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noun
- Development, increase, evolution.
- (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- (music, countable) A chord progression.
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- (exercise) The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- a movement forward
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- a series with a definite pattern of advance
verb
- undergo development or evolution
- work out
- gain through experience
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
- To change, to transform.
- To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
- To change or transform (something).
- Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- (biology) Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
verb
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- change the use of and make available or usable
- work out
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- become technologically advanced
- expand in the form of a series
- happen
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- generate gradually
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- (transitive) To create.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
noun
verb
- increase or develop
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- obtain
- increase (one's body weight)
- win something through one's efforts
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- rise in rate or price
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- derive a benefit from
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- (transitive) To reach.
noun
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- a quantity that is added
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- The thing or things gained.
adj
adv
verb
- increase or develop
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
noun
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
noun
- Process of growth or development.
- The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
- an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something
- (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something
- the act that results in something coming to be
verb
noun
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
verb
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
noun
- a natural consequence of development
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
verb
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
adj
adv
noun
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- something contributing to growth or increase
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- (uncountable, also figurative) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
- (inheritance law, uncountable) Increase of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.
- (uncountable, also figurative) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
- A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
- (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- (property law, uncountable) Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.
- (astrophysics) The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
- (geology) The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
- (countable, chiefly figurative) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
noun
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
- the act of accumulating
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
- (UK, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
verb
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
verb
- develop and grow
- bolster or strengthen
- improve the cleansing action of
- give form to, according to a plan
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- form or accumulate steadily
- make by combining materials and parts
- be engaged in building
- build or establish something abstract
- found or ground
- (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
- (intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
- (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
- (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
noun
- constitution of the human body
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest created by the player.
- (countable) The process or period of constructing a physical object.
- (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A configuration of a character's items or skills created by the player.
noun
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance
- Something which is improved
- (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
- (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
- the act of improving something
- a condition superior to an earlier condition
- a change for the better; progress in development
verb
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- become distinct and acquire a different character
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark as different
- calculate a derivative; take the derivative
- become different during development
- To recognize as different or distinct.
- (transitive, intransitive, often in the passive voice, biology) To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.
- To modify so as to create a difference or distinction.
- (mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
- (mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
- To show or be the difference or distinction between things.
- To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
- (education) To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.
noun
verb
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- devote oneself to a special area of work
- be specific about
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- suit to a special purpose
- (usually derogatory) To be known or notorious for some specialty.
- (intransitive) To become distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
- To focus one's study upon a particular skill, field, topic, or genre.
- (rare, transitive) To specify: to mention specifically.
- To focus one's business upon a particular item or service.
- (biology, transitive) To make distinct or separate due to form or function.
- (transitive) To train (someone) in a specialty.
- (uncommon, transitive) To narrow in scope.
prefix
noun
- growth; increase
- The raising of plants.
- (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
verb
adj
noun
- The growth thus produced.
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- A group of bacteria.
- The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
- (cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
- (archaeology) Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”).
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- (euphemistic) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
- the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
- (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
- the raising of plants or animals
- the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- a particular society at a particular time and place
verb
verb
noun
- a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
- a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
- (countable) That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
- Ellipsis of publicity stunt.
- An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
- A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
- (countable) A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
- A check in growth.
- (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
noun
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
noun
- the evolution of a biological species
- (medicine, pathology) The determination of which species are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.
- (taxonomy) The process by which new distinct species evolve.
- (chemistry) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
noun
- An inherent capacity for growth or development.
- (physics) Quantum potential.
- (philosophy) A possibility or capacity to be something, as opposed to an actuality describing what something actually is at present.
- (countable) An instance of potential: any given possibility.
- (chiefly uncountable) The quality of being or having potential.
- An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
- an aptitude that may be developed
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
verb
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
noun
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
adj
- having reached full natural growth or development
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- characteristic of maturity
- fully considered and perfected
- (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- Profound; careful.
verb
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- become due for repayment
- cause to ripen or develop fully
- cause to ripen and discharge pus
- grow old or older
- develop and work out fully in one's mind
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
- (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
- (US, military, of an offensive, etc) To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
- (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
- bring to a head or to the highest point
- end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- reach the highest or most decisive point
- reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- rise to, or form, a summit
noun
- (biology) A greater than normal (evolutionary) adaptation.
- The overapplication of phonological adaptations from one language variety to another beyond what is justified by the etymological correspondences between the two varieties, resulting in artificial, ahistorical forms that are not part of either variety; sometimes done as a form of exaggeration for stylistic effect.
- A term coined via this process.
noun
- (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
- An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
- An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
- (economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.
- (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
- something grown or growing
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- vegetation that has grown
verb
- To develop, to come about or intensify.
- To attain a higher status.
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
- To move upwards.
- (music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To slope upward.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- (figurative) To be resurrected.
- rise in rank or status
- come up, of celestial bodies
- rise to one's feet
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- become heartened or elated
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- get up and out of bed
- come to the surface
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- return from the dead
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- increase in volume
noun
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- The front of a diaper.
- (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an increase in cost
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- increase in price or value
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
adj
- Developing in a gradual or natural fashion.
- (physiology, medicine) Pertaining to an organ of the body of a living organism.
- Harmonious; coherent; structured.
- (agriculture) Of food or food products, grown in an environment free from artificial agrichemicals, and possibly certified by a regulatory body.
- (military) Of a military unit or formation, or its elements, belonging to a permanent organization (in contrast to being temporarily attached).
- (sociology) Describing a form of social solidarity theorized by Emile Durkheim that is characterized by voluntary engagements in complex interdependencies for mutual benefit (such as business agreements), rather than mechanical solidarity, which depends on ascribed relations between people (as in a family or tribe).
- Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
- (chemistry) Relating to the compounds of carbon, relating to natural products.
- (biology) Pertaining to or derived from living organisms.
- (Internet, marketing, of search results) Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to deliberate promotional techniques e.g. by advertisers.
- constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
- of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones
- simple and healthful and close to nature
- involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs
- relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis
- being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms
noun
noun
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
noun
- (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
- (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
- (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- (countable) Something which has developed.
- (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- (evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
- (colloquial, sometimes offensive) A process by which poor individual choices or attributes naturally, or rightfully, lead to poor outcomes, especially death.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- a passage selected from a larger work
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- something that survives
- a state of surviving; remaining alive
- (as a modifier) Of, relating to or aiding survival.
- (anthropology) A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.
- The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
- (sports) The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.
verb
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow or develop
- increase in size by natural process
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become attached by or as if by the process of growth
- grow emotionally or mature
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
- (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
- (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
- (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
adj
- (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
- (biology, dermatology, uncommon) Related to the exogen growth phase.
- (databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
- (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
- (biology) Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
- derived or originating externally
noun
- Development, increase, evolution.
- (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- (music, countable) A chord progression.
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- (exercise) The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
- a movement forward
- the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
- a series with a definite pattern of advance
noun
noun
- Process of growth or development.
- The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
- an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something
- (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something
- the act that results in something coming to be
verb
noun
- a natural consequence of development
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- (graph theory) A path of vertices of degree 2, ending at vertices whose degree is not 2.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
verb
- grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive) To strip of branches.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
noun
- a natural consequence of development
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- a compensating equivalent
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
- (architecture) A terrace on a hillside.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
- (surveying) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- (botany) A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- (programming) The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- (c. 1555) A time at which something begins; outset.
- (international trade) A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- (signal analysis) The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- (architecture) A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- (printing, often attributive) The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
verb
- make up for
- create an offset in
- cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface
- compensate for or counterbalance
- produce by offset printing
- (transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To place out of line.
- (transitive) To form an offset in (a wall, rod, pipe, etc.).
adj
adv
noun
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- something contributing to growth or increase
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- (uncountable, also figurative) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
- (inheritance law, uncountable) Increase of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.
- (uncountable, also figurative) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
- A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
- (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- (property law, uncountable) Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.
- (astrophysics) The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
- (geology) The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
- (countable, chiefly figurative) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
noun
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation
- the act of accumulating
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
- (UK, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
- The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
- (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
- (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
- (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
- The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
- A mass of something piled up or collected.
noun
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance
- Something which is improved
- (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
- (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
- the act of improving something
- a condition superior to an earlier condition
- a change for the better; progress in development
noun
- growth; increase
- The raising of plants.
- (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
verb
adj
noun
- The growth thus produced.
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- A group of bacteria.
- The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
- (cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
- (archaeology) Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”).
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- (euphemistic) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
- the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
- (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
- the raising of plants or animals
- the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- a particular society at a particular time and place
verb
noun
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
noun
- the evolution of a biological species
- (medicine, pathology) The determination of which species are present in a fluid or tissue specimen, bacterial culture, or viral culture.
- (taxonomy) The process by which new distinct species evolve.
- (chemistry) The formation of different (inorganic) species (especially of ions) as the environment changes.
noun
- An inherent capacity for growth or development.
- (physics) Quantum potential.
- (philosophy) A possibility or capacity to be something, as opposed to an actuality describing what something actually is at present.
- (countable) An instance of potential: any given possibility.
- (chiefly uncountable) The quality of being or having potential.
- An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
- an aptitude that may be developed
- the inherent capacity for coming into being
noun
- (biology) A greater than normal (evolutionary) adaptation.
- The overapplication of phonological adaptations from one language variety to another beyond what is justified by the etymological correspondences between the two varieties, resulting in artificial, ahistorical forms that are not part of either variety; sometimes done as a form of exaggeration for stylistic effect.
- A term coined via this process.
noun
- (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
- An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
- An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
- (economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.
- (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
- something grown or growing
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- vegetation that has grown
noun
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
noun
- (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
- (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
- (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
- (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.
- (photography) The processing of photographic film so as to bring out the images latent in it.
- (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
- (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
- (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
- (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
- (countable) Something which has developed.
- (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- (evolutionary theory) A process by which heritable traits conferring survival and reproductive advantage to individuals, or related individuals, tend to be passed on to succeeding generations and become more frequent in a population, whereas other less favourable traits tend to become eliminated; the differential survival and reproduction of phenotypes.
- (colloquial, sometimes offensive) A process by which poor individual choices or attributes naturally, or rightfully, lead to poor outcomes, especially death.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- a passage selected from a larger work
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
noun
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- something that survives
- a state of surviving; remaining alive
- (as a modifier) Of, relating to or aiding survival.
- (anthropology) A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.
- The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
- (sports) The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.
verb
- undergo development or evolution
- work out
- gain through experience
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
- To change, to transform.
- To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
- To change or transform (something).
- Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
- (biology) Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.
- (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
verb
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- change the use of and make available or usable
- work out
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- become technologically advanced
- expand in the form of a series
- happen
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- generate gradually
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- (transitive) To create.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
verb
- increase or develop
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- obtain
- increase (one's body weight)
- win something through one's efforts
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- rise in rate or price
- obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
- derive a benefit from
- (intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (of a clock or watch) To run fast.
- (intransitive, often with on) To grow more likely to catch or overtake someone.
- (intransitive) To put on weight.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one’s side; to conciliate.
- (transitive) To acquire possession of.
- (transitive) To reach.
noun
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input
- the amount by which the revenue of a business exceeds its cost of operating
- a quantity that is added
- (electronics) The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- (architecture) A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
- The thing or things gained.
adj
adv
verb
- increase or develop
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
noun
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
verb
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
verb
- develop and grow
- bolster or strengthen
- improve the cleansing action of
- give form to, according to a plan
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- form or accumulate steadily
- make by combining materials and parts
- be engaged in building
- build or establish something abstract
- found or ground
- (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
- (intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
- (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
- (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
noun
- constitution of the human body
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest created by the player.
- (countable) The process or period of constructing a physical object.
- (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A configuration of a character's items or skills created by the player.
verb
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- become distinct and acquire a different character
- be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense
- mark as different
- calculate a derivative; take the derivative
- become different during development
- To recognize as different or distinct.
- (transitive, intransitive, often in the passive voice, biology) To (cause to) go through a process of development called differentiation; to make or become different in form or function.
- To modify so as to create a difference or distinction.
- (mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
- (mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
- To show or be the difference or distinction between things.
- To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
- (education) To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.
noun
verb
- evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
- devote oneself to a special area of work
- be specific about
- become more focused on an area of activity or field of study
- suit to a special purpose
- (usually derogatory) To be known or notorious for some specialty.
- (intransitive) To become distinct or separate from what is common, particularly:
- To focus one's study upon a particular skill, field, topic, or genre.
- (rare, transitive) To specify: to mention specifically.
- To focus one's business upon a particular item or service.
- (biology, transitive) To make distinct or separate due to form or function.
- (transitive) To train (someone) in a specialty.
- (uncommon, transitive) To narrow in scope.
verb
noun
- a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
- a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
- (countable) That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
- Ellipsis of publicity stunt.
- An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
- A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
- (countable) A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
- A check in growth.
- (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
verb
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
noun
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
verb
- To develop, to come about or intensify.
- To attain a higher status.
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
- To move upwards.
- (music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To slope upward.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- (figurative) To be resurrected.
- rise in rank or status
- come up, of celestial bodies
- rise to one's feet
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- become heartened or elated
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- get up and out of bed
- come to the surface
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- return from the dead
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- increase in volume
noun
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- The front of a diaper.
- (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an increase in cost
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- increase in price or value
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
adj
- having reached full natural growth or development
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- characteristic of maturity
- fully considered and perfected
- (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- Profound; careful.
verb
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- become due for repayment
- cause to ripen or develop fully
- cause to ripen and discharge pus
- grow old or older
- develop and work out fully in one's mind
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
verb
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow or develop
- increase in size by natural process
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become attached by or as if by the process of growth
- grow emotionally or mature
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
- (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
- (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
- (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
adj
- having reached full natural growth or development
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- characteristic of maturity
- fully considered and perfected
- (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- Profound; careful.
verb
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- become due for repayment
- cause to ripen or develop fully
- cause to ripen and discharge pus
- grow old or older
- develop and work out fully in one's mind
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
- (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
- (US, military, of an offensive, etc) To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
- (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
- bring to a head or to the highest point
- end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- reach the highest or most decisive point
- reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- rise to, or form, a summit
adj
- Developing in a gradual or natural fashion.
- (physiology, medicine) Pertaining to an organ of the body of a living organism.
- Harmonious; coherent; structured.
- (agriculture) Of food or food products, grown in an environment free from artificial agrichemicals, and possibly certified by a regulatory body.
- (military) Of a military unit or formation, or its elements, belonging to a permanent organization (in contrast to being temporarily attached).
- (sociology) Describing a form of social solidarity theorized by Emile Durkheim that is characterized by voluntary engagements in complex interdependencies for mutual benefit (such as business agreements), rather than mechanical solidarity, which depends on ascribed relations between people (as in a family or tribe).
- Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
- (chemistry) Relating to the compounds of carbon, relating to natural products.
- (biology) Pertaining to or derived from living organisms.
- (Internet, marketing, of search results) Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to deliberate promotional techniques e.g. by advertisers.
- constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
- of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones
- simple and healthful and close to nature
- involving or affecting physiology or bodily organs
- relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis
- being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms
noun
adj
- (biology) Growing as an exogen, by successive additions to the outside.
- (medicine, of a disease) Having a cause external to the infected organism.
- (biology, dermatology, uncommon) Related to the exogen growth phase.
- (databases, of a key) Having no meaning in itself, such as an automatically generated sequential identifier.
- (economics, of a model) Being or relating to a change that comes from outside the model and is not explained by the model.
- (biology) Produced or originating outside of the referent organism.
- derived or originating externally