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- The act of disqualifying, or the state of being disqualified
- the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified
- That which disqualifies; that which causes someone to be unfit for a certain purpose or role
- (basketball): The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.
- unfitness that bars you from participation
verb
- disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case
- challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law
- (reflexive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- (intransitive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- (chiefly Canada, US, law) To object to (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) participating in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
noun
- (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves
- (law) The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.
- (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties
verb
- deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- maneuver into a dock
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- deduct from someone's wages
- come into dock
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- To join two moving items.
- (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
noun
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- (theater) Ellipsis of scene-dock.
- The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
- (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
verb
- invalidate by judicial action
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
noun
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- A qualification or exemption.
- A warning.
- (law) A formal objection.
- (law) A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.
- (law) A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
- a warning against certain acts
- (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing
verb
noun
- the act of making something legally void
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
- An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
- (general) Freedom from some business or activity.
- A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
- (US, law) The act of making legally void.
- The act of vacating something; moving out.
- An extended period of leisure time away from work or school.
verb
adj
- legally not qualified or sufficient
- not doing a good job
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- not meeting requirements
- not qualified or suited for a purpose
- (geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.
- Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
- (medicine, of the cervix) Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
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- Indicating exclusion.
- Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
- With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.
- Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
- Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
- Indicating differentiation.
- Indicating removal or separation.
- (MLE) Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being.
- Indicating a starting point in time.
- Used to indicate source or provenance.
- (mathematics, chiefly British, not in formal use) Denoting a subtraction operation.
- Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
- Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
- Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
noun
- (military) Disqualification to hold office.
- The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval, reproof or censure.
- (Christianity) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment; damnation.
- severe disapproval
- rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell
noun
- an act exempting someone
- a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of their status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)
- immunity from an obligation or duty
- A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
- Freedom from a defect or weakness.
- An act of exempting.
- The state of being exempt; immunity.
noun
- an act exempting someone
- the quality of being unaffected by something
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the state of not being susceptible
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
noun
- A legal exemption from jurisdiction.
- (sports) The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization.
- A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.
- (business, marketing) The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand.
- Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
- The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.
- The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage.
- The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.
- The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
- The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular fictional universe, including literary, film, or television series from various sources, generally when all authorized by a copyright holder or similar authority.
- A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
- An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.
- a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
- an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
- a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
verb
verb
noun
- (humorous) One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
- (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
- (history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
- A wild or violent animal, such as a horse.
- A person who operates outside established norms.
- (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
- A fugitive from the law.
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
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adj
verb
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- hang freely
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- make inoperative or stop
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- render temporarily ineffective
adj
- subject to legal action
- (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- held legally responsible
- (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely.
- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
- Subject; susceptible; prone.
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
noun
- an exemption from some rule or obligation
- the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
- a share that has been dispensed or distributed
- The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
- A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
- That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
- (Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
- The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
- The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
adv
- (law) Not leaving discretion to the judge to take into account additional factors that could rebut the judgment, deriving the qualification from the statute.
- Without determination by or involvement of extraneous factors; by its very nature.
- (philosophy) As the principle of its own determination and positing itself.
- (nonstandard, more loosely, chiefly in the negative) In a true or literal sense; as one would expect from the name or description.
- with respect to its inherent nature
adj
noun
noun
- The act of disqualifying, or the state of being disqualified
- the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified
- That which disqualifies; that which causes someone to be unfit for a certain purpose or role
- (basketball): The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.
- unfitness that bars you from participation
noun
- (law) the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or judges can disqualify themselves
- (law) The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.
- (law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties
noun
noun
- A qualification or exemption.
- A warning.
- (law) A formal objection.
- (law) A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.
- (law) A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
- a warning against certain acts
- (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing
verb
noun
- the act of making something legally void
- leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure
- An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure.
- (general) Freedom from some business or activity.
- A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
- (US, law) The act of making legally void.
- The act of vacating something; moving out.
- An extended period of leisure time away from work or school.
verb
noun
noun
- (military) Disqualification to hold office.
- The act of reprobating; the state of being reprobated; strong disapproval, reproof or censure.
- (Christianity) The predestination of a certain number of the human race as reprobates, or objects of condemnation and punishment; damnation.
- severe disapproval
- rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell
noun
- an act exempting someone
- a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of their status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.)
- immunity from an obligation or duty
- A deduction from the normal amount of taxes.
- Freedom from a defect or weakness.
- An act of exempting.
- The state of being exempt; immunity.
noun
- an act exempting someone
- the quality of being unaffected by something
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the state of not being susceptible
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
noun
- A legal exemption from jurisdiction.
- (sports) The collection of organizations in the history of a sports team; the tradition of a sports team as an entity, extending beyond the contemporary organization.
- A business operating under such authorization, a franchisee.
- (business, marketing) The positive influence on the buying behavior of customers exerted by the reputation of a company or a brand.
- Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.
- The membership of a corporation or state; citizenship.
- The right to vote at a public election or referendum; see: suffrage.
- The authorization granted by a company to sell or distribute its goods or services in a certain area.
- The district or jurisdiction to which a particular privilege extends; the limits of an immunity; hence, an asylum or sanctuary.
- The loose collection of fictional works pertaining to a particular fictional universe, including literary, film, or television series from various sources, generally when all authorized by a copyright holder or similar authority.
- A right or privilege officially granted to a person, a group of people, or a company by a government.
- An acknowledgment of a corporation's existence and ownership.
- a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
- an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place
- a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
verb
noun
adj
noun
- an exemption from some rule or obligation
- the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
- a share that has been dispensed or distributed
- The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.
- A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
- That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
- (Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
- The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
- The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
verb
- disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case
- challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law
- (reflexive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare (oneself) unable to participate in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- (intransitive, law) Of a judge, juror, or prosecutor: to declare oneself disqualified from trying a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- (chiefly Canada, US, law) To object to (a judge, juror, or prosecutor) participating in a court case due to an actual or potential conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.
- To reject or repudiate (an authority, a person, a court judgment, etc.).
verb
- deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- maneuver into a dock
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- deduct from someone's wages
- come into dock
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- To join two moving items.
- (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
noun
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- (theater) Ellipsis of scene-dock.
- The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
- (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
verb
- invalidate by judicial action
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
verb
noun
- (humorous) One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
- (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
- (history) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
- A wild or violent animal, such as a horse.
- A person who operates outside established norms.
- (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
- A fugitive from the law.
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
adj
verb
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- hang freely
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- make inoperative or stop
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- render temporarily ineffective
adv
- (law) Not leaving discretion to the judge to take into account additional factors that could rebut the judgment, deriving the qualification from the statute.
- Without determination by or involvement of extraneous factors; by its very nature.
- (philosophy) As the principle of its own determination and positing itself.
- (nonstandard, more loosely, chiefly in the negative) In a true or literal sense; as one would expect from the name or description.
- with respect to its inherent nature
adj
adj
noun
verb
adj
- legally not qualified or sufficient
- not doing a good job
- showing lack of skill or aptitude
- not meeting requirements
- not qualified or suited for a purpose
- (geology) Not resistant to deformation or flow.
- Unable to make rational decisions; insane or otherwise cognitively impaired.
- (medicine, of the cervix) Opening too early during pregnancy, resulting in miscarriage or premature birth.
- Lacking the degree of ability and responsibility necessary to do a task successfully.
noun
adj
verb
adj
- subject to legal action
- (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- held legally responsible
- (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely.
- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
- Subject; susceptible; prone.
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.