new or different faith
- change the nature, purpose, or function of something
- change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change
- change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
- change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone
- make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
- Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
- (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
- A person who has converted to a religion.
- A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
- a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief
- (transitive) To bring about a specific result.
- (transitive) To include in a specification.
- (transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
- define clearly
- be specific about
- select something or someone for a specific purpose
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
- decide upon or fix definitely
- determine the essential quality of
- design or destine
- (transitive) To make faster or more powerful.
- (automotive) To increase the power of an internal combustion engine (either Otto or Diesel cycle) by compressing the inlet air with power extracted from the crankshaft.
- (electronics, electrics) To recharge a battery cell/pack at an extremely rapid pace.
- increase or raise
- increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
- (informal, transitive) To use (something) to the limit of its capabilities.
- (informal, intransitive) To reach the limit of one's capabilities.
- (slang, US) To relax.
- (informal, intransitive) To reach a maximum or a point at which no more growth or improvement is possible.
- (US, prison slang) To serve an entire sentence with no early parole, time off for good behavior, etc.
- reach a maximum
- Alternative form of taisch.
- A single action undertaken by a given agent.
- An objective.
- A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- (computing) A process or execution of a program.
- Any piece of work done.
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
- (transitive) To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.
- (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- establish a conditioned response
- apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny
- put into a better state
- specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
- A state or quality.
- A requirement.
- (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A particular state of being.
- a state at a particular time
- an illness, disease, or other medical problem
- information that should be kept in mind when making a decision
- the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases ‘in condition’ or ‘in shape’ or ‘out of condition’ or ‘out of shape’)
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
- the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
- a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing
- (transitive) To perform.
- (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- (transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
- (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
- (transitive, computing) To start, launch, or run.
- (transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
- put in effect
- carry out the legalities of
- murder in a planned fashion
- carry out or perform an action
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
- sign in the presence of witnesses
- (transitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.
- (intransitive) To act or produce an effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
- (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
- (intransitive) To produce an effect.
- (intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
- (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
- (transitive) To bring about as an effect; to cause.
- (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
- keep engaged
- perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
- handle and cause to function
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- perform as expected when applied
- perform surgery on
- (transitive, said of electronic devices, programming languages, etc.) To be designed to provide capacity for; to work or be compatible with (a part, accessory, file type, program, algorithm, etc.).
- (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented position; to give support to.
- (transitive) To provide evidence for; to lend credibility to.
- (transitive) To provide sustenance or maintenance for; to sustain in integrity or livelihood.
- (transitive) To back or favor a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid:
- (transitive) To help keep from falling.
- (transitive) To play a lesser part in the same production with (a star performer).
- (transitive) To assist or be involved with, but not be responsible for.
- (transitive) To help, particularly financially; to subsidize.
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- be a regular customer or client of
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- argue or speak in defense of
- support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- adopt as a belief
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- play a subordinate role to (another performer)
- be behind; approve of
- support materially or financially
- (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
- An accompaniment in music.
- Evidence.
- (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
- (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero; the closure of that set.
- (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- (commutative algebra, of a module M over a commutative ring R) The set of all prime ideals of R such that the localization of M at the prime is nonzero, denoted operatorname SuppM
- Financial or other help.
- (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
- any device that bears the weight of another thing
- the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
- supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- aiding the cause or policy or interests of
- the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
- something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest
- the financial means whereby one lives
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- documentary validation
- (sports) A sports team.
- (informal) A business or firm.
- Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
- (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
- Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
- A set of clothing (with accessories).
- (Canada, historical) A fiscal year of the Hudson's Bay Company, or the supplies required for such a period.
- a set of clothing (with accessories)
- gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose
- any cohesive unit such as a military company
- (transitive) To apply or implement (something).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To provide (food or drinks) for free.
- (nautical) To sail towards or to arrive at (a destination).
- To provide.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To repeatedly say (particular types of thing).
- (colloquial) To blame; to shift blame onto someone or something.
- (transitive, slang) To give (money, drugs, etc.) to (someone).
- (UK) To give (something) as a gift, special treat or bonus.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To impart or explain (something) in words to (someone).
- (transitive) To cover something with a layer of (something).
- (nautical) To vigorously row (an oar) to propel a boat or ship.
- To do something excessively.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- (transitive) To provide.
- (transitive) To set (movie, show, song, etc.) to play on a screen.
- (transitive) To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense.
- (transitive) To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fool, kid, deceive.
- (ditransitive) To bet (money or other items) on (something).
- (transitive) To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
- (ditransitive) To play (a recording) on (a sound system).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on.
- (ditransitive) To decorate or dress (something) onto another person or a surface.
- (transitive) To perform for an audience.
- (transitive) To give (someone) a role in popular media.
- (ditransitive) To assign or apply (something) to a target.
- (transitive) To play (a recording).
- (transitive) To organize a performance for an audience.
- (transitive) To gain (weight).
- add to the odometer
- prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
- put clothing on one's body
- coat, cover or smear a surface with
- add to something existing
- put on the stove or ready for cooking
- increase (one's body weight)
- fool or hoax
- carry out (performances)
- (transitive) To create.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- change the use of and make available or usable
- work out
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- become technologically advanced
- expand in the form of a series
- happen
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- generate gradually
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- (figurative, intransitive) To be brought into full operation; to reach full potential or capacity; to spool up.
- (computing, intransitive, of a disk drive) To reach a sufficient spinning speed for reads and writes to take place.
- (figurative, transitive) To fabricate.
- (computing, transitive) To power up, launch, or instantiate.
- (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
- (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
- (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- (ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
- (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
- (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- be the successor (of)
- to be the product or result
- keep under surveillance
- be next
- adhere to or practice
- to bring something about at a later time than
- keep to
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- come after in time, as a result
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- perform an accompaniment to
- keep informed
- to subscribe to someone's updates on social media
- to travel behind, go after, come after
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- imitate in behavior; take as a model
- to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media
- be later in time
- travel along a certain course
- grasp the meaning
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
- behave in accordance or in agreement with
- (transitive) To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
- (intransitive) To become shorter.
- (transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
- (nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
- (baking, of pastries, transitive) To make crumbly.
- (nautical, transitive) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
- (transitive) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- become short or shorter
- make short or shorter
- (informal) Something said by someone with the purpose of conveying a neutral stance on a subject but unintentionally leading to that person's bias being revealed.
- A kind of survey or questionnaire in which respondents read the questions and select responses by themselves, without researcher interference.
- (transitive) To reach.
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- increase or develop
- obtain
- increase (one's body weight)
- win something through one's efforts
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- rise in rate or price
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- derive a benefit from
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- The thing or things gained.
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- a quantity that is added
- (transitive) To make (something) optimal.
- (intransitive) To become optimal.
- (transitive) To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.
- (originally intransitive) To act optimistically or as an optimist.
- act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world
- make optimal; get the most out of; use best
- modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost
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