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noun
- an unpredictable factor
- a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it
- (card games) A card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
- (sports) A competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion.
- (phonetics, phonology) Alternative form of wildcard (“symbol for a generic sound”).
- (computing) Alternative form of wildcard (“substituted text character”).
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- a large amount of wealth or prosperity
- One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
- Good luck.
- A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
- Destiny, especially favorable.
- The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
- A large amount of money.
- A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
verb
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
- Success.
- A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
- (video games, computing) The results of a random number generator.
- (especially) A favourable chance occurrence.
verb
adj
- Unpredictable.
- Fluctuating; not constant.
- Not stable.
- (physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
- Fickle.
- (chemistry) Readily decomposable.
- Having a strong tendency to change.
- disposed to psychological variability
- highly or violently reactive
- suffering from severe mental illness
- subject to change; variable
- lacking stability or fixity or firmness
- affording no ease or reassurance
verb
noun
- A factor that cannot be anticipated.
- a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed
- (physics) A substance or body, which is not ponderable, i.e., which not does not having a detectable amount of matter or measurable mass. An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.
- An imponderable question.
adj
adj
- Unpredictable or capricious.
- Not yet determined; undecided.
- Fitful or unsteady.
- Not certain; unsure.
- Not known for certain; questionable.
- Variable and subject to change.
- not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown
- not consistent or dependable
- not established or confirmed
- ambiguous (especially in the negative)
- subject to change
- lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance
- not certain to occur; not inevitable
noun
adj
- uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances
- being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
- possible but not certain to occur
- Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
- Temporary.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
noun
- a gathering of persons representative of some larger group
- a temporary military unit
- (military) A quota of troops.
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
noun
- a source of unpredictable trouble and complexity
- (idiomatic) Any difficult or disgusting task, activity, topic of discussion or subject matter, which would be ideally avoided if at all possible.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see can, worm.
- (idiomatic) A complex, troublesome situation arising when a decision or action produces considerable subsequent problems.
- (idiomatic) A troublesome situation; an issue whose resolution is difficult or contentious but not necessarily complex.
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noun
adj
- likely to perform unpredictably
- subject to sharply varying moods
- relating to or caused by temperament
- (not comparable) Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
- (of a machine or of software, figuratively) User-unfriendly, unstable, that is complicated or has poorly written instructions and is subsequently difficult to operate; unpredictable and erratic.
- Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- a risk involving danger
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
adj
verb
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- an obstacle on a golf course
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
verb
noun
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- (usually in the plural) A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- A place or state of being that a person or object is best suited to.
- (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
- (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
- (in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- (astronomy) An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- (mathematics) One of the entries of a matrix.
- (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A small part of the whole.
- (in the plural only) The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- an abstract part of something
- one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
- a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
- the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
adj
- liable to sudden unpredictable change
- relating to or containing or caused by mercury
- (not comparable, medicine) Caused by the action of mercury or a mercury compound.
- (not comparable, astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Mercury.
- (comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
- (not comparable, Roman mythology) Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable), money-making; crafty.
- (not comparable, chemistry) Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury.
- (not comparable, astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1).
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adj
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noun
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- an unstable construction with playing cards
- (figurative, idiomatic) A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.
- A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
- (by extension, often attributive) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.
noun
- a variable quantity that is random
- (statistics, formally) A measurable function from a sample space to the measurable space of possible values of the variable.
- (statistics, loosely) A quantity whose value is random and to which a probability distribution is assigned, such as the possible outcome of a roll of a dice.
noun
- a variable quantity that is random
- an event that departs from expectations
- something a little different from others of the same type
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
- (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
adj
adv
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adj
- Unpredictable, variable; having periods of good and bad (e.g. weather).
- (chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US, in particular) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
- Having streaks.
- (cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
- (soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
- marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations
verb
- be subject to fluctuation
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
noun
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being unpredictable.
- The state of being volatile.
- (uncountable) The state of being able to fly.
- (finance, countable) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product.
- (uncountable) The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.
- (computing, uncountable) The state of not retaining data in the absence of power.
- being easily excited
- the trait of being unpredictably irresolute
- the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor
adj
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
- (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely.
- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
- Subject; susceptible; prone.
- (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- subject to legal action
- held legally responsible
verb
- be unstable
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
noun
- an unpredictable factor
- a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it
- (card games) A card that can be assigned any value or used to substitute for any needed card.
- (sports) A competitor or team that is allowed to compete in a tournament despite not reaching the normal standards to qualify for inclusion.
- (phonetics, phonology) Alternative form of wildcard (“symbol for a generic sound”).
- (computing) Alternative form of wildcard (“substituted text character”).
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- a large amount of wealth or prosperity
- One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
- Good luck.
- A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
- Destiny, especially favorable.
- The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
- A large amount of money.
- A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
verb
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
- Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
- Success.
- A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
- (video games, computing) The results of a random number generator.
- (especially) A favourable chance occurrence.
verb
noun
- A factor that cannot be anticipated.
- a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed
- (physics) A substance or body, which is not ponderable, i.e., which not does not having a detectable amount of matter or measurable mass. An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.
- An imponderable question.
adj
noun
- a source of unpredictable trouble and complexity
- (idiomatic) Any difficult or disgusting task, activity, topic of discussion or subject matter, which would be ideally avoided if at all possible.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see can, worm.
- (idiomatic) A complex, troublesome situation arising when a decision or action produces considerable subsequent problems.
- (idiomatic) A troublesome situation; an issue whose resolution is difficult or contentious but not necessarily complex.
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- a risk involving danger
- a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible
- the possibility of future success
- (in plural as chances) probability; possibility.
- (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
- (countable) The probability of something happening.
adj
verb
noun
- an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
- an obstacle on a golf course
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
- (in driving a vehicle) An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it.
- (programming) A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results.
- (tennis) The side of the court into which the ball is served.
- An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
- (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
- (historical) A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
- Chance.
- (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
verb
noun
- A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result.
- One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance made entirely of one such type of atom; any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons.
- (usually in the plural) A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material.
- A place or state of being that a person or object is best suited to.
- (chemistry) Any one of the types of atom distinguished by having a certain number of protons in its nucleus.
- (set theory) One of the objects in a set.
- (in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
- A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic.
- A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
- (law) A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved.
- A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it.
- (astronomy) An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit.
- (computing) One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air.
- (mathematics) One of the entries of a matrix.
- (Christianity, usually in the plural) The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion.
- Any of the teeth of a zip fastener.
- A small part of the whole.
- (in the plural only) The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments.
- (mathematics) An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential.
- an abstract part of something
- one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe
- a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone
- any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
- the situation in which you are happiest and most effective
- the most favorable environment for a plant or animal
- an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
noun
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
verb
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
noun
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- an unstable construction with playing cards
- (figurative, idiomatic) A structure or argument built on a shaky foundation.
- A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.
- (by extension, often attributive) Any structure with alternating vertical and horizontal layers.
noun
- a variable quantity that is random
- (statistics, formally) A measurable function from a sample space to the measurable space of possible values of the variable.
- (statistics, loosely) A quantity whose value is random and to which a probability distribution is assigned, such as the possible outcome of a roll of a dice.
noun
- a variable quantity that is random
- an event that departs from expectations
- something a little different from others of the same type
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
- (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
adj
noun
- (uncountable) The state of being unpredictable.
- The state of being volatile.
- (uncountable) The state of being able to fly.
- (finance, countable) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product.
- (uncountable) The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.
- (computing, uncountable) The state of not retaining data in the absence of power.
- being easily excited
- the trait of being unpredictably irresolute
- the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor
verb
- be subject to fluctuation
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
noun
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
verb
- be unstable
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
- (intransitive) To undulate.
- (intransitive) To be irresolute; to waver.
- (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.
- (intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing.
- (rare, figuratively, also literally) To rise and fall as a wave; to be tossed up and down the waves.
adv
prep_phrase
adj
- Unpredictable.
- Fluctuating; not constant.
- Not stable.
- (physics) Radioactive, especially with a short half-life.
- Fickle.
- (chemistry) Readily decomposable.
- Having a strong tendency to change.
- disposed to psychological variability
- highly or violently reactive
- suffering from severe mental illness
- subject to change; variable
- lacking stability or fixity or firmness
- affording no ease or reassurance
verb
adj
- Unpredictable or capricious.
- Not yet determined; undecided.
- Fitful or unsteady.
- Not certain; unsure.
- Not known for certain; questionable.
- Variable and subject to change.
- not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown
- not consistent or dependable
- not established or confirmed
- ambiguous (especially in the negative)
- subject to change
- lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance
- not certain to occur; not inevitable
noun
adj
- uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances
- being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
- possible but not certain to occur
- Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
- Temporary.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
noun
- a gathering of persons representative of some larger group
- a temporary military unit
- (military) A quota of troops.
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
adj
noun
adj
- likely to perform unpredictably
- subject to sharply varying moods
- relating to or caused by temperament
- (not comparable) Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
- (of a machine or of software, figuratively) User-unfriendly, unstable, that is complicated or has poorly written instructions and is subsequently difficult to operate; unpredictable and erratic.
- Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
adj
- liable to sudden unpredictable change
- relating to or containing or caused by mercury
- (not comparable, medicine) Caused by the action of mercury or a mercury compound.
- (not comparable, astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Mercury.
- (comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted.
- (not comparable, Roman mythology) Pertaining to Mercury, the Roman god of, among other things, commerce, financial gain, communication, and thieves and trickery; hence (comparable), money-making; crafty.
- (not comparable, chemistry) Of or pertaining to the element mercury or quicksilver; containing mercury.
- (not comparable, astrology) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Mercury; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see adjective sense 1).
noun
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Unpredictable, variable; having periods of good and bad (e.g. weather).
- (chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US, in particular) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
- Having streaks.
- (cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
- (soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.
- marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations
adj
- Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
- (predicative, with to-infinitive) Likely.
- Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
- Subject; susceptible; prone.
- (often followed by ‘to’) likely to be affected with
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- subject to legal action
- held legally responsible