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verb
- (transitive) To terminate; to call the end of.
- (transitive) To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join.
- (computing) To terminate a computer program.
- (aerospace) To seal off.
- (surfing, of a wave) To break all at once, instead of progressively along its length.
- (finance) To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position.
- (intransitive) To settle, to pay what is due.
- (transitive, marketing) Synonym of close (“to make a sale”).
- to finish off
- terminate by selling off or disposing of
- make impossible, especially beforehand
verb
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
- knock down with force
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
noun
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A dance floor.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- a lower limit
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
verb
- (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
- (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
- (transitive, computing) To cause to lapse; to invalidate.
- (ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
- (intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
- lose validity
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- expel air
verb
- (transitive) To close, terminate, or end.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors.
- (slang, auto racing, car culture) To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
- (figurative, transitive) To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity).
- (ergative) To turn off or stop.
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
verb
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
noun
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
verb
- (figurative, transitive) To put an end to.
- (film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
- (transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
- kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
verb
- (informal, transitive) To complete; to finish.
- (informal, intransitive, transitive) To communicate successfully across a barrier; to make contact, or get one's point across; to reach the addressee with difficulty.
- (informal, transitive) To use up; to expend.
- (informal, transitive) To overcome; to endure.
- finish a task completely
- spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
- succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
- be in or establish communication with
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
verb
- (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
- (often passive voice) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.
- (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
- (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
- (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
- (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
- come to a close
- bring to a close
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
- reach agreement on
verb
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (transitive) To terminate (a business).
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
- (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
- (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
- cause to be quiet or not talk
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
adj
intj
verb
- (transitive) To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To excite.
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- (intransitive, copulative) To end up; to arrive or result.
- (intransitive) To increase (in some aspect).
- (transitive) To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To upset; to anger or distress.
- (literally, transitive) To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- (literally, transitive) To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- (British, transitive) To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- (transitive) To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- (baseball, intransitive) To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- to evoke sexual feelings
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- finally be or do something
- give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
noun
verb
- (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- (transitive) To conclude.
- (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- (intransitive) To issue or result.
- (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
adj
verb
- (transitive) To complete or finish something.
- (transitive) To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid.
- (mathematics, transitive, intransitive) To change (a number) to an approximation having fewer significant digits.
- make round
- express as a round number
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
verb
- (slang, transitive) To enliven.
- (slang, transitive) To do away with something.
- To use a remote control to repeatedly fast-forward or change channels on a television.
- (slang, transitive) To move or transport (something) in a brief time frame.
- (intransitive) To make a zap sound.
- (slang, transitive) To delete or discard (electronic media).
- (Singapore, informal, transitive) To photocopy.
- (slang, transitive) To further energize or charge (magnetic material).
- To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.
- (slang, transitive) To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.
- To participate in a zap (protest) against.
- (US, military, slang, transitive) To kill; to eliminate.
- (slang, transitive) To heat (something) in a microwave oven.
- strike at with firepower or bombs
- cook or heat in a microwave oven
- strike suddenly and with force
- kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
intj
noun
- A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
- (slang) The act of heating something in a microwave oven.
- (colloquial) An electric shock.
- (colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
- a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact
verb
noun
- Any other opening and closing device.
- (construction) A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
- (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
- One who shuts or closes something.
- (usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
- a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure
- a hinged blind for a window
verb
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
noun
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
punct
verb
- (transitive) To complete (something).
- (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
- (transitive) To put an end to; to destroy.
- (intransitive) To come to an end.
- (intransitive, sex) To reach orgasm.
- (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
- provide with a finish
- come or bring to a finish or an end
- cause to finish a relationship with somebody
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- finally be or do something
- finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
noun
- (professional wrestling, slang) The ending of a match and its structure.
- The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
- A finishing touch; careful elaboration; polish.
- (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
- An end; the end of anything.
- A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
- the act of finishing
- the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
- (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed)
- the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict)
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
- event whose occurrence ends something
verb
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- sink down or precipitate
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- come as if by falling
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
noun
adj
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Fatal; resulting in death.
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
noun
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- either extremity of something that has length
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
verb
verb
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- terminate or end
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
noun
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
verb
- (transitive) To send to a final destination.
- (transitive) To entrust to the care of another.
- To assign; to devote; to set apart.
- (transitive, business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
- To stamp or impress; to affect.
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- send to an address
- commit forever; commit irrevocably
verb
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To conclude or finish completely.
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic, figurative) To cocoon; to surround protectively.
- (transitive, figurative) To hide or cover up.
- (transitive and intransitive) To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it.
- (transitive) To combine, incorporate or encapsulate into one thing.
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To put on abundant clothing as protection from the cold; to bundle up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To curl into a more compact form.
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To summarize or recapitulate.
- (transitive, idiomatic, figurative) To tie up; to make too busy to respond.
- finish a task completely
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection
- form a cylinder by rolling
- clothe, as if for protection from the elements
verb
- (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use:
- (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- (video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- (in bare form) to die in a certain form.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- (now sometimes proscribed) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
- (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
- (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
- (of a stand-up comedian or a joke, slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:
- (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- suffer or face the pain of death
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
- stop operating or functioning
- languish as with love or desire
- feel indifferent towards
- disappear or come to an end
- to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- cut or shape with a die
adv
noun
- (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- Any small cubical or square body.
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- a device used for shaping metal
- a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- conclusive in a process or progression
- not to be altered or undone
- (linguistics) Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.
- Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
- Last; ultimate.
- Conclusive; decisive.
- (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
noun
- the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament
- an examination administered at the end of an academic term
- (Oxbridge slang) A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
- (phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
- (music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- (sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
verb
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- occurring at the time of death
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.
verb
noun
- (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
- (law) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage
- Alternative spelling of dougher.
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, law, otherwise obsolete) To bring to an end, finish; to come to an end, stop, end.
- To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
- To resolve (to do something); to establish a fixed intention; to cause (something) to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
- To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
- To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
- To set the boundaries or limits of.
- (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
- To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
- shape or influence; give direction to
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- reach, make, or come to a decision about something
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- fix in scope; fix the boundaries of
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- decide upon or fix definitely
verb
- (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
- (intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.
- (transitive, business, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
- (transitive, cricket) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
intj
noun
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.
- (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt.
- (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
- (transitive) To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To defeat
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive) To eat, especially quickly.
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
- dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently
- send away towards a designated goal
- complete or carry out
- kill without delay
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
noun
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- the act of sending off something
- an official report (usually sent in haste)
- killing a person or animal
verb
- (transitive, colloquial) To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- (intransitive) To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
- (intransitive) To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- (intransitive) To revolve or rotate around a centre.
- (transitive) To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
noun
- A termination or conclusion.
- The last part of something.
- (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
- the act of ending something
- the last section of a communication
- the point in time at which something ends
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- event whose occurrence ends something
verb
noun
- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
- An outcome or result.
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
- (grammar) The last part of a word.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- (medicine) An induced abortion.
- the act of ending something
- a place where something ends or is complete
- a coming to an end of a contract period
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- something that results
verb
noun
- Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
- A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
- A document authorizing such an action.
- The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
verb
- (idiomatic, transitive) To contain; stop.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To delay the progress of, especially in school.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.
- hold back; keep from being perceived by others
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- prevent the action or expression of
- refrain from doing
- wait before acting
verb
- (transitive) To intend.
- (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
- (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
- ask (someone) to marry you
- put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position
- present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.
- propose or intend
- make a proposal, declare a plan for something
verb
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
adj
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
intj
noun
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
verb
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- attach with a clip
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
noun
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
verb
noun
verb
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- cause to end earlier than intended
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- interrupt before its natural or planned end
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.
- (transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
- (transitive) To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.
adj
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
adj
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
noun
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
verb
- (transitive) To leave (a place).
- (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- (ambitransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
- (ambitransitive) To stop, give up (an activity). [(usually) with gerund; or with verbal noun]
- give up or retire from a position
- put an end to a state or an activity
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- turn away from; give up
- go away or leave
adj
noun
adj
noun
- Abbreviation of transposition.
- Abbreviation of transfer.
- Abbreviation of transportation.
- Abbreviation of trainee.
- Abbreviation of track.
- Abbreviation of trust.
- Abbreviation of trustee.
- (music) Abbreviation of trill.
- Abbreviation of treasurer.
- Abbreviation of trumpeter.
- Abbreviation of trace.
- (music) Abbreviation of treble.
- Abbreviation of transaction.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of tinctura (Latin for “tincture”).
- Abbreviation of troop.
- Abbreviation of tragedy.
- Abbreviation of truck.
- Abbreviation of trumpet.
- Abbreviation of transport.
- Abbreviation of train.
- Abbreviation of translator.
- Abbreviation of translation.
verb
noun
adj
- (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
- (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.
- Affected by transference of signification.
- Making a transit or passage.
- (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.
- (probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
- (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
- designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning
verb
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- invade in great numbers
- seize the position of and defeat
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- run beyond or past
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
noun
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
- An instance of overrunning.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- The amount by which something overruns.
- too much production or more than expected
noun
- A termination or conclusion.
- The last part of something.
- (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
- the act of ending something
- the last section of a communication
- the point in time at which something ends
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- event whose occurrence ends something
verb
noun
- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
- An outcome or result.
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
- (grammar) The last part of a word.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- (medicine) An induced abortion.
- the act of ending something
- a place where something ends or is complete
- a coming to an end of a contract period
- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
- something that results
noun
adj
- (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
- (grammar, of a verb) Taking a direct object or objects.
- Affected by transference of signification.
- Making a transit or passage.
- (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element a is related to b and b is related to c, then a is necessarily related to c.
- (probability) Of a set of dice: not having the intransitive property.
- (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
- designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning
verb
- (transitive) To terminate; to call the end of.
- (transitive) To exclude by blocking all opportunities to enter or join.
- (computing) To terminate a computer program.
- (aerospace) To seal off.
- (surfing, of a wave) To break all at once, instead of progressively along its length.
- (finance) To make trades offsetting an existing position, leaving the trader with a neutral position.
- (intransitive) To settle, to pay what is due.
- (transitive, marketing) Synonym of close (“to make a sale”).
- to finish off
- terminate by selling off or disposing of
- make impossible, especially beforehand
verb
- (colloquial, transitive) To finish or make an end of.
- (driving, transitive, slang) To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.
- (informal, transitive, usually passive voice) To amaze or greatly surprise.
- (informal, transitive) To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
- (mathematics) To set a lower bound.
- To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
- (transitive) To cover or furnish with a floor.
- knock down with force
- surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
noun
- In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
- (by extension) The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
- (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
- (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface; floor exercise
- (mining) The bottom of a pit, pothole or mine.
- (geology, biology, chiefly with a modifier) The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).
- (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body; the rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
- (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
- (finance) A lower limit or minimum on a price or rate, a price floor. Opposite of a cap or ceiling.
- (construction, architecture) A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
- (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
- The trading floor of a stock exchange, pit; the area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition.
- (UK, dialectal, colloquial) The ground.
- The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
- (architecture, countable) A storey/story of a building.
- The area of a casino where gambling occurs.
- (countable) The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
- A dance floor.
- The area of an establishment where food and drink are served to customers.
- the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- the lower inside surface of any hollow structure
- the occupants of a floor
- a large room in a exchange where the trading is done
- the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water
- the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business
- the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- a lower limit
- the ground on which people and animals move about
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
verb
- (transitive) To bring to a close; to terminate.
- (transitive) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (intransitive) To lapse and become invalid.
- (transitive, computing) To cause to lapse; to invalidate.
- (ambitransitive) To exhale; to breathe out.
- (intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude.
- lose validity
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- expel air
verb
- (transitive) To close, terminate, or end.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To emotionally withdraw into oneself as a defense mechanism; to block out external stressors.
- (slang, auto racing, car culture) To pass (another vehicle), especially quickly.
- (figurative, transitive) To suppress, block out, or reject (an idea or an aspect of one's personality or identity).
- (ergative) To turn off or stop.
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
verb
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
- (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- put an end to
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
noun
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (by extension, often with "the") Death.
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- Result.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the part you are expected to play
- either extremity of something that has length
- a final state
- a final part or section
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- (transitive or intransitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
- (transitive) To render inoperative.
- (transitive) To use up or to waste.
- (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- (slang) To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- (transitive, figuratively, informal) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- (transitive) To force a company out of business.
- (metallurgy) To deadmelt.
- (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
- (reflexive, informal) To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- deprive of life
- hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
- tire out completely
- thwart the passage of
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
- end or extinguish by forceful means
- drink down entirely
- be the source of great pain for
- cause to cease operating
- cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
- be fatal
- destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
- cause the death of, without intention
noun
- The act of killing.
- (New York) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
- (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
- (military, gaming, countable) An instance of killing; a score on the tally of enemy personnel or vehicles killed or destroyed.
- Specifically, the death blow.
- The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- (rare) Alternative form of kiln.
- the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
- the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal
- the act of terminating a life
verb
- (figurative, transitive) To put an end to.
- (film, television, literature) Of writers or producers, to permanently take a character out of a television series or other work by purposefully and deliberately having them killed within the plot.
- (transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
- kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many
verb
- (informal, transitive) To complete; to finish.
- (informal, intransitive, transitive) To communicate successfully across a barrier; to make contact, or get one's point across; to reach the addressee with difficulty.
- (informal, transitive) To use up; to expend.
- (informal, transitive) To overcome; to endure.
- finish a task completely
- spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
- succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
- be in or establish communication with
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
verb
- (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
- (often passive voice) To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar.
- (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
- (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
- (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
- (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
- come to a close
- bring to a close
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
- reach agreement on
verb
- (transitive) To end or conclude.
- (intransitive) To finish; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To become denser or more crowded with objects.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- (ambitransitive) To move a thing, or part of a thing, nearer to another so that the gap or opening between the two is removed.
- (Philippines, Quebec, Greece, Cyprus) To turn off; to switch off.
- (transitive) To obstruct or block.
- (transitive) To perform as the final act at (a show etc.).
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- (transitive, intransitive, especially sports) To angle (a club, bat or other hitting implement) downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive, intransitive, electricity, of a switch, fuse or circuit breaker) To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- (transitive, intransitive, engineering, gas and liquid flow, of valve or damper) To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- (figuratively, transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (ergative, marketing) To conclude (a sale).
- (intransitive) To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- (ergative, computing) To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (intransitive, of a business, market etc.) To cease trading for the day, or permanently.
- (transitive, finance) To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- (chiefly figurative) To come or gather around; to enclose.
- come to a close
- draw near
- change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact
- be priced or listed when trading stops
- unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement
- cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop
- fill or stop up
- come together, as if in an embrace
- become closed
- bar access to
- finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead
- finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.)
- engage at close quarters
- bring together all the elements or parts of
adj
- (archaic outside certain phrases) Physically narrow or confined.
- At little distance; near in space or time.
- Intimate or immediate in personal relationship.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; almost exactly matching.
- Carefully done, detailed.
- Accurate; precise.
- (Ireland, UK, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Tight, with little space separating components or elements.
- (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Tightly restricted in availability.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer, goal, or other state); near.
- (law) Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Attentive; undeviating; strict.
- (in particular) Almost resulting in disaster.
- (heraldry, of a bird) With its wings at its side, closed, held near to its body (typically also statant); (of wings) in this posture.
- Short.
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- Involving a tight connection; involving frequent communication, shared or cooperative activity, etc.
- Marked, evident.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact or nearly so.
- not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- close in relevance or relationship
- confined to specific persons
- crowded
- strictly confined or guarded
- at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other
- lacking fresh air
- inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- of textiles
- marked by fidelity to an original
- used of hair or haircuts
- fitting closely but comfortably
- rigorously attentive; strict and thorough
- giving or spending with reluctance
adv
noun
- (chiefly British) A street that ends in a dead end.
- A cathedral close.
- (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- An end or conclusion.
- (aviation, travel) The time when check-in staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
- (music) A double bar marking the end.
- (sales) The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- A grapple in wrestling.
- the last section of a communication
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- the concluding part of any performance
verb
- (transitive) To terminate (a business).
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
- (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
- (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
- cause to be quiet or not talk
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
adj
intj
verb
- (transitive) To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To excite.
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- (intransitive, copulative) To end up; to arrive or result.
- (intransitive) To increase (in some aspect).
- (transitive) To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To upset; to anger or distress.
- (literally, transitive) To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- (literally, transitive) To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- (British, transitive) To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- (transitive) To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- (baseball, intransitive) To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- to evoke sexual feelings
- coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem
- finally be or do something
- give a preliminary swing to the arm pitching
noun
verb
- (transitive) To end something, especially when left in an incomplete state.
- (transitive) To conclude.
- (intransitive) To end, conclude, or cease; to come to an end.
- (intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
- (intransitive) To issue or result.
- (transitive) To form an appropriate end on (a wire, cable, hose, pipe, etc), such as by applying a cable terminal or a hose ferrule.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To kill someone or something.
- (transitive) To set or be a limit or boundary to.
- (transitive) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
- bring to an end or halt
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
adj
verb
- (transitive) To complete or finish something.
- (transitive) To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid.
- (mathematics, transitive, intransitive) To change (a number) to an approximation having fewer significant digits.
- make round
- express as a round number
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
verb
- (slang, transitive) To enliven.
- (slang, transitive) To do away with something.
- To use a remote control to repeatedly fast-forward or change channels on a television.
- (slang, transitive) To move or transport (something) in a brief time frame.
- (intransitive) To make a zap sound.
- (slang, transitive) To delete or discard (electronic media).
- (Singapore, informal, transitive) To photocopy.
- (slang, transitive) To further energize or charge (magnetic material).
- To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting.
- (slang, transitive) To damage (especially electronics) with electrostatic discharge.
- To participate in a zap (protest) against.
- (US, military, slang, transitive) To kill; to eliminate.
- (slang, transitive) To heat (something) in a microwave oven.
- strike at with firepower or bombs
- cook or heat in a microwave oven
- strike suddenly and with force
- kill with or as if with a burst of gunfire or electric current or as if by shooting
intj
noun
- A raucous public demonstration designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity as a form of political activism.
- (slang) The act of heating something in a microwave oven.
- (colloquial) An electric shock.
- (colloquial) A sound made by a sudden release of electricity or some similar energy.
- a sudden event that imparts energy or excitement, usually with a dramatic impact
verb
noun
- Any other opening and closing device.
- (construction) A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
- (photography) The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
- One who shuts or closes something.
- (usually in the plural) Protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
- a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure
- a hinged blind for a window
verb
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
noun
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
punct
verb
- (transitive) To complete (something).
- (transitive) To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
- (transitive) To put an end to; to destroy.
- (intransitive) To come to an end.
- (intransitive, sex) To reach orgasm.
- (transitive) To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
- provide with a finish
- come or bring to a finish or an end
- cause to finish a relationship with somebody
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- finally be or do something
- finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
noun
- (professional wrestling, slang) The ending of a match and its structure.
- The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
- A finishing touch; careful elaboration; polish.
- (sports) A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
- An end; the end of anything.
- A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
- the act of finishing
- the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
- (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed)
- the downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict)
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
- event whose occurrence ends something
verb
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- sink down or precipitate
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- come as if by falling
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
noun
verb
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- terminate or end
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
noun
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
verb
- (transitive) To send to a final destination.
- (transitive) To entrust to the care of another.
- To assign; to devote; to set apart.
- (transitive, business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
- To stamp or impress; to affect.
- give over to another for care or safekeeping
- send to an address
- commit forever; commit irrevocably
verb
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To conclude or finish completely.
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic, figurative) To cocoon; to surround protectively.
- (transitive, figurative) To hide or cover up.
- (transitive and intransitive) To cover or enclose (something) by folding and securing a covering entirely around it.
- (transitive) To combine, incorporate or encapsulate into one thing.
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To put on abundant clothing as protection from the cold; to bundle up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To curl into a more compact form.
- (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To summarize or recapitulate.
- (transitive, idiomatic, figurative) To tie up; to make too busy to respond.
- finish a task completely
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection
- form a cylinder by rolling
- clothe, as if for protection from the elements
verb
- (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use:
- (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- (video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- (in bare form) to die in a certain form.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- (now sometimes proscribed) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
- (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
- (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
- (of a stand-up comedian or a joke, slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:
- (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- suffer or face the pain of death
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
- stop operating or functioning
- languish as with love or desire
- feel indifferent towards
- disappear or come to an end
- to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- cut or shape with a die
adv
noun
- (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- Any small cubical or square body.
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- a device used for shaping metal
- a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
verb
noun
- (law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
- (law) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage
- Alternative spelling of dougher.
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband
verb
- (transitive or intransitive, law, otherwise obsolete) To bring to an end, finish; to come to an end, stop, end.
- To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide.
- To resolve (to do something); to establish a fixed intention; to cause (something) to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
- To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
- To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
- To set the boundaries or limits of.
- (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
- To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
- shape or influence; give direction to
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- reach, make, or come to a decision about something
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- fix in scope; fix the boundaries of
- establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- decide upon or fix definitely
verb
- (transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.
- (intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.
- (transitive, business, human resources) To record the end of one's day or shift at work.
- (transitive, cricket) To declare (the batsman) out for having taken longer than two minutes to appear on the field.
intj
noun
verb
- (transitive, by extension) To force termination of an ongoing process before its natural conclusion, by bypassing one or more intermediary steps.
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in.
- (transitive, computing) To terminate a loop before the declared termination condition is met, or a conditional before all conditions have been tested for.
- (transitive, by extension) To impede or disrupt.
- (intransitive) To undergo a short circuit.
- (transitive) To bypass, especially by overhastiness.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- (intransitive) To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- (intransitive) To move or be moved from one place to another.
- (transitive) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- (intransitive, stative, sociology) To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- (intransitive) To continue.
- (intransitive, law) To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- (intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- (transitive, of time) To spend.
- (intransitive, card games) In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- (transitive) To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
- (transitive) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- (transitive) To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- (intransitive, transitive) To achieve a successful outcome from.
- (transitive) To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- (intransitive) To happen.
- (intransitive) To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- (intransitive, stative) To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- (transitive) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- (transitive, nautical) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- (intransitive) To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- (transitive, cooking) To put through a sieve.
- (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- (ditransitive) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- (intransitive, transitive) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- (intransitive, law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to be spent.
- (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.
- (intransitive) To decline something that is offered or available.
- (intransitive) In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- (transitive) To reject; to pass up.
- (intransitive, transitive, medicine) To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- (intransitive) To go from one person to another.
- (transitive) To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- (intransitive) To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- (transitive) To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- (intransitive, fencing) To make a lunge or swipe.
- accept or judge as acceptable
- be superior or better than some standard
- transfer to another; of rights or property
- throw (a ball) to another player
- allow to go without comment or censure
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go unchallenged; be approved
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- eliminate from the body
- move past
- use up a period of time in a specific way
- for time to move forward
- travel past
- go successfully through a test or a selection process
- disappear gradually
- be inherited by
- grant authorization or clearance for
- transmit information
- go across or through
- pass over, across, or through
- cause to pass
- place into the hands or custody of
- make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation
- come to pass
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
noun
- (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- An attempt.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
- A sexual advance (often in the phrase make a pass).
- (baseball) An intentional walk.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- (sports) The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions
- a flight or run by an aircraft over a target
- a usually brief attempt
- a permit to enter or leave a military installation
- any authorization to pass or go somewhere
- an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- (military) a written leave of absence
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
- a difficult juncture
- (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a complimentary ticket
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
- (transitive) To send (an important official message) promptly, by means of a diplomat or military officer.
