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- (ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
- (ambitransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.
- (transitive, property law) To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (British, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
- fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
- beat through cleverness and wit
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- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
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- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
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- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
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- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
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- To exceed or surpass (someone, such as a peer or rival); to outdo, to outstrip.
- To keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person or people.
- To leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction; specifically, other competitors in a race) some distance away; to outpace, to outstrip.
- (figurative) To keep oneself emotionally or socially apart from another person or people; to keep one's distance.
- Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance (noun noun sense 1.1) from someone or something else.
- To cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or (figurative) unfamiliar.
- To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.
- (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not want to be associated with that person or thing.
- go far ahead of
- keep at a distance
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- (horse racing) Originally, the space measured back from the winning post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in a subsequent heat; also, the point on the racecourse that space away from the winning post; now, the point on a racecourse 240 yards from the winning post.
- Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.
- An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (figurative) A separation in some way other than space or time.
- The maximum amount of space between a boxer and their opponent within which the boxer can punch effectively.
- (horse racing) Chiefly in by a distance: a space of more than 30 lengths (about 80 yards or 7.3 metres) between two racehorses finishing a race, used to describe the margin of victory; also (archaic), any space of 240 yards (about 219.5 metres) on a racecourse.
- Chiefly in from a distance: a place which is far away or remote; specifically (especially painting), a more remote part of a landscape or view as contrasted with the foreground.
- The state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time.
- Often in go the distance, last the distance, or stay the distance: the scheduled duration of a bout.
- The state of people not being close, friendly, or intimate with each other; also, the state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other no longer being so; estrangement.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- (military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.
- An interval or length of time between events.
- The state of being separated from something else, especially by a long way; the state of being far off or remote; farness, remoteness.
- Excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness.
- (sports) The complete length of a course over which a race is run.
- Chiefly with a modifying word: a measure between two points or quantities; a difference, a variance.
- The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (fencing) The amount of space between a fencer and their opponent, which the fencer tries to control in order to gain an advantage over the opponent.
- a remote point in time
- the interval between two times
- indifference by personal withdrawal
- size of the gap between two places
- a distant region
- the property created by the space between two objects or points
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- (countable) The amount by which something goes too far.
- (countable, uncountable, typography, design) The portion of a letter extending above the capline of other letters of the same font, or the relative degree of such extent.
- (countable, uncountable, ecology) The situation where the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
- an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
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- comparative form of well: more well
- Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
- Greater in amount or quantity
- comparative form of good: more good
- Healed or recovered from an injury or illness.
- (comparative of ‘good’) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
- more than half
- (comparative of ‘good’) changed for the better in health or fitness
- (comparative and superlative of ‘well’) wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
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- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- being or having the nature of a god
- resulting from divine providence
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
- appropriate to or befitting a god
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
- emanating from God
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- (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- To render divine; to deify.
- search by divining, as if with a rod
- perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
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- (auxiliary) Used concessively to admit something before making a more accurate or important statement; although
- (auxiliary) Used in polite requests for permission.
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions; would perhaps/maybe.
- (auxiliary, UK, meiosis) Used to express certainty.
- (auxiliary) simple past of may
- Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
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- (uncountable) Extraordinary mental capacity.
- (countable) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
- (uncountable) Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
- (countable, Roman mythology, also figuratively) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
- unusual mental ability
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
- exceptional creative ability
- a natural talent
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- Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
- (philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
- (algebra, field theory, of an extension field) That contains elements that are not algebraic.
- Mystical or supernatural.
- (algebra, number theory, field theory, of a number or an element of an extension field) Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
- of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
- existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
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- (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
- (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- To blow a trumpet.
- (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To fart.
- (transitive) To supersede.
- (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- play a trump
- get the better of
- produce a sound as if from a trumpet
- proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare
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- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
- (UK, colloquial) A fart.
- (card games) A playing card of that suit.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand
- a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
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- (countable) The act of surpassing usual limits.
- the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- (uncountable) The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
- Superior excellence; supereminence.
- (mathematics) The property of being a transcendental number.
- (uncountable) The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
- a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
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- the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- displaying a sense of being better than others
- the quality of being superior
- the quality of being at a competitive advantage
- (Scots law, historical) The right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal.
- The state of being superior.
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- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
- colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies
- a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar
- (chiefly US) A painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a brightly-coloured finch native to North America.
- (uncountable, typography, chiefly historical) A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.
- (countable) A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
- (by extension) A small, flat chocolate drop covered with such pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
- The blue underwing or Clifden nonpareil (Catocala fraxini), a species of moth distributed across the Palearctic; also (obsolete) any of a number of moths of other species.
- (by extension) A caper (“pickled edible flower bud”) of the smallest size.
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- eminent beyond or above comparison
- (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
- being a single entity made by combining separate components
- indefinite in time or position
- of the same kind or quality
- used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
- having the indivisible character of a unit
- Sole, only.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
- In agreement.
- Whole, entire.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- The same.
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- a single person or thing
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
- (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- (US) A one-dollar bill.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !, used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The digit or figure 1.
- (followed by for) A person with a tendency to do something.
- (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- An alcoholic drink, especially a pint or can of beer.
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- (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
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- A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
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- (Singlish, less common) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
- (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
- (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
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- (uncountable) Excessive or superior power.
- (countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
- (mathematics) A tetration.
- (countable, originally fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
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- (slang, uncountable) Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
- (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- (physics) A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
- (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
- (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- a state of change
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
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- Surpassing in number or quantity; more than.
- Physically over; on top of; worn on top of, said of clothing.
- (figuratively) Higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; higher in measure, degree, volume, or pitch, etc. than; out of reach; not exposed to; not likely to be affected by; incapable of negative actions or thoughts.
- Rising; appearing out of reach height-wise.
- Too proud to stoop to; averse to; disinclined towards;
- In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface.
- Higher in rank, status, or position.
- Farther north than.
- (Scotland) In addition to; besides.
- (theater) Upstage of.
- Beyond; on the other side.
- In preference to.
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- Higher in rank, power, or position.
- (biology) On the upper half or the dorsal surface of an animal.
- Into or from heaven; in the sky.
- In a higher place; upstairs; farther upstream.
- Above zero; above freezing.
- Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.
- Directly overhead; vertically on top of.
- More in number.
- (in writing) at an earlier place
- in or to a place that is higher
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- (uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
- The legal wherewithal to act.
- (uncountable) A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
- (now limited to Scotland dialects) Physical power.
- (countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
- the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
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- (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
- (transitive) To be better than (something).
- (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
- (intransitive) To predominate.
- be superior or better than some standard
- be greater in scope or size than some standard
- be or do something to a greater degree
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- (auxiliary) Used concessively to admit something before making a more accurate or important statement; although
- (auxiliary) Used in polite requests for permission.
- (auxiliary) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions; would perhaps/maybe.
- (auxiliary, UK, meiosis) Used to express certainty.
- (auxiliary) simple past of may
- Used to indicate a desired past action that was not done.
noun
- (uncountable) Extraordinary mental capacity.
- (countable) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
- (uncountable) Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
- (countable, Roman mythology, also figuratively) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
- unusual mental ability
- someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
- exceptional creative ability
- a natural talent
adj
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- (countable) The act of surpassing usual limits.
- the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- (uncountable) The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
- Superior excellence; supereminence.
- (mathematics) The property of being a transcendental number.
- (uncountable) The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
- a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience
noun
- the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits
- displaying a sense of being better than others
- the quality of being superior
- the quality of being at a competitive advantage
- (Scots law, historical) The right which the superior enjoys in the land held by the vassal.
- The state of being superior.
noun
- (uncountable) Excessive or superior power.
- (countable) A sovereign state with dominant status on the globe and a very advanced military, especially the United States or formerly the Soviet Union.
- (mathematics) A tetration.
- (countable, originally fiction) An extraordinary physical or mental ability, especially possessed by a superhero or supervillain.
- a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
verb
noun
- (slang, uncountable) Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
- (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- (physics) A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
- (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
- (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- a state of change
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power.
- The legal wherewithal to act.
- (uncountable) A unique power of the mind; a faculty.
- (now limited to Scotland dialects) Physical power.
- (countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude.
- possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done
- the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
verb
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability; to overextend.
- (ambitransitive, reflexive, equestrianism) Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot.
- (transitive, property law) To defeat or override a person's interest in property; (British, specifically) of a holder of the legal title of real property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a third party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
- fail by aiming too high or trying too hard
- beat through cleverness and wit
noun
verb
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
adj
verb
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- cut the top off
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
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adv
noun
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
verb
- To exceed or surpass (someone, such as a peer or rival); to outdo, to outstrip.
- To keep (someone) emotionally or socially apart from another person or people.
- To leave behind (someone or something moving in the same direction; specifically, other competitors in a race) some distance away; to outpace, to outstrip.
- (figurative) To keep oneself emotionally or socially apart from another person or people; to keep one's distance.
- Often followed by from: to set (someone or something) at a distance (noun noun sense 1.1) from someone or something else.
- To cause (a place, a thing, etc.) to seem distant, or (figurative) unfamiliar.
- To set oneself at a distance from someone or something else; to move away from someone or something.
- (reflexive) To keep (oneself) away from someone or something, especially because one does not want to be associated with that person or thing.
- go far ahead of
- keep at a distance
noun
- (horse racing) Originally, the space measured back from the winning post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in a subsequent heat; also, the point on the racecourse that space away from the winning post; now, the point on a racecourse 240 yards from the winning post.
- Chiefly preceded by the, especially in into or in the distance: the place that is far away or remote.
- An amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (figurative) A separation in some way other than space or time.
- The maximum amount of space between a boxer and their opponent within which the boxer can punch effectively.
- (horse racing) Chiefly in by a distance: a space of more than 30 lengths (about 80 yards or 7.3 metres) between two racehorses finishing a race, used to describe the margin of victory; also (archaic), any space of 240 yards (about 219.5 metres) on a racecourse.
- Chiefly in from a distance: a place which is far away or remote; specifically (especially painting), a more remote part of a landscape or view as contrasted with the foreground.
- The state of remoteness or separation in some way other than space or time.
- Often in go the distance, last the distance, or stay the distance: the scheduled duration of a bout.
- The state of people not being close, friendly, or intimate with each other; also, the state of people who were once close, friendly, or intimate with each other no longer being so; estrangement.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- (military) The amount of space between soldiers or cavalry riders marching or standing in a rank; also, the amount of space between such ranks.
- An interval or length of time between events.
- The state of being separated from something else, especially by a long way; the state of being far off or remote; farness, remoteness.
- Excessive reserve or lack of friendliness shown by a person; aloofness, coldness.
- (sports) The complete length of a course over which a race is run.
- Chiefly with a modifying word: a measure between two points or quantities; a difference, a variance.
- The amount of space between points (often geographical points), usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- (fencing) The amount of space between a fencer and their opponent, which the fencer tries to control in order to gain an advantage over the opponent.
- a remote point in time
- the interval between two times
- indifference by personal withdrawal
- size of the gap between two places
- a distant region
- the property created by the space between two objects or points
verb
noun
- (countable) The amount by which something goes too far.
- (countable, uncountable, typography, design) The portion of a letter extending above the capline of other letters of the same font, or the relative degree of such extent.
- (countable, uncountable, ecology) The situation where the population of a species exceeds its environment's carrying capacity.
- an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
verb
adj
- comparative form of well: more well
- Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
- Greater in amount or quantity
- comparative form of good: more good
- Healed or recovered from an injury or illness.
- (comparative of ‘good’) superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
- more than half
- (comparative of ‘good’) changed for the better in health or fitness
- (comparative and superlative of ‘well’) wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
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verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
- (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- To blow a trumpet.
- (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To fart.
- (transitive) To supersede.
- (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- play a trump
- get the better of
- produce a sound as if from a trumpet
- proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare
noun
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
- (UK, colloquial) A fart.
- (card games) A playing card of that suit.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand
- a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
- (transitive) To be better than (something).
- (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
- (intransitive) To predominate.
- be superior or better than some standard
- be greater in scope or size than some standard
- be or do something to a greater degree
adj
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- being or having the nature of a god
- resulting from divine providence
- being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods
- appropriate to or befitting a god
- devoted to or in the service or worship of a deity
- emanating from God
noun
verb
- (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- To render divine; to deify.
- search by divining, as if with a rod
- perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers
adj
- Superior; surpassing all others; extraordinary; transcendent.
- (philosophy) Concerned with the a priori or intuitive basis of knowledge, independent of experience.
- (algebra, field theory, of an extension field) That contains elements that are not algebraic.
- Mystical or supernatural.
- (algebra, number theory, field theory, of a number or an element of an extension field) Not algebraic (i.e., not the root of any polynomial that has positive degree and rational coefficients).
- of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
- existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
noun
adj
noun
- model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
- colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies
- a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar
- (chiefly US) A painted bunting (Passerina ciris), a brightly-coloured finch native to North America.
- (uncountable, typography, chiefly historical) A size of type between ruby and emerald (or, in the United States, between agate and minion), standardized as 6-point; (countable) a slug of this size.
- (countable) A person or thing that has no equal; a paragon.
- (by extension) A small, flat chocolate drop covered with such pellets of sugar, similar to a comfit.
- The blue underwing or Clifden nonpareil (Catocala fraxini), a species of moth distributed across the Palearctic; also (obsolete) any of a number of moths of other species.
- (by extension) A caper (“pickled edible flower bud”) of the smallest size.
adj
- eminent beyond or above comparison
- (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier
- being a single entity made by combining separate components
- indefinite in time or position
- of the same kind or quality
- used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
- having the indivisible character of a unit
- Sole, only.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
- In agreement.
- Whole, entire.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- The same.
noun
- a single person or thing
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- A person or thing (having some specified characteristic or attribute).
- (cricket) One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- (colloquial) A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- (US) A one-dollar bill.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- (Internet slang, leetspeak, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !, used to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- The digit or figure 1.
- (followed by for) A person with a tendency to do something.
- (mathematics) The identity element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- An alcoholic drink, especially a pint or can of beer.
det
num
- (set theory) The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- (number theory) The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- (mathematics) The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
particle
- A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the likelihood of something occurring, as a characteristic of something else.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
pron
- (Singlish, less common) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- (impersonal pronoun, sometimes with "the") The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- (indefinite personal pronoun) Any person (applying to people in general).
- (pronoun) Any person, entity or thing.
- (impersonal pronoun, indefinite) One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.