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adj
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action.
- Not perfect,
- (botany) Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- not perfect; defective or inadequate
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verb
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- (grammar) Continuous.
- (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- (politics) Liberal.
- (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Advancing in severity.
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- advancing in severity
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- gradually advancing in extent
- favoring or promoting progress
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
noun
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
- (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
- Clipping of progressive dinner
- a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
verb
noun
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
adj
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
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noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of tense phrase.
- (physiology) Initialism of threshold potential.
- (anatomy) Initialism of transverse process.
- Initialism of true positive.
- (medicine) Initialism of trigger point.
- (mathematics) Initialism of transportation problem.
- (engineering) Initialism of true position.
- (networking) Initialism of termination point.
- (baseball) Initialism of triple play.
- (military) Initialism of torpedo boat.
- Initialism of textile paper.
- (colloquial) Initialism of toilet paper.
verb
adj
- (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- Without intervening space; continued.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
- (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
- continuing in time or space without interruption
adj
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action.
- Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
- Morally or spiritually immaculate or ideal.
- (botany, of flowers) Having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
- (obsolete outside set of phrases, of a person) Having thoroughly learned or memorized a lesson; of a lesson: having been thoroughly learned or memorized.
- (biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
- (of a copy) Exact, correctly reflecting the original in all aspects.
- (music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
- (mathematics, of a number) Equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
- Excellent and delightful in all respects.
- (of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
- Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
- (mathematical analysis, of a set) Equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
- (of an actor) Having thoroughly learned or memorized a part.
- Fitting its definition precisely.
- being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- precisely accurate or exact
noun
- (grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
- (video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
- (historical, Christianity) A leader of the Cathar movement.
verb
noun
- (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The act of neutering (typically an animal)
- (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
- (grammar) The neuter gender.
- (biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
adj
- (grammar) Intransitive.
- (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
- (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
- (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
- (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
- (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
- having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
- neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
verb
- (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.
- (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- (transitive) To rid of sexuality.
- remove the ovaries of
verb
- (transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate.
- (transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- (transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).
- (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
- (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- (transitive) To possess, own.
- (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- (transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- (transitive) To give birth to.
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- (informal, usually passive) To obtain.
- (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- (transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- (informal, often passive, transitive) To trick, to deceive.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is a small clause.)
- (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- (transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- (transitive) To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- (transitive) To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- (dated outside Ireland, transitive) To be able to speak (a language).
- (British, slang, transitive) To defeat in a fight; take.
- (transitive) To experience, go through, undergo.
- (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
- (British, slang, transitive) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- (transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- (transitive) To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- undergo
- achieve a point or goal
- have as a feature
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- get something; come into possession of
- be confronted with
- have a personal or business relationship with someone
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- have ownership or possession of
- receive willingly something given or offered
- cause to be born
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- suffer from; be ill with
- organize or be responsible for
- have sex with; archaic use
noun
noun
- (grammar) A tense that expresses an unbroken action continuing at the present time, started in the past. In English it is formed by using have been with a present participle.
- A verb construction (made up of has been or have been plus the present participle) that emphasizes the ongoing nature of an action that began in the past and continues in the present.
adj
- (grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.
- (grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
- (astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude).
- Connected: being joined, united, connected.
- (grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
- (logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.
- Connective: tending to join, unite, connect.
- (grammar) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
- serving or tending to connect
- involving the joint activity of two or more
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adj
- (rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
- (probability) Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
- (grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
- designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object
adj
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- Able to change and adapt.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Powerful; energetic.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
- of or relating to dynamics
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
noun
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (physics) A moving force.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
- an efficient incentive
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- (colloquial) continuing; active; in a state of activity or development.
- (colloquial) About to happen; imminent.
- (sports, rugby, colloquial) (Of a player taking a pass) running at full speed towards the opposition.
- (Of a heated liquid) boiling.
- (sports, colloquial) Playing exceptionally well.
- (Of a heated liquid) simmering strongly and about to boil.
- (colloquial) Going smoothly; working well.
noun
- (countable, grammar) A verb in the imperative mood.
- a verb in the imperative mood.
- (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
- a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- some duty that is essential and urgent
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- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
adj
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
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- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
noun
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
- (grammar) A verb tense expressing ongoing action; in English, any of the tenses formed with the present participle, namely present continuous ("I am dreaming"), past continuous ("I was dreaming"), present perfect continuous ("I have been dreaming"), past perfect continuous ("I had been dreaming"), future continuous ("I will be dreaming") or future perfect continuous ("I will have been dreaming").
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- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- number needed to make up a whole force
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb
- (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
- (transitive, of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (transitive, of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
- (transitive, generally) To know the meaning of.
- believe to be the case
- make sense of a language
- know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- be understanding of
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- a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
- Often, specifically, the present perfect tense as distinguished from the past perfect and future perfect tenses.
- A verb form indicating that an action or state has been completed at the present time, in the past, or shall be completed in the future.
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- (transitive or intransitive, colloquial) To focus entirely (on something).
- (transitive, colloquial) To prevent (someone or something) from escaping, deteriorating, or switching to an alternative.
- (transitive) To fix the value of (something potentially variable).
- (transitive, music) To synchronize (especially a rhythm section) into a groove.
- (transitive) To secure (someone or something) in a locked enclosure.
- close with or as if with a tight seal
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
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- (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
- (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
- (ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
- (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
- (ambitransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
- (transitive) To avoid or escape.
- (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- (transitive) To fail to understand.
- (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
- (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
- (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.
- (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to attend an event or activity
- fail to reach or get to
- feel or suffer from the lack of
- fail to experience
- be absent
- leave undone or leave out
- fail to reach
- be without
noun
- A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
- A kept woman; a mistress.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to physically hit.
- (snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
- A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
- (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.
- (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
- a young female
- a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)
adj
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Word for word.
- Of or relating to words.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- communicated in the form of words
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- relating to or having facility in the use of words
- of or relating to or formed from words in general
noun
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
- (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
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- (transitive, usually in present tense) To regard or specifically pertain to.
- (transitive) To total; to amount to.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
- (transitive) To seek help from.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, to.
- (transitive) To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
- (transitive) To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
- (transitive) To reach; to arrive at.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, nautical) To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
- cause to experience suddenly
- return to consciousness
- be relevant to
- attain
adj
- (colloquial) Aware, informed (to something).
- Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
- (colloquial, ironic, sarcastic) Disrespectful.
- marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
- having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
- improperly forward or bold
- evidencing the possession of inside information
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- a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
- (grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
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adj
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action.
- Not perfect,
- (botany) Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- not perfect; defective or inadequate
noun
verb
noun
- (linguistics) Initialism of tense phrase.
- (physiology) Initialism of threshold potential.
- (anatomy) Initialism of transverse process.
- Initialism of true positive.
- (medicine) Initialism of trigger point.
- (mathematics) Initialism of transportation problem.
- (engineering) Initialism of true position.
- (networking) Initialism of termination point.
- (baseball) Initialism of triple play.
- (military) Initialism of torpedo boat.
- Initialism of textile paper.
- (colloquial) Initialism of toilet paper.
verb
noun
- (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The act of neutering (typically an animal)
- (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
- (grammar) The neuter gender.
- (biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
adj
- (grammar) Intransitive.
- (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
- (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
- (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
- (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
- (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
- having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
- neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
verb
- (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.
- (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- (transitive) To rid of sexuality.
- remove the ovaries of
noun
- (grammar) A tense that expresses an unbroken action continuing at the present time, started in the past. In English it is formed by using have been with a present participle.
- A verb construction (made up of has been or have been plus the present participle) that emphasizes the ongoing nature of an action that began in the past and continues in the present.
verb
noun
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
adj
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
noun
adj
- (rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
- (probability) Of a set of dice: containing three dice A, B, and C, with the property that A rolls higher than B more than half the time, and B rolls higher than C more than half the time, but lacking the property that A rolls higher than C more than half the time. See intransitive dice and intransitive game.
- (grammar, of a verb) Not transitive: not having, or not taking, a direct object.
- designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object
noun
- (countable, grammar) A verb in the imperative mood.
- a verb in the imperative mood.
- (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
- a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- some duty that is essential and urgent
adj
noun
adj
adj
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- Able to change and adapt.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Powerful; energetic.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
- of or relating to dynamics
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
noun
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (physics) A moving force.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
- an efficient incentive
adj
- (grammar) Continuous.
- (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- (politics) Liberal.
- (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Advancing in severity.
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- advancing in severity
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- gradually advancing in extent
- favoring or promoting progress
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
noun
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
- (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
- Clipping of progressive dinner
- a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
noun
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
- (grammar) A verb tense expressing ongoing action; in English, any of the tenses formed with the present participle, namely present continuous ("I am dreaming"), past continuous ("I was dreaming"), present perfect continuous ("I have been dreaming"), past perfect continuous ("I had been dreaming"), future continuous ("I will be dreaming") or future perfect continuous ("I will have been dreaming").
noun
- a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
- number needed to make up a whole force
- either of two parts that mutually complete each other
- a complete number or quantity
- one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
- something added to complete or embellish or make perfect
- (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
- (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
- (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
- Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
- (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
- (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
- (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
- (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb
- make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
adj
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action.
- Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
- Morally or spiritually immaculate or ideal.
- (botany, of flowers) Having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
- (obsolete outside set of phrases, of a person) Having thoroughly learned or memorized a lesson; of a lesson: having been thoroughly learned or memorized.
- (biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
- (of a copy) Exact, correctly reflecting the original in all aspects.
- (music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
- (mathematics, of a number) Equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
- Excellent and delightful in all respects.
- (of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
- Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
- (mathematical analysis, of a set) Equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
- (of an actor) Having thoroughly learned or memorized a part.
- Fitting its definition precisely.
- being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- precisely accurate or exact
noun
- (grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
- (video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
- (historical, Christianity) A leader of the Cathar movement.
verb
noun
adj
name
adj
noun
noun
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
- Often, specifically, the present perfect tense as distinguished from the past perfect and future perfect tenses.
- A verb form indicating that an action or state has been completed at the present time, in the past, or shall be completed in the future.
noun
- a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses
- (grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
verb
noun
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood.
- (linguistics, grammar, countable) An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense.
- (linguistics, uncountable) The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists.
- (grammar, countable, proscribed) A grammatical aspect.
- a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
adj
- Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
- Pulled taut, without any slack.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.
- Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
- taut or rigid; stretched tight
- in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘beat’)
verb
- (transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate.
- (transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- (transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).
- (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
- (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- (transitive) To possess, own.
- (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- (transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- (transitive) To give birth to.
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- (informal, usually passive) To obtain.
- (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- (transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- (informal, often passive, transitive) To trick, to deceive.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is a small clause.)
- (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- (transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- (transitive) To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- (transitive) To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- (dated outside Ireland, transitive) To be able to speak (a language).
- (British, slang, transitive) To defeat in a fight; take.
- (transitive) To experience, go through, undergo.
- (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
- (British, slang, transitive) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- (transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- (transitive) To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- undergo
- achieve a point or goal
- have as a feature
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- get something; come into possession of
- be confronted with
- have a personal or business relationship with someone
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- have ownership or possession of
- receive willingly something given or offered
- cause to be born
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- suffer from; be ill with
- organize or be responsible for
- have sex with; archaic use
noun
verb
- (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
- (transitive, of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
- (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
- (transitive, intransitive, of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
- (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (transitive, of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
- (transitive, generally) To know the meaning of.
- believe to be the case
- make sense of a language
- know and comprehend the nature or meaning of
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- be understanding of
intj
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, colloquial) To focus entirely (on something).
- (transitive, colloquial) To prevent (someone or something) from escaping, deteriorating, or switching to an alternative.
- (transitive) To fix the value of (something potentially variable).
- (transitive, music) To synchronize (especially a rhythm section) into a groove.
- (transitive) To secure (someone or something) in a locked enclosure.
- close with or as if with a tight seal
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
noun
verb
- (transitive, mostly continuous tenses) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present (see also adjectival missing).
- (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
- (ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.
- (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
- (ambitransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.
- (transitive) To avoid or escape.
- (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- (transitive) To fail to understand.
- (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
- (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.
- (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.
- (transitive) To be too late to connect with or meet something or someone (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- fail to attend an event or activity
- fail to reach or get to
- feel or suffer from the lack of
- fail to experience
- be absent
- leave undone or leave out
- fail to reach
- be without
noun
- A failure to obtain or accomplish something; a failure to succeed.
- A kept woman; a mistress.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to physically hit.
- (snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.
- A title of respect for an unmarried woman with or without a name used.
- (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- A term of address by a student for a female teacher, especially one using their maiden name.
- (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give).
- a young female
- a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)
verb
- (transitive, usually in present tense) To regard or specifically pertain to.
- (transitive) To total; to amount to.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To recover consciousness after fainting etc.
- (transitive) To seek help from.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, to.
- (transitive) To befall; to happen to; to come upon.
- (transitive) To devote attention to in due course; to come around to.
- (transitive) To reach; to arrive at.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, nautical) To stop a sailing vessel, especially by turning into the wind. See also come about.
- cause to experience suddenly
- return to consciousness
- be relevant to
- attain
noun
- (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The act of neutering (typically an animal)
- (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
- (grammar) The neuter gender.
- (biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
adj
- (grammar) Intransitive.
- (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
- (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
- (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
- (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
- (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
- having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
- neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
verb
- (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.
- (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- (transitive) To rid of sexuality.
- remove the ovaries of
adv
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
adj
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
adj
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a continuing or repeated action.
- Not perfect,
- (botany) Unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.
- (taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- not perfect; defective or inadequate
noun
verb
adj
- (grammar) Continuous.
- (of an income tax or other tax) Increasing in rate as the taxable amount increases.
- (politics) Liberal.
- (education) Of or relating to progressive education.
- Promoting or favoring progress towards improved conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods.
- Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- Advancing in severity.
- Gradually advancing in extent; increasing.
- (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position
- advancing in severity
- favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
- gradually advancing in extent
- favoring or promoting progress
- (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases
noun
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
- (grammar) A progressive verb; a verb used in the progressive tense and (in English) generally conjugated to end in -ing.
- One with liberal or progressive political beliefs.
- A person who actively favors or strives for progress towards improved conditions, as in society or government.
- Clipping of progressive dinner
- a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
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adj
- (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- Without intervening space; continued.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
- (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
- continuing in time or space without interruption
adj
- (grammar, of a tense or verb form) Representing a completed action.
- Having all of its parts in harmony with a common purpose.
- Morally or spiritually immaculate or ideal.
- (botany, of flowers) Having both male parts (stamens) and female parts (carpels).
- (obsolete outside set of phrases, of a person) Having thoroughly learned or memorized a lesson; of a lesson: having been thoroughly learned or memorized.
- (biology) Sexually mature and fully differentiated.
- (of a copy) Exact, correctly reflecting the original in all aspects.
- (music) Describing an interval or any compound interval of a unison, octave, or fourths and fifths that are not tritones.
- (mathematics, of a number) Equal to the sum of its proper divisors.
- Excellent and delightful in all respects.
- (of a cocktail) Made with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth.
- Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
- (mathematical analysis, of a set) Equal to its set of limit points, i.e. set A is perfect if A=A'.
- (of an actor) Having thoroughly learned or memorized a part.
- Fitting its definition precisely.
- being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- precisely accurate or exact
noun
- (grammar) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
- a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)
- (video games) A perfect score; the achievement of finishing a stage or task with no mistakes.
- (historical, Christianity) A leader of the Cathar movement.
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adj
- (grammar) Relating to the conjunctive mood.
- (grammar, of a verb) Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
- (astrology, astronomy) Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude).
- Connected: being joined, united, connected.
- (grammar) Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
- (logic) Of or relating to logical conjunction.
- Connective: tending to join, unite, connect.
- (grammar) Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
- serving or tending to connect
- involving the joint activity of two or more
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adj
- (grammar) Of a verb: not stative, but fientive; indicating continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- Changing; active; in motion.
- (computing) Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- Able to change and adapt.
- (music) Having to do with the volume of sound.
- Powerful; energetic.
- Pertaining to dynamics, the branch of mechanics concerned with the effects of forces on the motion of objects.
- of or relating to dynamics
- characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality
- (used of verbs (e.g. ‘to run’) and participial adjectives (e.g. ‘running’ in ‘running water’)) expressing action rather than a state of being
noun
- (grammar) A verb that indicates continued or progressive action on the part of the subject.
- (physics) A moving force.
- (music) A symbol in a musical score that indicates the desired level of volume.
- (music) The varying loudness or volume of a song or the markings that indicate the loudness.
- A characteristic or manner of an interaction; a behavior.
- an efficient incentive
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noun
- (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
- A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
- The act of neutering (typically an animal)
- (uncommon, sometimes offensive) One who has been neutered; eunuch.
- (grammar) The neuter gender.
- (biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
- (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
- a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
adj
- (grammar) Intransitive.
- (now uncommon) Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.
- (literary) Sexless, nonsexual.
- (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
- (of an animal) Castrated; having had the reproductive organs removed.
- (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
- having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
- neither male nor female (of grammatical gender)
verb
- (transitive) To make grammatically neuter.
- (transitive) To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.
- (transitive) To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.
- (transitive) To rid of sexuality.
- remove the ovaries of
adj
- (grammar) Used to form a verb.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
- (grammar) Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Word for word.
- Of or relating to words.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Capable of speech.
- Consisting of words only.
- of or relating to or formed from a verb
- expressed in spoken words
- communicated in the form of words
- tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length
- relating to or having facility in the use of words
- of or relating to or formed from words in general
noun
- (uncountable, UK, Ireland, colloquial) Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- (countable, UK, Ireland) A spoken confession given to police.
- (countable, grammar) A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
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noun
- (countable, grammar) A verb in the imperative mood.
- a verb in the imperative mood.
- (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
- a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
- some duty that is essential and urgent
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adj
- (colloquial) Aware, informed (to something).
- Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
- (colloquial, ironic, sarcastic) Disrespectful.
- marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters
- having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
- improperly forward or bold
- evidencing the possession of inside information