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adv
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward a past time
adj
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
noun
adv
prep_phrase
- One after the other; one at a time; in succession; successively.
- In response; in return.
- Having a relationship sequentially comparable to one just mentioned; accordingly or similarly, with respect to sequence, precedence, or hierarchy.
- In due order; in proper sequence; in a determined or measured sequence, as a waiting line or queue.
adj
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
adv
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
adv
- In the usual order or sequence.
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
adj
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
noun
- (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
verb
- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
prep_phrase
adj
- Reverse, opposite in order.
- reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
- (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity.
- (geometry) That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point or geometrical figure); that is constructed by circle inversion.
- (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
- (category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
- Opposite in effect, nature or order.
- opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
noun
- (functions) A second function which, when combined with the initially given function, yields as its output any term inputted into the first function.
- An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside out or backwards.
- (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
- (multiplication) One divided by a given number.
- (geometry) The result of a circle inversion; the set of all such points; the curve described by such a set.
- The reverse of any procedure or process.
- (logic) The non-truth-preserving proposition constructed by negating both the premise and conclusion of an initially given proposition.
- (linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
- (mathematics) A ratio etc. in which the antecedents and consequents are switched.
- (card games) The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that first dealt; the area of the table reserved for bets upon such an outcome.
- (addition) The negative of a given number.
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
verb
prefix
- First in order or sequence.
- Previous or earlier in order or sequence.
- Anterior: the frontal part of a body.
- Outer: the leading, outward portion of a wave or effort; or a distal part of a body.
- Outward in spatial direction.
- Greater in rank, superior
- (nautical) The fore of a ship.
- Nearest: the part of the root which is nearest/closest.
- Positioned at or near the front.
- The early stage of the root time period
- Alternative form of for-: outside, out.
- Forward in temporal direction, anticipating.
- Directly or immediately preceding in time.
- Before: the root is happening earlier in time.
- Prominent, most important, foremost or greatest in rank
- Ancestor, ancestral
- Forward in spatial direction.
- Used to indicate error, exclusion, or inadequacy; Alternative form of for-.
- Forepart: the front part of an object or area.
- Near, close to, adjacent in position.
noun
- A sequence of things in order.
- the action of following in order
- (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
- A passing of royal powers.
- A race or series of descendants.
- A right to take possession.
- An act of following in sequence.
- (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
- a following of one thing after another in time
- acquisition of property by descent or by will
- a group of people or things arranged or following in order
adv
adj
noun
verb
- arrange in a sequence
- determine the order of constituents in
- (transitive) To arrange (something) in an order.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
- (transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
noun
- the action of following in order
- serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
- several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
- a following of one thing after another in time
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
adj
noun
- a proposition obtained by conversion
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
- (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
- The opposite or reverse.
- (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
verb
noun
- An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
- A group of hedgehogs.
- Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
- Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.
- A large collection.
- A microarray.
- (military) A militia.
- (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
- (law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
- (mathematics) A matrix.
- A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
- an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics
- an orderly arrangement
- especially fine or decorative clothing
- an impressive display
verb
- To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
- To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
- (law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
adj
adv
noun
verb
adj
- In proper order; as it should be.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- (telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.
- (informal, of people, reciprocal) On good terms.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- (colloquial) Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
- Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- (colloquial) Heterosexual.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
- (informal, of a person) OK, all right, fine; in a good state or situation.
- (fashion) Not plus size; thin.
- (colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- (rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
- (sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Serious rather than comedic.
- (slang, sex work) Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- in keeping with the facts
- not homosexual
- (of hair) having no waves or curls
- neatly arranged; not disorderly
- rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- free from curves or angles
- without evasion or compromise
- no longer coiled
- erect in posture
- (of an alcoholic drink) without water
- following a correct or logical method
- having no deviations
- successive (without a break)
- characterized by honesty and fairness
- accurately fitted; level
adv
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
- without deviation
- in a straight line; in a direct course
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
noun
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- (colloquial) A heterosexual.
- A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
- (poker) Five cards in sequence.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
verb
noun
- following the first in an ordering or series
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- a speech seconding a motion
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- The second gear of an engine.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (baseball) Second base.
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- (informal) A second-class honours degree.
adj
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
adv
verb
- give support or one's approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
adv
- (sequence) Next in order of place.
- (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
- (conjunctive) In that case.
- (UK, dialect, affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.
- (temporal location) At that time.
- (temporal location) Soon afterward.
- In addition; also; besides.
- at that time
- in that case or as a consequence
- subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
adj
conj
noun
prefix
noun
- An order.
- (economics) The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.
- An urgent request.
- A requirement.
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- A forceful claim for something.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
- the act of demanding
- an urgent or peremptory request
- the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
- required activity
- a condition requiring relief
verb
adj
- reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
- directed or moving toward the rear
- of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle
- (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- (botany) Reversed.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
verb
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- turn inside out or upside down
- cancel officially
- change to the contrary
- rule against
- (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- (computing) Ellipsis of reverse-engineer.
- (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- (aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- (rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- (ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
noun
- a relation of direct opposition
- the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed
- turning in the opposite direction
- (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design
- (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (numismatics) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- The opposite of something.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.)
verb
- arrange in logical order
- place in proper rank
- make ready for action or use
- lead ceremoniously, as in a procession
- To arrange (troops, etc.) in line for inspection or a parade.
- To gather data for transmission.
- (computing, transitive) To serialize an object into a marshalled state represented by a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.
- To ceremoniously guide, conduct or usher.
- (by extension) To arrange (facts, etc.) in some methodical order.
noun
- a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law
- (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank
- A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal.
- A person in charge of the ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering.
- (motor racing) An official responsible for signalling track conditions to drivers (through use of flags), extinguishing fires, removing damaged cars from the track, and sometimes providing emergency first aid.
- (historical) A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.
- (US) A federal lawman.
noun
verb
verb
- put into a proper or systematic order
- arrange attractively
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- make arrangements for
- set (printed matter) into a specific format
- adapt for performance in a different way
- (transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
- (music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
- (transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance.
noun
verb
- put into a proper or systematic order
- equip with sails or masts
- set up or found
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- place
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- create by putting components or members together
- produce
- erect and fasten
- construct, build, or erect
- set up for use
- (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
- (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- (transitive) To arrange logically.
- (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
- (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- (intransitive) To gel or harden.
- (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- (intransitive) To prepare or get ready.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- (transitive) To make ready for use.
- (transitive) To cause to happen.
adj
verb
- to arrange in a systematic order
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- cause to be distributed
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- spread throughout a given area
- be mathematically distributive
- give to several people
- distribute or disperse widely
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
verb
- to arrange in a systematic order
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
noun
- an unsteady uneven gait
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
verb
- (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- (transitive) To geld.
- (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
- (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- examine in order to test suitability
- arrange or order by classes or categories
noun
- (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- (mathematics) A type.
- (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
- (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- An act of sorting.
- (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
- A general type.
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a person of a particular character or nature
- an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
- an approximate definition or example
adj
noun
verb
noun
- following the second position in an ordering or series
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox).
- (baseball) third base
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- The person or thing in the third position.
- (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
adj
adv
verb
noun
- Something that follows in a given sequence.
- (mathematics) A sequential calculus
- (logic) A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".)
adj
adj
- Sequential or consecutive.
- (poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
- (physics, by extension) Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
- With one's back facing that of somebody else.
- (of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
- one after the other
adv
noun
verb
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- turn inside out or upside down
- make an inversion (in a musical composition)
- (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
- (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
adj
noun
- (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
- (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
- A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
adj
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- (algebra, of a nonzero module) Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
- (algebra, of an ideal) Having its complement closed under multiplication.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
- (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- used of the first or originating agent
- being at the best stage of development
- first in rank or degree
- of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers
- of superior grade
noun
- (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
- (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (psychology) A stimulus which causes priming.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- (backgammon) A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.
- (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
- (film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
- (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
- (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
- the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.
- the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest
verb
- (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
- (transitive) To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- (intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
- (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- To prepare; to make ready.
- (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- fill with priming liquid
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing
prep
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Contained by; inside.
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- (grammar, phonetics) Characterized by.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- By (doing something); indicating action causing an effect or achieving a purpose.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Expressing abstract containment.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- Into.
- (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
- During (a period of time).
adj
- In fashion; popular.
- (of fire or fuel) (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Having been collected or received.
- (not comparable) Located inside something.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- (sports, of the ball or other playing implement) Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (informal) Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Incoming.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- (cricket) Currently batting.
- Having used, consumed , or invested a certain amount.
- (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
- (law) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- currently fashionable
- holding office
- directed or bound inward
adv
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- After the beginning of something.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
- (in combination, after a verb) Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- to or toward the inside of
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- A sequence of things in order.
- the action of following in order
- (historical) In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.
- A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
- (agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
- A passing of royal powers.
- A race or series of descendants.
- A right to take possession.
- An act of following in sequence.
- (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
- a following of one thing after another in time
- acquisition of property by descent or by will
- a group of people or things arranged or following in order
noun
- An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
- A group of hedgehogs.
- Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
- Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.
- A large collection.
- A microarray.
- (military) A militia.
- (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
- (law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
- (mathematics) A matrix.
- A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
- an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics
- an orderly arrangement
- especially fine or decorative clothing
- an impressive display
verb
- To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
- To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
- (law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
noun
verb
noun
- following the first in an ordering or series
- the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
- the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- a speech seconding a motion
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.
- The second gear of an engine.
- (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
- A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- (baseball) Second base.
- (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- (informal) A second-class honours degree.
adj
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
- Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.
- Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
- Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
adv
verb
- give support or one's approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
- (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from etymology 1 above.)
- (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See etymology 3 for translations.)
- (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
- (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- (transitive, UK) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
verb
- arrange in a sequence
- determine the order of constituents in
- (transitive) To arrange (something) in an order.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
- (transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
noun
- the action of following in order
- serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
- several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
- a following of one thing after another in time
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
noun
- An order.
- (economics) The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.
- An urgent request.
- A requirement.
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- A forceful claim for something.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
- the act of demanding
- an urgent or peremptory request
- the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
- required activity
- a condition requiring relief
verb
noun
verb
noun
- following the second position in an ordering or series
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of third gear (of a gearbox).
- (baseball) third base
- A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- The person or thing in the third position.
- (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
adj
adv
verb
noun
- Something that follows in a given sequence.
- (mathematics) A sequential calculus
- (logic) A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".)
adj
verb
- arrange in a sequence
- determine the order of constituents in
- (transitive) To arrange (something) in an order.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To determine the order of monomers in (a biological polymer), e.g. of amino acids in (a protein), or of bases in (a nucleic acid).
- (transitive, music) To produce (music) with a sequencer.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To proceed through a sequence or series of things.
noun
- the action of following in order
- serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
- several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
- a following of one thing after another in time
- (mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
- A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
- (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the four, five and six of hearts.
- A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show, or other video medium.
- A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in pitch or length (example: opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony).
- (uncountable) The state of being sequent or following; order of succession.
- A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) formerly used in funeral services.
verb
- arrange in logical order
- place in proper rank
- make ready for action or use
- lead ceremoniously, as in a procession
- To arrange (troops, etc.) in line for inspection or a parade.
- To gather data for transmission.
- (computing, transitive) To serialize an object into a marshalled state represented by a sequence of bytes that can later be converted back into an object with equivalent properties.
- To ceremoniously guide, conduct or usher.
- (by extension) To arrange (facts, etc.) in some methodical order.
noun
- a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law
- (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank
- A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal.
- A person in charge of the ceremonial arrangement and management of a gathering.
- (motor racing) An official responsible for signalling track conditions to drivers (through use of flags), extinguishing fires, removing damaged cars from the track, and sometimes providing emergency first aid.
- (historical) A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.
- (US) A federal lawman.
verb
- put into a proper or systematic order
- arrange attractively
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- make arrangements for
- set (printed matter) into a specific format
- adapt for performance in a different way
- (transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
- (music, transitive, intransitive) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
- (transitive, intransitive) To plan; to prepare in advance.
noun
verb
- put into a proper or systematic order
- equip with sails or masts
- set up or found
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- place
- arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events
- begin, or enable someone else to begin, a venture by providing the means, logistics, etc.
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- create by putting components or members together
- produce
- erect and fasten
- construct, build, or erect
- set up for use
- (transitive) To establish someone in a business or position.
- (transitive) To matchmake; to arrange a date between two people.
- (transitive) To found; to start (a business, scheme)
- (sports, transitive) To create a goalscoring opportunity (for).
- (informal, transitive, criminology) To trick or lure (someone) in order to entrap them.
- (transitive) To arrange for an outcome; to tamper or rig.
- (transitive) To arrange logically.
- (intransitive) To level to rise in one part of a body of water, especially a shallow one, because of a storm surge caused by persistent wind.
- (boxing) To deceive an opponent and capitalize on their reactions with a certain technique or maneuver.
- (transitive) To provide the money or other support that someone needs for an important task or activity.
- (intransitive) To gel or harden.
- (transitive) To trap or ensnare.
- To profess openly; to make pretensions.
- (intransitive) To prepare or get ready.
- To cause to take flight; to flush into the air.
- (transitive) To make (someone) proud or conceited (often in passive).
- (transitive) To make ready for use.
- (transitive) To cause to happen.
adj
verb
- to arrange in a systematic order
- cause to become widely known
- be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses
- cause to be distributed
- administer or bestow, as in small portions
- release a publication
- spread throughout a given area
- be mathematically distributive
- give to several people
- distribute or disperse widely
- (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
- (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
- (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
- (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
- (transitive) To scatter or spread.
- (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
- (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
- (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.
- (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
- (business) To have employees working remotely from multiple locations.
- (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
verb
- to arrange in a systematic order
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- walk with great difficulty
- astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- To schedule in intervals or at different times.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
noun
- an unsteady uneven gait
- (UK) One who attends a stag night.
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
verb
- (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- (transitive) To geld.
- (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
- (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
- (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- examine in order to test suitability
- arrange or order by classes or categories
noun
- (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
- (mathematics) A type.
- (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
- (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- An act of sorting.
- (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
- A general type.
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- a person of a particular character or nature
- an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
- an approximate definition or example
adj
- reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
- directed or moving toward the rear
- of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle
- (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- (botany) Reversed.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
verb
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- turn inside out or upside down
- cancel officially
- change to the contrary
- rule against
- (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- (computing) Ellipsis of reverse-engineer.
- (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- (aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- (rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- (ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
noun
- a relation of direct opposition
- the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed
- turning in the opposite direction
- (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design
- (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (numismatics) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- The opposite of something.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.)
verb
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- turn inside out or upside down
- make an inversion (in a musical composition)
- (anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.
- (transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
- (transitive, music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
- To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
- (chemistry, intransitive) To undergo inversion, as sugar.
adj
noun
- (civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.
- (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- (Internet slang, conspiracy theories) Of a person, assumed to be transgender, in terms of transvestigation.
- (architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).
- (zoology, informal) An invertebrate.
- A skateboarding and snowboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.
- The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.
adv
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward a past time
adj
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
noun
adv
prep_phrase
- One after the other; one at a time; in succession; successively.
- In response; in return.
- Having a relationship sequentially comparable to one just mentioned; accordingly or similarly, with respect to sequence, precedence, or hierarchy.
- In due order; in proper sequence; in a determined or measured sequence, as a waiting line or queue.
adv
- In the usual order or sequence.
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
adj
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
noun
- (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
verb
- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
adv
adj
noun
adv
- (sequence) Next in order of place.
- (sequence) At the same time; on the other hand.
- (conjunctive) In that case.
- (UK, dialect, affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.
- (temporal location) At that time.
- (temporal location) Soon afterward.
- In addition; also; besides.
- at that time
- in that case or as a consequence
- subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors)
adj
conj
noun
adj
adv
adv
- In a reversed order or sequence.
- in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- (figuratively) Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in or to or toward a past time
adj
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- (figuratively) Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- (often in negative constructions) Reluctant or unwilling to advance or act; shy.
- (chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- (cricket) On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Late or behindhand.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Retarded in development; not as advanced as would be expected.
- (cricket) Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- retarded in intellectual development
- (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature
- having made less than normal progress
- directed or facing toward the back or rear
noun
adj
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- (geology) Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- (zoology) Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- (also astrology, often postpositive) Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- (music) Having a passage of music played backwards.
- (medicine) Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
- going from better to worse
- moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or — for planets — around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
- moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
adv
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- (astrology) The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
- (music) The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
verb
- (geography) Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (military) To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- (geology) To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- (geography) To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- (astrology, astronomy) Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- move back
- move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
- go back over
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
adj
- Reverse, opposite in order.
- reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
- (mathematics) Having the properties of an inverse; said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity.
- (geometry) That has the property of being an inverse (the result of a circle inversion of a given point or geometrical figure); that is constructed by circle inversion.
- (botany) Inverted; having a position or mode of attachment the reverse of that which is usual.
- (category theory, of a category) Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
- Opposite in effect, nature or order.
- opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
noun
- (functions) A second function which, when combined with the initially given function, yields as its output any term inputted into the first function.
- An inverted state: a state in which something has been turned (properly) upside down or (loosely) inside out or backwards.
- (category theory) A morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse.
- (multiplication) One divided by a given number.
- (geometry) The result of a circle inversion; the set of all such points; the curve described by such a set.
- The reverse of any procedure or process.
- (logic) The non-truth-preserving proposition constructed by negating both the premise and conclusion of an initially given proposition.
- (linguistics, Kiowa-Tanoan) A grammatical number marking that indicates the opposite grammatical number (or numbers) of the default number specification of noun class.
- (mathematics) A ratio etc. in which the antecedents and consequents are switched.
- (card games) The winning of the coup in a game of rouge et noir by a card of a color different from that first dealt; the area of the table reserved for bets upon such an outcome.
- (addition) The negative of a given number.
- something inverted in sequence or character or effect
verb
adv
- In the usual order or sequence.
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- Into the future.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- forward in time or order or degree
- near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane
- at or to or toward the front; forward
- toward the future; forward in time
- in a forward direction
adj
- Having the usual order or sequence.
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- (figuratively) Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Prominent, emphasized (or, in combinations, emphasizing).
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- (of troops, guns etc.) Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- (finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- moving forward
- at or near or directed toward the front
- used of temperament or behavior; lacking restraint or modesty
- of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
noun
- (rugby) One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- (nautical) The front part of a vessel.
- (ice hockey) An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- (finance) A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
- (basketball) The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- Misspelling of foreword (“preface or introduction”).
- (Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- the person who plays the position of forward in certain games, such as basketball, soccer, or hockey
- a position on a basketball, soccer, or hockey team
verb
- (transitive) To advance, promote.
- (transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- (transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- (intransitive, Caribbean) To arrive, come.
- send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit
adj
noun
- a proposition obtained by conversion
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (now literary) Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
- (logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.
- The opposite or reverse.
- (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse antonym; relational antonym.
verb
adj
adv
adj
- In proper order; as it should be.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- (telegraphy, historical, of a telegram) Sent at a full rate for immediate delivery; being a fast telegram.
- (informal, of people, reciprocal) On good terms.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- (tennis) Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- (colloquial) Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- (engineering, of an internal-combustion engine) Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- (cricket) Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- (colloquial) Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- (of a path, trajectory, etc.) Direct, undeviating.
- Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- (slang) Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- (colloquial) Heterosexual.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
- (informal, of a person) OK, all right, fine; in a good state or situation.
- (fashion) Not plus size; thin.
- (colloquial, of a romantic or sexual relation) Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- (rare, now chiefly religion) Strait; narrow.
- (sciences, mathematics) Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Serious rather than comedic.
- (slang, sex work) Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- (US, politics) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- (US, politics) Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- in keeping with the facts
- not homosexual
- (of hair) having no waves or curls
- neatly arranged; not disorderly
- rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
- free from curves or angles
- without evasion or compromise
- no longer coiled
- erect in posture
- (of an alcoholic drink) without water
- following a correct or logical method
- having no deviations
- successive (without a break)
- characterized by honesty and fairness
- accurately fitted; level
adv
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
- without deviation
- in a straight line; in a direct course
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
noun
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
- (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- (colloquial) A heterosexual.
- A cat that has straight ears despite belonging to a breed that often has folded ears.
- (poker) Five cards in sequence.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- a person having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
verb
adj
- reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
- directed or moving toward the rear
- of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle
- (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- (botany) Reversed.
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
verb
- reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of
- turn inside out or upside down
- cancel officially
- change to the contrary
- rule against
- (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- (transitive) To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- (computing) Ellipsis of reverse-engineer.
- (transitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- (aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- (rail transport, transitive) To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- (ergative, transport) To cause a mechanism to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal; to drive a vehicle in the direction the driver has the back.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
- (transitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
noun
- a relation of direct opposition
- the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed
- turning in the opposite direction
- (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction
- an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design
- (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- (graph theory) Synonym of transpose.
- (numismatics) The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- The opposite of something.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards. (Denoted with symbol R on a shifter's labeling.)
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Sequential or consecutive.
- (poker slang) Synonym of wired (“being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down”).
- (physics, by extension) Emerging in exactly opposite directions.
- With one's back facing that of somebody else.
- (of a house) Having a party wall at the rear.
- one after the other
adv
noun
adj
- First in time, order, or sequence.
- Early; blooming; being in the first stage.
- First in excellence, quality, or value.
- First in importance, degree, or rank.
- (algebra, of a nonzero module) Such that the annihilator of any nonzero submodule is equal to the annihilator of the whole module.
- (algebra, of an ideal) Having its complement closed under multiplication.
- Marked or distinguished by the prime symbol.
- (mathematics, technical) Such that if it divides a product, it divides one of the multiplicands.
- (mathematics, lay) Having exactly two integral factors: itself and unity (1 in the case of integers).
- used of the first or originating agent
- being at the best stage of development
- first in rank or degree
- of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers
- of superior grade
noun
- (Christianity) The religious service appointed to this hour.
- (historical) The first hour of daylight; the first canonical hour.
- The symbol ′ used to indicate feet, minutes, derivation and other measures and mathematical operations.
- (algebra, number theory) A prime element of a mathematical structure, particularly a prime number.
- The most active, thriving, or successful stage or period.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (psychology) A stimulus which causes priming.
- The chief or best individual or part.
- An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system.
- (backgammon) A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.
- (fencing) The first defensive position, with the sword hand held at head height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- (card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.
- Something which is first in importance or rank: a prime defense company, mortgage lender, etc.
- (film) Contraction of prime lens, a film lens.
- (cycling) An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
- (music) The first note or tone of a musical scale.
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself
- the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m.
- the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest
verb
- (mathematics) To mark with a prime mark.
- (transitive) To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
- To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
- (intransitive, of a steam boiler) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
- (intransitive) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
- To prepare; to make ready.
- (transitive) To apply a coat of primer paint to.
- fill with priming liquid
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing