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adj
noun
noun
- law enacted by a legislative body
- (law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body, as opposed to a regulation made by the executive branch or case law made by court precedent.
- (law, uncountable) The completecorpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law.
noun
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- (law) A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.
- (law) The act of making (a bill) into law.
- The act of playing the part of.
noun
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a journey usually by ship
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- the act of passing something to another person
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- An incident or episode.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- The advance of time.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- Part of a path or journey.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
adj
verb
prefix
verb
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
adj
noun
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
noun
- a national legislative assembly
- a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
verb
noun
name
- (more specifically) The House of Representatives of the Philippines.
- (Philippine politics) The legislature of the Philippines.
- A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- (India, Indian politics) Clipping of Indian National Congress
- (US politics) The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
noun
- (US politics) The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.
- The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up their buy-in price when determining their selling price.
- An increase in price.
- (computing) The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
- the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price
- detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)
adj
- composed of two legislative bodies
- consisting of two chambers
- Being or having a system with two, often unequal, chambers or compartments; of, signifying, relating to, or being the product of such a two-chambered system.
- (psychology) Relating to the functions of the two cerebral hemispheres in the history of human beings ‘hearing’ the speech of gods or idols, according to Julian Jaynes's theory of the bicameral mind.
- (typography) Of a script or typeface: having two cases, upper case and lower case.
- (government) Of, having, or relating to two separate legislative chambers or houses.
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of house resolution.
- (occupational health) Initialism of hazard ratio.
- The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
- The human capital of an organization.
- (baseball) Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
- Initialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
- Initialism of heart rate.
- (philately) Initialism of hinge remnant.
- (genetics) Initialism of homologous recombination.
name
noun
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- The extent of what one has read.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
verb
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
name
adj
noun
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
verb
- fit as if by joints
- provide with a joint
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
- (medicine) Initialism of antibody.
- (ABDL) Initialism of adult baby.
- Initialism of asymmetric bars.
- Initialism of artificial breeding.
- (Australia, Adelaide, countable) A halal snack pack consisting of doner meat topped with chips, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, barbecue sauce, and garlic sauce.
- (countable) A person with this blood type.
- Initialism of able seaman or able-bodied seaman.
- Initialism of afterburner.
- Initialism of aid to the blind.
- A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
- (military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
- the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens
- a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
adj
name
noun
- The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
- The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
- Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- State of being pledged or engaged.
- The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
- Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
- Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
- a message that makes a pledge
- the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
- the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
adj
- in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly
- Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.
- having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament
- relating to or having the nature of a parliament
- Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.
- (British, historical, railways) Of a class of train which, by an act of parliament, ran both ways along a line, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile.
noun
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly resolution.
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of artificial respiration.
- (age regression) Initialism of age regression.
- (philately, postal) Initialism of acknowledgment of receipt.
- (aviation) Initialism of aerial refueling.
- (sports, countable) Initialism of area record, best achievement among those by persons from a given continent.
- (meteorology) Initialism of atmospheric river.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of augmented reality.
- (countable, weaponry, informal) An assault rifle or automatic rifle.
- (countable) Initialism of aspect ratio.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of androgen receptor.
- Initialism of administrative rule or administrative regulation.
- (countable, sports, US) Initialism of American record, national record for the United States.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of alternate reality.
- (crime) Initialism of armed robbery.
- (uncountable or plural only, accounting) Initialism of accounts receivable.
- (countable, weaponry) An AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives.
adj
name
noun
- (politics) A legislative body.
- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
- (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- (computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
- The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit
- a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
- the social act of assembling
- a public facility to meet for open discussion
- a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together
noun
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
verb
noun
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood.
- (chiefly US politics, often attributively) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters.
verb
noun
- (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- (physics) A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
- (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
- (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- (slang, uncountable) Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
- a state of change
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
noun
- (US politics, law) Initialism of continuing resolution.
- (medicine) Initialism of computed radiography.
- (sports) Initialism of Circuit Record.
- (Philippines) Initialism of comfort room (“bathroom; restroom; washroom; water closet”).
- Initialism of county road.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete response.
- (India) Initialism of class representative.
- (sports) Initialism of Commonwealth Record.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete remission.
- (sports) Initialism of championship record or competition record.
- Initialism of community resolution.
- (sports) Initialism of Championship Record.
- (sports) Initialism of Competition Record.
- (physiology) Initialism of conditioned reflex.
