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- an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- a short musical passage
- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
- A short written or spoken expression.
- (grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.
- (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
- characterized by expression
- performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion
- (linguistics) Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
- Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
- (programming) Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
- (linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
- (linguistics, more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.
- the product of three equal terms
- any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone
- a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
- (informal, automotive) Clipping of cubic inch(es).
- (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
- (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
- A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
- (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
- Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
- (algebra) A polynomial with two terms.
- (taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
- (algebra) A quantity expressed as the sum or difference of two terms.
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms
- (mathematics, not comparable) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
- (computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
- drawing upon itself, referring back.
- (computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)
- (computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself
- of or relating to a recursion
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (by extension) A set of three related things, often things that cause problems.
- (US politics) The complete legislative and executive control of state or federal government by one party: governorship, the upper house, and the lower house of state or federal legislatures.
- (figurative) The attainment of three important achievements, qualities, etc.
- (gambling) A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.
- The testing of a product or procedure.
- (grammar) The trial number.
- (ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
- (law) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
- An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
- (medicine, sciences, research) A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
- A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
- An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
- (UK) An internal examination set by Eton College.
- an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
- (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications
- the act of testing something
- the act of undergoing testing
- trying something to find out about it
- (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law
- the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
- (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
- (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
- composed of more than one member, set, or kind
- grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
- (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
- Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
- (comparable) Pluralistic.
- (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
- define
- make plain and comprehensible
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
- (transitive) To give the reason for, justification for, or cause of.
- (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
- (transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
- Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- A member of a primitive society.
- (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
- Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
- Crude, obsolete.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- Synonym of expressive.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- (phonetics) Synonym of vocalic.
- (music) Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Full of voices.
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- (anatomy) Used in the production of speech sounds.
- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
- full of the sound of voices
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound
- (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
- (music) A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- (acting) A musical performance involving singing.
- (Catholicism) A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
- a short musical composition with words
- music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
- The study of synonyms.
- A system of synonyms.
- A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
- (semantics) A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.)
- (taxonomy, by extension) A group or list of synonyms.
- (taxonomy) The state of not being the name to be used, of being a synonym.
- (rhetoric) The use of synonyms to clarify or explain one's meaning.
- the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning
- (arithmetic) Having three variables.
- (programming) Of an operator taking three operands.
- (arithmetic) To the base three.
- Arranged in groups of three.
- Made up of three things.
- (chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule.
- having three units or components or elements
- A product of defining.
- Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction.
- (programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
- (mathematics) A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation.
- (crosswording) The part of a cryptic clue which defines but does not indicate the solution.
- Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail.
- (usually with the definite article the) A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition.
- (bodybuilding) The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body.
- The act of defining; determination of the limits.
- Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits.
- The action or process of defining.
- A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation
- (semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition.
- The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
- clarity of outline
- a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol
- (baseball) A three-base hit.
- (mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
- (cricket) Three runs.
- (basketball) A three-point field goal.
- (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
- (firefighting) Short for triple combination engine.
- Three times or thrice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
- (US) A hamburger with three patties.
- a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base
- a quantity that is three times as great as another
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
- A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (semantics, lexicography) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
- a natural appreciation or ability
- sound practical judgment
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a general conscious awareness
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- an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- a short musical passage
- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- (music) A small section of music in a larger piece.
- A short written or spoken expression.
- (grammar) A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.
- (dance) A short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.
- the product of three equal terms
- any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone
- a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces
- (informal, automotive) Clipping of cubic inch(es).
- (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
- (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
- A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube.
- (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube.
- Any object more or less in the form of a cube.
- A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
- (mathematics) The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- By faulty generalisation from a clause's grammatical subject often being coinstantiated with one: an actor or agent; one who takes action.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- (grammar) The noun, pronoun or noun phrase about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject is the actor. In clauses in the passive voice the subject is the target of the action.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- A human, animal, or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc; especially, one being studied in a scientific experiment, such as a clinical trial.
- (music) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- (logic) That of which something is stated.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- (philosophy) A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- some situation or event that is thought about
- the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- (logic) the first term of a proposition
- a person who owes allegiance to that nation
- (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation
- a branch of knowledge
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something; liable.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- likely to be affected by something
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- possibly accepting or permitting
- (transitive, construed with to) To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
- (transitive) To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave; to subjugate.
- make subservient; force to submit or subdue
- cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to
- make accountable for
- (by extension) A set of three related things, often things that cause problems.
- (US politics) The complete legislative and executive control of state or federal government by one party: governorship, the upper house, and the lower house of state or federal legislatures.
- (figurative) The attainment of three important achievements, qualities, etc.
- (gambling) A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.
- the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
- (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
- (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
- composed of more than one member, set, or kind
- grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
- (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
- Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
- (comparable) Pluralistic.
- (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
- Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- A member of a primitive society.
- (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
- Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
- Crude, obsolete.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- The study of synonyms.
- A system of synonyms.
- A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
- (semantics) A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.)
- (taxonomy, by extension) A group or list of synonyms.
- (taxonomy) The state of not being the name to be used, of being a synonym.
- (rhetoric) The use of synonyms to clarify or explain one's meaning.
- the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning
- A product of defining.
- Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction.
- (programming) A statement which provides a previous declaration with a value or body of a subroutine (in the case of function).
- (mathematics) A statement that establishes the referent of a term or notation.
- (crosswording) The part of a cryptic clue which defines but does not indicate the solution.
- Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail.
- (usually with the definite article the) A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition.
- (bodybuilding) The degree to which individual muscles are distinct on the body.
- The act of defining; determination of the limits.
- Sharp demarcation of outlines or limits.
- The action or process of defining.
- A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation
- (semantics, lexicography) A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition.
- The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear.
- clarity of outline
- a concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol
- A meaning of a term (word or expression), among its various meanings.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- (semantics, lexicography) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries or definitions for a word in a dictionary.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- (pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- (biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
- a natural appreciation or ability
- sound practical judgment
- the faculty through which the external world is apprehended
- a general conscious awareness
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- define
- make plain and comprehensible
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
- (transitive) To give the reason for, justification for, or cause of.
- (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
- (transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
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- characterized by expression
- performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion
- (linguistics) Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
- Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
- (programming) Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
- (linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
- (linguistics, more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.
- (algebra) A polynomial with two terms.
- (taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
- (algebra) A quantity expressed as the sum or difference of two terms.
- (mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms
- (mathematics, not comparable) of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
- (computing theory, not comparable, of a function) which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
- drawing upon itself, referring back.
- (computing theory, not comparable, of a set) whose characteristic function is recursive (4)
- (computing, not comparable) of a program or function that calls itself
- of or relating to a recursion
- The testing of a product or procedure.
- (grammar) The trial number.
- (ceramics) A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
- (law) A meeting or series of meetings in a court of law at which evidence is presented to a judge (and sometimes a jury) to allow them to decide on a legal matter (especially whether an accused person is guilty of a crime).
- An event in which athletes’ or animals’ abilities are tested as they compete for a place on a team, or to move on to the next level of a championship, for example.
- (medicine, sciences, research) A research study to test the effectiveness and safety of a drug, medical procedure, etc.
- A difficult or annoying experience or person; (especially religion) such an experience seen as a test of faith and piety.
- An occasion on which a person or thing is tested to find out how well they perform or how suitable they are.
- (UK) An internal examination set by Eton College.
- an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
- (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications
- the act of testing something
- the act of undergoing testing
- trying something to find out about it
- (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law
- Synonym of expressive.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the human voice or speech.
- (phonetics) Consisting of, or characterized by, voice, or tone produced in the larynx, which may be modified, either by resonance, as in the case of the vowels, or by obstructive action, as in certain consonants, such as v, l, etc., or by both, as in the nasals m, n, ng.
- Having or exercising the power of producing voice, speech, or sound.
- (phonetics) Synonym of vocalic.
- (music) Relating to, composed or arranged for, or sung by the human voice.
- Full of voices.
- Uttered or modulated by the voice; expressed in words.
- Expressing opinions or feelings freely, loudly, or insistently.
- (anatomy) Used in the production of speech sounds.
- relating to or designed for or using the singing voice
- given to expressing yourself freely or insistently
- full of the sound of voices
- having or using the power to produce speech or sound
- (phonetics) A vocal sound; specifically, a purely vocal element of speech, unmodified except by resonance; a vowel or a diphthong; a tonic element; a tonic.
- (music) A part of a piece of music that is sung.
- (acting) A musical performance involving singing.
- (Catholicism) A man in the Roman Catholic Church who has a right to vote in certain elections.
- a short musical composition with words
- music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment
- (arithmetic) Having three variables.
- (programming) Of an operator taking three operands.
- (arithmetic) To the base three.
- Arranged in groups of three.
- Made up of three things.
- (chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule.
- having three units or components or elements
- (baseball) A three-base hit.
- (mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
- (cricket) Three runs.
- (basketball) A three-point field goal.
- (informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
- (firefighting) Short for triple combination engine.
- Three times or thrice the number, amount, size, etc.
- (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
- (US) A hamburger with three patties.
- a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base
- a quantity that is three times as great as another
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit