Palavras em English para 'to extremes'
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- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
- (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
- (television) A superimposed caption or image.
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supervisor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
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- (particularly used in formal documents) Any.
- (degree) Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.
- (exclamative) Used with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations.
- (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
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- Bad or terrible.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) Very drunk, intoxicated.
- Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
- Cruel, mean or immoral.
- Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
- In a state of decay.
- damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
- having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
- very bad
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- An extreme measure.
- The most extreme or furthest point of something.
- A hand or foot.
- A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”).
- that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
- the outermost or farthest region or point
- an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
- the greatest or utmost degree
- an external body part that projects from the body
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- become more extreme
- increase the level of
- make (one's senses) more acute
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- increase the height of
- make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
- To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
- To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
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- become more extreme
- rise in rank or status
- come up, of celestial bodies
- rise to one's feet
- go up or advance
- become heartened or elated
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- get up and out of bed
- come to the surface
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- return from the dead
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- increase in volume
- To develop, to come about or intensify.
- To attain a higher status.
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
- To move upwards.
- (music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To slope upward.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- (figurative) To be resurrected.
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- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an increase in cost
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- increase in price or value
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- The front of a diaper.
- (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
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- extreme excess
- the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
- the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
- some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
- (collective) A group of pandas (ie. red panda, giant panda)
- (medicine) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
- A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
- A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty.
- A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
- A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.
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- stretch to the limits
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
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- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
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- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- (chiefly UK) Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
- (chiefly US) Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- from or between other countries
- relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
- on or toward an outer edge
- unlikely to occur
- coming from the outside
- originating or belonging beyond some bounds
- functioning outside the boundaries or precincts of an organized unit
- leading to or from the outside
- located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
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- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
- (surfing) The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- the outer side or surface of something
- the region that is outside of something
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- (figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- (architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
- An edge or border.
- (UK, historical) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- (UK, Western Australia, New Zealand) The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- the limit beyond which something happens or changes
- a grass border along a road
- a region marking a boundary
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- (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
- (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
- A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
- (cricket, slang) A wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler.
- Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
- (motor racing) A pole position.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
- (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
- A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
- (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
- (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
- A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
- Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
- (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
- one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated
- a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
- a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
- a square rod of land
- one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface
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- (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
- (transitive) To convey on poles.
- To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
- (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
- To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
- (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
- (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
- propel with a pole
- support on poles
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- To divide into two equal parts.
- (intransitive) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
- To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
- To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
- To act as a spiritualistic medium.
- (transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
- occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
- act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
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- (politics) Far, extreme.
- Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
- (slang) Tough, muscular, badass.
- Unquestionable; unequivocal.
- (of a normally nonalcoholic drink) Containing alcohol.
- (finance) Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
- (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
- Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- (slang) Excellent, impressive.
- (Slavic phonology) Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
- (of drink or drugs) Strong.
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- (pornography) Hardcore.
- (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
- (physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
- Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut, or penetrate.
- (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
- (wine) Very acidic or tannic.
- (photography, of light) Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- (military) Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
- Unvoiced.
- (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
- Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
- (slang, vulgar) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
- Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
- In a physical form, not digital.
- Plosive.
- Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
- very strong or vigorous
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
- produced without vibration of the vocal cords
- being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
- dried out
- resisting weight or pressure
- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- dispassionate
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
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- (manner) Compactly.
- (manner) With difficulty.
- (manner) With much force or effort.
- earnestly or intently
- causing great damage or hardship
- with pain or distress or bitterness
- to the full extent possible; all the way
- very near or close in space or time
- indulging excessively
- with firmness
- slowly and with difficulty
- with effort or force or vigor
- into a solid condition
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- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- (not comparable) Final; last in a series.
- (not comparable) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- (not comparable, of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- (not comparable) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- (not comparable) That will happen at some time; eventual.
- being the last or concluding element of a series
- furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
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- (not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced).
- (not comparable) Going out, on its way out.
- Extroverted: talkative, friendly, and social, especially with respect to meeting new people easily and comfortably; outgiving.
- at ease in talking to others
- retiring from a position or office
- leaving a place or a position
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- Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
- far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree
- Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
- Drastic, or of great severity.
- In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
- Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
- of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
- beyond a norm in views or actions
- most distant in any direction
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- A drastic expedient.
- (mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.
- Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
- The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition.
- the point located farthest from the middle of something
- the furthest or highest degree of something
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- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
- Misspelling of pique.
- (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
- (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans.
- (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
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- the most extreme possible amount or value
- (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
- (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- (uncountable, Internet slang) Something of exceptional quality.
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the highest point (of something)
- a V shape
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
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- (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
- To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
- To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
- be superior or better than some standard
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
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- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- Very bad; lousy.
- (especially Ireland, with "for") Prone to a particular temptation.
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Formidable, powerful.
- Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
- causing fear or dread or terror
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
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- The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something.
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the superlative degree.
- (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. tiniest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully).
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- an exaggerated expression (usually of praise)
- the superlative form of an adjective or adverb
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- An extreme measure.
- The most extreme or furthest point of something.
- A hand or foot.
- A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”).
- that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
- the outermost or farthest region or point
- an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
- the greatest or utmost degree
- an external body part that projects from the body
noun
- extreme excess
- the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
- the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)
- some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
- (collective) A group of pandas (ie. red panda, giant panda)
- (medicine) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
- A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
- A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty.
- A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
- A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.
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- (figuratively) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
- A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
- A circumference; a circle; a ring.
- (horology) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
- (architecture) The eaves or edge of the roof that projects over the gable of a roof.
- An edge or border.
- (UK, historical) The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
- An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
- (UK, Western Australia, New Zealand) The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- a ceremonial or emblematic staff
- the limit beyond which something happens or changes
- a grass border along a road
- a region marking a boundary
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- (figuratively, by extension) Any of a small set of extremes; especially, either of two extremes that are possible or available.
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- (US, African-American Vernacular, slang) A rifle.
- (complex analysis) For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
- A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
- (cricket, slang) A wicket, especially in the context of the number of wickets taken by a particular bowler.
- Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
- (motor racing) A pole position.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (electricity) A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
- (fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.
- A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
- (historical) A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
- (geometry) A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
- A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
- Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
- (slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
- one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated
- a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting
- a linear measure of 16.5 feet
- one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
- one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions
- a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
- a square rod of land
- one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface
verb
- (transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
- (transitive) To convey on poles.
- To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
- (transitive) To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
- To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
- (transitive) To furnish with poles for support.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
- (transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole
- propel with a pole
- support on poles
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- (not comparable) Being replaced in office (while still in office but after election has determined that he/she will be replaced).
- (not comparable) Going out, on its way out.
- Extroverted: talkative, friendly, and social, especially with respect to meeting new people easily and comfortably; outgiving.
- at ease in talking to others
- retiring from a position or office
- leaving a place or a position
verb
noun
- The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something.
- (grammar) An adjective or adverb in the superlative degree.
- (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. tiniest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully).
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- an exaggerated expression (usually of praise)
- the superlative form of an adjective or adverb
adj
adj
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- (not comparable) Final; last in a series.
- (not comparable) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- (not comparable, of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- (not comparable) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- (not comparable) That will happen at some time; eventual.
- being the last or concluding element of a series
- furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
noun
adj
verb
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
- Misspelling of pique.
- (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
- (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans.
- (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
noun
- the most extreme possible amount or value
- (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
- (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- (uncountable, Internet slang) Something of exceptional quality.
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the highest point (of something)
- a V shape
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
verb
- become more extreme
- increase the level of
- make (one's senses) more acute
- make more intense, stronger, or more marked
- increase the height of
- make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
- To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
- To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
verb
- become more extreme
- rise in rank or status
- come up, of celestial bodies
- rise to one's feet
- go up or advance
- become heartened or elated
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- get up and out of bed
- come to the surface
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- move upward
- return from the dead
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise up
- increase in volume
- To develop, to come about or intensify.
- To attain a higher status.
- Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
- To become perceptible to the senses (other than sight).
- To move upwards.
- (music) To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
- (figurative) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
- To slope upward.
- To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
- To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
- To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
- To leave one's bed; to get up.
- (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
- To come; to offer itself.
- To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
- (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- To become erect; to assume an upright position.
- To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
- (of a river) To have its source (in a particular place).
- To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
- (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- (figurative) To be resurrected.
noun
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an increase in cost
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- increase in price or value
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
- (chiefly UK, also Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa) An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, rest of Commonwealth, sometimes Canada) Ellipsis of pay rise (“an increase in wage or salary”).
- The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- The front of a diaper.
- (informal) A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
- (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
- The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- (architecture) The height of an arch or a step.
verb
- stretch to the limits
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
noun
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
verb
- (transitive) To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
- To move with a gait such that the hind foot touches the ground forward of the point where the front foot touches the ground.
- To take a step in which the foot touches ground too far forward.
- be superior or better than some standard
- pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
noun
adj
verb
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
- Misspelling of pique.
- (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
- (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans.
- (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
noun
- the most extreme possible amount or value
- (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
- (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- (uncountable, Internet slang) Something of exceptional quality.
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the highest point (of something)
- a V shape
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
adv
adj
verb
adv
adj
noun
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Clipping of superannuation.
- (comics, slang) Clipping of superhero.
- (beekeeping) Clipping of superhive.
- (television) A superimposed caption or image.
- Clipping of supercomputer.
- (informal, US) Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
- Clipping of supervisor.
- Clipping of supertanker.
- (neologism) Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
- Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
verb
adv
adj
det
- (particularly used in formal documents) Any.
- (degree) Used as an intensifier roughly equivalent to very much (of), quite or rather.
- (exclamative) Used with gradable noun phrases to form exclamations.
- (demonstrative) Like this, that, these, those; used to make a comparison with something implied by context.
noun
pron
adv
adj
- Bad or terrible.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang) Very drunk, intoxicated.
- Of perishable items, overridden with bacteria and other infectious agents.
- Cruel, mean or immoral.
- Of stone or rock, crumbling or friable; in a loose or disintegrated state.
- In a state of decay.
- damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
- having decayed or disintegrated; usually implies foulness
- very bad
adj
adj
noun
adj
- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- (chiefly UK) Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
- (chiefly US) Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- from or between other countries
- relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
- on or toward an outer edge
- unlikely to occur
- coming from the outside
- originating or belonging beyond some bounds
- functioning outside the boundaries or precincts of an organized unit
- leading to or from the outside
- located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
adv
noun
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
- (surfing) The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- the outer side or surface of something
- the region that is outside of something
prep
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
verb
- To divide into two equal parts.
- (intransitive) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
- To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
- To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
- To act as a spiritualistic medium.
- (transitive) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
- occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
- act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
adj
- (politics) Far, extreme.
- Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
- (slang) Tough, muscular, badass.
- Unquestionable; unequivocal.
- (of a normally nonalcoholic drink) Containing alcohol.
- (finance) Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
- (physics, of a ferromagnetic material) Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
- Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- (slang) Excellent, impressive.
- (Slavic phonology) Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
- (of drink or drugs) Strong.
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- (pornography) Hardcore.
- (of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
- (physics, of electromagnetic radiation) Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
- Resistant to pressure; difficult to break, cut, or penetrate.
- (of water) High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
- (wine) Very acidic or tannic.
- (photography, of light) Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- (military) Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
- Unvoiced.
- (of a road intersection) Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
- Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
- (slang, vulgar) Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
- Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
- In a physical form, not digital.
- Plosive.
- Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
- very strong or vigorous
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
- produced without vibration of the vocal cords
- being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
- unfortunate or hard to bear
- (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
- dried out
- resisting weight or pressure
- not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- dispassionate
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
adv
- (manner) Compactly.
- (manner) With difficulty.
- (manner) With much force or effort.
- earnestly or intently
- causing great damage or hardship
- with pain or distress or bitterness
- to the full extent possible; all the way
- very near or close in space or time
- indulging excessively
- with firmness
- slowly and with difficulty
- with effort or force or vigor
- into a solid condition
noun
adj
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- (not comparable) Final; last in a series.
- (not comparable) Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- (not comparable, of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- (not comparable) Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- (not comparable) That will happen at some time; eventual.
- being the last or concluding element of a series
- furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
noun
adj
- Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
- far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree
- Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
- Drastic, or of great severity.
- In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
- Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
- of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
- beyond a norm in views or actions
- most distant in any direction
noun
- A drastic expedient.
- (mathematics) Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.
- Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.
- The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition.
- the point located farthest from the middle of something
- the furthest or highest degree of something
adj
verb
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
- Misspelling of pique.
- (transitive, signal processing) To exceed the maximum signal amplitude of (a piece of equipment), resulting in clipping of the signal.
- (gender-critical slang) Ellipsis of peak trans.
- (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
noun
- the most extreme possible amount or value
- (clothing, UK) visor (horizontal part of a cap sticking out in front and shading the wearer's eyes)
- (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
- (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- (uncountable, Internet slang) Something of exceptional quality.
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the highest point (of something)
- a V shape
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
adj
noun
adj
- Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
- Very bad; lousy.
- (especially Ireland, with "for") Prone to a particular temptation.
- Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome
- Formidable, powerful.
- Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
- causing fear or dread or terror
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
- exceptionally bad or displeasing