- (linguistics) Initialism of clarification request.
- Initialism of country route.
- (sports) Initialism of Course Record.
- (nutrition) Initialism of caloric restriction.
- (accounting) Credit.
- (psychology) Initialism of conditioned response.
- Initialism of consciousness-raising.
- (sports) Initialism of Canadian Record.
- (computing) Initialism of carriage return.
- (sports) Initialism of Cup Record.
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verb
- (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.
- (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
- (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- exercise authority over; as of nations
- direct or strongly influence the behavior of
verb
- (transitive) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
- (transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
- (intransitive) To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
- (intransitive) To detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
- (ambitransitive) To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
- cause to seem less serious; play down
noun
- legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal
- The act of making an activity or substance no longer criminalized (no longer a crime, subject to criminal penalties, to perform or possess). (Compare legalization, which often implies regulation.)
- The act of ceasing to treat a person as a criminal, by making their activities legal or no longer subjecting them to the criminal justice system (but instead possibly the mental healthcare system, etc).
noun
- law enacted by a legislative body
- (law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body, as opposed to a regulation made by the executive branch or case law made by court precedent.
- (law, uncountable) The completecorpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law.
noun
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
- a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- (law) A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.
- (law) The act of making (a bill) into law.
- The act of playing the part of.
noun
- the passing of a law by a legislative body
- a journey usually by ship
- a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- a short section of a musical composition
- a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
- the motion of one object relative to another
- a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- the act of passing something to another person
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- An incident or episode.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- The advance of time.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
- Part of a path or journey.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
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- a national legislative assembly
- a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
- the social act of assembling for some common purpose
- An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
- A formal gathering or assembly of persons; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
- (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
- (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
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- (more specifically) The House of Representatives of the Philippines.
- (Philippine politics) The legislature of the Philippines.
- A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
- A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- (India, Indian politics) Clipping of Indian National Congress
- (US politics) The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
noun
- (US politics) The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.
- The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up their buy-in price when determining their selling price.
- An increase in price.
- (computing) The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
- the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price
- detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of house resolution.
- (occupational health) Initialism of hazard ratio.
- The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
- The human capital of an organization.
- (baseball) Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
- Initialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
- Initialism of heart rate.
- (philately) Initialism of hinge remnant.
- (genetics) Initialism of homologous recombination.
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adj
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noun
- (politics, law) One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- The extent of what one has read.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- (textual criticism) The wording of a version of a text in a particular place or context.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- (education, uncountable) The content of a reading list.
- (linguistics) A pronunciation associated with a particular character or word; particularly in East Asian scripts.
- Something to read; reading material.
- (go, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (by extension) An interpretation.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something
- written material intended to be read
- the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments
- a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance
- a particular interpretation or performance
- a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
- the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
verb
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of state resolution.
- (countable) Initialism of state route.
- (countable) Initialism of scoping review.
- (countable) Initialism of systematic review.
- (uncountable) Initialism of speculative realism.
- (uncountable) Initialism of semen retention.
- (countable) Initialism of state road.
- (uncountable) Initialism of special relativity.
- (countable) Initialism of speculative realist.
- (law, politics) Initialism of senate resolution.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of speech recognition.
name
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly bill.
- (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of alkylbenzene.
- (medicine) Initialism of antibody.
- (ABDL) Initialism of adult baby.
- Initialism of asymmetric bars.
- Initialism of artificial breeding.
- (Australia, Adelaide, countable) A halal snack pack consisting of doner meat topped with chips, tomato sauce, chilli sauce, barbecue sauce, and garlic sauce.
- (countable) A person with this blood type.
- Initialism of able seaman or able-bodied seaman.
- Initialism of afterburner.
- Initialism of aid to the blind.
- A blood type of the ABO system that has both blood antigens and may receive all blood types, and donate to AB.
- (military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.
- the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens
- a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
adj
name
noun
- The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
- The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
- Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
- State of being pledged or engaged.
- The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
- Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
- Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
- Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
- Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
- a message that makes a pledge
- the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
- the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
- an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
noun
- (law, politics) Initialism of assembly resolution.
- (emergency medicine) Initialism of artificial respiration.
- (age regression) Initialism of age regression.
- (philately, postal) Initialism of acknowledgment of receipt.
- (aviation) Initialism of aerial refueling.
- (sports, countable) Initialism of area record, best achievement among those by persons from a given continent.
- (meteorology) Initialism of atmospheric river.
- (uncountable, computing) Initialism of augmented reality.
- (countable, weaponry, informal) An assault rifle or automatic rifle.
- (countable) Initialism of aspect ratio.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of androgen receptor.
- Initialism of administrative rule or administrative regulation.
- (countable, sports, US) Initialism of American record, national record for the United States.
- (fandom slang) Initialism of alternate reality.
- (crime) Initialism of armed robbery.
- (uncountable or plural only, accounting) Initialism of accounts receivable.
- (countable, weaponry) An AR-15 personal semi-automatic rifle, M-16 assault rifle, M-4 carbine, derivative or related gun; the Armalite AR family and derivatives.
adj
name
noun
- (politics) A legislative body.
- A set of pieces that work together in unison as a mechanism or device.
- (computing) Ellipsis of assembly language.
- (military) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
- A congregation of people in one place for a purpose.
- (computing, Microsoft .NET) A building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
- The act or process of putting together a set of pieces, fragments, or elements.
- the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
- a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit
- a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
- the social act of assembling
- a public facility to meet for open discussion
- a unit consisting of components that have been fitted together
noun
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
verb
noun
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
- (chiefly US) A ready supply of income; one's livelihood.
- (chiefly US politics, often attributively) State funds as assigned for local or regional expenditure; especially, central money used for regional projects which are eyecatching or designed to appeal to voters.
noun
- (US politics, law) Initialism of continuing resolution.
- (medicine) Initialism of computed radiography.
- (sports) Initialism of Circuit Record.
- (Philippines) Initialism of comfort room (“bathroom; restroom; washroom; water closet”).
- Initialism of county road.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete response.
- (India) Initialism of class representative.
- (sports) Initialism of Commonwealth Record.
- (medicine) Initialism of complete remission.
- (sports) Initialism of championship record or competition record.
- Initialism of community resolution.
- (sports) Initialism of Championship Record.
- (sports) Initialism of Competition Record.
- (physiology) Initialism of conditioned reflex.
- (linguistics) Initialism of clarification request.
- Initialism of country route.
- (sports) Initialism of Course Record.
- (nutrition) Initialism of caloric restriction.
- (accounting) Credit.
- (psychology) Initialism of conditioned response.
- Initialism of consciousness-raising.
- (sports) Initialism of Canadian Record.
- (computing) Initialism of carriage return.
- (sports) Initialism of Cup Record.
adj
name
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word.
- (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
- (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
- bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations
- exercise authority over; as of nations
- direct or strongly influence the behavior of
noun
- legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal
- The act of making an activity or substance no longer criminalized (no longer a crime, subject to criminal penalties, to perform or possess). (Compare legalization, which often implies regulation.)
- The act of ceasing to treat a person as a criminal, by making their activities legal or no longer subjecting them to the criminal justice system (but instead possibly the mental healthcare system, etc).
verb
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
adj
noun
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
verb
noun
- (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- (philosophy) from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- (mechanical engineering) A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- (physics) A change whereby something goes from one place to another; a state of progression from one place to another; a change of position with respect to time.
- (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
- (law) A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- (slang, uncountable) Success; achievements, especially those that others cannot match.
- a state of change
- an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
- the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
- the act of changing location from one place to another
- a change of position that does not entail a change of location
verb
- (transitive) To partially repeal (a law etc.).
- (transitive) To detract from (something); to disparage, belittle.
- (intransitive) To act in a manner below oneself; to debase oneself.
- (intransitive) To detract from (a quality of excellence, authority etc.).
- (ambitransitive) To take away (something from something else) in a way which leaves it lessened.
- cause to seem less serious; play down
adj
noun
adj
- composed of two legislative bodies
- consisting of two chambers
- Being or having a system with two, often unequal, chambers or compartments; of, signifying, relating to, or being the product of such a two-chambered system.
- (psychology) Relating to the functions of the two cerebral hemispheres in the history of human beings ‘hearing’ the speech of gods or idols, according to Julian Jaynes's theory of the bicameral mind.
- (typography) Of a script or typeface: having two cases, upper case and lower case.
- (government) Of, having, or relating to two separate legislative chambers or houses.
adj
noun
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
verb
- fit as if by joints
- provide with a joint
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
adj
- in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly
- Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.
- having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament
- relating to or having the nature of a parliament
- Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.
- (British, historical, railways) Of a class of train which, by an act of parliament, ran both ways along a line, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile.