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- an addition that extends a main building
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- an addition to the length of something
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- The state of being extended.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- (cosmetics, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
noun
- an addition that extends a main building
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- a unit of military aircraft
- a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
- one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
- a stage area out of sight of the audience
- the side of military or naval formation
- a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
- the wing of a fowl
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
- (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
- (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- (slang, MLE) Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- (slang) Human arm.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
verb
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- travel through the air; be airborne
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- (transitive) To traverse by flying.
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive) To furnish with wings.
noun
- an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building
- An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
- (historical) A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm), a Scottish ell was about 37 inches (94 cm), a Flemish ell was ¾ yard (27 inches or 69 cm), while certain European ells were less than 50 cm.
- The name of the Latin script letter L/l. (more commonly el)
- Something that is L-shaped.
noun
- (architecture) A portion of a building that protrudes out.
- (chemistry) The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled.
- A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to the next point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
- (chiefly sports) A shot that sends something forewards, such as a shot that sends the ball ahead the player making it.
- (photography or cinematography) The foreground of a photographic image.
verb
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- the central area in a building; open to the sky
- any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
- (biology) Any enclosed body cavity or chamber.
- (palynology) A cavity inside a porate aperture of a pollen grain formed by the separation of the sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
- (architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
- (anatomy) A microscopic air sac within a pulmonary alveolus.
- (anatomy) A cavity, entrance, or passage.
- (architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
- (anatomy) An upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it into a ventricle. In higher vertebrates, the right atrium receives blood from the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava, and the left atrium receives blood from the left and right pulmonary veins.
noun
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- the people who are present in a room
- space for movement
- opportunity for
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
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adv
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- a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
- (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- (entomology) The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
- Ellipsis of gallery forest.
- An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
- A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
- A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
- (automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
- (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
- (mining) A level or drive in a mine.
- (law) The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
- (by extension, metonymic) The spectators at an event, collectively.
- A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.
- An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
- (television) The production control room.
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- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- (British) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
- Degree or amount.
- (statistics) One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- (roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value given to a character (or other element of a game) that represents its relative power, challenge or eligibility to do things, used as a game mechanic to govern progression through a game.
- indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- height above ground
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
adj
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
- (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- In the same position or rank.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Calm.
- being on a precise horizontal plane
- oriented at right angles to the plumb
- of the score in a contest
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- not showing abrupt variations
verb
- (transitive) To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- (intransitive) To speak honestly and openly [with with ‘someone’] (see: level with).
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- (transitive) To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at].
- (transitive) To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- (intransitive, sports) To make the score of a game equal.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- direct into a position for use
- talk frankly with; lay it on the line
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- aim at
- make level or straight
- become level or even
noun
- a structure that has been erected
- an erect penis
- the act of building or putting up
- (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
- (uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
- (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
- (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
- (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.
- (countable) Anything erected or built.
adv
- within a building
- with respect to private feelings
- on the inside
- in reality
- (colloquial) In or to prison.
- Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
- Indoors.
- Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
adj
- being or applying to the inside of a building
- confined to an exclusive group
- relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space
- away from the outer edge
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- (baseball, of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- (of a person) Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
noun
- the inner or enclosed surface of something
- the region that is inside of something
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- The interior or inner part.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- (slang) The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
- (colloquial, in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
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noun
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
- (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
- an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
- the act of jumping over an obstacle
- a burial chamber (usually underground)
- a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
verb
- (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
- (transitive) To store in a vault.
- (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
- (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
- bound vigorously
- jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
noun
- (architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- (mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- (usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
- thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
noun
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- (geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
- A street with such a group of houses in it.
- (heraldry) A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.
- (chiefly India) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
- (agriculture) A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
- (UK, informal) A single house in such a group.
- (in the plural, chiefly British) The standing area of a sports stadium.
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
- a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
- usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
verb
noun
- a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
- A very tall open-framed structure on which communications devices are installed.
- A control tower.
- One who tows.
- (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
- (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
- (collective) A group of giraffes.
- (cartomancy) The sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
- (glassblowing) A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
- (figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top.
- A skyscraper.
- A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
- (business) Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
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- A prefabricated section of a building.
- (British) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
- (programming) A reusable object in a video game world.
- A prefabricated building.
- a prefabricated structure
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verb
noun
- (architecture) Horizontal member between the windows of successive storeys of a tall building.
- An oriental rug having a pattern of arches; the design in the corners of such a rug, especially in a prayer rug.
- (evolutionary theory) A phenotypic characteristic that evolved as a side effect of an adaptation in response to evolutionary pressure.
- (architecture) The space (often more or less triangular) between the outer curve of an arch (the extrados) and a straight-sided figure that bounds it; the space between two contiguous arches and a straight feature above them.
- (architecture) The triangular space under a stair; the material that fills the space.
- (Philippines, construction, architecture) soffit (usually used to describe metal or corrugated plastic types of roof soffit)
- an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them
noun
- a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance
- The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- (architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
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adj
verb
noun
- The top external level of a building.
- (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
- The upper part of a cavity.
- (climbing) An overhanging rock wall.
- (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space
- protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
- an upper limit on what is allowed
- a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
verb
verb
- occupy a large, elongated area
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
adj
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
noun
- The physical material of a building.
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- the underlying structure
verb
noun
- A cloth stretched over another space, such as that stretched below the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.
- (zoology) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
- (historical) An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome and other Roman amphitheaters.
noun
- Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
- The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
- In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
- the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit
- the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air
- a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather
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noun
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- The trade of building structures.
- The manner in which something is built.
- The process of constructing.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of constructing something
noun
- (architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
- An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.
- an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium
- a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
noun
- The windows of a building; fenestration.
- (computing) The use of a graphical user interface divided into windows.
- (film) The scheduling of the exhibition and distribution of a film, involving for example a period of theatrical showings before release on home media.
- (signal processing) The multiplication of a signal by a window function, restricting the signal to a specific time segment.
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adj
- Of a building or other thing, capable of being constructed.
- Of a land, suitable or allowable for constructing a building on.
- (geometry, of a regular polygon) That can be constructed in a plane using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
- (mathematics, of a complex number) Such that the line segment joining it to the origin can be constructed using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
- (algebraic geometry, of a subset of the spectrum of a noetherian ring) Admitting description as a finite union of locally closed (with respect to the Zariski topology) sets.
noun
- (architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
- A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
- (figure skating) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.
- projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
verb
noun
- (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
- (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- (architecture) A cella.
- (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- any small compartment
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
verb
noun
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
verb
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
noun
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
verb
noun
- (architecture) The arrangement of windows and similar openings in a building.
- (nautical) The practice of placing holes in the rudder of a ship to reduce the work required to move the rudder while preserving its ability to steer the ship.
- (botany) Either a translucent area in a structure such as a leaf or flower petal, or an opening in a structure.
- (surgery, anatomy) An opening that occurs naturally or is created surgically, as through a biological membrane.
- (surgery, anatomy) An opening in the surface of an organ etc; the surgical creation of such an opening, especially one in the bony part of the inner ear made to improve hearing.
- the arrangement of windows in a building
- surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis
noun
- a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
- a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- (pedagogy) A device in scaffolding, i.e. the provision a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
verb
- provide with a scaffold for support
- (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
- (transitive, pedagogy) To provide a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
noun
verb
noun
- an addition that extends a main building
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- an addition to the length of something
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- The state of being extended.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- (cosmetics, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
noun
- an addition that extends a main building
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- a unit of military aircraft
- a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
- one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
- a stage area out of sight of the audience
- the side of military or naval formation
- a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
- the wing of a fowl
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
- (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
- (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- (slang, MLE) Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- (slang) Human arm.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
verb
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- travel through the air; be airborne
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- (transitive) To traverse by flying.
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive) To furnish with wings.
noun
- an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building
- An extension usually at right angles to one end of a building.
- (historical) A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm), a Scottish ell was about 37 inches (94 cm), a Flemish ell was ¾ yard (27 inches or 69 cm), while certain European ells were less than 50 cm.
- The name of the Latin script letter L/l. (more commonly el)
- Something that is L-shaped.
noun
- (architecture) A portion of a building that protrudes out.
- (chemistry) The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled.
- A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to the next point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
- (chiefly sports) A shot that sends something forewards, such as a shot that sends the ball ahead the player making it.
- (photography or cinematography) The foreground of a photographic image.
verb
noun
- the central area in a building; open to the sky
- any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
- (biology) Any enclosed body cavity or chamber.
- (palynology) A cavity inside a porate aperture of a pollen grain formed by the separation of the sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.
- (architecture) A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.
- (anatomy) A microscopic air sac within a pulmonary alveolus.
- (anatomy) A cavity, entrance, or passage.
- (architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.
- (anatomy) An upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the veins and forces it into a ventricle. In higher vertebrates, the right atrium receives blood from the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava, and the left atrium receives blood from the left and right pulmonary veins.
noun
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- the people who are present in a room
- space for movement
- opportunity for
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
verb
adv
noun
- a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
- (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- (entomology) The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
- Ellipsis of gallery forest.
- An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
- A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
- A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
- (automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
- (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
- (mining) A level or drive in a mine.
- (law) The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
- (by extension, metonymic) The spectators at an event, collectively.
- A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.
- An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
- (television) The production control room.
verb
noun
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- (British) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
- Degree or amount.
- (statistics) One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
- Achievement or qualification.
- (roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value given to a character (or other element of a game) that represents its relative power, challenge or eligibility to do things, used as a game mechanic to govern progression through a game.
- indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- height above ground
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
adj
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
- (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- In the same position or rank.
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Calm.
- being on a precise horizontal plane
- oriented at right angles to the plumb
- of the score in a contest
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- not showing abrupt variations
verb
- (transitive) To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- (intransitive) To speak honestly and openly [with with ‘someone’] (see: level with).
- (intransitive, roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.
- (transitive) To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- (transitive) To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at].
- (transitive) To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- (intransitive, sports) To make the score of a game equal.
- (transitive) To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- direct into a position for use
- talk frankly with; lay it on the line
- tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- aim at
- make level or straight
- become level or even
noun
- a structure that has been erected
- an erect penis
- the act of building or putting up
- (countable) A penis or clitoris that is erect.
- (uncountable or countable, ecclesiastical) Formal approval and official establishment of an institution such as a society or a monastery by higher church authorities.
- (uncountable, physiology, of a penis or clitoris) The state or quality of being erect from engorgement with blood.
- (uncountable, physiology) The physiological process by which erectile tissue, such as a penis or clitoris, becomes erect by being engorged with blood.
- (uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.
- (countable) Anything erected or built.
noun
- An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
- The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
- (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
- The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
- (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
- Any arched ceiling or roof.
- Any cellar or underground storeroom.
- An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
- Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
- (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
- (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
- (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
- (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
- an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
- the act of jumping over an obstacle
- a burial chamber (usually underground)
- a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
verb
- (ambitransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
- (transitive) To store in a vault.
- (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
- (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
- bound vigorously
- jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
noun
- (architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- (mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- (usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
- thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
noun
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- (geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
- A street with such a group of houses in it.
- (heraldry) A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.
- (chiefly India) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
- (agriculture) A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
- (UK, informal) A single house in such a group.
- (in the plural, chiefly British) The standing area of a sports stadium.
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
- a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
- usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
verb
noun
- a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
- A very tall open-framed structure on which communications devices are installed.
- A control tower.
- One who tows.
- (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
- (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
- (collective) A group of giraffes.
- (cartomancy) The sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
- (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
- (glassblowing) A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
- (figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
- A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top.
- A skyscraper.
- A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
- (business) Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
verb
noun
- A prefabricated section of a building.
- (British) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
- (programming) A reusable object in a video game world.
- A prefabricated building.
- a prefabricated structure
adj
verb
noun
- (architecture) Horizontal member between the windows of successive storeys of a tall building.
- An oriental rug having a pattern of arches; the design in the corners of such a rug, especially in a prayer rug.
- (evolutionary theory) A phenotypic characteristic that evolved as a side effect of an adaptation in response to evolutionary pressure.
- (architecture) The space (often more or less triangular) between the outer curve of an arch (the extrados) and a straight-sided figure that bounds it; the space between two contiguous arches and a straight feature above them.
- (architecture) The triangular space under a stair; the material that fills the space.
- (Philippines, construction, architecture) soffit (usually used to describe metal or corrugated plastic types of roof soffit)
- an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them
noun
- a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance
- The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
- A portico; a covered walk.
- (architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The top external level of a building.
- (architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.
- The upper part of a cavity.
- (climbing) An overhanging rock wall.
- (mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
- the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space
- protective covering on top of a motor vehicle
- an upper limit on what is allowed
- a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
verb
noun
- The physical material of a building.
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- the underlying structure
verb
noun
- A cloth stretched over another space, such as that stretched below the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.
- (zoology) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
- (historical) An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome and other Roman amphitheaters.
noun
- Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
- The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
- In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
- the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit
- the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air
- a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather
verb
noun
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- The trade of building structures.
- The manner in which something is built.
- The process of constructing.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of constructing something
noun
- (architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
- An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.
- an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium
- a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
noun
- The windows of a building; fenestration.
- (computing) The use of a graphical user interface divided into windows.
- (film) The scheduling of the exhibition and distribution of a film, involving for example a period of theatrical showings before release on home media.
- (signal processing) The multiplication of a signal by a window function, restricting the signal to a specific time segment.
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noun
adj
adv
noun
- (architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
- A beam anchored at one end and used as a lever within a microelectromechanical system.
- (figure skating) A technique, similar to the spread eagle, in which the skater travels along a deep edge with knees bent and bends their back backwards, parallel to the ice.
- projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only
verb
noun
- (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
- (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- (architecture) A cella.
- (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- any small compartment
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
verb
noun
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
verb
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
noun
- A vertical structure that divides a room.
- (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
- The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
- (music) A musical score.
- (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
- A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
- An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
- (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
- (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).
- A part of something that has been divided.
- That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
- (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
- (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
- (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
verb
noun
- (architecture) The arrangement of windows and similar openings in a building.
- (nautical) The practice of placing holes in the rudder of a ship to reduce the work required to move the rudder while preserving its ability to steer the ship.
- (botany) Either a translucent area in a structure such as a leaf or flower petal, or an opening in a structure.
- (surgery, anatomy) An opening that occurs naturally or is created surgically, as through a biological membrane.
- (surgery, anatomy) An opening in the surface of an organ etc; the surgical creation of such an opening, especially one in the bony part of the inner ear made to improve hearing.
- the arrangement of windows in a building
- surgical procedure that creates a new fenestra to the cochlea in order to restore hearing lost because of osteosclerosis
noun
- a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
- a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- (pedagogy) A device in scaffolding, i.e. the provision a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
verb
- provide with a scaffold for support
- (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
- (transitive, pedagogy) To provide a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
verb
- occupy a large, elongated area
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
adj
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
noun
- an addition that extends a main building
- (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft
- a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side
- a unit of military aircraft
- a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
- one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane
- a stage area out of sight of the audience
- the side of military or naval formation
- a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function
- the wing of a fowl
- a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud
- (zootomy) An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- One of the longer sides of crownworks or hornworks in fortification.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, and located at the side, such as an extension from the main building.
- (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
- (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, the sail of a ship, etc.
- (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
- (British) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- (slang, MLE) Ellipsis of prison wing, a cellblock; or prison or doing time by extension.
- (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or one of the bracts on a dragon fruit, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- (British) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- (slang) Human arm.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad or diaper to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
verb
- (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.
- travel through the air; be airborne
- (intransitive) To fly.
- (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
- (transitive) To traverse by flying.
- (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
- (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive) To furnish with wings.
adv
- within a building
- with respect to private feelings
- on the inside
- in reality
- (colloquial) In or to prison.
- Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.
- Indoors.
- Intimately, secretly; without expressing what one is feeling or thinking.
adj
- being or applying to the inside of a building
- confined to an exclusive group
- relating to or being on the side closer to the center or within a defined space
- away from the outer edge
- Of or pertaining to the inner surface, limit or boundary.
- (baseball, of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Nearer to the interior or centre of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone inside an organisation.
- At or towards or the left-hand side of the road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- (of a person) Legally married to or related to (e.g. born in wedlock to), and/or residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people.
noun
- the inner or enclosed surface of something
- the region that is inside of something
- The left-hand side of a road if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- The interior or inner part.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the shorter arc length; the side of a racetrack nearer the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- (slang) The inside scoop; information known only to certain involved people.
- (colloquial, in the plural) The interior organs of the body, especially the guts.
prep
adj
- Of a building or other thing, capable of being constructed.
- Of a land, suitable or allowable for constructing a building on.
- (geometry, of a regular polygon) That can be constructed in a plane using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
- (mathematics, of a complex number) Such that the line segment joining it to the origin can be constructed using only a pair of compasses and a straightedge.
- (algebraic geometry, of a subset of the spectrum of a noetherian ring) Admitting description as a finite union of locally closed (with respect to the Zariski topology) sets.