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noun
- (computing) A program or process that boots.
- (computing) The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.
- (sports) A person who plays association football.
- (computing, video games) A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standardized operating system.
- (Canada, slang) The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
noun
- One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
- Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
- (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
- (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
- (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
- (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
- (figurative) One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
- (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
- (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
- a distinct feature or element in a problem
- a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
verb
noun
- the action of putting something into operation
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the work of applying something
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- a diligent effort
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
verb
- (statistics) To employ a bootstrap method.
- (by extension) To build or put together (something) by first building or putting together the tools, building blocks, ideas, etc., necessary to build (the thing).
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- (computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of a system or program.
- (computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- help oneself, often through improvised means
noun
- (statistics) Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
- (computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- (figuratively) A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
- (computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
- a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on
noun
- the activity of constructing something again
- an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall
- The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
- The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
- A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
- The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.
- (linguistics) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
noun
- (computing) A process launched by another process.
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- the immediate descendants of a person
- any immature animal
- something that comes into existence as a result
noun
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
- (uncountable) Terrain.
- (electricity, Philippines) Electric shock.
- (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- (in combination) A place suited to a specified activity.
- (historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- (electricity) An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- (etching) A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
- The pit of a theatre.
- (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- (sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- Soil, earth.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- (point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- (countable, UK) A soccer stadium.
- (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- (figurative, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- (Philippines, transitive) To electrocute.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- (machine learning, transitive) To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.
- (transitive) To place something on the ground.
- simple past and past participle of grind
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- (US, transitive) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- (cricket) To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
- (transitive) To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- (baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- (transitive) To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
- hit or reach the ground
- place or put on the ground
- fix firmly and stably
- throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
- bring to the ground
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- connect to a ground
- confine or restrict to the ground
- instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- use as a basis for; found on
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.
noun
- The process of doing something.
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a manifestation of insincerity
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
adv
verb
- (transitive) To feign.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
- be suitable for theatrical performance
noun
- The process of creating something new.
- (countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
- (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
- (uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
- The process of coining money.
- a newly invented word or phrase
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
- coins collectively
noun
- The process of constructing.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The trade of building structures.
- The manner in which something is built.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of constructing something
noun
- the initial stage in accomplishing something
- the base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- (baseball) The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
- (blackjack) The betting spot located immediately to the left of the dealer, which is first to receive cards and first to act.
- (singular only, by extension) Completion of the first phase of an activity.
- (singular only, US, colloquial) Kissing, regarded as the first phase of a sexual relationship.
noun
- The process by which something flags or tires.
- (television) The skewing or bending of the upper part of a television picture due to imperfect synchronization of the video signal.
- A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
- Use of a handkerchief code or analogous display to signal sexual interests.
- flagstones collectively
- a walk of flagstones
adj
verb
noun
- The act or process of starting a process or machine.
- A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
- (computing, often capitalized) A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.
- the act of starting a new operation or practice
- the act of setting in operation
verb
- set up or lay the groundwork for
- institute, enact, or establish
- bring about
- set up or found
- place
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- use as a basis for; found on
- build or establish something abstract
- (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
- (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
- (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
- (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
verb
- set up or lay the groundwork for
- set up or found
- use as a basis for; found on
- To begin building.
- To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
- To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
- To use as a foundation; to base.
- simple past and past participle of find
- To start (an institution or organization).
adj
noun
verb
noun
- an association organized to promote art or science or education
- (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
- An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
- The building housing such an institution.
- An organization founded to promote a cause
verb
- set up or lay the groundwork for
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- fix or set securely or deeply
- place into a river
- put firmly in the mind
- place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
- (transitive) To place in the ground.
- (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.
- (ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
noun
- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
- an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
- something planted secretly for discovery by another
- (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- (control theory) A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
- (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- (Australia) The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
- (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- (countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- (uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
- (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
noun
- (computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.
- (astronomy) Initialism of blue compact dwarf.
- (computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.
- (military) Initialism of bad-conduct discharge.
- Initialism of behind closed doors.
- (psychology, professional credential) Initialism of board-certified diplomate.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of buoyancy control device.
- (cycling) Initialism of bolt circle diameter (a measurement of the various sizes of chainring).
noun
- (manufacturing) The process by which components of a system are exercised prior to being placed in service (and sometimes before assembly), forcing certain failures to occur under supervised conditions.
- The phase preceding a burn-out in which a worker's productivity and engagement with their work declines.
noun
- A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
- (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
- A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
verb
noun
- (computing) A program or process that boots.
- (computing) The floppy disk used to launch a game in such a manner.
- (sports) A person who plays association football.
- (computing, video games) A game that is launched by booting directly from the floppy disk containing the game program, rather than starting the program from within the computer's standardized operating system.
- (Canada, slang) The experience of stepping in a deep puddle and having one's foot become completely engulfed in water.
noun
- One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
- Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
- (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
- (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
- (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
- (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
- (figurative) One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
- (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
- (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
- a distinct feature or element in a problem
- a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
verb
noun
- the action of putting something into operation
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the work of applying something
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- a diligent effort
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
noun
- the activity of constructing something again
- an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence
- recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall
- The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
- The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
- A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
- The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.
- (linguistics) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
noun
- (computing) A process launched by another process.
- An animal or plant's progeny or young.
- A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
- Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
- (figuratively) Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
- the immediate descendants of a person
- any immature animal
- something that comes into existence as a result
noun
- Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
- (uncountable) Terrain.
- (electricity, Philippines) Electric shock.
- (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).
- (in combination) A place suited to a specified activity.
- (historical) The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".
- The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
- (electricity) An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- (etching) A gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
- The pit of a theatre.
- (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
- (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.
- (chiefly in the plural) Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
- (sculpture) A flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
- Soil, earth.
- Background, context, framework, surroundings.
- (point lace) The net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
- The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
- (countable, UK) A soccer stadium.
- (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
- (figurative, by extension) Advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.
- a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- a rational motive for a belief or action
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
- (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
- (Philippines, transitive) To electrocute.
- (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
- (machine learning, transitive) To complement a machine learning model with relevant information it was not trained on.
- (transitive) To place something on the ground.
- simple past and past participle of grind
- To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
- (US, transitive) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
- (cricket) To place a bat or part of the body on the ground to avoid being run out.
- (transitive) To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
- (baseball) To hit a ground ball. Compare fly (verb (regular)) and line (verb).
- (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing them to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.
- (transitive) To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
- hit or reach the ground
- place or put on the ground
- fix firmly and stably
- throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
- bring to the ground
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- connect to a ground
- confine or restrict to the ground
- instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- use as a basis for; found on
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.
noun
- The process of doing something.
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- something that people do or cause to happen
- a short performance that is part of a longer program
- a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
- a manifestation of insincerity
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
adv
verb
- (transitive) To feign.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- play a role or part
- discharge one's duties
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- perform on a stage or theater
- be suitable for theatrical performance
noun
- The process of creating something new.
- (countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
- (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
- (uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
- The process of coining money.
- a newly invented word or phrase
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
- coins collectively
noun
- The process of constructing.
- The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
- Anything that has been constructed.
- The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
- A building, model or some other structure.
- The trade of building structures.
- The manner in which something is built.
- (art) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
- (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
- (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of constructing something
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- the initial stage in accomplishing something
- the base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- (baseball) The base after home plate in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield.
- (blackjack) The betting spot located immediately to the left of the dealer, which is first to receive cards and first to act.
- (singular only, by extension) Completion of the first phase of an activity.
- (singular only, US, colloquial) Kissing, regarded as the first phase of a sexual relationship.
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- The process by which something flags or tires.
- (television) The skewing or bending of the upper part of a television picture due to imperfect synchronization of the video signal.
- A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
- Use of a handkerchief code or analogous display to signal sexual interests.
- flagstones collectively
- a walk of flagstones
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- The act or process of starting a process or machine.
- A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
- (computing, often capitalized) A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.
- the act of starting a new operation or practice
- the act of setting in operation
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- (computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.
- (astronomy) Initialism of blue compact dwarf.
- (computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.
- (military) Initialism of bad-conduct discharge.
- Initialism of behind closed doors.
- (psychology, professional credential) Initialism of board-certified diplomate.
- (underwater diving) Initialism of buoyancy control device.
- (cycling) Initialism of bolt circle diameter (a measurement of the various sizes of chainring).
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- (manufacturing) The process by which components of a system are exercised prior to being placed in service (and sometimes before assembly), forcing certain failures to occur under supervised conditions.
- The phase preceding a burn-out in which a worker's productivity and engagement with their work declines.
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- A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
- (Canada, US) Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
- A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
- flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
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- (statistics) To employ a bootstrap method.
- (by extension) To build or put together (something) by first building or putting together the tools, building blocks, ideas, etc., necessary to build (the thing).
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- (computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of a system or program.
- (computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- help oneself, often through improvised means
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- (statistics) Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
- (computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- (figuratively) A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
- (computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
- a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on
verb
- set up or lay the groundwork for
- institute, enact, or establish
- bring about
- set up or found
- place
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- use as a basis for; found on
- build or establish something abstract
- (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
- (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
- (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
- (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
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- set up or lay the groundwork for
- set up or found
- use as a basis for; found on
- To begin building.
- To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
- To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
- To use as a foundation; to base.
- simple past and past participle of find
- To start (an institution or organization).
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- an association organized to promote art or science or education
- (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
- An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
- The building housing such an institution.
- An organization founded to promote a cause
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- set up or lay the groundwork for
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- fix or set securely or deeply
- place into a river
- put firmly in the mind
- place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
- (transitive) To place in the ground.
- (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.
- (ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
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- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
- an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
- something planted secretly for discovery by another
- (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- (control theory) A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
- (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- (Australia) The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
- (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- (countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- (uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
- (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.