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adj
- avoiding excess
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
verb
adj
noun
- (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
- An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
- an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
- a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
noun
- abstaining from excess
- a manner that is serious and solemn
- the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol
- moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs
- Soundness of judgment.
- The quality or state of being grave or earnestly thoughtful.
- Modesty in color or style.
- A state of moderation or seriousness.
- The state or quality of being unhurried; a state of calm.
- The quality or state of not being intoxicated.
noun
- abstaining from excess
- the trait of avoiding excesses
- the act of tempering
- Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence.
- Moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
- Moderation of passion; calmness.
adj
- prudent
- (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
- Watched over; supervised.
- Cautious; restrained.
- (medicine, of prognosis) A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.
verb
noun
- the trait of avoiding excesses
- the action of lessening in severity or intensity
- quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
- a change for the better
- An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way
- The process of moderating a discussion
- Usage of neutron moderator to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
- The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes
adj
noun
adj
noun
noun
noun
verb
- To close up by building.
- (card games) In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To strengthen.
- To erect; to construct.
- (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.
- bolster or strengthen
- change the use of and make available or usable
- enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
- form or accumulate steadily
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
verb
- To take sparingly.
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
- experience briefly
- perceive by the sense of taste
- distinguish flavors
- take a sample of
- have flavor; taste of something
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
adj
noun
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- a brief experience of something
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
verb
- (intransitive) To become less excessive.
- (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
- (transitive, physics) To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).
- (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
- (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.
- make less fast or intense
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- preside over
- make less strong or intense; soften
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- make less severe or harsh
adj
- Mediocre
- Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
- (pathology) more than mild, less than severe
- Average priced; standard-deal
- (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
- Not excessive; acting in moderation
- being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
- marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes
- not extreme
noun
- (Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.
- One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
- a person who takes a position in the political center
verb
- (transitive) To accumulate.
- (intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
- (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
- (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
- (intransitive) To increase, to rise
- grow by addition
- come into the possession of
verb
- Misspelling of pile up.
- (intransitive, of skin care products) To flake off the skin.
- (intransitive) To use drugs in pill form (a small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication).
- (intransitive, of fabric) To become thoroughly pilled (to form small matted balls of fiber).
verb
noun
- (in the plural) The branches of a bridle bit.
- One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.
- (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
- (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
- Either side of an axehead.
- (metalworking) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
- (anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
- (figurative, informal, uncountable) Impudence.
- (nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
- either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump
- either side of the face below the eyes
- impudent aggressiveness
- an impudent statement
adj
verb
- To be careful about.
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
noun
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
noun
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
adj
- That tends to accumulate.
- (linguistics) Adding one statement to another.
- (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.
- Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.
- (law) (of evidence, witnesses, etc.) Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively.
- That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
- increasing by successive addition
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- An electrical shunt.
- A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
- The act of going past or around.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
verb
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move around; move from place to place
- be released or become known; of news
- To visit numerous different places.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
verb
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- turn on or around an axis or a center
- go around the flank of (an opposing army)
- be sufficient
- become widely known and passed on
- (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
- (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
- (intransitive, slang) To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.
- (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.
adj
- Cautious.
- (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
- Properly secured.
- Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
- Certain; sure.
- (baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
- (snooker, of an object ball) In a location that renders it difficult to pot.
- Reliable; trusty.
- Free from risk.
- (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
- (UK, law, of a conviction) Supported by evidence and unlikely to be overturned. Usually used in the negative, as unsafe.
- (UK, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
- Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
- having reached a base without being put out
- free from danger or the risk of harm
- financially safe
- (of an undertaking) secure from risk
noun
- (slang) A condom.
- A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
- strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests
verb
noun
- abstaining from excess
- a manner that is serious and solemn
- the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol
- moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs
- Soundness of judgment.
- The quality or state of being grave or earnestly thoughtful.
- Modesty in color or style.
- A state of moderation or seriousness.
- The state or quality of being unhurried; a state of calm.
- The quality or state of not being intoxicated.
noun
- abstaining from excess
- the trait of avoiding excesses
- the act of tempering
- Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence.
- Moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
- Moderation of passion; calmness.
noun
- the trait of avoiding excesses
- the action of lessening in severity or intensity
- quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
- a change for the better
- An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way
- The process of moderating a discussion
- Usage of neutron moderator to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
- The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes
noun
noun
verb
- To close up by building.
- (card games) In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣)
- (transitive, idiomatic) To strengthen.
- To erect; to construct.
- (intransitive, transitive, idiomatic) To accumulate: to increase incrementally or continually.
- bolster or strengthen
- change the use of and make available or usable
- enlarge, develop, or increase by degrees or in stages
- form or accumulate steadily
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
verb
adj
noun
- (in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
- An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
- an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
- a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
verb
- To take sparingly.
- To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
- (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
- (intransitive, copulative) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavor is distinguished.
- (transitive) To identify (a flavor) by sampling something orally.
- (transitive, figurative) To experience.
- experience briefly
- perceive by the sense of taste
- distinguish flavors
- take a sample of
- have flavor; taste of something
- have a distinctive or characteristic taste
adj
noun
- A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
- The sense that consists in the perception and interpretation of this sensation.
- Personal preference; liking; predilection.
- (figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality as a whole.
- (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary, sartorial, etc.
- One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals; the quality of giving this sensation.
- A small sample of food, drink, or recreational drugs.
- a strong liking
- delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)
- a brief experience of something
- the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
- the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- a small amount eaten or drunk
- a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds
verb
- (intransitive) To become less excessive.
- (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
- (transitive, physics) To supply with a moderator (substance that decreases the speed of neutrons in a nuclear reactor and hence increases likelihood of fission).
- (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
- (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.
- make less fast or intense
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- preside over
- make less strong or intense; soften
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- make less severe or harsh
adj
- Mediocre
- Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
- (pathology) more than mild, less than severe
- Average priced; standard-deal
- (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
- Not excessive; acting in moderation
- being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
- marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes
- not extreme
noun
- (Christianity, historical) One of a party in Scottish Church history dominant in the 18th century, lax in doctrine and discipline, but intolerant of evangelicalism and popular rights. It caused the secessions of 1733 and 1761, and its final resultant was the Disruption of 1843.
- One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
- a person who takes a position in the political center
verb
- (transitive) To accumulate.
- (intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
- (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
- (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
- (intransitive) To increase, to rise
- grow by addition
- come into the possession of
verb
- Misspelling of pile up.
- (intransitive, of skin care products) To flake off the skin.
- (intransitive) To use drugs in pill form (a small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication).
- (intransitive, of fabric) To become thoroughly pilled (to form small matted balls of fiber).
verb
noun
- (in the plural) The branches of a bridle bit.
- One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.
- (biology, informal) One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.
- (anatomy) The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.
- Either side of an axehead.
- (metalworking) The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
- (anatomy, informal, usually in the plural) The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.
- (figurative, informal, uncountable) Impudence.
- (nautical) pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down
- either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump
- either side of the face below the eyes
- impudent aggressiveness
- an impudent statement
verb
- To be careful about.
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
noun
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to remember things.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
noun
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- An electrical shunt.
- A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
- The act of going past or around.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
verb
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move around; move from place to place
- be released or become known; of news
- To visit numerous different places.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
- To transport oneself from place to place.
- (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
- To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
- (figuratively) To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
- To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
verb
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious
- turn on or around an axis or a center
- go around the flank of (an opposing army)
- be sufficient
- become widely known and passed on
- (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
- (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
- (intransitive, slang) To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
- (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.
- (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.
adj
- avoiding excess
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- unimaginatively conventional
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- Cautious, moderate.
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
noun
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
adj
- prudent
- (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
- Watched over; supervised.
- Cautious; restrained.
- (medicine, of prognosis) A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
adj
- That tends to accumulate.
- (linguistics) Adding one statement to another.
- (finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.
- Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.
- (law) (of evidence, witnesses, etc.) Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively.
- That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
- increasing by successive addition
adj
- Cautious.
- (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
- Properly secured.
- Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
- (used after a noun, often forming a compound) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
- Certain; sure.
- (baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
- (snooker, of an object ball) In a location that renders it difficult to pot.
- Reliable; trusty.
- Free from risk.
- (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
- (UK, law, of a conviction) Supported by evidence and unlikely to be overturned. Usually used in the negative, as unsafe.
- (UK, slang) Great, cool, awesome, respectable; a term of approbation, often as interjection.
- Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
- having reached a base without being put out
- free from danger or the risk of harm
- financially safe
- (of an undertaking) secure from risk
noun
- (slang) A condom.
- A box, usually made of metal, in which valuables can be locked for safekeeping.
- strongbox where valuables can be safely kept
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- a ventilated or refrigerated cupboard for securing provisions from pests