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- (intransitive, stative) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
- (intransitive, figurative, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move or proceed irregularly.
- (poker slang, intransitive) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
- (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- proceed slowly or with difficulty
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- An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
- A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.
- A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
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noun
- (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
- Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
- An official or social occasion.
- What something does or is used for.
- A professional or official position.
- (slang) A party.
- (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
- (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
- (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
- (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people
- what something is used for
- (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
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- (intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency.
- (intransitive, of some inevitable phenomenon, with with) To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it).
- (intransitive) To be brought up to date with news.
- (ambitransitive) To reach something that had been ahead.
- (transitive) To pick up suddenly.
- (transitive, by extension) To involve in (something).
- (transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news.
- (transitive) To entangle (something).
- learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened
- reach the point where one should be after a delay
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- (intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
- (transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed.
- make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
verb
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
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- (intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
- (intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
- (intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
- (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
- have a desire for something or someone who is not present
- become feeble
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
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- (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.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unstable
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
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- (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- (computing) To signal (an event).
- (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
- (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- (computing) To set a program variable to true.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- (biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
- (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- communicate or signal with a flag
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
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- (Internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
- (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
- The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- (British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
- (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
verb
- (intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
- (intransitive, now Southern US, often with 'with') Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.
- (UK, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, euphemistic slang, intransitive or reflexive) To urinate.
- eliminate urine
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
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- (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
- (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
- break down
- become physically weaker
noun
- (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
- Decaying matter.
- (chiefly in compounds) Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
- The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
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- (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
- (sexology, uncommon) Of a man, to be able to initiate or fulfill an act of sexual intercourse.
- (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- (transitive) To do (something); to execute.
- (ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- carry out or perform an action
- perform a function
- get (something) done
- give a performance (of something)
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- (transitive) To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
- (transitive) To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
- (transitive) To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
- (ambitransitive) To do less work than necessary (on).
- (intransitive) To do work for inadequate payment.
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- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
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- (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
- (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- (law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- (ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [with in]
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
- be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
- occur between other event or between certain points of time
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- An inefficient part or factor.
- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
- The result of being impaired.
- A disability or handicap.
- A deterioration or weakening.
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
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- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
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- (intransitive) To be progressively below average in performance.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, behind.
- (transitive and intransitive) to fail to keep up (with)
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To be late (for a regular event)
- retreat
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
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- (informal, intransitive) To reach the limit of one's capabilities.
- (slang, US) To relax.
- (informal, transitive) To use (something) to the limit of its capabilities.
- (informal, intransitive) To reach a maximum or a point at which no more growth or improvement is possible.
- (US, prison slang) To serve an entire sentence with no early parole, time off for good behavior, etc.
- reach a maximum
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- (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
- (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- lack of an adequate quantity or number
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, intransitive) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
- (ergative, computing, more usually 'close') To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly British) To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
- simple past and past participle of shut
- (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- become closed
- prevent from entering; shut out
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- (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (of a business or venue) Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
- (heraldry) Synonym of close.
- Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
- Not available for use or operation.
- Not receptive.
- not open
- used especially of mouth or eyes
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- (chiefly medicine) A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the improper behavior of a social group.
- (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group
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- (intransitive) To be lazy or remiss.
- (imperative) A standard command to a herding dog to assume this position, owing to its effect on the herd's movement.
- (intransitive) To assume a horizontal position.
- (with 'with', euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (intransitive) To submit passively.
- assume a reclining position
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- (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
- (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
- (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- terminate before completion
- terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
- cease development, die, and be aborted
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- (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
- (computing) The function used to abort a process.
- (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed
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- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
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- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
verb
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
- go down
- not accept as true
- show unwillingness towards
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- grow smaller
- fall in value
- grow worse
noun
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- change toward something smaller or lower
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
noun
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
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- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- give something useful or necessary to
- state or say further
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
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noun
- (countable) An amount of something supplied.
- (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- (in the plural) Provisions.
- (economics) The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- (uncountable) The act of supplying.
- the activity of supplying or providing something
- offering goods and services for sale
- an amount of something available for use
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
- (transitive, chemistry) To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral.
- make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- make chemically neutral
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- make incapable of military action
noun
- An inefficient part or factor.
- (accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
- The result of being impaired.
- A disability or handicap.
- A deterioration or weakening.
- damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality
- a symptom of reduced quality or strength
- the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
- the occurrence of a change for the worse
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
noun
- (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
- (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves of the same degree.
- (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.
- (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- lack of an adequate quantity or number
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- (intransitive, stative) To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.
- (intransitive, figurative, of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
- (intransitive, figurative) To move or proceed irregularly.
- (poker slang, intransitive) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
- (intransitive) To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- proceed slowly or with difficulty
adj
noun
- An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
- A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.
- A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
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verb
noun
- (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
- Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
- An official or social occasion.
- What something does or is used for.
- A professional or official position.
- (slang) A party.
- (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
- (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
- (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
- (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony
- the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people
- what something is used for
- (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
verb
- (intransitive) To compensate for or make up a deficiency.
- (intransitive, of some inevitable phenomenon, with with) To finally overtake (someone or something) after a long period of approaching (them or it).
- (intransitive) To be brought up to date with news.
- (ambitransitive) To reach something that had been ahead.
- (transitive) To pick up suddenly.
- (transitive, by extension) To involve in (something).
- (transitive) To bring (someone) up to date with the news.
- (transitive) To entangle (something).
- learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened
- reach the point where one should be after a delay
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To do an excessive amount in one area in an effort to overcome a perceived lack in another area.
- (transitive) To provide with excessive pay or reward for work performed.
- make excessive corrections for fear of making an error
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
verb
- (intransitive) To be unsuccessful.
- (transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.
- (transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)
- To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence.
- (intransitive) Of a machine, etc.: to cease to operate correctly.
- To become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.
- (ambitransitive) To receive one or more non-passing grades in academic pursuits.
- (transitive) To give a student a non-passing grade in an academic endeavour.
- (transitive) To neglect.
- fail to get a passing grade
- judge unacceptable
- be unsuccessful
- prove insufficient
- fail to do something; leave something undone
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close
- deteriorate
- stop operating or functioning
- fall short in what is expected
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake
- be unable
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noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
- (intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
- (intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
- (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
- have a desire for something or someone who is not present
- become feeble
- lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
verb
- (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.
- move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern
- be unstable
- cause to fluctuate or move in a wavelike pattern
verb
- (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- (computing) To signal (an event).
- (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
- (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- (computing) To set a program variable to true.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- (biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
- (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- communicate or signal with a flag
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
noun
- (Internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
- (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
- The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- (British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
- (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
verb
- (intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
- (intransitive, now Southern US, often with 'with') Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.
- (UK, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, euphemistic slang, intransitive or reflexive) To urinate.
- eliminate urine
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
- (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).
- break down
- become physically weaker
noun
- (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
- Decaying matter.
- (chiefly in compounds) Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
- The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
verb
- (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
- (sexology, uncommon) Of a man, to be able to initiate or fulfill an act of sexual intercourse.
- (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- (transitive) To do (something); to execute.
- (ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- carry out or perform an action
- perform a function
- get (something) done
- give a performance (of something)
verb
- (transitive) To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
- (transitive) To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
- (transitive) To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
- (ambitransitive) To do less work than necessary (on).
- (intransitive) To do work for inadequate payment.
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noun
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
verb
- (intransitive) To occur or act as an obstacle or delay.
- (intransitive) To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events.
- (law) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
- (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
- (ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
- (intransitive) To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action. [with in]
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
- be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
- occur between other event or between certain points of time
verb
adj
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To be progressively below average in performance.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, behind.
- (transitive and intransitive) to fail to keep up (with)
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To be late (for a regular event)
- retreat
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
verb
- (informal, intransitive) To reach the limit of one's capabilities.
- (slang, US) To relax.
- (informal, transitive) To use (something) to the limit of its capabilities.
- (informal, intransitive) To reach a maximum or a point at which no more growth or improvement is possible.
- (US, prison slang) To serve an entire sentence with no early parole, time off for good behavior, etc.
- reach a maximum
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, intransitive) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
- (ergative, computing, more usually 'close') To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly British) To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
- simple past and past participle of shut
- (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- become closed
- prevent from entering; shut out
adj
- (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (of a business or venue) Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
- (heraldry) Synonym of close.
- Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
- Not available for use or operation.
- Not receptive.
- not open
- used especially of mouth or eyes
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noun
- (chiefly medicine) A failure to function in an expected or complete manner. Usually refers to a disorder in a bodily organ (e.g. erectile dysfunction), a mental disorder, or the improper behavior of a social group.
- (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group
verb
- (intransitive) To be lazy or remiss.
- (imperative) A standard command to a herding dog to assume this position, owing to its effect on the herd's movement.
- (intransitive) To assume a horizontal position.
- (with 'with', euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (intransitive) To submit passively.
- assume a reclining position
verb
- (intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.
- (intransitive, now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.
- (intransitive, biology) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.
- (transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.
- (transitive, biology) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.
- (intransitive, military) To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a process prior to completion.
- (transitive, aeronautics) To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.
- terminate before completion
- terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion
- cease development, die, and be aborted
noun
- (computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
- (computing) The function used to abort a process.
- (military, aeronautics) An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
- the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed
verb
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- deliver a sting to
noun
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
verb
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
- go down
- not accept as true
- show unwillingness towards
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- grow smaller
- fall in value
- grow worse
noun
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- change toward something smaller or lower
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
noun
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
verb
- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- circulate or distribute or equip with
- give something useful or necessary to
- state or say further
- give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
adv
noun
- (countable) An amount of something supplied.
- (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual national expenditures.
- (in the plural) Provisions.
- (economics) The market force that causes sellers to be both willing and able to sell a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently available to be bought at any given price point; the amount itself.
- Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
- (uncountable) The act of supplying.
- the activity of supplying or providing something
- offering goods and services for sale
- an amount of something available for use
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) even, inactive or ineffective.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To kill.
- (transitive) To make (a territory, etc.) politically neutral.
- (transitive, chemistry) To make (an acidic or alkaline substance) chemically neutral.
- make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
- make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of
- make chemically neutral
- get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
- make incapable of military action