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verb
- To make certain; to finalize.
- To secure a spot (e.g., at the divisional championship) before the end of regular season play by having an insurmountable lead.
- To embrace passionately.
- To hold firmly; to clench
- To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
- To set closely together; to close tightly.
- To clasp; to interlock.
- To hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to avoid being hit while resting momentarily
- To fasten securely or permanently.
- secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts
- embrace amorously
- flatten the ends (of nails and rivets)
- hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches
- settle conclusively
- hold in a tight grasp
noun
- (wrestling, combat sports) The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
- The act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed.
- (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
- A passionate embrace.
- Any of several fastenings.
- a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
- the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet
- a tight or amorous embrace
- (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily
- a small slip noose made with seizing
verb
noun
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
- (specifically) A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty.
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults
- an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
verb
- make certain of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- make a promise or commitment
- inform positively and with certainty and confidence
- assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence
- (transitive) To reassure.
- (transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
- (transitive) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something). [with that; or with of]
verb
- make certain of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- protect by insurance
- take out insurance for
- (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
- (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
verb
- make certain of
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
- assure payment of
- cause to be firmly attached
- get by special effort
- furnish with battens
- To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
- To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
adj
- Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- financially safe
- free from fear or doubt; easy in mind
- free from danger or risk
- not likely to fail or give way
- Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- Free from attack or danger; protected.
- Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
- Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
verb
- (transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
- (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
- (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
- (intransitive) To drive a nail.
- (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
- (slang) To catch.
- (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
- (military) To spike, as a cannon.
- succeed in obtaining a position
- succeed at easily
- hit with great force
- take into custody
- attach something somewhere by means of nails
- locate exactly
- complete a pass
noun
- The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
- The claw of a bird or other animal.
- An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
- The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
- The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
- A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
- a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
- a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
- horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
verb
noun
- A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
- (chiefly Europe, technology) An RCA connector.
- (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
- (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
- (informal) A firm hold.
- (card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps
- stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place
noun
- An act of specifying.
- An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
- a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
- a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement
- (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention
- naming explicitly
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To guarantee.
- To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.
- (dialectal) To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
- (Christianity) To form a sacred commitment.
- (Mormonism) To bind eternally as family members.
- (transitive) To place in a sealed container.
- (cooking, transitive) To fry (meat) at a high temperature to retain the juices.
- (transitive) To place a seal on (a document).
- To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.
- (intransitive) To hunt seals.
- To close by means of a seal.
- (transitive) To close securely to prevent leakage.
- (transitive, chess) To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.
- (transitive) To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
- (transitive) To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
- affix a seal to
- cover with varnish
- hunt seals
- make tight; secure against leakage
- close with or as if with a seal
- decide irrevocably
noun
- Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.
- A facsimile of an impression of such stamp that is a mark or symbol of an office or organisation.
- (figurative) Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.
- Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.
- A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
- A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
- Anything that secures or authenticates.
- A chakra.
- An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
- A tight closure, secure against leakage.
- a finishing coat applied to exclude moisture
- a stamp affixed to a document (as to attest to its authenticity or to seal it)
- fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
- any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions
- a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents
- the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal
- an indication of approved or superior status
- fastener that provides a tight and perfect closure
adj
- Explicit or definite.
- (physics) Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).
- (immunology) Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- (physics) Similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- (physics) A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air).
- (sometimes in combination) Special, distinctive or unique.
- (bioscience, taxonomy) Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- stated explicitly or in detail
- being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides
- relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
noun
adj
noun
adj
- supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement
- precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause
- not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex
- Distinct, clearly defined.
- Conclusive; decisive; positive.
- (biology) Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
- Fixed, determined, set, unvarying.
- Of determined purpose; resolute.
noun
verb
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- (intransitive) To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
noun
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Alternative spelling of musth.
- grape juice before or during fermentation
- a necessary or essential thing
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
adj
verb
- (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
- (often passive voice) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.
- (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
- (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
- (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
- (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
- come to a close
- bring to a close
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
- reach agreement on
adj
noun
- (programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
- (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
verb
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
noun
- A firm decision or an official decision.
- A strong will; the state of being resolute.
- A statement of intent, a vow.
- (narratology) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- (mathematics) The act or process of resolving: solving.
- (homological algebra, of a given module (or, generally, object in an abelian category) M) An exact sequence of modules (or, objects in the same category as M) either terminating in M or such that M is the homology at degree zero. See Resolution (algebra).
- (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
- (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- The act of discerning detail.
- (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- the trait of being resolute
- analysis into clear-cut components
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- finding a solution to a problem
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
adj
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To conclude; to finalize; to put the finishing touches (on).
- (US, military, slang, transitive, ergative) To seal off (a military vehicle or facility).
- (intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
- Alternative form of button up one's lip.
- (transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
verb
- indicate a decision in regard to
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- make a stop in a harbour
- consider or regard as being
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- order, request, or command to come
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- present for redemption before maturation
- utter a sudden loud cry
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- pay a brief visit
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- demand payment of (a loan)
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- order or request or give a command for
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- (transitive) To declare in advance.
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To scold.
- (transitive) To predict.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To stop at a station or port.
- (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
- (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
- (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
- (passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
- (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- (billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- (transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- (intransitive) To cry or shout.
- (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
noun
- a demand
- a brief social visit
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a request
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- (finance) Ellipsis of call option.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
- A decision or judgement.
- (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A cry or shout.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
adj
- Decided; definite; incontrovertible.
- Marked by promptness and decision.
- Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
- determining or having the power to determine an outcome
- unmistakable
- characterized by decision and firmness
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
noun
- (figurative) A decision point.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
verb
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
adj
- expressing finality with no implication of possible change
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- not limited by law
- perfect or complete or pure
- not capable of being violated or infringed
- Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
- Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
- (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
- (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
- (law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
- Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
- (of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
- Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
- (mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
- (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
- Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
- (especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
- (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
- Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
- Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
- Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
- (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
- (of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
- (mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
- (of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
- (of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
- (very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
noun
- something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative
- That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
- (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
- (chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
- (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.
noun
noun
noun
- A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out.
- That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
- (law, finance) A sum withheld from an employee's pay for the purpose of paying tax.
- A sum that can be removed in tax calculations, usually from the taxable amount; something that is written off.
- The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
- a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
- an amount or percentage deducted
noun
verb
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- learn or discover with certainty
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- (transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- place into check
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- slow the growth or development of
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey
- hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution
- block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey
- consign for shipment on a vehicle
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- stop in a chase especially when scent is lost
- make an examination or investigation
- verify by consulting a source or authority
- make cracks or chinks in
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- be verified or confirmed; pass inspection
- write out a check on a bank account
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
- decline to initiate betting
- arrest the motion (of something) abruptly
- (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- (intransitive) To check out, make sense or prove to be the case after verification or interrogation.
- (transitive) To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- (transitive) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- (informal, transitive) To scold or rebuke someone.
- (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.
- (poker, transitive) To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- (transitive) To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- (intransitive, with at) To make a stop; to pause.
- (transitive) To control, limit, or halt.
- (street basketball, transitive) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- (chess, transitive) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- (transitive, US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- (transitive) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- (sports, transitive) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- (transitive) To verify or compare with a source of information.
- (transitive) To leave in safekeeping.
- (transitive) To inspect; to examine.
noun
- a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard)
- obstructing an opponent in ice hockey
- the act of inspecting or verifying
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- the bill in a restaurant
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- a written order directing a bank to pay money
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- An inspection or examination.
- (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A small chink or crack.
- (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A token used instead of cash in various contexts, including sign-out of company property or collection of rations (dated), in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
- (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
adj
intj
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- handle and cause to function
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
noun
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- power to direct or determine
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A control group or control experiment.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
noun
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
intj
verb
- (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
- (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- (transitive) To point out.
- (transitive) To meet with; to receive.
- (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
- (ditransitive) To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider.
- (transitive, ball games) To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
- (ditransitive) To locate on behalf of another.
- obtain through effort or management
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- make a discovery, make a new finding
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- get or find back; recover the use of
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- decide on and make a declaration about
noun
noun
- The act or process of making or becoming clear.
- An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
- (British, education) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
- (telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
- (banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
- (soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
- An open space in the fog etc.
- the act of freeing from suspicion
- the act of removing solid particles from a liquid
- a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
verb
noun
- An act of specifying.
- An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
- a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
- a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement
- (patent law) a document drawn up by the applicant for a patent of invention that provides an explicit and detailed description of the nature and use of an invention
- naming explicitly
noun
- A firm decision or an official decision.
- A strong will; the state of being resolute.
- A statement of intent, a vow.
- (narratology) The moment in which the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear.
- (mathematics) The act or process of resolving: solving.
- (homological algebra, of a given module (or, generally, object in an abelian category) M) An exact sequence of modules (or, objects in the same category as M) either terminating in M or such that M is the homology at degree zero. See Resolution (algebra).
- (medicine) In a pathological process, the phase during which pathogens and damaged tissues are removed by macrophages.
- (computing) The number of pixels in an image being stored or displayed.
- (sciences) The separation of the constituent parts (of a spectrum etc).
- The act of discerning detail.
- (music) Progression from dissonance to consonance; a chord to which such progression is made.
- (computing) The process of determining the meaning of a symbol or address; the process of executing a link to it.
- A formal statement adopted by an assembly, or during any other formal meeting.
- (sciences) The degree of fineness of such a separation.
- (computing, photography) The degree of fineness with which an image can be recorded or produced, often expressed as the number of pixels per unit of length (typically an inch).
- the trait of being resolute
- analysis into clear-cut components
- the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung)
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner
- a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote
- (music) a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord
- (computer science) the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture
- finding a solution to a problem
- the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making
noun
- (figurative) A decision point.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
verb
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
noun
noun
noun
- A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out.
- That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
- (law, finance) A sum withheld from an employee's pay for the purpose of paying tax.
- A sum that can be removed in tax calculations, usually from the taxable amount; something that is written off.
- The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
- a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
- an amount or percentage deducted
noun
verb
verb
noun
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
- (specifically) A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty.
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults
- an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
noun
- The act or process of making or becoming clear.
- An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
- (British, education) The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
- (telecommunications) A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
- (banking, finance) A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
- (soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
- An open space in the fog etc.
- the act of freeing from suspicion
- the act of removing solid particles from a liquid
- a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
verb
verb
- To make certain; to finalize.
- To secure a spot (e.g., at the divisional championship) before the end of regular season play by having an insurmountable lead.
- To embrace passionately.
- To hold firmly; to clench
- To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
- To set closely together; to close tightly.
- To clasp; to interlock.
- To hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to avoid being hit while resting momentarily
- To fasten securely or permanently.
- secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts
- embrace amorously
- flatten the ends (of nails and rivets)
- hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches
- settle conclusively
- hold in a tight grasp
noun
- (wrestling, combat sports) The act of one or both fighters holding onto the other to prevent being hit or engage in standup grappling.
- The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast.
- The act of bending and hammering the point of a nail so it cannot be removed.
- (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
- A passionate embrace.
- Any of several fastenings.
- a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together
- the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet
- a tight or amorous embrace
- (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily
- a small slip noose made with seizing
verb
noun
- The person to whom a guarantee is made.
- (colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
- Anything that assures a certain outcome.
- (specifically) A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty.
- A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
- a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults
- an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
verb
- make certain of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- make a promise or commitment
- inform positively and with certainty and confidence
- assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence
- (transitive) To reassure.
- (transitive) To make sure and secure; ensure.
- (transitive) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something). [with that; or with of]
verb
- make certain of
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- protect by insurance
- take out insurance for
- (transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
- (intransitive) To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
verb
- make certain of
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
- assure payment of
- cause to be firmly attached
- get by special effort
- furnish with battens
- To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
- To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
adj
- Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- financially safe
- free from fear or doubt; easy in mind
- free from danger or risk
- not likely to fail or give way
- Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- Free from attack or danger; protected.
- Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
- Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
verb
- (transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
- (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
- (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
- (intransitive) To drive a nail.
- (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
- (slang) To catch.
- (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
- (military) To spike, as a cannon.
- succeed in obtaining a position
- succeed at easily
- hit with great force
- take into custody
- attach something somewhere by means of nails
- locate exactly
- complete a pass
noun
- The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
- The claw of a bird or other animal.
- An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
- The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
- The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
- A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
- a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
- a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
- horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
verb
noun
- A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.
- (chiefly Europe, technology) An RCA connector.
- (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
- (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
- (informal) A firm hold.
- (card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps
- stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place
verb
- (transitive) To guarantee.
- To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.
- (dialectal) To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
- (Christianity) To form a sacred commitment.
- (Mormonism) To bind eternally as family members.
- (transitive) To place in a sealed container.
- (cooking, transitive) To fry (meat) at a high temperature to retain the juices.
- (transitive) To place a seal on (a document).
- To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.
- (intransitive) To hunt seals.
- To close by means of a seal.
- (transitive) To close securely to prevent leakage.
- (transitive, chess) To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.
- (transitive) To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
- (transitive) To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
- affix a seal to
- cover with varnish
- hunt seals
- make tight; secure against leakage
- close with or as if with a seal
- decide irrevocably
noun
- Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.
- A facsimile of an impression of such stamp that is a mark or symbol of an office or organisation.
- (figurative) Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.
- Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.
- A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
- A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
- Anything that secures or authenticates.
- A chakra.
- An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
- A tight closure, secure against leakage.
- a finishing coat applied to exclude moisture
- a stamp affixed to a document (as to attest to its authenticity or to seal it)
- fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
- any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions
- a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents
- the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal
- an indication of approved or superior status
- fastener that provides a tight and perfect closure
verb
- To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
- (intransitive) To become musty.
- Used to indicate that something is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
- (transitive) To make musty.
- To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
noun
- Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
- Something that is mandatory, required or recommended.
- Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
- The property of being stale or musty.
- Alternative spelling of musth.
- grape juice before or during fermentation
- a necessary or essential thing
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
adj
verb
- (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
- (often passive voice) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.
- (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
- (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
- (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
- (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
- come to a close
- bring to a close
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
- reach agreement on
verb
- (ambitransitive) To conclude; to finalize; to put the finishing touches (on).
- (US, military, slang, transitive, ergative) To seal off (a military vehicle or facility).
- (intransitive) To fasten all the buttons on a coat, or similar item of clothing, to keep warm.
- Alternative form of button up one's lip.
- (transitive) To fasten with a button or buttons.
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
verb
- indicate a decision in regard to
- lure by imitating the characteristic call of an animal
- make a stop in a harbour
- consider or regard as being
- send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc.; make a signal to in order to transmit a message
- give the calls (to the dancers) for a square dance
- order, request, or command to come
- assign a specified (usually proper) name to
- present for redemption before maturation
- utter a sudden loud cry
- make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands
- pay a brief visit
- utter a characteristic note or cry
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense
- rouse somebody from sleep with a call
- challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of
- order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
- call a meeting; invite or command to meet
- read aloud to check for omissions or absentees
- ascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality
- demand payment of (a loan)
- greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
- utter in a loud voice or announce
- declare in the capacity of an umpire or referee
- order or request or give a command for
- make a prediction about; tell in advance
- stop or postpone because of adverse conditions, such as bad weather
- (transitive) To declare in advance.
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- (transitive, with into) To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To scold.
- (transitive) To predict.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- (baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To stop at a station or port.
- (transitive) To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- (ambitransitive) To contact by telephone.
- (intransitive) To request, summon, or beckon.
- (intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- (cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- (intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program); to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
- (passive voice) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
- (ditransitive) To name or refer to.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- (sports) To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
- (billiards) To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- (transitive, jazz) To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- (transitive) To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- (transitive) To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- (intransitive) To cry or shout.
- (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
noun
- a demand
- a brief social visit
- a demand for a show of hands in a card game
- (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee
- a visit in an official or professional capacity
- a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring their margin up to the minimum requirement
- a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- the characteristic sound produced by a bird
- a request
- a method of contacting a person by phone
- the option to buy a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
- an instruction that interrupts the program being executed
- (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- (finance) Ellipsis of call option.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
- A decision or judgement.
- (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A cry or shout.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- (uncountable) A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- (informal, slang, prostitution) A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- (law) A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- learn or discover with certainty
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- (transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- place into check
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- slow the growth or development of
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey
- hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution
- block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey
- consign for shipment on a vehicle
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- stop in a chase especially when scent is lost
- make an examination or investigation
- verify by consulting a source or authority
- make cracks or chinks in
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- be verified or confirmed; pass inspection
- write out a check on a bank account
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
- decline to initiate betting
- arrest the motion (of something) abruptly
- (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- (intransitive) To check out, make sense or prove to be the case after verification or interrogation.
- (transitive) To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- (transitive) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- (informal, transitive) To scold or rebuke someone.
- (transitive) To mark with a check pattern.
- (poker, transitive) To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- (transitive) To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- (intransitive, with at) To make a stop; to pause.
- (transitive) To control, limit, or halt.
- (street basketball, transitive) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- (chess, transitive) To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- (transitive, US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- (transitive) To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- (sports, transitive) To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- (transitive) To verify or compare with a source of information.
- (transitive) To leave in safekeeping.
- (transitive) To inspect; to examine.
noun
- a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard)
- obstructing an opponent in ice hockey
- the act of inspecting or verifying
- a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something
- the bill in a restaurant
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- a written order directing a bank to pay money
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- An inspection or examination.
- (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds. [from 15th c.]
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A small chink or crack.
- (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A token used instead of cash in various contexts, including sign-out of company property or collection of rations (dated), in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
- (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
adj
intj
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- exercise authoritative control or power over
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage
- verify by using a duplicate register for comparison
- handle and cause to function
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
- (transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.
- (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.
noun
- (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
- power to direct or determine
- the activity of managing or exerting control over something
- the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.
- a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another
- great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity
- a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine
- a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment
- a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
- discipline in personal and social activities
- (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.
- A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
- (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.
- (countable, uncountable) An influence or authority over something.
- A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.
- (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.
- (cycling, countable) A checkpoint along an audax route.
- A control group or control experiment.
- The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.
- (parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.
- Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
- (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box.
verb
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
noun
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
intj
verb
- (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
- (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
- (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment directed to an object or end.
- (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
- (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
- (transitive) To point out.
- (transitive) To meet with; to receive.
- (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
- (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
- (ditransitive) To decide that, to conclude that, to form the opinion that, to consider.
- (transitive, ball games) To successfully pass to or shoot the ball into.
- (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
- (ditransitive) To locate on behalf of another.
- obtain through effort or management
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- make a discovery, make a new finding
- discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
- get or find back; recover the use of
- get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
- perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
- succeed in reaching; arrive at
- come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
- come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- come upon, as if by accident; meet with
- decide on and make a declaration about
noun
adj
noun
adj
- Explicit or definite.
- (physics) Of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy).
- (immunology) Limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
- (physics) Similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
- (physics) A measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air).
- (sometimes in combination) Special, distinctive or unique.
- (bioscience, taxonomy) Pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
- intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
- Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
- Being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
- stated explicitly or in detail
- being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides
- relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
noun
adj
noun
adj
- supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement
- precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause
- not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex
- Distinct, clearly defined.
- Conclusive; decisive; positive.
- (biology) Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
- Fixed, determined, set, unvarying.
- Of determined purpose; resolute.
noun
adj
noun
- (programming) An operator, expression, or function that returns either true or false.
- (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.
- (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.
- (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula
- one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements
verb
- (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
- (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
- (transitive, originally US) To base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
- (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
- involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic
- make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition
- affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of
adj
noun
verb
- make certain of
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
- assure payment of
- cause to be firmly attached
- get by special effort
- furnish with battens
- To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
- To fix in place; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
- To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
- To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of.
adj
- Certain to be achieved or gained; assured.
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- financially safe
- free from fear or doubt; easy in mind
- free from danger or risk
- not likely to fail or give way
- Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
- Free from attack or danger; protected.
- Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
- Free from the danger of theft; safe.
- Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
- Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
- Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of.
adj
- Decided; definite; incontrovertible.
- Marked by promptness and decision.
- Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.
- determining or having the power to determine an outcome
- unmistakable
- characterized by decision and firmness
- forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis
adj
- expressing finality with no implication of possible change
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- not limited by law
- perfect or complete or pure
- not capable of being violated or infringed
- Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.
- Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.
- (of a case form) Syntactically connected to the rest of the sentence in an atypical manner, or not relating to or depending on it, like in the nominative absolute or genitive absolute, accusative absolute or ablative absolute.
- (art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
- (law, postpositive, formal) Indicating that a tenure or estate in land is not conditional or liable to terminate on (strictly) any occurrence or (sometimes contextually) certain kinds of occurrence.
- Relating to the absolute temperature scale (based on absolute zero); kelvin.
- (of an adjective form) Positive; not graded (not comparative or superlative).
- Having reference to or derived in the simplest manner from the fundamental units of mass, time, and length.
- (mathematics) As measured using an absolute value.
- (physics) Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.
- Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.
- (especially philosophy) Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.
- (of an adjective or possessive pronoun) Lacking a modified substantive, like "hungry" in "feed the hungry".
- Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.
- Unrestricted by laws, a constitution, or parliamentary or judicial or other checks; (legally) unlimited in power, especially if despotic.
- Characteristic of an absolutist ruler: domineering, peremptory.
- (education) Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.
- (of a comparative or superlative) Expressing a relative term without a definite comparison, like "older" in "an older person should be treated with respect".
- (mathematics) Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.
- (of a usually transitive verb) Having no direct object, like "kill" in "if looks could kill".
- (of Celtic languages) Being or pertaining to an inflected verb that is not preceded by any number of particles or compounded with a preverb.
- (very occasionally postpositive) Positive, certain; unquestionable; not in doubt.
noun
- something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative
- That which exists (or has a certain property, nature, size, etc) independent of references to other standards or external conditions; that which is universally valid; that which is not relative, conditional, qualified or mitigated.
- (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.
- (chemistry) A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.
- (geometry) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
- (philosophy, usually capitalized, usually preceded by "the") The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced; the unity of spirit and nature; God.