Palavras em English para 'Having a specified tolerance.'
Acima você encontra palavras relacionadas a "Having a specified tolerance.". Foque ou passe o cursor sobre uma palavra para ver sua definição.
Resultados da pesquisa
noun
noun
- Tolerance.
- A wish or whim satisfied.
- Something in which someone indulges.
- The act of catering to someone's every desire.
- The act of indulging.
- An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
- (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
- foolish or senseless behavior
- a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
- the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
- the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution
- an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires
verb
adj
noun
verb
verb
- restrict or confine within limits
- To limit narrowly; to restrict.
- draw a line around
- to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
- To draw a line around; to encircle.
- (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
verb
noun
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- the boundary of a specific area
- the greatest possible degree of something
- final or latest limiting point
- the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
- as far as something can go
- the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (music) Ellipsis of harmonic limit.
- (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- (poker) Fixed limit.
adj
verb
- (rare) To confine.
- (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’]
- (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
- (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
- (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly.
- release after a security has been paid
- secure the release of (someone) by providing security
- remove (water) from a vessel with a container
- deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period
- empty (a vessel) by bailing
noun
- (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
- (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
- (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
- (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
- (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial)
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
adj
- being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
- marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes
- not extreme
- Mediocre
- Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
- (pathology) more than mild, less than severe
- Average priced; standard-deal
- (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
- Not excessive; acting in moderation
noun
- a person who takes a position in the political center
- (Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.
- One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
verb
- make less fast or intense
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- preside over
- make less strong or intense; soften
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- make less severe or harsh
- (intransitive) To become less excessive.
- (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
- (transitive, physics) To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).
- (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
- (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.
verb
noun
- (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
- a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- the act of tolerating something
- the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions
- willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others
verb
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed
- place restrictions on
adj
- Restricted.
- Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
- (archaeology) Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
- (sports or games) That resulted in a tie.
- Closely associated or connected.
- (philately) A cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.
- (liquor trade) Of a public house, bar, etc., obliged to sell beer from only one brewery, or alcoholic drinks from one pubco.
- Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
- fastened with strings or cords
- bound together by or as if by a strong rope; especially as by a bond of affection
- bound or secured closely
- closed with a lace
- of the score in a contest
verb
prep_phrase
verb
- To moderate or control.
- (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
- change by restraining or moderating
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
noun
- A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- State of mind; mood.
- Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- A tendency to become angry.
- The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
- Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
- Anger; a fit of anger.
- (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
- (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
- The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- a sudden outburst of anger
- a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
adj
- Limited within bounds.
- Available only to certain authorized groups of people.
- (US, historical) Only available to customers who do not belong to racial, ethnic or religious minorities.
- restricted in meaning; (as e.g. ‘man’ in ‘a tall man’)
- the lowest level of official classification for documents
- subject to restriction or subjected to restriction
verb
noun
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- smallest American sandpiper
- an individual's prescribed share of work
verb
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
verb
- limit or restrict to
- perform a marriage ceremony
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- unite musical notes by a tie
- create social or emotional ties
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- make by tying pieces together
- form a knot or bow in
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
noun
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- equality of score in a contest
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a social or business relationship
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A lace-up shoe.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A tiewig.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
adj
- restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds
- Subjected to regulation or direction.
- (medicine, sciences, research) Resulting from a comparison with control samples; including a comparison (control) group. (describing clinical trials)
- Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
- (in combination) Under the control of the specified entity.
verb
noun
- A restricted range.
- (geology) A fenster: a geologic or tectonic window.
- (graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying output and allowing input, often for a single task in a multitasking system.
- (figurative) A period of time when something is available or possible; a limited opportunity.
- A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
- (signal processing) A function multiplied with a signal to reduce spectral leakage when performing a Fourier transform.
- (figurative) Something that allows one to see through or into something
- An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
- An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
- (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
- (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
- (military, historical, uncountable) Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)
- an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function
- the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something
- an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served
- (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen
- a pane of glass in a window
- a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
- a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened
- a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material
verb
noun
- That which limits or confines.
- (historical) A friar who had a license to beg within certain bounds.
- (electronics) A circuit that allows signals below a specified input threshold to pass unaffected while attenuating the peaks of stronger signals.
- (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
noun
- A regulation or limitation that restricts.
- (biology) The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
- The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
- a principle that limits the extent of something
- an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
- the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
adj
- Restricted or limited by conditions.
- Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
- restricted in meaning; (as e.g. ‘man’ in ‘a tall man’)
- meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task
- contingent on something else
- limited or restricted; not absolute
- holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill
verb
adj
noun
- (logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
- (programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
- A condition (a limitation or restriction).
- (grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
- (grammar) The conditional mood.
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- admit into a group or community
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- consider or hold as true
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- be designed to hold or take
- react favorably to; consider right and proper
- receive willingly something given or offered
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
- (Philippines) To do a service done by an establishment.
- (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- (transitive) To endure patiently.
- (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
- (transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- (transitive) To receive officially.
noun
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- utter unclearly
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
noun
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- the act of swallowing
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
adj
adv
noun
- Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
- (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
- A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).
- (carpentry, architecture, shipbuilding) A curved circular form.
- (formal) Synonym of scope.
- A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
- the limit of capability
- navigational instrument for finding directions
- drafting instrument used for drawing circles
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
verb
adj
- tolerant or lenient
- (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value
- mild and pleasant
- compassionate and kind; conciliatory
- using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as ‘s’ and ‘sh’)
- (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
- easily hurt
- (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone
- out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
- produced with vibration of the vocal cords
- not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
- willing to negotiate and compromise
- having little impact
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- yielding readily to pressure or weight
- not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
- (of sound) relatively low in volume
- not brilliant or glaring
- (of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction.
- (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
- Not bright or intense.
- (Slavic, phonology) Palatalized.
- (photography, of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- (computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
- (UK, of a man) Effeminate.
- (phonetics, rare) Voiceless.
- (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- (of kinks or sexual activity) Mild, tame, moderate; far from intense or excluding harsh elements.
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- Limp, weak.
- Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
- (of a drink) Not containing alcohol.
- (informal, idiomatic, followed by on) Attracted to or emotionally involved with someone.
- (of a sound) Quiet.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Of paper: unsized.
- Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
- (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- (UK, colloquial) Foolish.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- (finance) Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
- Gentle.
- (phonetics) Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- (slang) Excessively empathetic or concerned about others’ wellbeing.
- (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
- (of pornography) Softcore
adv
noun
noun
- The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
- Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
- official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion)
adj
- Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
- Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.
- On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.
- Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.
- (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
- conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy
noun
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
- (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- The repression of one's feelings.
- the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
- a device that retards something's motion
- the state of being physically constrained
verb
- have a certain range
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- include, as on a list
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have or possess something abstract
- sing or play against other voices or parts
- contain or hold; have within
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- be able to feed
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- be pregnant with
- win approval or support for
- propel or give impetus to
- transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
- have on the surface or on the skin
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- extend to a certain degree
- pass on a communication
- cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- serve as a means for expressing something
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- be successful in
- have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
- be conveyed over a certain distance
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
- capture after a fight
- be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
- keep up with financial support
- win in an election
- be equipped with (a mast or sail)
- propel
- take further or advance
- have on hand
- continue or extend
- bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- bear (a crop)
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- (transitive) To have on one’s person.
- (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- (gaming, sports) (transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
- (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- (transitive) To lead or guide.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To be pregnant (with).
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- (intransitive, cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- the act of carrying something
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- (finance) Carried interest.
- (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- hold within limits and control
- kill by nailing onto a cross
- treat cruelly
- criticize harshly or violently
- (hyperbolic, informal, sports) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
- (hyperbolic) To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
- To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
verb
- hold within limits and control
- undergo necrosis
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (transitive) To scare.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
verb
- hold within limits and control
- bring under control by force or authority
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- correct by punishment or discipline
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
- (transitive) To bring (a country) under control by force.
verb
- severely restrict in scope or extent
- compel to behave in a certain way
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- (transitive) To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.
- (transitive) To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
- (transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
verb
- severely restrict in scope or extent
- (intransitive, transitive) To become stringent and ungenerous.
- (transitive) To make sufficiently tight.
- (transitive) To fix something or make it correct.
- (intransitive) To become tense and restrained.
- (intransitive) To become focused and serious; To stop any vacillation or inconsistency.
verb
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
noun
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
adj
noun
verb
adj
noun
noun
noun
- Tolerance.
- A wish or whim satisfied.
- Something in which someone indulges.
- The act of catering to someone's every desire.
- The act of indulging.
- An indulgent act; a favour granted; gratification.
- (Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.
- foolish or senseless behavior
- a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
- the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
- the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution
- an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires
verb
noun
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- smallest American sandpiper
- an individual's prescribed share of work
verb
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
noun
- A restricted range.
- (geology) A fenster: a geologic or tectonic window.
- (graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying output and allowing input, often for a single task in a multitasking system.
- (figurative) A period of time when something is available or possible; a limited opportunity.
- A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
- (signal processing) A function multiplied with a signal to reduce spectral leakage when performing a Fourier transform.
- (figurative) Something that allows one to see through or into something
- An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
- An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
- (architecture) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
- (medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.
- (military, historical, uncountable) Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)
- an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function
- the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something
- an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served
- (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen
- a pane of glass in a window
- a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
- a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened
- a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material
verb
noun
- That which limits or confines.
- (historical) A friar who had a license to beg within certain bounds.
- (electronics) A circuit that allows signals below a specified input threshold to pass unaffected while attenuating the peaks of stronger signals.
- (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
noun
- A regulation or limitation that restricts.
- (biology) The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
- The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
- a principle that limits the extent of something
- an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)
- the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)
verb
noun
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- the boundary of a specific area
- the greatest possible degree of something
- final or latest limiting point
- the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
- as far as something can go
- the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (music) Ellipsis of harmonic limit.
- (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- (poker) Fixed limit.
adj
noun
- Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within.
- (music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.
- A pair of compasses (a device used to draw circular arcs and transfer length measurements).
- (carpentry, architecture, shipbuilding) A curved circular form.
- (formal) Synonym of scope.
- A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).
- the limit of capability
- navigational instrument for finding directions
- drafting instrument used for drawing circles
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
verb
noun
- The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
- Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
- a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
- official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion)
noun
- Something that constrains; a restriction.
- An irresistible force or compulsion.
- (databases) A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
- (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
- The repression of one's feelings.
- the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
- a device that retards something's motion
- the state of being physically constrained
verb
- restrict or confine within limits
- To limit narrowly; to restrict.
- draw a line around
- to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
- To draw a line around; to encircle.
- (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
verb
noun
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- the boundary of a specific area
- the greatest possible degree of something
- final or latest limiting point
- the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed
- as far as something can go
- the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
- (colloquial, as "the limit") A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- (music) Ellipsis of harmonic limit.
- (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- (poker) Fixed limit.
adj
verb
- (rare) To confine.
- (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person). [with on ‘someone’]
- (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
- To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
- To secure the head of a cow during milking.
- (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
- (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
- (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
- (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
- To set free; to deliver; to release.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave or exit abruptly.
- release after a security has been paid
- secure the release of (someone) by providing security
- remove (water) from a vessel with a container
- deliver something in trust to somebody for a special purpose and for a limited period
- empty (a vessel) by bailing
noun
- (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
- A person who bails water out of a boat.
- A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
- A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
- A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
- (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
- (countable, uncountable) Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
- A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
- (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
- (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
- A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
- the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial)
- (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
verb
noun
- (countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
- (uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance of or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
- (uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
- a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior
- a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits
- the act of tolerating something
- the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions
- willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others
verb
- To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
- (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
- place under restrictions; limit access to by law
- place limits on (extent or amount or access)
- prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed
- place restrictions on
verb
- To moderate or control.
- (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
- change by restraining or moderating
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
noun
- A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- State of mind; mood.
- Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- A tendency to become angry.
- The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
- Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
- Anger; a fit of anger.
- (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
- (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
- The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- a sudden outburst of anger
- a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
verb
- limit or restrict to
- perform a marriage ceremony
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- unite musical notes by a tie
- create social or emotional ties
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- make by tying pieces together
- form a knot or bow in
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
noun
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- equality of score in a contest
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a social or business relationship
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A lace-up shoe.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A tiewig.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- admit into a group or community
- be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- consider or hold as true
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- be designed to hold or take
- react favorably to; consider right and proper
- receive willingly something given or offered
- give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
- (Philippines) To do a service done by an establishment.
- (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.
- (transitive) To endure patiently.
- (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.
- (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.
- (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
- (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
- (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
- (intransitive) To receive something willingly.
- (transitive) To acknowledge patiently without opposition or resistance.
- (transitive) To receive officially.
noun
verb
- tolerate or accommodate oneself to
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- engulf and destroy
- keep from expressing
- enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
- take back what one has said
- utter unclearly
- believe or accept without questioning or challenge
- (intransitive) To engross; to appropriate; usually with up.
- (transitive) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation.
- (transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
- (transitive) To retract; to recant.
- (intransitive) To take food down into the stomach; to make the muscular contractions of the oesophagus to achieve this, often taken as a sign of nervousness or strong emotion.
- (transitive) To accept easily or without questions; to believe, accept.
- (transitive) To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
noun
- small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
- the act of swallowing
- a small amount of liquid food
- A small, migratory bird of the Hirundinidae family with long, pointed, moon-shaped wings and a forked tail which feeds on the wing by catching insects.
- (Nigeria) Any of various carbohydrate-based dishes that are swallowed without much chewing, commonly paired and eaten with various types of soup.
- (nautical) The opening in a pulley block between the sheave and shell through which the rope passes.
- The amount swallowed in one gulp; the act of swallowing.
verb
- have a certain range
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- include, as on a list
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have or possess something abstract
- sing or play against other voices or parts
- contain or hold; have within
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- be able to feed
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- be pregnant with
- win approval or support for
- propel or give impetus to
- transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
- have on the surface or on the skin
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- extend to a certain degree
- pass on a communication
- cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- serve as a means for expressing something
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- be successful in
- have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
- be conveyed over a certain distance
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
- capture after a fight
- be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
- keep up with financial support
- win in an election
- be equipped with (a mast or sail)
- propel
- take further or advance
- have on hand
- continue or extend
- bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- bear (a crop)
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- (transitive) To have on one’s person.
- (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- (gaming, sports) (transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
- (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- (transitive) To lead or guide.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To be pregnant (with).
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- (intransitive, cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- the act of carrying something
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- (finance) Carried interest.
- (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- hold within limits and control
- kill by nailing onto a cross
- treat cruelly
- criticize harshly or violently
- (hyperbolic, informal, sports) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
- (hyperbolic) To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
- To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
verb
- hold within limits and control
- undergo necrosis
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (transitive) To scare.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
verb
- hold within limits and control
- bring under control by force or authority
- make subordinate, dependent, or subservient
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- correct by punishment or discipline
- put down by force or intimidation
- (transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
- (transitive) To bring (a country) under control by force.
verb
- severely restrict in scope or extent
- compel to behave in a certain way
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- (transitive) To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.
- (transitive) To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
- (transitive) To keep within close bounds; to confine.
verb
- severely restrict in scope or extent
- (intransitive, transitive) To become stringent and ungenerous.
- (transitive) To make sufficiently tight.
- (transitive) To fix something or make it correct.
- (intransitive) To become tense and restrained.
- (intransitive) To become focused and serious; To stop any vacillation or inconsistency.
verb
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
noun
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
noun
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- smallest American sandpiper
- an individual's prescribed share of work
verb
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
- being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
- marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes
- not extreme
- Mediocre
- Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
- (pathology) more than mild, less than severe
- Average priced; standard-deal
- (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
- Not excessive; acting in moderation
noun
- a person who takes a position in the political center
- (Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.
- One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
verb
- make less fast or intense
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- preside over
- make less strong or intense; soften
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- make less severe or harsh
- (intransitive) To become less excessive.
- (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
- (transitive, physics) To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).
- (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
- (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.
adj
- Restricted.
- Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
- (archaeology) Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
- (sports or games) That resulted in a tie.
- Closely associated or connected.
- (philately) A cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.
- (liquor trade) Of a public house, bar, etc., obliged to sell beer from only one brewery, or alcoholic drinks from one pubco.
- Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
- fastened with strings or cords
- bound together by or as if by a strong rope; especially as by a bond of affection
- bound or secured closely
- closed with a lace
- of the score in a contest
verb
adj
- Limited within bounds.
- Available only to certain authorized groups of people.
- (US, historical) Only available to customers who do not belong to racial, ethnic or religious minorities.
- restricted in meaning; (as e.g. ‘man’ in ‘a tall man’)
- the lowest level of official classification for documents
- subject to restriction or subjected to restriction
verb
adj
- restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds
- Subjected to regulation or direction.
- (medicine, sciences, research) Resulting from a comparison with control samples; including a comparison (control) group. (describing clinical trials)
- Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
- (in combination) Under the control of the specified entity.
verb
adj
- Restricted or limited by conditions.
- Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
- restricted in meaning; (as e.g. ‘man’ in ‘a tall man’)
- meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task
- contingent on something else
- limited or restricted; not absolute
- holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill
verb
adj
noun
- (logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
- (programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
- A condition (a limitation or restriction).
- (grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
- (grammar) The conditional mood.
adj
adv
adj
- tolerant or lenient
- (of a commodity or market or currency) falling or likely to fall in value
- mild and pleasant
- compassionate and kind; conciliatory
- using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward the hard palate; characterized by a hissing or hushing sound (as ‘s’ and ‘sh’)
- (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
- easily hurt
- (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone
- out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
- produced with vibration of the vocal cords
- not burdensome or demanding; borne or done easily and without hardship
- willing to negotiate and compromise
- having little impact
- soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
- yielding readily to pressure or weight
- not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
- (of sound) relatively low in volume
- not brilliant or glaring
- (of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction.
- (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
- Not bright or intense.
- (Slavic, phonology) Palatalized.
- (photography, of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- (computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
- (UK, of a man) Effeminate.
- (phonetics, rare) Voiceless.
- (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- (of kinks or sexual activity) Mild, tame, moderate; far from intense or excluding harsh elements.
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- Limp, weak.
- Of coal: bituminous, as opposed to anthracitic.
- (of a drink) Not containing alcohol.
- (informal, idiomatic, followed by on) Attracted to or emotionally involved with someone.
- (of a sound) Quiet.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Of paper: unsized.
- Of silk: having the natural gum cleaned or washed off.
- (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- Easy-going, lenient, not strict; permissive.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- (UK, colloquial) Foolish.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- (finance) Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- Of weather: warm enough to melt ice; thawing.
- Gentle.
- (phonetics) Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- (slang) Excessively empathetic or concerned about others’ wellbeing.
- (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
- (of pornography) Softcore
adv
noun
adj
- Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.
- Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty.
- On course to hit, or successful in hitting, a target; well-aimed.
- Capable of consistently hitting a target, especially using some weapon or tool.
- (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct
- conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy