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noun
verb
- grow vigorously
- hit with great force
- make a deep hollow sound
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
- (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- (of a vehicle) To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
- (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- (transitive) To make (something) boom.
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
noun
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
- a state of economic prosperity
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
- A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
intj
verb
- grow vigorously
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- extend in one or more directions
- expand the influence of
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number (which yields a fraction of equal value).
- (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
- (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
verb
- grow vigorously
- make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
- move or swing back and forth
- (intransitive) To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit.
- (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
- (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
- (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
- (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
noun
- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- a display of ornamental speech or language
- an ornamental embellishment in writing
- the act of waving
- a showy gesture
- An ornamentation.
- A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
- (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
- (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
verb
- grow vigorously
- make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
- (intransitive) To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
- (intransitive) To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly; to enjoy a state of excellent health and well-being; to flourish.
verb
- develop and grow
- bolster or strengthen
- improve the cleansing action of
- give form to, according to a plan
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- form or accumulate steadily
- make by combining materials and parts
- be engaged in building
- build or establish something abstract
- found or ground
- (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
- (intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
- (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
- (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
noun
- constitution of the human body
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest created by the player.
- (countable) The process or period of constructing a physical object.
- (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A configuration of a character's items or skills created by the player.
verb
- To grow, to sprout.
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- (figurative) A youth.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
verb
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
noun
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
adj
- growing profusely
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
noun
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
verb
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
noun
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
verb
- grow under conditions that promote development
- sit on (eggs)
- (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- (transitive, figurative) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
noun
adj
- having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex
- not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance
- of uncertain or ambiguous nature
- not leading to a definite ending or result
- (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved
- (botany, of inflorescences) Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
- Intersex.
- Imprecise or vague.
- (mathematical analysis, of certain forms of limit) Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
- (biology, of growth) With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
- (architecture) Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.
- Not accurately determined or determinable.
noun
noun
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- (uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
- (countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- The average number of births per woman within a population.
noun
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a strong deep vividness of hue
- the quality of having high intrinsic value
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance
- abundant wealth
- the property of being extremely abundant
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being rich; wealthiness, wealth, riches.
- (countable) The result or product of being rich.
- (uncountable) The state of having many examples or cases; abundance; profusion.
- (ecology) The number of types in a community.
verb
- grow like a plant
- grow or spread abnormally
- establish vegetation on
- lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
- produce vegetation
- propagate asexually
- engage in passive relaxation
- (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
- (of a plant) To grow or sprout.
- (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally.
verb
- grow and spread fast
- pick or gather mushrooms
- (intransitive) To form the shape of a mushroom.
- (intransitive) To gather mushrooms.
- (intransitive, figurative) To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
- (ballistics, of a bullet) To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target.
noun
- mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
- common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
- Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
- Ellipsis of mushroom cloud.
- (figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.
- Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
- Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
- (architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
adj
verb
- promote the growth of
- prepare for crops
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting or as a method of weed control between growing crop plants.
- To grow plants, notably crops.
- (figurative) To nurture; to foster; to tend.
verb
- promote the growth of
- help develop, help grow
- bring up under fosterage; of children
- (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
- (transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
adj
noun
verb
adj
adv
- to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (‘further’ is used more often than ‘farther’ in this abstract sense)
- in addition or furthermore
- to or at a greater distance in time or space (‘farther’ is used more frequently than ‘further’ in this physical sense)
- (with to) Following on (from).
- Beyond what is already stated or is already the case.
- (comparative form of far) To, at or over a greater distance in space, time or other extent.
- (comparative form of far) To a greater extent or degree.
- (conjunctive) Also; in addition; furthermore; moreover.
verb
- To grow; to advance.
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (surfing) To ride a wave.
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To make the stated score.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
- kill by firing a missile
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- record on photographic film
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- utter fast and forcefully
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- give an injection to
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- make a film or photograph of something
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- fire a shot; release
- score
intj
noun
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A photography session.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- the act of shooting at targets
- a new branch
noun
- something grown or growing
- (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- vegetation that has grown
- An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
- An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
- (economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.
- (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
verb
- grow by addition
- come into the possession of
- (intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
- (transitive) To accumulate.
- (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
- (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
- (intransitive) To increase, to rise
verb
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- make larger
- make large
- become larger or bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
noun
- The growth thus produced.
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- A group of bacteria.
- The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
- (cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
- (archaeology) Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”).
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- (euphemistic) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
- the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
- (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
- the raising of plants or animals
- the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- a particular society at a particular time and place
verb
adj
noun
- growth; increase
- (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- The raising of plants.
verb
noun
- (rare) The process of growing.
- Beeswax.
- (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
- (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Earwax.
- (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
- any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
adj
verb
- (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
- (slang) To spout so much nonsense that the other person starts doubting which of you two is insane.
- (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
- (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.
- (intransitive) To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
- (transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
- (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
- increase in phase
- go up or advance
- cover with wax
noun
- something contributing to growth or increase
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- (uncountable, also figurative) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
- (inheritance law, uncountable) Increase of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.
- (uncountable, also figurative) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
- A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
- (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- (property law, uncountable) Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.
- (astrophysics) The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
- (geology) The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
- (countable, chiefly figurative) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
verb
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
verb
- grow or intensify
- enlarge or increase
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
noun
- An increase.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
adj
- having reached full natural growth or development
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- characteristic of maturity
- fully considered and perfected
- (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- Profound; careful.
verb
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- become due for repayment
- cause to ripen or develop fully
- cause to ripen and discharge pus
- grow old or older
- develop and work out fully in one's mind
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
- (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
- (US, military, of an offensive, etc) To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
- (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
- bring to a head or to the highest point
- end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- reach the highest or most decisive point
- reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- rise to, or form, a summit
noun
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- The state of being extended.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- (cosmetics, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- an addition that extends a main building
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- an addition to the length of something
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
noun
- the process of fostering the growth of something
- socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners
- the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
- Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
- Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
- Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
- Light tillage: turning or stirring the soil, especially for weed control.
verb
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
noun
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
verb
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To bring together; to amass.
- (colloquial) To annoy.
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- (literally) To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- (slang) To have sex; to penetrate sexually; to have a sexual or romantic liaison.
- (sports) To go towards the attacking goal.
- To rise from one's bed, usually upon waking up in order to begin one's day.
- (UK, Australia, colloquial) To criticise.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To leave prison.
- (Australia, colloquial) To succeed; to win.
- (slang, US) To meet with or get to know (someone); to hang out with someone.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To be excited about something; to act regarding something; to become cognizant of something.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To leave or go to somewhere.
- cause to rise
- study intensively, as before an exam
- rise to one's feet
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
- get up and out of bed
- develop
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- arrange by systematic planning and united effort
verb
noun
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
- That which nourishes; food; diet.
- The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
- The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
verb
- (intransitive) Grow; increase.
- (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
- (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- cause to move faster
- move faster
adj
noun
verb
noun
- a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
- a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
- (countable) That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
- Ellipsis of publicity stunt.
- An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
- A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
- (countable) A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
- A check in growth.
- (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
noun
- the process of growth in plants
- inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
- all the plant life in a particular region or period
- an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
- (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
- (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
- The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
noun
- the property of being able to survive and grow
- quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
- general activity and motion
- the condition of living or the state of being alive
- the making of animated cartoons
- the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
- (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
- (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) A sequence of still drawings or inanimate objects displayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) produced
- The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
- The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
- The condition of being animate or alive.
- Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.
noun
- the property of being able to survive and grow
- an energetic style
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
- Energy or vigour.
- The capacity to live and develop.
- That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.
verb
- check the growth of
- make appear small by comparison
- (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
- To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
- (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
- (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
noun
- a plant or animal that is atypically small
- a person who is markedly small
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- (astronomy) A dwarf star.
- An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
- (now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
adj
verb
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- change the use of and make available or usable
- work out
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- become technologically advanced
- expand in the form of a series
- happen
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- generate gradually
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- (transitive) To create.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
verb
- To bring up; to grow.
- (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- (metalworking, transitive) To emboss (sheet metal), or to form it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- Misspelling of raze.
- (law) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
- (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
- (nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To collect or amass.
- (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- (India, transitive) To open, initiate.
- To promote.
- (military, transitive) To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
- (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- (programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- raise in rank or condition
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- increase the level of
- put an end to a situation
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- bet more than the previous player
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- move upwards
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- cause to become alive again
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- raise the level or amount of something
- activate or stir up
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- invigorate or heighten
- establish radio communications with
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- construct, build, or erect
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- register formally as a participant or member
- look after a child until it is an adult
- cause to assemble or enlist in military
noun
- (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
- (mining) A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
- A cairn or pile of stones.
- (poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.
- (US) Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
- increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)
- the act of raising something
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- the amount a salary is increased
noun
- a profusion of growth on or over something else
- excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
- Excessive size; usually caused by over-production of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.
- A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else.
- A tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles.
- An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
verb
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
noun
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
adj
adj
noun
verb
- cause to grow or develop
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- increase in size by natural process
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become attached by or as if by the process of growth
- grow emotionally or mature
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
- (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
- (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
- (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
noun
noun
- Ability to cause growth or increase.
- Ability to produce offspring.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
noun
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
- the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
- (uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
- (countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
- The average number of births per woman within a population.
noun
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
- the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing
- a strong deep vividness of hue
- the quality of having high intrinsic value
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance
- abundant wealth
- the property of being extremely abundant
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being rich; wealthiness, wealth, riches.
- (countable) The result or product of being rich.
- (uncountable) The state of having many examples or cases; abundance; profusion.
- (ecology) The number of types in a community.
noun
- something grown or growing
- (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
- the gradual beginning or coming forth
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- vegetation that has grown
- An increase in psychological strength or resilience; an increased ability to overcome adversity.
- An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
- (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.
- (economics) Ellipsis of economic growth.
- (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
noun
- The growth thus produced.
- The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize humankind, or a particular society or nation.
- A group of bacteria.
- The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising the accepted norms and values of a society.
- (cartography) The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.
- (archaeology) Ellipsis of archaeological culture (“recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society”).
- (anthropology) Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.
- (botany, agriculture) Cultivation.
- The beliefs, values, behaviour, and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.
- (microbiology) The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.
- (euphemistic) Ethnicity, race (and its associated arts, customs, etc.)
- the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group
- (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)
- the raising of plants or animals
- the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization
- all the knowledge and values shared by a society
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- a particular society at a particular time and place
verb
noun
- (rare) The process of growing.
- Beeswax.
- (US, slang) Any of a class of drugs with weed oil and butane as main ingredients; hash oil.
- (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Earwax.
- (uncountable, music, informal) The phonograph record format for music.
- any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water
adj
verb
- (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
- (intransitive, literary) To greaten.
- (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
- (slang) To spout so much nonsense that the other person starts doubting which of you two is insane.
- (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
- (intransitive, copulative, literary) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- (transitive) To coat with wax or a similar material.
- (intransitive) To form a wax (a thick maple syrup).
- (transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
- (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- (intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
- increase in phase
- go up or advance
- cover with wax
noun
- something contributing to growth or increase
- (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
- (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
- (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
- an increase by natural growth or addition
- (uncountable, also figurative) Followed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
- (inheritance law, uncountable) Increase of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.
- (uncountable, also figurative) Increase by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
- A substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
- (uncountable) (Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) The process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- (property law, uncountable) Increase in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.
- (astrophysics) The formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
- (geology) The process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
- (countable, chiefly figurative) Something gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
noun
- An outgrowth; a part of something that extends its capabilities.
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
- (weightlifting) An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- (fencing) A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- (logic) The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group G by a group H) A short exact sequence 1→H→E→G→1, or the group E therein.
- (medicine) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- A part of a building that has been added onto the original.
- (ring theory, of an ideal in the domain of a ring homomorphism) The ideal in the codomain generated by the image of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
- (telecommunications) A numerical code used to indicate a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- (computing) An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- (computing) Ellipsis of file extension.
- (linguistics, semantics) semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- (education) University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- (mathematics, homological algebra, of an object A by an object B in an abelian category) A short exact sequence 0→B→E→A→0, or the object E therein.
- The state of being extended.
- (semantics) Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- (cosmetics, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of hair extension, nail extension, or eyelash extension.
- (banking, finance) A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- (grammar) A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- an addition that extends a main building
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- an addition to the length of something
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
noun
- the process of fostering the growth of something
- socialization through training and education to develop one's mind or manners
- the act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale)
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
- (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale)
- Tillage: plowing, sowing and raising crops.
- The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture
- Advancement or refinement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition
- Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something)
- Light tillage: turning or stirring the soil, especially for weed control.
noun
- the process of growth in plants
- inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life
- all the plant life in a particular region or period
- an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
- (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
- (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth
- The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
noun
- the property of being able to survive and grow
- quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
- general activity and motion
- the condition of living or the state of being alive
- the making of animated cartoons
- the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
- (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
- (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) A sequence of still drawings or inanimate objects displayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) produced
- The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness
- The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
- The condition of being animate or alive.
- Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.
noun
- the property of being able to survive and grow
- an energetic style
- a healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms
- Energy or vigour.
- The capacity to live and develop.
- That which distinguishes living from nonliving things; life, animateness.
noun
- a profusion of growth on or over something else
- excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
- Excessive size; usually caused by over-production of growth hormone from the pituitary gland.
- A usually abundant, luxuriant growth over or on something else.
- A tangle of growth occurring at the top of trees involving vines and branches, common in jungles.
- An excessive growth or increase in numbers, as in a population of weeds or microbes.
adj
noun
- growth; increase
- (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- The raising of plants.
verb
verb
- grow vigorously
- hit with great force
- make a deep hollow sound
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
- (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- (of a vehicle) To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
- (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- (transitive) To make (something) boom.
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
noun
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
- a state of economic prosperity
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
- A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
intj
verb
- grow vigorously
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- extend in one or more directions
- expand the influence of
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number (which yields a fraction of equal value).
- (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
- (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
verb
- grow vigorously
- make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
- move or swing back and forth
- (intransitive) To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit.
- (intransitive) To prosper or fare well.
- (intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence.
- (intransitive) To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- (intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
- (intransitive) To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
- (transitive) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- (transitive) To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- (intransitive) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with.
noun
- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- a display of ornamental speech or language
- an ornamental embellishment in writing
- the act of waving
- a showy gesture
- An ornamentation.
- A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
- (architecture) A decorative embellishment on a building.
- (music) A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
verb
- grow vigorously
- make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance
- (intransitive) To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
- (intransitive) To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly; to enjoy a state of excellent health and well-being; to flourish.
verb
- develop and grow
- bolster or strengthen
- improve the cleansing action of
- give form to, according to a plan
- order, supervise, or finance the construction of
- form or accumulate steadily
- make by combining materials and parts
- be engaged in building
- build or establish something abstract
- found or ground
- (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
- (intransitive, computing, of source code) To be converted into software by compilation, usually with minimal human intervention.
- (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
- (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
- (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
noun
- constitution of the human body
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human or animal body, or other object; constitution or structure.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest created by the player.
- (countable) The process or period of constructing a physical object.
- (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.
- (gaming, slang, countable) A configuration of a character's items or skills created by the player.
verb
- To grow, to sprout.
- To come upon and flush out.
- (figurative) To arise, to come into existence.
- (ambitransitive, nautical, usually perfective) To crack.
- (transitive) To cause to spring (all senses).
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of strain.
- (sometimes figurative) To enliven.
- (transitive, slang, US) To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape.
- (intransitive) To move or burst forth.
- (intransitive) To spend the springtime somewhere.
- (UK dialectal) To mature.
- (transitive) To leap over.
- (of mechanisms) To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure.
- (of animals) To find or get enough food during springtime.
- (transitive, nautical) To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable.
- (intransitive, slang, rare) To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape.
- (transitive) To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield.
- (ambitransitive) To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place.
- (Australia, slang) To catch in an illegal act or compromising position.
- To appear.
- (intransitive, UK, dialectal, chiefly of cows) To swell with milk or pregnancy.
- (intransitive, now usually with "apart" or "open") To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter.
- (transitive, US, dialectal) Alternative form of sprain.
- To tell, to share.
- (transitive, rare) To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension.
- (transitive, architecture, of arches) To build, to form the initial curve of.
- (figurative, usually with cardinal adverbs) To move with great speed and energy.
- (intransitive, architecture, of arches, with "from") To extend, to curve.
- (usually with from) To be born, descend, or originate from
- develop into a distinctive entity
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- develop suddenly
- produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly
- spring back; spring away from an impact
noun
- A grove of trees; a forest.
- (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.
- (nautical) A line from a vessel's end or side to its anchor cable used to diminish or control its movement.
- (figurative) A race, a lineage.
- A shoot, a young tree.
- (figurative) A youth.
- Elastic energy, power, or force.
- (countable, fashion) Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
- (meteorology) The three months of March, April, and May in the Northern Hemisphere and September, October, and November in the Southern Hemisphere.
- (countable) The source from which an action or supply of something springs.
- (astronomy) The period from the moment of vernal equinox (around March 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) to the moment of the summer solstice (around June 21); the equivalent periods reckoned in other cultures and calendars.
- Elasticity: the property of a body springing back to its original form after compression, stretching, etc.
- An elastic mechanical part or device in any shape (e.g., flat, curved, coiled), made of flexible material (usually spring steel) that exerts force and attempts to spring back when bent, compressed, or stretched.
- (uncountable, figurative) The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.
- (figurative, politics) a period of political liberalization and democratization
- (oceanography) Ellipsis of spring tide, the especially high tide shortly after full and new moons.
- A cause, a motive, etc.
- (nautical) A line laid out from a vessel's end to the opposite end of an adjacent vessel or mooring to diminish or control its movement.
- (countable) An act of springing: a leap, a jump.
- (geology) A spray or body of water springing from the ground.
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a point at which water issues forth
- a natural flow of ground water
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
verb
- start to grow or develop
- develop buds
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
noun
- a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals
- a partially opened flower
- (informal, rare) Brother.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- (informal, chiefly Canada) Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
verb
- grow under conditions that promote development
- sit on (eggs)
- (transitive) To brood, raise, or maintain eggs, organisms, or living tissue through the provision of ideal environmental conditions.
- (transitive, figurative) To incubate metaphorically; to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately as if in preparation for hatching it.
noun
verb
- grow like a plant
- grow or spread abnormally
- establish vegetation on
- lead a passive existence without using one's body or mind
- produce vegetation
- propagate asexually
- engage in passive relaxation
- (informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
- (of a plant) To grow or sprout.
- (of a wart etc) To spread abnormally.
verb
- grow and spread fast
- pick or gather mushrooms
- (intransitive) To form the shape of a mushroom.
- (intransitive) To gather mushrooms.
- (intransitive, figurative) To grow quickly to a large size or rapidly increase in scope or scale.
- (ballistics, of a bullet) To form the shape of a mushroom when striking a soft target.
noun
- mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
- a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)
- fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi
- common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium
- A fungus producing such fruiting bodies.
- Any of the mushroom-shaped pegs in bar billiards.
- Ellipsis of mushroom cloud.
- (figurative) Something that grows very quickly or seems to appear suddenly.
- Any of the fleshy fruiting bodies of fungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood).
- Champignon or Agaricus bisporus, the mushroom species most commonly used in cooking.
- (architecture) A concrete column with a thickened portion at the top, used to support a slab.
adj
verb
- promote the growth of
- prepare for crops
- adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting or as a method of weed control between growing crop plants.
- To grow plants, notably crops.
- (figurative) To nurture; to foster; to tend.
verb
- promote the growth of
- help develop, help grow
- bring up under fosterage; of children
- (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
- (transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
adj
noun
verb
adj
adv
- to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (‘further’ is used more often than ‘farther’ in this abstract sense)
- in addition or furthermore
- to or at a greater distance in time or space (‘farther’ is used more frequently than ‘further’ in this physical sense)
- (with to) Following on (from).
- Beyond what is already stated or is already the case.
- (comparative form of far) To, at or over a greater distance in space, time or other extent.
- (comparative form of far) To a greater extent or degree.
- (conjunctive) Also; in addition; furthermore; moreover.
verb
- To grow; to advance.
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (surfing) To ride a wave.
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To make the stated score.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
- kill by firing a missile
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- record on photographic film
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- utter fast and forcefully
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- give an injection to
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- make a film or photograph of something
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- fire a shot; release
- score
intj
noun
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A photography session.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- the act of shooting at targets
- a new branch
verb
- grow by addition
- come into the possession of
- (intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
- (transitive) To accumulate.
- (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
- (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
- (intransitive) To increase, to rise
verb
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- make larger
- make large
- become larger or bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
verb
- To have growth or development.
- (transitive) To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- (transitive) To complete a running course or event in (a given time).
- (figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- (transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- (transitive) To transit (a length of a river), as in whitewater rafting.
- (intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
- (intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To press (a bank, etc.) with immediate demands for payment.
- (intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
- (intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
- (transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- (transitive) To transport (someone or something), notionally at a brisk pace.
- (copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- (transitive) To cover (a course or a distance) by running.
- (intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- past participle of rin
- (intransitive) To move briskly or smoothly with a motion of sliding, rolling, sweeping etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) extend in space.
- (sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- (intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot.
- (intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- (intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- (transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- (intransitive) To be presented in the media.
- (transitive) To make stand in an election.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- (transitive) To cause (a vehicle) to travel a route.
- (intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- (American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- (transitive) To make a liquid or electric current flow from or into an object.
- (transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
- (transitive) To control or manage; to be in charge of.
- (intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- (transitive) To make a machine operate.
- (transitive) To cost an amount of money.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
- (nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid or electric current, to flow.
- (transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- (transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- (intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- (video games, rare) To speedrun.
- (transitive) To cause stitched clothing to unravel.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- (transitive) To make enter a race.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- (intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- cover by running; run a certain distance
- deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- run with the ball; in such sports as football
- occur persistently
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- be diffused
- change from one state to another
- pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine
- become undone
- be affected by; be subjected to
- move along, of liquids
- progress by being changed
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- change or be different within limits
- be operating, running or functioning
- continue to exist
- move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- make without a miss
- sail before the wind
- cause to perform
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- conduct to completion
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- compete in a race
- direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.
- come unraveled or undone as if by snagging
- pass over, across, or through
- set animals loose to graze
- keep company
- move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- perform as expected when applied
- extend or continue for a certain period of time
- cause an animal to move fast
- travel a route regularly
- have a particular form
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
adj
noun
- A production quantity (such as in a factory).
- (mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
- A trial.
- One’s gait while running; the way one runs.
- (construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
- A flow of liquid; a leak.
- (cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
- (chiefly eastern North Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
- Migration of fish.
- The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
- (video games, speedrunning) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
- (skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
- Any sudden large demand for something.
- (banking) A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
- An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
- (slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
- A standard or unexceptional group or category.
- The horizontal length of a set of stairs
- (music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
- (golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
- (American football) A running play.
- The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
- State of being current; currency; popularity.
- The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
- A quick pace, faster than a walk.
- A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
- (card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
- (baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
- (golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
- (mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
- A pair or set of millstones.
- A series of tries in a game that were successful.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
- Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
- Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
- (nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
- (of horses) A fast gallop.
- Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
- Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
- A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
- A (regular) trip or route.
- The route taken while running or skiing.
- The distance sailed by a ship.
- A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
- A pleasure trip.
- A voyage.
- a small stream
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- a regular trip
- unrestricted freedom to use
- an unbroken chronological sequence
- (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team
- the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.)
- the act of testing something
- the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation
- a race between candidates for elective office
- a race run on foot
- a short trip
- an unbroken series of events
- the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace
- a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- a row of unravelled stitches
verb
- grow or intensify
- enlarge or increase
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
noun
- An increase.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
verb
- (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- (sewing) To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To gain; to win.
- (intransitive, medicine, of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus
- (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
- (glassblowing) To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- (nautical) To haul in; to take up.
- (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
- (knitting) To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- collect in one place
- conclude from evidence
- get people together
- look for (food) in nature
- draw and bring closer
- increase or develop
- draw together into folds or puckers
- increase in amount by collecting or gathering
- assemble or get together
noun
- (masonry) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- (glassblowing) A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- the act of gathering something
- sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching
verb
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To bring together; to amass.
- (colloquial) To annoy.
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- (literally) To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- (slang) To have sex; to penetrate sexually; to have a sexual or romantic liaison.
- (sports) To go towards the attacking goal.
- To rise from one's bed, usually upon waking up in order to begin one's day.
- (UK, Australia, colloquial) To criticise.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To leave prison.
- (Australia, colloquial) To succeed; to win.
- (slang, US) To meet with or get to know (someone); to hang out with someone.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To be excited about something; to act regarding something; to become cognizant of something.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To leave or go to somewhere.
- cause to rise
- study intensively, as before an exam
- rise to one's feet
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
- get up and out of bed
- develop
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- arrange by systematic planning and united effort
verb
noun
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
- That which nourishes; food; diet.
- The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
- The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
verb
- (intransitive) Grow; increase.
- (transitive, physics) To cause a change of velocity.
- (transitive, education) To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- (transitive) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- (intransitive) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- (transitive) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- (transitive) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
- cause to move faster
- move faster
verb
noun
- a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth
- a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention
- (countable) That which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
- Ellipsis of publicity stunt.
- An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.
- A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.
- (countable) A two-year-old whale, which, having been weaned, is lean and yields little blubber.
- A check in growth.
- (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.
verb
- check the growth of
- make appear small by comparison
- (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
- To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
- (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
- (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
- (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
noun
- a plant or animal that is atypically small
- a person who is markedly small
- a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
- (astronomy) A dwarf star.
- An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
- (now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
adj
verb
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- change the use of and make available or usable
- work out
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- become technologically advanced
- expand in the form of a series
- happen
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- generate gradually
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- (transitive) To create.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
verb
- To bring up; to grow.
- (figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.
- (metalworking, transitive) To emboss (sheet metal), or to form it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- To cause something to come to the surface of water.
- Misspelling of raze.
- (law) To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).
- To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio).
- To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
- (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
- (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
- (nautical) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
- To collect or amass.
- (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof of the mouth.
- To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
- (India, transitive) To open, initiate.
- To promote.
- (military, transitive) To relinquish (a siege), or cause this to be done.
- (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
- To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
- (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
- (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
- (programming, transitive) To instantiate and transmit (an exception, by throwing it, or an event).
- To make (bread, etc.) light, as by yeast or leaven.
- raise in rank or condition
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- increase the level of
- put an end to a situation
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- bet more than the previous player
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- move upwards
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- cause to become alive again
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- raise the level or amount of something
- activate or stir up
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- invigorate or heighten
- establish radio communications with
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- construct, build, or erect
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- register formally as a participant or member
- look after a child until it is an adult
- cause to assemble or enlist in military
noun
- (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
- (mining) A shaft or a winze that is dug from below, for purposes such as ventilation, local extraction of ore, or exploration.
- A cairn or pile of stones.
- (poker) A bet that increases the previous bet.
- (US) Ellipsis of pay raise (“an increase in wages or salary”).
- increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)
- the act of raising something
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- the amount a salary is increased
verb
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
noun
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
adj
verb
- cause to grow or develop
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- increase in size by natural process
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become attached by or as if by the process of growth
- grow emotionally or mature
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
- (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
- (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
- (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
adj
- growing profusely
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
noun
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
verb
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
adj
- having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex
- not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance
- of uncertain or ambiguous nature
- not leading to a definite ending or result
- (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved
- (botany, of inflorescences) Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
- Intersex.
- Imprecise or vague.
- (mathematical analysis, of certain forms of limit) Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
- (biology, of growth) With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
- (architecture) Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.
- Not accurately determined or determinable.
noun
adj
noun
- growth; increase
- (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- The raising of plants.
verb
adj
- having reached full natural growth or development
- fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- characteristic of maturity
- fully considered and perfected
- (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination
- Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
- Brought to a state of complete readiness.
- (television, film) Suitable for adults only, due to sexual themes, violence, etc.
- Profound; careful.
verb
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- become due for repayment
- cause to ripen or develop fully
- cause to ripen and discharge pus
- grow old or older
- develop and work out fully in one's mind
- (transitive) To make (someone) mature.
- (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.
- (transitive) To bring (something) to maturity, full development, or completion.
- (intransitive, of a person) To proceed toward or become mature or full-grown, either physically or psychologically; to gain experience or wisdom with age.
- (transitive) To make (something, e.g. fruit) ripe or mature.
- (intransitive) To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities).
- (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
- (intransitive, astronomy) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
- (US, military, of an offensive, etc) To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
- (transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
- bring to a head or to the highest point
- end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- reach the highest or most decisive point
- reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
- rise to, or form, a summit