- (transitive) To defeat
- (transitive) To rid; to free.
- (transitive) To send (a person) away hastily.
- (transitive) To send (a shipment) with promptness.
- (transitive) To send (a journalist) to a place in order to report.
- (transitive) To destroy (someone or something) quickly and efficiently.
- (transitive) To eat, especially quickly.
- (transitive, computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to).
- dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently
- send away towards a designated goal
- complete or carry out
- kill without delay
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
noun
- A mission by an emergency response service, typically involving attending to an emergency in the field.
- A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, government official, military officer, etc.
- The act of doing something quickly.
- (computing) The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- the act of sending off something
- an official report (usually sent in haste)
- killing a person or animal
verb
- (transitive, colloquial) To process; to complete work on (something), especially with a view to sending it on in a finished state.
- (intransitive) To change one's opinion or attitude (especially when becoming hostile etc.).
- (intransitive) To turn so as to be facing in the opposite direction.
- (transitive) To make (a ship, airplane etc.) ready for departure.
- (intransitive) To revolve or rotate around a centre.
- (transitive) To put into an opposing position; to reverse.
verb
noun
- Relief from pain etc., especially temporary.
- A cancellation or postponement of a proposed event undesired by many.
- A document authorizing such an action.
- The cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
- a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
verb
- (idiomatic, transitive) To contain; stop.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To delay the progress of, especially in school.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power.
- hold back; keep from being perceived by others
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- prevent the action or expression of
- refrain from doing
- wait before acting
verb
- (transitive) To intend.
- (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
- (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
- ask (someone) to marry you
- put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position
- present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.
- propose or intend
- make a proposal, declare a plan for something
verb
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
adj
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
intj
noun
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
verb
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- run at a moderately swift pace
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- attach with a clip
- (slang) To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- (computer graphics, video games, ambitransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- (slang, transitive) To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
- To curtail; to cut short.
- (dialectal, informal) To strike with the hand.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- (slang, transitive) to grab or take stealthily.
- (computer graphics) To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To make a clip; to cut a section of video from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- To grip tightly.
- (signal processing) To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- (surgery, transitive) To treat (an aneurysm) by closing it off with a physical clip.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- (slang) To assassinate; to bump off.
- (American football) To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
noun
- a sharp slanting blow
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- the act of clipping or snipping
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
- A short piece of audio (shortened version of audio clip, or alternatively clipping of audio).
- (military, colloquial) A removable magazine of a firearm.
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, Geordie) The condition of something, its state.
- (military) A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- Something which has been clipped from a larger whole:
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- (fishing, UK, Scotland) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
- (informal) A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
verb
noun
verb
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- cause to end earlier than intended
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- interrupt before its natural or planned end
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.
- (transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
- (transitive) To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.
adj
verb
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
- (algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
- (sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- (intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
- (of an object which expresses the relationship between algebraic structures, particularly a short exact sequence) To contain an object which may be so expressed.
- (transitive) To share; to divide.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
- (intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive) To burst out laughing.
- (transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- (intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- (generally, of an algebraic structure) To be expressable as a direct sum of sub-modules, -algebras, etc.
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- go one's own way; move apart
- separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument
- separate into parts or portions
adj
- (stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- (London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided.
- (algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle object (group, module, etc.) equal to the direct sum of the others.
- (of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- (stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
- (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
- having been divided; having the unity destroyed
noun
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- (bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- (baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- (bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- (gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- (systematics) The division of a single taxon into two or more taxa; as opposed to a lump.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- (construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- (music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists; a split single or split album.
- (gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- (athletics, speedrunning) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race or speedrun.
- (leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- a promised or claimed share of loot or money
- a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts
- (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl
- a lengthwise crack in wood
- a bottle containing half the usual amount
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
- an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- division of a group into opposing factions
verb
- (transitive) To leave (a place).
- (transitive) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
- (transitive) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
- (ambitransitive) To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
- (transitive) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
- (transitive, computing) To close (an application).
- (ambitransitive) To stop, give up (an activity). [(usually) with gerund; or with verbal noun]
- give up or retire from a position
- put an end to a state or an activity
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat
- turn away from; give up
- go away or leave
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
- invade in great numbers
- seize the position of and defeat
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- run beyond or past
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
noun
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
- An instance of overrunning.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- The amount by which something overruns.
- too much production or more than expected
adj
- Occurring at the end of a word, sentence, or period of time, and serves to terminate it
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- Appearing at the end; top or apex of a physical object.
- Fatal; resulting in death.
- causing or ending in or approaching death
- being or situated at an end
- of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route
- relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time
noun
- A rate charged on all freight, regardless of distance, and supposed to cover the expenses of station service, as distinct from mileage rate, generally proportionate to the distance and intended to cover movement expenses.
- An electric contact on a battery.
- A storage tank for bulk liquids (such as oil or chemicals) prior to further distribution.
- (computing theory) A terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- (computing) A device for entering data into a computer or a communications system and/or displaying data received, especially a device equipped with a keyboard and some sort of textual display.
- A harbour facility where ferries embark and disembark passengers and load and unload vehicles.
- (telecommunications) The apparatus to send and/or receive signals on a line, such as a telephone or network device.
- A building in an airport where passengers transfer from ground transportation to the facilities that allow them to board airplanes.
- A rail station where service begins and ends; the end of the line. For example: Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
- A town lying at the end of a railroad, in which the terminal is located; more properly called a terminus.
- (computing) A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- (electricity, electronics) The end of a line (wire, cable, etc) where signals or power are either transmitted or received, or a point along the length of a line where the signals or power are made available to apparatus; the hardware attached to the line in this spot, which allows connections to be fastened.
- (biology) The end ramification (of an axon, etc.) or one of the extremities of a polypeptide.
- electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
- station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods
- either extremity of something that has length
- a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves
verb
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- conclusive in a process or progression
- not to be altered or undone
- (linguistics) Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.
- Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
- Last; ultimate.
- Conclusive; decisive.
- (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
noun
- the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament
- an examination administered at the end of an academic term
- (Oxbridge slang) A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
- (phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
- (music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- (sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
verb
adj
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- immediately past
- conclusive in a process or progression
- coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining
- occurring at the time of death
- most unlikely or unsuitable
- highest in extent or degree
- not to be altered or undone
- lowest in rank or importance
- Lowest in rank or degree.
- Final, ultimate, coming after all others of its kind.
- Supreme; highest in degree; utmost.
- Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely, or least preferable.
- Most recent, latest, last so far.
- Being the only one remaining of its class.
noun
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
- a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
- the last or lowest in an ordering or series
- the temporal end; the concluding time
- a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
- holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
- A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.
- (shoemaking) A tool in the form of a foot on which an item of footwear (such as a boot or shoe) is placed for shaping while it is being manufactured or repaired.
adv
verb
- persist for a specified period of time
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive, shoemaking) To shape (an item of footwear such as a boot or shoe) during its manufacture or repair while it is placed on a last (noun etymology 3 sense 1).
- (intransitive, slang, of a man) To purposefully refrain from orgasm
- (intransitive) To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.
- (intransitive) To endure, continue over time.
det
- (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the past, or closest but one if the closest was very recent; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) ago, or the most recent instance before seven days (one week) ago.
- The (one) immediately before the present.
adj
noun
- Abbreviation of transposition.
- Abbreviation of transfer.
- Abbreviation of transportation.
- Abbreviation of trainee.
- Abbreviation of track.
- Abbreviation of trust.
- Abbreviation of trustee.
- (music) Abbreviation of trill.
- Abbreviation of treasurer.
- Abbreviation of trumpeter.
- Abbreviation of trace.
- (music) Abbreviation of treble.
- Abbreviation of transaction.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of tinctura (Latin for “tincture”).
- Abbreviation of troop.
- Abbreviation of tragedy.
- Abbreviation of truck.
- Abbreviation of trumpet.
- Abbreviation of transport.
- Abbreviation of train.
- Abbreviation of translator.
- Abbreviation of translation.